Harvard in the Afternoon

A photo documentary, earlier today:













This, of course, is one of our greatest centers of learning. But we are a people so stuck on political divisions and intellectual trivialities that we almost always forget why a place like this matters.

It matters not because the people who are students here soon will be rich and powerful.

That indeed is a triviality.

It matters because some students will have revelations, as they pursue their studies, and some of those revelations may help reshape our society, and save things of value that otherwise will be lost irretrievably.

There is both hope and grief at loss embedded in this campus. My weak attempt at capturing this with my little camera resulted in this post.

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