Papers of A. Howry Espenshade, 1911-1944.

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Papers of A. Howry Espenshade, 1911-1944.

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The collection contains correspondence between A. Howry Espenshade and his cousin George Weidman Groff, and W. Henry Grant (secretary and treasurer, Trustees of the Canton Christian College, China) concerning the Penn State Mission to China, 1911-1912; the plan of organization and by-laws of the Penn State Mission to China; a letter to Henry, 9 February 1930, from the University of Hawaii, describing his cross-country motor trip, Hawaii, and his experiences teaching freshman English in Hawaii; four speeches given as registrar of Pennsylvania State College and five speeches given at Penn State campus events about Fred Lewis Pattee, Louis Agassiz, and Penn State, 1911-1933; and his recollections of Penn State, 1944.

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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Grant, W. Henry,

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Espenshade, A. Howry, 1869-1948.

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A. Howry Espenshade joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania State College in 1898 as an instructor of rhetoric and elocution. In 1901, he was promoted to assistant professor of English and rhetoric and became an associate professor in 1906. In 1909, Espenshade was named the first registrar of the college and was appointed professor of rhetoric in 1917. He resigned his post as registrar in 1923 to return to fulltime teaching. In 1928, he was named head of the department of English composition and ...

Groff, George Weidman, 1884-1954

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George Weidman Groff received his bachelor's and master's degrees in horticulture from Penn State. He pioneered the idea of agricultural missions under Christian auspices and in 1907 became the first agricultural missionary to China. In 1921, he helped organize the Lingnan Agricultural College with a faculty of western-trained Chinese. Among the extensive work which Groff has been responsible for is the development of citrus fruits, improvement and introduction of papaya, lychee, eucalyptus robu...

Pennsylvania State College. Mission to China.

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Pattee, Fred Lewis, 1863-1950

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Fred Lewis Pattee was an American author, poet, teacher, scholar, and a leading authority on American literature. He was Professor of English and Rhetoric at Pennsylvania State College, and later became Professor of American Literature. In 1891 Pattee published his first book, LITERATURE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and his first published verse collection was THE WINE OF MAY (1893). Pattee's most important critical work was the first volume of HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1870 (1915), which w...

Pennsylvania State College

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