The youngest Lenwell boy, leader of the Senior class, started the annual and eternally trivial and annoying Senior-class fuss that seems fated to precede most high-school commencements.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter
And does not Joseph de Maistre well say, "Aucune grande chose n'eut de grands commencements"-nothing great ever began great?
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
Recreation was the order of the day, and a round of entertainments enlivened the "commencements."
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson