Commemoration Day (Harvard University)
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]- As the Civil War finally ends, a relieved, sad, graduation day
- Harvard's Commemoration Day July 21, 1865 on JSTOR
- Introduction § Harvard University Archives Research Guide: Harvard and the Military
- The Cambridge Chronicle 26 August 1865 — Cambridge Public Library's Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection
- Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865
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