Just a little over 130 years ago, German composer Johannes Brahms wrote a musical thank-you to the University of Breslau, which had awarded him an honorary degree. He called it the "Academic Festival Overture" and with a certain amount of good humor, built the concluding section around the words of a late medieval student song known in Latin as the Gaudeamus lgitur. The words seem right for this day, and as my final words as president, too.

Vivat academia,

Vivant professores!

Vivat academia,

Vivant professors!

Vivant membrum quodlibet,

Vivant membra quaelibet.

Semper sint in flore,

Semper sint in flore!

Long live the academy,

Long live the professors!

Long live the academy,

Long live the professors!

Long live each student,

Long live all the students,

May they always flourish!

May they always flourish!