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...That John Harvard be and hereby is unanimously elected as a member of the Class of '56 posthumously; and 2) that the U.S. Government Postal Service strike a commemorative stamp bearing John Harvard's face and his class...
...says the Postal Service is slow? Go to your local Post Office tomorrow and you'll see a 56 cent stamp bearing the moniker of John Harvard (though, of course, it isn't really him; it's Sherman Hoar...
...stamp's arrival today in post offices nationwide followed more than a year of intense lobbying by at least one U.S. senator, Harvard Clubs from New York to Orange County, Calif., and scattered philatelically inclined alumni nationwide. The groups had to circumvent a 1971 U.S. Postal Service rule prohibiting stamps honoring colleges and universities...
...think the postal service has everissued a stamp honoring someone about whom solittle is known," joked President Derek C. Bok ata press conference at the Kennedy School'sInstitute of Politics Forum yesterday...
Before the 1971 ruling, the postal serviceissued stamps honoring Columbia and PrincetonUniversities and Dartmouth College. But postalofficials concede that today other such schoolswould be unlikely to maneuver around therestrictions as Harvard, resting on itssignificance as the nation's oldest college, hassucceeded in doing...