Tag: Values

  • Nation & World

    Dean fetes King’s ‘beloved community’

    Delivering the keynote address Jan. 29 at the Cambridge Public Library’s 37th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds called for educators to help students “make explicit their own values and build their own ‘beloved communities.’ ”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Whistling through the darkness

    Authors offer perspective on finding meaning in a secular age, using literature as a lens through which to understand how people found solace in the past.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Focus on the world’s problems

    The World Economic Forum came to Harvard in an effort to engage the academic community, particularly its students, in the pressing issues of the day, from the international monetary system to trade to the population explosion.

    3 minutes