{"id":17,"date":"2006-06-09T00:26:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2006\/06\/09\/graduation-wow\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T23:30:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T03:30:36","slug":"graduation-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2006\/06\/09\/graduation-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation–Wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/font>It is said the day of Harvard graduation always rains. Were it true, the past day was a pretty friendly day. Though it was raining all day, at least it neither soaked us nor disturbed us\u00a0in listening to President Summers’ solemn claim of our graduation. Rather, it did some good for the\u00a0marching process. Because the rain limited the range\u00a0that lawyers would usually be, it made small clusters among the slowly marching crowd. Personally I think it is a better environment for having a good talk than the class day party two days ago. \u00a0\u00a0 After the lentitude\u00a0and enjoyable\u00a0marching, we finally reached the Tercentenary Theatre, which was\u00a0actually an open area\u00a0(what an odd name!). For the first time I saw so many Harvard students together. Robust, noisy and ambitious. A symbol of such features were the KSG students’ holding a small globe (It is a Harvard tradition for the schools to hold something in the air at the time their degrees are conferred). It was so vivid for the perspective, prospect and pride\u00a0of Harvard students. \u00a0I was holding a toy gavel. A little bit tedious.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 \"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/features\/heythisisawesome\/images\/2006\/06\/060609_riverscuomo.jpg\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Our first speaker\u00a0presented a lecture in Latin, which I had no clue to understand through listening.\u00a0With the help of a wet booklet, I got a rough idea of\u00a0its content. It\u00a0traced the tradition of Harvard to Rome, which\u00a0I think is\u00a0ridiculous. Rome\u00a0did not create much academic prestige in the Western tradition. In no aspect of academic achievements could it be compared with the Greek golden time.\u00a0Plus it showed no respect to the\u00a0knowledge or academia.\u00a0Archimedes was killed by Roman soldiers. There is no reason for an academic institute to lift up such a name.\u00a0Another funny thing\u00a0was the president’s word “you still haven’t done yet”. When the\u00a0dean of Education School asked for conferring, the students began to shout with enthusiasm, before the words of the president. So he said “you still haven’t done yet”. Intimidating, isn’t it? What if the next words were “by virtue of the authority delegated to me, because of your improper manner in commencement, you are required to stay for one more year”? \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <\/span>\u00a0\"http:\/\/tk.files.storage.msn.com\/x1pxOYwqu4SjF737OT_xMtIbsFuQlGVN7bFVsI9q2vIRqEvieVpFnVgEFe6mgINccPwkXIQi4uIrld0of0x03y6wNKHwO-mz3gmW1jo39RQgHCTuio64exPphkYxmPTe5ZQiYlRfPgcACLJ2VMXS3L9gXKpL4UcvawJ\"<\/span><\/span>After everything finished in the Tercentenary Theatre, we left\u00a0for the Holmes\u00a0Field for the Law School\u00a0ceremony.\u00a0Betsy\u00a0Baker, our International Legal Study director, impressed everyone by her clear and exact pronunciation of all the names of LL.M.s. Bill Alford joined Dean Kagen to confer my certificate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <\/span>We’ve all done! \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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