Zechariah Chafee papers, 1915-1957 (bulk dates 1943-1947)

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Zechariah Chafee papers, 1915-1957 (bulk dates 1943-1947)

1885-1957

https://search.library.brown.edu/catalog/b2499683

Consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, clippings, and printed materials documenting Chafee's work as a trustee of Brown University and on the Commission on the Freedom of the Press. Files related to Brown University date from 1915-1957 and include correspondence between Chafee and William Herbert Perry Faunce. Chafee was also a member of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Classics from 1915 to 1936. About two-thirds of the collection documents Chafee's work as vice-chairman of the Commission on the Freedom of the Press (1943-1947). The Commission was established in 1943 to determine if freedom of the press was in danger in the United States. The commission was also referred to as the Hutchins Commission.

900 items (1.2 linear ft.)

eng, Latn

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Chafee, Zechariah, 1885-1957

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Chafee was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, in 1907. Later, he received a law degree from Harvard University, completing his LL.B. in 1913. He was influenced by the theories of sociological Jurisprudence presented by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard. He met Harold J. Laski, a political scientist and later a leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party, who became a lifelong friend, there. He practiced at the law fir...

Brown University. Board of Trustees.

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Faunce, William Herbert Perry, 1859-1930

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President of Brown University, 1899-1929. From the description of Scrapbook, [ca.1878-1888]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122647911 Ninth president of Brown University, 1899-1929; Baptist clergy. Graduated from Brown in 1880; graduated from Newton Theological Institution in 1884; pastor of State Street Baptist Church in Springfield, Mass., and Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York, N.Y. From the description of William Herbert...

Brown University. Corporation

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The authority and responsibilities of the Corporation, a bicameral body composed of a Board of Fellows with twelve members and a Board of Trustees with forty-two, are set forth in the Charter of the University granted by the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1764. "It is our fixed star; we can do nothing that contradicts its prohibitions or transgresses its grants of power," states Henry Wriston in The Structure of Brown University. The Charter origina...

Commission on Freedom of the Press

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Funded by grants from Time, Inc., and Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., the Commission on Freedom of the Press was appointed in 1944 to investigate the freedom, function, and responsibilities of the major agencies of mass communication. Commission members included Robert Hutchins, chairman; Zechariah Chaffee, vice-chairman; John M. Clark; John Dickinson; William E. Hocking; Harold Lasswell; Archibald MacLeish; Charles Merriam; Reinhold Niebuhr; Robert Redfield; Beardsley Ruml; Arthur Schlesinger; ...

Brown University. Department of Classics

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