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...would be a fatal mistake for you to list a bill of particulars,” Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes said on Wednesday at his weekly tea. “A comparison of this address with the State of the Union is quite false, and all you’ll do is give your enemies a shopping list with which...
...address had a cadence and certainty more associated with the State of the Union than a lecture hall. And it had a specificity that Rudenstine’s lacked, more clearly setting out Summers’ agenda...
...minutes ticked away before his prime-time address, his 11-year-old twin daughters brought their nervous father a sheet of paper. Looking down, expecting to see his first words—“I accept!”—Summers instead found a new draft penned by his children: “Harvard is good. Harvard is great. Let us go forth and educate,” he recalled this week...
...Rudenstine’s address also held a seemingly prophetic warning for his successor, Summers. “We can be civil without being simply innocuous,” Rudenstine said. “We can be controversial and provocative without necessarily declaring open season on those who disagree with us. The way we talk to one another, and the tone we use in argument or debate, will often be as important as what we actually...
...standard for today’s address will most likely not be set by Summers’ daughters but by someone else...