An academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred.
1The New Yorker, June 11, 1932 P. 62 Mother's impressions while attending a commencement exercise for her young son, fourteen.
2He attended the commencement exercises and spoke pleasantly at the class supper.
3Commencement exercises this year were very interesting; more than ordinarily so.
4Herman Beckman did not go to the commencement exercises that night.
5Three thousand people were present at the Commencement exercises of LeMoyne Institute, Memphis.
6The commencement exercises of the college began about June 1st and lasted a week.
7This is the second time I have attended the commencement exercises of your school.
8A girl, sending invitations to commencement exercises, encloses her card.
9He was talking of the commencement exercises, and regretting that he could not be present.
10The next thing was to get to school and play her own part in the Commencement exercises.
11Rikki had commencement exercises soon, Hildie remembered.
12"No; she and Miss Garrison will return immediately after the commencement exercises."
13She had been invited to go to the Bird Woman's to prepare for both the sermon and Commencement exercises.
14Wednesday was the beginning of the commencement exercises and only a comparatively few students could make the trip to Place.
15The following clipping, giving an account of the commencement exercises of a noted female college, strikingly illustrates what to avoid:
16Graduating students arrive for Commencement Exercises at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts May 20, 2013.
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