Sentence examples for commencement comments from inspiring English sources
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So perhaps it's not surprising that I find fault — and a disingenuous slant — in a major chief executive's recent commencement comments.
In her first public comments after her departure she gave a commencement address at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and struck a lighthearted tone.
Then in November, students at the University of California, Berkeley, attempted to block Bill Maher from speaking at their winter commencement over his past comments about Muslims.
In a rare show of administrative honesty, a spokeswoman at Barnard in 1979 commented on the commencement address: "There's a highly ceremonial value in it, but there is increasing p.r. value - otherwise why do they ask Muhammad Ali and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?" (Celebrities do change with the years). The choice of commencement speakers tends to reflect the news and the national mood.
Benjamin Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon and conservative icon, dropped out as a commencement speaker last month at Johns Hopkins University after students protested comments he'd made lumping together homosexuality, pedophilia and bestiality.
Indeed, his comments were an intentional echo of a commencement address he delivered at the same place, Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, eight years earlier.
A similar petition followed Bethune-Cookman University's announcement that DeVos ― who has made controversial comments about HBCUs ― would be the commencement keynote speaker.
Such comments contrast sharply with the mood at commencement time, when extraordinarily talented and well-prepared graduates step timidly out into a world with few jobs and little hope.
Now, whenever May and June roll around, and one or two commencement speeches go viral, I permit myself to read the comments.
Conservative favorite Ben Carson said he's willing to step down as Johns Hopkins University's commencement speaker after students protested his selection when he made controversial comments about same-sex marriage.
