But the work that is called for is the construction of our ‘more perfect union,’” Hanks said. “We all get to complain about The Man, and we all have debts we gotta pay, and we’re all entitled to a day off to lay about. And it’s those humans who are tasked with the job of defending truth and fighting for equality. These are all achievements, he said, that are stellar even though performed by humans.
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Some people know how to fix things some can care for trying children without losing affection for them some understand physics or economics or how to survive on poverty wages and some can graduate from college despite pandemic lockdowns and remote teaching. Our superpowers, though, are of a more mundane variety, he said. And we could use a superhero right now,” Hanks said. “We are all in a cage match, mixed martial arts battle royale with agents of intolerance and braying incompetence, the malevolent equals to Imperial stormtroopers, Lex Luther, and Loki. He pointed out that the battle is ongoing not because the current generation failed to fight it, but because the battle will never be won and yet must be waged. In his remarks, Hanks reflected that sentiment, saying the ongoing struggle for truth and equality for all - the American Way - falls now to the graduates. So, if you believe this world is imperfect, the only way it will get better is if good people like you work to repair it.
“This statement is equally true of liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, and those across the political spectrum. “I have never met anyone who thinks the world we live in is perfect,” Bacow said. And, he said, if they see imperfection in the world, there’s only one way to fix it. It’s time, he said, for the graduates to become nurturers themselves, because with the good fortune of their education comes responsibility. In them, he said students should recognize that their victories are not theirs alone but achieved with the support of friends and families, as well as the invisible hands that built and ran institutions and organizations that have taught and nurtured them along the way. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographerīacow received a standing ovation after delivering the ceremony’s closing remarks. President Larry Bacow with President-elect Claudine Gay, the Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. On the dais with him was Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who will take over as president on July 1. It was his last commencement before he steps down at the end of June after five years of leading the University through often trying, pandemic-marked times. The day was also special for Harvard President Larry Bacow.
Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Katalin Karikó, mRNA researcher whose work underlies two leading COVID-19 vaccines Hugo Morales, who founded the National Latino Public Radio Network and historian David Levering Lewis, whose honorary diploma came with a rendition of “Happy Birthday” to mark a doubly special day for him. Honorary doctorates also went to six recipients: Hanks Jennifer Doudna, who co-discovered the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 Adm. “In the never-ending battle you have all officially joined as of today, the difference is in how truly you believe, in how vociferously you promote, in how tightly you hold onto the truth that is self-evident: that of course we are all created equally yet differently, and of course we are all in this together.” “Every day, every year, and for every graduating class, there is a choice to be made, the same option for all grown-ups to make: to be one of three types of Americans - those who embrace liberty for all, those who won’t, or those who are indifferent - and only the first do the work of creating a more perfect union,” Hanks said.
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