Word: pomp
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When asked later what she thought of Petersen’s speech, Faust replied, “I thought he spoke his mind. Was that creative unruliness in action? Perhaps. I thought he was great.” To disagree—to revere tradition and pomp over student participation—is to do a greater disservice to our new president, to ourselves, and to the Harvard that we should be constructing together...
...Twenty years later, with the installation of Rudenstine, the ceremony returned to Tercentenary Theatre and the pomp of years past. (But not quite: The 1909 inauguration of A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, included students marching from the Yard to the Stadium carrying torches and wearing red sashes...
...efforts to distinguish his awards from that other guy's, Kavli wouldn't mind borrowing a little pomp and circumstance. "When I received the Nobel Prize in 2004," says Gross, "I brought Fred to Stockholm as my guest. He sat there during the ceremony, furiously scribbling notes." Maybe the King of Norway will start personally handing out the Kavli awards. But with the King or without, these new prizes and institutes are likely to make such a splash that it won't be long before the most important man in science you've never heard of becomes a household name...
Faust, the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, will be formally installed as the University's president on Oct. 12 in an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. While the fall inauguration ceremonies are usually full of pomp and circumstance—the new president receives ancient symbols of office including two silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest college record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650—Sunday's official changing of the guard passed with little fanfare...
Class Day, held on the day preceding Commencement, is organized by and on behalf of seniors. The day is a festive celebration for the soon-to-be-graduates before the formal pomp and circumstance of the University-wide Commencement ceremony...