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2021 Commencement

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Guests each graduating senior was permitted to have in attendance at the Memorial Field ceremony June 13

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Literary prizes won by Commencement speaker Annette Gordon-Reed ’81, including a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in history. She’s a law scholar and historian at Harvard.

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Honorary degrees awarded. The recipients: Moses Pendleton 71 of Pilobolus and Momix dance companies; Ernest J. Moniz, a former U.S. secretary of energy; N. Scott Momaday, a poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist; Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy (and last year’s speaker); Louise Gluck, Nobel-winning poet and essayist; and Roger W. Ferguson Jr., a former president of TIAA

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Food items permitted at the ceremony. Water bottles were allowed.

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Days of quarantine required prior to entering Memorial Field for guests coming from outside of New England who are not fully vaccinated

$800 Cost of a hotel room for one night in Hanover during Commencement weekend