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...which search committee members have traveled coast-to-coast to solicit alumni opinion, consulted with student and faculty advisory committees, and cast a wide net for candidates—the process of appointing Lowell “was just a formality,” according to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and Its Presidents...
...from comedy, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes presented much-needed humor to the Faculty during Tuesday’s tense discussion of the Preliminary Report on General Education. There are “fears,” Gomes reported, from “our learned and articulate colleagues in the room,” that the touted—and now defunct—“Reason and Faith” requirement of the new general education would place “Jesuits under beds and priests in every corner” of the College. Although...
...goodwill to fellow man, the Harvard University Choir will perform in the 97th Annual Christmas Carol Services this Sunday, Dec. 17, at 5. p.m. and Monday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church. Created in 1909 as a gift of University Organist and Choirmaster Archibald T. Davison and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Edward C. Moore to the Harvard and Cambridge community, the services are the oldest continually running carol services in America. While the format of the services—carols and hymns interspersed by readings from scripture—has remained unchanged, Gund University Organist and Choirmaster...
...task force co-chair and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons wrote in an e-mail.“The other categories can easily accommodate descriptive issues concerning the social, political and personal roles that religion has played,” Simmons wrote.Only one speaker at the meeting, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, lamented the requirement’s demise. He said that the decision to scrap the “Reason and Faith” requirement was caused by “fears—of Jesuits under beds and priests in every corner?...
...hope you will have the courage of your original convictions,” Gomes, the Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in Memorial Church, told the task force. “I hope the committee will recover its nerve...