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Happy Birthday, Hop! Commemoration Day Celebration 2024

Thursday, February 22, 2024
12:00pm - 2:00pm

Hopkins Retrospective is throwing a 148th birthday party for Johns Hopkins University (looking good for 148, aren't we?) and you're invited! Joins us for a display of historic campus photographs and cupcakes.

Commemoration Day marks the anniversary of Daniel Coit Gilman's inauguration as the university's first president on February 22, 1876. You can read Gilman's complete inaugural address online at jhu.edu.

So ... what do you get for a 148-year-old who has everything? Cupcakes and free swag, of course!