commencement

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Japan has already eased norms on masks, allowing maskless speeches in parliament and permitting schools to decide whether to require them at commencement ceremonies this month.

From Reuters

“Our policy is based on an historical vision of America’s role,” Mr. Carter said while delivering the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame in 1977.

From Washington Times

Ranchers also contend that the operation violates government regulations, and that a roundup is supposed to be conducted before the commencement of shooting.

From Washington Times

President Lyndon B. Johnson expanded the concept to address compensation for past inequity in a landmark commencement speech at Howard University in 1965.

From New York Times

Some years ago I gave a college commencement address entitled “Don’t Be Realistic.”

From Scientific American