Records, 1640- (inclusive), 1725- (bulk).

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Records, 1640- (inclusive), 1725- (bulk).

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Records in subgroup UAIII.5 include minutes of faculty meetings from 1725; dockets for faculty meetings; statutes and laws; faculty votes; and scrapbooks from 1873 containing reports, correspondence, memoranda, and lists of students. Also records of administrative officers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For further information see title of individual office or officer entered under: Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Records in subgroup UAIII.10 include mainly reports, minutes and dockets, correspondence of individual committees and boards of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For description of committees see: Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Committees. Records in subgroup UAIII.15 include records of the Faculty and its various administrative subdivisions. Most of these records concern students. Types of records included are record books of student absences, admission records, admittaturs (a student's handwritten copy of the college laws signed by the president, 1715-1866), class rank lists, grades and examination results, diplomas, lists of degree candidates, course lists, room assignments, reports on the occupants and condition of college rooms, 1737-1855, student aid and scholarship records, registration cards, withdrawal lists, 1888-1922, lists of PBK candidates, and individual student folders. Also annual appointment cards for teaching and research fellows, 1940-1961, and staff record cards, 1943-1949. Records in subgroup UAIII.27.xx-.29.xx) relate to historical events such as class disturbances in 1872, student participation in Spanish-American War and World War I and II, the Bailey Plan for unification of the botanical sciences at Harvard, Konrad Adenauer address of 1953, proposal for the Science Center, student demonstrations of 1969, core curriculum legislation, 1978-1979, and recruitment of minority and women faculty, 1980.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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