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Cambridge opened its Sesquicentennial Celebration with a bang Saturday, honoring the 150th anniversary of the city's incorporation with a noisy, musicfilled parade that blocked traffic on Mass. Ave., Mt. Auburn Street and Memorial Drive for hours...
...Grand 150th Parade began at the Kennedy School--the elementary school in East Cambridge, not Harvard's government school--and wound its way to join up with the 19th Annual Cambridge River Festival along the banks of the Charles...
...SMITHSONIAN By James Conaway (Knopf; $60). This handsome volume commemorates the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary. Ironically, the Smithsonian was founded with a financial gift from an Englishman who never set foot in the States. James Smithson was a noted mineralogist who, stung by the Royal Society's refusal to publish his scientific papers, bequeathed the U.S. government £100,000 to build "an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge." Today its trove ranges from the Wright brothers' airplane to a prototype of the Apple personal computer...
Eddie Jenkins, President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association, presented Cochran with a poster commemorating this year's 150th anniversary of the swearing in of the first African American lawyer...
...Harvard Law School, through its faculty activity and teaching, could shift its concern from the narrow objectives of much traditional legal scholarship, we might increase our contribution," Griswold said in 1967 at the 150th anniversary of the Law School in what many consider to be his greatest speech...