Stanford University, President's Office, Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures correspondence, 1909-1922.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Stanford University, President's Office, Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures correspondence, 1909-1922.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754864106

Collection includes correspondence with Frederic West establishing the series; correspondence with lecturers and suggested lecturers; correspondence with Stanford offices in regard to arrangements; and invitations to the lectures. Lecturers for this time period were Charles Edward Jefferson, Samuel McChord Crothers, Hastings Rashdall, John Dewey, Charles Lewis Slattery, Henry Osborn Taylor, and Irving Babbitt.

.25 linear foot.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8130694

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Related Entities

There are 9 Entities related to this resource.

Slattery, Charles Lewis, 1867-1930

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n2t4s (person)

Slattery was Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts and preacher of Harvard University, 1921-1927. From the description of Papers, 1886-1941. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122520485 From the guide to the Papers, 1886-1941., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

West, Fred.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc2333 (person)

Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v40vqq (person)

Unitarian minister. A.B. Princeton, 1874. Graduated from Union Theological Seminary, 1877. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1877 and served churches in Nevada and California (1877-1881). He became a Unitarian and served churches in Brattleboro, Vt. (1882-1886) and St. Paul, Minn. (1886-1894). In 1894 he became minister at the First Parish in Cambridge, Mass., serving until his death in 1927. He was the author of several popular volumes of essays. From the description of Sermons, 1...

Jefferson, Charles Edward, 1860-1937

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d21xxw (person)

Congregational clergyman. From the description of Papers, 1898-1929. (American Congregational Association). WorldCat record id: 70973232 ...

Stanford University. President's Office.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p91ffq (corporateBody)

The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1910 by Mr. and Mrs. Frederic West of Seattle in memory of their son, a student at Stanford University. The lectures are to promote the subject of "immortality, human conduct, and human destiny." From the description of Stanford University, President's Office, Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures correspondence, 1909-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864106 HISTORICAL NOTE ...

Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f1957t (person)

Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x00012a ...

Babbitt, Irving, 1865-1933

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jd5ch3 (person)

Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), a Professor of French Literature at Harvard University, was a social and literary critic, essayist, and philosopher. He was the founder of the New Humanism movement. From the description of Papers of Irving Babbitt, 1855, 1881-1965 bulk dates, 1908-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972760 Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was a Professor of French Literature at Harvard University. From the description of Lecture notes in Compa...

Rashdall, Hastings, 1858-1924

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq7f0j (person)

Dewey, John, 1859-1952

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t3n4f (person)

John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imp...