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...Samuel Gilman, Class of 1811, had written his most famous hymn in honor of his alma mater’s 200th birthday. “Fair Harvard” would eventually become the melody sung at commencement and the centerpiece of a large and impressive collection of Harvard-inspired tunes. But, in 1994, 136 years after his death, the most famous lyrical change came to pass on Gilman’s original work. Fair Harvard now had “daughters” as well as “sons” and for then-President Neil L. Rudenstine...
...before you wince in pain and cry out that we have already been through this, spent years agonizing over “Fair Harvard’s” most controversial lyrical change, rest assured: This is not a chauvinist attempt to restore the patriarchal language of our dear hymn. I simply want to suggest correcting one glaring, but easily fixed grammatical and connotative mistake in one of our University’s most cherished traditions...
...work is lovely and meditative, and the safe haven of Pennsylvania did not mean that the family could forget its troubled past. In several topical poems Lee pitilessly documents restive scenes from his stolen childhood, for him not so much a paradise lost as one never had. "A Hymn to Childhood," addressed either to the reader or to himself in the second person, has soldiers smashing a mother's china, while "you pretended to be dead with your sister in games of rescue and abandonment." The poem "Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" opens with his father being bundled into...
...always, Christmas services will subtly reflect a seemingly irreconcilable dispute between two inimical bodies of partisan Christians: Christ the Catholic will be honored in one church, Christ the Protestant in another. As both sides hymn Christian peace, they are also hesitant and fearful about the prospect of Christian war. For if the truce does not hold and violence erupts on a large enough scale, it will be a religious war as well as a political one, a throwback to the bloody Catholic-Protestant battles that followed the Reformation...
...telling the crowd of some 13,500 on the South Lawn that he and Laura were privileged to welcome him to the White House and that the world needed his messages of morality and freedom. The theatrics continued with a fife and drum band and a chorus singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic." But by the time Bush held a dinner in Benedict's honor Wednesday night, with the Pope not attending (the Pontiff does not attend dinners given in his honor), it started to look as if Bush was laying it on a bit thick...