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...hostile criticism that he used in his speech only served to chill future prospects for such engagement: the ceremony of the day was not about an exchange between faculty and students. It was about a University leader who pledged to “recognize our accountability to the wider world”—a wider world that includes students. Though an august institution, Harvard still needs constant reminding of the central role that students play in its present and future. Petersen’s choice to use polemical, inflammatory, and divisive language on a day meant to celebrate...
...Faust cited “a widespread lack of understanding and agreement about what universities ought to do and be,” arguing that the institutions are “at once celebrated and assailed.”“We must recognize our accountability to the wider world,” Faust said, “for, as John Winthrop warned in 1630, ‘We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.’”—Staff...
...this is a day to transcend the ordinary, if it is a rare moment when we gather not just as Harvard, but with a wider world of scholarship, teaching and learning, it is a time to reflect on what Harvard and institutions like it mean in this first decade of the 21st century...
...most powerful connector. Our lives here in Cambridge and Boston cannot be separated from the future of the rest of the earth: we share the same changing climate; we contract and spread the same diseases; we participate in the same economy. We must recognize our accountability to the wider world, for, as John Winthrop warned in 1630, “we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon...
...must recognize our accountability to the wider world,” Faust said, “for, as John Winthrop warned in 1630, 'we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon...