Word: christian
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...Fifth Amendment before Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating committee in 1953-54, McCarthy demanded that they be fired, but Harvard's new president, Nathan Pusey, refused. "There is now an especially urgent obligation upon our universities to preserve freedom of inquiry and freedom of teaching," he said. Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter urged Pusey to fire anyone who took the Fifth Amendment, but Pusey stood firm. A decade later, however, he sacked Timothy Leary, then a lecturer in psychology, for not only singing the praises of LSD but experimentally feeding it to some of his students...
Last night's blazing fireworks seemed to many to be the perfect conclusion to the five-day spread of activities, but the 350th celebration actually ends today with a sermon delivered by Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, in Memorial Church...
Today's "undergraduates are quite a decent lot. They're overworked, but they should be--they're paying a lot of money for it," said Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. "Many of them are misdirected, but that's why they're students and not professors," he added...
Several Harvard professors will give Latin,Greek and Hebrew salutations, and PlummerProfessor of Christian Morals the Rev. Peter J.Gomes will speak on Harvard's Puritan heritage.The chief marshal of the University, Richard M.Hunt, will then introduce the Prince...
Harvard did receive the books that Johnbequeathed in their entirety. Then in 1764 a firein Harvard Hall consumed all but one of the books.John Downame's folio, "Christian Warfare Againstthe Devil, World, and Flesh," was saved--because astudent had failed to return the book on time...