Sen. Edward Kennedy to receive honorary degree at December convocation
Sen. Edward Kennedy will receive an honorary degree from Harvard on Dec. 1 in a special convocation at Sanders Theatre. The honor is in recognition of Kennedy’s lifelong commitment to public service...
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Political dignitaries, family members, current and former colleagues, faculty, students, old friends, and admirers were all part of the capacity crowd that filled Harvard’s Sanders Theatre Dec. 1 to...
View ArticleRemarks of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
Harvard University (As prepared for delivery) Now I have something in common with George Washington – other than being born on Feb. 22. It is not, as I had once hoped, being president. It is instead...
View ArticleRemarks of Stephen Breyer
Harvard University (As prepared for delivery) It’s a special honor to be here today; and I’m very grateful to President Faust for the invitation to participate in this extraordinary occasion. I speak...
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Faust presents Kennedy with honorary degree
President Drew G. Faust recalls decades of accomplishments in the life of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. In one of his final public appearances before his death in August 2009, Faust confers upon Kennedy...
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Doctor of Laws
In one of the his last public speeches before succumbing to brain cancer in August 2009, Senator Ted Kennedy accepted an honorary Doctor or Laws degree from Harvard. President Drew Faust conferred the...
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Class of 2013 experiences first convocation
In what organizers hope will be an annual tradition at the University, an official convocation for the Class of 2013 was held in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre on Tuesday (Sept. 1). Replacing the...
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Turning a chipper 100
Late last week (Sept. 25), the Harvard University Extension School launched what will be a yearlong celebration of its centenary. Hundreds streamed into the Northwest Science Building for a gala...
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Welcome, Class of ’14
Harvard’s leaders welcomed the Class of 2014 Tuesday (Aug. 31), in a convocation ceremony filled with pomp and circumstance. They urged the new students to use their College years as a time to...
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Class of 2014 Convocation
Harvard’s leaders welcomed the Class of 2014 Tuesday (Aug. 31), in a convocation ceremony filled with pomp and circumstance. They urged the new students to use their College years as a time to...
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University leaders welcome freshmen
Harvard College’s newest students got a taste of University ritual on Tuesday during the annual Freshman Convocation in Harvard Yard. The event — which features remarks from University leaders as well...
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A portrait of change
Perched high on the wall in the Braun Room at Harvard Divinity School’s (HDS) Andover Hall is the newest member of an esteemed club that is diversifying Harvard with each passing year. Just above the...
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Lessons that lead toward peace
At the Harvard Divinity School’s (HDS) convocation Thursday, new Dean David Hempton drew on the memory of violence he has witnessed to offer hopeful visions for the future. During a moving keynote...
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A warm welcome, and a challenge
With the hustle and bustle of move-in day behind them, Harvard College freshmen looked more settled into their new surroundings as they filed in for the University’s annual convocation on Tuesday. But...
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Welcoming the Class of ’17
Before they began their academic lives at Harvard, the members of the Class of 2017 already experienced a taste of adversity, and demonstrated resiliency. In April, the manhunt for the second...
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Why religious studies matter
During her Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Convocation address, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity Laura S. Nasrallah recalled her work studying a Greek mosaic and how she pondered the...
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President Bacow welcomes first-year students at their convocation
With a communal warmth much more welcoming than the 90-degree heat, Harvard College’s Class of 2022 filled Tercentenary Theatre on Monday afternoon for First-Year Convocation to listen to lessons on...
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Surgeon-author Atul Gawande confronts his imperfections in HDS talk
In a wide-ranging conversation Thursday at Sanders Theatre, surgeon-author Atul Gawande faced up to his own limits, including the mortality we all share. But it didn’t come easy. “I think I’m very...
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Extension School’s recognizes 400 at inaugural convocation
A crisp, autumn day with nary a cloud in the sky provided the perfect backdrop for the nearly 1,000 people gathered at the Memorial Church for Harvard Extension School’s inaugural convocation on...
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President Bacow urges the Class of 2023 to embrace connection, growth, and...
Connections and change were the theme Monday afternoon as Harvard College’s Class of 2023 proceeded to the Science Center Plaza tent for their First-Year Convocation and an address by President Larry...
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Toni Morrison’s lessons take center stage at HDS Convocation
In 2012, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison took the stage in Sanders Theatre and spoke to a rapt audience about goodness, altruism, and the literary imagination. On that same stage Thursday...
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Harvard welcomes Class of 2024 in a remote Convocation
In the University’s first-ever virtual first-year Convocation, President Lawrence S. Bacow on Tuesday urged the Class of 2024 to “find your way to heal this world.” Bacow made his address from his home...
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Harvard Convocation welcomes Classes 2024 and 2025
Calling on students to savor the moment and exult in being together in physical community, President Larry Bacow officiated a double Convocation, one for the Class of 2024 and another for the Class of...
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Bacow counsels first-years to be ‘slow to judge, quick to understand’
In his last Convocation address as Harvard president, Larry Bacow urged the Class of 2026 to take advantage of the University’s diverse environment to learn to listen to those with different views in...
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Convocation returns to Harvard Extension School
After a two-year absence due to COVID-19, Harvard Extension School welcomed admitted degree candidates back to campus at an in-person Convocation ceremony. The first weekend in October brought cool...
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President Claudine Gay welcomes Class of 2027
It was a day of firsts. Harvard President Claudine Gay welcomed the Class of 2027 and exhorted them to lean into the journey that brought them to the present moment and gear up for the transformations...
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