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...plan for the week was conceived with four goals in mind: First, to provide opportunities for undergraduates to celebrate this important anniversary of the college. Second, through House and college-wide events to create occasions for special character and quality that will prove inspiring and memorable. Third, to honor the alumni and faculty who have achieved distinction in some field of letters, music, and intellectual pursuit and who, as with the Masters and Senior Tutors, promote leadership and vision for us. Fourth, to create social events that will allow students to meet each other in pleasant surroundings and simply...
...plan includes a mixture of types of events, some for House members and others college wide. They are meant in total to accommodate everyone. A full program will be distributed next week that will include events not emphasized in the stories or enumerated in the paid advertisements. The Grand Ball continues to be of special interest. It was not planned on a selective basis. Invitations were sent to every current member of the College by means of the Registar's mailing list. Students were asked to respond promptly because capacity was limited. We have expanded it, as you know...
While the four-day, University-wide celebration earlier this month may have been among the best of times for thousands of Harvard alumni, the undergraduate festivities promise to be an embarrassment and an insult to every student. What should be a celebration of the College at its best pays homage to Harvard's worst traditions of elitism and exclusivity...
Four of the featured events--two luncheons, a tea, and a dinner, all with distinguished guests of honor--are by invitation only. For example, a luncheon to honor writing at Harvard, an event that might interest a wide audience of students, has been closed to all but 60. The coordinators in University Hall have already drafted the guest lists. The bulk of the invitations will soon land in the mailboxes of students who hold positions of perceived power or prestige in campus organizations. In demographic terms, your 17 percent chance of gaining admission to Harvard was more than double...
...fact is that past fare wars have been one of the chief causes of the recent Darwinian merger wave. Says Economist Alfred Kahn of Cornell University, who is widely viewed as the father of airline deregulation: "Instability is the price we pay for competition." Indeed, some 150 airlines have filed for bankruptcy or ceased operation since 1978, as the industry has lurched from occasional feast to occasional famine. The low point for deregulated airlines came in 1982, when the industry suffered an $800 million operating loss. The best unregulated year was 1984, when industry-wide profits hit $2.3 billion...