Colgate University Moving Up Day records, A1294
Dates
- Creation: 1929 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Historical note
According to former University Archivist Howard Williams, Moving Up Day took place in Colgate's Chapel each spring from around 1900 to 1955. During the ceremony, "each class marched to the seats of the preceding class, with the seniors occupying those vacated by the freshmen." As the classes moved, they sung a song beginning 'where, oh where, are the pea-green freshmen...' Awards and prizes were also given out. In 1955, the ceremony became known as the Colgate University Assembly.
Howard Williams,A History of Colgate, 1819-1869 (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969), 255, http://cu-cel.org/cuhist/.
Extent
.15 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Guide to the Colgate University Moving Up Day records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Allyson Smally
- Date
- November 25, 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Colgate University Libraries Repository
13 Oak Drive
Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology
Colgate University
Hamilton New York 13346 United States US
315-228-6175
315-228-7934 (Fax)
