General information about Harvard commencement and Class Day in 1941
Published: 1941
Language: eng
Subjects: University of Oxford
Other titles: General information about the University of Oxford Convocation at Harvard,
Notes: For oversized material, see HUC 6630 pf.

At the Harvard commencement of 1941, Lord Halifax, Chancellor of Oxford University, received an honorary degree. At the close of commencement, Lord Halifax took the president's chair and opened an Oxford convocation in order to give President Franklin D. Roosevelt the Oxford degree of doctorate of civil law. Roosevelt was not present for the ceremony and was represented by Major General Edwin M. Watson.
Table of contents: title: Newsclippings and accounts of exercises; title: Program for Class Day, 18, 1941; title: Class Day and Commencement ephemera; title: Baccalaureate sermon / J. B. Conant; title: Class Day ode and poem / B. G. Davis and T. Lacey; title: Class oration / J. J. Pattee; title: Latin oration / M. H. Freedman; title: Ivy oration / N. R. Gidding and P. M. Hollister; title: Order of exercises for Commencement, June 19, 1941; title: Commencement parts, June 19, 1941 / L. S. Hillman; R. B. Wolf; title: Honorary degrees conferred; title: Account of exercises, from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, July 5, 1941.; title: Material on the Oxford convocation, including a program, directions for participants, and newsclippings.