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As of 2024, [6] each degree candidate attends two ceremonies: the Morning Exercises, at which degrees are conferred verbally en masse; a smaller midday ceremony (at the candidate's professional or graduate school, or undergraduate House) at which diplomas are given in hand.
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.
The graduation ceremony for the first class (numbering five graduates) took place on October 1, 1851, in the old South Congregational Church. [4] Commencements continued to be held off-campus until 1885. No ceremonies were held in 1868 or 1869, as the school's operations had been suspended by state officials.
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.
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It aired during the COVID-19 pandemic, which had led to the general cancellation of in-person school graduation ceremonies. [2] The special had various celebrities make commencement speeches and performances by various singers and high school/college choirs and bands. [3] [4] The special was hosted by Mindy Kaling and B. J. Novak. [5]
After ceremony students may get a final address by their homeroom teacher. A few moments later, the graduates are free to roam around the school, in and out of the teachers’ office. At Junior High school, students take everything with them on the last day and may do school cheers with the underclassman in front of the school.