Potential Democratic Candidate for Governor Danielle Allen Supported Changing Lyrics To Harvard’s 181-Year-Old School Song

"Fair Harvard" is the school song, or alma mater, for Harvard University, but it has undergone a couple of changes since it was first written in 1836. School officials changed the official version of the song for the second time in 2017 with the support of professor Danielle Allen, a Democrat who is exploring a run for governor in Massachusetts next year.

The last line of the song originally said "till the stock of the Puritans die," — a reference to the English Calvinists who founded both the colony of Massachusetts Bay and Harvard College in the 1630s. However, in March 2018, the school's task force report on diversity and inclusion announced that the school would change the official wording to "till the stars in the firmament die," according to The Harvard Crimson.