Word: 300th
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...first pump to occupy the site was installed in 1764 but was later destroyed by vandals in 1901. In 1936 students reputedly christened their new pump by filling it with beer as part of Harvard's 300th anniversary...
Seaver won his 300th game against the New York Yankees two years ago when he posted a 16-11 mark and a 3.17 ERA for the White Sox. But last year, troubled by a knee injury, he was 2-6 for Chicago, then had his wish fulfilled and was traded to Boston, for whom he had a 7-7 record...
...student organizers,the committee calculated potential attendancebased on participation in house formals and finalclub membership, among other factors. In addition,the number of invitations was limited by thephysical site of the ball, to be held in theMemorial Hall courtyard, where a similar fete tookplace at the College's 300th anniversary...
Unlike the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936, no large studies were conducted, nor were any seminal discussions convened. Both the 300th and the 350th had their share of pomp and circumstance, as they both should. But the former also saw month-long gatherings of academics making an effort to break intellectual ground...
...Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, then President James Bryant Conant '13, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Tercentenary historian Samuel Eliot Morison addresesed the gathered crowd. Each encouraged the listeners in Tercentenary Theater to rejoice in the vigour and perseverence that had brought Harvard to its 300th birthday and to apply that same optimistic determination to the solution of contemporary ills in society...