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Recently, and just in time for the 350th celebration, cranes dropped two full-grown trees into the ground outside Grays Hall at an estimated cost of $5000 each...
...like history doesn't exist," Chester Hartman '57 says about the University's planning for the 350th. Hartman, of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, says the symposia fail to investigate some of the more unflatterring periods in Harvard history...
...Gazette, Harvard's in-house newspaper, published a time line in its special 350th supplement. The big event in 1969, according to The Gazette, was that Harvard opened its community health plan...
...During this sort of occasion Harvard isn't going to exactly air its own dirty laundry," says Alan Brinkley, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History. "There is a blandness to the media coverage typical of events like this," Brinkley says of the stories that have been written for the 350th...
Costa says that much of the coverage about the 350th has been very general but adds that press releases from his office haven't been entirely laudatory of Harvard. He points to a lengthy piece on "The Black Presence at Harvard," written by Caldwell Titcomb '47, which documents how the University shunned Black students until very recently. The piece also discusses Lowell's racism and anti-Semitism...