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September 17, 1974: Twenty Harvard summer school students face disciplinary action for using prepared exam codes for the Physics S-1 exam. On the same day, Reverand Peter J. Gomes is named minister of Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
Ethics of course comprises part of philosophy, and of religion. It is here in the overlapping area between philosophy and religion, in fact, that I would look for the key to the limitations of a Harvard education today. The Reverand Peter Gomes thinks the phrase "Godless Harvard" is a myth; but observing from my more secular position I am forced to disagree. It's not such a myth that well over half the seats in local churches, including the one funded by the University and led by Gomes, are regularly empty during worship; or that an instructor can't arouse...
...Reception for all new students in the large Dining Hall of the Harvard Union. President James Bryant Conant will preside. Speakers: Mr. Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; the Reverand Willard Learoyd Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers; and Dr. Richard M. Gummers, Chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...Reverand Sherard Buildings '80, of Groton, teacher of Haughton. In his schoolboy days and his lifelong friend, opened the simple dedicatory exercises with a prayer. Following him came Dean Briggs. Then the memorial was presented to the University by J.W. Farley '99, Chairman of the Haughton Memorial at Committee, and formally accepted by C.F. Adams '88, Treasurer of the University, who said in part, "We are glad to have this memory kept fresh in the heads and hearts of the generations of Harvard boys who will use this field in the hope that it will inspire them also to give...
Bishop Freeman. The Right Reverand James Edward Freeman, bishop of Washington, oversees these diocesan works. He is a great strapping man, and a good liver. Men like him. They write him letters after he speaks his resonant lyricism over the radio. They give him money when he asks for it. The Washington Cathedral project has taken renewed vigor since his Episcopal resumption in 1923. Before that he was, for two years, rector of Epiphany Church in Washington; before that, for 11 years, rector of St. Marks Church in Minneapolis. While he was in Minneapolis he was elected Bishop Coadjutor...