Word: historyes
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A world-renowned scholar of American religious history has crossed the Charles River to join the Harvard Divinity School faculty.
Former Boston University Professor of History David D. Hall '58 will help expand the masters and doctoral programs in Unitarian Universalist Studies at the Div School, filling the gap left by the 1987 retirement of Professor C. Conrad Wright.
"He was a nurturing and concerned professor who worked particularly well with graduate students," said William R. Keylor, chair of the B.U. history department and Hall's longstanding colleague. "I'm very sad to see him go."
Harvard, on the other hand, is quite delighted to have Hall. "He's an excellent addition to our faculty and to the university for research and teaching of American colonial history," said Charles Hutchison, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in Colonial America.
BUT the cultural unity which Jews strive for does not always come easily. In his sermon, the rabbi reminded us that it has often been difficult for Jews to maintain their religion and culture due to destructive and often catastrophic influences that have occurred through out history. In particular, the...