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Edmund M. Morgan, Professor of Evidence at the Harvard Law School, summed up the testimony given by the two police ballistics experts concerning Sacco's pistol as follows: "Had Captain Proctor and Van Amburgh constituted the jury with the data then in their possession and with the state of mind disclosed in the record, they must have returned a verdict for the defendants upon this issue...
Helen Brooke Taussig, noted for research on congenital heart disease, and Simon S. Kuznets, Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins, were each awarded the degree of Doctor of Science. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, became an honorary Doctor of Divinity; American composer Samuel Barber, Doctor of Music; and Lawrence Terry, Headmaster of Middlesex School, received an honorary Master of Arts degree. Terry was cited as a "Rugged, kindly son of Harvard, an enlightened servant of education and school...
...supposed to be to tough intellectually. On the whole for Harvard students, who have time to reflect, the period of doubting may be helpful." Demos, however, is not convinced of the value of such doubting for everyone. "I've often wondered whether philosophy courses should be given in high school. For those who don't plan to go on to college, and will not have time for such reflection, it may not be good to introduce disturbing thoughts." Such a view implies a fairly elitist view of knowledge and philosophy; but there is agreement by both Demos and Dawson that...
Genaral unanimity seems to exist that Harvard is secular, despite its Protestant Divinity School. Harvard's present secularist position, through, represents the end product of a long evolution, and the vestiges of earlier evidences of a sectarian and religious past have sometimes caused friction...
Probably no one has been more concerned with the role of religion in a secular university than President Pusey. In his Divinity School address in 1953 and his Baccalaureate sermons, Pusey has stressed that the twentieth century has destroyed earlier illusions about man's nature, that the Christian psychology provides better comprehension of the nature of man better than did nineteenth century liberalism. President Pusey is evidently a sincerely devout man; and with the issue of faith so important in his own thinking, resolving the tensions between the role of a secular university embracing diverse beliefs and what he believes...