Scrapbook of undergraduate life belonging to Walter Philip Tobey.

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Scrapbook of undergraduate life belonging to Walter Philip Tobey.

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Compiled during Tobey's undergraduate years at Harvard University, this scrapbook provides a picture of undergraduate student life from 1908-1912. It has high concentrations of ephemera from sporting events and theater programs for Boston and Cambridge theaters. Additional items of interest include material related to the military (including correspondence with Battery A, First Massachusetts Field Artillery and photographs), programs and ephemera related to Harvard events, and letters regarding a discplinary matter.

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8186421

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...

Tobey, Walter Philip, 1891-1955.

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Walter Philip Tobey, born in Boston in 1891, earned his Harvard AB in 1912. His military service began on the Mexican border in 1916 with Battery A, First Massachusetts Field Atillery and continued in World War I as captain of Headquarters Company, 101st Field Artillery, 26th Division. He received a Silver Star for valor. He became a stockbroker, and died in 1955. From the description of Harvard memorabilia and scrapbooks of Walter Philip Tobey, 1908-1937. (Harvard University). World...

Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1912

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