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...expected that America would become a nation doubtful about its heroes and its history. In his astonishing address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1838, on "the perpetuation of our political institutions," the 28-year-old Lincoln foresaw the inevitable rise in a modern democracy like ours of skepticism and worldliness. Indeed, he worried about the fate of free institutions in a maturing nation no longer shaped by a youthful, instinctive and (mostly) healthy patriotism...
...like to see student and faculty painting and sculpture studios hard against biotech lab space. My wish is for a museum with gems of modern and contemporary art and space for experimental recent work by visiting artists, students, and faculty. There should be theatre at the level of the best of the American Repertory Theatre and a full range of amateur performing art. We’ll need film spaces for viewing the fabulous Harvard Film Archive as well as new and unusual work. We will need faculty, courses, and resources commensurate with student demand...
...traditions of their ancestors, or they discover a practice that makes sense to them. The varieties of religious experience, as William James once wrote, are alive and well here at Harvard, and although religion may make some of our colleagues nervous, it cannot be excluded from the fact of modern Harvard. While the stock of the Puritans may be thinning out, the piety in old and new forms by which they established this place is very much alive in the hands of their diversified descendants...
...coats. There were even disgruntled protesters in Harvard Yard—it all seemed in order and profoundly familiar. Over the course of the semester, however, I discovered that the Harvard I graduated from in 1982 is not in fact frozen in time. Harvard has become more modern, more egalitarian, more student-focused, and even more diverse...
...many will deny that racial bias occurs in progressive communities like Harvard or that it could happen when the perpetrators consider themselves modern and educated beyond the brutality often implied by charges of “racism” and “racial profiling.” Moreover, some Harvard students fear that the charge, when permanently documented in reply to their suspicious e-mails about the black picnickers, could damage their professional and political futures...