Word: processionals
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We gather for a celebration a bit different from our June traditions. Commencement is an annual rite of passage for thousands of graduates; today marks a rite of passage for the University. As at Commencement, we don robes that mark our ties to the most ancient traditions of scholarship. On...
A line of students in the military will march at University President Drew G. Faust’s inauguration on Friday, a symbol that may warm Harvard’s historically icy relations with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). At the request of Harvard cadets, Faust agreed to allow...
Thirteen Harvard faculty joined another elite institution on Saturday, when they were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and joined the ranks of Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, and Toni Morrison. At the ceremony in Sanders Theater, the two-century-old organization honored 203 scientists, historians, artists, policy...
The situation is little better elsewhere. Nigerian breast-cancer survivor Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu says mothers in her country are reluctant to reveal that they have breast cancer, fearful that if they do, no one will want to marry their daughters. "Some women would rather go to church to pray for...
And when they act, people follow. By Sept. 24, thousands of ordinary Burmese had overcome their fear of the regime and joined the demonstrations, their shoes slapping through the monsoon downpours alongside the monks' bare feet. While marching monks recited prayers in the commercial capital Rangoon, civilians raised their fists...