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...Deval L. Patrick ’78 told his fellow leader to “lean forward,” as Harvard had done with stem cell research, he said. Unfortunately, he called his alma mater’s newest chief, “President Gilpin...
...President Drew Gilpin Faust’s installation ceremony on Friday, Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 bust out the populist rhetoric, insisting that, “This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must...
...this special day, I wish to congratulate Drew Gilpin Faust on her inauguration as Harvard University President. Today, academic institutions like Harvard must grapple with the complex and ever-shifting nature of global change. In particular, we must ask and answer what the university’s role should be in meeting the pressing issues of our uncertain...
...considered how to talk about higher education and the future, I found myself—historian that I am—returning to the past and, in particular, to a document that I encountered in my first year of graduate school. My cousin Jack Gilpin, Class of ’73, read a section of it at Memorial Church this morning. As John Winthrop sat on board the ship Arbella in 1630, sailing across the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he wrote a charge to his band of settlers, a charter for their new beginnings. He offered what...
...significant at an institution such as Harvard, its modernity. Toni Morrison, arguably the quintessential modern novelist, spoke to a full house at Memorial Church yesterday. This afternoon, the Pan-African dance troupe will lead the robed procession of academics instead of the traditional bagpipe players. And, of course, Drew Gilpin Faust will be the first woman to speak from the steps of Memorial Church as president of the University...