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From Playboy Magazine's "Women of the Ivy League" issue to Harvard's splashy 350th celebration, it was an unusually unusual year for the University community in 1986. Here's a tongue-in-cheek review of some of the year's best kept secrets...
...every day you meet a prince," said Cristina V. Coletta '87, co-organizer of the undergraduate 350th celebration about the impending visit of Charles, Prince of Wales. "It certainly is a shame that more students will not be able to meet him personally...
...350th Office to preselect if they feel that choosing people with whom the Prince would have something in common will make his visit more enjoyable," said Coletta, who did get to meet His Royal Highness...
Nobel Prize-winning economist John Kenneth Galbraith, speaking at a Winthrop House dinner commemorating Harvard's 350th anniversary, recalled his days as a tutor during here during the 1930s. Galbraith cited one wild party in Winthrop in which a drunken student dove three stories from his C-entry room and died. "There was great enjoyment of sex, alcohol and leisure," the former ambassador to India said with great candor...
...dean said that publicity from the 350th anniversary celebration may have been part of the reason for the sizable increase in applications,. but he said that number of applicants has been increasing for five years. He cited Harvard's need-blind admissions program, the diversity of the student body and broad recruiting program as factors which contribute to the growing applicant pool...