From: titlecharacter	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:03 am (UTC)		(Link)

I'm sorry, but my reaction was, first and foremost,

"Dude! President Faust!"

	From: boutell	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:17 am (UTC)		(Link)

I dungeddit. I lack erudition.

	From: titlecharacter	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:26 am (UTC)		(Link)

Dude from German legend appearing in two or three gazillion plays, paintings, operas, poems, etc, etc, who makes a pact with the Devil for worldly power.

I was mostly amused by the name in relation to the fancy-and-literate-and-stuff Harvard; imagine if, say, MIT had a President Solo or something.

	From: boutell	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:28 am (UTC)		(Link)

Oh oh oh that's the actual name of the President of Harvard. Okay. I do know generally who Faust is, I just thought there was some indirect reference in her speech that I utterly failed to grasp!

	From: madcaptenor	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:37 am (UTC)		(Link)

I knew that, and I still did a double-take. President Faust sounds like they could be an obscure character in a Harry Potter book.

	From: glaucon	Date: June 6th, 2008 03:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	odd side note

Faust was the name of my junior high school.

	From: alice_at_night	Date: June 6th, 2008 11:31 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: odd side note

is that why you're not ageing like the rest of us?

	From: madcaptenor	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:40 am (UTC)		(Link)

MIT did have a Vice-President Bush. (No relation to the chimpanzee.)

	From: mrlich	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:00 pm (UTC)		(Link)

"No relation to the chimpanzee."

*snerk*

	From: superplin	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:31 am (UTC)		(Link)

What a good speech! My own commencement had two speakers, husband and wife. I don't remember their names or what they said, so I was right there with her opening bits as well.

	From: qwrrty	Date: June 6th, 2008 02:49 am (UTC)		(Link)

What a magnificent address.

From: avantbard	Date: June 6th, 2008 04:03 am (UTC)		(Link)

Shit. Now I have to start reading her books.