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...early October 1985, the seven-man governing Corporation broke with tradition and chose not to award honorary degrees, Harvard's highest honor, at the 350th as they had at the 300th and the 250th anniversary celebrations...
...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...
...next party was then tentatively scheduled for 100 years later, in September 1936. But President Josiah Quincy and the centennial celebrants underestimated the need of every second generation or so of Harvardians to let loose in honor of their alma mater. In November of 1886, then, the 250th anniversary of the College's founding was marked in a three-day celebration by 4000 celebrants, 2500 of whom jammed into Sanders Theater to see President Grover Cleveland and Charles William Eliot, then president of Harvard...
Last spring, faculty and alumni vigorously objected to the possibility that President Reagan would receive a degree if he accepted President Derek C. Bok's invitation to address a convocation. A U.S. president had spoken at Harvard's 250th and 300th anniversaries. Reagan hasn't decided whether to speak yet, spokesmen said...
...imposing as the Kremlin or as grandly situated as the White House. But the sturdy brick house at No. 10 Downing Street has been the official home to British Prime Ministers since 1735. On the occasion of No. 10's 250th anniversary, the present occupant, Margaret Thatcher, 60, was hostess to her Queen, whom she welcomed with a deep curtsy, and to her five living predecessors: Lord Stockton, formerly Harold Macmillan, 91; Lord Home, ne Alec Douglas-Home, 82; Lord Wilson, once just Harold, 69; Edward Heath, 69; and James Callaghan, 73. After dinner, Queen Elizabeth, 59, joked that...