Word: birthdays
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Radcliffe officials have been included in all stages of planning for the University's 350th birthday, and Horner was a member of the committee which oversaw the planning. "Radcliffe was asked to participate by organizing symposia and exhibitions," Press said...
...Radcliffe seminars, which form part of the 106 educational symposia organized to commemorate Harvard's 350th birthday, will "bring distinguished women scholars from all over the country to discuss issues women are interested in, although they are not necessarily women's issues," says Radcliffe spokesman Aida K. Press...
...Birthday planners also orginally called on theSecret Service in anticipation of a possibleappearance by President Reagan. If the Presidenthad attended, security would have been eventighter. Spectators would have had to enter theYard through metal detectors like those found inairports, said Francis H. Burr '35, chairman ofthe 350th Anniversary Celebration Commission...
...York Times snagged a Pulitzer Prize for its exhaustive coverage of Harvard's 300th birthday celebration. Now, 50 years later, as more than 900 journalists descend upon Cambridge to report on Harvard's 350th anniversary, three major national newsmagazines have already chipped in with lengthy cover stories prompted by the event. But don't count on any walking off with journalism's top prize this time around...
...course, an ingrained part of American lore and legend. The phrase "Harvard man," for instance, has connotations that a century could not erase. But what would the average guy in Middle America gather about the place from a perusal of the coverage of Harvard at its 350th birthday in the print media? And why does the media think he would even care to read the stuff...