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Hammond, Donald U. Donald Hammond letters, 1914-1915.

Title: Donald Hammond letters, 1914-1915.

His letters describe his training, life in the trenches, and battles in vivid detail.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64750228 View

Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939. Livingston Farrand papers, 1921-1939.

Title: Livingston Farrand papers, 1921-1939.

The Livingston Farrand Papers consist of correspondence, office files, reports, letters of transmittal, notices of appointment to committees, scrapbooks, cross reference sheets, clippings, diplomas, and certificates deriving from his presidency of Cornell University from 1921 to 1937. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, pertaining largely to the routine administration of the President's Office and the University. Subjects include student and faculty issues, student health, athletics, Cornell United Religious Work including arrangements for Sage Chapel preachers, alumni affairs, fraternities, the Cornell-in-China Program, and the University Faculty; also, relations with and the administration of the Law School, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Cornell University Medical College, the College of Engineering, Cornell University Library, the Office of the Comptroller, ROTC, the New York State College of Agriculture, and the New York State Veterinary College, and relations with New York Hospital, the city of Ithaca (N.Y.), the United States Office of Education, the New York State Department of Education, the American Council on Education, the Carnegie Corporation and Carnegie Foundation, the Heckscher Research Council, and the United States War Department. Other topics include instances of student malfeasance and scholastic failure, racial discrimination and anti-semitism on campus, concern with communist influence in the educational community, and Farrand's personal interests in eugenics and public health. Major correspondents include Arthur Allen, Howard E. Babcock, Carl Becker, Romeyn Berry, Cornelius Betten, Charles Bostwick, Charles K. Burdick, Foster M. Coffin, L. M. Dennis, R. Louise Fitch, Harold Flack, Frank E. Gannett, William A. Hammond, Frank H. Hiscock, Carl E. Ladd, Albert R. Mann, Archie Palmer, George Rogalsky, Flora Rose, Robert Treman, Allan H. Treman, Myron C. Taylor, Martha van Rensselaer, George F. Warren, and J. DuPratt White. Also included is a bound typewritten report on the state of Cornell University and its current financial needs as of 1924.

ArchivalResource: 40.7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63937380 View

Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-. Gustavus Watts Cunningham letters, 1911-1944.

Title: Gustavus Watts Cunningham letters, 1911-1944.

Incoming correspondence from fellow philosophers, including forty-seven letters from Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (1856-1928), in which he discusses the philosophical systems of Hegel and Kant, comments on Cunningham's studies of Hegel and Henri Bergson, and on the writings of Bergson, Bernard Bosanquet, Francis Herbert Bradley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, and others, and refers to World War I, in particular the condition of the French army, the situation in Russia in 1917, and the presence of American troops in Europe, to his wartime posts in the British government, and to his meeting (1919) with Woodrow Wilson; five letters from Herbert Wildon Carr, mainly concerning the views and writings of Hegel, Bergson, and Benedetto Croce; one or two letters each from Henry Rutgers Marshall, Stewart A. McDowell, Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, and George H. Sabine; three letters from James E. Creighton, discussing the "absolute problem," Cunningham's critique of a recently published book by Bosanquet, presumably The Meeting of Extremes in Contemporary Philosophy, administrative matters at both Texas and Cornell, and the decline of the "solid studies that promote discipline of mind," the pitfalls of early specialization, and the "tremendous importance of getting a few general critical ideas into the heads of college graduates"; and single letters from William A Hammond, John Laird, T.V. Smith, and Frank Thilly, on personal and professional matters.

ArchivalResource: 67 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936027 View

Health Restorative Company. Handbill and a form letter, ca.1890.

Title: Handbill and a form letter, ca.1890.

Handbill advertising coca preparations, including cocaine; author denies cocaine is addictive.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122608961 View