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...includes all the “educated portion of the nation.” Indeed, the active presence of groups like Christian Impact, Hillel, and the Islamic Society is a clear indicator that though the Harvard we know today is more likely to leave its proverbial cross on the bedstand than dress up in its Sunday best, it is by no means a godless institution. As University President Lawrence H. Summers said in his 2002 commencement speech, from Harvard’s beginning, “Veritas meant divine truth, truth reached ultimately not through reason but through faith...
...year, just when I was getting ready to leave one afternoon, a little girl asked me to hand her a box of Kleenex which, she said without pointing, was 'over there'". As it happened, "Over there" for the nine-year old who couldn't move her arms, meant a bedstand less than six inches from her fingers...
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