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The last on-campus commencement was held on Friday, May 28, 1993. Antonia C. Novello, US Surgeon General, [18] was the commencement speaker; she and Andrzej Wiszniewski, the Rector of the Technical University of Wrocław, were also awarded honorary doctorates at the ceremony.
Academic dress at Harvard is most often worn at a Commencement, as well as on Class Day, and for Harvard University graduands, academic dress is required for admittance to the Commencement ceremony. Before the 1950s, tradition also held that Harvard College seniors as well as members of the graduate schools would wear gowns after May 1.
It could be argued that candid photography is the purest form of photojournalism. There is a fine line between photojournalism and candid photography, a line that was blurred by photographers such as Bresson and Weegee. Photojournalism often sets out to tell a story in images, whereas candid photography simply captures people living an event.
More than 6,700 students will graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill on Saturday at the university’s annual spring commencement ceremony — and the university says the event will now have additional ...
On May 6, Columbia University in New York announced they were canceling their main commencement ceremony over security concerns related to the protests on campus, a university official told NBC News.
The school's first commencement ceremony took place in 1892 and was a very low-key affair. [2] It was not until 1899 that a student at Stanford convinced her classmates to wear caps and gowns at the annual graduation ceremony. [3] They remained the only ones to use academic dress until 1903 when eight law graduates adopted it. [4]
The shooting occurred during the graduation for Des Moines' Roosevelt High School and caused a chaotic scene, according to police. Hundreds of people began running outside of the Knapp Center.
The school's football field, which borders the shoreline, is named after the school's first principal, Raymond Torii. The school's annual commencement ceremony is usually held there. The campus boasts the sculptures Kuikahi by Eli Marozzi and Four Valleys by Ken Shutt.