Star Wars Takes Over Harvard Commencement

An anonymous reader writes "Harvard University celebrated its 356th Commencement on Thursday. It is tradition at Harvard is to have an undergraduate deliver a Latin Salutatory address. This year's speaker, Charles Joseph McNamara, delivered an address all about Star Wars in Latin! TheForce.net has a write-up of the event, and the speaker was really hilarious. He apparently doesn't like Star Wars that much, but it's still awesome. The video is available online, and you too can see him do a Yoda voice and make light-saber motions ... in front of over 30,000 people. The speech is under "Morning Exercises" on the Harvard site. The Latin Oration begins at about 1:09:30."

Harvard again... eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Getting a lot of coverage today, Harvard, aren't ya?

... Hurray for realplayer...

[zCyl]

An address in a dead language available only in a dead video format. I suppose that should be expected...

Like Shakespeare

[Bastard of Subhumani]

I think it lost something in the translation from Klingon.

It's true!

[dbIII]

This silly playacting saying things in latin pretending to be the heirs to Rome when the campus is really turning out barbarians. If you want to look at it another way, in the past barbarians were the clueless management that thought everything could be solved by threats and the farmers were the the technical staff.

Re:... Hurray for realplayer...

[Ash Vince]

I think I am going to start a new religion.

It will be called The Church of the AntiReal. We will be dedicated to driving a certain dead video format even further into the ground, not for any logical reason mind you, then it wouldn't be a proper religious crusade.

Re:"stuff that matters"???

[Asmandeus]

Now that this is cleared up, will you marry me?

Wait, don't run away!

Re:"Lost"?

[sentientbeing]

Youve never heard of 'Lost'?

Where have you been living the last three years. On a desert Island...?

Begins at 1:09:30

[slickwillie]

Shouldn't that be I:IX:XXX?

Obligatory

[maxwell demon]

In Russia consiliae, Lingua Latina TE loquitur!