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Meanwhile, Cabot Professor of English Literature and of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors, who was then the energetic and resourceful chair of the department, was also working to raise the program’s visibility. With the 350th anniversary of the College less than a year away, he devised a plan. He and a few department members had recently published an informational pamphlet illustrated with photographs of African-American writers of Harvard. Why not ask the administration to underwrite the republication of these authors in a larger pamphlet for distribution at the 350th? The President and Fellows assented...
Despite lost sleep and technical crises, we made the deadline; 600 copies of Varieties of Black Experience at Harvard were bound and distributed at the 350th anniversary celebration. When the print run was quickly exhausted and suppliers requested book orders, we sent a manuscript to Harvard University Press to see whether they might publish an expanded edition. But when Harvard politely declined the project, we turned elsewhere. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., who was then professor of English, comparative literature and Africana studies at Cornell University, generously offered to publish an expanded edition of the book in a series...
Under a bright blue sky, 6,194 graduates and one University president bid goodbye to Harvard at the University’s 350th Commencement on June...
Credited as the engineer of former President Bill Clinton’s economic vision for America and the savior of the world’s financial stability on two occasions, Robert E. Rubin ’60 returns to Harvard today to address the 350th Commencement...
Under the mostly sunny skies of Boston and Cambridge (it never rains on Commencement Day), Harvard students at the College and each of the eleven other schools will receive diplomas today as President Neil L. Rudenstine awards 6,194 degrees in today's 350th Commencement exercises...