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...when Harvard's family celebrates the University's 350th birthday, don't look for long lists of non-Harvard celebrities; a select group of John Harvard's true-blue friends will be there to blow out the candles on the 350th cake next September...
Harvard spent six years and over $1 million to organize and finance the 350th anniversary celebration this September. Committee members took precautions against everything from terrorist attacks to wandering alumni children. It was designed to be the biggest and best-orchestrated Harvard event in 50 years--since the 300th anniversary...
...early October 1985, the seven-man governing Corporation broke with tradition and chose not to award honorary degrees, Harvard's highest honor, at the 350th as they had at the 300th and the 250th anniversary celebrations...
...Corporation's decision followed protest by a few prominent professors when they learned that President Reagan would likely be among the speakers (and honorands) at the 350th festivities...
...Corporation informed 350th organizers that plans for awarding honorary degrees were to be scrapped (even though Harvard News Office publications had anticipated the awards in official releases), eliminating the possibility that Reagan--whom some professors had seen as an enemy of higher education--would receive an honorary degree...