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Donovan receives Coles Award
Harvard President Drew Faust presented the annual Robert Coles Call of Service Award on Friday to U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.
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‘Let us begin again’
Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first day of fall classes Tuesday by welcoming students and faculty to a new academic year during the traditional Morning Prayers.
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Welcoming the Class of ’17
At the annual Freshman Convocation Monday, Harvard President Drew Faust and other University officials told the Class of ’17 to embrace challenges, reach out to fellow students and others, and keep open minds about what the future should hold.
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Harry Parker honored with inspiring memorial, row
A memorial service for Harry Parker on Aug. 17 gathered the coach’s family and former students. Parker passed away June 25 at the age of 77. He served as the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Heavyweight Crew for 51 seasons.
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‘Run toward life’
Harvard President Drew Faust on Tuesday drew on the example of the selfless responders to the Boston Marathon bombing, telling graduating seniors to “run toward” challenges, passions, and places where their help is needed.
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Senior talks offer last word
One senior from each of Harvard’s Houses will speak during Morning Prayers as part of “Senior Talks.” The May 9 speaker is Fred-Ivo Baca of Leverett House, with the series concluding on May 16 with Cassandra Thomson of Winthrop House.
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View from the Porch
Harvard officials dedicated a new common space, called the Porch, in the Yard on Wednesday, and welcomed the reopening of the science plaza after a reconstruction project.
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Faith not in God, but in humanity
Comedian, actor, and (perhaps) politician Eddie Izzard ruminated on infallibility and the Golden Rule as he accepted the sixth annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism.
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The sky as a ‘sewer’
Former Vice President Al Gore repeated his call for action on climate change Wednesday, saying society is treating the skies as an “open sewer.” He spoke at Harvard’s Memorial Church in a session sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.
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A message of inclusion
Songs of struggle and freedom filled the vast sanctuary at Harvard’s Memorial Church on Monday as part of a celebration of the life and message of Martin Luther King Jr. The event marked the start of the University’s third annual Interfaith Awareness Week.
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Recalling King’s later legacy
The Rev. Jonathan Walton, Harvard’s Pusey Minister of Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, galvanized Boston’s 43rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast with a keynote speech that contrasted the present-day ”sanitized and sterilized” version of the civil rights leader’s dream for America with the real message of economic inclusiveness that he…
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When King came to Harvard
Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights icon whose national day of commemoration is Monday, was no stranger to Harvard University.
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Carolling at Memorial Church
Each year in December, Harvard’s Memorial Church presents members of the University community and beyond with the gift of song.
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A musical gift
Each year, the Memorial Church offers the gift of song to the Harvard and Cambridge communities, with two moving services of carols. The Dec. 17 service is scheduled for 8 p.m.
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In the Yard, a changing of the guard
The trees of Harvard Yard are in the midst of managed change as the once-ubiquitous elms continue their decades-long decline. Mixed species, dominated by American trees, replace them.
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Memories and beginnings
Members of the Harvard community gathered Sunday to salute the University’s war dead for Veterans Day, an event accompanied by the official institution service for Jonathan Walton, the Memorial Church’s new Pusey Minister and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals.
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Religion and politics, now
In a talk sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, four religious scholars explored the question of “Religion and the Election: Does it Matter?”
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Bon appétit! Julia at 100
In honor of what would have been French chef Julia Child’s 100th birthday, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America hosted an entertaining and informative daylong symposium.
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A warm welcome, and a challenge
Forced indoors by rain, College freshmen gathered in Sanders Theatre and the Memorial Church to become formal members of the Class of 2016 at Harvard’s annual convocation.
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New beginnings
In her traditional annual remarks at the first fall Morning Prayers, Harvard President Drew Faust found common ground between the secular and the religious, “the ineffable and the immediate,’’ and reminded listeners of “the need to serve both.”
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Odes to joy
Harvard Gazette staff writers covered the campus to capture snapshots of Harvard’s 361st Commencement, on a picture-perfect day.
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Home is where one starts out
A student from Australia, far from home and legally blind, found her niche by singing in the Memorial Church choir.
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O, hear the bells
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today. In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work or study — this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square and the…
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Lessons for the lucky few
In her Baccalaureate Address, President Drew Faust urged graduates of the Class of 2012 to be mindful of their good fortune — and to embrace the responsibilities a privileged education bestows on them.
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Preacher, scholar, friend
Jonathan Walton, a professor of religion and society specializing in the effects of media and technology on religion, is looking forward to his new role as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.
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Walton named Memorial Church minister
Harvard President Drew Faust announced on April 25 the appointment of Jonathan L. Walton as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, succeeding the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes.
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Memorial for Paul Doty
A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.
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Tremendous Pipes
A C.B. Fisk organ, Opus 139, was unveiled Easter Sunday in Harvard’s Memorial Church.
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Piping up, to good effect
After years of planning, an effort once spearheaded by the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes to install a new organ in the Memorial Church will fill its halls with music.
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April 20 memorial to honor Jewett
A memorial service celebrating the life of L. Fred Jewett ’57, M.B.A. ’60, former dean of Harvard College and a longtime University administrator, will be held in the Memorial Church on April 20.