Harvard says its 350th birthday marks theanniversary of "350 years of higher education inAmerica," but apparently someone thinks there is aneed to celebrate the few years of highereducatin' that went on in the land of JeffersonDavis. Among the 50 flags flying high inTercentenary Theater is that of the Confederacy.
Flower Child
If you get a chance to stop and smell the rosesthis week, be sure to think a kind thought for PegMcAdams. She's been hired to water the 6000flowers now gracing Harvard Yard.
Advice and Dissent
A man claiming to be a Harvard graduate handedout leaflets around campus yesterday, but alsofound time to entertain four porters outsideQuincy House with a 25-minute monologue on allthat ails the University.
At around 1 p.m., the man approached the QuincyHouse gate on Plympton Street and launched hisnon-stop verbal barrage. The discourse touchedupon such diverse topics as "How to Cheat Your Wayto a Harvard Degree"--borrow a thesis fromWidener, steal its catalogue card, borrow(heavily)