The other day in the Times I read part of a story about some exhibit at Harvard. Whatever. Anyway, the most remarkable part of it was this attribution: "Francis Greenwood Peabody, Harvard's Plummer professor of Christian morals from 1886 to 1912,...." Check that out. Harvard used to have an endowed professorship for Christian morals. At least, I'm assuming this was in the past.
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And I stand corrected! Google tells me this is still a real job! The current one is the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes. Man. That guy just has awesome titles all over the place.
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This isn't that unusual for the 19th century. Many people received degrees in the "Moral Sciences" when they studied (say) political economy or other branches of what we'd call sociology or branches of soiciology today.
Oh, Reverend Gomes! He's great. He's the most freakin liberal dude. It's all love and acceptance with Reverend Gomes.
Oh and he's not really a professor so much as the pastor for Memorial Church. Is that weird to have a church on campus? I never really thought about it.
OH yeah in addition to like 1000 honorary degrees, Gomes came out of the closet sometime ago. Ha ha, conservative Christian "morality" he certainly does not represent!
Eh, I think having a church on campus is pretty standard. We had one at OAM and there's a big ol' one at MFGAM.
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