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...patriarch of the 350th modestly defers credit for planning the celebration to others. "David Aloian ['49] is really the conceiver, the father of this. He initiated the idea, he cleared the planning committee, and his staff has carried a major burden," Stephenson says about the former Harvard Alumni Association head. "My job has been quite simple really; it's just been to make sure that all the plans mesh...
Stephenson, who has been involved with all aspects of the 350th's planning, says he is most proud of the symposia. Attending every symposia would be the equivalent of a college education, he boasts, paraphrasing a friend...
...sesquitercentenary was conceived as a "family affair," Stephenson says. A public party on the Charles, a folk concert, and other aspects of the 350th labeled as vacuous and glitzy were attempts, he says, to make Harvard's celebration accessible to a broad audience. According to Stephenson, the celebration should dispel such criticism...
With tens of thousands of alumni pouring into the area for Harvard's 350th birthday party, the University is putting on its best face and shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to beautify the campus...
With the recent arrival of 40,000 chairs, 3000 sets of china and 20 Comfort Castle toilets, the unpublicized and expensive preparations for Harvard's 350th celebration were complete...