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Baccalaureate   /bˌækəlˈɔriət/   Listen
Baccalaureate

noun
1.
A farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies.
2.
An academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies.  Synonym: bachelor's degree.





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"Baccalaureate" Quotes from Famous Books



... illustrates well enough some supposed cases of plagiarism, of which I will mention one where my name figured. When a little poem called "The Two Streams" was first printed, a writer in the New York "Evening Post" virtually accused the author of it of borrowing the thought from a baccalaureate sermon of President Hopkins, of Williamstown, and printed a quotation from that discourse, which, as I thought, a thief or catchpoll might well consider as establishing a fair presumption that it was so borrowed. I was at the same time wholly unconscious of ever having met with ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various
... went up for his bachot, his baccalaureate degree, at the Sorbonne, and was plucked for his written Latin version. It vexed him and his mother, for they were poor at the time, and it was important that he should do well. His father was then in England. Du Maurier ...
— George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians • T. Martin Wood
... another in space. The one called Joy and Power was delivered in Los Angeles, California, at the opening of the Presbyterian General Assembly, May 21, 1903. The one called The Battle of Life was delivered on Baccalaureate Sunday at Princeton University, June 7. The one called The Good Old Way was delivered on Baccalaureate Sunday at Harvard University, June 14. At the time, I was thinking chiefly of the different qualities and needs of the people to whom I had to speak. This will account for some ...
— Joy & Power • Henry van Dyke


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