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Things they don’t tell you at graduation
Thu, 05/26/2022 - 12:00am
(Here’s a timely goody from former editor Mike Brown from 2008.) Graduation speeches tend to be similar, and for a good reason. All speakers must tell the new graduates they are the future and they can be anything they want to be. That’s all true and fine and good.
Sometimes monuments don’t seem to be monuments
Thu, 05/26/2022 - 12:00am
From Shakespeare’s King Henry the Fifth: “Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.”