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
Harvard held its first in-person commencement exercises since 2019 on Thursday for the Class of 2022, with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden delivering the keynote speech.
From Seattle Times • May 29, 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 college commencement exercises were held in the Central Church, on the "Green," and all the schools, male and female, were well represented in the large audience.
From 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West by Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark
