Papers of Thomas Fitz-Hugh [manuscript] 1881-1906.

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Papers of Thomas Fitz-Hugh [manuscript] 1881-1906.

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The small amount of personal correspondence contains Fitz-Hugh's report on a Houston high school, and on the improvement of Texas country schools, letters relating to "Triumphus" from E. Preston Dargan, G. L. Hendrickson, Fiske Kimball, Bernard Peebles, David Riesman, and Richard H. Wilson, an essay by W. Caruthers on English vowels, a reprimand from William Elisha Peters, taking issue with Fitz-Hugh's teaching methods, and copies of correspondence of Carl C. Rice with Stanford University over his dismissal. There are essays by Fitz-Hugh on the University idea, and on the 1st Texas-Colorado chatauqua, 1898. His notebooks and lecture notes on logic, Latin, German, Greek philosophers, Greek art, Latin poetry, classical culture, and the excavations at Troy form the largest part of the collection. Examinations, certificates, roll and grade book, clippings, and a photograph are included.

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Peters, William E. (William Elisha), 1829-1906

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Peters was a student and then a professor (1866-1902) of Latin at the University of Virginia. From the description of Latin Case Relations, 1885. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38744846 ...

Caruthers, W.

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Riesman, David, 1867-1940

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Fitz-Hugh, Thomas, 1862-1957.

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Wilson, Richard Henry

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Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955

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Museum director, architect. Educated at Harvard (M.Arch. 1912) and University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1915). Founder and director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (1923-1925). Director of Philadelphia Museum of Art (1925-1955). From the description of Papers of Sidney Fiske Kimball, 1918-1952 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 269301918 Sydney Fiske Kimball, b. Newton, Mass. Architect, architectural historian, professor of architecture and ...

Dargan, Edwin Preston, 1879-1940

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Rice, Carlton Cosmo, 1876-1945

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Hendrickson, G. L. (George Lincoln), 1865-

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George Lincoln Hendrickson was born on May 15, 1865 in Winchester, Illinois. He was a classicist, philologist, and educator. Hendrickson died on December 18, 1963, at the age of ninety-eight. Hendrickson attended Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1877) and studied at Bonn and Berlin. He was a professor of classics, specializing in Latin at several institutions. His longest service was at Yale University, as a professor (1908-1933), chairman of the Department of Classics (1912-1919; 1925-1933), lec...