<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: News :: J. K. Rowling To Speak at Commencement</p>
<p>Let's just say I'm glad I'm not graduating this year. I hope they find someone more appropriate next year. </p>
<p>I love her books as much as the next person...but come on.</p>
<p>Lol! Harold Bloom would be furious!
Thank god he's at Yale! :p</p>
<p>I wouldn't be so quick to judge. Her books are the most popular in recent history and have been read in hundreds of different languages. On top of that, she has turned on thousands of children to reading. True, she may not be the most important or interesting person they could have chosen, but she isn't inappropriate for the ceremony.</p>
<p>I don't like her books, but I'd love to hear her speech. I think she's one of the world's most interesting people. In fact, I may go to my upcoming reunion just to hear her!</p>
<p>I think that Margaret Mead spoke when I graduated. I have no idea what she said. Now, if someone like JK Rowling had spoken, I would have listened!</p>
<p>Almost makes me want to be a Harvard undergrad!</p>
<p>Will she comment on which house is the best? ;)</p>
<p>"Almost makes me want to be a Harvard undergrad!"</p>
<p>Exactly.........!!!</p>
<p>Same here. Soon enough we'll form a...Harvard Potter fanclub? :P</p>
<p>"Not Slytherin, not Slytherin"!</p>
<p>OMG that is so cool! I think it is obvious from my username that I am a huge HP fan, so I may be a bit biased, but no one should underestimate the contibutions she has made to the world. She got so many people reading and has one of the largest fan bases in literature, plus she will make a great commencement speaker.</p>
<p>Are random people outside the Harvard community allowed to go to commencement? I really want to hear her speak!</p>
<p>Daughter is graduating this year, so it looks like I'll get to see her speak.</p>
<p>Better her than Paris Hilton.</p>
<p>Hi, I am applying as transfer to Harvard.
just wandering when they ask in the supplement what alternatives to Harvard are you considering? what exactly are they looking for? </p>
<p>also what book has influenced you the most? If I have tons of books that has influenced me so far ,should I pick a famous book, a book that was written in a different language, can the book be non fiction and like a poetry book too </p>
<p>also Do you think it's better to apply as a spring transfer or a fall transfer for harvard?</p>
<p>Oh man, that is so COOL. I'd LOVE to go to this! Too bad my reunion's not until next year.</p>
<p>We had Alan Greenspan...meh. He was a big deal in 1999, but still.</p>
<p>A lot more fun than Solzhenitsyn ranting about the Decline of the West. I wonder why the text is on a Columbia website? Solzhenitsyn's</a> Harvard Address</p>
<p>hey, for all of you who wish you could go to this:</p>
<p>I found out that Harvard posts videos of its commencements online, so we'll all be able to hear her speak.</p>
<p>I wish I could hear her too!</p>
<p>Did solzhenitsyn really read that long address? That must have taken forever....</p>
<p>Oh yes, it was boring, but also incredibly irritating. I really would have liked something a little more positive. Sure the West has problems, but surely it was still lots better than Soviet Russia.</p>
<p>"Better her than Paris Hilton"</p>
<p>[coughs] I can't believe it: Paris versus J.K.Rowling. I might be biased since I'm a big fan of the HP series, but still...</p>
<p>I'd say that anyone who can go from being on welfare to being one of the richest women in Great Britain should be interesting to listen to.</p>
<p>At least I'd remember who spoke at graduation...When I graduated from college, the president of CBS spoke--I couldn't remember either his name or what he said.</p>