"I happen to believe in commencement ceremonies," confessed University of Kentucky President John Oswald, generously, as he gave the commencement speech at Indiana's DePauw University. If commencement speeches do have value, it must—to judge from their customary content—be that of good advice. Last week, graduates got good advice by the chapelful, by the audi-toriumful, by the stadiumful.
Yes But No. At Brigham Young University in Utah, Globetrotter Lowell Thomas took for his theme the merits of skiing; at the University of Delaware, Ralph W. Tyler, Stanford Behavioral Scientist, warned students against...