commencement exercises
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“You are and always will be surrounded by bias,” she said during Harvard’s first in-person commencement exercises since 2019.
From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022
During Cal Poly’s virtual commencement exercises last June, Madden received an honorary doctor of science degree.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2021
But the gift also reminded him of so many other students who were not at Sunday’s commencement exercises: the men whose finances forced them to leave Morehouse before graduation.
From New York Times • May 22, 2019
On this date in 1901, the first commencement exercises were held at Northern Arizona Normal School with class of four graduates.
From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2017
Speaking of Phil's graduation, it should be mentioned that she had contributed a ten-minute oration to the commencement exercises, its subject being "The Dogs of Main Street."
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana