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St. John’s College Commencement Speeches

2 addresses catalogued from 2003, with links to original sources, videos, transcripts, summaries, and visual speech maps where available.

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№ 2003.007

Lewis Lapham

St. John’s College / 2003

Lapham argues that the humanities are necessities rather than luxuries, essential for guiding a technological society and for sustaining democracy. He devotes much of the address to a tribute to his late editor and me...

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№ 2003.006

Lewis Lapham

St. John’s College / 2003

Field: letters

Lapham argues that the humanities are necessities rather than luxuries, essential to giving direction to technological power and cultivating self-reliant, curious minds. He illustrates the meaning of humanism through...

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Lewis Lapham

Field: letters / Speaker / Class of 2003

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Lewis Lapham

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