Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the possibility that the President might receive an honorary degree at the 350th precipitated protest among some alumni and faculty members. Cleveland and Roosevelt both were offered honoraries and some faculty members, students and graduates said they felt it would be inappropriate to so honor a man whose policies they deemed harmful to higher education...
Harvard cannot seem to resist the urge to throw itself a big party every 50 years of so. The first such fun-fest occurred in 1836, when 1500 old chaps endured rain in Harvard Yard to drink wine and and hear Oliver Wendell Holmes sing a song in honor of the College's 200th anniversary...
...next party was then tentatively scheduled for 100 years later, in September 1936. But President Josiah Quincy and the centennial celebrants underestimated the need of every second generation or so of Harvardians to let loose in honor of their alma mater. In November of 1886, then, the 250th anniversary of the College's founding was marked in a three-day celebration by 4000 celebrants, 2500 of whom jammed into Sanders Theater to see President Grover Cleveland and Charles William Eliot, then president of Harvard...
...handedly developed the Council's machinery, as parliamentarian, vice-chairman, chairman, and member of numerous student and student-faculty committees. Among other achievements, he produced definitive reports on freedom of speech at Harvard, after students pegged Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 with tomatoes; the potential for an honor code at Harvard; and the controversial disciplinary Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. He has also played a major role in establishing the Endowment for Divestiture, an alternative to the Class Gift Fund designed to pressure Harvard to divest its South Africa holdings...
...Damn if I remember," laughs Stephenson--who has no trouble at all remembering the name of the "track star" who beat him out for the honor of being the featured undergraduate speaker at the 300th's convocation ceremony...