Sentence examples for about commencement from inspiring English sources
Correction: May 30, 2000, Tuesday An article on Sunday about commencement at Bard misstated the college's age in some copies.
Read about commencement speeches by Jay McInerney and Margaret Atwood in Part I. (Photograph of John Grisham Dan Searss. Video still of Sue Monk Kidd: Scripps College).
Assembled readers, fellow bloggers, distinguished friends … First, let me say what a great honour it is to have been asked to write this blogpost about commencement speeches.
I'm not telling anyone to do anything or refrain from doing anything on the basis of some suspect philosophical notion, whether it be multiculturalism or postmodernism or cultural relativism (terms absent from my previous column about commencement).
Below, more quick activity ideas, as well as links to Times articles and interactive graphics about commencement addresses from 1901 to 2013, and some Learning Network lesson plans on related topics like the purpose of college, the usefulness of commencement speech advice, and more.
Below that, we've added links to Times articles and interactive graphics about commencement addresses from 1901 to 2012, as well as some Learning Network lesson plans on related topics like the purpose of college, the usefulness of commencement speech advice, and more.
A friend in Boston writes about some commencement addresses given in the vicinity of that city.
By Paul Brodeur The New Yorker, June 27 , 1983P. 25 A friend in Boston writes about some commencement addresses given in the vicinity of that city.
By George W. S. Trow The New Yorker, July 23, 1973 P. 23 Talk story about the commencement of plans for a big new hotel in Times Square.
Talk story about the commencement address by Father Daniel Berrigan, to the 127th graduating class of Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.
An article on Sunday about college commencement addresses and a roundup of excerpts referred incorrectly to a speech by Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations.
