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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an award-winning novelist and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2015, called on graduating seniors to pursue the truth and use the power of their Harvard degrees to change the world at the College’s Class Day exercises Wednesday.
Adichie, who served as a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2011, interspersed her message about the importance of honesty with jokes about whether Harvard was better than Yale—where she attended graduate school—as well as what she called the “grand snobbery sweepstakes” of elite American institutions of higher education.
“If I were asked the title of my address to you today, I would say ‘above all else, do not lie.’ Or, ‘don’t lie too often.’ Which is really to say, tell the truth. But lying—the word, the idea, the act—has such political potency in American today that it somehow feels more apt,” she said...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/5/24/adichie-college-class-day-address/
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