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At the University Marshal's call ("Mister Sheriff, pray give us order") the Middlesex Sheriff takes to the dais, strikes it thrice with the butt of his staff, and intones, "The meeting will be in order." [8] Three student speakers (Undergraduate English, Undergraduate Latin, and Graduate English) are introduced and deliver their addresses.
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.
Graduating students are required to wear the academic regalia of the university to all graduation events. Faculty, likewise, must wear the regalia of their respective almae matres in accordance with the level of the degree earned at that institution. Academic dress was first introduced at the university's second commencement in 1760, and from ...
Dunnia, a 23-year-old Palestinian graduate student, is among a small group of Palestinian Americans who attended ‘The People’s Graduation.’ “This ceremony…gives me hope,” she says.
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.
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 ...
"As a result, we will not be able to host the main stage ceremony that traditionally brings 65,000 students, families, and friends to our campus all at the same time and during a short window from ...
An academic procession is a traditional ceremony in which university dignitaries march together wearing traditional academic dress. An academic procession forms a usual part of college and university graduation exercises. At many U.S. universities, the colors and styles of regalia are determined by a uniform dress code established in 1895.