Word: 200th
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...does, maybe it will take the sting out of Reagan's decision to snub the festivities. President Andrew Jackson paid a visit to Harvard's 200th birthday party in 1836, President Grover Cleveland stopped by for the 250th celebration in 1886, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 took part in the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936. With Harvard men Donald T. Regan '40 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 among his inner circle of advisors and planning to attend the ceremony themselves, 350th bigwigs counted on Reagan's appearance at Friday morning's convocation on "The University in a Changing World...
...resist the urge to throw itself a big party every 50 years of so. The first such fun-fest occurred in 1836, when 1500 old chaps endured rain in Harvard Yard to drink wine and and hear Oliver Wendell Holmes sing a song in honor of the College's 200th anniversary...
With several hundred proud parents and siblings in attendance, a fifteen-minute address by a Freeman Dyson, a physicist and noted author highlighted the society's 200th annual Commencement-time gathering. Dyson's remarks, which drew on the writings of William Blake and of 17th century author Richard Hakluyt, concerned man's tradition of exploration and the implications of that tradition for the use of space...
Fusco recorded his 200th career point with an assist in the second game...
Weiland posted a 315-174-17 career record. Cleary earned his 200th career victory last season...