Zechariah Chafee correspondence and reports, 1880-1943.

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Zechariah Chafee correspondence and reports, 1880-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86140646

Consists of correspondence documenting Chafee's role as a member of the Brown University Corporation and as an alumni of the class of 1880. Brown University related subjects include alumni affairs including the Associated Alumni of Brown University and the Loyalty Fund; financial affairs and fund raising; students, including the curricula for freshman (1922) and housing and commons; the effect of World War I on Brown University; the Womens' College; appointments of professors and members of the Corporation; the library; and Hermon Carey Bumpus. There was discussion about whether the Womens' College should be included in the general Brown University catalog. There are reports and accompanying correspondence from the following committees: Aims and Problems of Brown University (1922); Plans and Policies (1921-1924); "What Brown Stands For" (1914-1919); Dormitory (1924); and Library (1916-1924). The topics discussed in the class of 1880 correspondence include personal news about class members and their families, plans for reunions, the class prize fund, the class library fund, and donations of books to the John Carter Brown Library. Correspondents represented in the collection include Hermon Carey Bumpus, William Herbert Perry Faunce, Fred M. Hammett, William V. Kellen, John Power Knowles, Walter H. Meader, Henry R. Palmer, and Walter C. Wyckoff.

600 items (.8 linear ft.).

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8344237

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Brown University. Corporation

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The authority and responsibilities of the Corporation, a bicameral body composed of a Board of Fellows with twelve members and a Board of Trustees with forty-two, are set forth in the Charter of the University granted by the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1764. "It is our fixed star; we can do nothing that contradicts its prohibitions or transgresses its grants of power," states Henry Wriston in The Structure of Brown University. The Charter origina...

Chafee, Zechariah, 1859-1943

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Trustee and fellow of Brown University. Businessman from Providence, R.I. and 1880 graduate of Brown University. From the description of Zechariah Chafee correspondence and reports, 1880-1943. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 86140646 ...

Faunce, William Herbert Perry, 1859-1930

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President of Brown University, 1899-1929. From the description of Scrapbook, [ca.1878-1888]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122647911 Ninth president of Brown University, 1899-1929; Baptist clergy. Graduated from Brown in 1880; graduated from Newton Theological Institution in 1884; pastor of State Street Baptist Church in Springfield, Mass., and Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York, N.Y. From the description of William Herbert...

Brown University. Associated Alumni

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Brown University. Womens' College.

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Brown university. Library

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Brown University Library periodically mounts exhibitions highlighting various materials in its collections. These exhibits range from small scale displays to large exhibitions accompanied by events and catalogues. From the guide to the Brown University Library Exhibition Labels, 1945-1986, (John Hay Library Special Collections) Records of the Library of Brown University. From the description of Records of the Library, 1783-1958. (Brown University). WorldCat recor...

Palmer, Henry Robinson, 1911-1993

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Bumpus, Hermon C. (Hermon Carey), 1862-1943

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Meader, Walter H.

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Kellen, William Vail, 1852-1942

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Resident of Boston, Massachusetts. From the description of William Vail Kellen papers, 1922. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422085 ...

Brown University. Library Committee

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Brown University. Board of Fellows

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Wyckoff, Walter Augustus, 1865-1908

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Knowles, John Power, 1859-1943.

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...

Hammett, Fred M.

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