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This commencement address entitled, A Question of Priorities, was given on April 24th of

2025 by Jay Clifford Wallace, then senior judge and chief judge emeritus of the United States

Court of Appeals. President Allen Oakes, my colleagues here at the university,

graduates and friends, I must first apologize to those of you who receive your doctorate

through much work here in the university.

But I'm not going to turn it down.

I have a great love for this university.

I've taught here.

I've been involved in programs for Biggham Young University. I think it is

the university in the United States, in fact, in the world. You can never get the education

that we serve here.

It's been my experience to be able to talk the Chief Justice of Pakistan in sending his son here.

He agreed to send him here because he came to BYU and he asked me, where's the trash? And I said, well, here at

BYU, we teach them not to throw the tash. Oh. So later on, how do you teach them to dress up?

And he says, well, that's what we do here.

Hmm.

He says, I think I'm going to send my son here.

I said, now, wait a minute, Chief Justice.

He's going to have 25,000 people trying to baptize him

if you send him here.

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