Commencement
Coverage of Harvard’s annual graduation ceremonies, including speeches, profiles, and traditions.
Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
2018
Harvard Graduate School of Education Convocation 2018
John Silvanus Wilson Jr.’s spirited message for the School of Education’s graduates—and for Harvard.
Children's book writer and editor Janet Pascal ’84, on revising "Fair Harvard"
Janet Pascal ’84 crafts the new final line for “Fair Harvard,” debuting this Commencement.
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors its Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four alumni whose contributions to society emerged from their study at Harvard.
The “Ring of Truth”
R. J. Tarrant’s last Commencement coaching the student speakers
Harvard ROTC 2018 commissioning ceremony
President Drew Faust and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter honor Harvard ROTC’s newly commissioned officers.
by Jean Martin
Baccalaureate 2018
In her last Baccalaureate address, President Drew Faust speaks to the class of 2018 about transformation.
Neil Shubin and Kevin Young speak at Harvard's 2018 Phi Beta Kappa exercises
Fish paleontologist Neil Shubin, Ph.D. ’87, and author Kevin Young ’92 spoke at the 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, and the “circle of consequence”
Echoes of a Harvard Commencement speech 40 years on
How to Pretend You Went to Harvard
I would like to offer you what I think is even better than an actual Harvard degree: the ability to pass what I call the Harvard Voight-Kampff.
A century apart, two Harvard alumni find each other in the American South.
A century apart, two alumni find each other in the American South.
