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Commencements

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Centennial: Visitors' Register

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000432-DS
Scope and Contents A note on the first page reads: "This register was made for the Centennial Celebration with the intention that the names of all visitors present on all or any one of the three days should be registered. Its cost was $30. But only about 700, out of the 1500 of more who attended, were actually inscribed. J.H. Richards, S.J." The registrar was also used to record attendees at subsequent University events including the 125th Anniversary Celebration, 116th Commencement, 117th...
Dates: 1889-1952

Photographs: Commencements

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000599
Scope and Contents Includes photographs of: 1916 commencement showing platform and part of the audience; 1924 commencement (with William Smith Flynn receiving honorary degree from U.S. President Calvin Coolidge)(moved to Archives map case 5 drawer 1);1926 commencement; June 4, 1944 commencement (in Gaston Hall, with nurses and graduates in military uniform)(moved to Archives map case 5 drawer 1);President Lawrence C. Gorman, S.J., Charles J. Milton,...
Dates: 1916-1979 and undated

Photographs: Rolled Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000033
Dates: 1914-1984; Majority of material found within 1914 - 1984

Scrapbook: Publicity Material, 130th Anniversary and Commencement, Georgetown University, 1919

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000538-DS
Scope and Contents

Report of Publicity Committee, accompanied by photographs and clippings. Includes articles about alumni killed in World War I and the planting of memorial trees in their honor.

Dates: 1919