Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highlight of the celebration is the "Grand Ball," a lavish black tie affair on October 11. It will no doubt prove a memorable evening for those fortunate enough to attend. But even appropriately attired students willing to pay $15 per ticket will be left to their own devices that night, because entrance to the ball has been limited...
Beyond a few exceptions, Epps says, the undergraduate 350th offers something for everyone. And of course, the dean is right. If you can't dance beneath an ice sculpture of John Harvard or dine with the master of John Harvard's alma mater, you can always attend the Harvard-Cornell football game, or listen to a "New England Bandstand Concert" featuring various undergraduate performing groups...
...UNDERGRADUATE 350th celebration of Harvard has, unfortunately, left many undergraduates insulted rather than inspired. The majority, frightened by the prospect of Dean Epps choosing his favored undergraduates to attend exclusive events, has condemned the proposed commemoration as an affirmation of Harvard's worst traditions...
This understandable concern has led the majority to attack not only elitism, but also the very idea of having events which only a select number of undergraduates may attend. Planned fairly, though, invitation-only events are an entirely appropriate way for the whole university to celebrate itself...
Elitists often argue that they are entitled to favors by right of birth. It seems quite the same for Harvard students to argue that because they are students here they have a right to attend every event...