Papers, 1905-1976.

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Papers, 1905-1976.

The papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, and reviews documenting Mecklin's academic career in the philosophy departments at Lafayette and Dartmouth Colleges. Correspondents include E.D. Warfield of Lafayette College; A.P. Camphor, president of the Central Alabama Institute; and E.M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College. Of special note is a written reaction by an African former educator and Liberian missionary to Mecklin's book, Democracy and race friction. Also contains autobiographical letters from Ernest Hopkins detailing Hopkins' relationship with his father.

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Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley, 1861-1936

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Warfield, the son of William Warfield and Mary Cabell Breckinridge Warfield, was a graduate of Princeton University. He also attended Oxford University and received a degree from Columbia Law School in 1885. Warfield practiced law for three years before becoming the president of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1888. Warfield accepted the presidency of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1891. He also held a professorship of political science at Lafayette. From the descri...

Hopkins, Ernest Martin, 1877-1964

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Ernest Martin Hopkins, the eleventh president of Dartmouth College, was born in Dunbarton, N.H. in 1877. He received his AB from Dartmouth in 1901 and his AM from Dartmouth in 1908. From 1901 to 1905 he was secretary to the president of College, and from 1905 to 1910 he was secretary of the College. He served as president from 1916 to 1945. He died in 1964. From the description of Papers, 1916-1945. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237296423 ...

Mecklin, John Moffatt, 1871-1956

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Historian Edward Potts Cheyney taught at the University of Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Drafts of chapters for "Freedom of inquiry and expression, " 1936-1938, 1936-1938, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Camphor, Alexander Priestly, 1865-1919.

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Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.). Dept. of Philosophy.

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Dartmouth College. Dept. of Philosophy.

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