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...keeping with the tradition set at Harvard's past major anniversaries--then President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 spoke at Harvard's Tercentenary in 1936 and Grover Cleveland at the 250th in 1886--University officials are "confident" that Reagan will attend in 1986, but will not know for certain for over a year because the White House does not schedule the president this far in advance...
...might stay away. It reminds me of the quandary when President Jackson was given an honorary degree. John Quincy Adams, of the class of 1787, called it a disgrace. I am at a loss. Perhaps my only hope is that Reagan will emulate Grover Cleveland, who at the 250th anniversary declined an honorary doctorate, saying that he was unworthy...
While the statue was cheered with a torchlight parade for the 250th anniversary of the College, and the College's Memorial Society used to place a wreath at its base every November '26 the occasion of its 100th birthday may pass with little notice...
...freelance photographer is covering a revolutionary war in the Third World. Among his many expectations of discomfort, danger and the constant threat of death, he dares harbor only one decent hope: that in some unlikely 250th or 500th of a second his shutter will open and shut and almost by accident freeze an image that will make some human sense out of the anguish to which he is the world's paid witness...
Nevertheless the Hansens receive a steady flow of regular customers between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It this year's crop is typical. Pam and Bruce will close shop sometime between their 200th and 250th sale...