Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where the swarms of students should live; Lowell discovered Edward S. Harkness. A Yale graduate, Harkness wanted to give his alma mater the funds for new student dormitories. Yale spent two years thinking it over. Nettled, Harkness made the same proposition to Lowell in 1928. Lowell, no hesitater, said thank you very much and began building seven handsome neo-Georgian houses near the banks of the Charles. Another huge donation from the mother of Harry Widener, '07, who had died in the sinking of the Titanic, enabled Lowell to build what would become the world's greatest university library...
...music of a female samba group called the Batucada Belles. Saturday night the fete will peak in a pyrotechnical dazzle put on by Tommy Walker, who helped stage the finale of the Statue of Liberty centenary. Skyrockets will spell out the name JOHN HANCOCK -- one of eight Harvard men, thank you, who signed the Declaration of Independence -- and at the climax a 700-sq.-ft. Harvard logo will be emblazoned on the night sky as the band plays Fair Harvard...
This is comedy of the funny-peculiar bent, and not so much ensemble as communal. Like Sparrows Can't Sing, Joan Littlewood's delicious pub-crawl farce of the '60s, No Surrender flaunts too many characters, plotlets and reversals of mood but still manages to hold together splendidly. Thank Screenwriter Alan Bleasdale (whose elegy to Elvis Presley, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", played the West End last year) for the film's wild pungency. He is ably abetted by a cast of vet actors and a few odd-jobbers like Rock Star Elvis Costello, who has a funny turn...
...Harvard College", Morison remarks, "From the small college here planted in sylvestribus et incultis locis on the edge of the Western Wilderness, Harvard University has grown, and higher education in the United States is largely dervied. So we are gathered here to commemorate our founders and early benefactors; to thank God for the faith, overriding all prudentobjections and practical difficulties, thatsustained them through poverty and struggle, in soambitious and so excellent an enterprise...
Alums, with their checks and money orders, can help make that happen. The development office sees those checks as thank-yous for a pleasant party or as tangible expressions of nostalgia for a past that never was. But they could be thoughtful evaluation of Harvard's progress toward a grand future...