March 15, 2005

• Religion at Harvard

  The Children’s Hour
  

  
  Harvard Magazine,

  Sept.-Oct. 2004:

  

  “With
  the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts, Harvard couples were
  among those who took vows…. Lowell House master Diana Eck
  (left) and co-master Dorothy Austin tied the knot in Memorial Church on
  July 4, with Rev. Peter Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals,
  officiating.”

  
  Once in Love with Amy
  

  Harvard’s Lowell House: “In the Dining Hall are portraits of President Lowell and his wife; his sister Amy Lowell (Pulitzer prize winning poet, and a lover of scandal…)….”

  Today’s Harvard Crimson: “Stone joined members of the Foundation for lunch yesterday in Lowell House before delivering her remarks at Memorial Church last night…”

  
  
  Hold That Thought

  

  Site on Shakespeare’s Sonnets:

  nothing – the word had sexual connotations, as a slang word referring to female sexual parts. Compare Hamlet:

  HAMLET   Lady, shall I lie in your lap?

  [Lying down at OPHELIA's feet]

  OPHELIA  No, my lord.

  HAMLET   I mean, my head upon your lap?

  OPHELIA  Ay, my lord.

  HAMLET   Do you think I meant country matters?

  OPHELIA  I think nothing, my lord.

  HAMLET   That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.

  OPHELIA  What is, my lord?

  HAMLET   Nothing.

  – Hamlet, III.2

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