Sentence examples for commencement exercise from inspiring English sources

He told the stories often: about the time his family was ejected from a train for not moving from the colored section; of being crammed into a hot, packed segregated train car returning from a commencement exercise in 1945, while four or five white men lounged in the otherwise empty car behind it.

The degrees will be awarded in regular commencement exercises.

(He will also speak at the commencement exercises at Yale and the United States Naval Academy).

Tomorrow Harvard's many communities will come together for the university's 351st commencement exercises.

In 1993, Brooklyn College awarded him an honorary doctorate of humane letters at its commencement exercises.

She did so well that she was named the class speaker at commencement exercises in 2009.

Then, with a cease-fire in place and calm returning to the capital, commencement exercises were set.

At commencement exercises at the University of CT in 1999, he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws, "honoris causa".

By Mark Singer Though not quite a contact sport, commencement exercises can arouse free-floating anxieties and conjure improbable perils.

Though not quite a contact sport, commencement exercises can arouse free-floating anxieties and conjure improbable perils.

As Salutatorian of my class, I gave a speech at our commencement exercises urging that the United States enter World War II on the side of Great Britain.