Commencement

Coverage of Harvard’s annual graduation ceremonies, including speeches, profiles, and traditions.

Harvard’s 375th Commencement Exercises

Conan O’Brien headlines a star-studded cast

by Jonathan Shaw

2018

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

The “Ring of Truth”

R. J. Tarrant’s last Commencement coaching the student speakers

by Lydialyle Gibson

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

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.

by Sophia Nguyen

Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, and the “circle of consequence”

Echoes of a Harvard Commencement speech 40 years on

by Wanda Urbanska

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.

by Alexandra Petri

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.

by Michael S. Knapp

Stephen Hawking survives Commencement day at Harvard

A close call on Commencement day

by David H. Abramson

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will speak at Harvard Class Day

The decorated author is best known for her novels and feminist writing. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova