Harvard Voices
By Harvard University
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Description
“Harvard Voices” was originally prepared for the 350th Anniversary of the founding of Harvard College and has been updated for the 375th Anniversary in the fall of 2011. Excerpts from major addresses by public figures and creative artists, as well as the musings of notable Harvard scholars, are included. Acknowledgements Professor Richard Tarrant, narrator Jacqueline O’Neill, Sarah Speltz, Tara Benedict, editors Anthony Di Bartolo, Margaret Keyes, and Jerry McDonald, Production staff of the Department of Media Services Katherine Kogut, Kogut Productions, audio formatting and editing Gleb Sidorkin, reader of Solzhenitsyn selection Peter Katz, Office of the General Counsel Lucinda O’Neill, Cover art design For previous work in production of the 1986 edition of “Harvard Voices” we acknowledge Richard M. Hunt, Donald Bacon, Michael Milburn, Linda Beyer, Jeffrey Martini, Barry Megquier, the Woodberry Poetry Room, Non-print Media Archive of the Modern Language Center, and the Cabot Science Library.
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Introduction | “Harvard Voices” was originally prepared for the 350th Anniversary of the founding of Harvard College and has been updated for the 375th Anniversary in the fall of 2011. Excerpts from major addresses by public figures and creative artists, as well as the musings of notable Harvard scholars are included. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Harvard’s 300th Anniversary on September 18, 1936, in Sanders Theatre. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Samuel Eliot Morison, 1936 | Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, renowned historian of Harvard, also at the 300th Anniversary in 1936. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gertrude Stein, 1930s | Radcliffe graduate and celebrated American author, Gertrude Stein, read from her experimental literary work. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Winston Churchill, 1943 | After receiving an honorary degree, Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke in Harvard Yard to U.S. military forces in training on September 6, 1943. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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George C. Marshall, 1947 | Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced The Marshall Plan on Commencement Day 1947 in Harvard Yard. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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T.S. Eliot, 1947 | In 1947, Harvard graduate and Nobel Prize Laureate, T.S. Eliot, read his early poetry about Cambridge scenery. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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e.e. cummings, 1952 | Poet e.e. cummings recalled his own undergraduate experience in his Norton Lectures entitled “Non-Lectures.” | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Robert Frost, 1950s | Former Harvard student and then Norton Professor, poet Robert Frost answered an undergraduate’s question in the early 1950s and later read one of his most famous poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John F. Kennedy, 1956 | On the afternoon of June 14, 1956, Senator John F. Kennedy addressed the Harvard Alumni Association in Harvard Yard. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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W.E.B. DuBois, 1960s | W.E.B. DuBois, Harvard College graduate and Ph.D., reminisced about his Harvard teachers and his commitment to study history. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Martin Luther King, Jr., 1962 | In 1962, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., soon to be Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, delivered a speech to the Harvard Law School forum. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Harvard-Yale Game, 1968 | The last 40 seconds of the Harvard-Yale game, November 23, 1968, in the Harvard Stadium. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Leonard Bernstein, 1973 | Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein recounted his discovery as a Harvard undergraduate of certain principles of musical structure. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sheldon Glashow, 1974 and Steven Weinberg, 1976 | Two Harvard Nobel Prize Laureates talked about exciting developments in their scientific research: for Professor Sheldon Glashow in the field of particle physics; for Professor Steven Weinberg in quantum field theory. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Barbara Jordan, 1977 | In 1977, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan from Texas spoke to the Harvard Alumni Association. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1978 | In 1978, at the height of the Cold War, the exiled Nobel Prize-winning Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, delivered a Commencement Address titled “A World Split Apart,” which would be quoted often afterward for its indictment of the West’s failure to stand up to Soviet aggression. This selection is read by Gleb Sidorkin. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mother Teresa, 1982 | Another Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Mother Teresa, of The Society of the Missionaries of Charity, spoke in Harvard Yard on Class Day 1982. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seamus Heaney, 1986 | Seamus Heaney, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, recited a celebratory poem for the occasion of Harvard’s 350th Anniversary. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Colin Powell, 1993 | General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in his commencement address in 1993, recalled the long tradition of Harvard and the military, and reminded graduates of America’s responsibilities around the world as it entered into a new era of peace and prosperity. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Vaclav Havel, 1995 | At the 1995 Harvard Commencement, honorary degree recipient Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, spoke to graduates on the common human threads uniting all nations, even those seeking to divide and destroy. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Madeleine Albright, 1997 | Secretary of State Madeleine Albright spoke to the class of 1997 on the 50th anniversary of the historic commencement address given by George Marshall. Albright echoed Marshall’s sentiment, urging graduates to be shapers of history in an increasingly interconnected world. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nelson Mandela, 1998 | On September 18, 1998, at a rare, special convocation at which he was presented with an honorary degree, President Nelson Mandela spoke to a crowd of 25,000 in Tercentenary Theatre, calling on citizens of the world’s developed nations to partner with emerging democracies to alleviate hunger, poverty and disease. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alan Greenspan, 1999 | Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan spoke to graduates in 1999 on the value of personal character and education to the national economy. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Lithgow, 2005 | Former Harvard Overseer, alumnus, founder of the Harvard Arts Medal, and acclaimed actor John Lithgow delivered the Commencement Address in June 2005. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bill Gates, 2007 | Microsoft Founder and philanthropist Bill Gates delivered the 2007 Commencement Address upon receiving an honorary degree thirty years after dropping out of Harvard College. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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J.K. Rowling, 2008 | Best-selling author of the beloved Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, received an honorary degree and delivered the 2008 Commencement Address entitled, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Edward M. Kennedy, 2008 | Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, received an honorary degree at a special convocation in Sanders Theater on December 1, 2008, where he delivered what would be one of his final public addresses. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Al Gore, 2008 | Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore delivered the keynote address of a multi-day celebration of Harvard’s commitment to environmental sustainability in Tercentenary Theatre on October 22, 2008. | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sandra Day O'Connor, 2009 | Justice Sandra Day O'Connor accepting the Radcliffe Medal, June 2009 | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gloria Steinem, 2010 | Writer and activist Gloria Steinem, 2010 Radcliffe Medalist | 7/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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