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Conant’s letter, like our gathering here, marks a dramatic intersection of the past with the future. This is a ceremony in which I pledge??with keys and seal and charter—my accountability to the traditions that his voice from the past invokes. At the same time, I affirm, in compact with all of you, my accountability to and for Harvard’s future. As in Conant’s day, we face uncertainties in a world that gives us sound reason for disquiet. But we too maintain an unwavering belief...
...depending on their social circumstances, according to a study by a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researcher. According to study author Janet E. Rosenbaum ’98, an HSPH doctoral candidate, 50 percent of adolescents who reported on an initial survey that they had signed a virginity pledge??a promise not to have sex before marriage—denied having signed this pledge on a second survey a year later. 10 percent of those reporting sexual experiences on the first survey denied having had such experiences on the second survey and said they had signed virginity...
...word recitation, and appreciation for the nation united “under God,” would be forever engrained in their young, impressionable minds. Those seemingly innocuous memories, however, have since garnered new meaning, stirring a growing sect in the country to take issue with the pledge??s non-secular phrase...
While it’s true that students are not forced to participate in the pledge??and haven’t been since a 1943 decision instigated at the behest of Jehovah’s Witness—the daily tradition perpetuates an uncomfortable situation for children, and one in which they can be pressured into saying the creed. The Bush administration and other antagonists have tried to rebuff attempts to sustain the ruling, claiming that to recite “under God” is more a tribute to patriotism than a declaration of religious beliefs...
Fonda’s pledge??which would have been the GSE’s largest in its 83-year-history—was slated to endow a center with $2.5 million earmarked for the center’s chair, a position named for famed gender studies expert and former Graham professor of gender studies Carol Gilligan...