Papers, 1886-1939 (inclusive).

Lewis Institute

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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...

Carman, George Noble.

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Tagore, Rabîndranâth, 1861-1941

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Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta on 6 May 1861. After his marriage in 1883, Tagore managed the family estates at Shileida, where he wrote many of his works. In 1901 he founded a school at Santiniketan, Bopur, Bengal, which later became the international institution, Visva-Bharati. In 1912 he visited England and translated some of his works into English. He also made visits to countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America. In 1913 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. At the...

Lewis, Edwin Herbert, 1866-1938

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Edwin Herbert Lewis taught English and philosophy at the Lewis Institute in Chicago. From the description of Edwin Herbert Lewis papers, 1896-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863746 Writer and rhetorician. A.B., A.M., Alfred University, 1887. Ph. D., Syracuse University, 1892. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1894. Taught English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago, 1892-1899. Associate professor of English, Lewis Institute, 1896-1899; professor of English, 1899-1...