Diary, 1848-1851.

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Diary, 1848-1851.

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This diary consists of approximately three hundrend thirty-three pages of small but very legible handwriting. The entries begin 13 October 1848, when Schroeder was in his senior year at Columbia, and the regular entries end 12 August 1851, after the end of Schroeder's second year at the seminary. In the diaries Schroeder describes his daily activities, including household and family events, in minute detail. Topics include his studies and other reading, visits with friends and family, and occasional comments on current events. Schroeder was very interested in chess, and frequently mentions playing games of chess, reading books on the subject, and studying problems. There is also much religious reflection. An envelope filed with the diary contains two leaves with draft entries for 8 to 30 August 1851. Three additional leaves (evidently torn from another volume) contain entries for 1 to 13 January 1855, when Schroeder and his family were in New Milford. Also in the envelope are a sheet entitled "Chess Mnemonics" and a letter dated 15 April 1885 from T. P. Bull regarding books and magazines on chess.

1 v. (224 leaves, 62 blank) ; octavo.

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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...

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Bull, T.P. 1839-1890

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Schroeder, John Frederick, 1827-1896.

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John Frederick Schroeder (1827-1896), the son of Rev. John Frederick Schroeder (1800-1857), an Episcopalian minister, and Caroline Maria Boardman Schroeder (1802- ), of New Milford, Conn., was born on 13 October 1827. The Schroeders lived in and near New York City beginning in 1823. From 1846 to 1852, the elder John F. Schroeder was minister of the Church of the Crucifixion in New York. He also conducted a girls' school called St. Ann's Hall, and young women attending the school regularly boarde...