Papers, 1911-1939 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1911-1939 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence, term papers, and class notes. Papers document courses taught in the Department of Sociology and the Divinity School while Bickham was a student at the University of Chicago (1910-1922). Correspondents include Amos Alonzo Stagg and Albion Small. Also includes correspondence relating the University of Chicago Christian Association (1911).

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Small, Albion W., 1854-1926

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Albion Woodbury Small (1854-1926) was educated at Colby College, then Colby University, (B.A., 1876), Newton Theological Institution, the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1889). He taught history and political economy at Colby from 1881 to 1888, becoming president of that institution in 1889. From 1892 to 1925, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, the first department of its kind, and was also Dean of the G...

University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Bickham, Martin Hayes.

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Civil rights worker Martin Bickham (1881-1976) began his career as a social worker, graduating from the University of Chicago with a Ph. D. in 1924. In 1931, he was appointed Director of Church Co-operation for the United Charities of Chicago, leaving in 1933 to become Chairman of the Chicago Civil Works Commission. Bickham spent much of his career in the field of race relations and was a founding member of the North Shore Human Relations Council and the West Suburban Human Relations Council. As...

University of Chicago. Dept. of Sociology.

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University of Chicago. Divinity school

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Stagg, Amos Alonzo, 1862-1965

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Athlete, educator. Great baseball player at Yale College (1880s). Attended Springfield College, a YMCA training school, became coach at University of Chicago (1892). A founder of Western Athletic Conference, National Collegiate Athletic Association and American Football Coaches Association. Member of U. S. Olympic Committee (1916-32). Retired after forty-one years at University of Chicago and became coach at College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. (1933-1946). Left C. O. P. and became coach at ...