Word: symposiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North House residents will probably have to sign up to eat at a Thursday dinner featuring Ellen Hume '68, White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and several Neiman fellows. Before the dinner there will be an open symposium with the guests...
Alumni and students affiliated with Quincy will lead a symposium at a special dinner on Wednesday. Derek Brewer, master of Cambridge University's Emmanuel College, will compare English university education with Harvard's at a dinner in his honor on Thursday, Shinagel said...
...astounds me that you can accuse me--and my colleagues who, like me, volunteered time this summer to help organize a celebration for undergraduates--of "betraying" the voters who elected me. Along with Joe Kahn, the president of The Crimson, I did plan a symposium on the future of higher education. William Bennett, the Secretary of Education, will be coming to Memorial Hall to discuss this topic with all interested members of our community. Several students have been invited to have tea with him afterward. Granted, not everyone at Harvard may have tea with the Secretary. But any reasonable person...
Last week's crowd, which numbered nearly 2,500, was gathered for the Gerald R. Ford Museum's Humor and the Presidency Symposium in Grand Rapids, likened by Comedian Pat Paulsen to the "Ayatullah Khomeini Symposium on the Sexual Revolution." The convocation, which included a comedy show and a banquet, marks the fifth anniversary of the museum where the Ford Administration's documents are stored -- "in a Dixie cup," according to Paulsen. "It's very exciting here," he said, "if you happen to be a monk." Among those joining the three days of discussions and routines: Art Buchwald, Robert Klein...
...consensus at the symposium: self-deprecating humor is a President's best friend and weapon. "The chance to be seen as a warm, relaxed human being with a twinkle-in-the-eye approach to himself is just too good an opportunity to miss," said Bob Orben, a leading gag writer and author of many of Ford's best lines. "Humor reaches out, puts a warm, affectionate arm around an audience and says, 'I am one of you. I understand you.' If you can laugh together, you can vote together...