Tom Hanks’ Honorary Harvard Diploma Proves He’s in a League of His Personal

It is a good looking day within the neighborhood to obtain a Harvard diploma—simply ask Tom Hanks.

The Oscar winner was granted an honorary doctorate of arts at Harvard College on Could 25 earlier than taking to the rostrum because the 2023 Graduation speaker.

Whereas talking, Tom joked that—in contrast to the graduates earlier than him—he had obtained his diploma “with out having accomplished a lick of labor, with out having spent any time in school, with out as soon as strolling into that library,” per People.

“I do not know a lot about Latin,” Tom continued at Harvard Yard’s Tercentenary Theatre, “I’ve no actual ardour for enzymes, and public world coverage is one thing I scan within the newspaper simply earlier than I do the Wordle.”

Asides from the jokes, Tom, who studied at Chabot School and California State College, Sacramento, delivered a robust message about resisting the “indifference of a individuals who have been made weary by battle.”