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...members of Harvard's economics department gathered last week at a party for professors who were retiring or departing, someone read a telegram from one of the guests of honor. The only clue it contained to the whereabouts of the missing professor, John Kenneth Galbraith, was the postscript: DICTATED IN BERLIN...
Even so, many otherwise active alumni never attend club meetings. Attendance fluctuates greatly from meeting to meeting, depending on the speaker (well-known Harvard figures, such as John Kenneth Galbraith, can double attendance), the success of the last meeting, and the time of the year. When Moore was president of the Atlanta Harvard Club about ten years ago, there were about six meetings a year, each of which attracted 100 of Atlanta's 8000 alumni. Robert W. Phifer '69. AHA assistant general secretary for clubs, thinks about 15-20 per cent of Harvard's alumni (including the graduate schools) attend...
Author and social satirist Dick Gregory has agreed to be this year's 1975 Class Day speaker on Wednesday afternoon. The senior class almost had to settle for John Kenneth Galbraith, retiring Warburg Professor of Economics, because as late as last Thursday, the Class Day Committee had not landed a speaker to replaces Muhammad...
Gregory will address the seniors in Tercentenary Theatre on the subject of "Social Problems: Social or Anti-Social?" The other scheduled speaker is Galbraith who will talk about his impressions of the changes that have struck Harvard in the past 40 years...
Carfagna said in the event that the committee cannot find a Class Day speaker, Galbraith may be asked to extend his speech, now scheduled to last 20 minutes...