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 400 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver Commencement Program, Eighty-eighth Year, 1952 June 14
University of Denver Commencement Program, Eighty-eighth Year, 1952 August 22
University of Denver Commencement Program Eighty-Fifth Year [corrected copy], 1949 June 11
Corrected copy program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, June Eleventh,1949. Honorary degree recipients: Dr. Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, Doctor of Humane Letters; Mr. Fowler Berry McConnell, Doctor of Laws. Conferring of degrees in course: Chancellor Alfred C. Nelson.
University of Denver Commencement Program Fifty-Eighth Year, 1922 June 7
Programs for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony Fifty-Eighth Year, Wednesday, the Seventh of June, 1922. Honorary degree recipient: Jesse Homer Newlon, Doctor of Laws. Conferring Degrees: Wilber D. Engle, the Acting Chancellor. The Commecement Address was givenb y David Starr Jordan, M.S., M.D., Ph.D., LL.D.
University of Denver Commencement Program Fifty-Fifth Year, 1919 June 19
University of Denver Commencement Program Fifty-First Year, 1915 June 3
University of Denver Commencement Program Fifty-Fourth Year, 1918 May 22
Programs for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony Fifty-Fourth Year, Wednesday the Twenty-second of May, 1918. Honorary degree recipients: Frederick Johnson Chamberlin, Master of Arts; Nina McCarthy Weiss, Master of Arts; George Hilborn Stuntz, Doctor of Divinity; Irving Peake Johnson, Doctor of Law; Samuel Alexander Lough, Doctor of Laws. Conferring Degrees: Henry Augustus Buchtel, The Chancellor.
University of Denver Commencement Program Fifty-Ninth Year, 1923 June 6
Programs for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony Fifty-Ninth Year, Wednesday, the Sixth of June, 1923. The Commencement address by: Governor William E, Sweet. Conferring Degrees: Chancellor Heber Reece Harper.
University of Denver Commencement Program Fifty-Second Year, 1916 June 8
Programs for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony Fifty-Second Year, Thursday the eighth of June, 1916. Honorary degree recipients: James Edwin Huchingson, Master of Arts; Charles Allen Bradley, Doctor of Science; Harry Vallandigham Kepner, Doctor of Science; James Herbert Kelley, Doctor of Letters; Robert Edward Dickenson, Doctor of Divinity; Carlos Merton Cole, Doctor of Laws. Conferring Degrees: Henry Augustus Buchtel, the Chancellor.
University of Denver Commencement Program Fifty-Seventh Year, 1921 June 9
Programs for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony Fifty-Seventh Year, Thursday the ninth of June, 1921. Conferring Degrees: Wilber D. Engle, the acting Chancellor. No Honorary Degrees were given out. The Commecement Address was given by the Rev. Bishop Irving P. Johnson, D.D., LL.D.