Other recipients included architect Frank O. Gehry, Intel Corporation co-founder Andrew S. Grove, attorney Judith R. Hope, philantropist Katherine B. Loker, biologist Maclyn McCarty, civil rights leader and judge Constance Baker Motley, author Kenzaburo Oe, symphony director Seiji Ozawa, liguistics professor Noam Chomsky and physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen.
The ceremony concluded precisely at noon, as church bells in Cambridge rang out to signify the end of the ceremony.
Undergraduates then moved to their house courtyards for smaller ceremonies, where they received their individual diplomas.
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