Cosmopolitan Club records, 1904-1958.

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Cosmopolitan Club records, 1904-1958.

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Correspondence, financial records, minute books, publications, memorabilia, scrapbooks and photographs relating to the Cornell University Cosmopolitan Club; correspondence includes records relating to the operation of the Club House, The International Federation of Students, Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs of America, The International Association of Ithaca, The International Student Service, Cornell University administration, correspondents include Edmund Ezra Day, Jacob Gould Shurman, John Mott and Donald C. Kerr; Financial records include financial activities and status of the Club and Association; Minute Books include official club business records of meetings and decisions; Membership records include a selection of the foudning members of the club; Publications including The Cosmopolitan Annual, Memorabilia consisting of commemorative programs and menus documenting official Club events, including Chinese Night 1906. Many of these items are autographed; Scrapbooks relating to International Student Association functions at Cornell (1932-1935); the founding and activities of International Student Association chapters at Berlin, Bonn, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Munich and Zurich (1911-1913); scrapbook containg letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, christmas cards and other memorabilia documenting the Club founding, events and members; Photographs include individual and group portraits of Club members and administrative officers. Also three cups and one saucer from Cornell Cosmopolitan Club Residence.

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International Students Association.

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Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs in the American Universities

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Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951

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This dispute arose over the application of security regulations and economic demands during the renegotiation of the contract. A strike ensued and the company secured an injunction to restrain the mass picketing. Violence resulted in the arrest of some of the strikers. The Commissioner of Labor, Mr. Edward Corsi, appointed a fact-finding board consisting of Edmund Ezra Day, Chairman; DR. Samuel P Copen, Mr. Charles Garside, Mrs. Elinore Herrick and Paul S. Andrews. From the guide to ...

Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942

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Jacob Gould Schurman was born May 22, 1854 on Prince Edward Island. He was Professor of Philosophy at Acadia College and Dalhousie College; Cornell University's Sage Professor of Philosophy, 1886-92, and President, 1892-1920; President of the first U.S. Philippine Commission, 1899; U.S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro during the Balkan Wars; and was a diplomat involved with foreign policy making in China, the Far East, and Germany. From the description of Jacob Gould Schurman paper...

Mott, John R.

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Cosmopolitan Club (Cornell University)

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