Sentence examples for commencement about from inspiring English sources

For those who prefer a little less sand in their summer reading, J. Courtney Sullivan's "Commencement," about the misadventures of a gaggle of recent Smith graduates, enters the extended list at No. 23, while Kate Walbert's "Short History of Women," reviewed on the cover of the Book Review last month, hits No. 30.

Commencement is about the students and their successes, and it is not about me".

"I don't think anyone has ever tried to do this from anywhere even close to her perch," said Debora L. Spar, president of Barnard College, who invited Ms. Sandberg to deliver a May 2011 commencement address about gender in the workplace that caught fire online.

The best of Sheryl Sandberg's powerful UC Berkeley commencement speech about dealing with her husband's death.

What have two famous commencement speakers said about the role of failure in their lives?

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).

Correction: May 30, 2000, Tuesday An article on Sunday about commencement at Bard misstated the college's age in some copies.

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).

All those things which commencement speakers talk about — personal growth, critical-thinking skills, intellectual exploration, breadth of learning — will survive at the top institutions, but other colleges will come under increased pressure to adopt the model of trade schools.

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.