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Tag: Tercentenary Theatre
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Nation & World
‘From this day forward you will make a name for yourself’
In her first Convocation address as Harvard president, Claudine Gay urged the Class of 2027 to fearlessly embrace personal transformation.
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Honoring University grads – including one named Bacow
The Harvard Alumni Associations’ second annual Harvard Alumni Day, a University-wide event celebrating alumni impact, citizenship, and community, featured keynote speaker Mary Louise Kelly ’93.
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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.
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Date set for Claudine Gay’s inauguration
Inauguration events for Claudine Gay, Harvard’s 30th president, will take place on Sept. 29 in Tercentenary Theatre.
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Nation & World
A call to public service
The Classes of 2020 and 2021 finally got their day under the trees of Tercentenary Theatre Sunday morning.
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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.
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Nation & World
There is more to Jeremy Lin than ‘Linsanity’
NBA star and activist Jeremy Lin ’10 spoke to graduating seniors about how he’s come to see his identity as a barrier-breaking Asian American in a new light.
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Nation & World
Harvard postpones Commencement
Harvard’s 369th Commencement ceremony will be indefinitely postponed, a move aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus.
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Gore decries attacks on facts, science, reason
Former Vice President Al Gore warned about threats to American democracy and issued a call to arms to Harvard’s graduating seniors during a pre-graduation Class Day speech.
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Three students tell it like it was (and will be)
Students will share their memories of Harvard, lessons learned, and hopes for the future in three traditional addresses on Commencement Day.
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Places we love
Harvard students, professors, alumni, and staff talk about the places on campus they love most.
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Tracy K. Smith elected chief marshal
U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94 has been elected by her classmates to serve as chief marshal of the alumni at Harvard’s 368th Commencement on May 30.
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Nation & World
Bacow: ‘I am delighted to begin’
Larry Bacow was inaugurated as Harvard’s 29th president on Friday, the culmination of a two-day celebration that drew together faraway friends, colleagues from other universities, and members of the Harvard community for a range of events that ended with a block party.
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Nation & World
A luminous vision for Harvard Yard
Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”
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Adichie: ‘Protect and value the truth’
Nigerian novelist Ngozi Adichie, Harvard’s Class Day speaker, urges graduating seniors to ‘protect and value the truth’ in their own lives.
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Forceful convocation message
In her final convocation address, Harvard President Drew Faust urged freshmen to challenge assumptions, connect with classmates, and embrace diversity.
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Seminal speeches through the years
An impressive range of orators have used the opportunity of delivering seminal speeches at Harvard, reaching not only those in attendance but the nation and sometimes the world.
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Advice for ‘the opposite of underdogs’
Between the laughs, actress and writer Rashida Jones ’97 counsels the Class of 2016 to break some rules, speak up, and choose love during the annual Class Day.
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New life for Memorial Church
Immediately following Commencement, Memorial Church will close as, for the remainder of the calendar year, it undergoes renovations.
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Into the unknown
President Faust and other University leaders urged students toward a spirit of discovery in the convocation ceremony for the Class of 2019.
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This year’s chief marshal
At Harvard’s 364th Commencement, award-winning author and journalist Farai Chideya ’90 will lead her class as this year’s chief marshal.
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Snapshots of a sun-splashed day
A roundup of capsule stories and photos surrounding Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.
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Lean in, speak out
At Class Day ceremonies, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg urged graduates to confront hard truths and address wrongs they find in the world.
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Harvard’s 363rd Commencement
To accommodate the increasing number of people wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, a set of guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement morning.
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The Memorial Church community
Harvard’s Memorial Church has served the community for more than 80 years. More than a beautiful Georgian Revival building, it is a diverse community of students, staff, congregants, and friends.
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Nation & World
Welcoming the Class of ’17
At the annual Freshman Convocation Monday, Harvard President Drew Faust and other University officials told the Class of ’17 to embrace challenges, reach out to fellow students and others, and keep open minds about what the future should hold.
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In the Yard, a changing of the guard
The trees of Harvard Yard are in the midst of managed change as the once-ubiquitous elms continue their decades-long decline. Mixed species, dominated by American trees, replace them.
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Fareed Zakaria Commencement 2012 Speech
Fareed Zakaria, a Harvard alumnus whose insights into the power shifts setting the stage for a new global era have made him a celebrated thought leader on international affairs, was the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 361st Commencement.
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Odes to joy
Harvard Gazette staff writers covered the campus to capture snapshots of Harvard’s 361st Commencement, on a picture-perfect day.
