21.   He was in a graduating class of only eight students.

22.   His father was school superintendent and his mother a teacher in a town whose graduating classes never numbered much more than a dozen.

23.   If officials choose the other course, they will have deprived the graduating class of any role in shaping its graduation and will have banned all private student expression.

24.   If graduating classes dwindle and CUNY slides irretrievably into the oblivion of mediocrity, this city will lose not only taxes but economic and social propellant.

25.   In a speech this month to the graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy, President Clinton focused on the threat and outlined new measures to protect domestic facilities.

26.   In elementary school she was valedictorian of her graduating class.

27.   In fact, his address to the graduating class had the distinct clang of love beads and odor of incense.

28.   It was a peculiar domain for an Orthodox Jewish woman from Brooklyn, one of only three women engineers in her graduating class at Cooper Union.

29.   Its first graduating class was two men.

30.   Members of the graduating class, he said, reacted less than enthusiastically to his selection as speaker.