Word: luncheon
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After students complained about the exclusivity of the some of the events of the 350th celebration, Epps decided to give away tickets to the tea with Secretary of Education William J. Bennett on Friday and to Friday's writers' luncheon...
About 52 students picked up tickets to the tea today and about 35 picked up passes for the luncheon which will feature authors James Atlas '69 and Jonathan Fernandez '69, said W. Robert Genieser '89, who was supervising the ticket office yesterday...
Four of the featured events--two luncheons, a tea, and a dinner, all with distinguished guests of honor--are by invitation only. For example, a luncheon to honor writing at Harvard, an event that might interest a wide audience of students, has been closed to all but 60. The coordinators in University Hall have already drafted the guest lists. The bulk of the invitations will soon land in the mailboxes of students who hold positions of perceived power or prestige in campus organizations. In demographic terms, your 17 percent chance of gaining admission to Harvard was more than double...
Invitation lists to the events were drawn up byEpps' office although the envelopes have not goneout yet. Still to reach the mailbox areinvitations to the luncheon with Harvard writers,the tea with Bennett and the luncheon after theCornell football game. About half of the 300student invitations to the 350th dinner have goneout, and Epps said the rest would go out later...
...criteria for guests was involvement inactivities that were related to the event. Forexample, Epps said that about 60 writers for theAdvocate, Padan Aram, the Lampoon, theIndependent, the Signet and The Crimson would beinvited to the luncheon honoring Harvard writers...