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Order of Exercises for COMMENCEMENT

JUNE 10, 1993

CAMBRIDGE, COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES ALUMNI EXERCISES TERCENTENARY THEATRE IO:00 A.M. TERCENTENARY THEATRE 2:15 P.M.

ACADEMIC PROCESSION University Band FROM THE OLD YARD 1:45 P.M. THE MEETING CALLED TO ORDER Sheriff of Middlesex County ALUMNI PROCESSION PRAYER Chaplain of the Day ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANTHEM-Domine salvum fac Commencement Choir ADDRESSES: GENERAL COLIN L. POWELL, (Charles Gounod, I818-1893) and University Band CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF LATIN SALUTATORY John Joseph Henry Rossetti UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Somnium Mirabile SENIOR ENGLISH ADDRESS Yellow Light Breen PRESIDENT NEIL L. RUDENSTINE Thinksing Locally, Acting Globally GRADUATE ENGLISH ADDRESS Bhaswati Bhattacharya New graduates, their guests, and all alumni/ae are warmly invited to attend. Redefining Tradition ANTHEM-Dona nobis pacem, Commencement Choir from Mass in b minor (J. S. Bach, i685-750) HARVARD HYMN CONFERRING OF DEGREES ON President of the University CANDIDATES FROM UNIVERSITY Deus omnium creator, EXTENSION AND THE GRADUATE Rerum mundi moderator, SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Crescat cuius es fundator, Nostra Universitas; ANTHEM-Psalm 78 (St. Martin's) Commencement Choir Integri sint curatores, (William Tans'ur, 1706-1782) and University Band Eruditi professores, CONFERRING OF DEGREES ON President of the University Largiantur donatores CANDIDATES FROM THE Bene partas copias. GRADUATE SCHOOLS Sic dum civitas manebit ANTHEM-O, clap your hands Commencement Choir Clarum lumen hic lucebit, (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958) and University Band Luce angulos replebit, CONFERRING OF DEGREES President of the University Fugerit obscuritas; ON CANDIDATES FROM Error territus latebit, AND Virtus vivida valebit, Et insignior florebit Nostra Universitas. CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES President of the University HARVARD HYMN Assembly Words by James Bradstreet Greenough, A.B. 1856 Music by John Knowles Paine, A.M. (Hon.) 1869 BENEDICTION Plummer Professor of Christian Morals THE MEETING ADJOURNED Sheiffof Middlesex County MARCH-Military Escort University Band (Harold Bennett, 188I-1956)

Please refrain from using cameras during the ceremony as they disturb the proceedings and our guests. Also, please do not stand in the aisles, obstructing the view of others. Fair Harvard board, dating from November 1637, while the Corporation dates from the Charter of 1650. Together the Corporation and the Board of Fair Harvard!thy sons to thy Jubilee throng, Overseers constitute the governing boards of the University. And with blessings surrender thee o'er The Academic Procession By these Festival-rites,from the Age that is past, The Commencement Procession is formed in four divisions. Each To the Age that is waiting before ... meets in a prescribed area, where, as President Conant wrote, they happily "wander about, greeting friends and disobeying instructions" THESE FESTIVAL RITES before starting on the walk into the Tercentenary Theatre. As they pass by the west front of University Hall, they doff their hats in turn to the Decorations in the Tercentenary Theatre flag of the United States, and to the statue of on his Tercentenary Theatre, the area between Memorial Church and Widener pedestal. Candidates for advanced degrees gather in Sever Quadrangle, Library, was first used in 1936 as an outdoor amphitheatre for the College's the site of the Commencement Exercises until 1946. The graduating class three hundredth anniversary, and today is ablaze with the reds, blues, of seniors, the alumni/ae, and the President's Division emerge from the greens, and golds of the varied flags of Harvard and Radcliffe. Flags of lively confusion and find their places in the Old Yard to the sound of both Colleges decorate the theatre for Commencement, while the three familiar college songs played by the Band. large crimson Harvard Veritas banners, bearing the ancient shield, billow The President's Division consists of three sections. The first is led by above the long staircase in front of Widener. Also flying overhead are the the sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk counties. The President follows brilliant colors of the thirteen undergraduate Houses: Adams, Cabot, immediately behind, wearing a black front-buttoned cassock under a Currier, Dudley, Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell, Mather, heavy full gown embroidered at collar and cuffs, with a tasselled are the North, Quincy, and Winthrop. Rounding out the heraldic display mortarboard on his head. of the ten graduate schools: bright standards of the Extension School and The University Marshal, in charge of the Commencement Exercises, Design, Divinity, Education, Arts and Sciences, Business, Dental Medicine, escorts the President and the President Emeritus, if present, and is Government, Law, Medicine, and Public Health. followed by the other six members of the Corporation, the Board of History of Commencement Overseers, and the President and Trustees of Radcliffe College. The The word "Commencement" conveys the meaning of the Latin Inceptio, Governor of the Commonwealth, who until 1865 served as president of a term used in the Middle Ages to describe the ceremony that admitted the Board of Overseers, follows the governing boards. Next in procession candidates for the degree of Master of Arts, and gave them license to begin are the Lieutenant Governor, the Mayor of Boston, and the Mayor of teaching. The first "Happy Observance of Commencement" at Harvard Cambridge. Behind them march the candidates for honorary degrees, College was held in the autumn of 1642, with nine scholars in the each attended by a faculty escort. graduating class. Throughout the seventeenth century the ceremony was The second section, that of Dignitaries, includes the ministers of the celebrated at the beginning of the academic year. The change of original Six Towns of the Bay Colony, other invited clergy, officials of the Commencement to the end of the academic year recognized that not all Commonwealth or nation, the Phi Beta Kappa Poet and Orator, former graduates would become teachers, and that at Commencement recipients recipients of honorary degrees, and other invited guests. of degrees would leave the University to begin their professional lives. The third, or Faculty, section of the President's Division is made up of Harvard College is named for John Harvard, an early benefactor from deans and vice-presidents, House masters, professors emeriti, university Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England, who bequeathed professors, professors, associate professors, and assistant professors in his library to the new College in 1638. order of rank but not by school. This section is immensely colorful The founders and first teachers of Harvard in the early years following because of the rich and varied display of academic gowns and hoods. The 1636 came primarily from Cambridge University in England. They color, length, and shape of each academic hood represent a particular brought the organization of its component colleges-a President (or institution and the subject in which a degree was awarded. Harvard's other Head), and Teaching Fellows. The government of Harvard practice is unique in that only three types of gowns are used: in black for College, and now of the University, is vested principally in a body of seven both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree candidates, and in members consisting of the President, the Treasurer, and five Fellows, crimson for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and other advanced known collectively as the Corporation-the oldest such body in North degrees. Hoods signifying Harvard degrees are black with crimson silk America. Although the Corporation in certain matters requires the linings, differing only in length for masters and doctoral candidates. consent of the Board of Overseers, officially named "The Honorable and Embroidered crow's feet on the lapels of their gowns are colored Reverend The Board of Overseers, one of this Board's principal according to the faculties they represent, with white for the Faculty of functions is to visit and advise the graduate schools and various academic Arts and Sciences (including Applied Science, Engineering, and the or administrative departments. The Board of Overseers is the senior Extension School); dark blue for Doctor of Philosophy; medium grey for Business; lilac for Dental Medicine; yellow for Design; scarlet for Conferring of Degrees Divinity; light blue for Education; peacock blue for Government; purple The University Marshal calls on the deans of the faculties, who present for Law; green for Medicine; and salmon pink for Public Health. Crow's their candidates for degrees to the President and governing boards, feet are double for earned degrees, triple for honorary. beginning with the advanced degrees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The President's Division takes its place on the platform built for the The graduate schools are presented in the order of their date of occasion on the side porch of Memorial Church. The President sits in the institution. Each dean addresses the governing boards with the following center in a Jacobean chair used at Harvard Commencements since the salutation, "Mr. President, Fellows of Harvard College, Mr. President time of President Holyoke in the eighteenth century. The Treasurer and (referring here to the President of the Board of Overseers) and Members five Fellows are seated at either side of him. In the center section of the of the Board of Overseers," before presenting the candidates, who stand platform are the Honorands with their faculty escorts, the Board of in place while the President confers their degrees. The President confers Overseers, the Radcliffe Trustees, the vice-presidents of the University, the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science last, in the deans of the graduate schools, the masters of the undergraduate recognition of the central role of undergraduate education in the Houses, and specially invited guests. Looking toward the platform, to the University and the support of the Colleges by the alumni/ae. For this far left are two hundred of the most senior alumni/ae, and to the far right conferral the class committee, as representatives of their class, and the are the faculty members. candidates for summas, are summoned to "draw near" the platform to be When all participants in the academic procession are seated in the greeted by the presidents of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, and the class Tercentenary Theatre, the University Marshal signals for a "joyous peal" is admitted "to the fellowship of educated men and women. of the deep-toned bell in the Memorial Church tower. The bell is rung Although the formal conferring of degrees is validated by the by hand, and announces the beginning of the Commencement Exercises. President's pronouncement, the College did not give actual diplomas until 1814. Before that, following the model of the English university, it The Meeting Called to Order was considered enough that the degrees were recorded when conferred: The University Marshal addresses the sheriff of Middlesex County, for centuries the candidates were greeted by the President and given a "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order." The sheriff, resplendent in silk top hat, symbolic book which they later had to return. Since most students rises, moves solemnly to the front of the platform, and striking it three wanted something tangible as evidence of their intellectual accomplish- times with his silver-topped staff, proclaims in a resonant voice, "The ment, beginning in 1645 and continuing until 1814, they were permitted Meeting will be in Order." The Chaplain of the Day offers a prayer, and to prepare their own diplomas for signature by the President and Fellows. the University Marshal proceeds to introduce the three student speakers For this they paid a fee. of Commencement Parts. Another practice the founders brought from England was that of of Arts have first Commencement Parts insisting that candidates for the degree of Master class to receive the The giving of Commencement Parts began early in Harvard's history received the Bachelor of Arts. At Harvard the first Bachelors hoped when candidates chosen by a faculty committee for their outstanding Bachelor of Arts was the Class of 1642, and since most for their Master's achievement spoke Parts in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. This practice to become ministers or teachers, they went on to study of three years, the continues to the present with selected students delivering the Parts at the degree. Residence was not mandatory, but the lapse were required. opening of the ceremony. In the first, a college senior delivers a payment of a fee, and proof of independent study lightly observed "salutatory, or address of greeting in Latin. A second senior gives an Eventually the last became purely nominal, and it was was "five dollars and address on a topic in English. A professional degree candidate then that the only thing necessary for a Master's degree of Arts in this presents the third address, also in English. The Parts are named three years out of jail." The awarding of the Master 1872. according to the level of academic distinction attained by the speakers: an perfunctory fashion, called "in course,"' came to an end after gradum (to the "oration" if the degree is summa cum laude, a "dissertation" if magna cum The Master of Arts could also be awarded ad eundem or its equivalent at laude, and a "disquisition" if cum laude. "Distinction" is voted by the same degree) to those who had received a Master's after 1830. A parallel faculties in recognition of overall excellence in courses: "honors" are another recognized university. This practice ended Master's degree on voted by departments for high achievement in a particular field of practice since 1942 is that of bestowing an honorary who are appointed to tenured concentration or area of study. For all the Parts, students are chosen in a professors who hold no Harvard degree but usually awarded at the first University-wide competition. positions in any Harvard faculty. This degree, to the Harvard family. Hearing the Latin salutatory in today's ceremony reminds us that not faculty meeting each year, admits the recipient candidates for degrees only the public Parts, but the conferring of degrees was conducted in that In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Commencement itself, or to language until 1896. Harvard still uses the abbreviations for degrees in expected to be tested academically at Arts candidates prepared theses or the Latin rather than in the English order, for example: A.B., Artium perform a "public act." Bachelor of and candidates for the Master of Baccalaureus; A.M., Artium Magister; and Ph.D., Philosophiae Doctor. topics on which they could be queried, Arts submitted questions they were ready to defend. Titles of theses and Fifteen presidents of the United States have received honorary degrees questions were printed in advance to be handed out at Commencement, from Harvard, some of them before they became president. They include and visitors often took the opportunity of challenging the candidates on George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, their knowledge. Today the term thesis applies to the written results of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, research submitted by candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree with Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, honors in a field, or by candidates for doctoral degrees. Theses are Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and John Kennedy. examined and approved by appropriate members of the faculties. Helen Keller was the first woman to be awarded an honorary degree, that After the founding of Radcliffe College in 1879, Radcliffe students of Doctor of Laws in 1955. Since then many women have been so honored. were taught separately by Harvard professors from the Faculty of Arts The University makes an effort to keep the names of the Honorands and Sciences. Beginning in 1894, the diploma granted by Radcliffe was confidential until the actual Commencement ceremony, in the event that a countersigned by the President of Harvard, who certified that the degree specific candidate is unable to attend. Since 1900, honorary degrees have was "equivalent in all respects" to that awarded to Harvard students. been given only if the candidate appears in person: rarely has an honorary Gradually during the 1940's, Radcliffe students were admitted to degree been voted but not conferred, as in the 1945 Master of Arts degree Harvard classes, and in 1947 separate instruction ended. Since 1963, awarded to war correspondent Ernie Pyle, who was killed in action before Radcliffe women have received Harvard diplomas withthe signatures of Commencement. Others were the 1946 degrees for Generals George both the President of Radcliffe and the President of Harvard, and Marshall and Douglas MacArthur, who could not be present. General bearing the seals of the two institutions. Radcliffe and Harvard have held Marshall came to receive his degree the following year, and in 1947 joint Commencement exercises since 1970. delivered the memorable speech in which he announced proposals that Europe. Conferring of Honorary Degrees became the "Marshall Plan" for the reconstruction of postwar When the President completes the conferring of earned degrees he Commencement as 'FestivalRites' confers the honorary degrees and gives the diplomas, with an appropriate In colonial times the ceremony ended in the late afternoon and was citation for each. The tradition of bestowing honorary degrees began in followed by a Commencement dinner with speeches, singing, the European universities in the Middle Ages. In the seventeenth and consumption of wine and "plumb-cakes;" and much revelry. Graduate eighteenth centuries there were few special awards at Harvard except for students returning to receive the Master of Arts degree rejoined old those of the Master of Arts ad eundem gradum mentioned earlier, and it classmates, and the evening became a time for festive class reunions. is questioned whether they were honorary or earned. The first true Before long Harvard's Commencement became a holiday in all of honorary award is generally considered to be the Master of Arts Cambridge, and attracted not only alumni and parents but the general conferred on Benjamin Franklin in 1753. Twenty-three years later the population as well. They had soon realized that Commencement governing boards of Harvard awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws to provided a good party. Booths featuring food, drink, and the perfor- General George Washington in grateful appreciation for his role in mance of short impromptu plays were set up on Cambridge Common, forcing the British evacuation of Boston in April 1776. and since life in New England in those days offered little in the way of In certain circumstances, when a distinguished person whom the public entertainment or fun, it was a highly riotous time. College and University wished to honor came to the Cambridge area, a special civic authorities, including a constable with six men, were hard pressed convocation was called in order to greet him and confer upon him an to keep the festivities under control. To this day both the sheriff of honorary degree. Several examples are the degrees awarded to the Middlesex County and the sheriff of Suffolk County attend Commence- Marquis de Lafayette in 1784; to James Monroe in 1817; to Andrew ment, with the former opening and closing the ceremony as a pleasant Jackson in 1833; to Prince Henry of Prussia in 1902; to the Crown Prince reminder that he, as was the Marshal-General of the Colony before him, of Sweden, Oscar Fredrick Wilhelm Olaf Gustav Adolf, in 1938; and to is invited to preserve order. Winston Churchill in 1943. At the Harvard Bicentennial in 1836 a formal alumni organization was Today the governing boards grant as honorary degrees the Master of proposed, which held its first meeting ii 1840o. By 1869 the traditional Arts (A.M.) and Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), the Doctor of Science (S.D.), post-Commencement dinner celebration had combined with that of the Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.), Doctor of Literature (Litt.D.), Alumni Association, and moved to the middle of the day. Since 1905, a Doctor of Music (Mus.D.), Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), and Doctor of Arts luncheon organized in the name of the Chief Marshal of the Alumni for (Art.D.). Occasionally someone to whom an honorary degree is offered Commencement, elected by the twenty-fifth reunion class, is held to declines to accept. Grover Cleveland, twice president of the United States, entertain the governing boards, honorary degree recipients, and distin- is said to have refused an honorary Doctor of Laws at the time of guished guests. Other alumni/ae and class luncheon "spreads" are located Harvard's 25 0th anniversary in 1886 because he felt he was not learned throughout the Yard. Following a tradition started in 1950, the new enough in law to deserve the degree. graduates return to their separate Houses or graduate Schools for luncheons with their families, where they receive their individual diplomas in smaller, more intimate ceremonies. After the luncheon recess everyone is invited to reconvene in the Tercentenary Theatre to partic- ipate in the Alumni Exercises. 2 Music - The music of voice and instrument weaves through the fabric of every " °o°° Harvard Commencement from the beginning of the ceremony to the end. Today, as on so many other Commencement days, stirring music played by the Harvard University Band accompanies the academic procession into the Tercentenary Theatre. The Commencement Choir, composed of students from the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral " Society, and the Harvard/Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, offers four anthems during the program. One of them, a part of Harvard Com- mencement almost since its creation, is a metrical version of Psalm 78 (St. Martin's) set to music by the eighteenth century psalm tune composer, William Tans'ur. The Harvard Hymn, composed by John Knowles Paine with words by James Bradstreet Greenough, is sung in Latin by the entire assembly after the awarding of the honorary degrees. The Meeting Adjourned The Commencement Exercises conclude when the Minister in the Memorial Church, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, pro- nounces the benediction. The President's Division leaves the platform to depart by the center aisle, turning at Widener toward University Hall. When the official party has left the stage the sheriff of Middlesex County once again strikes his staff three times, and raising his voice to be heard above the crowd, declares, "The Meeting is Adjourned." The Memorial

Church bell peals, the bells of Cambridge ring out, and the University A Band triumphantly heralds the end of the ceremony. Striking a spirited ~ march, it keeps step with the throng of alumni/ae, students and faculty, families and friends moving through the centuries-old Yard "from the E-' Age that is past,/ To the Age that is waiting before."

... 0 Relic and Type of our ancestors' worth, That hast long kept their warm, Firstflow'r of their wilderness! star of their night! Calm rising through change and through storm.

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To President Rudenstine, General Powell, distinguished faculty and guests, Praefecto Rudenstine, Imperatori Powell, clarissimis professoribus et hospitibus, greetings. To all those graduating today - to the lawyers, doctors, businesspeople, salutem. Vobis qui studia hodie conficitis, iurisconsultis, medicis, negotiatoribus, educators, architects, Ph.D.'s, theologians, and unmarketable College students like magistris, architectis, philosophiae doctoribus, theologis et discipulis Collegii myself - I bid you greetings as well. To my father: now would be an excellent time Harvardiani ex quibus multi quaestum non inveniemus, vobis quoque salutem dico. to turn the camcorder on. Heus, pater mi, nunc opus est machina quae luce imagines creat. My friends, on such a glad and festive day as this it hardly seems fitting that a man Mei amici, in hoc die tam festo laetissimoque, haud decet me orationem habere de viro mortuo supra trecentesimum annum. Cum tamen lingua Latina loquar, arbitror dead for hundreds of years should be the subject of this speech. But, given the rem plane idoneam esse. Nam nuper mihi dormienti apparuit in somniis ipse lohannes language I'm speaking, I think the topic is entirely appropriate. For recently I was Harvard. Cum studiose perlegerem librum gravem severumque in Bibliotheca than John Harvard himself. While poring visited in my dreams by no less a personage Wideneriana - 0 mater, hoc est illud aedificium magnum quod situm est post tergum studiously over a weighty tome in (that's the large building behind - cupido dormiendi mihi maxime invasit. Quamquam rarissime inter studia somnio, you, Mom), I was struck by an overpowering and undeniable urge to sleep. Although caput tamen pono in librum sicut in pulvinum. Extemplo somnum profundum ineo. this is an extremely rare occurrence for me while studying, I placed my head Super caput mihi dormienti, manes lohannis Harvard videntur pendere sicut aes somewhere around page 17 and fell into a deep slumber. As I slept, I saw the image alienum Sodalitati Harvardianae Collatae debitum. Cum obstipuerim et intuitus sim of John Harvard looming over my head like an unpaid Coop bill. I gazed in wonder on oculos torvos et vultum superbum, intellexi vere ilium haud similem statuae esse. Cum his stem eyes and proud mien and noticed that he really didn't resemble his statue in quod cogitabam percepisset, sic mihi adfatus est: "0 humillime obscurissimeque the least. Guessing my thoughts, he addressed me thus: "O lowliest and most humble discipule huius meae universitatis, crede me lohannem Harvard esse, sine quo non student of this university, doubt no more that I am John Harvard, without whom you possis hic dormire. Studiis tuis in hac universitate mox confectis, memento semper would not be sleeping here today. As you conclude your studies here, remember that tecum me futurum esse, quacumque ibis, praecipue cum opus erit donis alumnorum. I will always be with you, wherever you go, particularly when we need alumni Sed primum dic mihi utrumne Yalenses superaverimus hoc anno in illo Ludo." donations. But first tell me, is it true we defeated Yale this year at The Game?" Quibus verbis non sine risu sic respondi: "0 magne Iohannes Harvard, vehementer Beaming from ear to ear, I replied: "0 great John Harvard, we thrashed them Yalenses verberavimus in Ludo, quod est maximus honor tibi. Collegium tamen quod soundly, and you can be rightly proud. But the college you left behind is more than condidisti non tantum semper potens folle, sed etiam multo maius est nunc quam animo just another football dynasty! There is much more to this university today than you fingere potueras. Legistine nuper Nuntium Civitatum Coniunctarum et Litteras ever thought possible. Have you read U.S. News and World Report lately? You Mundi? Etiamsi legisses, intellegeres neque res quibus studemus, nec varias senten- couldn't comprehend the subjects we study, the range of ideas we discuss on tias de quibus in academia disputamus, nec machinas quibus utimur." campus, or the technology we use." Adnuit et mihi respondit: "Verum est. Nec ego poteram credere fore ut olim moles He nodded and replied: "That is true. Even I could not have known that one day monstruosae, sicut Domus Mather, aedificentur et apponatur in Cenationibus monstrosities like Mather House would ever be built or that fish pizziola would one Harvardianis pizziola piscaria. (O tempora! 0 mores!) Certe, multa mutata sunt post day be served in the Dining Halls. (0 the times! O the customs!) Certainly, much has mortem meam, sed nollem nunc multa mutare. Me vivo, discipulis dormiendum erat changed since my day, but there is not much I would change now. In my day, in casis frigidis, legendum Latine Graeceque, et studendum erat donec sane students had to sleep in unheated wooden buildings, read Latin and Greek, and study intellegere non poterant. Nunc, cum novas artes mechanicas habeatis, discipuli in until they couldn't think straight. Nowadays, with the advent of modem technology, aedificiis calefactis dormiunt, Coccum legunt, et student donec sane intellegere non students sleep in heated buildings, read The Crimson, and study until they can't think possunt. Die studiorum conficiendorum appropinquante, memento me hic fuisse ante straight. As you approach your day of graduation, remember that I was here before te, et hic futurum esse post te. Cras licet ire ubivis, sed huc redi conviviorum you and that I will be here after you leave. You are free to go your own way after quinquennalium causa." today, but try to make it back for reunions." His dictis, manes subito evanuerunt, cum sentirem librarium iratum me fodicare e With those words, his image vanished into thin air, and I found myself being somno, clamitantem Bibliothecam esse claudendam. Cum a bibliotheca abirem, quae nudged awake by an angry librarian, yelling at me that Widener was closing. As I left Iohannes Harvard mihi locutus erat in animo volutavi. Etiamnunc, cum vos omnes the building, I pondered John Harvard's words. Even now, as I look out on you all, aspicio, miror quid in animo habuerit et quid ello die in stomachum descendisset. I wonder what he meant in addressing me and what I could possibly have eaten that Vobis gratiam ago pro vestra patientia mirabili. Nunc facite hanc orationem exponatis day. Thank you for your patience today and be sure to explain this speech to your vestris gentibus, qui eam non redditam Anglice legerunt. Vale. families, who suffered through it without a translation. Farewell. John Joseph Henry Rossetti '93 John Joseph Henry Rossetti '93 Collegium Haruardianum Harvard College Cantabrigiae Cambridge IV Idas lunias June 10, 1993 MCMXCIII