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2,868 receive degrees at 308th Commencement 5.25.09
Yale College Dean Mary Miller got more than she asked for when the class of 2009 received their degrees Monday. At Class Day on Sunday, Miller told the 1,273 undergraduates to cheer when she asked University President Richard Levin to confer their degrees at Commencement. Indeed, when the time came on Monday, they roared, and the rockets of confetti and streamers the students shot in the air were an unexpected bonus.
