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Baccalaureate

noun

A farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies.

An academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies. Synonym: bachelor's degree.

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"Baccalaureate" Quotes from Famous Books

... all his school career until we come to the closing days of the session in which he graduated. School was to close on Thursday, and the Sunday night previous had been designated as the time for the Baccalaureate sermon. On this occasion the entire school assembled in the general assembly room,—the graduating class occupying the row of front seats stretching across the room. The class, this year, numbered twenty-five; and they presented an appearance that caused the ...

— Imperium in Imperio: A Study Of The Negro Race Problem - A Novel • Sutton E. Griggs

... too swiftly fleeting school year, the commencement season is ushered in by the very able baccalaureate sermon delivered to a large and appreciative audience by the Rev. J. J. Durham, one of the ...

— American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 9, September, 1896 • Various

... theory of morals is developed with singular precision and force in one of the Baccalaureate Addresses of the late President Appleton, ...

— A Manual of Moral Philosophy • Andrew Preston Peabody

... the time it seemed entirely tragic to me that my people, though of the sort classified as cultured and refined, deploring the materialistic tendency of the age, violently objected to my caring for this wonderful being, who brilliantly embodied all they admired in baccalaureate ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer