Word: minow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a musical interlude by Harvard's Collegium Musicum, Chapter Vice President Everett I. Mendelsohn, who is also professor of the history of science, introduced this year's orator, Professor of Law Martha L. Minow...
Mendelsohn praised Minow--once a law clerk to former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall--calling her "one of Harvard's most humane intellects...
...part, Minow presented an oration on the topic of memory, something that she referred to as the "brain's attempt to make sense of our experience...
Expressing some concern that the mass atrocities of the 20th century would fail to be remembered, Minow encouraged the inductees to use memory as a way of improving the world...
...giving you a flawed, partly remembered world," Minow said. "Memory is in your hands...