Diaries of Gerald Louis Wendt, 1913-1914.

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Diaries of Gerald Louis Wendt, 1913-1914.

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Two diaries kept by Wendt during his last year as an undergraduate at Harvard College and his first year as a Harvard graduate student. Frequent entries in the diary for 1913 describe his academic and extracurricular activities, including the Boylston Chemical Club, and his courtship of Elsie. The diary for 1914 contains similar entries from January and February of that year, but the bulk of the entries describe Wendt's trip to Europe (presumably for chemistry research) in the summer of 1914. The trip was cut short due to the outbreak of World War I, and the diary entries describe the situation in Europe.

2 volumes (0.1 cubic feet)

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Boylston Chemical Club

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Wendt, G. (Gerald), 1891-

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Gerald Louis Wendt, researcher, teacher, and editor, was born on March 3, 1891, to Johannes Heinrich and Dora (Albrecht) Wendt in Davenport, Iowa. He received his Harvard AB in 1913, his AM in 1914, and his Ph.D. in 1916. On September 5, 1916, Wendt married Elsie Paula Lerch; they had one child. After the marriage ended in 1938, he married Anne D. Powers on February 22, 1947. Wendt taught chemistry at the Rice Institute in Houston and at the University of Chicago. He later served as Dean of the ...