Elisha Benjamin Andrews papers, 1844-1959,n.d. (bulk 1890-1914).

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Elisha Benjamin Andrews papers, 1844-1959,n.d. (bulk 1890-1914).

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Consists of correspondence, committee reports, petitions, speeches, clippings, pamphlets, and manuscripts dating from 1844 to 1959, although the bulk of the material dates from 1890 to 1914. Subjects documented in the collection include faculty appointments; the curriculum, including psychology as taught by Edmund Burke Delabarre; donations and gifts to the university; individual students, particularly matters related to tuition, recommendations, and acceptance to the university; and candidates for honorary degrees. Although Andrews promoted education for women, there is little in the collection about this topic. Several letters by others document portraits at Brown. A few letters in the collection document Andrews's opinion on the free coinage of silver. Although his opinions on free silver were known before and during his tenure as president, it was the publication in 1896 of some of Andrews's letters about the free coinage of silver that made his position on the topic an issue for the Brown University Corporation. Some members of the Corporation believed that Brown's financial shortages might be lessened if an advocate of bimetallism was not in the office of University President, since it was assumed that many of the University's supporters were against free silver. In 1897, the Corporation asked Andrews to refrain from discussing the silver question. Andrews resigned, protesting that he could not forsake his right to freedom of speech. The numerous letters and petitions that were written to the Corporation by other university presidents and faculty members, Brown alumni and alumnae, and others to protest this incursion on academic freedom are in the collection. There are also letters that support the Corporation's position. Some letters discuss the subject of bimetallism, including one from Stephen Westcott Nickerson, president of the Massachusetts Bimetallic Union. At the request of the Corporation, Andrews withdrew his resignation. Manuscripts used for William Adams Slade's Dictionary of American Biography entry about Andrews are in the collection. There are also biographical files of materials about Andrews that were collected from 1934 to 1959 by a committee headed by William T. Hastings, John S. Murdock, and Harry Lyman Koopman. The files for the Committee for a Biography of E.B. Andrews include the correspondence of the committee, collected reminiscences about Andrews, and other correspondence and manuscript drafts. The Brown University Bicentennial Publications Committee planned a biography of Andrews. The files from this committee contain primarily correspondence but there are a few scattered reminiscences about Andrews.

314 items (1.5 linear ft.)

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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