Word: 300th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard spent six years and over $1 million to organize and finance the 350th anniversary celebration this September. Committee members took precautions against everything from terrorist attacks to wandering alumni children. It was designed to be the biggest and best-orchestrated Harvard event in 50 years--since the 300th anniversary...
...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...
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan '40, both of whom were undergraduates during the 300th anniversary (at which the University bestowed scores of honorary degrees), had reportedly been gently inquiring as to whether their boss would receive one as a condition for accepting Harvard's invite to speak at the second convocation on Friday, September...
...350th, for all its hoopla, will not match the grandeur and extravagance of the 300th, organizers insist. "We won't blow our trumpet quite as hard," says Burr...
...plain enamel eggs, which were made for ordinary collectors and not monarchs. Hearing that an Imperial egg was being auctioned off by Christie's in Geneva, he asked his sister Shahnaz, who lived in Switzerland, to try to buy it. This particular egg was supposedly commissioned for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913 by Czarina Alexandra for her husband Nicholas II. It opens to reveal a tiny statue of Nicholas astride a horse...