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...OCCASION of Harvard's 300th anniversary Walter Lippmann '09 warned of increasing entanglements between universities and government. Lippmann insisted that, "Harvard stands unqualifiedly for the principle that unless they are independent of each other, the relation between universities and governments will not be healthy...
...York Times, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the University's 300th anniversary events, carried front-page stories headlining a variety of claims arising from the two-week-long gathering of scholars from around the world. Among The Times reports...
...York Times snagged a Pulitzer Prize for its exhaustive coverage of Harvard's 300th birthday celebration. Now, 50 years later, as more than 900 journalists descend upon Cambridge to report on Harvard's 350th anniversary, three major national newsmagazines have already chipped in with lengthy cover stories prompted by the event. But don't count on any walking off with journalism's top prize this time around...
Diminished media coverage of the festivities, overall, though, is largely the result of the University's decision to downplay the "real world" significance of the event. The 300th was billed as an international gathering of the best and brightest, while the 350th has been dubbed a mere "family affair." But the media can only blame itself for largely superficial coverage of the general state of Harvard as it prepares to enter the 21st century...
Lewis says the paper "is tending to underplaythe thing" because of the prominent magazinearticle, and the University's decision to portraythe 350th--unlike the 300th--as an event withoutgreat reverberations beyond Harvard Yard. "Ourproblem is figuring out how we can report thisseriously without covering every nickle and dime,"he says...