Records of the inauguration of Edward H. Levi, 1967-1968 (inclusive).

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Records of the inauguration of Edward H. Levi, 1967-1968 (inclusive).

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Material pertains to the inauguration of Edward H. Levi, eighth president of the University of Chicago. Contains letters of congratulation, correspondence, and publications related to specific events planned for Inauguration Week, November 11-16, 1968. Also contains official letters of greeting from colleges and universities and two scrapbooks containing clippings and additional acknowledgments.

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University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago. Office of the President

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Lawrence A. Kimpton (1910-1977) completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Cornell University in 1935. He worked in California and Nevada throughout the late 1930s, teaching at the experimental Deep Springs College and working as a cattle rancher. He came to Chicago in 1943 to work as Chief Administrative Officer of the Metallurgical Laboratory, associated with the Manhattan Project. University Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins hired Kimpton as Dean of Students in 1944. In 1947, Kimpton returned to S...

Levi, Edward H. (Edward Hirsch), 1911-2000

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Educator, administrator, lawyer and U.S. Attorney General. Born 1911. PhB, University of Chicago, 1932, JD, University of Chicago Law School, 1935, JSD, Yale University, 1938. Professor, University of Chicago, 1936-1984. Dean, University of Chicago Law School, 1949-1962. Provost, University of Chicago, 1962-1968; President, 1968-1974. U.S. Attorney General, 1974-1977. President, American Academy of Arts and Science, 1986-1988. Died 2000. From the description of Papers, 1894-1998 (inc...

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...