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"
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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 62 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver Baccalaureate Service, 1934 June 3
Program from the Baccalaureate Service. Sermon by Doctor Ira G. McCormack, delivered at the Memorial Chapel of the University of Denver, Three-thirty o'clock, Sunday afternoon, June Third, 1934.
University of Denver Baccalaureate Service, 1935 June 2
Program from the Baccalaureate Service. The Baccalaureate Sermon "The Liberty of Faith" by Reverend Earl Cranston Wright, was delivered at the Memorial Chapel of the University of Denver, Three-thirty o'clock, Sunday afternoon, June Second, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-five.
University of Denver Baccalaureate Service Program June 10, 1960, 1960 June 10
Program for the Baccalaureate Services delivered at the University of Denver on Friday June 10, 1960 at Two O'Clock in Buchtel Memorial Chapel. The address was given by Chancellor Chester M. Alter.
University of Denver Baccalaureate Service Program: The Graduating Class of 1961, 1961 June 9
Program for the University of Denver Baccalaureate Service for the graduating class of 1961, two o'clock Friday, June Ninth, 1961, Buchtel Memorial Chapel. Invocation by: Rev. William E. Rhodes. The Baccalaureate Address "Public Goals and Private Action" by Chancellor Chester M. Alter.
University of Denver Baccalaureate Service Program: The Graduating Class of 1966, June 9, 1966, 1966 June 9
Program from the University of Denver Baccalaureate Service. The commencement address was given by Dr. Chester M. Alter, Chancellor of the University, delivered at the University of Denver, June 9, 1966, Thursday, at seven thirty o'clock at the Quadrangle of Margery Reed Hall.
University of Denver Chancellor's Commencement Address, August, 15, 1980, 1980 August 15
Text of the commencement address by the Chancelor of the University, Ross Pritchard, delivered at the Unversity of Denver, August 15, 1980.
University of Denver College of Law Commencement Address May 30, 1989, 1989 May 30
Text of the commencement address by Colorado Governor Thomas H. Kean, delivered at the University of Denver, May 30, 1989.
"War & the University Graduate" Commencement Address, 1942, 1942 June
Commencement address "War and the University Graduate" given by Dr. Thurston J. Davies at the University of Denver Commecement May 29, 1942.
"World Citizens for a World Community", 1947 August 22
Text of the commencement address "World Citizens for a World Community" by Franklin D. Cogswell, delivered at the University of Denver, 22 August, 1947.
"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.