On a warm, clear Commencement Day — the 361st Harvard Commencement — the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences bestowed the PhD on 431 candidates and the master's degree on 79 candidates across 56 departments, programs, and divisions. The GSAS diploma awarding ceremony, whose traditions seem amplified by the august surroundings of Sanders Theatre, blended solemnity, pageantry, and moments of festivity and unexpected humor as graduates crossed the stage to receive their diplomas and the congratulations of deans and faculty.
At Morning Exercises in Harvard Yard, Jonathan Service, the first PhD candidate in memory to deliver the graduate oration, offered a soaring and inspirational speech grounded in the words of Japan's preeminent haiku poet, Basho. And later in the day Fareed Zakaria, PhD'93, government, delivered the Commencement address.
Read complete Commencement coverage in the Harvard Gazette and in Harvard Magazine.
