Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keynote of the meeting, as throughout the "Birthday Party," was that of the freedom to seek truth, a freedom vital for the continuance of the academic tradition in America...
...John Harvard's likeness and the glow of the dancing torch-flames to remind of the celebrated past. The Pop Concert popped, and the merry ones sipped and stepped away the night, and a weary Vagabond crawled off to bed, already envying his progeny-to-be their four-hundredth birthday party...
SEPTEMBER 8th, 1836--Early up with a heart full of joy to help my college celebrate her two hundredth birthday party. Enech in with some journals come by post from New York, calls it no great thing judging by the age of the English colleges, our sisters. But a piece of good fortune, I count it to be the first upon this wild continent...
There would be no cause for such ceremony if Harvard were celebrating a three-hundredth birthday and nothing more. In such a case Billy Rose and his Fort Worth debutantes or Rufus Dawes and his Chicago millions could put on a show to make the American public Harvard-conscious to an undreamed of degree. It would be no less hypocritical to rejoice if this were a university from which all attributes but old age had long since field. Leave that to Heidelberg and Bologna...
Harvard can celebrate her three-hundredth birthday only as the world of learning celebrates the contributions she has made to human progress. The prophets who foretell the eclipse of Harvard are blinded by the physical aspects of the occasion. The key to the future is the same one Harvard has used for the past three centuries. It is expressed in the simple command of President Conant: "We must plan for the future in terms...