Streep role is flawless as graduation speaker

As usual, Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep played her role flawlessly.

Speaking to graduates Saturday at the University of New Hampshire, Streep made them laugh, offered inspiration, even sang a bit and challenged them to change the world.

To the female graduates, she presented her own example of helping break the gender barriers in eduction — Streep attended a drama class at Dartmouth College after graduating from Vassar College.

"We were 60 intrepid girls on a campus of approximately 6,000 men. We tried to lead them, gently, toward a difficult idea, the idea that women are valuable to a university," she said. Both schools have since become co-ed.