July 02, 2003
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
BUT THE HARVARD
ALUMNI ENDOWMENT FUND
If you read nothing else online today, read this transcript of Will Ferrell's speech at Harvard's Class Day 2003 commencement (an event the night before graduation).
Here's an excerpt:
Make no mistake, Harvard University is one of the finest in the land. And its graduates are that fine as well. You're young men and women whose exuberance exude a confident confidence of a bygone era. I believe it was Shakespeare who said it best when he said, "Look yonder into the darkness for knowledge onto which I say go onto that which thou possess into thy night for thee have come with only a single sword and vanquished thee into darkness."
I'm going to be honest with you, I just made that up. But I don't know how to delete it from the computer. Tomorrow's graduation day speaker is former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo. Ernie's a good man, a deeply religious man, and one of the original members of the Latino boy band Menudo. So listen up to Ernie. He was at the beginning of the whole boy band explosion.
Via Paul Katcher.