Amid these signs of improved relations, the university still has hopes of luring George W. back before the tercentennial festivities end, in October.
Yale officials had hoped that the President might accept an invitation to speak at the university's tercentennial Alumni Leadership Convocation, a weekend of lectures, panel discussions, and parties, to be attended by a thousand or so of the school's most prominent graduates.
Like everybody else in the biological world, they were perhaps too busy celebrating the tercentennial of the great Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who was Buffon's archenemy.
The book is published by the Yale University Press, in its series celebrating the school's tercentennial.
In 1907 American and foreign warships again convened in Hampton Roads to mark the tercentennial of the Jamestown Colony, a salute reprised there in 1957 for Jamestown's 350th anniversary.
And yet this was Buffon's tercentennial, too.
I understand there was some discussion here in the Yale community about whether this tercentennial should go forward in the aftermath of the awful events of the Sept. 11.
Mr. Gagliardi also put together time capsules for the town's bicentennial and tercentennial and has set himself a nearly impossible challenge: to find a fact or an artifact from every day in Cheshire's history since 1694.
For all the street's lack of aesthetic glory, Winchester Avenue, no less than the stunning Sterling Memorial Library or the well-preserved town green, tells the story of New Haven at a time when the city's Ivy League centerpiece is marking its tercentennial.
A lot of history is wrapped up here: the association was formed in 1908, the Glee Club is marking its 140th anniversary and Yale University itself is in the midst of its tercentennial celebrations.
Nearby, offering further testimony to Jamestown's grandeur, a giant obelisk stands, erected, like the statue, a century ago, as part of the tercentennial celebrations of the founding.
