Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bundy recalled that this would have been the year of lohn F. Kennedy's 25th reunion at Harvard, and he speculated about what the late President might have said on the occasion. Perhaps, said Bundy, it would have gone something like this: "We must hold to one another across the generations and not allow misunderstandings or specific arguments to separate us. America can do nothing if it is not together, and she is not much if she is not in touch with the hopes of others. One must have a passion for peace, respect for power, awareness of friends...
...University of California's President Clark Kerr spoke at Berkeley, where much of the student unrest started; it would all be forgotten, said Kerr rather comfortably, by the time the class of '65 held its 50th reunion. At Tufts, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach declared that he was all for protest as long as it was meaningful, but "it becomes pointless, silly and even harmful when it serves only as a substitute for goldfish swallowing or a panty raid." Katzenbach cautioned against forming rigid convictions on insufficient evidence, and recalled Oliver Cromwell's words to the Church...
From the beginning, Commencement in Cambridge has been an amusing combination of pompous ritual, serious academic dissertation, reunion with old associates, honors both earned and merely bestowed, and festive entertainments...
...floors. "As you can see," he said, gesturing at the Radcliffe Quadrangle below, "this is only the start of the School." I wouldn't be surprised if the School had the whole quadrangle some day--although that's just a guess." A few members of Radcliffe's 50th Reunion class flinched...
Death can give meaning to life by showing what one is willing to die for, the Reverend Dr. Langdon Gilkey '40 explained at a Memorial Service yesterday in honor of the late President John F. Kennedy '40. The service was held in Memorial Church as part of the 25th reunion of the Class...