commencement exercises
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The period covers a critical moment on campuses during finals and commencement exercises.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
“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
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
The newly-founded University of Rochester held its first commencement exercises on the 9th of July.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
