Frank Thilly papers, 1889-1935.

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Frank Thilly papers, 1889-1935.

Correspondence and lecture notes relating to Thilly's career at the University of Missouri (1893-1904), Princeton (1904-1906), and Cornell University (1906-1934); notes in German (ca. 1889-1890) taken by Thilly while studying at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg under Kuno Fischer, Friedrich Paulsen, and others; newspaper clippings; and other papers. Correspondence, 1904-1921, with Woodrow Wilson concerns Thilly's call to Princeton, administrative matters during Thilly's years there, and his recommendations of several men for national and local office during Wilson's terms as President. Other correspondents include Felix Adler, Ernest Albee, Benjamin Cardozo, Lord Charnwood, Morris Raphael Cohen, James E. Creighton, Charles W. Dabney, John Dewey, Livingston Farrand, James Morgan Hart, John Grier Hibben, William James, Hugo Münsterberg, Friedrich Paulsen, Cuthbert W. Pound, Josiah Royce, Nathaniel Schmidt, Jacob Gould Schurman, T.V. Smith, William Ritchie Sorley, William Strunk, Jr., William Howard Taft, Joseph P. Tumulty, Andrew Dickson White, and Stephen S. Wise.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8124859

Cornell University Library

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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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University of Missouri.

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Cornell University

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Princeton University

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Albee, Ernest, 1865-1927

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Thilly, Frank, 1865-1934

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Professor of Philosophy. From the description of Frank Thilly papers, 1889-1935. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 74898800 ...

Cohen, Morris Raphael, 1880-1947

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Philosopher. Graduated from the College of the City of New York, 1900. Ph. D., Harvard, 1906. Instructor in mathematics at the City College of New York, then taught in its Department of Philosophy, 1912-1938. Professor of philosophy, University of Chicago, 1938-1942. From the description of Papers, 1898-1981. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248106 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Morris R. Cohen and his wife, Mary Cohen. From the descri...

Universität Heidelberg.

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