The Harry F. Harrington Papers fill three boxes and are arranged in five subseries: biographical materials, correspondence, teaching files, speeches, and publications. There are as well a few files relating to Harrington's college education. The include a number of newspaper clippings, five of which report on the aborted program in journalism at Western Reserve University. Many others deal with Harrington's appointment at Medill and with his speeches and professional activities. A few clippings are based on letters Harrington wrote to the while he and his wife were on their tour of Europe. Of considerable interest is a journal, entitled “Notes & Bits of Observation,” kept by Harrington from March 1, 1908 into September, 1909. The journal contains many entries illuminating Harrington's life in Ohio, his graduate study at Columbia, and his early teaching at Ohio Wesleyan. Also entered here are notes, anecdotes, and clippings for possible use in stories. The section on New York includes material pertinent to some of Harrington's teachers, such as Brander Matthews, and to contemporary events in the city. The relates primarily to Harrington's professional career, especially his teaching, writing, and speaking engagements. Harrington attended the inauguration of U.S. President William Howard Taft and wrote home a two-page account of his trip to Washington and of the time he and a friend spent in the capitol (letter dated March 7, 1909; Box 1, Folder 10). In April, 1930, Frank P. Stockbridge, editor of , wrote Harrington for his comments on the educational role of schools of journalism. biographical materials Chicago Evening Post correspondence The American Press
