Harry A. Garfield faculty records, 1908-1934.

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Harry A. Garfield faculty records, 1908-1934.

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Documents in the general files reflect department, staff, and professional relationships and development. Letters from Acting President Henry Wild, Dean Carroll Maxcy and Professor George E. Howes discuss College operations while Garfield served as U.S. Fuel Administrator (1917-1919). Faculty Committees material includes correspondence, minutes, reports and applications. Faculty committees include Committee on Admissions and Curriculum, Committee on Administration, Advisory Committee, Conference Committee, Committee on Prizes, and Committee on Scholarships. The T.C. Smith material contains correspondence, statistical reports pertaining to history courses, reports from the Committee on Curriculum, "Reflections on Completing the Biography of James A. Garfield" (1925), and "The Curriculum During the Garfield Administration" (Feb. 1934). The New Curriculum subseries includes diagrams of Garfield's plan, faculty reactions to the curriculum proposals and a copy of Garfield's address to the student body (May 1912).

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Williams College, Sawyer Library

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Williams College, Sawyer Library

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Maxcy, Carroll Lewis, 1865-

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Williams College

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Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942

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Son of James A. Garfield, 20th President of United States. Practiced law with Garfield, Garfield & Howe, served as President of Williams College, 1908-1934. Involved with numerous civic commitments; received many honorariums. From the description of H. A. Garfield letters to Byron J. Rees [manuscript], 1914 Jun 22 and 1919 Dec 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 316338458 Lawyer, educator, public official, and son of President James A. Garfield. ...

Wild, Henry Daniel, 1866-1942.

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Howes, George Edwin, 1865-

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Williams College. Office of the President.

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Theodore Clarke Smith was professor of American history at Williams (1903-1938). He served on the Committee on Curriculum (1911-1927) and the Advisory Committee (1911-1935). Smith was the official biographer of James A. Garfield; his Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield was published in 1925. President Garfield submitted the new curriculum proposal to the faculty in May 1910. According to Garfield's plan, courses would be organized into major groups with prerequisites that forced students to...

Williams College. Curriculum Committee.

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Smith, Theodore Clarke, 1870-1960

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