Excerpts from Princeton Graduate School Hooding Ceremony 2012

By Broadcast Center and Office of Communications on June 5, 2012, 5:34 p.m.
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Keynote speaker and Princeton graduate alumnus George Will presents a playful "beer-centric" history of civilization to the advanced-degree candidates.

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