Best-selling author and Princeton alumnus Michael Lewis speaks to graduating seniors at Princeton University's 265th Baccalaureate ceremony in the University Chapel. Lewis urged seniors to put the opportunities afforded them by a Princeton education to good use.

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Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman welcomes the graduating seniors and asks them to thank the people who helped them through their time at Princeton, including classmates, faculty and family members. "Whether they have joined you for these festivities or are cheering you from afar, their dreams are intertwined with yours," she said.

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Graduating seniors gather near East Pyne before joining the Baccalaureate procession to the University Chapel.

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The procession of graduating seniors begins to make its way through family and friends gathered outside the University Chapel before the service. About 3,500 seniors, family members and friends attended the event.

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Baccalaureate is an interfaith service reflecting the diversity of religious life at Princeton.

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Senior Jonathan Ford Jr. reads from the Bible during the service, which included prayers and readings from several religious and philosophical traditions.

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At the end of the service, seniors wait to join the recession to leave the chapel and rejoin family and friends.

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Kristan Scott (left), Class of 2012, poses for a photo with his father and stepmother outside the University Chapel.

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Erick Kazarian, Class of 2012, lets his cousin Greg Deirmergiun try out his mortar board after the Baccalaureate service.

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