Word: plummer
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...Indeed, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes thinks that leafleting isn’t the way into people’s hearts. “Most students don’t discover religion through the history of the school, or the churches in the square,” he says. “They discover it either through other students or in the course of their studies...
Wedged between Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes and outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, Gross spoke to the assembly for approximately 10 minutes before fielding questions from the audience...
...such as the end of the world.” But in February 1978, a severe snowstorm forced University officials to close Harvard for three days. It is the only known closure due to snow in the University’s memory, according to Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, who teaches Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and its Presidents”. Even this closure occurred only after the Massachusetts governor declared a state of emergency, brought in the national guard, and restricted any unnecessary travel. After the blizzard hit, many people asked then...
Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer professor of Christian morals and an expert on Harvard’s history, said Summers’ firing, if it happened, would be a “very hush-hush sort of thing...
...dean selections as a way to steer the University’s course. But, according to some Harvard historians, that was a power that presidents never actually held.“Presidents think they will be able to shape the University through their appointments,” Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches a course on the history of Harvard and its presidents, said last week. “It doesn’t always work out that way.”‘DON’T CHANGE DEANS LIKE SOCKS?...