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 505 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Ninety-sixth Year, 1960 August 19
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, August Nineteenth, 1960 at Ten o'Clock. Honorary degree recipient: Elizabeth Lenore Fackt, Doctor of Laws. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Chester M. Alter.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Ninety-third Year, 1957 June 14
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral commencement ceremony, June Fourteenth,1957 at Seven-thirty o'Clock. Honorary degree recipients: Heber Reece Harper, Doctor of Public Service; Edwin Carl Johnson, Doctor of Laws; Eugene Donald Millikin, Doctor of Laws; William Edgeworth Morgan, Doctor of Laws; Henry Leonard Weiss, Doctor of Divinity. Conferring of Degrees: Chancellor Chester M. Alter.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Ninety-third Year, 1957 August 23
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, August Twenty-third, 1957 at Ten o'Clock. Honorary degree recipients: Wilbur McClure Alter, Doctor of Laws; Abraham David Hannath Kaplan, Doctor of Public Service; Willis McDonald Tate, Doctor of Laws. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Chester M. Alter. The commencement address was given by Chancellor Chester M. Alter.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program,Eighty-fifth Year, 1949 August 26
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, August Twenty-sixth,1949. Honorary degree recipients: Mr. Saul Caston, Doctor of Music; Mr. Burnham Hoyt, Doctor of Fine Arts. Conferring of degrees in course: Chancellor Alfred C. Nelson. The commencement address was given by Dr. Alfred C. Nelson.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Program, Inaugural Ceremony and Commencement Exercises, 1953 August 28
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, June Thirteenth,1953. Honorary degrees recipients: William Clyde Martin, Doctor of Divinity; Robert Hugh McWilliams, Doctor of Public Service; Clara Mitchell Van Schaack, Doctor of Humanities. Conferring of degrees and awards: Chancellor Chester M. Alter. The commencement address was given by Chancellor Chester M. Alter.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Summer Commencement, Seventy-Ninth Year, 1943 August 27
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer commencement ceremony, August 27, 1943. Honorary degrees recipients: Alta Elizabeth Dines, Doctor of Humane Letters; Clarence Addison Dykstra, Doctor of Laws; Wilbur Emery Hammaker, Doctor of Laws; John Franklin Shafroth, Doctor of Laws. Conferring degrees in course: Chancellor Caleb F. Gates, Jr. The commencement address was given by Doctor Clarence Addison Dykstra.
University of Denver Commencement Address August 11, 1995, 1995 August 11
Text of the commencement address by Sheila Phelan Wright, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, delivered at the University of Denver, August 11, 1995.
University of Denver Commencement Address June 4, 1994, 1994 June 4
Text of the commencement address by The Honorable Timothy E. Wirth, Counselor of the Department of State and he was a Colorado senator from 1987-1993.
University of Denver Commencement (August 2010), 2010 August 13
Program for the University of Denver doctoral, graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremony, August 13, 2010. Closing remarks by: Robert D. Coombe, Chancellor of the University.
University of Denver Commencement (August 2012), 2012 August 17
Program for the University of Denver doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate ceremony, August 17, 2012. Closing Remarks: Robert D. Coombe, Chancellor of the University.