Sentence examples for a commencement speaker from inspiring English sources

Koch was a commencement speaker.

"This is not Williams College students electing a commencement speaker.

A call for Chuck Berry to be a commencement speaker.

Yale does not usually have a commencement speaker.

"That's the last thing you want to say to a commencement speaker," Kushner said.

An honors graduate, Mr. Palmer was chosen as a commencement speaker.

That is the time, usually early in the spring, when students and faculty get together to demand that an invited guest speaker--usually a commencement speaker--be disinvited, because the students or faculty members disagree with something that speaker did, said, or believes.

It was the last time a student spoke after a visiting commencement speaker.

We have research from the department of psychology at Harvard that if a college commencement speaker drones on for more than 15 minutes, only about a quarter of students continue to pay attention; another quarter drift off to sleep; and the other half — these being undergraduates — engage in sexual fantasies.

As early as 1885, a Lucy Cobb commencement speaker argued that women ought to be allowed into more professions.

Often, colleges shed light on the important nature of graduation with the invitation of a keynote commencement speaker.