University of Denver
Organization
Sources
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"
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.
First year Hillel organization features full programming at DU
Citation
Jan. 30, 1974, letter to faculty, U172._.0003, Hillel folderFound in 206 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-first Year, 1935 August 28
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Identifier: U138.0001.0029.00002
Overview
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August-eighth, Nineteen Thirty-five. Commencement Address "The Philosophic Way of Life" by Professor Thomas Vernor Smith. Conferring degrees: Chancellor Frederick Maurice Hunter.
Dates:
1935 August 28
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-fourth Year, 1938 August 26
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Identifier: U138.0001.0032.00003
Overview
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-sixth, 1938. The Commencement Address--"Some Neglected Phases of the Educational Process" was by Doctor Alexander J. Stoddard. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan.
Dates:
1938 August 26
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-second Year, 1936 August 21
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Identifier: U138.0001.0030.00002
Overview
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-first, Nineteen Thirty-six. Commencement Address "Schools in Our Time" by Dr. Charles L. Cushman. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan.
Dates:
1936 August 21
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-Seventh Year, 1941 August 22
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Identifier: U138.0001.0035.00002
Overview
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony August Twenty-second,1941. Conferring degrees: Chancellor Caleb F. Gates, Jr. The commecement address was given by Dean Edward J. Allen.
Dates:
1941 August 22
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-sixth Year, 1940 August 23
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Identifier: U138.0001.0034.00002
Overview
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-third, 1940. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan. The commecement address was given by Superintendent Charles E. Greene.
Dates:
1940 August 23
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-third Year, 1937 August 20
Item
Identifier: U138.0001.0031.00003
Overview
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremony, August Twentieth, Nineteen Thirty-seven. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan. The Commecement Address was given by Doctor Inez Johnson Lewis Superintendent of Public Instruction, Colorado.
Dates:
1937 August 20