1.   A recent Chicago Tribune column by Mary Schmich cyber-morphed into a MIT commencement speech by Kurt Vonnegut.

2.   After he was named valedictorian, he wanted to give a commencement speech extolling the virtues of religion.

3.   Bush promoted his program this week with a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame and at a meeting with Hispanic clergy at the White House.

4.   But perhaps the most frequent advice they have received, according to an informal survey of several dozen commencement speeches, is the admonition to dream.

5.   But there is a much more plausible reason why the two executives delivered commencement speeches at the Southampton branch of Long Island University two weeks ago.

6.   Clinton himself has avoided talking about the hostage situation but plans to address the matter Wednesday when he delivers a commencement speech to the Air Force Academy.

7.   Commencement speech.

8.   Clinton had to make a commencement speech, an ancient literary form requiring inspirational rhetoric.

9.   Five days later, the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, delivered his own commencement speech at MIT, where Vonnegut has never been the commencement speaker.

10.   Graduates at the University of Massachusetts-Boston seem unimpressed by the commencement speech.