A postcard showing Professor L.L. Conant presenting Professor Combs, Secretary of the Commemoration Committee, with a gold watch and fifty American Roses at the Gates to Alumni Field during the dedication of Alumni Field to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. The watch and roses were given in commemoration of the fact that it was his fiftieth birthday on the same weekend that Worcester Polytechnic Institute was celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the school's founding. Alumni Field and the Alumni Gymnasium were given to the college by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni in honor of the school's 50th Anniversary.
Is a part of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute History Collection. University Archives and Special Collections, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, George C. Gordon Library, Worcester, Massachusetts. http://www.wpi.edu/+library
