Veritas

In the curious way he has, our 46th president turned my mind toward Harvard's 384th commencement (assuming there were no years without at least one graduate) the other day. The ceremony has been wonderfully reported by Richard Rodgers, editor of the Harvard Salient who, with conservative tongue in cheek, explains that the Chaplain of the Day opened the exercises with thanks not to God or the eponymous Puritan clergyman but to the Native American tribe upon whose land the graduates were presumed to be standing. And the day was similarly closed by the Rev Matthew Potts, who "as typical throughout the week, ended the proceedings by giving a benediction without once invoking God."

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