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
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Jan. 30, 1974, letter to faculty, U172._.0003, Hillel folderFound in 397 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-fourth Year, 1938 August 26
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-sixth, 1938. The Commencement Address--"Some Neglected Phases of the Educational Process" was by Doctor Alexander J. Stoddard. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-second Year, 1936 August 21
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-first, Nineteen Thirty-six. Commencement Address "Schools in Our Time" by Dr. Charles L. Cushman. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-Seventh Year, 1941 August 22
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony August Twenty-second,1941. Conferring degrees: Chancellor Caleb F. Gates, Jr. The commecement address was given by Dean Edward J. Allen.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-sixth Year, 1940 August 23
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-third, 1940. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan. The commecement address was given by Superintendent Charles E. Greene.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-third Year, 1937 August 20
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremony, August Twentieth, Nineteen Thirty-seven. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan. The Commecement Address was given by Doctor Inez Johnson Lewis Superintendent of Public Instruction, Colorado.
Westminster College of Law Graduation Exercises, 1957 June 7
Program from the Westminster College of Law Graduation Exercises from Friday, June 7, 1957 at 8 O'clock at the University of Denver School of Commerce Auditorium Forthy-fifth Year. The commencement address was given by Chster M. Alter Chancellor, University of Denver.
"You Will Never Be Quite the Same", 1954 June 11
Text of the commencement address "You Will Never Be Quite the Same" by Chancellor Chester M. Alter delivered at the University of Denver, June 11, 1954.