Benjamin Dean Meritt papers, ca. 1935-1989 American Council of Learned Societies American Philosophical Society American Numismatic Society Athens College Aydelotte, Frank Bonner, Campbell Cherniss, Harold Clement, Paul A. Dinsmoor, William Bell Dow, Sterling Edson, Charles Ferguson, William Scott F

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Ferguson, William Scott

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American Numismatic Society

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Howland Wood (1877-1938) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and graduated from Brown University in 1900. He became a member of the ANS in 1909. By 1913 he had been appointed Curator, remaining in this position until his death in 1938. At that time, the Society only maintained a single curator, with two assistants. Despite the limited size of the staff, during Wood's tenure the Society's collections increased significantly, from 50,000 to almost 200,000 specimens. In addition to his curator...

Dinsmoor, William Bell, 1886-1973

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Epithet: of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x00037d Librarian. Dinsmoor, the third Librarian (1920-1926) of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, bought the unpublished manuscript of the 6th book of DESIGNS FOR DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE by the Italian architect, Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554), for the Avery Library and planned to publi...

Edson, Charles F. (Charles Farwell), 1905-1988

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Athens College

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Located in Athens, Greece. From the description of Records of Athens College, 1934-1935, n.d. (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702132482 ...

Friedländer, Paul, 1882-1968.

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Friedländer was born on Mar. 21, 1882 in Berlin, Germany; degree from Berlin, 1905; became Privat-dozent (1911) then Assoc. Professor at Univ. of Berlin (1914); in 1920 he became professor of Classical Philology at Marburg; professor, Halle Univ., 1932; forced to resign by the Nazis in 1935, Friedländer was detained in a concentration camp in 1938 before coming to the US; taught briefly at Johns Hopkins Univ. before coming to UCLA in 1940; became professor of Latin and Greek in 1945; after fou...

Bonner, Campbell, 1876-....

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Professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Michigan. From the description of Campbell Bonner papers, 1918-1954. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 79975769 From the description of Campbell Bonner papers, 1918-1954. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420134 Campbell Bonner was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 30, 1876. He received his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1896, and his A.M. (...

Meritt, Benjamin Dean, 1899-1989

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The collection consists of Meritt's correspondence with his colleagues, research notes, manuscripts of papers, and material from lectures and conferences. The correspondence comprises the bulk of the collection, with significant amounts of correspondence with his closest colleague, Geoffrey Woodhead (0.5 linear ft.) and collaborators West, Wade-Gery, and McGregor. From the guide to the Benjamin Dean Meritt papers, ca. 1935-1989 American Council of Learned Societies American Philosoph...

Schweigert, Eugene William

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Hondius, J. J. E

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Cherniss, Harold F. (Harold Fredrik), 1904-1987

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Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) George ...

American Council of Learned Societies. Meeting

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Founded in 1919 to promote advancement of the humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies represents about 30 societies and association. Serves as the spokesgroup for the International Union of Academics. The Council publishes "Speculum" and "The Journal of the History of Ideas", and also helps administer the Fulbright Program. From the description of Collection, 1956-1964. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 23196764 ...

Clement, Paul A.

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Raubitschek, A. E. (Antony Erich), 1912-1999

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Biographical/Historical note At the time of his death in 1999, Antony E. Raubitschek was the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Classics at Stanford University. Educated at the University of Vienna, he joined the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1938 and taught at Yale before moving to Stanford in 1963 as Professor of Classics. From the guide to the Antony E. Raubitschek papers,...

Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956

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Frank Aydelotte, seventh President of Swarthmore College, was born on October 18, 1880 in Sullivan, Indiana; he was the first president of the College who was not a Quaker. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Indiana in 1900, and three years later received an M.A. from Harvard. He became a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Oxford University from 1905-1907. He then taught at University of Indiana from 1908-1915. Afterward he taught English Literature at M.I.T. where he worked until he ...

Greek War Relief Association

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Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...

Haggard, Patience

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Robinson, Charles Alexander, 1900-1965

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Dow, Sterling, 1903-1995

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Sterling Dow was born on November 19, 1903 in Portland, Maine, son of Sterling Tucker Dow (a railroad executive) and Alice Gertrude Verrill Dow. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy then entered Harvard University where he received an AB in 1925, AM in 1928, and a Ph.D. in 1936. He spent 1925-1926 at Trinity College, Cambridge studying history, then returned to Harvard to work and study with historian W. S. Ferguson. In 1931 he married Elizabeth Sanderson Flagg Dow (1905-1990) and th...

Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972

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