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...site of the nation's oldest graduation ceremonies. The University has erected more than 70 tents around the Yard and in the courtyards of the residential houses. The largest--a 175-foot dacron covering bought in 1986 for Harvard's 350th Anniversary--covers the Tercentenary Theater stage alongside Memorial Church. It protects an area more than twice as large as previous structures, shielding the likes of President Derek C. Bok, Pakistani Prime Minister and Commencement Speaker Benazir Bhutto from the elements...
Another special feature of Commencement is the ringing of Memorial Church's bells. Although the bells are controlled electronically during the school year, the more complex melodies that accompany the three reunions' memorial services and the processions call for a return to more primitive technology...
Down below, a sea of folding chairs blankets Tercentenary Theater, stretching from Memorial Church to the steps of Widener Library and from University Hall to Sever Hall. The University has rented 73,000 chairs to accommodate the week's activities--19,000 for Commencement exercises alone--at a cost of $.70 to about $1.50 each, says Dwyer...
Chaplain at Yale, leader in the civil rights struggle and the anti-Viet Nam War movement, pastor at New York City's Riverside Church, he is now the head of sane/freeze: Campaign for Global Security. Once a cia operative, Coffin has been a political contrarian for 30 years, seeing himself as the voice of moral opposition to much of what he believes is wrong with his country...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...