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CHAPTER OFF[CERS
President
Ann Pearson
Vice-president
Robin Kelsey
Secretary
Logan McCarty
Treasurer
Leslie Slavin
Ch ief Marshal
PHI BETA KAPPA
Alpha Iota of Massachusetts
at
Harvard College
James "Vilkinson
UNDERGRADUATE MARSHALS
Class of 20 15
Aaron Cheng
Gabrielle Milner
Samuel Solwlsl<y-Tifft
Yong Jin (Eugene) Wang
The Phi Beta Kappa Society was founded in 1776 by five
students at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg,
Virginia. Harvard's chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was
chartered in 1781 and remains the oldest continuously
operating chapter. Radcliffe's chapter, Iota of Massachusetts,
was chartered in 191 +, and the two chapters merged to form
AJpha Iota in 1995.
These Literary Exercises have been a part of Harvard's
commencement activities since 1782. The orators and poets
who have joined in this celebration of the liberal arts and
sciences represent the best of our nation's intellectual life.
two hundred and twenty-fifth
LITERARY
EXERCISES
Sanders Theatre
May 26, 2015
11 o'clock
PROGRAM
CALL TO ORDER
INVOCATION
Ann Pearson
President ef tlze Clzapter
The Reverend Dr. Lucy Forster-Smith
WELCOME
Ann Pearson
TEACHING PRIZES
Richard Tarrant
Selim Berkel' (Department of Philosophy)
Eddie Kohler (Department of Computer Science)
Jane Unrue (Harvard College Writing Program)
HONORARY MEMBERS
POEMS
Laura Kasischke
"View from Glass Door"
"The Inner \Vorkings"
"The Sweet By-and-By"
'"To Try"
"My Son Makes a Gesture my Mother Used to Make"
TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
Lullaby
arr. Daniel Elder (b. 1986)
ESTRELA E LUA NOVA
Chant
arr. Heitor Villa-Lobos ( 1887-1959)
Tom Conley
HYMN
Evan O'Dorney
Text by Oliver vVendell Holtnes
(Class of2015)
for tlze Celeb"ation at tlze Laying eftILe Comer-Stolle
efHarvard Memorial Hal4 October 6, 1870
NOT with the anguish of hearts that are breaking
Come we as mourners to weep for our dead;
Grief in our breasts has grown weary of aching,
Green is the turf where our tears we have shed.
While o'er their marbles the mosses are creeping,
Stealing each name and its legend away,
Give their proud story to Memory's keeping,
Shrilled in the temple we hallow to-day.
Hushed are their battle-fields, ended their marches,
Deafare their ears to the drum-beat ofmorn,Rise from the sod, ye fair columns and arches!
Tell their bright deeds to the ages unborn!
Emblem and legend lIIay fade from the portal,
Keystone may crumble and pillar may fall;
They were the builders whose work is immortal,
Crowned with the dome that is over us all!
Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, conducted by
Andrew G . Clark, Director of Choral Acti\~ties
Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum
ORATION
"A Thirst For Exploration"
ENVOI
S. Allen Counter
Ann Pearson
COLLEGE HYMN
Samuel Gilman A.B.181
Fair Harvard! Wejoin in thy jubilee throng,
And with blessings surrender thee o'er,
By these festival rites, from the age that is past
To the age that is waiting before.
o relic and type of our ancestors' worth,
That has long kept their memory warm,
First flower of their wilderness! Star of their night!
Calm rising through change and through storm.
Farewell! be thy destinies onward and bright!
To thy children the lesson still give,
With freedom to think, and with patience to bear,
And for Right ever bravely to live.
Let not moss-covered Error moor thee at its side,
As the world on Truth's current glides by.
Be the herald of Light, and the bearer of Love,
Till the stock of the Puritans die.
BENEDICTION
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Reverend Forster-Smith