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A graduation is the awarding of a diploma by an educational institution. [1] [2] It may also refer to the ceremony that is associated with it, which can also be called commencement, congregation, convocation or invocation. The date of the graduation ceremony is often called graduation day. Graduates can be referred to by their year of graduation.
"Our fathers ... closely associated the thirst for learning and that for beer", a 1924 Harvard history observed, [5] so that (a modern survey continued) the sheriffs' presence at Commencements "has a practical origin. Feasting, drinking, and merrymaking at earlier commencements often got out of hand.
Portrait of DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale. DeWitt Clinton, a future Governor of New York and presidential candidate was 1786 salutatorian . The 1786 commencement was the university's first commencement after its re-founding as Columbia College following the American Revolution, and was held on April 11 of that year in St. Paul's Chapel.
The parents and students of the class of 2009 in Centerburg, Ohio held their own unofficial graduation ceremony at the local park when the school board decided to cancel the official graduation ceremony, in response to a cheating scandal, [14] even though only one person out of the entire 97-student graduating class was ever proven guilty of ...
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The service is held within a couple weeks of the graduation/commencement ceremony, perhaps on a Sunday before, the day preceding, or immediately preceding the graduation. Speakers selected tend to be community leaders, faculty members, students, or local religious leaders, and may be elected by the graduating class.
Garner, for her part, shared her tearful reaction to daughter Violet’s high school graduation via Instagram. The emotional post earned many reactions from A-lis Stars Whose Kids Graduated in ...
Passing out is the official graduation ceremony following the completion of a course by military or other uniformed service personnel at their respective training school, college, or military academy, largely in Commonwealth nations. [1] Soldiers, sailors, or airmen take part in a passing out military parade upon completion of a basic training ...