Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records, 1927-1949 (bulk 1933-1945).

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Murrow, Edward R. (Edward Roscoe), 1908-1965

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965), born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. After the war, in December 1945 Murrow an offer to become a vice president of the CBS network and head o...

Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939

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Livingston Farrand was born in 1867 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1888, and took an M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He was an instructor in psychology at Columbia University, and later adjunct professor. Interested in primitive psychology, he joined expeditions to the Pacific northwest with Franz Boas and others, and was appointed professor of anthropology at Columbia in 1903. Farrand was deeply concerned with public health ...

Johns Hopkins University

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International Student Service

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Begun in 1919 as European Student Relief, it later changed its name to International Student Service. The United States Committee of ISS was represented by the National Student Federation. Activities included cultural cooperation and university research, but material aid to students in need was the most important function of the organization. From the description of Collection, 1936-1943. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28452043 ...

Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim.

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National Refugee Service (U.S.)

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Flexner, Bernard, 1865-1945

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Bernard Flexner, a lawyer, philanthropist and Zionist leader, was an early supporter of the juvenile court movement. From 1917 he lived in New York, devoting himself to various Zionist movements and organizations to aid Palestine. From the guide to the Bernard Flexner Papers, 1882-1946, 1917-1943, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Flexner, a lawyer, philanthropist and Zionist leader, was an early supporter of the juvenile court move...

Rockefeller Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation was established in May 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, by act of the New York State Legislature, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world". From its earliest years, several separate organizations and divisions have carried on the Foundation's work in carefully selected fields. In 1913, the International Health Board (originally the International Health Commission) was formed in order to extend the work of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradi...

Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960

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Mathematician. From the description of Oswald Veblen papers, 1881-1960 (bulk 1920-1960). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062378 Biographical Note 1880, June 24 Born, Decorah, Iowa 1898 A.B., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 1900 A.B...

Drury, Betty.

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Stein, Fred M.

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Emergency committee in aid of displaced foreign scholars

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The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars was formed in New York City in 1933 by American academicians for the purpose of employing refugee German scholars in American institutions. Many of these refugee scholars were Jews displaced by the National Socialist government. The Committee disbanded in 1945. From the description of Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records, 1927-1949 (bulk 1933-1945). (New York Public Libra...

National Co-ordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees and Emigrants Coming from Germany

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Friedrich, Carl J. (Carl Joachim), 1901-1984

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German-American political scientist. From the description of Carl Joachim Friedrich miscellaneous papers, 1940-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871670 Carl J. Friedrich (1901-1984) was a political scientist, political advisor, and educator. He was Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. From the description of Papers of Carl J. Friedrich, 1919-1975. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973338 ...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany

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Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972

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Astronomer (galaxies, photometry, spectroscopy) and administrator. Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory, 1914-1921; director, Harvard Observatory, 1921-1952; on the astronomy faculty at Harvard from 1952. From the description of Papers [microform], 1910-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80523781 Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) was an astronomer. Shapley served as director of the Harvard College Observatory and was a professor at Harvard University, eventually he became the Pai...

Foerster, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1869-1966

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Epithet: German philosopher and educationist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x000387 Foerster was a German educator who studied philosophy, economics, and political issues. He emigrated to New York in 1940. From the description of F. W. Foerster autograph letter signed to Mrs. Rank, 1940 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864922 ...

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997)

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

Johnson, Alvin Saunders, 1874-1971

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Writer, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Alvin Saunders Johnson : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739664 Chairman of the New School's University of Exile, and associate editor of the Encyclopaedia of the social sciences. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1933-1936. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 238235085 Head of the New...

Duggan, Stephen, 1870-1950

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Professor of Philosophy. Duggan was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1890. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1890-1950] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502544 ...

Seelye, Laurens Hickok, 1889-

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Chamberlain, Joseph P. (Joseph Perkins), 1873-1951

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American Christian Committee for Refugees, Inc.

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The name of the organization varies: American Christian Committee for Refugees, Inc., American Committee for Christian German Refugees, American Committee for Christian Refugees, Inc., American Christian Committee for German Refugees. The organization ceased in 1947. From the description of Collection, 1936-1947. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 26751293 ...

Oberlaender Trust

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Academic Assistance Council

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Bentwich, Norman, 1883-1971

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Norman de Mattos Bentwich (1883-1971) Son of Herbert Bentwich. Educated St. Paul’s School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Called to the Bar, 1908. Served Ministry of Justice, Cairo, 1912-1915; Major, Camel transport, 1916-1918; Attorney-General, Government of Palestine, 1920-1931; Professor of International Relations, Jerusalem University, 1932-1951; Director of High Commission for Refugees from Germany, 1933-1935; Chairman National Peace Council, 1944-1946; Chairman Uni...