News
Progressive Labor Party Organizes Solidarity March With Harvard Yard Encampment
News
Encampment Protesters Briefly Raise 3 Palestinian Flags Over Harvard Yard
News
Mayor Wu Cancels Harvard Event After Affinity Groups Withdraw Over Emerson Encampment Police Response
News
Harvard Yard To Remain Indefinitely Closed Amid Encampment
News
HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was described as a "symbol of decency in human affairs" by mourners who gathered at a memorial service at Harvard's Memorial Church on Saturday.
About 300 people, many from the Harvard community and consular corps, gathered for the service in memory of the 59-year-old Social Democrat who was shot and killed February 28 by an unidentified gunman.
Sissela Bok, a Swedish-born ethicist whose parents Gunnar and Alva Myrdal were Swedish Nobel Prize-winners, said she believed people were most impressed by Palme's "sense of utter self-evidence with which he dedicated himself to public service."
She called him an "internationalist statesman in the best sense of the word, one of the still quite rare leaders who understands the intimate connection between the welfare and survival of his own nation and that of all others."
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.