I think your profession has made this country what it is at its best, the freest and most wisely ordered on earth. How soon they forget the height of their calling, these young lawyers. Other degree candidates making statements included a pair from the School of Public Health, who appeared as the front and back ends of a comely camel named Josephine, the Smoke-free Camel. Now it is true, certainly, that lawyers and tobacco are among the New World's principal contributions to the rest of the world. But several others were mentioned during Commencement week.
American universities help educate many thousands of foreign nationals, for instance.
The baccalaureate service in Memorial Church on Tuesday included student readings from sacred texts in Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Arabic. The distinguishing feature of this Commencement was that it marked the Marshall Plan's fiftieth anniversary. We've gone from global depression to the global marketplace, from the Andrews Sisters to the Smashing Pumpkins. But fundamental American values have not changed, she said, nor Harvard's role in reinforcing them.