Papers of Paul Herman Buck, 1913-1975 (inclusive).

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Papers of Paul Herman Buck, 1913-1975 (inclusive).

Biographical file was established by Buck as chronological index of events in his life including personal and professional correspondence, memoranda books, reports, photographs, drafts of papers, speeches, diplomas, awards and other memorabilia. Center for Advanced Study material includes correspondence, reports, and photographs. Writing file contains correspondence, manuscripts, outlines, notes, reviews, and clippings of, or pertaining to Buck's books, articles, speeches, and addresses. Harvard History Project material includes correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, progress reports, and notes of researchers. This was a study funded by Harvard to analyze its role in higher education in the U.S. Other material includes scrapbook about Buck's Pulitzer Prize, photographs of Buck and others, and transcript of Columbia University oral history interview of Buck concerning Carnegie Corporation. Related publications and reference material also available in repository.

28 containers of mss.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Buck, Paul Herman, 1899-1978

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Buck (Harvard, Ph.D., 1924) taught history at Harvard, served as Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Provost of the University, and Director of the Harvard Library. From the description of Papers of Paul Herman Buck, 1913-1975 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973290 Author, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Herman Buck : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569413...

Harvard History Project.

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Center for advanced study in the behavioral sciences Stanford, Calif.

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Carnegie corporation of New York

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The World Center for Women's Archives was created by Mary Ritter Beard in 1936 to collect material on women in the United States and abroad on the grounds that without documents women would continue to be excluded from written history. A secondary purpose was to encourage research an teaching on women's history. The WCWA was disolved in 1941 due to financial problems, and the outbreak of World War II; collections were distributed to Radcliffe and Smith Colleges, and other universities and librar...