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The Founders’ Day Tea

The Founder's Day Tea
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In 1912, the first graduating class of the University of Alberta took afternoon tea at Rutherford House. There were eighteen graduates, five of them women. For the next twenty years graduates of the university would have tea here, and remarkably, each entire graduating class would be accommodated in these elegant, but by no means spacious, surroundings.

Video excerpt from Futures, copyright University of Alberta Department of Radio and Television and Access Alberta, Edmonton, 1980.


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