Keywords: Commencement exercises
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Governor Baxter at Commencement, St. Agatha, 1924
Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: 1924 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print
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Potter Academy Commencement Week poster, Sebago, 1934
Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1934 Location: Sebago Media: Ink on paper
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Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."
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Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Circus swing, Boston, 1853
"… swing, he wrote, "The introduction of swing exercises on a rope as below commenced in this Circus which was as wonderful as any feats were…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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