Word: 250th
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President Neil L. Rudenstine returned to his alma matter, Princeton University, yesterday afternoon to deliver a short speech at the school's 250th anniversary convocation...
...occasion of Harvard's 250th anniversary, Charles William Eliot, the University's greatest president, painted an optimistic picture of its future. "Universities are among the most permanent of human institutions," Eliot said. "They outlast particular forms of government, and even the legal and industrial institutions in which they seem to be embedded. Harvard University already illustrates this transcendent vitality...
...permanently lowered by 10%," says Roland Vella, who manages a Nicolas liquor store on the Rue Rambuteau in Paris. Instead of paying the usual $26.50 for a bottle of Mumm's top-of-the-line Cordon Rouge, Vella's customers can buy one for $23.70. Anticipating this year's 250th company anniversary, Moet & Chandon last year even offered two free champagne glasses to anyone who bought two bottles of medium-priced Brut Imperial. Less expensive brands are also being heavily discounted, with the result that sales are showing signs of recovery -- perhaps as much as a 6.7% increase...
...Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes," said an 1800 Connecticut Courant editorial opposing the election of Thomas Jefferson as President. Now the Hartford Courant, the paper marked the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth with an apology. Said the Courant: "It's never too late to admit a mistake...
...musical family that we have at the Gewandhaus I miss somehow. I want the musicians to have the feeling that they are at home, that they are playing together, that they are at the musical center of that big city." After seeing the Leipzig orchestra through its 250th birthday in 1993-94, Masur is expected to make New York his principal base...