July 2, 2004

Commencement 2004

Speech transcripts from Commencement 2004

June 8, 2004

Phi Beta Kappa Oration "The Anglo-American Scholar?" by Niall Ferguson, an economic historian.

Latin Oration: "De Hominis harvardiensis Decursu" by Pankaj Kumar Agarwalla '04.

Undergraduate English Oration: "Living the Life You Love" by Kate Rakoczy.

Graduate English Oration: "Leaving Footprints in Time" by Stephen E. Frank, Harvard Law School '04.

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