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According to press reports, Derek Bok, during his address to the final convocation of Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, warned Harvard against pressures from those "outside" the academy. Both the New York Times and the Boston Globe interpreted this remark as referring to the group of anti-apartheid protesters who blocked the entrance to Memorial Hall on the evening of September 4 and forced the cancellation of a black tie dinner for 300 and more of Harvard's wealthiest contributors. As one of those who locked arms in the doorways that evening, I should like to call attention...
...electro-magnetic spectrum, and most industry analysts expected this year's to be a color only dogs could see. Instead, the book's iconoclastic authors have once again shown their disregard for stale traditions and have decorated the book with a crimson banner, as well as a large 350th logo...
Unlike the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936, no large studies were conducted, nor were any seminal discussions convened. Both the 300th and the 350th had their share of pomp and circumstance, as they both should. But the former also saw month-long gatherings of academics making an effort to break intellectual ground...
What's left after the biggest party ever thrown by a university? Course catalogues with the official 350th emblem on the cover and 50-percent-off 350th t-shirt sales. What's new at Harvard? Not much...
Brennan's speech was the 26th Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Lecture. He was the first sitting justice to deliver the annual address, which this year drew more than 1000 of those attending Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration...