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It’s been a while, Krokodiles. The Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest a capella group, lured 220 ex-Kroks to their 60th reunion concert last Friday. The gala featured concerts, banquets, celebrations, and even a tearful marriage proposal. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes kicked off the show, introducing the Kroks as “the most unsubtle of music groups.” As if to prove his words, alumni singing groups—with names like “The Primordial Oohs?...
...said. Throughout the service, a number of other audience members—including several students—came to the podium to share memories of Stone, relating how he had touched their lives and changed their perspectives. At the beginning of his eulogy, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister in Memorial Church, made light of the occasional tension between those in the fields of religion and psychology. He recalled asking Stone, “What do they do over there [in William James Hall]?” Stone replied, “You don?...
...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...
...leaders who, while using Christianity as an implicit foundation, believed above all in the advancement of scientific and academic knowledge.For the Puritans who founded the College, separating God from academia was unthinkable. “The whole notion of a secular entity was unheard of,” says Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes.Indeed, Harvard’s “Rules and Precepts” of 1646 hold that “the maine end of [a student’s] life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life?...
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...