History of college collection, 1928-1984, 1928-1957 (bulk)

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History of college collection, 1928-1984, 1928-1957 (bulk)

Miscellaneous collection of documents and histories of the college. Histories include "History of Manhattan College 1848-1938," by Brother Adelphus Joseph, ca.1938; "The Tree Bore Fruit: Manhattan College," by Brother C. Gabriel, annotated copy, 1953; history of college, 1950-1955; class list, 1885-1928; list of presidents, 1863-ca.1962; "Class of '29, Fifty Years Later," 1979. Related histories include typed transcription, "Chronicle of the Establishment of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in the City of New York, by Brother John Chrysostum, 1848-1874"; "History of Church of the Annunciation, Manhattanville, 1893-1938"; and "History of Sisters' Division of Manhattan College, 1928-1956." Other materials include correspondence files of President with Dean of School of Arts and Sciences, 1954-1957, and with deans and faculty, 1938-1944; correspondence file, possibly of registrar, 1933-1944; miscellaneous correspondence, including letters from Alfred E. Smith concerning his son Walter, 1928-1933. Also, files on visit by Dr. Roy Deferrari, Secretary-General of Catholic University of America, 1939; accelerated program, 1941-1943; federal government communications on war effort, 1941-1944; minutes and reports of Postwar Planning Committee, 1941-1945; military service and training, 1945-1951; space allocations, 1949-1952; report on goals of Manhattan College, 1981; and brochures, 1983-1984.

1 cubic ft.

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Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...

Manhattan College. School of Arts and Sciences.

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Deferrari, Roy J. (Roy Joseph), 1890-1969

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Dr. Roy J. Deferrari spent the majority of his career at The Catholic University of America both as a professor of Classics and as an administrator. He was born on June 1, 1890 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, the fourth of six children. Dr. Deferrari began studying Latin and Greek while attending Melrose High School and continued his education at Dartmouth College, where he specialized in Greek and Latin literature. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. After graduating with an A.B. i...

Manhattan College

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Manhattan College. Postwar Planning Committee.

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Manhattan College. Sisters' Division.

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Smith, Walter J.

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Walter and Dorothy Smith were the collectors. From the description of Walter and Dorothy Smith memorial collection, 1853-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155506427 CEO, The Healthcare Chaplaincy. From the description of Reminiscences of Walter J. Smith : oral history, 2003. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 626985782 ...

Manhattanville College

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The predecessor of Manhattanville College was the Female Academy of the Sacred Heart established in New York City in 1841. It became a four-year undergraduate school in 1917; moved to its present site on the former Whitelaw Reid estate in Purchase, N.Y. in 1952; and in 1971 the college became co-educational and independent of the Society of the Sacred Heart. From the description of Academic history and policy records, 1919-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540722 From ...

Christian Brothers

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La Salle Military Academy is run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, commonly known as the Christian Brothers, a teaching order founded in France in 1684 by Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle. From the description of Christian Brothers collection, 1883-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155550870 ...

Church of the Annunciation (Purchase, N.Y.)

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