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HKS vs. HDS: Harvard’s Church & State

by Margaux McDonald on October 31, 2007 in Features

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When Jefferson penned his famous 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists elucidating the lawful ‘Separation of Church and State,’ he surely wasn’t ruminating on the layout of Harvard Yard. But decades later, maybe - just maybe - Harvard architects had Ol’ Jefferson on the mind the day they decided to build the Kennedy School and the Divinity School (HDS) on opposite ends of campus.

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