Commencement 2005

Speech transcripts from Commencement 2005

Commencement 2005 Speeches

June 7, 2005

Phi Beta Kappa Oration: "Iraq" by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT and former director of the CIA

June 8, 2005
Class Day Speech by Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press

June 9, 2005

Latin Salutatory: "Campus of Dreams" by Caitlin Cecilia Gillespie '05, from the Commencement Morning Exercises, with the authorized English translation

Undergraduate English Oration: "Perfect Imperfection" by Alicia J. Menendez '05

Graduate English Oration: "One Journey's End is Another's Beginning" by Dorinda J. Carter Ed.D. '05

Commencement Address by President Lawrence H. Summers

Commencement Address: "An Actor's Own Words" by John Lithgow '67, Ar.D. '05

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