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Faust delivers first Morning Prayers of academic year
By crossing academic boundaries, Harvard scholars range wide to explore the world with common purpose. And now a new University-wide calendar makes that easier. So said Harvard President Drew Faust...
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What a set of pipes
Members of the staff at Harvard’s Memorial Church have been struggling over a musical quandary for years: the impressive product of a Harvard-educated scientist. Charles Brenton Fisk showed a gift for...
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The last notes
At 9:11 Tuesday morning in tiny Appleton Chapel, organist Edward E. Jones played the final notes of a Bach prelude. The capacity crowd rose in a standing ovation. The applause was as much for the Fisk...
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A message of inclusion
The daily ritual of Morning Prayers, a time-honored tradition that dates to Harvard’s founding in 1636, resumed Wednesday (Sept. 1) with an address by Harvard President Drew Faust, who welcomed new...
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A sound welcome
Curious passersby puzzled at the small crowd gathered on the steps of Memorial Church serenading a large red, white, and blue moving van early Monday (June 20) morning. But the singers, who sang a...
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Hammonds challenges students
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds cited the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to deliver a message about kindness and community during Morning Prayers at Appleton Chapel. Hammonds, the...
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Prayers for the season
Sunlight streamed through the large Palladian window in Appleton Chapel, casting soft rays on the rich, red poinsettias decorating the intimate space for the final Morning Prayers of the year. As the...
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Odes to joy
Harvard Gazette staff writers and photographers fanned out across campus to capture the Morning Exercises, which began when the gates opened at 6:45 a.m. When his honorary degree was announced, the...
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‘Let us begin again’
Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first day of fall classes Tuesday by welcoming students and faculty during the traditional Morning Prayers session held in Appleton Chapel at the Memorial...
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A symphony of diversity
Summer was still in full swing this morning as Harvard President Drew Faust delivered the first Morning Prayers of the fall semester in the Memorial Church’s vaulted Appleton Chapel. The faculty,...
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Harvard president offers advice to combat intolerance at first Morning...
In an address in Memorial Church’s Appleton Chapel Tuesday, Harvard President Larry Bacow voiced his concerns about the growing inability of people to engage respectfully with those who hold different...
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At Morning Prayers, President Bacow urges listeners to meet the moment
President Larry Bacow, giving his customary remarks at the first Morning Prayers of the new year, began by reflecting on how liberated and grateful he felt to be back at Appleton Chapel and out from...
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Many in the crowd hugged and greeted one another in hushed tones before the start of the academic year’s first Morning Prayers at Appleton Chapel. All grew still as President Claudine Gay prepared to...
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