Word: franklins
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...despite the occasional complaints, Franklin maintains his hyperactive optimism...
...most annoying question I get is, ‘what is the dress to graduation?’ And I’m like, ‘a gown,’” Franklin says...
...this vernacular habit? Benjamin Franklin called it “modest diffidence,” advising orators to avoid “the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.” A spoonful of humility, Franklin argued, helps the assertion go down...
Before Russert took the podium, First Marshall Caleb I. Franklin ’05 addressed the crowd of, as he put it, “friends, foes, family, and greasy underclassmen who should have gone home...
...keeping with the tongue-in-cheek tone of the overall ceremonies, Franklin bid a final farewell to his classmates. “I’d like to ask everyone to keep Harvard in their hearts, because the Harvard Fund will keep you in their hands,” he said...