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Nelson's undergraduate years at Harvard were marked by academic fervor. The history concentrator won a Hoopes prize for his thesis, entitled "The Reluctant Humanist: Thomas Hobbes and the Classical Historians," and graduated summa cum laude...
...plummeted. Poetry has become a fetish. Parents are terrified their children will become playwrights; it means they will never move out. The exodus of undergraduates from the humanities to occupational majors—coupled with the devaluation of literature and art in our society—has driven certain humanist disciplines to the brink of extinction. From the early 1970s to the mid 1980s, the number of English majors in the United States dwindled from 64,000 to 34,000. Despite the fact that more students across the country are attending college than ever before, less than four percent...
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman—famous for blowing things up and testing popular myths on their show “MythBusters”—were honored for their work in propagating humanist values Friday evening by the Harvard Secular Society and the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy...
...going to read my speech from my iPad,” Savage said. “I’m not only a humanist, I am an early adapter...
...everyone desires to participate in religious life. But by offering the opportunity for communication between faiths and between believers and nonbelievers, the College can accommodate the diversity of student needs on religion. Yes, theists of nearly all faiths have communities to join, while atheists and agnostics have the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard. But students who are interested in religion but are unsure whether a particular community will fit them should have a place...