University of Denver
Organization
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:
Cherrington, Ben M. - Chancellor - Photographs, 1951-1976
File
Identifier: U201.02.0138.0033
Abstract
33 black and white prints, mostly undated, of University of Denver Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington. Images include Cherrington with United Nations flag-decorated podium; at his desk in his office; at a Social Science Foundation luncheon with Dorothy Fosdick, a Mr. Lewis, and a Mr. Wilson; with an unidentified man holding a globe beneath a United Nations emblem; with C. Dale Fuller; with Mrs. Cherrington, Heber R. Harper, and Mrs. Harper; at the Social Science Foundation's 50th anniversary and...
Dates:
1951-1976
Cherrington, Ben M. - Chancellor Photographs 2, 1951-1976
File
Identifier: U201.02.0138.0034
Abstract
Images of University of Denver Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington: 33 black and white prints, including Cherrington at the dedication of Cherrington Hall with Josef Korbel, Richard Olson, acting chancellor Wilbur C. Miller, and US Secretary of State Dean Rusk; at his 90th birthday party; with Josef Korbel, Elizabeth Fackt, and C. Dale Miller; in academic regalia with Prof. Gustafson and Lowell Thomas; at an educators' conference in Estes Park, Colo.; with wife Edith Cherrington, Heber R. Harper...
Dates:
1951-1976