It's difficult for commencement speakers to avoid resorting to clichés on these occasions.
First let me report that, after a difficult spring, the Duke Commencement this year was particularly wonderful.
What Darvay's monograph newly argues is that this difficult literary form signals modernity's commencement.
Once parties have begun to trade blows by the filing of preliminary proxy materials and other pre-commencement materials, it becomes more difficult to settle, and settlements after the mailing of the definitive proxy materials are rarer still.
As genres of writing go, commencement addresses must be one of the most difficult to do well, or, at least, with any originality.
— Macy Halford As genres of writing go, commencement addresses must be one of the most difficult to do well, or, at least, with any originality.
By Macy Halford August 12, 2008 As genres of writing go, commencement addresses must be one of the most difficult to do well, or, at least, with any originality.
It would have been difficult to find a more fitting speaker for Vassar College's Class of 2000 commencement than Geraldine Laybourne, a former student who helped turn Vassar into a co-educational school and is among the most powerful women in television.
The class of 2009 — God and Geithner help them — is graduating into an unusually brutal economy, which means that the commencement speakers called upon to wish these students well confront an unusually difficult challenge.
These issues are not too difficult to address and it is possible that the time from onset of symptoms to commencement of therapy could be reduced to about two weeks.
Rain on Commencement Day?
