Tag: Baccalaureate
-
Nation & World
Praise for students who faced an extraordinary test — and passed
“Looking at you, I see the future as it might one day be, and it gives me hope,” Bacow told the Class of 2023.
-
Nation & World
Bacow urges seniors to embrace the unexpected
On Tuesday, Harvard seniors filed into Tercentenary Theatre to attend the Baccalaureate ceremony, which had been canceled for the past two years due to COVID.
-
Nation & World
Bacow tells seniors COVID-19 brought losses, but also growth
President Larry Bacow offered poignant reflections during the Baccalaureate Service honoring the Harvard College Class of 2021.
-
Nation & World
A goal of ‘telling your own story’
Graduating Harvard seniors gathered in the Memorial Church for a personal farewell and words of wisdom from President Drew Faust during the Baccalaureate Service.
-
Nation & World
The import of ‘Breaking Good’
Harvard President Drew Faust bid farewell to the graduating seniors of the Class of 2014 on Tuesday during the annual Baccalaureate Service in Harvard’s Memorial Church.
-
Nation & World
Lessons for the lucky few
In her Baccalaureate Address, President Drew Faust urged graduates of the Class of 2012 to be mindful of their good fortune — and to embrace the responsibilities a privileged education bestows on them.
-
Nation & World
‘Finish your own sentences’
Invoking the legacy of the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Harvard President Drew Faust’s Baccalaureate Address urged graduates to veer from scripts and write their own post-college endings.
-
Nation & World
Baccalaureate service 2010
In her Baccalaureate Address, Harvard President Drew Faust encouraged seniors to embrace having unscripted lives.
-
Nation & World
Embracing the unscripted life
In her Baccalaureate Address, Harvard President Drew Faust encouraged seniors to embrace having unscripted lives.
-
Nation & World
Faust bids farewell to Class of 2008
Amidst humid temperatures and slightly overcast skies, the Class of 2008 gathered Tuesday (June 3) in a steamy Memorial Church for one of the first in a series of Commencement…
-
Nation & World
Be careful what you work for
Harvard interim President Derek Bok bid the Harvard College Class of 2007 farewell Tuesday (June 5), urging graduating seniors to consider the true roots of happiness in life, and cautioning that while society values wealth, for most people money does not equal satisfaction.