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...Lists seem too constraining when I think of what today should mean," Faust said early in the speech to a crowd that included members of her extended family and representatives of universities around the world. "They seem a way of limiting rather than unleashing our most ambitious imaginings, our profoundest commitments...
Making Harvard open to students of all backgrounds remains one of the fundamental challenges facing the University, Faust said in her speech, echoing her pledge last month to consider ways of expanding graduate school financial...
...Faust’s priorities echo those listed by former president Lawrence H. Summers in his installation speech in 2001. Summers, like Faust, stressed the importance of internationalization, strengthening the sciences, and expanding financial aid to students...
...Faust's speech was also distinctly her own, reflecting her years spent in academia as a historian of the Civil...
...Perhaps most telling was an anecdote Faust used to close her speech. She read from a recently unearthed letter from former Harvard president James B. Conant ’14 written 50 years ago and marked for the University President at the outset of the 21st century "and not before...