Talk:Graduation
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[edit] Yay! I'm graduating today!
In exactly 2hrs. :)
-G
[edit] Discussion
Unless this article is expanded, explaining a history of Graduation, I feel that it should be move to the Wiktionary. Otherwise, this article seems to be listed in the stub directory. Allyunion 22:03, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I disagree. The article doesn't merely define the word, but goes into detail about graduation ceremony traditions. As such, it's a valid encyclopedic article, in my opinion. --Ilya 22:32, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I suggest then that other view points of graduation to be submitted. I know for a fact that the Japanese have a different way of graduating and their songs are different as well. But off hand, I'm not an expert in the matter so I can't say anything definite about Japanese style of graduation or any other culutre in fact. Additionally, maybe some notes how the whole graduation idea came about...??? - Allyunion 08:44, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Good idea. I made a start on this the other day by adding information about the practice of graduation in the United Kingdom. It would be very interesting to see how things are done in Japan and other places. Marnanel 13:43, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC):Added convocation and invocation as two related terms in the outline.(Linusjoseph 16:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- I suggest then that other view points of graduation to be submitted. I know for a fact that the Japanese have a different way of graduating and their songs are different as well. But off hand, I'm not an expert in the matter so I can't say anything definite about Japanese style of graduation or any other culutre in fact. Additionally, maybe some notes how the whole graduation idea came about...??? - Allyunion 08:44, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Outline Discussion
Rather than editing the article itself, I'm going to just draft an outline suggestion on changing this article to include the customs from other countries. (I used two countries just to show for example). Here I added some
Brief overview of graduation
[edit] Western Tradition
Mention briefly about robes, etc.
[edit] United States
Specific traditions in United States, maybe mention some historical quirks from various universities and various university traditional quirks. Mention about something about a traditional "Senior Prank" Perhaps include High School Graduation?
[edit] Particular Institutions
Dartmouth is said to have held its commencement ceremony on more consecutive occasions than any school in the U.S. Is this true? It has granted degrees each year since 1771, but were all granted at official ceremonies? Harvard, William & Mary, Penn, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, and Rutgers all closed during the Revolution or at some other time since, probably Yale too.
[edit] United Kingdom
Specific differences between UK and US. Maybe how the ceremony is held?
[edit] Eastern Tradition
Mention briefly about Eastern tradition, include any influences brought about from Western culture
[edit] Japan
Mention about different ceremonial songs, etc
[edit] China
Influences from Western culture, any historical view points of how scholars before modern day graduation was held???
- Allyunion 00:30, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
