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...increasingly technological and medicalized society, maybe even childbirth is losing some of its magic and becoming less about the miracle of life and more about simply getting a baby out safely and without incident. "We put a lot of emotional, psychological and spiritual value around birthing," says Dr. William Callaghan, an obstetrician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "But perhaps we are coming up with different cultural norms...
Indeed, the modern animal protection movement began with Christian reformers in 19th century England. After attacking the abuses of slavery and child labor, reformers like William Wilberforce, Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, and Anglican Priest Arthur Broome turned their efforts to man’s sins against animals, co-founding the SPCA in 1824. In part, they were responding to the concerns of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who had found “a plausible objection against the justice of God, in suffering numberless creatures that had never sinned to be so severely punished...
...Every year, the Administrative Board has a dinner at the end of the year, and he was always right in the middle of it, making the annual dinner the most fun it could be,” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said. “He had a really fabulous sense of humor...
...Moses is survived by his wife, Mary S. Holland ’73; his children Laurence and William Holland, James Moses, Bruce Moses, and Paige Lewin; four grandchildren; his father, Henry C. Moses; his sisters, Catherine Barber and Margery Phillips; and his wife from a previous marriage, Jean Smith Moses...
...they melted down the doorknobs in order to make ammunition, and they certainly were not the ideal houseguests. But their humble abode still stands, the oldest building at Harvard and the second-oldest academic building in the country (behind the Christopher Wren building at the College of William and Mary). During the nineteenth century, Mass. Hall was used as dormitory, office, and administrative space. In the 1920s it was converted back into a dormitory, and in 1939 the offices of the president moved from University Hall across the Yard to Mass. Hall. Until 2007, the top two floors...