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| Year | Month | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | June 15 | Hampton L. Carson* | |
| 1900 | June 13 | William L. Prather* | |
| 1901 | June 12 | James M. Beck* | The Student of Wittenberg and his Dram of Eale |
| 1902 | June 18 | Nicholas Murray Butler* | |
| 1903 | June 17 | Horace Howard Furness* | |
| 1904 | June 15 | David McConnell Steele* | |
| 1905 | June 14 | George Harris* | |
| 1906 | June 13 | John Bach McMaster* | |
| 1907 | June 19 | John A. Johnson* | The University Man’s Opportunity |
| 1908 | June 17 | Edgar Fahs Smith* | Our University |
| 1909 | June 16 | Josiah H. Penniman* | The Best in University Training |
| 1910 | June 15 | Philander C. Knox* | The Spirit and Purpose of American Diplomacy |
| 1911 | June 21 | Thomas R. Marshall* | The University Man |
| 1912 | June 19 | Joseph Swain* | Privileges and Duties of American Citizenship |
| 1913 | June 18 | Edward P. Cheyney* | |
| 1914 | June 17 | Jean J. Jusserand* | |
| 1915 | June 16 | Felix E. Schelling* | |
| 1916 | June 21 | Bliss Perry* | |
| 1917 | June 20 | Charles Franklin Thwing* | |
| 1919 | June 19 | Leonard Wood* | |
| 1920 | June 16 | Edgar Fahs Smith* | Farewell Address |
| 1921 | June 15 | Ernest Martin Hopkins* | The Improvability of Man |
| 1922 | June 14 | Josiah H. Penniman, Cornelius Weygandt, and Alfred Stengel* | |
| 1923 | February 16 | Warren Powers Laird* | Art and Life |
| 1923 | June 20 | Josiah H. Penniman, Thomas P. McCutcheon, and Edwin R. Keedy* | |
| 1924 | February 16 | Charles R. Turner* | |
| 1924 | June 18 | Solomon S. Huebner and Walton Brooks McDaniel* | |
| 1925 | February 14 | J.P. Wickersham Crawford* | |
| 1925 | June 17 | Rodney H. True and O.H. Perry Pepper* | The University Man as Citizen (True) |
| 1926 | February 13 | Robert Belle Burke* | |
| 1926 | June 16 | Edgar A. Singer and George W. McClelland* | |
| 1927 | February 12 | Arthur Willis Goodspeed* | |
| 1927 | June 15 | William E. Lingelbach* | Universities and Progress |
| 1928 | February 18 | Josiah H. Penniman* | |
| 1928 | June 20 | Frederic L. Ballard* | |
| 1929 | June 19 | St. George L. Sioussat* | Frontiers for the Future |
| 1930 | June 18 | Cheesman A. Herrick* | University of Pennsylvania’s Service to City and Commonwealth |
| 1931 | June 17 | Thomas Sovereign Gates* | The Human Side of Higher Education |
| 1932 | June 22 | Harlow Shapley* | A Running in Trails |
| 1933 | February 18 | W. Brooke Stabler | |
| 1933 | June 21 | Horace Stern | |
| 1935 | June 19 | Isaiah Bowman | |
| 1937 | June 9 | Cordell Hull | |
| 1939 | February 18 | Joseph Henry Willits | |
| 1939 | June 14 | Josiah H. Penniman | |
| 1940 | February 17 | Frank Pierrepont Graves | |
| 1941 | February 15 | Felix Muskett Morley | |
| 1941 | June 11 | Archibald MacLeish* | Phophets of Doom |
| 1942 | February 14 | Douglas Southall Freeman | |
| 1942 | June 2 | Rex Stowers Clements | |
| 1942 | September 16 | Oliver James Hart | |
| 1943 | February 6 | Henning Webb Prentiss, Jr. | The Cult of Competency |
| 1943 | June 2 | John Edwin Pomfret* | National Morale |
| 1944 | March 4 | Ralph Barton Perry | Idealism in Politics |
| 1944 | October 31 | Charles Francis Jenkins | |
| 1945 | June 28 | Arthur T. Vanderbilt | |
| 1945 | October 30 | Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve | |
| 1946 | February 28 | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| 1946 | June 27 | Tai-Chi Quo | |
| 1946 | August 29 | Herbert Funk Goodrich | |
| 1947 | March 15 | Chester Irving Barnard | |
| 1947 | June 18 | Roger Adams | |
| 1947 | August 28 | Earl Grant Harrison | |
| 1948 | February 7 | George Keith Funston | |
| 1948 | June 9 | James Francis Byrnes | |
| 1949 | February 12 | James Foster Dulles | |
| 1949 | June 15 | Detlev Wulf Bronk | |
| 1949 | August 24 | William Wilcox Edel | |
| 1950 | February 11 | Paul Grey Hoffmann | |
| 1950 | June 14 | Thomas Knight Finletter | |
| 1951 | February 10 | George Keith Funston | |
| 1951 | June 13 | James Rhyne Killian | |
| 1951 | September 19 | Robert Strausz-Hupé | |
| 1952 | February 16 | Boyd Lee Spahr | |
| 1952 | June 18 | Henry Merritt Wriston* | |
| 1953 | February 7 | Harry Elmer Humphreys, Jr. | |
| 1953 | June 10 | Milton Stover Eisenhower* | |
| 1954 | February 13 | Dag Hammarskjöld | |
| 1954 | June 16 | Gayson Louis Kirk and Charles E. Wyzanski | Man’s Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof (Kirk) |
| 1955 | February 12 | Oveta Culp Hobby | |
| 1955 | June 15 | Franklin David Murphy |