Word: 250th
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...shift scenery," said Muti. "Now you just push a button." Guided visits through the new opera house are offered on weekends from Jan. 22 to Feb. 12 by appointment, tel: (39-02) 4335-3521. On Dec. 7, 2005 , Così Fan Tutte will be performed to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Plan ahead. www.teatroallascala.org
...bronze statue that stands in front of University Hall was unveiled for the University’s 250th birthday in 1885, according to the Crimson Key Society...
Nevertheless, Harvard has survived it all—scandals, embezzlements, fires and student unrest—and it has thrived and prospered. By the College’s 250th anniversary in 1886, an academic from John Hopkins noted, “We measure everything today by the standard of Harvard...
Stanford is not steeped in history in the way that Harvard and Yale are—it celebrated its founding five years after Harvard’s 250th anniversary...
...these scholarships hurt the incentive system, we can insert more creative policies to keep students working at the tippy-top of their ability. Each semester we can thin the herd by culling the underachievers. If you know you will be expelled if you don’t pull a 250th in that Core, you will start working hard. By cutting out the lazy, we would make Harvard a more prestigious University, where people do their best work, or as the weakest link, they leave—goodbye. But why stop there...