Dartmouth College Commencement

Bobby Hobart

Some facts:

● Dartmouth’s first commencement was on the Green in

1771.

● Doesn’t get cancelled for weather, gets cancelled for war

● Nowadays caps and gowns are made from recycled bottles!

Where to from here?

● Focusing in on the Cold War○ Ways that Cold War rhetoric shaped commencement

speeches as demonstrated in Shepard and Seymour speeches

● Kennan speech