Harvard Commencement Day coverage from dawn to dusk
Live: Harvard University Commencement: Afternoon Program beginning around 2 p.m. EST First, at Memorial Church, a reminder of what’s been and what can be As is tradition, Commencement morning began with a service in Memorial Church and remarks by Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the church’s Pusey Minister. Umbrellas and plastic ponchos were as ubiquitous among the graduating seniors in the pews as cellphones were. The seniors sang along with the hymns and replied to the responsive reading, letting out an occasional chuckle at some of the reading’s more fiery rhetoric. At the at the Memorial Church, the Rev. Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the church’s Pusey Minister, continued the tradition of a morning service on Commencement Day. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer Walton said the seniors are part of a millennial generation defined by contradictions. Many were raised by helicopter parents who structured “every minute”...