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Stephenson says the celebration he has planned will differ markedly from the 300th he experienced as an undergraduate. In 1936, the University celebrated its birthday with a summer-long series of erudite conferences on the future of academia that culminated in a three-day public celebration...
...most difficult task for Victor A. KoivumakiIII '68, who is in charge of housing andhospitality for the celebration, was gettingaccommodations for the 2200 official alumni guestsready. Cleaning about 1000 rooms in river housesbetween August 15, when summer school ended, andSeptember 4 presented a "major logisticalproblem," Koivumaki said...
Princess Diana decided earlier this summer notto accompany her spouse to Cambridge on his firstofficial visit to the City of Boston. PrinceCharles, who is staying at the Ritz Carlton Hotelin Boston, is joined by a contingent of Britishand U.S. secret service who have provided for hissecurity by closing off roadways and controllingcrowds all over the city...
While the school's namesake is certainly well known today, his fame is almost entirely posthumous. Andrew McFarland Davis says in his book, "John Harvard's Life in America," that "had there been issued in the summer of 1638 an edition of 'Who's Who in America,' Harvard's name would not have appeared in it. He had published nothing. He had done nothing to make himself conspicuous...
...York Times prides itself as thenation's paper of record, and editors in its West43rd Street offices consider goings-on at theCollege on the Charles among the news that's fitto print. A rhapsodic cover piece on Harvard at350, for instance, graced the The Times's SundayMagazine earlier this summer. However, The Timesdoes not plan the type of comprehensive coverageof the 350th which garnered it a Pulitzer 50 yearsago...