commencement exercises
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A week after police arrested nearly 100 protesters at Northeastern University, the school is holding its commencement exercises Sunday at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, for the fourth consecutive year.
From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024
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
In the spring of 1899, about seven years before Colonel Saylor's marriage, Cornwall received an invitation to the commencement exercises of Wellesley and noticed that Mary was named as salutatorian of her class.
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph
