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 47001 Collections and/or Records:
University of Denver Suggested Committees and Courses of Action, 1970
University of Denver Suggested Committees and Courses of Action. Document sets out legal defense, lobbying, jails, police, community education and other committees which arose out of the student unrest of 1970.
University of Denver Summer Commencement, 1956
University of Denver students at summer commencement in front of the Illif School of Theology in 1956.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program: Eightieth Year, Memorial Chapel, August Twenty-fourth, 1944, 1944 August 24
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-fourth, 1944. Honorary degree recipient: Caleb Frank Gates, Doctor of Humane Letters. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington. The commencement address was given by Captain Arthur S. Adams, USN (Retired).
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Eighty-first Year, 1945 August 24
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-fourth, 1945. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Ben M. Cherrington. The commencement address was give by Dr. George D. Humphrey.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Eighty-second Year, 1946 August 23
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate summer convocation commencement ceremony, August Twenty-third, 1946. Commencement Address "Victorious Thinking" by Milton S. Eisenhower. Conferring of degrees: Chancellor Caleb F. Gates.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-Eighth Year, 1942 August 21
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremony, August Twenty-first, 1942. Conferring degrees: Chancellor Caleb F. Gates, Jr. The commencement address was given by Mr. Morrison Shafroth.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-fifth Year, 1939 August 25
Program for the University of Denver undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremony August Twenty-fifth, 1939. Conferring degrees: Chancellor David Shaw Duncan. The commencement address was given by Doctor Vere V. Loper.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-first Year, 1935 August 28
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.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-fourth Year, 1938 August 26
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.
University of Denver Summer Convocation Commencement Program, Seventy-second Year, 1936 August 21
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.