Chapter XXI. THE SESQUICENTENNIAL YEAR
The Congressional Resolution (H. Con. Res. 185) extending felicitations to Miami University appears in the Congressional Record, House Doc., May 25, 1959, p. 8128. The Miami Student issued a Sesquicentennial Supplement on Charter Day, February 17, 1959. The Miami Alumnus, June 1960, reviewed in text and pictures the events of the anniversary year. The Sesquicentennial booklet Miami, Her 150th Year, lists anniversary events and presents, chiefly in pictures, the University of 1959. What Is a College For? (Washington, 1961), with foreword by John D. Millett, comprises papers given by R. M. Hutchins, Max Lerner, August Heckscher, David A. Shepard and Mark Van Doren at a Sesquicentennial symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center for Liberal Education.