Annual Commencement / Northwestern University
One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Annual Commencement June 15, 2012 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY i Northwestern University One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Annual Commencement 10:30 A.M., Friday, June 15, 2012 Ryan Field Evanston, Illinois University Seal and Motto Soon after Northwestern University was the seal, retaining the book and light and the date of its founding. This seal, founded, its Board of Trustees adopted rays and adding two quotations. On which remains Northwesterns official an official corporate seal. This seal, the pages of the open book he placed signature, was approved by the Board of approved on June 26, 1856, consisted of a Greek quotation from the Gospel of Trustees on December 5, 1890. an open book surrounded by rays of light John, chapter 1, verse 14, translating to and circled by the words Northwestern The Word . full ofgrace and truth. The full text of the University motto, University, Evanston, Illinois. Circling the book are the first three adopted on June 17, 1890, is from words, in Latin, of the University motto: the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thirty years later Daniel Bonbright, Quaecumque sunt vera (Whatsoever Philippians, chapter 4, verse 8 (King professor of Latin and a member of things are true). The outer border of the James Version). Northwesterns original faculty, redesigned seal carries the name of the University NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ^Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are ofgood report; if there he any virtue, and if there he any praise, think on these things.
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