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History of Undergraduate Commencement

Commencement Speakers in the 1890s

 

Year/Speaker(s)
Info
 
1890 George A. Bower, Wilbur O. Atwater, J. H. Hale  
Bower was state master of the Grange. Atwater was director of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station.
 
1891 Mortimer Whitehead  
Whitehead, a farmer, introduced the subject of Rural Free Delivery to the National Grange in 1891.
 
1892 William E. Simonds  
Simonds was a trustee from Canton.
 
1893 Wilbur O. Atwater  
Atwater was director of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station.
 
1894 H. W. Collingwood  
Collingwood wasn an editor of The Rural New Yorker. This was the first graduating class to include women, who officially began taking classes in 1893. Some had "unofficially" been taking classes since 1891.
 
1895 Nahum J. Bachelder  
Bachelder was Secretary of the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture.
 
1896 William E. Simonds  
Simonds was a trustee from Canton.
 
1897 Col. J. H. Brigham  
Brigham was assistant secretary of agriculture, Washington, D.C.
 
1898 Rev. J. L. Pitner  
Pitner was a clergyman from Norwich, Conn.
 
1899
Rev. Charles M. Lamson
 

Lamson was pastor of the First Church of Christ in Hartford, Conn.

 

 

 

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