Harvard drops religion course requirement
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Harvard University has dropped a controversial proposal that would have required all undergraduates to study religion as part of the biggest overhaul of its curriculum in three decades, the university said on Wednesday.
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Pope Benedict XVI removes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Tridentine Mass, despite concern from Jewish groups.
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Harvard College announced yesterday that it will end its early-admissions program, which allowed some students to find out whether they had been accepted months before other applicants, saying it wants to minimize what has become a high-pressure process for some high-schoolers and "level the playing...
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By David Yonke, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 16--LAKESIDE, Ohio -- When the Rev. Adam Hamilton decided to preach a series of sermons on world religions, the first thing he did was his homework.
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Founded to train Puritan ministers 370 years ago, Harvard University may soon require all undergraduates to study religion, ethics and U.S. history in the biggest overhaul of its curriculum in three decades.
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Frank Sullivan, whose 16-year tenure as Harvard's men's basketball coach was the longest in school history, was let go yesterday, two days after the Crimson (12-16) completed their fifth straight losing season.
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PROVIDENCE, RI -- A coalition of conservative New England Episcopalians has split from the national church, forming four new congregations in part because of last year&#39;s consecration of a gay bishop.
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Respect for religious freedom in Vietnam has improved but the communist nation continues to impose curbs on religious groups, the US State Department said in a report.
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Corrects name of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in paragraph 21
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Media & professional: Â· New chance to catch up on basics or play to strengthsÂ· Hitler and Churchill are no longer compulsory
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Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers.
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Two U.S. Supreme Court members separately rejected on Wednesday an emergency request from a California atheist who sought to stop the recital of prayers at President Bush's inauguration.
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Â· Text quotes 'absence of sacramental priesthood'Â· Declaration criticised as huge step backwards
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Pope Benedict has ordered changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at Good Friday services by traditionalist Catholics, deleting a reference to their "blindness" over Christ, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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AMERICA/STATI UNITI - LÂUniversitÃ  di Harvard punta di piÃ¹ su religione ed etica nel piano di studio Roma (Agenzia Fides) - EÂ la piÃ¹ grande rivoluzione culturale che Harvard abbia conosciuto dagli anni Settanta: dopo 30 anni, cambia il programma di studi della prestigiosa universitÃ  statunitense. Si punterÃ  su temi religiosi, culturali e scientific...
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A prominent researcher at Columbia University has pulled his name from a controversial study of prayer's effect on fertility, the university says.
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The Harvard Law School faculty has voted unanimously to overhaul its first-year curriculum by focusing more on complex problem-solving, international law, and modern law-making by government bodies and administrative agencies, marking a significant departure from more than a century of traditional legal education.