DT
PT
Subscribe To Print Edition About The Tribune Code Of Ethics Download App Advertise with us Classifieds
search-icon-img
search-icon-img
Advertisement

Tom Hanks says 'truth is sacred' during his keynote speech at Harvard University

ANI Massachusetts, May 26 Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks has received an honorary doctor of arts degree from Harvard University. Hanks, 66, appeared at Harvard University to deliver a commencement address to graduating students in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday,...
  • fb
  • twitter
  • whatsapp
  • whatsapp
Advertisement

ANI

Massachusetts, May 26

Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks has received an honorary doctor of arts degree from Harvard University.

Advertisement

Hanks, 66, appeared at Harvard University to deliver a commencement address to graduating students in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, People reported.

The Ivy League school conferred an honorary doctorate of arts upon the actor as he joked that he had received the degree “without having done a lick of work, without having spent any time in class, without once walking into that library.”

Advertisement

“I don’t know much about Latin, I have no real passion for enzymes, and public global policy is something I scan in the newspaper just before I do the Wordle,” he joked to graduates as he spoke at Harvard Yard’s Tercentenary Theatre, before urging students to stand up against the “indifference of a people who have been made weary by struggle.” “Indifference makes citizens into indentured servants held in labor by the despots and tyrants whose default setting is cynicism, who outlawed dissent and ban art and dialogue and books,” Hanks said, during a speech filled with references to Superman and other superheroes.

Here are pictures from the ceremony:

“Every day, every year, and for every graduating class, there is a choice to be made,” Hanks told the graduating class. “It’s the same option for all grown-ups who have to decide to be one of three types of Americans: those who embrace liberty and freedom for all, those who won’t or those who are indifferent. Only the first do the work of creating a more perfect union, a nation indivisible. The others get in the way.” During Hanks’ appearance at the university, Harvard also gave him a Harvard-branded volleyball in reference to his 2000 movie Cast Away.

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
tlbr_img1 Home tlbr_img2 Opinion tlbr_img3 Classifieds tlbr_img4 Videos tlbr_img5 E-Paper