Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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September 1986: 350th Dinner Blockade...
Students, alumni and labor activists blockade Memorial Hall and prevent a formal dinner honoring Harvard's 350th anniversary from ever taking place. Rather than arrest the protesters, University officials cancel the dinner leaving 500 of some of Harvard's most prominent alumni hungry...
...Harvard's investment policy put themselves, if not their cause, in the headlines. On that freezing night in late November, police cleared the protesters--not violently, but calmly--from the steps of the Fogg Art Museum like so much snow blocking guests from the entryway. The University held its dinner...
...course, first you'd have to pay for the shirt in gold bullion, to be deposited in a secret Swiss bank account, but the principle's the same. And he's a guy who knows how to take initiative. I had him over to my house once for dinner--I went to the kitchen to open some beer and by the time I got back he had subletted half the place to foreign agents. You have to admire that kind of spunk...
...Although I have to admit," Tim said, "I didn't have him back to dinner after that...