These Words Hold True

The following is excerpted from an email to students and alumnae from Drew Gilpin Faust, the current president of Harvard University.

One hundred years ago, Charles William Eliot, the nonpareil of Harvard presidents, began the last of his 40 academic years in office. He remarked that Harvard was a place "to observe keenly, to reason soundly, and to imagine vividly." In this time of financial, political and environmental turmoil these words are ones that should be embraced far beyond the banks of the Charles.