Tag Archive for "commencement" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Calvin Coolidge Says, June 6, 1931

April 8, 2021

Date: June 6, 1931 Location: Northampton, Massachusetts (Original document available here) This month will turn out into the world many thousands of young men and young women with college diplomas. On the whole they are probably better equipped to meet the problems of life than they were their predecessors. They have been required to do […]

Harvard University Commencement Address

April 24, 2014

Title: XXXI Harvard University Commencement Date: June 19, 1919 Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Original document available here) No college man who has ever glanced at the Constitution of Massachusetts is likely to miss or forget the generous references there made to Harvard University. It may need a closer study of that instrument, which is older than the […]

Amherst College Commencement

April 24, 2014

Title: Amherst College Commencement Address Date: June 18, 1919 Location: Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (Original document available here) To the son of any college, although he does not make his connection with his college a profession, a return of Commencement Day recalls many memories. It is likely also, after nearly a quarter of a century, to cause some […]