Jump to content

Commemoration Day (Harvard University)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On July 21, 1865 Harvard University held a Commemoration Day as part of that year's Commencement Week, to celebrate the end of the American Civil War and honor the Harvard alumni who had served and died in it.

A "Commemoration Ode" delivered as part of the ceremonies by James Russell Lowell was widely reprinted.

Sources

[edit]
[edit]