Tag: Peter Gomes

  • Nation & World

    Bacow to seniors: Live to the fullest

    Harvard President Larry Bacow addressed the Class of 2019 during the Baccalaureate Service, an annual tradition leading to Thursday’s Commencement. He suggests they live their lives to the fullest.

    4 minutes
    Larry Bacow and Jonathan Walton walk down the aisle of Memorial Church for the 2019 Baccalaureate Service.
  • Nation & World

    Going forward, a look back

    The University in 2015-16 saw milestones related to diversity, scientific advances, and the renaming of the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

    20 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The last notes

    In place since 1967, Appleton Chapel’s Opus 46 organ will be dismantled to make way for a new instrument.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ties that bind

    To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge, Gordon Johnson, the institution’s deputy vice chancellor, gave a talk about the import of universities in society.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Grazing rights

    In honor of his retirement from the Divinity School’s Hollis Chair, Harvey Cox exercised his right to graze a cow in Harvard Yard.

    3 minutes