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Celebrating the University's birthday with a flurry of scholarship is not a new Harvard tradition. In 1936, the 300th birthday party included 10 seminars on high-brow academic subjects. The sessions, by noted European scholars and for other scholars, lasted up to two weeks...
...seeking to match the weeks of conferences and the international gathering of scholars that marked the University's 300th birthday in 1936, Harvard officials sought to create a comparatively low-key "family affair" this time around. Maybe it's the domino effect, or the Statue of Liberty syndrome, or the glitz-it-up promotionalism of the Yuppie Era. Call it what you will. But my God, Dr. Frankenstein, Harvard's created a monster. And it's alive...
Sidney M. Weinstein '39 had his luggage carried by an Adams House student porter yesterday, but at the College's 300th anniversary he was the one working as a porter--and impromptu translator--for renowned psychologist Carl Jung...
...most vivid memory of the 300th is watching Franklin Delano Roosevelt ['04], who was President, sitting in a top hat and morning coat. He was protected by a tent as the rain poured down...
...Damn if I remember," laughs Stephenson--who has no trouble at all remembering the name of the "track star" who beat him out for the honor of being the featured undergraduate speaker at the 300th's convocation ceremony...