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By Mia C. Karr, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Harvard will hold a competition to change the final line of “Fair Harvard,” the University’s 181-year-old alma mater, which has read “Till the stock of the Puritans die” since its composition in 1836. Government...

By Steve Annear Globe Staff Since the mid-1800s, incoming Harvard University students and those bidding farewell to the college have celebrated together at commencements and other major events by singing “ Fair Harvard,” a hymn known to sometimes bring...

By Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard is holding a contest to erase a reference to “Puritans” from the final line of its alma mater song. The song “Fair Harvard” ends with the lines “Be the herald of light, and the bearer of love, till the stock...

University-wide Afternoon of Engagement at Sanders will relay progress, seek input on inclusiveness issues By John Laidler, Gazette Correspondent Students, academic personnel, and staff from across Harvard will have an opportunity on Wednesday to...

by Oset Babür As Harvard and other educational institutions have honed their admissions and hiring policies to make their communities more diverse along multiple dimensions, they have come to focus recently on “inclusion”: trying to ensure that all...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I invite you to join me in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, April 5, at 2:00 p.m., for an Afternoon of Engagement, organized by the Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. Tracy Palandjian, member of the Board of...

Presidential task force on inclusion expands its work across University By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer Harvard’s intellectual breadth means that the University has a wide array of academic cultures that handle and experience diversity differently...

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Harvard’s commitment to excellence is deeply connected to our efforts to attract students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives. Exposure to difference fosters creativity...

Task force co-chairs outline initial efforts to make all at University feel they belong By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer Harvard President Drew Faust has convened a University-wide task force to examine ways to help the University thrive as a place...