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Documenting Pitt:
Commencement Programs
This collection comprises the printed programs for the College of Arts and Sciences’ commencement exercises, but also includes the programs from some of the Schools.
Commencement programs list the speakers and participants in the commencement exercise. The earliest programs sometimes did not list the graduates, but began doing so regularly by the 1890s.
This collection also includes some of the commencement exercises that took place at other times of the year besides the principal one in spring. When the University began hosting an ROTC program, the commencement programs also listed those students receiving their commissions.
Documenting Pitt contains the following programs: 1870, 1872, 1881, 1887-1888, 1895, 1898-1909, and 1911-1985.
