University News
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The Week’s Words
Commencement rhetoric on threats to higher education, melding divergent views, doing good, and combating the loss of trust
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Commencement Confetti
Seniors’ work plans, Sasha stylin’, reunion sonnet, and more
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Commencement 372 7/8
Harvard’s tumultuous year ends in modified festival rites, amid passionate protests.
by John S. Rosenberg
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Honoris Causa
Harvard’s 2024 honorary degree recipients
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Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance
Protest interruptions and a call to do “the right thing”
by Lydialyle Gibson
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Heads of the Parade
And a precedent-setting eightieth Harvard reunion
by Nina Pasquini
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Using the Law for Good
2024 Radcliffe Medalist Sonia Sotomayor on civic engagement and optimism
by Max J. Krupnick
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Equality and Justice
A Radcliffe Day panel discusses pluralism and progress.
by Nina Pasquini
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Close Call
Ending a tumultuous year, Harvard tradition is served in the 373rd Commencement—with plenty of thunder from the stage.
by John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick
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Protesters Walk Out of Harvard Commencement
Pro-Palestine activists hold “The People’s Commencement”
by Max J. Krupnick