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Bill Gates, Harvard’s most successful dropout, will finally receive a degree from the University when he delivers the keynote Commencement address for newly minted graduates on June 7.
The chairman and former chief executive of Microsoft, which he began before leaving Harvard in 1975, Gates parlayed a knack for computer science into the world’s largest fortune. He has committed the bulk of that wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, his leading philanthropic organization...
Harvard officials, who planned to announce the selection today, said Gates will speak in Tercentenary Theatre on the afternoon of Commencement, the annual graduation ceremony. He will also receive an honorary degree from the University, said Jack P. Reardon ’60, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
Gates moved into Wigglesworth Hall A-11 in 1973. He preferred poker to problem sets, rarely attended class, ran into trouble with the Administrative Board, and dropped out in his sophomore year.
“Steve and I would pay very little attention to our classes and then furiously inhale the key books just before an exam,” Gates recalled in a 1995 autobiography. A member of the Fox Club, Gates has said he was as a loner at Harvard...