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University awards 3,117 degrees at Commencement

1,285 undergraduates become alumni after Monday's Old Campus ceremony

Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
Published Monday, May 26, 2008

It never gets old, even the 307th time around.

Bedecked in blue and tinted with the flair of British celebrity, the University conferred 3,117 degrees on Monday to graduates from its college, graduate and professional schools in a triumphant ceremony kissed by a cloudless sky.

Seated in plastic white lawn chairs beneath the sun-stroked oaks of Old Campus, some 18,000 spectators watched as their sons, daughters, grandchildren and friends took their final steps toward the completion of a Yale education. There were no skits today, no jokes to besmirch the dignity of...

#1 By ty564f 4:51p.m. on May 26, 2008

Excellent article, gentlemen! Well done!

#2 By Yale Parent 11:37a.m. on May 27, 2008

My Yalie doesn't graduate for a couple of years yet, but I am really looking forward to it. The article just filled my heart to bursting! I knew a few of the young people graduating and they were really awesome.

#3 By R S 4:29p.m. on May 27, 2008

"sun-stroked oaks?" har de har har.

#4 By (Anonymous) 11:57p.m. on May 27, 2008

Cheesy ending, but I know what the authors mean.

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