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This will be part of Columbia's year-long 200th anniversary celebration, which has included the issuance of a special commemorative postage stamp, commemorating the founding of the school, and numerous forums and discussions, all based on the bicentennial theme, "Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof...
This year, as Columbia celebrated its 200th anniversary, it could summon scholars from all over the world to attend its year-long series of conferences and convocations. But in spite of its international prestige, it has never lost its early sense that the city is its "proper place," nor has it forgotten that its special character is largely a matter of location. It is an Ivy Leaguer minus the ivy, an ivory tower without ivory, a polyglot campus of brick and stone that still draws two-thirds of its undergraduates from a radius of less than 100 miles. Its bicentennial...
...issued by Philips of The Netherlands; 3) festivals in 20 of the German cities (including East Germany) Mozart is known to have visited; 4) a year-long festival in his birthplace city of Salzburg, with candles burning in the windows of every house in town on the 200th anniversary of his birth, Jan.27...
Still somewhat fresh to the dignity of old age, Columbia University joins the nation's venerables this year as it celebrates its 200th birthday. With due pride, New Yorkers look back over the transformation of the tiny provincial college of 1754 into the colossal cosmopolitan university of today. For as the city has grown in size and importance, so Columbia has grown with...
Adam's Apron. Last week the British Museum was celebrating its 200th birthday, and with typical scholarly restraint was making no great hullabaloo over the anniversary. The only variation in the routine in the huge, Grecian-façaded building in Great Russell Street was an exhibition of the Sloane Manuscripts, part of the collection on which the museum was founded...