Word: 314th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adlai E. Stevenson, America's Ambassador to the United Nations, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from President Pusey this morning at the University's 314th Commencement...
...amorphous procession of academics, divines, politicians, and sundry associates of the University will bring three centuries of tradition with it during the march into today's Commencement exercises In its distinctly Harvard spirit if not specific forms, the 314th Commencement will be very much like the first...
Times have changed only slightly since. The revelry has become more sophisticated and subdued but Commencement is still one of New England's grandest spectaculars. What passes for traditional academic pomp mingled with joyous celebration is just as much kindergarten as college: once a year, now for the 314th time, the boys of Harvard are playing a game they call a festive rite, a game interrupted in three centuries only by a smallpox epidemic...
President Pusey will welcome 1091 Harvard seniors into the fellowship of educated men this morning at the University's 314th Commencement exercises in Tercentenary Theatre. Another 2581 will receive graduate degrees and be welcomed into the fellowship of the super-educated...
...drunk scenes that spin with laughter and nausea. There are battle scenes crackling with the unreality of sudden death. And at the end, the Germans scale the castle walls, while the gargoyles scream and drops of blood blossom like roses. Superbly and movingly, the men of the absurd 314th Replacement Cadre die. For what? Perhaps four hours' stemming of the German onslaught...