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Harvard Graduation Speech About Star Wars - In Latin!

Posted By Dustin on June 10, 2007

Fan of TheForce.net "skydog" writes in with a cool graduation story.

"Just wanted to give you guys the tip, my wife graduated from Harvard this morning, and the first of the three student speeches was the annual Latin salutatory (apparently a tradition dating back to the first Harvard commencement in 1642, when of course they studied a heck of a lot more Latin). The speaker, a senior graduating with his bachelor's, gave a speech - in Latin! - titled "John Harvard, Jedi Knight." He was an excellent, animated speaker, and his speech was hilarious - most especially because of the Latin translations of Star Wars (aka, bellis stellaria) terms. The program included transcripts of both the Latin and English translations - I'll try to send them along later. He even wrote R2-D2 as RII-DII in the Latin translation!

I couldn't help but laugh, since today was my birthday and I had been joking with people that all of Harvard would be celebrating my birthday today. Apparently, they really did know I was coming, and that I'm a Star Wars nut!"


Cool story Skydog! Oh yeah Happy Birthday too!

UPDATE: Slashdot has a post on the speech and even mentions this article here on TheForce.Net. Click here to check out their write up and for links to a story at the Harvard University Gazette Online and to a video




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