‘Run toward life’
Drawing inspiration from the first responders to the Boston Marathon bombings, Harvard President Drew Faust urged graduating seniors on Tuesday to “run toward” challenges, passions, and places in life where their help is needed, despite the risks that might entail. “My point today, as you prepare to graduate and take your Harvard degrees into the world, is that I wish for you, Class of 2013, lives of running toward,” Faust said. “Lives in which you are motivated, even seized, by something larger than yourselves, lives of engagement and commitment and, yes, risk — risk taken in service to what matters to you most.” Faust made her comments during the annual Baccalaureate Service in the Memorial Church. The Baccalaureate Service dates to Harvard’s earliest days and occurs early in Commencement week. Restricted to members of the graduating class, the service is intended as a farewell to seniors from the president and clergy, in...