Harvard: Where Kids Can't Pee, But Cows Can Graze

Notwithstanding its students' inability to pee appropriately, Harvard offers cows the opportunity to graze (and, possibly, relieve themselves?) on campus. Harvard has long given its Hollis Professor of Divinity grazing rights, which were exercised with vigor by early professors but have fallen by the wayside of late. Religion scholar Harvey Cox will celebrate his retirement from this chair on Thursday by renewing the grazing tradition with a cow renamed Faith (her real name, Pride, was deemed religiously unacceptable). At 4:30 pm at Memorial Church (across from Widener Library), Cox will speak and Faith will eat. This will be followed by a celebratory procession (complete with Cox playing saxophone) to the Divinity School, where Faith will be milked. Cox is now the Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard and has a new book out, The Future of Faith. If you miss the grazing celebration this week, you can see Cox read from the new tome next Wednesday at First Parish Church. Sadly, the bovine Faith is not part of Cox's personal cow collection; she normally lives at the Farm School in Athol, and her future will be to return there.