Word: 300th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently the whole situation rose again to its embarrassing climax; Boston University duplicated the action of the Pacific Coast University, and once again Harvard had to declare that it would welcome no women delegates at its gala 300th celebration next fall...
...colleges spread themselves this year to salute with honorary degrees the wise, the rich and the merely acquiescent, the nation's oldest and most famed university last week plumped squarely for the wise. To Cambridge, Mass, for the culmination- of its 300th anniversary celebration in September, Harvard invited 66 top-flight pundits, so carefully hand-picked by President James Bryant Conant and his faculty that they furnished an international Who's Who of scholarship...
...present over 1000 members of the classes of 1937, 1938 and 1939 have signified their intention of returning for the 300th Celebration. Thus it seems safe to guess that over half of the student body will return for one of the greatest events in Harvard history. Of this number, over 200 have signed up for the gala Undergraduate dinner at the Harvard Club, the event which will be the finale of the program...
...preparations have been going forward for some time now to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College. The event has more than a sentimental significance to the graduates of Harvard. For it is also the anniversary of the founding of higher education in the United States. That was an event of momentous importance...
...further trying to raise this scholastic standing, Mr. Conant has made plans to create numerous Prize Fellowships for outstanding, young students throughout the country. If the 300th Anniversary Fund is a success, there will be 100 Prize Fellows in each class, 400 in the College. If present standards are kept up, the large majority of these men will be in Group II or above. Their ranks will be swelled by many applicants for Prize Fellowships who are turned down but come to Harvard anyway. This year there are four times as many of such men as Prize Fellows. In other...