Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021: Virtual university-wide graduation ceremony

A virtual celebration honoring the Harvard Class of 2021 held on Thursday, May 27, 2021. For more information visit Conferring of Honorary Degrees photo credits:

Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021: Fair Harvard. Lyrics to ""Fair Harvard"" Fair Harvard! we join 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 hast long kept their memory warm, First flow’r of their wilderness! Star of their night! Calm rising thro’ change and thro’ 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 stars in the firmament die. [Revised 2018] Samuel Gilman, Class of 1811 New last line by Janet Pascal, A.B.’84

Harvard Provost Alan Garber along with the deans of each Harvard School confer the degrees in a virtual ceremony honoring the Class of 2021 on May 27, 2021.