HARVARD UNIVERSITY VE IRI Order of Exercises for COMMENCEMENT JUNE 10, 1993 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 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, HARVARD COLLEGE AND Virtus vivida valebit, RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 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 John Harvard 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 Harvard University 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.