University of Denver
Biography
The first reference to Colorado Seminary was in The Rocky Mountain News of November 27, 1862: “ a board of Trustees, composed of the solid men of Denver, has been organized to superintend the erection of a seminary building… for an academic education.”
Sources
Breck, "From the Rockies to the World"
Biography
University of Denver votes to adopt quarter system in 1929.
Sources
"University Adopts New Quarter Plan; Vote Unanimous," The Denver Clarion, vol. 34, no. 19, November 26, 1929, 1.
Biography
First year Hillel organization features full programming at DU
Citation:
Jan. 30, 1974, letter to faculty, U172._.0003, Hillel folderFound in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Feldman Documents, ''Rise of Modern Mythology: 1680 - 1860'', Notes, Drafts, and Research, between 1965-1970
This folder contains some over-sized pages of early formative notes and research for Burton Feldman and Robert D. Richardson's ''The Rise of Modern Mythology: 1680 - 1860''.
Rees' research on DU student protests, 1957-1965
Fallis Rees' personal and archaeological correspondence, manuscript, and notes taken by Rees during his research. Fallis F. Rees (1897-1980) was an amateur archaeologist who spent many years studying the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Africa, and the possibility of cross-communication between those civilizations and the cultures developing in the new world.