commencement speeches

The Best Commencement Speeches of 2017

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Read President Obama's Commencement Address to Howard University

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Jim Carrey Tells Graduates: Don't Play It Safe

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Let Motown Be Your Commencement Speaker

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This Is the Only Commencement Speech Anybody Needs to Hear Ever

There’s been a lot of hoopla over commencement season this year. Protests have sent some would-be speakers packing in a huff. And, at the moment, many people (on the island of Manhattan anyway) are wondering...

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Grad Speaker Calls Out Students for Protest

William Bowen, a former Princeton University president, criticized Haverford College students who rallied against a former University of California, Berkeley chancellor as their speaker because of his management of a 2011 protest that led to police force

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Caving on Commencement Speakers Is Censorship, Not Scholarship

Christine Lagarde withdrew as Smith College's commencement speaker under student pressure, but a true “marketplace of ideas” must be open to hearing from people from different walks of life, professions, experiences and philosophical and political points of view.

By Greg Lukianoff

The Best Advice for New Grads From People Who Will Never (Again) Be Invited to Speak at Your Graduation

If only these people had followed their own words of wisdom.

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