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Sesquicentenary administrative files: File 11, 1968 - 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 11/3/2/1/11

Scope and Contents

‘Honorary Degrees. Prof Willmer’. File contains correspondence and papers concerning honorary degrees awarded by the University of Cambridge to mark the sesquicentenary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1 November 1969. Including correspondence concerning arrangements for the ceremony; cutting from the Cambridge Evening News concerning proposed names, 4 June 1969; order of proceedings at the Senate House; programme for the ceremony including the speeches of the University Orator; b/w photograph by Cambridge Evening News, 15cm x 10cm, showing the procession outside the Senate House [with Professor Sir Lawrence Bragg (right) and Prof Harrison Scott Brown (left) leading the procession]; and list of honorary graduands [as in CPS 11/3/2/1/5 above].

Dates

  • Creation: 1968 - 1969

Extent

1 file(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

S73D

Originator(s)

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Finding aid date

2015-05-14 13:27:12+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Repository

Contact:
CPS Archivist, Joan Bullock-Anderson
c/o Sedgwick Museum Archives, A G Brighton Building
Madingley Rise
Cambridge CB3 0UD