Word: 300th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to his role as one of the University's most prolific writers, Morison still holds the title of Historian on ison 300th Anniversary of Harvard College. In connection with this office, Morison is constantly answering letters addressed either to him personally or relayed to him by Dean Bundy. He also receives letters from secondary school students all over the country, which he answers only when they ask for specific information. Of the more general type of inquiry he says, "they want me to do their work for them," and so most of these requests end up in the wastebasket...
John F. Kennedy makes his 300th non-political speech of the year. The Student Council's request for readmission is rejected by the NSA. Rebuffed, the Council begins its investigation of the Program for Harvard College. H. Irving Pratt flees to Cuba...
Ogata Korin made something of a picnic out of life, but he left great art to posterity. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth. Tokyo's Shirokiya department store has put on exhibition 120 of the Japanese master's pictures in the greatest Korin show ever assembled...
Opening the fourth session of Britain's 300th Parliament last week, Queen Elizabeth II for the first time delivered her Speech from the Throne under the beady eye of the television camera. In Britain itself at least 12 million of her subjects were watching; in nine other European countries uncounted lovers of pageantry took in the spectacle...
...jacket clogged with enough medals for a NATO division, Wagnerian-size Tenor Lauritz Melchior chatted with Denmark's King Frederik IX at a celebration in Copenhagen of the Royal Guard's 300th anniversary. A guardsman himself in his nimble youth, Melchior crossed the Atlantic for a month's vacation in the old country with a 40-man delegation of Danish-American Guard grads, sang out loud and clear at the parade and at a festive veterans' dinner in the Tivoli Gardens...