Oliver Wendell Holmes Centenary

The one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes '29 will be observed on April 27 and 28. A memorial meeting will be held in Sanders Theatre on the evening of April 27. President Eliot will preside, and brief addresses will be made by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, Dr. Edward, Waldo Emerson '66, Dr. David Williams Cheever '52, who was assistant under Dr. Holmes when professor at the Medical School, and Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers, h. '99 cf Cambridge. Mr. C. T. Copeland '82 will read "The Last Leaf" and "The Chambered Nautilus," two of Dr. Holmes's most famous poems. Music will be furnished by the University glee club and by the Cambridge Latin School orchestra.

A limited number of tickets have been issued for the invited guests and members of the Cambridge Historical Society, under whose auspices the celebration will be held, but the public will be admitted without tickets to the whole of the second gallery.