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SPEECH BY HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN at the BROWN UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION - 1996-05-26

Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage

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President Gregorian, faculty members, post graduates and graduating students, ladies and gentlemen.
President Gregorian, thank you for your very generous words. It is a great honour for me to be at this Commencement Ceremony at Brown, as Brown represents much of what is best in Western liberal education. Let me also congratulate the graduating students for whom the memory of this day, I am sure, will remain with them throughout their lives.

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