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 17 Collections and/or Records:
Academics, circa 1985
ACU - Law - Classes
Black and white negative of a law class at the University of Denver.
Business Administration Class, 1940-1959
Still image of seated female business administration students in a classroom with instructor standing at the front of the room. Each student has a typewriter in front of them. An older female stands in the background.
Business Administration Students, 1940-1959
Still image of classroom full of business administration students and professor. The professor stands at the front of the room in front of a blackboard. Each student is seated at a desk using a different machine; some appear to be adding machines or typewriters, along with other unidentified machines. Large windows line one side of the classroom. On the University of Denver campus, circa 1950.
Business Administration Students in Class, 1940-1959
Still image of an instructor standing and pointing to a chart with multiple graphs on it. Four male and one female student are seated at tables immediately in front of him. The chart is titled: "Salient Features of the Postwar Transition".
Business Administration Students in Typing Class, 1940-1959
Still image of female professor standing over five business administration students seated at typewriters. The professor is leaning over, pointing at a paper, and smiling at a female student, who smiles back and also points at the paper. A blackboard in the backgrounds reads: "Please don't move the typewriters" in cursive. What appears to be a typing instruction poster is to the right of the written words. It is titled: "Diagrammatic Chart Royal", with other illegible words below.
Business Business Administration Students with Film Projector, 1951 July
Still image of business administration faculty and students gathered around a film projector. The group of about fifteen are standing in the middle of a classroom and appear to be looking at the inside of the projector. On the University of Denver campus, July, 1951.
Class Portrait Spring 1902, 1902
Black and white photograph of faculty and students posing in front of Old Main (University Hall). The grass in the foreground, and sky and building in the background are lightly colorized.
Humanities Program, 1975
Black and white prints relating to the Humanities Program at the University of Denver.
Interterm, 1998
Black and white negatives and contact sheet from the 1998 Interterm class Communication in the Workplace at the University of Denver.