Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spirit of Harvard will be in the air from the very first day when the birthday celebration begins with a River Festival on the Charles. This event is supposed to be Harvard's party for the whole community, explains organizer Clara Wainwright...
Originally, a big birthday cake was to float down the Charles, but Wainwright says the cake would have been scalped by the low bridges over the river. After discovering they couldn't have their cake and eat it too, Harvard changed the program to feature musicians and jugglers from the Boston area performing on stationary barges tied to both ends of the Charles...
Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington will address Harvard's 336th Commencement exercises today, one day before his 67th birthday. The day's events will leave more of a mark on the graduating seniors than on one of the best and ablest diplomats in the Western Hemisphere...
...when Harvard's family celebrates the University's 350th birthday, don't look for long lists of non-Harvard celebrities; a select group of John Harvard's true-blue friends will be there to blow out the candles on the 350th cake next September...
President Derek C. Bok declined to explain the reasons behind the decision. Francis H. Burr '35, a former senior fellow of the Corporation and an organizer of the 350th, said he felt Harvard awards too many honorary degrees anyway and that a degree ceremony would detract from the birthday celebration...