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Class Day '95. Lincoln University
by [Lincoln University]
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
[Lincoln University, Chester County, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1895]. [4]pp. Bifolium. 7¼ x 4½ inches. Gray stiff card stock with folded parchment paper wrap around; cord tie. Illustration vignette. Lower wrapper creased; very good.
1895 Class Day program of music and oratory from Lincoln University, an historically Black university in Pennsylvania founded in 1854.
The day's activities included morning and evening exercises. The program was comprised of musical grand marches (including one by John Philip Sousa) and other musical interludes; "Salutations" in Latin and Greek; various orations, including one by a "Giftorian"; a valedictory, and benedictions.
Orations by the students, whose formal commencement was the following day, were on such topics as psychology, politics, astronomy, mathematics, and geology. There were also an "Ivy Oration," a "Didactical Oration," and a "Class History."
The program lists the Class of '95 class officers, members of the class executive committee, ushers (all sophomores), musical personnel, and all 39 members of the graduating class. Graduates mainly came from the mid-Atlantic and upper South; one graduate was from Liberia.
The four verses of the class song-in Latin, "Classis Cantus," are printed on the final page.
An illustration vignette on the front cover shows a Greek temple, the owl of Athena (Greek goddess of wisdom), and the Greek letters for the fraternity Phi Alpha Kappa.
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- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3726691
- Title
- Class Day '95. Lincoln University
- Author
- [Lincoln University]
- Book Condition
- Used
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Our inventory encompasses a broad spectrum of collecting interests, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century American history, including African-American history, women's history, and unique or unusual materials documenting the American experience. In our stock, you will also find rare pamphlets, documents, letters and correspondence, journals, diaries, significant archives, as well as original art, graphics, and photographs.
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