As college graduates across the country turn their tassels to the left and step into a world full of possibilities — and uncertainties — this year's commencement speakers have given moving speeches ...

They appear every spring, like crocuses or robins or perhaps black flies: commencement addresses. Thousands of them, across the country and across the variety of American higher education—two-year ...

Elin Nordegren made some points about how much getting a degree mattered to her--she also took a few swings at her famous ex ...

Graduation speeches are well-known for offering cliché words of wisdom. But people attending graduation at Christian Brothers Academy last week said speeches by the valedictorian and salutatorian ...

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