University of Chicago Office of the President, Mason administration records 1910-1929 (inclusive).

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University of Chicago Office of the President, Mason administration records 1910-1929 (inclusive).

This collection contains records of the University of Chicago Office of the President, covering the administration of Max Mason, president from 1925-1929. Included are administrative records such as correspondence, reports, publications, budgets and personnel material.

15 linear feet (30 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7804824

University of Chicago Library

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Woodward, Frederic Campbell, 1874-1956

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Mason, Max, 1877-1961

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Max Mason served as President of the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1928. Not only was Mason the first president who had not been a founding member of the university faculty, he also came from outside the university, and had comparatively little administrative experience. By recruiting a young researcher from outside the university, the trustees sought new ideas, dedication to research, and strong relationships with students and the public. Hailing from Madison, Wisc...

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...

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...