Definition of Commencement
Commencement
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
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Commencement Quotations
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
Paul Tsongas
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Paul Tsongas
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney J. Harris
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
Joe Slovo
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
Charles Sturt
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
Robert James Graves
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
G. B. Trudeau
Commencement Translations
commencement in Afrikaans is begin
commencement in Danish is begyndelse
commencement in Dutch is begin, ontstaan, aanvang
commencement in Finnish is alku
commencement in Latin is initium
commencement in Spanish is comienzo
commencement in Swedish is skolavslutning
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