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A listing of Commencement speeches addressed to the graduating classes of universities and colleges.
Czech Republic
[edit]Charles University
[edit]- Prague lecture, 1994 by Karl Popper
Ethiopia
[edit]University of Asmara
[edit]France
[edit]Sorbonne University
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]Cambridge University
[edit]Oxford University
[edit]- Ruskin College
Romanes Lectures
[edit]- Romanes Lecture (1892— )
- An Academic Sketch, 1892 by William Ewart Gladstone
- Evolution and Ethics (annotations), 1893 by Thomas Henry Huxley
- The Obligations of the Universities Towards Art, 1895 by Holman Hunt
- The English National Character, 1896 by Mandell Creighton
- Machiavelli, 1897 by John Morley
- Types of Scenery and Their Influence on Literature, 1898 by Archibald Geikie
- Humanism in Education, 1899 by Richard Claverhouse Jebb
- The Evolution of English Lexicography, 1900 by James Murray
- The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind, 1902 by James Bryce
- Modern Views on Matter, 1903 by Oliver Lodge
- Frontiers, 1907 by Lord Curzon
- Biological Analogies in History, 1910 by Theodore Roosevelt
- The Idea of Progress, 1920 by William Ralph Inge