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‘10½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said’ by Charles Wheelan

By Glenn C. Altschuler

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 17, 2012

In “10½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said,’’ Charles Wheelan, a senior lecturer in public policy at the University of Chicago, makes a modest attempt to move beyond the conventional, the saccharine, and the goofy with advice rooted in the realities that college graduates actually face. Based on a talk he gave at Dartmouth in 2011, his little book is likely to be a primary source for many a commencement speaker for some time to come.

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