Agnes Lynch Starrett research files on the history of the University of Pittsburgh, 1787-1962.

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Agnes Lynch Starrett research files on the history of the University of Pittsburgh, 1787-1962.

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This collection consists of articles, clipping, correspondence and other materials that Starrett assembled to document the history of the University of Pittsburgh. She was directed to write a book of the University's history on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its founding (1787). The book, Through One Hundred and Fifty Years, the University of Pittsburgh, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1937 and is available online.

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Starrett, Agnes Lynch, 1899-1988

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Agnes Lynch Starrett was an alumane of the Univeristy of Pittsburgh and a professor in the English Department until 1936 when Chancellor Bowman asked her to compile the history of the university for the 1937 sesquicentennial celebration. Titled Through One Hundred and Fifty Years, it was the first book published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Bowman then asked her to edit Pitt Magazine. She was then named director of the Press in 1954 and remained so until her retirement in 1964. She was...

University of Pittsburgh. United Faculty

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Throughout its history the University of Pittsburgh has received occasional support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the early 1960s it suffered an unprecedented fiscal crisis and sought a solution that linked it to the Commonwealth. On August 23, 1966, House Bill No. 2 of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania was signed and the University officially became state-related. From the description of State-related status of the University of Pittsburgh files, 1936-1983. (Universit...