Papers of Charles Préaut Blaney, 1885-1904 and 1950.

ArchivalResource

Papers of Charles Préaut Blaney, 1885-1904 and 1950.

The collection documents Blaney's social and academic life while an undergraduate student at Harvard. It consists of invitations, notices of election to student societies, and records of grades and examination results. The collection also includes correspondence and a certificate documenting Blaney's continued involvement with the University as an alumnus. Prominent in the collection are invitations to Class Day events from 1890.

0.17 cubic feet (1 half-document box).

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8087063

Harvard University Archives.

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Harvard University

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n9x97 (person)

Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt5qz0 (corporateBody)

The early 19th century was a time of student unrest at Harvard. Perhaps in reaction to the disturbances and protest of previous classes, Faculty Records vol. IX tell that President Kirkland announced early on in the Class of 1822's college years that no students were to have any meeting for the purpose of eating or drinking in college. Although the Class of 1822 is a serene one as compared with its generation, many of the students of the Class of 1822 received public admonishments as a result of...

Blaney, Charles Préaut, 1868-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w67xwf (person)

Charles Préaut Blaney was born on March 14, 1868, in Dorchester, Mass. to Charles and Antoinette Hamilton (Lamson) Blaney. He attended Roxbury Latin School before entering Harvard College in 1886. Blaney received his Harvard AB in 1890 and his LLB in 1893. He married Helen Worthington Bebbe in 1908; their son, Charles Lamson, was born in 1914. Blaney worked as a lawyer in New York City. From the guide to the Papers of Charles Préaut Blaney, 1885-1904 and 1950, (Harvard University Arc...