The Boar's Head Dinner Collection contains materials about the planning of the event, speeches by University faculty and administrators, music, formal invitations and posters, and some historical background. Much of the material about planning and speakers dates from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s.
The Senior Orations held by the University Archives run from 1868 to 1877. The collection also contains several senior essays from 1913 and 1914 by female students, who were first admitted to the University of Rochester in 1900.
This collection consists primarily of the extant texts or excerpts of the commencement addresses delivered at the main Arts, Sciences and Engineering ceremony. One address from the Eastman School of Music, and another from the School of Nursing, are included as a subseries of the main collection.
