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...historian that I am—returning to the past and, in particular, to a document that I encountered in my first year of graduate school. My cousin Jack Gilpin, Class of ’73, read a section of it at Memorial Church this morning. As John Winthrop sat on board the ship Arbella in 1630, sailing across the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he wrote a charge to his band of settlers, a charter for their new beginnings. He offered what he considered “a compass to steer by?...
...lives here in Cambridge and Boston cannot be separated from the future of the rest of the earth: we share the same changing climate; we contract and spread the same diseases; we participate in the same economy. We must recognize our accountability to the wider world, for, as John Winthrop warned in 1630, “we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon...
...Jonathan B. Steinman ’10, a Crimson sports editor, lives in Winthrop house...
...that people can make into a career if they want,” says Bohrer. “Or not.”SLAYING THE DRAGONMeanwhile, back in Cambridge, HCSUCS’s new generation is testing out their chops.It’s a Friday evening in a Winthrop common room, and HCSUCS’s first self-produced show for the school year is gearing up. The performers are mostly sitting on their hands in the front of the room, stage left. Every poshly-upholstered armchair in the room is full.“Stand...
...Instead, Faust invoked John Winthrop and used her address to provide a "compass to steer by," a web of broadly conceived priorities for the University...