Had the pandemic bankrupted suppliers-from whom Harvard rents tens of thousands of chairs, hundreds of tables, and dozens of tents for all the festivities-or left them short-staffed? Would logistics snafus and crimped supply chains interrupt the best-laid plans? With a nod to the coronavirus’s lingering effect, the seniors’ Baccalaureate service moved outside from Memorial Church (as did their Thursday morning “chapel” service-hence, no longer in a chapel): a reflection of the swollen size of the class of 2022, as undergraduates who took leave during the virtual-learning semesters returned to campus. Following the brief 2020 online version, cobbled together quickly after COVID-19 closed the campus and stalked society at large, and the more expansive-but still virtual-2021 edition, Commencement organizers could be forgiven if their muscle memory needed a little oiling. The 371 st Commencement, by the University tally, attests to the expertise an institution nearing its four-hundredth anniversary has accumulated in mastering ways to send its students off with a bang.īut pulling off this morning’s iteration involved much more than dusting off a familiar playbook.
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Beyond doubt, Harvard knows how to stage awesome graduations-not just the spectacle of the Commencement exercises in Tercentenary Theatre, but the class days, House and school celebrations, and more.
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