`` It's been going since 1908 when I was a junior in college.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

Huxley's mother died in 1908 when he was 14.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

In what was a dramatic five game series, their NLDS victory over the Atlanta Braves was the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.

Experiments with color films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908, and for amateur use when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936.

* 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.

In 1908, when he presented the concept in Bell's annual report, there were over 4000 local and regional telephone exchanges, most of which were eventually merged into the Bell System.

Veteran science fiction writer Jack Williamson ( 1908 – 2006 ) when asked in 1991: " Did the Wave's emphasis on experimentalizm and its conscious efforts to make SF more ' literary ' have any kind of permanent effects on the field?

During this period he studied under, among others, Alexander Winkler, Anatoly Lyadov, Nikolai Tcherepnin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( though when Rimsky-Korsakov died in 1908, Prokofiev noted that he had only studied orchestration with him ' after a fashion ' – that is, he was just one of many students in a heavily attended class — and regretted that he otherwise ' never had the opportunity to study with him ').

Roosevelt certified William Howard Taft to be a genuine " progressive " in 1908, when Roosevelt pushed through the nomination of his Secretary of War for the Presidency.

In 1908, when the second-hand business was merged into the regular sales offices, Watson became assistant sales manager ; moving up to become sales manager in 1910 with a further role — working along with NCR's engineers — in new product development.

In 1908 Bang and Ellerman showed that a filterable virus could transmit chicken leukemia, data largely ignored till the 1930s when leukemia became regarded as cancerous.

" She was frustrated by the new rule but was the guest of honor nonetheless when the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged celebrated its opening on June 23, 1908.

According to Cooper there was " Early Cubism ", ( from 1906 to 1908 ) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque ; the second phase being called " High Cubism ", ( from 1909 to 1914 ) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent ; and finally Cooper referred to " Late Cubism " ( from 1914 to 1921 ) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement.

Special postage stamps were issued from October 1898 until 1908, when a new communications cable was laid to the mainland, which made the pigeon post redundant.

They also encouraged other collectors of fairy tales, as when Yei Theodora Ozaki created a collection, Japanese Fairy Tales ( 1908 ), after encouragement from Lang.

John died in 1908 at 85, when Arthur was 57.

He was elected to the RSDLP's Central Committee in 1907 and sided with Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and Alexander Bogdanov's followers.

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America.

In June 1908, Edward became the first reigning British monarch to visit the Russian Empire, despite refusing to visit in 1906, when Anglo-Russian relations were strained in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, the Dogger Bank incident, and the Tsar's dissolution of the Duma.

N. Graydon ( first name unknown ) was the first such traveller in 1907, and again in 1908 when he represented OUP exclusively in India, the Straits and the Far East.

Zhou's birth mother Wan died in 1907 when Zhou was 9, and his adoptive mother Chen in 1908 when Zhou was 10.

In 1908 the Zionist Organisation set up the Palestine Bureau ( also known as the " Eretz Israel Office ") in Jaffa and began to adopt a systematic Jewish settlement policy in Palestine.

The Zionist Organisation ( ZO ) founded the Palestine Bureau ( also known as " Eretz Yisrael Office ") in Jaffa in 1908, under Arthur Ruppin, and began to adopt a systematic effort to buy and settle land in Ottoman Palestine.

In 1908 the Zionist Organization founded the Palestine Office, under Arthur Ruppin, for land acquisition, agricultural settlement and training, and later for urban expansion.

In 1908 Ruppin came to live in Palestine by decision of the eighth Zionist Congress.

Uriel Heilperin () was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1908 to a Zionist family.

He befriended fellow Zhejiang native Chen Qimei, and, in 1908, Chen brought Chiang into the Tongmenghui, a precursor of the Kuomintang ( KMT ) organization.

* 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.

* 1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.

Roosevelt was also served as honorary president of the school health organization American School Hygiene Association from 1907 to 1908, and in 1909 he convened the first White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children.

Rome had been awarded the organization of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was forced to decline and pass the honors to London.

Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts as an organization in 1908, a few months after the first scout encampment at Brownsea Island Scout camp in 1907.

Even before a national organization had been started, groups of boys began Scout activities in troops and small groups in 1908, 1909, and 1910.

This group would from 1908 to 1910 build the Kora Temple on Sabattus Street, the largest home of a fraternal organization in the state.

Hazelhurst Camp is a private cottage community founded and operated by the Prairie Club-a non-profit volunteer organization that was established in Chicago in 1908, to promote outdoor recreation and conservation.

The organization went national in 1905 and had a million members by 1908.

After the death of Washunga in 1908, the Kaw people had no formal organization for many years.

In 1908, the International Ice Hockey Federation, an international organization that still runs most of the international hockey tournaments today, was established.

* Theosophical Order of Service, an international organization founded in 1908 by Annie Besant, the second International President of the Theosophical Society

When more American than British members were shown at their annual exhibit in 1908, a motion was introduced to disband the organization.

The players of the 1915 championship Hamilton team, apparently as revenge for Toronto's refusal to relinquish the trophy in 1912 and 1913, added a shield for the 1908 Tigers team to give the appearance that their organization had won the first Grey Cup.

In 1908, the organization of the province of Ifugao further reduced the area of Nueva Vizcaya which was forced to give up its northwest territory.

However, eventually, signs were showing this policy game coming to an end and on May 13, 1908, the leadership of the CUP, with the scale of its organization, having had increased their power to such a point, were able to say to the Sultan that the ' Dynasty will be in danger ', if he were not to bring back the constitution.

In 1908, Nebraska was inducted as the 18th member of the Association of American Universities, the organization of the nation's top research universities.

In 1908 the organization published its first AA Members ' Special Handbook containing a list of nationwide agents and mechanics with a free legal service the following year.

130pxThe university's school newspaper is the first known organization on campus to adopt the beaver as its namesake, with its use occurring as early as 1908.

Pichel avoided the problems of being an imitation of " SMOM " by giving his organization a mythical history by claiming the American organization he led was founded by Russian Hereditary Commanders living in, or visiting, the USA and dated to 1908 ; a spurious claim, but which nevertheless misled many including some academics.

He made a great effort to rationalize the internal organization of OSK, to penetrate the Chinese market, and also to inaugurate the first OSK ocean route, a Hong Kong to Tacoma, Washington service, in 1908.

He was made an honorary member of Columbia chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1887 ; member of citizens ' committee of the civic organization to complete the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City ; in 1918 gave a statue of himself to Peekskill and of land for an extension of Depew Park, which he gave to the village in 1908.

Following several attempts to form a technical organization of wireless practitioners in 1908 – 1912, the Institute of Radio Engineers ( IRE ) was finally established in 1912 in New York.