1. This year sees the tercentenary of Handel's birth.

2. The tercentenary of the first Bill, passed in 1688, has provided a stimulus for some earnest reflection.

3. On the occasion of Yale's tercentenary, in 2001, University President Richard C. Levin launched a number of internationalization initiatives aimed at enhancing Yale's global footprint.

4. As the rain fell Friday night, many anniversary celebrants remained in Tercentenary Theatre, clustered in humid knots huddled under their umbrellas. The water fell in gray sheets, as from a waterfall.

5. The Nobel Prize for Economics, the only award not included in Nobel's will, is funded by the Swedish Central Bank, which created the prize at its tercentenary in 1968.

6. Perhaps we are ready for some integration of knowledge today, as is evidenced by the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University and in the addresses at the Harvard Tercentenary.

7. The greater part of the rest were snatched out of my reach by a syndicate which hoped to sell them at a high price, probably in America, on the occasion of the recent tercentenary.

8. I have long been a student of the records and had the intention to put my impressions into writing to be ready for Christmas Day 1942, the tercentenary of his birth.