Other speeches included two Harvard Orations—one by Nicholas R. Smith ’04, on the subject of truth, and one by Jennifer N. Hawkins ’04 titled “On Being a Harvard Class.”
Two lighthearted Ivy Orations did their best to warm the audience up for Ali G’s tone.
Leila A. Strachan ’04 spoke of the future, while Colin K. Jost ’04—the former president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—delivered an often-inaccurate disquisition on the history of Class Day, inexplicably deeming himself “arguably more powerful than Larry Summers, physically.”
Jost, whose appearance was heralded by a boom-boxed rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” concluded his ramble with a profound, and profoundly funny, observation.
“Anyway, I guess my point is, we’re immortal,” Jost pronounced.
—Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu.