Sentence examples similar to commencement decades from inspiring English sources

The first decade of the 21st century saw the commencement of the $1.3 billion Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, the largest capital fundraising campaign in the college's history, which surpassed $1 billion in 2008.

Second decade.

Reid got his law degree, but he made this bitter anecdote the centerpiece of a commencement speech he gave at G.W. decades later.

He said he reminded the school's new graduates in his speech at commencement on Friday that just a few decades ago, chefs were not held in esteem.

One shelf resisted my efforts, but then broke free — and that's when two little flashes of blue, mislaid for decades, dropped to the kitchen floor: "Smith College Commencement 1914 President's Reception".

For her senior project, she paints a series of subversive portraits of the school's heads and is blocked from graduating, but decades later she is invited back to give a commencement address.

estimated costs were $13.4 billion with commencement of operations estimated to be in 2022 and about 3 decades of operation.

In the spring of '72, Bishop remained in Cambridge rather than return to Brazil, to work on "The Moose," a poem that had been "hanging in air" for decades, and which she would deliver at the Phi Beta Kappa initiation ceremony at Commencement in June, one of the most prestigious invitations a poet could receive (Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Auden were among her predecessors).

He is a graduate of Yale Law School.

In 1850, the City Council granted the Board of School Commissioners the right to confer graduates of the decade old high school with certificates of graduation, and the following year the school held its first commencement ceremony.

Rain on Commencement Day?