Luther Anderson papers, 1899-1940 (inclusive).

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Luther Anderson papers, 1899-1940 (inclusive).

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Teacher and journalist. Correspondence, writings, scrapbooks and photographs relating to his career as a journalist in Peking (1911-1914) and his post as teacher of English and aesthetics at the American International College in Springfield, Mass. (1928-1940). He also lectured on Scandinavian culture and on Chinese politics. Manuscripts and advertising brochures document this aspect of his life. Although his correspondence is mostly routine, there are a number of letters of interest from William Lyon Phelps and Sven Birger Sandzen, head of the art school at Bethany College (Kansas) where Anderson had studied.

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Yale University Library

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Sandzén, Birger, 1871-1954

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Anderson, Luther, 1880-1940.

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Taught school in Kansas and became principal of the Lindsborg, Kansas, high school, 1901-1903; 1907-1911, taught European history at the Imperial University in Peking; returned in 1911 as special correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, and travelled through China and the Philippines until 1915; 1915-1920, taught at High School of Commerce in Springfield, Mass.; taught part-time at Northeastern University, 1920-1928; 1928 began teaching at American International College in Springfield. ...

Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943

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William Lyon Phelps was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 2, 1865. He received a B.A. degree from Yale in 1887, an A.M. degree from Harvard in 1891, and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1891. Phelps taught English at Yale from 1892 until 1933 and was a popularizer of literature through his public lectures, radio addresses, and syndicated newspaper columns. He died in New Haven on August 21, 1943. From the description of William Lyon Phelps papers, 1826-1944 (inclusive), 1887-1943 (bulk)...