Sentence examples for commencement next week from inspiring English sources

As we approach this year's Harvard commencement next week, now seems an opportune moment to compare cinematic Harvard with the real thing.

The local premiere of a solo, "Commencement" (1995), benefits from Ms. Childs's star presence.

"Michelle Obama came to our commencement last year, and she said something that I thought was very compelling.

She will speak at Trinity's commencement May 16. "I was delighted when Trinity asked me," she said.

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The College of New Jersey in Ewing started ripping up the surface of its football field last week and hopes to lay down lead-free turf before commencement next month.

Minutes before New School University's commencement yesterday at Radio City Music Hall, Bob Kerrey, the former senator turned university president, was perched on a windowsill, garbed in a black academic robe.

The acclaimed comedian and author and the longtime principal of St. Margaret Mary Elementary School in the Bronx were among those who received honorary doctorates at Fordham's 156th commencement yesterday.

The award, which she received from a faculty committee at commencement last Sunday, is $54,266 and named for Sophie Kerr, a pioneering female journalist and author.

But as rain poured down during the university's commencement today, graduates and their families were more worried about being poked by umbrellas than about being attacked.

She described her career and her decision to go after the Hewlett-Packard job most eloquently at the Stanford University commencement last year.