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Paul J. Finnegan ’75, outgoing president of the Harvard Alumni Association, said that Gates’ generosity makes him one of the most highly anticipated commencement speakers in years...
...College and the Law School. “We’ve had a steady trek back and forth to this school, and for us, it’s more than a school that I went to,” the congressman told the Harvard Gazette at a black alumni reunion the Law School held in 2000. “It’s a school that my family has been involved with since I left here.” Apart from the investigation and the implications for Jefferson’s own political career, the case has generated controversy...
...mess hall at 11 a.m. for “plenty of good substantial food” washed down by barrels of the young College’s own beer. They then returned to the Yard for an afternoon of philosophical debate, and since Harvard was lacking in alumni, graduates of Oxford and Cambridge were invited to join the disputations...
...first time in recent memory, Harvard again has its own beer—a micro-brewed ale unveiled this year. But beyond that, today’s ceremony is utterly unlike its 17th-century precursor. There will be no debate among members of the Class of 2007. And alumni in the audience certainly won’t be asked for their views...
That’s a shame. These Commencement exercises are the largest single gathering of Harvard alumni each year. (Well, depending on the attendance at the Harvard-Yale football game, today may be the largest single gathering of uninebriated Harvard alumni each year.) Harvard is governed by its alumni; it is the alumni who (technically) elect the Board of Overseers, which (technically) controls the appointment of top University officials. Today is the one opportunity for the alumni—the real powers-that-be here at Harvard—to engage in a face-to-face discussion regarding the University?...