It happened by accident last year that Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless shelter and job-training center, held its graduation on the same day as Harvard's. But this year director Erik Payne Butler scheduled his ceremony last Thursday on purpose--a reminder, he says, that his graduates should be as celebrated as those folks across the Charles River. And there was an added juxtaposition this year: at Pine Street the keynote speaker was former Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Harvard welcomed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak to alums and graduates. The two men have very different views of the economy....
Harvard vs. the School Of Hard Knocks
Two graduations the same day are poles apart in privilege but on a par in spirit
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