June 6, 1916
247 graduates received their diplomas at Vassar’s 49th Commencement, in the Chapel. President MacCracken’s commencement address, “Everyman’s Hamlet,” focused on the idea that “humanity” was Vassar’s essential object of study.
In the evening, at the senior class dinner, “one-quarter of the members of the class ‘confessed’ their betrothals.”
The New York Times