June 8, 2006

A challenge to the Class of 2006 Summers works on his speech: 'There is not much anyone can do that is more important than to provide students with minds like yours with an education experience commensurate with your excellence,' Summers said. 'For you are remarkably gifted, deeply committed, and, as history suggests, more likely than any other group of 1,650 22-year-olds to change the world.' (Staff photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office) Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Honorary degrees presented to nine at Harvard's 355th Commencement ceremony

355th Commencement: Harvard confers 6,706 degrees and 248 certificates

That was the year that was
A timeline of 2005-06

Fung Foundation bolsters the work of Asia Center
$15 million gift supports H.C. Fung Library, endows directorship of Harvard University Asia Center, provides scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students

Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $1.5 million for science programs

College reunion classes set sights on giving back
Classes of 1956, 1971, 1981, 2001 generously support Harvard

Board of Overseers senior officers elected for 2006-07

A Summers retrospective:
• Summers lays foundation for renewal and expansion
• Summers is remembered by many...
• President Summers' tenure: A timeline

Summers urges students to use reason to change the world
President delivers final Baccalaureate at the Memorial Church

Class Day offers laughs, wisdom, weather
MacFarlane bids Class of '06 a 'Family Guy' farewell

ROTC faces down rough weather
Graduates, Summers honored at ceremony

Greenhouse awarded Radcliffe Medal
New York Times correspondent to be honored

Speaking in tongues, modern and ancient
Orators will bring down the house, well, the tents

A diarist in the Class of 1858
Undergrad's journal mixes daily joys, history-making sorrows

Democracy according to Wilentz, Alexander's verses
Phi Beta Kappa orator, poet educate, inspire