1. Examinations are past and Commencement Day is at hand.

2. On commencement day we shall bid adieu to our alma mater.

3. That is why, on this commencement day, we have noting in which to take much pride.

4. As I stand here now on this glorious commencement day, I realize more than ever before what a great burden we must have been to our teachers, to our principal, and to our parents.

5. On Commencement Day, Joe was sick on bed the college gave him his bachelor's degree in absentia.

6. Commencement Day, Joe was sick on bed the college gave him his bachelor's degree in absentia.

7. So on this commencement day,() I speak to you as a parent.

8. As I stand here now on this glorious commencement day.

9. It was the commencement day and the head master would talk in a lofty strain.

10. That is why, on this commencement day, we have nothing in which to take much pride.

11. On Commencement Day, John was sick in bed and the college gave him his bachelor's degree in absentia.

12. Back then, old graduates of the College who could get to Cambridge on Commencement Day didn't wait for reunion years to come back to the Yard.

13. This can be the most important thing of the year except graduation or commencement day.