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After being rejected by Woody Allen, Orson Welles and Lily Tomlin--among many others--the senior class committee finally settled on Rodney Dangerfield as this year's Class Day speaker. Dangerfield, known to millions for his heart-warming televised tributes to Miller Lite beer, apparently decided he could get more respect from the seniors and their parents than the usual crew of drunken nightclub patrons. Dangerfield has never attended a Harvard Commencement before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You guys have got to be joking | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Cambridge is abuzz with the rumor that President Bok will finally give Rodney Dangerfield the respect he insists he deserves, and award the saloon-keeper-Class Day speaker an honorary Doctor of Comedy degree at Thursday's Commencement exercises...

Author: By Bro. IGNATIUS Dooley, | Title: Honorary Degree Speculation Rises | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

Retiring logician W.V.O. Quine seems a likely bet to mount the podium, along with Dangerfield and Commencement speaker Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Billy Martin...

Author: By Bro. IGNATIUS Dooley, | Title: Honorary Degree Speculation Rises | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

Last month, the senior Class Committee announced that comedian Rodney Dangerfield will deliver this year's Class Day address, which will take place on June 7, the day before Commencement

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Officials Mum on Report That Solzhenitsyn Will Be Commencement Speaker | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...THIS POINT, suffice it to say that a simple sense of propriety dictated that I leave. As I exited the lounge, one of Rodney's minions handed me an advance text of the Dangerfield's prepared remarks...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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