Centenary 1950-1952
Photo gallery: Senate Dinner for Delegates, 28 August 1952
The University of Sydney Centenary celebrations commenced in 1950 and commemorated various important phases in the foundation of the University. These included: the speech made in Parliament on 6 September 1849 by William Charles Wentworth advocating a university for Sydney; the passage through the NSW legislature of the Act of Incorporation on 1 October 1850; the first Senate meeting on 3 February 1851; and the inauguration of the University on 11 October 1852 and the arrival of the first students and the presentation of the first lectures in October 1852.
The Senate dinner on 28 August 1952 was held for Delegates and Professores Emeriti as part of the University of Sydney's Centenary celebrations.
Sydney Morning Herald photos, copies held by the University of Sydney Archives:
- Above: The top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The table to the immediate left of the top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The table to the immediate left of the top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The table to the immediate left of the top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: Another table on the left hand side at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: Another table on the left hand side at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The table to the immediate right of the top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The table to the immediate right of the top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The second table on the right hand side of the top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: The second table on the right hand side of the top table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
- Above: Another table at the Senate dinner for delegates. Click here to view enlargement.
