It’s graduation season again and NPR has published a compendium of the best commencement speeches dating back to 1774. You can sort by terms like “YOLO,” or by year and speaker. If it’s got a YouTube video, it’s there for you to watch.
This is a good tool to bookmark if:
- You need middle of the day motivation.
- Your commencement speaker dropped out at the hint of a protest
- You had a pretty boring commencement
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