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 46995 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Eighty-seventh Year, 1951 August 22
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Eighty-sixth Year, 1950 June 10
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, June Tenth, 1950. Honorary degree recipients: Dr. Robert Livingston Johnson, Doctor of Humane Letters; Mr. Walter Paul Paepcke, Doctor of Laws. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Albert C. Jacobs. The commencement address was given by Chancellor Albert C. Jacobs.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Eighty-sixth Year, 1950 August 23
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, August Twenty-third, 1950. Honorary degree recipients: Claude Kedzie Boettcher, Doctor of Humanities; William Hanson Gill, Doctor of Laws; Harry James Carman, Doctor of Laws; John Foster Symes, Doctor of Laws; Dwight David Eisenhower, Doctor of Laws. Conferring of degrees in course: Chancellor Albert C. Jacobs. The commencement address was given by Chancellor Albert C. Jacob.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Eighty-third Year, 1947 June 7
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremony, June Seventh, 1947. Honorary degree recipient: Thomas A. Dines, Doctor of Humane Letters; Clifford Fred Rassweile. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Caleb F. Gates. The commencement addrees was given by Doctor Clifford F. Rassweiler Vice-President for Research and Development Johns-Manville Corporation.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Eighty-third Year, 1947 August 22
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program: June 11, 1965, 1965 June 11
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program: June Tenth, 1966, 1966 June 10
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Ninetieth Year, 1954 June 11
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Ninetieth Year, 1954 August 20
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, August twentieth,1954. Honorary degree recipients: Alfred Marshall Bailey, Doctor of Public Service; Samuel Miller Brownell, Doctor of Laws. Conferring of degrees in course: Chancellor Chester M. Alter. The commencement address was given by Dr. Samuel M. Brownwell.
University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) Commencement Program, Ninety-fifth Year, 1959 June 10
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate, graduate and doctoral commencement ceremony, June Tenth,1959 at Seven-thirty o'Clock. Honorary degree recipients: Emerson Buckley, Doctor of Humanities; Harold Ford Carr, Doctor of Laws; John Arthur Chapman, Doctor of Humanities; Warwick Miller Downing, Doctor of Laws; Ben Ivan Funk, Doctor of Public Service; Robert William Selig, Doctor of Public Service. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Chester M. Alter.