General information about Harvard commencement and Class Day in 1896
Published: 1896
Notes: Booker T. Washington received an honorary degree from Harvard College in 1896. He was the first African American to receive an honorary degree from any New England college.

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Table of contents: title: Newsclippings; title: Program for Class Day, June 19, 1896; title: Invitations to Class Day receptions; title: Class Day ephemera; title: Leaf from the tree; title: Commencement ticket ephemera; title: Material regarding marshalls; title: Order of exercises for Commencement, June; title: Commencement parts, June 24, 1896 / R. M. Alden; G. H. Chase; H. McC. Dowling; J. J. Palfrey; W. A. Parker; P. H. Savage; A. C. Train; title: Account of exercises, Harvard Graduates' Magazine, September 1896.