TWO Commencements:
At Notre Dame a very gifted Valedictorian outlined the challenges faced by graduates in a world NOT defined by catholic Social Teaching....followed by Pence, followed by a walkout.

At Georgtown, a catholic nun, Mary Scullion defined what those social teachings meant to her in her nationally recognized work with the homeless in Philadelphia. "If one person is homeless we are all homeless." Her work has been so comprehensive it is used as a national funding model (before Pence/Trump)

But it's not the speeches but rather the style of the two universities.

Georgetown was full of life and energy at all it's exercises....enormous numbers of variously garbed academic staff processed into each of the varied exercises....the remarks made were brilliant, the vitality, electric.

Notre Dame had few folks in the academic processions, all seemingly from Notre Dame. The visuals of the professorial staff sitting there were stern, bored or worse.

It was a shocking contrast!