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...College that bears John Harvard's name this week celebrates its 500th birthday, there would seem to be no reason for the present deans to revise any part of Dean Henry's formulation. Most freshmen still cruise through Cambridge on the four-year plan, and the University itself shows no signs of folding its camping modules. It would seem that Rosovsky, who later left Harvard to become commissioner of the Major Indoor Soccer League, hit at least two out of three nails on the head...
Time's chief rival in the national news-weeklygame, Newsweek, gave Harvard and its birthday acomparative pittance of coverage. A teaser at thetop of its cover asks, "Harvard at 350: Why theMystique?" Inside, playwright and author MarkO'Donnell '76, attempts in an idiosyncratic essayto answer that question, as only a former Lampoonpresident can. But the editors deemed a story on"TV's Fun Couple," Bruce Willis and CybillShepherd of "Moonlighting," more worthy of a coverstory...
...third member of the national news-weeklytroika, U.S. News and World Report, also gave bigplay to Harvard. In the most balanced andcomprehensive coverage of the University at its350th birthday, the magazine attempts to take itsreaders "Behind the Harvard Mystique...
...feeling here was that the University is amajor force in American society, and that this wasa milestone in its history," says Alvin P. Sanoff,a U.S. News senior editor. The magazine also plansto cover the birthday bash itself, though"probably more as a Harvard celebration story thanas a big public policy story--barring somethingsignificant," Sanoff says...
Helmut W. Schumann '41 pulled out all the stops yesterday to get tickets to events marking his alma mater's 350th birthday. And although not everyone was as successful as Shumann, who told a clerk he endowed a chair, workers at the Holyoke Ticket Center said others tried just as hard to get the tickets they wanted...