Sentences with phrase «college commencement speech»

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Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, delivered the commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley College, on Friday, May 26.

«If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts,» Jobs said during a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005.

The Queen of America gave a commencement speech to Georgia's Agnes Scott College and addressed the idea of being full of herself: «I used to be afraid of that, [but now]?

By the time she delivered a commencement speech at Smith College in 2013, she was preaching the gospel of a good night's sleep and asking graduates to measure their lives by a «third metric» — changing the world for the better — in addition to those timeless standards, money and power.

Mr. Bernanke said that the near - term outlook remains murky but nonetheless put himself firmly in the optimists» camp in a commencement speech last month at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts.

I got to do the commencement speech at my alma mater in May of 2014, and I told them that of all the courses I took there, the most life - altering for me was my involvement in the college choir.

In his 2005 commencement speech to Stanford grads, the amazing Steve Jobs, a college dropout himself and who passed away this week at just 56, talked about how lucky he was that he got fired from Apple — crisis can lead to opportunity — and how lucky he was to do work that he loved:

Clinton is scheduled to be the commencement speaker at Medgar Evers College, which has raised objections from several members of the Haitian community who plan to protest the speech and are pushing the college president, Rudy Crew, to rescind the inviCollege, which has raised objections from several members of the Haitian community who plan to protest the speech and are pushing the college president, Rudy Crew, to rescind the invicollege president, Rudy Crew, to rescind the invitation.

«We will abide by the decision, but it's interesting that the judge did not go along with public employees who tried to tell the court there is no financial crisis,» the governor told reporters (including NY1's Grace Rauh) after delivering the commencement speech at Bronx Community College.

First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship school of the CUNY system and the nation's largest urban public university.

Also at 3 p.m., Hunter College holds its spring graduation ceremony, with a commencement address from Arianna Huffington, a speech from Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and a (not so) surprise marriage proposal, the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan.

Vice President Joe Biden will give the Syracuse University College of Law commencement speech on May 13.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, gave the commencement speech at Le Moyne College on Sunday.

Activists protesting Hillary Clinton's commencement speech at Medgar Evers College over the Clintons» perceived failings in Haiti.

From inspirational elocutions to gutsy send - ups of the system, the long - held tradition of the commencement speech is a must at graduations from kindergarten to college.

During this year's commencement speech at Sarah Lawrence College, Fareed Zakaria said, «It is the act of writing that forces me to think through them [ideas] and sort them out.»

I also know that at the back of your mind while the commencement speech is being given is one thing: landing your first job as a college graduate.

Clinton was the first student to deliver a commencement speech at Wellesley College in 1969.

I'm especially honored to be giving the commencement speech at Green Mountain College for at least two reasons.

In a 2014 commencement speech at Boston College, Secretary of State John Kerry said, «Ninety - seven percent of the world's scientists tell us this is urgent.»

In her 1969 college commencement address Stephanie decried overpopulation and natural resource exploitation, and vowed to never have children — a statement The New York Times called «perhaps the most anguished... of the year's crop of valedictory speeches.»

«My family and I were dreading Rudy Guiliani's commencement speech at Middlebury College in Vermont.