Elijah L. Shettles papers on the founding of Southern Methodist University 1896-1936 1909-1934

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Elijah L. Shettles papers on the founding of Southern Methodist University 1896-1936 1909-1934

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These materials were collected by Elijah Leroy Shettles (1852-1940), a Methodist minister, while he researched the founding of Southern Methodist University. Shettles believed that Nathan Powell, a Methodist minister and teacher, was the originator of the idea to move Southwestern University to the Dallas or Fort Worth area. He also credits Powell with presenting the idea to the Conference of 1909, securing the land on which SMU now stands, and convincing the Conference to form a commission to consider movement of the university. The collection contains Shettles's correspondence and research regarding the founding of SMU. The majority of the material is correspondence, both Shettles's and Powell's, but three newspaper articles and minutes from the Board of Trustees meeting in 1910 are also included.

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Southern Methodist University Archives, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

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Shared governance had a short life at SMU. The concept was popular from initial research forays into its feasibility for the university in the 1960s until the death of the University Assembly in 1975. The University Assembly grew increasingly unpopular with the SMU faculty over time. From the guide to the University Assembly of Southern Methodist University records SMU 2010. 0421., 1968-1975, (Southern Methodist University Archives, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University) ...

Shettles, Elijah L., 1852-1940

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Elijah Leroy Shettles (1852-1940), Methodist minister, magazine editor, publisher, and bibliographer was born in 1852 in the Flatwoods country of Mississippi near Pontotoc, the son of Abner and Caroline (Browning) Shettles. His maternal grandfather, the family patriarch, was a Baptist minister and had a lifelong influence on Shettles. During his eighty-eight years Shettles worked as a teacher, a farm-implement salesman, a law student, a pressman for a newspaper, a freight agent, a p...

Powell, Nathan.

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