Sentence examples for commencement speaking from inspiring English sources

The Georgetown controversy has generated the most outrage since the University of Notre Dame gave an honorary degree and a commencement speaking slot to President Obama three years ago.

In her college commencement address, Hillary Clinton spoke for a generation.

This is Hillary Clinton's student speech from Wellesley College from 1969, her graduation commencement address.She spoke for a generation.

The then-Hillary Rodham was the first student to ever speak at Wellesley's commencement address.

Rather, they said, they objected to him speaking at commencement.

Last year at Emory, it was announced that Ben Carson, the famed neurosurgeon who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008, would be speaking at commencement.

All year I have been covering "disinvitation season," my organization's term for the annual attempts by students and/or faculty to keep speakers they dislike (commencement or otherwise) from speaking on campus.

The "but speaking at commencement is an honor" argument is also a red herring, as it relies on the idea that in order to be a commencement speaker, a university has to agree with everything you have said, which is, again, impossible.

The heart of his argument was that while he believes in supporting freedom of speech -- everyone says that, by the way, just before they tell you what their exception is... and it's usually a doozy -- Maher should be disinvited because speaking at commencement is an "honor" and inviting Maher implies that the college "endorses" Maher's point of view on this issue.

He is the first Republican to speak at Howard since Colin Powell delivered the commencement address almost 20 years ago.

Nora Ephron spoke so eloquently about this in her commencement address at Wellesley in 1996 (as Jessica Goldstein reminds us here).