Comptroller records 1877-1970

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Comptroller records, 1877-1970

Title

Comptroller records 1877-1970

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http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/uarc00847.xml

Abstract

Collection contains the records of the Comptroller at the University of Minnesota.

Extent

19 boxes + one map case drawer (19.3 cubic feet)

Holding Repository

University of Minnesota Libraries. University Archives [uarc]

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6619255

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University of Minnesota. University High School

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University High School was established at the University of Minnesota by the Board of Regents in 1908. Enrolling students in grades 7-12, the school was a part of the College of Education and served as an on-campus laboratory school, offering a broader educational curriculum than many local high schools. The school had a limited enrollment, keeping class sizes small, but enrollment was open to any student who could demonstrate academic and social excellence. Even though the school had an open en...

University of Minnesota. College of education

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The College of Education was established at the University of Minnesota in 1905, with its predecessor, the department of pedagogy, created in 1892 within the College of Science, Literature and the Arts (SLA). Before the department was established, prospective teachers were offered courses through SLA, first by Professor Maria Sanford in 1881, and later she was joined by history professor Harry P. Judson in 1885. Around 1905, a summer school was instituted at the University for eleme...

University of Minnesota. Office of The Registrar.

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Grant, Richard

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University of Minnesota. Department of Physical Education for Women.

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Boynton Health Service

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University of Minnesota. Owatonna Experiment Station.

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University of Minnesota. School of Business

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University of Minnesota. West Central School of Agriculture (Morris, Minn.)

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The West Central School of Agriculture opened on October 3, 1910, on the Morris campus with 103 students and the stated purpose of "training of young men and women for the profession of farming." The School's administrative home was the Department of Agriculture (College of Agriculture), and the School would remain a part of the College's administrative structure until 1960. In 1960, when the high school became the University of Minnesota - Morris, a four-year liberal arts college, the campus re...

Minnesota Geological Survey

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After the completion of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey in 1900 with the retirement of Dr. Newton H. Winchell, it was ten years before a survey of Minnesota was again initiated. In 1911, University president George Vincent requested, and received, monetary support from the Minnesota Legislature to revive the survey under the direction of geology professor William H. Emmons. The survey had a permanent home at the University of Minnesota in Pillsbury Hall and was a...

University of Minnesota. Armory.

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Gleason, John L.

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University of Minnesota. Pillsbury Statue.

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University of Minnesota. Center for Continuation Study

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University of Minnesota. School of Agriculture

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The School of Agriculture opened on October 18, 1888, on the University Farm in St. Paul, with 17 students registered for the fall term. The School's administrative home was the College of Agriculture, and the School would remain a part of the College's administrative structure throughout its existence. Additional branches of the School of Agriculture were opened in Crookston (1906), Morris (1909), Grand Rapids (1921), and Waseca (1952). At their meeting on May 12, 1960, the Board of Regents, on...

University of Minnesota. Northeast Experiment Station (Duluth, Minn.)

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The Minnesota Legislature in 1911 authorized the appropriation of $65,000 for the purchase of a demonstration and experiment farm near Duluth. At the August 10, 1911, University Board of Regents Agricultural Committee meeting, Dean Albert Woods of the University’s Department of Agriculture presented a recommendation for the purchase of a site owned by the Greysolon Farms Company. Two hundred and thirty-five acres was purchased August 1, 1912. The President’s Report for 1911-1912 not...

Chase, Ray P. (Ray Park), 1880-1948

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University of Minnesota. School of Chemistry

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University of Minnesota. Hospitals

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University of Minnesota. Comptroller

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The Board of Regents appointed Dean William M. Liggett purchasing agent for the department of agriculture and Judge Stephen Mahoney, then secretary of the Board of Regents, as purchasing agent for the rest of the University in 1903. These two positions were responsible for directing the finances of the University. In 1905, Judge Mahoney resigned and Calvin D. Decker was appointed as purchasing agent and secretary of the Board of Regents. He served until 1911, when all administrative...

University of Minnesota. Cooperative Cottages for Women Students.

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Minnesota Hospital and Home for Crippled Children.

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University of Minnesota. Department of Botany

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Botany was first introduced as an academic subject at the University of Minnesota in 1873 under the direction of Newton Horace Winchell as part of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey. The Department of Botany was established in 1889 as a result of the division of the Department of Biology into Botany and Animal Biology. Conway MacMillan was appointed as the first chair in 1891. In 1895 the Botany Department hired the first female faculty member at the University of M...

University of Minnesota. Printing Department.

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University of Minnesota. Astronomical Observatory.

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University of Minnesota. Mines Experiment Station

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The Mines Experiment Station was established by the Minnesota Legislature in 1911 to promote the development and conservation of the mineral resources of the state. A grant of $10,000 was given to the University of Minnesota to set up and administer a program to give assistance to miners, patterned after the agricultural experiment stations established to assist Minnesota farmers. In 1916, the University and the United States Bureau of Mines began a cooperative agreement in which the federal bur...

University of Minnesota. Women's Self-Government Association.

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University of Minnesota. Department of Agriculture

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Coffman Memorial Union.

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Minnesota Alumni Association

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The University of Minnesota Alumni Association was established on January 30, 1904, when more than 350 alumni gathered in the Armory. This constituted the founding and first meeting of the General Alumni Association (GAA). E. Bird Johnson served as the first Executive Secretary from 1905-1920, followed by E.B. Pierce from 1920-1948. Edwin Haislet served as director from 1948-1976, followed by Vincent Bilotta, 1976-1978, Stephen Roszell, 1979-1984, and Margaret Sughrue Ca...

University of Minnesota. Oak Street Laboratories.

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Lake Itasca Forestry and Biological Station.

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University of Minnesota. Department of History

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University of Minnesota. Division of Dairy Husbandry.

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University of Minnesota. Agricultural Experiment Station. St. Anthony Park.

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University of Minnesota. School of Forestry

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University of Minnesota. Graduate School

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Graduate education has been offered at the University of Minnesota since 1875, cumulating in the first Master's Degree being awarded in 1882 to Robert Henry Crafts, and the first Ph.D. in 1888 to Charles Burke Elliott. In 1885, the graduate department was organized within the College of Science, Literature and the Arts and on December 12, 1905, the Board of Regents established the Graduate School as an autonomous unit at the University. The following faculty have served as dean of the Graduate S...

University of Minnesota. General Extension Division

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In Minnesota, 4-H grew out of the boys and girls clubs movement. Theodore (Dad) Erickson, introduced the first agricultural club in 1904, focusing on teaching boys about corn-growing and culminating in growing competitions. In 1912, Erickson was appointed as the first 4-H club leader in Minnesota, a position he held until 1940. Conservation education was added to programming in the 1920s, with the center of activity at the Leadership Camp at Itasca State park. The public face of 4-H historically...

University of Minnesota. Minnesota Union.

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University of Minnesota. Division of Horticulture.

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University of Minnesota. President's Residence.

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United States. National Recovery Administration

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University of Minnesota. Rosemount Research Center

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University of Minnesota. Excelsior Fruit Breeding Farm.

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St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory

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Memorial Stadium (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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University of Minnesota. Tunnels.

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Bell Museum of Natural History

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The Bell Museum of Natural History had its roots in the formation of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey organized in 1872. A museum was mentioned in the original plans but no formal action was taken until 1875 when Newton Horace Winchell, Survey Director, brought up the subject in his annual report. As a result, quarters were allotted to the Museum collection in Old Main where the material remained until 1889, when the collection was moved to the newly built Pillsbu...

University of Minnesota. News Service.

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University of Minnesota. School of Dentistry

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Established in 1888, the College of Dentistry was one of three colleges included in the Department of Medicine formed in 1888 with Dr. Percy H. Millard as its dean. The College of Medicine and Surgery and the College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery were the other units of the Department of Medicine. Prior to its establishment, the Minnesota College Hospital, a private school of medicine, provided instructional courses in dentistry and medicine. From 1888 to 1892 Dr. ...

University of Minnesota. Health Services.

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University of Minnesota, Duluth

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University of Minnesota. North Central Experiment Station (Grand Rapids, Minn.)

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The Minnesota State Legislature and the University Board of Regents created the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station in 1885 near the University’s Minneapolis campus. The 1897 Biennial Report of the Board of Regents explained how the subsequent experiment sub-stations were established, “A law, enacted at the last session of the state legislature, required the regents to purchase and equip two substations, each to contain not less than 320 acres, and appropriated $20,000 for tha...

University of Minnesota. College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics

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University of Minnesota. Office of the Vice President.

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University of Minnesota. Northwest Experiment Station (Crookston, Minn.)

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University of Minnesota. Division of Soils.

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University of Minnesota. Division of Entomology and Economic Zoology

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Entomology was first listed as a collegiate-level course in the 1874-1875 University Bulletin for the College of Agriculture. In the 1877-1878 Bulletin, Economic Entomology was listed in the description of the College of Agriculture’s scope of instruction, noting the subject included “general characters of insects; characters and peculiarities of those families containing useful or injurious members; together with a special study of the more important individuals of these families.”...

Comptroller records 1877-1970

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