Word: symposia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that you have to do to plan these parties," says Coletta, adding that she must arrange for the invitations, caterers and other aspects of the ball and dinner. Coletta adds that she will also be overseeing the house committees and masters who will be setting up their own symposia and dinners...
Despite paying $200 per person for 11 meals and four nights in luxurious Harvard housing, class representatives are entitled to preferred seating at various outdoor events and in the limited-seating scholarly symposia. For those not privileged enough to garner invites, there is still ample hotel space for the first week in September, and tickets can be purchased for many of the larger events...
...Harvard being Harvard, of course, due homage will be paid to scholarship and learning. What Glimp calls "the real meat of the affair" are the dozens of academic symposia to be conducted by the University's 10 faculties...
...would be a mistake for Harvard to pat itself on the back," says Glimp. "We'll have fun and at the same time be intellectually serious." The symposia constitute the serious part of the celebration...
...friend looked over the list of the symposia and said that if you could attend all of them, it would be the equivalent of a college education," says Thomas W. Stephenson '37. Stephenson is the general secretary of the celebration's administrative staff--the guy in charge of all the nitty-gritty details whose job it is to see that the four-day celebration runs smoothly...