Notes
This essay draws heavily on the events and timeline presented by Marisa Rosado in Las Llamas de la Aurora: Acercamiento a una Biografia de Pedro Albizu Campos (Segunda edicíon, 1998).
Letter to Harvard Committee on Admission June 1916. Harvard Pusey Archives. Accessed 15 December 2002.
This letter was written in 1916 requesting a waiver from grade requirements as an unclassified student. The conditions of his admission as an unclassified student required him to pass 14 courses with a grade of C. Albizu Campos states that he completed 15 courses and requested a waiver for one course with the grade of D. This waiver was granted enabling Albizu Campos to graduate and enter Harvard Law School.
Ariel vol. 28 (1915), Special Collections. University of Vermont. Accessed 16 June 2011.
Harvard College Yearbook, 1916. Harvard Pusey Archives. Accessed 15 December 2002.
(Rosado, 1998, 35) author's translation.
Letter to Harvard Committee on Admission June 1916. Harvard Pusey Archives. Accessed 15 December 2002.
Harvard University Appointment Office Record, July 1916. Harvard Pusey Archives. Accessed 15 December 2002.
Ruth Reynolds Collection, The Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, CUNY.
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De Jesús, A. I have endeavored to seize the beautiful opportunity for learning offered here: Pedro Albizu Campos at Harvard a century ago. Lat Stud 9, 473–485 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/lst.2011.54
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