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Peres and Rabin suggested something almost heroic--in the middle of terror activity, of hostility, to come and present a vision of an abstract idea like peace. Of course, the reality was much more concrete and bloody. But the greatness of Rabin and Peres was that they said we are...
Such bashfulness reflects the high esteem in which Harvard is held by the world-at-large. To be admitted here is itself a great honor because it recognizes the achievements and talents of our teenage years. And in graduating from this 360-year-old University, we carry with us associations...
If some Puritan colony of the 17th century had to determine which of their number would find his name immortalized, I doubt anyone would have picked an obscure member of the clergy named John Harvard. After all, it is always the great leaders, the John Winthrops, who claim the headlines...
The greatness of the University may not lie in the success of its children, but that is not to say we have been wasting our time. Our four years here at Harvard have immersed us in a remarkable community dedicated to the questioning spirit and the love of truth that...
The greatness of the University lies in its ability to impart unto us an understanding, not of the use of theory for praxis, but of the service of praxis to the questioning spirit that is inseparable from the spiritual development of ourselves and of our society.