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 288 Collections and/or Records:
Ben Cherrington, between 1943-1946
Ben Cherrington, Chancellor of the University of Denver, reads a letter.
Ben Cherrington, between 1943-1946
Portrait of University of Denver Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington.
Ben Cherrington and Edith Harper Cherrington
Black and white print of University of Denver Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington and his wife Edith Harper Cherrington reading the book Tito's Communism by Josef Korbel, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
Ben Cherrington at Reception in Renaissance Room, between 1943-1946
University of Denver Chancellor Ben Mark Cherrington talks with three unidentified persons at a Founders Day reception in the Renaissance Room in Mary Reed Building on the campus of the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
Ben Cherrington with Globe, circa 1950
Black and white print of University of Denver Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington with an unidentified man holding a globe beneath a United Nations emblem. Cherrington was involved with the founding convention of the U.N. in San Francisco in 1944 and was an author of the United Nations Charter and a co-founder of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Ben M. Cherrington, between 1943-1946
Black and white print of portrait of University of Denver Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington.
Ben Mark Cherrington, between 1943-1946
University of Denver eighth chancellor Ben Mark Cherrington poses for a portrait. Cherrington served as chancellor from 1943 to 1946.
Board of Trustees, between 1967-1978
Group portrait of members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Denver (DU) with Chancellor Maurice B. Mitchell.
Buchtel Family VIP (Henry Augustus Buchtel)
One black and white print of headshot of Methodist minister and University of Denver Chancellor Henry Augustus Buchtel.