Harvard University. Tercentenary Celebration Office.

Harvard University celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of the College's founding in 1936 with an elaborate Tercentenary Celebration. The festivities included exhibits, special lectures, summer school courses, and culminated with the Tercentenary Days on September 16-18, 1936. Delegates from other academic institutions and learned societies were invited for the celebration and to participate in symposia discussing their fields. As part of the celebration, a Tercentenary medallion and Tercentenary Conference medal were designed and executed by A. Graham Carey (Harvard AB 1914), and the dies were struck by the Medallic Art Company. Carey's design includes the Harvard arms with the "Veritas" logo on the obverse, and on the reverse, a quotation from William Bradford's History of Plimmoth Plantation. The medals were struck in silver, attached to ribbons, and used as badges by attendees of the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences. They were also distributed during the Conference in the form of coins. The larger medallion was struck in bronze and presented to all of the Delegates attending the Celebration. Additional silver and bronze medallions were offered for sale to benefit Harvard alumni organizations.