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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