baccalaureate sermon

American  

noun

1. a farewell sermon addressed to a graduating class in some U.S. colleges and schools.

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Etymology

Origin of baccalaureate sermon

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse graduating class.

From Project Gutenberg

With the rest of the family she was ready in plenty of time, however, for an early start to see the C. L. S. C. procession march into the Amphitheatre for the Baccalaureate sermon.

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Grandmother will march with her own class, the 1908's, and sit with them in the Amphitheatre to listen to the Baccalaureate sermon.

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The Baccalaureate Sermon, was preached to a graduating class of 19, by President Smith.

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He mugs through an uproarious monologue on graduation day at a bop school, i.e., a baccalaureate sermon on how to puff marijuana cigarettes without wasting a whiff of those "leftwing Luckies."

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