Harvard launches city lecture series
As part of Harvard’s 375th anniversary and in celebration of its close ties to the Boston and Cambridge communities, the University has developed a lecture series that will bring some of Harvard’s most renowned thinkers to speak at neighborhood libraries. Developed in partnership with the Boston and Cambridge public libraries, the John Harvard Book Celebration program will reach all 34 library branches in Boston and Cambridge. All events will be free and open to the public. Harvard President Drew Faust, a Civil War scholar and National Book Award finalist, will officially launch the program on Jan. 10 with a lecture at the Main Library in Cambridge. She will also deliver a lecture at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square on April 10. “Harvard has been an outstanding community partner for 375 years, and I am so pleased that the University has chosen to include the entire Boston community in...