Walter Landauer collection of the Board of Trustees' "Gag Rule" responses, 1935.

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Walter Landauer collection of the Board of Trustees' "Gag Rule" responses, 1935.

Correspondence, petitions, telegrams, and newspaper clippings, relating to a resolution passed by Connecticut State College Board of Trustees requiring military training for all students and the dismissal of those unwilling to participate, including letters and telegrams to college president Albert N. Jorgensen, trustee Arthur F. Greene, and Connecticut governor Wilbur Cross from such prominent figures as John Dewey, Theodore Dreiser, Albert Einstein, Abraham Flexner, Sinclair Lewis, and former college president George A. Works.

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

Works, George A.

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Committee in Defense of Academic Freedom at Connecticut State College

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Dewey, John, 1859-1952

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John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imp...

Connecticut State College

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Greene, Albert Delman

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Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959

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Abraham Flexner was an educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122473834 Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737398 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, [195-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat r...

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

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Theodore Dreiser was an American literary naturalist and author of two of the most significant works of early twentieth-century American fiction, SISTER CARRIE (1900) and AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (1925). From the description of The mercy of God : manuscript, [1900-1945?] / by Theodore Dreiser. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 63051908 Editor and author. From the description of Theodore Dreiser papers, 1910-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009534 ...

Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862-1948

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Epithet: of the `Yale Review' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000284 Cross was Governor of Connecticut. From the description of Proclamation of Thanksgiving day for the state of Connecticut : DS, 1936. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26525875 Wilbur Lucius Cross was born in Gurleyville, Connecticut, on April 10, 1862. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1885...

Connecticut State College. Board of Trustees

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Landauer, Walter, 1896-

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Teacher and member of a self-approved faculty/student Committee in Defense of Academic Freedom at Connecticut State College, formed in opposition to the trustees' actions. From the description of Walter Landauer collection of the Board of Trustees' "Gag Rule" responses, 1935. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28497879 ...

Jorgensen, Albert N. (Albert Nels), 1899-1978

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...