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Surely there are few events, apart from last summer's Statue of Liberty 250th birthday party-turned-tragedy, with which to compare it. (Whose idea was it to launch the 300 Gary Coleman impersonators into hyperspace, anyway?) To be sure, it is hard to forget the party the Faculty threw in 2083 when the last kink in the Core was ironed out. More recently there was dancing in the streets when oftdelayed renovations finally brought North House into the 22nd century...
...LAST SUCH celebration, of course, was the 350th birthday party the Big H threw for itself back in 1986. That was the one where the best and brightest gathered together to watch a massive fireworks show, which climaxed in a pyrotechnic emblazonement of John Hancock's signature. Back then, the display was large enough for the celebration's guest of honor, Britain's Prince Charles, to read without his spectacles. Atmospheric conditions permitting Saturday night, our brethren at the Lunar Extension School will be able to see former University President Timothy Leary's signature without a telescope...
...alums and luminaries who will gather in Quincentenary Theater should leave thinking that Harvard Yard is some verdant oasis of veritas. There is something important to be learned from this week's gala affair, especially as it comes on the heels of the even larger Statue of Liberty 250th birthday celebration...
...celebrate our 500th birthday, then, let's try not to get too caught up in the inherent self-congratulatory self-aggrandizement of the event. For with a little effort and a touch of care, we can make it so that there is even more to cheer at some far off, distant date, at another anniversary celebration...
...Harvard's 300th birthday, alumni raised and presented a magnanimous gift of $5.5 million. Fifty years later, University administrators say, Harvard is neither soliciting nor expecting any donations from the guests at its anniversary party, which will cost the University $1 million...