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...pomp and circumstance of Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers’ Friday inauguration ceremony followed a morning of substantive academic discussion, as the University held a series of faculty symposia, including one on a topic Summers has been pushing since his appointment—undergraduate education...
Scientists glimpsed into the future of science at the “Science on the Edge” forum, one of six symposia held as part of the inauguration festivities for University President Lawrence H. Summers on Friday...
Herschbach opened the symposia by emphasizing the importance Summers attaches to science. The panel’s mission, in Summers’ words, was to “look to the future, [and] have them tell us what we will learn from science in the next 25 years,” Herschbach said...
...installation ceremony was the capstone to two days of festivities, including student performances, faculty symposia and a reception. More than 5,000 people came to Tercentenary Theatre for the day of pomp and circumstance...
With the arrival of Neil L. Rudenstine in 1991, the installation returned to the Lowell model of fanfare and frippery. Rudenstine planned a program to introduce himself to Harvard and to engage the community intellectually and artistically. An outdoor ceremony followed two days of faculty symposia, concerts and literary readings...