August 17, 2016

President MacAlister begins to excuse Drexel students from class in 1895 so they can watch war ships set sail at Cramps Shipyard on the Delaware River. Drexel revived the lost tradition in 2008 with an annual “Bon Voyage” celebration for undergraduate seniors, usually at some venue along the river such as aboard the Moshulu at Penn’s Landing or at Drexel’s boathouse on the Schuylkill River.