Founder's Day
An unidentified woman placing a wreath on Georgia A Kendrick's grave at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, which was visited by a contingent from Vassar on Founder's Day
An unidentified woman placing a wreath on Georgia A Kendrick's grave at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, which was visited by a contingent from Vassar on Founder's Day
An unidentified woman placing a wreath on President James Monroe Taylor's grave at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, which was visited by a contingent from Vassar on Founder's Day
President MacCracken giving the Founder's Day address on the steps of the President's House
Students in costume for the Founder's Day parade
Students in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
Faculty-student baseball game
Class of 1928 marching toward the song contest
Students costumed as members of Queen Victoria's court
Song contest
Class of 1925 performing in the song contest
Class of 1925 performing at the song contest
The faculty team at the faculty-student baseball game. Members included President MacCracken. College treasurer Raymond Guernsey, assistant treasurer George Polk, and professors Oscar Imer (French), Philip Davis (Classics), Thomas Hills (Geology), E. David Fite (Political Science), and Paul Northrup
Students dressed in costumes at the faculty-student baseball game
President MacCracken dressed in a stereotypical Middle Eastern costume and Dean C. Mildred Thompson at the festivities after the Founder's Day parade
Students at the faculty-student baseball game
Faculty-student baseball game. Geology professor Thomas M. Hills is at bat
Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon's grave, Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
Students in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
Class of 1928 at the song contest
Students in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
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