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Join me live @BrownUniversity as I deliver the Commencement Oration to 2022 graduates and receive an honorary doctorate degree.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022
Meter is central to the final section of the exhibition, “Repeat After Me ... Oration and Recitation.”
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016
He will receive a stipend of $18,500 per year and an additional $60 to make the Creweian Oration to thank the university’s benefactors, a speech traditionally delivered in Latin.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2015
I would dearly have loved to find a home for Bridge's late masterpiece for cello and orchestra, Oration, and the remarkable third and fourth string quartets.
From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2011
“It may not have been a Great Oration, but at least there was plenty of it,” she thought with pride as she trotted toward the chicken coop.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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