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...Grover Cleveland stopped by for the 250th celebration in 1886, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 took part in the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936. With Harvard men Donald T. Regan '40 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 among his inner circle of advisors and planning to attend the ceremony themselves, 350th bigwigs counted on Reagan's appearance at Friday morning's convocation on "The University in a Changing World...
However, the possibility that the President might receive an honorary degree at the 350th precipitated protest among some alumni and faculty members. Cleveland and Roosevelt both were offered honoraries and some faculty members, students and graduates said they felt it would be inappropriate to so honor a man whose policies they deemed harmful to higher education...
...Corporation then seemed to back down, announcing that no honoraries would be handed out. Reagan followed suit, declining the invitation. The news sent 350th organizers scrambling to fill Reagan's slot in the second convocation, perhaps the single most important position in the ceremony. It remains unfilled to this...
...would have said all along it was a 50-50 chance," says Burr of a presidential appearence at the 350th. He believes that "a combination of reading about disturbances endemic to academic commencements and terrorism," not a reaction to Harvard's honorary degree dictum, led Reagan's advisors to recommend against his attending the celebration...
...budget. If Reagan had attended, Burr says, security would have been ultra tight, and spectators may have had to enter the Yard through metal detectors like those found in ariports. As it is, with Prince Charles and other dignitaries expected, security will be the most costly item in the 350th budget...