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...When Kozol read from his newest book, “Letters to a Young Teacher,” to a packed Memorial Church in September, Hornig was in the crowd. After the talk, she said, she finally overcame her hesitations about teaching and applied to Teach For America (TFA), which places college graduates in two-year teaching positions in high-need school districts. (She will be teaching high school French in the Mississippi Delta region next year...
Fifty years ago, when Jerome S. Bruner was a psychology professor at Harvard, he said that the fact that Memorial Church was not explicitly open to non-Protestant services damaged his perception of the University as a place that emphasized the universal aspects shared between...
...spring of 1958, the news that a Jewish couple had been prevented from marrying in Memorial Church a few years before was made public...
...Bruner said he felt the building—constructed in 1932 as both a church and memorial to students killed in World War I—had become a “symbol of disunity” and was undermining the solidarity of the Harvard community...
...Although Bruner, who described himself as a secular Jew, said he felt that Memorial Church should be open to non-Protestant services, others thought that opening the church would damage the sanctity of religion...