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...afternoon also included a moving Harvard Oration by Brooke M. Ellison '00, a second Harvard Oration by Jason R. Stevenson '00 , the humorous Ivy Oration by Jacob F. Lentz '00 and opening remarks by First Class Marshal Justin M. Krebs...
Before O'Brien and Lentz elicited laughter from the audience, a number of students were visibly moved to tears by Ellison...
...Ellison, who is paralyzed from the neck down, delivered the speech from a wheelchair and told the audience about sharing a room with her mother for all four years...
...Ellison said she found today's Harvard accepting of difference, even if the College might not have been as accepting hundreds of years...
After her conclusion, Ellison received a lengthy standing ovation with her beaming mother smiling beside...