Columbia University records for Jackson Davis, 1931-1947.

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Columbia University records for Jackson Davis, 1931-1947.

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The collection contains obituaries from the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune; an Alumni Federation card, and Davis's entry from the 1932 Columbia University Alumni Register.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947

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Jackson Davis, an educator and school administrator in Virginia, became the first state agent for rural schools for Blacks in Virginia (1909-1915). He served as general field agent for the General Education Board (1915-1933), and its assistant director (1929-1933), associate director (1933-1946), and director (1946-1947). He was als osecretary of the International Education BOard (1923-1938). From the description of Papers, 1898-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122535409 ...