Word: 250th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buildings on both sides of the River will be floodlighted, accompanied by a display of fireworks. This will be followed by a torchlight parade of students from the River to Memorial Hall for the Tercentenary Dance. The torchlight march will duplicate one of the most popular features of the 250th anniversary celebration...
...which have occurred in America since then and are still occurring. He entitled his address, "Why Present Harvard Should Have a Future," and remarked rather sadly, that "such a title would never have occurred to the president of the university in 1836 or even fifty years ago when the 250th anniversary of Harvard's founding was being celebrated. But these are skeptical days...
...committee arranging Harvard's celebration of its tercentenary next September must do exceedingly well to exceed their predecessors of 1886 in the distinction of the company and the dignity of the occasion. The record of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the college's founding contains an impressive list o notables. It is headed by President Grover Cleveland, who, it is said, declined an honorary degree because he did not feel that as a non-college man, he was rightly entitled...
Notes from the CRIMSONS of November 5-10, 1886 at the time of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the College...
...fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria under the name of the Handel Largo. The Saxon composer wrote Xerxes as a comic opera, when he was depressed by Bankruptcy woes in London. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Handel's birth, Xerxes was revived last week by the State Opera in Berlin and by the music department at the University of Chicago...