The University of Chicago

A Record of Its Convocations

The

One Hundred Thirty-One Years

of Convocations

The First Class

Now in Preparation

Eighteen Ninety-Three

A.D. MDCCCXCIII

conferred.org

Every June since 1893 the University of Chicago has printed a program for its convocation, a list of every degree conferred, every prize, and a short roll of Student Marshals. The programs go into a box, the box goes onto a shelf, and the names go nowhere. conferred.org takes the whole run and turns it into a page for every person named in it, with the printed line they came from sitting right there as proof.

Every fact shows its receipt

Ada M. Rockwell

Bachelor of Arts — June 26, 1893

Printed line

Ada M. Rockwell  ·  The Degree of Bachelor of Arts

Not “source: university archives.” The actual ink, with coordinates back to the page.

Order of the First Class

  1. 01

    The Class of 1893

    A page for every person named in the four convocation programs.

  2. 02

    The Source Documents

    Every program, with its pages and everyone named on them.

  3. 03

    The Longitudinal Series

    Graduates per year, complete across 131 years.

  4. 04

    The Honors Recorded

    Awards conferred as printed, among them the Student Marshals and Phi Beta Kappa.

  5. 05

    The Embedding Map

    Every person placed on their printed profile; the space grows as years are revealed.

  6. 06

    The Methods

    Sources, OCR consensus, the identity tiers, and what the site will not do.

We begin with the first class — 1893. Write to be notified when it goes up.

Write to be notified

degreesconferred@gmail.com

Every name checked against the printed page.