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COMMENCEMENT 2026
For Thousands of BU Graduate Students, Commencement Is a Step Toward a New Profession
From Tanzania to Latvia, Vietnam to Boston, these Terriers are changing the world
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Flashback Friday: Commencement, 1940
More than a thousand members of Boston University’s graduating Class of 1940, joined by several hundred faculty members and roughly 10,000 guests, filled the old Boston Arena for the University’s Commencement exercises on June 15, 1940. The arena, located on St. Botolph Street and later renamed Matthews Arena, opened in 1910 as one of the nation’s first indoor athletic facilities.
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