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  2. The Professor's Commencement - Wikipedia

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    Painting is mentioned with Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Fra Angelico, and Elihu Vedder.; Emerson mentions Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Great Stone Face, Tristan and Iseult, John Bunyan's The Holy War, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Rostam and Sohrab, and The Bible, with Mammon and Samson.

  3. Commencement speech - Wikipedia

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    A commencement speech or commencement address is a speech given to graduating students, generally at a university, although the term is also used for secondary education institutions and in similar institutions around the world. The commencement is a ceremony in which degrees or diplomas are conferred upon graduating students. A commencement ...

  4. Wear Sunscreen - Wikipedia

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    Despite a follow-up article by Schmich on August 3, 1997, [8] the story became so widespread that Vonnegut's lawyer began receiving requests to reprint the speech. [7] Vonnegut commented that he would have been proud had the words been his. [7] Schmich published a short gift book adaptation of the essay, Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life ...

  5. Kindergarten teacher's touching speech and song at graduation

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    Kindergarten teacher Jeff Berry gave a touching speech at the Lawrence High School graduation on June 18, recognizing that many of the grads had been part of his kindergarten class when he began ...

  6. 50 Funny Graduation Quotes for the Class of 2022 (Because ...

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    “A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.” -Robert Orben 13.

  7. If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young - Wikipedia

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    Advice to the Young (Seven Stories Press) is a 2013 collection of nine commencement speeches from Kurt Vonnegut, selected and introduced by longtime friend and author Dan Wakefield. [1] After the publication of his novel Slaughterhouse-Five brought him worldwide acclaim in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut became one of America's most popular graduation ...

  8. High school valedictorian delivers poignant graduation speech ...

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    High school class valedictorian Alem Hadzic was unusually somber before delivering his commencement speech on May 16. “People were coming over to wish me luck and I was kind of blowing them off ...

  9. This Is Water - Wikipedia

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    The text originates from a commencement speech Wallace gave at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005. The essay was published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 and in 2009 its format was stretched by Little, Brown and Company to fill 138 pages for a book publication. [1] A transcript of the speech circulated online as early as June 2005. [2]