Sentences with phrase «debate at commencement»
So if it's inappropriate to debate at brunch, it is, I think equally inappropriate to debate at commencement.
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Mrs. Bush's sense of humor helped make her popular, but her selection as a commencement speaker at Wellesley College in 1990 sparked a debate on what defines feminism.
She objects to the suggestion that «students who, at least in the case of commencements, have no recourse to meaningful and respectful debate ought to simply listen without objection or response to a speaker whose ideas offend them.»
Shine recalls encountering Albright at a brunch before commencement and remarks that «brunch is no place to begin a spirited debate.»