This Is the Year That Was
“Fast away the old year passes,” as the Christmas carol Deck the Halls warns us—and so it is to be. The year 2025 is fast approaching its end. Semiquincentennial of the start of the American Revolution, bicentennial of the last coronation thus far of a king of France, centennial of the coming of the Charleston dance to Europe, it is about to join its countless forebears in the dead past.