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...speech before the day of Commencement. The hype that preceded 2008 Class Day speaker Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 starkly contrasted with students’ negative attitudes after his notorious ten-citation speech, during which many attendees left. On the other hand, last year’s Class Day speaker, Matt Lauer of The Today Show, was surprisingly enjoyable and enlightening. As such, students should not jump to conclusions, especially not negative ones, before the speaker actually delivers his or her speech...
Additionally, Harvard students would do well to appreciate that many other universities do not attract graduation speakers of nearly the same prominence as Harvard does, and we therefore should not take Souter’s appearance for granted. Last year’s commencement speakers at other Cambridge and Boston-area colleges included Arthur creator Marc Brown at Lesley College, former Wellesley College President Diana Chapman Walsh at Cambridge College, and actor Blair Underwood—who spent a week at Harvard as an Office for the Arts artist in residence earlier this year—at Emerson College. These...
Though there was not quite a “long line” of students waiting to talk to Hammonds at her first office hours session last Friday, many students did take advantage of the opportunity to speak with the dean on a personal level. Almost all the available 10-minute time slots were filled, according to College spokesperson Jeff Neal...
During Hammonds’s first year as Dean of the College last year, some students and House officials criticized her and the College administration for what was perceived as a lack of transparency and a disconnect from the undergraduate experience...
...Harvard faculty members found themselves speaking their minds in what is normally snow-covered Cambridge, Professors Michael J. Sandel, George M. Church, George M. Whitesides '60, and Nicholas A. Christakis managed to find a good excuse to enjoy sunny SoCal doing basically the same thing at the TED2010 conference last week...