On this tour the party attended the commencement exercises of Oberlin College, famous for its anti-slavery principles and practice, and spoke to immense meetings at various places in Ohio and New York.

You reminded me of the commencement address; I'll ask you if you remember Children's Day?

It's a common thing for our 'sweet girl graduates' to lay off their white commencement-day dress, their high-heeled shoes and their pretty hats, for the shawl and the moccasin.

Commencement d'une vie.

HALLOCK, GERARD BENJAMIN FLEET, ed. Cyclopedia of commencement sermons and baccalaureate addresses.

He learned, however, to discriminate between the lines of his life, and very much preferred these stockholders' meetings and trustees' dinners and commencement collations to another set of occasions, from which he used to beg off most piteously.

But I'll tell you the truth, J.W. I knew you couldn't come, either of you, and I was saving up a little on commencement expenses; so I left youand a good many othersoff the list.

Car les enfants des rois sont ainsi; leurs fronts blancs Portent un cercle d'ombre, et leurs pas chancelants Sont des commencements de règne.

Those familiar with Yale customs know that the Harvard baseball game is one of the chief events of the commencement season.

And tucking her arm in his, Tony marshaled the procession of two down the stairs to the street where the car and the old Holiday Hill crowd waited to greet the newest comer to the ranks of the commencement celebrants.

" "But don't you remember, J.W., what our commencement speaker said on that very point?

"I thought maybe you would be willing to allow me a little extra this month on account of commencement stunts.

Annette had passed a highly successful examination, and was to graduate from the normal school, and as a matter of course, her neighbors wanted to hear Annette "speak her piece" as they called the commencement theme, and also to see how she was going to behave before all "them people."

Because Williams and Yale have produced great and useful men, it does not follow that their commencement dinners are always marked by the finest flow of wit and wisdom, nor that pioneers in civilization who bring great honor to their alma mater should always and everywhere speak for her.