Commencement background information
Harvard degrees conferred in 2007
Commencement speakers 1950 - 2007
Class Day speakers at Harvard 1968 - 2007
Notes about Harvard degree abbreviations
An explanation of the abbreviations used at Harvard to denote undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Pumps and circumstance: a guide to academic garb
Tassels: Dexter or Sinister? What is the status of nylon rabbit’s fur? Does your tippet overlap your liripip? While these questions may not loom large in the minds of today’s graduates, they are of the utmost importance to expert observers of that short–lived phenomenon, the annual display of Doctoral Plumage.
The spirit and spectacle of Harvard Commencement
“Like endless ribbons, lines wrap about the Yard as Harvard celebrates Commencement Exercises in the Tercentenary Theatre…”
Bells are ringing…
This brief Gazette article announces the ringing of bells in Cambridge to honor Harvard's Commencement.
“Fair Harvard”
The words to the College hymn — “Fair Harvard! we join in thy jubilee throng…”