Word: 350th
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...Elizabeth L. Wurtzel ’89, the author of “Prozac Nation,” initially set about to write an article for New York Magazine in honor of the 350th anniversary of the University about what Harvard was really like. While the 20,000 word piece was never published, Wurtzel held onto her material along with notebooks she had kept to journal her thoughts. She then wrote an article about taking Prozac to beat depression, and eventually it became clear that her untold story of Harvard life was actually about being depressed...
...that go into a concert was invaluable experience that I got in a very special way,” Gilbert said. The same hands-on, initiative-taking approach that Gilbert exercised in organizing concerts proved valuable in Gilbert’s sophomore year. That year, Harvard was celebrating its 350th anniversary and Leonard Bernstein ’39, who was then conductor of the New York Philharmonic, was tapped to give the keynote address to conclude the festivities. Cognizant of the lengthy parade of speakers before him, Bernstein let the audience vote on whether they wanted to hear his speech...
...whom—or what—they hear the bells in Harvard Square toll. They toll for environmental awareness. The Harvard Square Clergy Association is organizing a group of churches to ring their bells 350 times at 3:50 p.m. today—the 350th day of the year—in order to raise awareness for Project 350, an environmental activism movement that aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the “sustainable level” of 350 parts per million. Project 350 says in its mission statement that its “first...
...Alphabets,’ he created for the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony, and is one of his more famous poems. He also read ‘Villanelle,’ which he read for the first time in Tercentenary Theater in honor of Harvard’s 350th anniversary. “I thought, ‘how can anyone possibly hear a poem over the loudspeakers?” he said. “So I decided to compose a villanelle. Just repeat repeat repeat.” In the second half-hour, Heaney read several...
...Harvard’s 350th anniversary, Jack Rosenthal ’56, former editorial page editor of The New York Times, ran a 1986 Times editorial notebook column, describing the birthday as a celebration not of elitism but of “the impulse to share...