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Russert BC speech stresses values - The Boston Globe In a speech emphasizing Catholic values, "Meet the Press" anchor Tim Russert told the Boston College class of 2004 yesterday that their Jesuit education is a special gift, and also called for measures to prevent clergy abuse of children. NEWTON -- In a speech emphasizing Catholic values, "Meet the Press" anchor Tim Russert told the Boston College class of 2004 yesterday that their Jesuit education is a special gift, and also called for measures to prevent clergy abuse of children. Although parts of Russert's speech were punctuated by cheers and laughter, some graduates napped throughout the ceremony, or shook off sleep only long enough to applaud now and then. www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/05/25/russert_bc_speech_stresses_values   (473 words)

CNN.com - Bush returns to Yale for commencement speech - May 21, 2001 The president had one big punchline left for the crowd, tying it to the school's reputation as a bastion of liberal thought and its tradition of not having a commencement speaker unless it is the president of the United States. The commencement speech was a homecoming for the president. Before giving the commencement address he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from the school. archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/05/21/bush.speech   (518 words)

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech Audio/Video Download This inspiring speech is guaranteed to lift you out of your chair, quit your job and go out there to find your true love. This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. www.wiredatom.com /jobs_stanford_speech   (2371 words)

Commencement address by Ben S. Bernanke - MIT News Office Bernanke is the chair of the Federal Reserve and an MIT alumnus (Ph.D. President Hockfield, members of the faculty, alumni, families and friends of graduates, and, especially, members of the 2006 graduating class: I am honored to speak at the 140th Commencement exercises of this distinguished institution. Commencement in photographs - Photo gallery from MIT's 140th Commencement held June 9, 2006. Ben Bernanke to speak at Commencement June 9 - An MIT-educated economist whom President Bush has designated to serve as chairman of the Federal Reserve will be MIT's 140th Commencement speaker on Friday, June 9, 2006, in Killian Court. web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2006/comm-bernanke.html   (2980 words)

David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University This is a standard requirement of US commencement speeches, the deployment of didactic little parable-ish stories. Of course the main requirement of speeches like this is that I'm supposed to talk about your liberal arts education's meaning, to try to explain why the degree you are about to receive has actual human value instead of just a material payoff. So let's talk about the single most pervasive cliché in the commencement speech genre, which is that a liberal arts education is not so much about filling you up with knowledge as it is about quote teaching you how to think. www.marginalia.org /dfw_kenyon_commencement.html   (2983 words)

Calvin College - News - Calvin Commencement Concludes The 85th annual conferring of degrees at Calvin College, with President George W. Bush as the Commencement speaker, was a little different than the 84 that preceded it. Because at its heart the Commencement service was a worship service that served to bid farewell to the class of 2005, sending the 900 or so graduates into the world to live out the fruits of their Calvin education. Calvin's 2005 Commencement Ceremony also was marked by the presentation of Calvin's highest alumni honor — the Distinguished Alumni Award — to Edwin Bos and his wife Carol Yonkers Bos, both 1968 graduates of Calvin, and Richard Katte, a 1958 graduate. www.calvin.edu /news/releases/2004_05/commencement-concludes.htm   (1376 words)

Connecticut College - Henry Wallace, 1943 Commencement Speech This is the true commencement, which has come for you here, this June Sabbath day. Commencement time will come to the world when the armies stop marching, when the men return to the factories and fields, and when the statesmen get down to planning in real earnest. Commencement time is a sudden break with the past. www.conncoll.edu /events/speeches/wallace.html   (3054 words)

C-SPAN.ORG commencement speech(es) you view, categorizing them by their objective. Evaluate this speaker by identifying three things he or she did well and at least one thing he or she could improve on. Have students nominate and vote on the ideal speaker and topic for their own commencement ceremony based on the selection viewed in class. www.c-span.org /classroom/lang/commencespeech.asp   (235 words)

Text of Chancellor Hemenway’s commencement speech | LJWorld.com The problem for you with the chancellor giving the commencement address is that while he can probably keep it short, there is no certainty that the chancellor will have something noble to say. For example, you may be part of a family of 10 siblings whose parents have arranged, in a spectacular feat of planned parenthood, for one of their offspring to graduate each year from 1996-2006. The day before commencement they did a story entitled “Graduation Speeches 101” that said, “One of the few things more forgettable in life than the graduation speaker is the graduation speech.” This has helped keep me humble. www2.ljworld.com /news/2006/may/22/text_chancellor_hemenways_commencement_speech   (1925 words)

Commencement Speech Murray, distinguished guests, Graduates of the class of 2000, it is a great pleasure and a special honor for me to be with you today. My own commencement speaker was General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was a special hero of mine, but I must confess that I have absolutely no recollection of anything he talked about. www.ffip.com /speech.htm   (1786 words)

AU Media: 2003 Commencement Speech- Theodore C. Sorensen That speech, recalled the previous October when Kennedy led the western world through the most dangerous thirteen days in human history, when the swift, secret emplacement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba brought this planet close to incineration. That's what he wanted to convey in that commencement address: American values of peace and justice, the best instincts of the American people, a peaceful, not war-like, people, thereby increasing the respect and admiration with which we were held around the world, thereby making us more secure, a less likely target for resentment and attack. In this speech Kennedy called on the Soviet Union to work with the United States to achieve a nuclear test ban treaty and help reduce the considerable international tensions and the specter of nuclear war at that time. www.american.edu /media/speeches/Sorensen.htm   (2860 words)

Wake Forest University 2006 Commencement Speech Commencement Speaker Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia. My understanding is that this commencement is the first one ever presided over by President Hatch. Then, it dawned on me: I was the commencement speaker back in 1977 at my graduation. www.wfu.edu /wfunews/2006/051506warner.html   (1637 words)

5/19/04, Commencement Address by Bono - Almanac Between Issues Commencement Address by Bono, co-founder of DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa), and lead singer of U2, May 17, 2004. You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. You can build your own building, or hut or condo, whatever; this is the metaphor part of the speech by the way. www.upenn.edu /almanac/between/2004/commence-b.html   (2986 words)

WFU Commencement to Feature Cardinal Arinze, an international figure who was made cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1985, is frequently mentioned as a possible successor to the pope. Hearn, along with his wife, Laura, extended Arinze an invitation to speak at commencement during a personal audience in Rome. Commencement will conclude the university's Year of Globalization and Diversity, a yearlong series of events focusing on the world's development into a more global community. www.wfu.edu /wfunews/1999/020499c.htm   (432 words)

President Johnson's Commencement Address at Howard University: "To Fulfill These Rights," June 4, 1965 Commencement Address at Howard University: "To Fulfill These Rights" I am delighted at the chance to speak at this important and this historic institution. Despite the court orders and the laws, despite the legislative victories and the speeches, for them the walls are rising and the gulf is widening. www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650604.asp   (2768 words)

the art of the commencement speech, an archive It often includes a graduation speech which seeks to put their recent hard (or not so hard) work into the context of their future. Many of us hear one or two commencement addresses as graduates or listen to a handful as spectators. That's why we created this unique archive of commencement addresses, selecting an eclectic menu of twenty nine extraordinary speeches from the thousands that we have reviewed since beginning work on this initiative in 1989. www.humanity.org /voices/commencements   (322 words)

Vassar College: Commencement Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) And the commencement speech had about it the quality of a grudge match, of a settling of scores. Perhaps you asked me to make this speech because I am a working artist and you are, many of you, graduates-to-be and their parents alike, wondering about the market value of this diploma you're about to get as you contemplate a career in the arts. WHAT AM I DOING HERE, or perhaps another way of putting it, WHY ME? Which is a very useful question, two simple words which, depending on their inflection, can express everything from dark-night-of-the-soul-delving to adenoidal self-pitying whininess, either one of which is suitable to the occasion of graduating from college. www.vassar.edu /commencement/020526.kushner.html   (1610 words)

2005 Commencement :: Class Day Speech :: Yale University But your parents are going to remember this because they paid through their noses for it, so I will try to make it memorable for them, if for no one else. I do remember Commencement ceremony: I remember the cap and gown, the polyester, I remember the procession, I remember being excited and nervous and completely confused about my future — feelings, I imagine, that most of you are experiencing in some form. Yoko Ono gave a Commencement speech (she didn’t sing it, she actually talked at it.) She said: “I say you can’t stand if you’ve got too much muck in your head. www.yale.edu /opa/campus/2006_commencement/classday.html   (2887 words)

Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish' Commencement speaker Steve Jobs (holding documents) departs Stanford Stadium with, from left, the Rev. Scotty McLennan, Provost John Etchemendy and Board of Trustees Chairman Burt McMurtry, among others. The 2005 Commencement proceeded with its familiar mix of the goofy and the formal: Graduates attached plush animals to their caps and carried body-length flotation devices onto the field for the Wacky Walk. The last part of his speech was about death. news-service.stanford.edu /news/2005/june15/grad-061505.html   (1167 words)

Commencement Address by William E. Kennard Chairman, Federal Communications Commission at Howard University Washington, ... Commencement Address by William E. Kennard Chairman, Federal Communications Commission at Howard University Washington, D.C. May 13, 2000 "The Challenge To Generation D: Beyond The Color Line" I commend each of you—especially students graduating magna cum laude or summa cum laude or cum laude, and all the parents who are just thinking, “It’s finally graduation day, thank you, Lordy”—I congratulate you all. And stand with the untold multitude of Howard alumni who brought you to where you are—that you might lead this nation to where it should be. www.fcc.gov /Speeches/Kennard/2000/spwek012.html   (2175 words)

OpinionJournal - Extra Thousands of commencement addresses are given every year, many by people with greater eloquence and more original minds than I possess. When I was in your situation, many, many years ago, an undistinguished graduate--barely--of the Naval Academy, I listened to President Eisenhower deliver the commencement address. But I remember little of his remarks that day, impatient as I was to enjoy the less formal celebrations of graduation, and mindful that given my class standing I would not have the privilege of shaking the President's hand. www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110008409   (2968 words)

O'Reilly Radar > My Commencement Speech at SIMS Yesterday, I was asked to give the commencement address for the UC Berkeley School of Information (often known as SIMS, for its old name, the School of Information Management and Systems). I promised to put the text of my speech on the web, so here it is. I tried to weave together the kind of life advice expected at a graduation with some of my thoughts on Web 2.0 in a summary format suitable not just for the students but also the parents and grandparents attending. There was little or no mention of his speech in the mainstream press coverage of the event. radar.oreilly.com /archives/2006/05/my_commencement_speech_at_sims.html   (2873 words)

Harvard Commencement 2006 The Commencement Office organizes all aspects of the Commencement Day ceremony in Harvard Yard, with the exception of press and media relations. Single-camera recordings are made of the diploma ceremonies at all of the houses and several of the graduate schools. Essays on the history of Commencement, academic garb; lists of previous speakers and honorary degree recipients. www.commencement.harvard.edu   (266 words)

President Delivers Commencement Address at the United States Military Academy at West Point Fortunately, we had a President named Harry Truman, who recognized the threat, took bold action to confront it, and laid the foundation for freedom's victory in the Cold War. In a speech to Congress, he called for military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, and announced a new doctrine that would guide American policy throughout the Cold War. And he issued a presidential directive called NSC-68, which declared that America faced an enemy "animated by a new fanatic faith" and determined to impose its ideology on the entire world. www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/05/20060527-1.html   (4053 words)

The Blog | Jean Rohe: Why I Spoke Up | The Huffington Post When I was selected as a student speaker for the New School commencement about two months ago I had no idea that I'd end up on CNN and in Maureen Dowd's column in the New York Times, among other places, when it was all over. After reading his speech a couple of times I picked out a few particularly loathsome sections--and believe it or not, none of these actually came from the extensive section where he defends his position on the war in Iraq--and I began planning an attack against him using his own words. And it was precisely because we listen to the views of others, and because, as I said in my speech, we don't fear them, that we as a school were able to mount such a thorough and intelligent opposition to his presence. www.huffingtonpost.com /jean-rohe/why-i-spoke-up_b_21358.html   (3437 words)

Connecticut College - Leonard Lauder, 1989 Commencement Speech As the chaplain said, we are here to share in the excitement of completing and of starting and I want to share with you a sense of some of the commencements. What kept me alive in a situation where others had given up hope and died was the dream that someday I would be here telling you how I survived the Nazi concentration camp. Anatole France said, "To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act." I can only say that it was 35 years ago that I sat in your seat and listened to a steady procession of commencement speakers who spoke to me of the brave new world. www.conncoll.edu /events/speeches/lauder.html   (1462 words)

Commencement Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) I’ve delivered a lot of commencement speeches, but none have been as significant to me as this experience today. Indeed, after all the commencement addresses I have been privileged to deliver, I have learned that this role is akin to being the principal at an Irish wake—it is customary that you be there, but you’re not expected to say anything! The speech, entitled “This New Ocean,” expounds on the view that Americans are compelled and challenged by that which is hard. www.lsu.edu /commencement/speakers/20050520.htm   (2581 words)

President Kennedy Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Speech, American University 1963 Commencement President Kennedy spoke at American University's Spring Commencement on June 10, 1963. In this speech Kennedey called on the Soviet Union to work with the United States to achieve a nuclear test ban treaty and help reduce the considerable international tensions and the specter of nuclear war at that time. In his speech, Clinton also focused on the economic leadership America must exert at home and abroad as a new global economy unfolds. www.american.edu /media/speeches/Kennedy.htm   (3167 words)

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