Harvard Tercentenary celebration

In 1936 Harvard University celebrated the 300th anniversary of its founding with elaborate festivities, hosting tens of thousands of alumni, dignitaries (including United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt), and representatives of institutions of learning and scholarship from around the world.

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• "Cambridge birthday". Time. XXVIII (13): 22–24. September 28, 1936. 
• http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1932/11/4/the-harvard-tercentenary-pto-the-editor/
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• http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hua31014
• http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hua22004
• Bethell, John T. (1998). Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press. 
• The Tercentenary of Harvard College: A Chronicle of the Tercentenary Year 1935-1936. Harvard University Press. 1937. 
• Roosevelt speech