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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, 4/7/19, Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1893-1956, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Samuel Paul Capen was once described as having a character "rather like that of a
stern and rock-bound coast, containing within it many pleasant green pastures as
well as majestic mountains.
Born into the academic life as the son of Elmer Hewitt Capen, president of Tufts College (1875 to 1905), Capen literally grew up on a college campus. He enrolled in Tufts as an undergraduate in 1894. Already following in his father's footsteps, he was elected president of his senior class and was one of four chosen to deliver a Commencement address at his graduation in 1898.
In the fall of 1898, Capen entered Harvard University's Graduate School to study modern languages. Two years later he received a Master of Arts degree and was appointed the Harrison Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. After one year of doctoral studies in modern languages with a concentration in German, Capen was granted a one year leave of absence to study at the University of Leipzig, Germany. After receiving his PhD in 1902, he was hired to teach German as one of the founding faculty members of the recently established Clark College in Worcester, Massachusetts.
A favorite of Clark students (they even dedicated the 1911 yearbook to him), Capen often taught comparative literature and drama in addition to his modern language course schedule. At the same time he began taking classes in education and psychology and later became a lecturer in educational administration. In 1908 he was elected both president of the Public Education Association of Worcester and a member of the Worcester School Committee. Although still interested in modern languages, Capen's success in his new field was considerable. In 1914 he came to the attention of the United States Commissioner of Education and was offered the position of specialist in higher education at the Bureau of Education.
While at the Bureau, Capen was asked to conduct numerous fact-gathering surveys on the administration of higher institutions. Very interested in this type of statistical data, Capen had previously surveyed universities and colleges on the methods for supervising university professors back in 1910 while still at Clark College. As Specialist in Higher Education, he surveyed a broad range of institutions and educational systems. Soon the Bureau became flooded with requests for Capen's statistical analyses derived from the surveys. Developing a reputation for being a clinical and objective advisor on the topic of educational reform, his methods for surveying became the standard in the industry.
In 1917 Capen was asked to serve as executive secretary of the recently formed Committee on Education established under the Council of National Defense. This new educational committee, formed at the onset of WWI, worked to coordinate the higher educational interests of the country to further various war-related projects. Capen's work at the Bureau of Education and on the Committee of Education formulated the policies that would eventually help to coalesce the country's higher educational associations.
In 1918 the American Council on Education (ACE) was established to unify the numerous
educational associations and the nation's academic institutions for an improvement
of higher education. Capen was named the first Director of the Council and was
regarded as the "chief designing architect who not only built solidly upon the
present but looked into the future... farther than he could see -- but only
hope."
Because of his work at the Bureau of Education and the ACE, there were many universities around the country who courted Capen to lead their institutions and Samuel Capen could have had his pick of any of them. Then in early 1922, the Council of the University of Buffalo contacted him about their need for a Chancellor who could unify the University.
Chancellor at the University of Buffalo, 1922-1950
There has always been a governing board known as the Council at the University at Buffalo since its inception in 1846, but the first Chancellors were not appointed from the university community. They were distinguished citizens of Buffalo, lawyers and politicians, whose official function was to represent the University before the publicirca The deans of the individual schools were separately responsible for their departments' educational and financial affairs. Then in 1920, Chairman of the Council, Walter P. Cooke organized a city-wide financial campaign that enabled them to hire a Chancellor that could bring the University into a new era. The Council looked to Samuel Capen to help them establish a central and solid administration for the University. In 1922 Capen left the American Council on Education to become the first full-time Chancellor at the University of Buffalo.
Until the establishment of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1913, the University
of Buffalo had been merely a "collection of professional schools, going their
separate ways with little central administration."
In his inaugural speech on October 28, 1922 Capen detailed his philosophy on the role of a university administrator:
I do not hold with those who would limit the number of college students on the basis of any distinctions of race or sex or creed or social standing. There is but one justifiable basis on which a university in a democratic community such as this can choose those who are to become members of it, the basis of ability. But a university is a place maintained at great expense to foster the philosophic point of view, to stimulate constructive thinking, because this point-of-view and this mode of thinking have been found necessary to the progress of civilized society.
During his twenty-eight years at the University of Buffalo, Capen established many University programs and educational experiments that helped to further the expansion of higher education. He helped to broaden the education of the professional schools, developed standardized curriculums, and personally hand-picked a first-class faculty of full-time, academically trained professors. He also established the Millard Fillmore College for adult education and created the Bureau of Personnel Research, a counseling office, to administer programs that tested the achievements and personalities of students in order to provide better guidance for career choices and help them obtain employment. And the numbers attest to his role as administrator: student enrollment rose from 1,687 in 1922 to over 10,000 by the time of his retirement in 1950.
Capen's experience working on the Bureau of Education and the ACE helped him
establish a central and solid administration for the University. He often addressed
conferences, commencements, and social clubs on the subject of educational
administration and the topic of academic freedom. "I foresee," he once wrote, "the
coming of a storm perhaps more severe than any to which our higher institutions have
been subjected for years. The forces bent on challenging the intellectual integrity
of colleges and universities are gathering."
Samuel P. Capen made an impact on the history of the University at Buffalo and brought it into a new era. Louis Jaffe, a former faculty member in the School of Law, best summarized Capen's tenure as Chancellor in a memorial written after Capen's death in 1956:
[He was] a man whose ideal was the best in education and he set out to build a university and to run it over the years on first class principles with almost no money. This would have been more than most men could stand up to... But Capen, with his stern sense of a duty undertaken and his courage in the face of towering difficulties, not only escaped panic or a settled sense of defeat, but for the most part maintained an attitude of positive confidence in the doing of the job.7
1 Henry Ten Eyck Perry quoted in Park, Julian. "Samuel P. Capen, 1878-1956." The University of Buffalo Studies. vol. 24. no. 1. October 1957. pp51-52
2 Ibid.
3 Park, Julian. "Samuel P. Capen, 1878-1956." The University of Buffalo Studies. vol. 24. no. 1. October 1957. p16
4 Ibid. p19
5 Ibid. p21
6 Samuel P. Capen quoted in Park, Julian. "Samuel P. Capen, 1878-1956." The University of Buffalo Studies. vol. 24. no. 1. October 1957. p46
7 Louis L. Jaffe quoted in Park, Julian. "Samuel P. Capen, 1878-1956." The University of Buffalo Studies. vol. 24. no. 1. October 1957. p24
This collection of papers document Samuel Capen's career from an instructor at Clark College to Chancellor at the University of Buffalo. The first series has many personal papers, correspondence and memorabilia. The second series highlights Capen's speeches and work on various committees. His early speeches include topics on German dramatists, arts and literature.
This collection is arranged in two series: I. Personal and professional interests and II. Professional papers.
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I. Personal and professional interests |
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This series has biographical memorabilia, and personal and family correspondence. It also includes some professional correspondence and mementos from Capen's study abroad. |
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| 30.8 |
Biographical information: autobiographical sketch for
inauguration as Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, 1922
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| 30.9 |
Biographical information: correspondence, 1930-1936,
1942,
1950,
undated
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Includes biographical sketches for encyclopedias. |
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| 30.10 |
Biographical information: Capen Hall dedication,
December 11, 1953;
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Includes program, speeches, clippings. |
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| 30.11 |
Biographical information: "An Appreciation: Samuel P. Capen"
Clark College Monthly,
February 1914
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| 30.12 |
Biographical information: "Frontiersman: Samuel Paul Capen"
Buffalo Business, May 1947
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| 30.13-30.14 |
Degrees and awards: honorary degrees, 1932-1950;
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Includes University of Buffalo, Clark University; also includes photograph. |
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| 30.15 |
Degrees and awards: Ballou Medal, Tufts University, June 20,
1948;
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Includes photograph. |
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| 30.16 |
Degrees and awards: Chancellor's Medal, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1951
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Includes press release, clippings. |
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| 30.17 |
Degrees and awards: honorary memberships in academic
societies, 1924-1953
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| 30.18 |
Personal memorabilia, circa 1890s-1894,
1911, circa 1930s,
undated; includes photographs (circa
1890s-1894, undated), caricature (
circa 1930s), citation from the United
States Council of National Defense ( 1919),
passport ( 1911)
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| 30.19 |
Capen genealogy, 1954, undated
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Includes family trees, narrative biography of Elmer Hewitt Capen (father), correspondence |
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| 1.1-1.3 |
1910,survey on
the supervision of college teaching includes correspondence to major
universities and colleges, clippings
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| 1.4 |
1919, includes
P.P. Claxton and Leonard Carmichael
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| 1.5-1.6 |
1920-1921,
John Cousens, President of Tufts College; includes Leonard
Carmichael, J.D. Oliver (President, Oliver Chilled Plow
Works)
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| 1.7 |
1922; includes
Ira Rich Kent, J.D. Oliver
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| 1.8-1.13 |
1922,
inauguration: letters of congratulations
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Includes clippings |
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| 1.14 |
1924, includes
John McPherson.
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| 1.15 |
1926,
1928, local club memberships including
Buffalo Athletic Club, Buffalo Club, Rotary Club.
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| 1.16 |
1927includes
University of Chicago.
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| 1.17 |
1928,
1931, Walter P. Cooke; includes letter to
Cooke thanking him for his gift to the university, comparing it to a
"blood transfusion when the patient is sinking," (1928), program
from memorial, (1931)
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| 1.18 |
1930,John Lord
O'Brian
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| 1.19 |
1932,get well
messages
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| 1.20 |
1933; includes
vol.1, no. 29 Trend: Buffalo's Newsweekly of
Fact and Opinion, September 30th.
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| 1.21-1.23 |
1934-1935,
Association of American Colleges; includes Commission on Academic
Freedom and Tenure
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| 2.1 |
1936,
Association of American Colleges; includes American Association of
University Professors, "Statements Adopted by the Association of
American Colleges At the Annual Meeting…" (1925), two
cartes-de-visites of Mary Edwards Capen Robinson, circa 1870s sent
to Capen by Robert circa Vose (Robert Vose Galleries,
Boston)
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| 2.2 |
1936, Conference
of the Trustees of Colleges and Universities; includes Frederick
Keppel
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| 2.3-2.5 |
1937; includes
Association of American Colleges Commission on Academic Freedom and
Tenure, Capens' 15th anniversary dinner (October 9), Harry
Schüermann, Frederick Munro, Roland Hammond
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| 2.6 |
1938; American
Association of University Professors; includes "Report of Joint
Conference of Representatives of Association of American Colleges
and American Association of University Professors on Academic
Freedom and Tenure" (January 22), rough draft of "Report to the
A.A.U. by its Committee on Graduate Work" (October 3), Henry
Wriston, President of Brown University
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| 2.7-2.9 |
1938; includes
Mary Farmer (niece), clippings: "What Buffalo Needs," "Integrity of
Democracy – Capen".
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| 2.10 |
1939; Wyndham
Lewis portrait of Capen; includes Wyndham Lewis (artist), Gordon
Washburn (director of the Albright Art Gallery), Robert circa Vose
(Robert Vose Galleries, Boston)
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| 2.11-2.12 |
1939; includes
Alfalfa Club, Association of American Colleges Commission on
Academic Freedom and Tenure
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| 2.13-2.14 |
1940; includes
Association of American Colleges Commission on Academic Freedom and
Tenure, typewritten poem "To Be Happy in New England" by Joseph P.
MacCarthy
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| 2.15 |
1941; includes
copy of petition presented to President Warren G. Harding by Capen
and others describing the need for a national commission on
manpower
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| 2.16-2.19 |
1942, 20th
Anniversary of Capen's Inauguration celebration; includes clippings,
invitation, program, proceedings of the event (printed and draft
copies), Capen's typewritten address, invocation by Dr. Richard
Wilson Boynton
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| 2.20-2.21 |
1942; includes
Association of American Colleges Commission on Academic Freedom and
Tenure
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| 3.1 |
1943; includes
Ira Rich Kent, George H. Blakeslee
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| 3.2 |
1944; includes
William Mather Lewis, obituary for Mrs. Sumner Robinson (Mary
Edwards Capen Robinson).
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| 3.3-3.4 |
1945; includes
obituary for William Mather Lewis, American Civil Liberties Union
Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure: final
statement.
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| 3.5 |
1946; includes
John Lord O'Brian's speech, "The Harvard Faith," correspondence with
Francis E. Fronczak regarding Fronczak's tenure at the University's
Medical School and Abraham Flexner regarding the accomplishments of
Walter Albert Jessup, eleventh president of the University of
Iowa.
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| 3.6 |
1947; includes
pamphlet, "Grover Cleveland: His Character, Background and Legal
Career," by Philip J. Wickser, program and clippings regarding the
Associated Pennsylvania Clubs Conference, Buffalo1927,
correspondence with Henry Adsit Bull regarding Canisius College
lawsuit to have the grant of state funds declared
unconstitutional.
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| 3.7 |
1947, Public
school teachers strike; includes correspondence, clippings,
typewritten speeches.
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| 3.8 |
1947,
Twenty-fifth anniversary
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Includes letters of congratulations, clippings. |
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| 3.9-3.12 |
1948; includes
letters, press release, program, newsletter regarding Capen's
chairmanship of the Brotherhood Week celebration for the Buffalo
Roundtable of the National Conference of Christians and Jews,
biographical sketch and printed portrait of Margaret Barclay Wilson,
draft of letter to Lavinia Mitchell on the death of McCormick
Mitchell, annual report of the Research Department at Buffalo
Children's Hospital.
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| 3.13-3.14 |
1949; includes
memorial for Rev. Edward Dunbar Johnson, statement of purpose and
chairman's report for the National Scholarship Service and Fund for
Negro Students, typewritten essay, "The Citizen's Stake in Academic
Freedom," by Quincy Wright.
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| 3.15-3.16 |
1950
(January-April); includes letters written in response
to Capen's retirement, list of institutions conferring the master's
degree, chairman's report for the National Scholarship Service and
Fund for Negro Students, establishment of the Samuel Paul Capen Fund
by the Alumni Association of the Medical School.
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| 4.1 |
1950 (May);
includes letters written in response to Capen's retirement, draft of
letter to and clipping on T.R. McConnell's
Chancellorship.
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| 4.2-4.3 |
1950 (June);
includes letters written in response to Capen's retirement,
typewritten address delivered before the Newcomen Society, "An
Experiment in Research: Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Incirca "
by circa circa Furnas [see also 30.7], resolution commending Capen
at the Council of the University of Buffalo Council meeting and
establishing the Samuel Paul Capen Professorship in the Department
of History, the establishment of the Samuel Paul Capen Award,
typewritten address delivered to the newly formed Omicron New York
chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, "Democracy -- For Whom?" by Julius W.
Pratt.
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| 4.4 |
1950
(July-December); includes letters written in response
to Capen's retirement, letter to Edward Michael, Buffalo
Club.
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| 4.5 |
1951; includes
Leonard Carmichael, Howard Jefferson, Earl McGrath, Harry Rockwell,
Arthur Row, letters of congratulation for the Chancellor's Award,
midyear commencement program.
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| 4.6 |
1952; includes
letters from P.P. Claxton, reprint of "The Humanities and the Law"
by Earl J. McGrath, photostat of original handwritten letter from
Capen regarding memories of his father, Elmer H. Capen.
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| 4.7-4.10 |
1953; includes dedication of Samuel P. Capen
Hall (Medical-Dental Building), book reviews and clippings for The
Management of Universities, Earl McGrath, program from Leslie O.
Cummings' retirement dinner, cabinet card photograph of Capen: age
13 (#4.10), correspondence with Robert circa Vose, 75th birthday
greetings.
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| 4.11-4.13 |
1954; includes
typewritten draft of essay "The Functions of Civil Liberties," by
John Clarke Adams, typewritten and reprint of essay, "Law and
Freedom" by John Lord O'Brian, T.R. McConnell, recommendation for
Claude Puffer, tributes and remembrances of George Crofts, A. B.
Lemon.
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| 5.1-5.8 |
European postcards and prints, 1894-1913,
undated
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Includes postcards, art prints, handwritten diaries, hand-colored photographs of Italy, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany. |
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| 6.1-6.8 |
Personal and family records, 1908-1920,
undated
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Includes wedding invitation, recipes, Grace Capen's notes, address book, clippings, Mary Capen, postcards, photographs, financial records, scrapbook of theatre shows. |
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| 7.1-7.59 |
Letters to Grace Wright Capen, November 1904-February 1914
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| 8.1-8.50 |
Letters to Grace Wright Capen, March-July 1914
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| 9.1-9.60 |
Letters to Grace Wright Capen, August 1914-July 1915
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| 10.1-10.44 |
Letters to Grace Wright Capen, August 1915-June 1916
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| 11.1-11.35 |
Letters to Grace Wright Capen, July 1916-April 1917
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| 12.1-12.41 |
Letters to Grace Wright Capen, June 1917-April 1919
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| 13.1-13.32 |
Letters to Grace Wright Capen, July 1919-February 1922
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| 14.1-14.7 |
Carroll D. Wright (Grace Wright Capen's father), 1881-1897,
undated
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| 14.8 |
Grace Wright Capen's mother, 1916-1917,
undated
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| 14.9-14.19 |
Cornelia Wright McPherson (Grace Wright Capen's sister),
1914,
1917-1921
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Includes condolence letters, 1921. |
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| 14.20-14.22 |
Carroll Wright McPherson (Grace Wright Capen's nephew),
1914-1922, undated
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| 14.23-14.26 |
Grace Wright Capen's "Grammie," 1916-1917,
undated
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| 14.27 |
Sumner Robinson (Samuel P. Capen's step-father),
1917, 1920
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| 14.28-14.32 |
Letters of congratulations on Capen's position at the Bureau
of Education, 1914; includes G. Stanley Hall, Clark University,
Samuel E. Winslow, Representative, 4th District of Massachusetts
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| 14.33-14.42 |
General correspondence, 1893,
1897, 1913-1921;
includes R.M. Hughes, Charles Edward Lyon
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| 14.43 |
"The Cat: An Essay on the Early History and Social
Development of the Feline Domestica" (typewritten essay), undated
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| 15.1-15.2 |
Tufts and Harvard examinations, 1898-1900,
undated
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Includes article "The Hutchinson Heresy" reprinted in The Tuftonian, January 1899. |
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| 15.3 |
Clark College lectures: Balzac, undated
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| 15.4-15.5 |
Clark College lectures: "Goethe's Faust,"
undated
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| 15.6-15.8 |
Clark College lectures: Henrik Ibsen,
undated
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Includes the social dramas: "A Doll's House," "Ghosts," "Rosmersholm" and symbolistic dramas: "Master Builder," "When We Dead Awaken." |
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| 15.9 |
Clark College lectures: "Joan of Arc,"
undated
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| 15.10-15.11 |
Clark College lectures: "Modern Tendencies in Literature and
Art" (5 lectures), undated
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| 15.12 |
Clark College lectures: Maurice Maeterlinck's Trésor des
Humbles, undated
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| 15.13-16.4 |
Clark College lectures: comparing foreign and domestic school
administrations, circa 1914
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Includes "The Organization of English Primary Schools" (lectures 1-14) French School Systems, German School Systems, notes on visits to French schools. |
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| 16.5 |
"The Nibelungenlied," January 1903
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| 16.6 |
Ibsen biographical sketch and a critical analysis of his epic
poems, "Brand" and "Peer Gynt," delivered before the Philosophical
Conference, Tufts College, April 1904
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| 16.7 |
"Martin Luther: Reformer and Man of Letters," February 1905
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| 16.8 |
"Article in 'Transcript' on Occasion of First Commencement,"
Clark College, June 21,
1905
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Includes commencement program. |
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| 16.9 |
"The Creative Impulse" delivered at the Annual Clark College
Banquet, May 9,
1906
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| 16.10-16.11 |
Leo Tolstoy, October 1907
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Includes clippings. |
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| 16.12 |
Speech made before the Headmasters' Club of Western
Massachusetts, January 19,
1907; includes "A New Method of Admission to
College," presented at the Teachers Institute and 17th Annual
Convention, November 5, 1909, program, clipping.
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| 16.13 |
"The Sensationalism of Richard Wagner" a talk on Wagner's
Tannhäuser and Lohengrin delivered at the 25th Annual Meeting of the
Modern Language Association, December 1907; includes program,
"Wagner's Parsifal."
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| 16.14 |
Notes for talk on Albrecht "Dürer and His Contemporaries,"
delivered to the Hall Club, January 15, 1908
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| 16.15 |
Two handwritten index cards of notes for speech at the Clark
Alumni Dinner in Boston, January 18, 1908
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| 16.16 |
"The Mission of a College Teacher," article written for the
July 1908 Clark College Record publication, February 1908
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Includes reprint. |
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| 16.17 |
Presidential campaign speeches (made in behalf of William
Howard Taft versus William Jennings Bryan), October
1908
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| 16.18 |
Lecture on Tuiskon Ziller (German educator), 1908;
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Includes Die formalen Stufen: Eine Einführung in die Schriften Zillers (an introduction to the writings of Ziller) by Theodor Wiget. |
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| 17.1 |
Address delivered at the Tufts College Commencement Dinner,
June 17,
1908
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| 17.2 |
"Is a New Laokoon Needed?" talk on "the twilight zone"
between poetry and music, November 14, 1908
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| 17.3 |
"Civil Service Reform and the Public School," delivered
before Worcester school principals, City Hall, December 11,
1908
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Includes notes. |
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| 17.4 |
Gotthold Ephraim "Lessing and the German Enlightenment,"
1908
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Includes early draft. |
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| 17.5 |
Handwritten note cards for speech to the Worcester Public
Education Association (PEA) on assuming the presidency, 1908
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| 17.6 |
"The Teaching of Foreign Literature," 1909
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| 17.7 |
"Memorial Day Address," 1909,
1911
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Includes handwritten note cards for speech, May 28, 1909 and typewritten speech at South High School, May 29, 1911. |
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| 17.8 |
Clark College Debating Society, 1909, undated
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Includes signed petition for Capen to teach a course in "Argument and Debating." |
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| 17.9-17.11 |
"St. Francis of Assisi" delivered in Friday Evening Course,
Clark College, December 3,
1909
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Includes handwritten draft, typewritten draft. |
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| 17.12 |
"Address at the Inaugural Exercises for the Faculty of the
College" (reprinted in the Clark College
Record) on the occasion of the inauguration of Dr.
Edmund Clark Sanford and the second President of Clark College,
April 1910
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| 17.13 |
"The German Teacher's Problem" talk delivered at the 5th
Conference of the Schools of Vermont with the University, March 1910
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Includes program, clipping. |
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| 17.14 |
"College Spirit" address delivered before the Faculty and
Student Supper, Clark College, April 11, 1910
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| 17.15 |
Address to the Worcester PEA, May 1910
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| 17.16 |
Speech delivered at the Tower Cross Banquet, November 21, 1910
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| 17.17 |
Speech delivered before the Worcester County Alumni
Association of Clark College, March 30, 1911
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| 17.18 |
"The Ideal Fraternity" speech delivered before the Locridian
Society, April 27,
1911
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| 17.19 |
Draft of a letter to Clinton M. Mackinnon regarding the
"Spirit at Clark," May 2,
1911
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| 17.20 |
Address delivered before the Worcester PEA, May 29,
1911
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Includes draft of letter to J. Storrow, 1909, clipping, reprint of article on public school conditions from the Worcester Magazine by U. Waldo Cutler, 1910. |
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| 17.21-17.22 |
"Edmond Rostand's Chantecler," presented for the Drama League
of Boston, Hollis Street Theatre, November 11, 1911
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Includes handwritten note cards, invitation, playbill for Chantecler starring Maude Adams, reprint of article by circa H. Grandgent, typewritten essay, "Cyrano, Chantecler and Their Creator." |
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| 17.23 |
"Maurice Maeterlinck and the Symbolistic Drama," 1911
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Includes Capen's handwritten and typewritten notes of critical analysis on Maeterlinck's work, clipping, two printed articles. |
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| 18.1 |
"The Supervision of College Teaching" article for the
Pedagogical Seminary, December 1911
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Includes typewritten draft, notes, reprint. |
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| 18.2 |
Notes on visits to German schools, 1911
|
|
|
Includes reprints. |
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| 18.3 |
"Masters of Old Nuremberg," January 5, 1912
|
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| 18.4 |
Research: articles on education, June 1912
|
|
|
Includes "Methods of Research in Education," by E.circa Sanford and "The Freshman," by W.R. Castle, Jr. |
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| 18.5 |
Address made at the Commencement Dinner, Clark College,
June 12, 1912
|
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| 18.6 |
Address delivered to the graduating seniors at Charlton and
Essex High Schools, June
1912
|
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| 18.7 |
Speech before Clark College YMCA, September 19, 1912
|
|
| 18.8 |
"Clark College System of Admission" discussion at the New
England Association of College and Preparatory Schools, November 1,
1912
|
|
|
Includes typewritten article "Three Tear Course at Clark College," notes, correspondence. |
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| 18.9 |
"The Socialist Program: Its Ideals and Shortcomings,"
presented at the Nashua Women's Club, November 11, 1912
|
|
|
Includes reprints of socialist articles. |
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| 18.10 |
"Speech before the Committee on Legislative Affairs and
Committee on Education of City Council in Favor of the Order
Providing for a Reduction of the School Committee from Thirty to
Eleven," December 23,
1912
|
|
| 18.11 |
"The Dramatic Qualities of Shakespeare's Last Plays,"
presented to the Shakespeare Club, December 30, 1912
|
|
| 18.12 |
"A National Play and Its Author," (Frederich Schiller's
"William Tell"), 1913
|
|
| 18.13 |
George I. Alden, 1913;
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|
|
Includes typewritten essay, "A Plan for Half-Time Classes" and a reprint of speech "A Plan for the Better Education of Boys and Girls who leave the Grammar School to seek employment in the Unskilled Industries." |
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| 18.14 |
"The Seat Perilous" presented to the Worcester Levana Club,
February 12,
1913
|
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| 18.15 |
Financial summary of Tufts College alumni funds, 1913
|
|
|
Includes letter from William R. Ransom. |
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| 18.16 |
Address at Tufts College Commencement Dinner, June 18, 1913
|
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| 18.17 |
Re-election to the Worcester City Government School
Committee, Ward Eight, November-December, 1913
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|
|
Includes campaign clippings, letters from opponent, Catherine Hagarty. |
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| 18.18 |
"Speech at Muhlenberg College Dinner, Waldorf Astoria
[Hotel], New York [City]," February 9, 1914
|
|
| 18.19-18.20 |
"The College and the New Education" Commencement remarks,
Wilson College, 1914
|
|
|
Includes handwritten notes, typewritten draft. |
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| 18.21 |
"What Standards Should be Used in the Classification of
Colleges" delivered before Association of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools of the Middle States and Maryland, November 27, 1914
|
|
| 18.22 |
"College Efficiency and Standardization; Certain Fundamental
Principles" delivered to the Association of American Colleges,
January 15,
1915
|
|
| 18.23 |
"Address at the Inauguration of President W.S. Currell,
University of South Carolina," January 28, 1915
|
|
| 18.24 |
"Address at the Inauguration of President Herman C.
Bumpus, Tufts College," June 12, 1915
|
|
| 18.25 |
"The Relation of the Bureau of Education to the Agricultural
Colleges" address delivered at the meeting of the Association of
American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, Berkeley,
California, August 13,
1915
|
|
| 18.26 |
"Address of Welcome at the Montessori Congress," Oakland,
California, August 27,
1915
|
|
| 18.27 |
"Measuring College Standards and Efficiency" delivered at the
meeting of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the
Southern States, Nashville, Tennessee, October 28, 1915
|
|
| 18.28 |
"A Rational System of School Management for a City of 100,000
Inhabitants," circa
1915
|
|
|
Includes handwritten note cards. |
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| 18.29 |
"The Status of the Land-grant College as Outlined in Reports
of Surveys Recently Made by the United States Bureau of Education,"
November
1916
|
|
| 18.30 |
"College 'Lists' and Surveys Published by the Bureau of
Education" address delivered before a joint meeting of the Southern
Association of College Women and the Association of Collegiate
Alumnae, Washington, April
12, 1917
|
|
| 18.31 |
"National Problems in the Organization of Education"
delivered to the Worcester PEA, May 8, 1917
|
|
| 18.32 |
"Address at the Inauguration of President Edward E.
Rall, Northwestern College," May 17,
1917
|
|
|
Includes program. |
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| 18.33 |
"Report of College and University Contributions to National
Service" delivered at Drexel Institute, October 19,
1917
|
|
| 19.1 |
"The Value of Art in a College Course" delivered before the
College Art Association of American, March 29, 1918
|
|
| 19.2 |
Abstract of address regarding national army training
detachments delivered at the National Education Association meeting,
July 2, 1918
|
|
| 19.3 |
"The Bureau of Education and the War" delivered before the
Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, June 27, 1918
|
|
| 19.4 |
"The Educational Lessons of the War" delivered before the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Saint Louis, March 31, 1919
|
|
| 19.5 |
"The Colleges in a National Educational Scheme" address
delivered at the Inauguration of President James L.
McConaughy, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois,
April 30,
1919
|
|
| 19.6 |
"The Implications of the War Experience for Colleges of
Liberal Arts" delivered at Clark College, November 19, 1919
|
|
|
Includes special Christmas Greeting for Alumni reprint. |
||
| 19.7 |
"The Federal Government and Higher Institutions" Address
delivered at the meeting of the Association of Urban Universities,
Boston, December 20, 1919
|
|
| 19.8 |
"Plans for the Exchange of Foreign Students," January 20, 1920
|
|
| 19.9 |
"The American Council on Education in International
Relations," speech for the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Colleges, January 1920
|
|
|
Includes program. |
||
| 19.10 |
"Pending Federal Legislation," address before the Society of
College Teachers of Education, February 23, 1920
|
|
|
Includes reprint. |
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| 19.11 |
Address defining "the needs of American Industry for trained
men and to enlist the cooperation of higher institutions in applying
these needs" delivered at the annual meeting of The Technology Clubs
Associated, March 26,
1920
|
|
| 19.12 |
"The Registrar's Office: a Barometer of Educational
Tendencies" address delivered before the Association of Collegiate
Registrars, April 13,
1920
|
|
| 19.13 |
Address delivered at the Conference on Highways and Highway
Transportation Education, May 14, 1920
|
|
| 19.14 |
Notes from speech delivered at conference on higher
education, May 19,
1920
|
|
| 19.15 |
Commencement luncheon address to graduates, Lafayette
College, June 7,
1920
|
|
| 19.16 |
"The New Task of the College" address delivered at the
fiftieth anniversary of the University of Akron, Buchtel College of
Arts and Sciences, June 16,
1920
|
|
| 19.17 |
"The Drexel Institute and Education" reprint of Commencement
address, June 25,
1920
|
|
| 19.18 |
"Arguments Against the Smith-Towner Bill" essay,
July 1920
|
|
|
Includes reprint. |
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| 19.19 |
"The Contribution of Army Education to National Education,"
August 23,
1920
|
|
| 19.20 |
"A National Budget and the Unification of the Government's
Education Activities" article, October 6, 1920
|
|
|
Includes correspondence with Edward S. Rochester, New York Post. |
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| 19.21 |
"The Cost of Higher Education and its Bearing on Taxation"
address delivered at the University of Michigan, October 15, 1920
|
|
| 19.22 |
"A National Survey of State Universities: How should it be
undertaken?" address delivered before the National Association of
State Universities, November 13, 1920
|
|
| 19.23 |
"The Place of a College of Liberal Arts and Science in an
Urban University" address delivered before the Association of Urban
Universities, December 18,
1920
|
|
| 19.24 |
"The American Council on Education" address delivered before
the Association of American Colleges, January 7, 1920
|
|
|
Includes page proof. |
||
| 19.25 |
"The Dilemma of the College of Arts and Science" article,
January 11,
1921
|
|
| 19.26 |
"New Problems in Higher Education" address delivered at the
Inauguration of President Spright Dowell,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, February 22, 1921
|
|
| 19.27 |
"Why the American Council on Education Deserves the
Co-operation Support and Endorsement of the National Council of
Normal School Presidents and Principals" address delivered before
the National Council of State Normal School Presidents and
Principals, February 25,
1921
|
|
| 19.28 |
Commencement remarks, University of Richmond, June 8, 1921
|
|
|
Includes correspondence, preliminary proof of program. |
||
| 19.29 |
"The Government and Education" Commencement remarks, Tufts
College, June 20,
1921
|
|
|
Includes reprint. |
||
| 19.30 |
"The College and State Systems of Education" address
delivered at the Inauguration of President John Martin
Thomas, Pennsylvania State College, October 13, 1921
|
|
| 19.31 |
"The Resources of State Universities, Present and Future"
address delivered at the meeting of the National Association of
State Universities, November 8, 1921
|
|
| 19.32 |
"Review of Recent Federal Legislation on Education" address
delivered at the Inauguration of President David
Kinley, University of Illinois, December 1,
1921
|
|
|
Includes earlier draft. |
||
| 19.33 |
"A Year of the Educational Research Committee" published
article in School and Society, January 28, 1922
|
|
| 19.34 |
Abstract of "A National Organization for Educational
Service," February 27,
1922
|
|
| 19.35 |
"The Federal Organization for Education" remarks included in
a memorial volume for Dr. Margaret Wilson,
Hunter College, March 28,
1922
|
|
| 19.36 |
"The American Council on Education" article, April 1922
|
|
| 19.37 |
"College Standardization" address delivered at the meeting of
the Catholic Educational Association, June 28, 1922
|
|
|
Includes reprint. |
||
| 19.38 |
Dedication of Foster Hall, University of Buffalo, October 27,
1922
|
|
|
Includes program. |
||
| 19.39 |
Inauguration address, University of Buffalo, October 28,
1922
|
|
|
Includes reprint “School and Society” article, typewritten introduction speeches, handwritten note cards. |
||
| 19.40 |
Part II of History and Principles of Public Welfare, Chapter
III, "Public Welfare and Public Education: Historical Analogies"
typewritten essay, November
1922
|
|
| 20.1 |
Remarks to students, University of Buffalo, 1923;
|
|
|
Includes University Day (February 22), Opening Convocation address (September 24), Commencement (June). |
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| 20.2 |
"A Unified, Universally Educated, Efficient Nation Demands a
National System of Public Schools" speech delivered before the
Department of Superintendence, National Educational Association,
March 1,
1923
|
|
|
Includes handwritten draft. |
||
| 20.3 |
"The New Responsibilities of Universities" speech delivered
to Phi Kappa Phi, Syracuse, New York June 5, 1923
|
|
| 20.4 |
"How Can Universities Best Promote International
Understanding and Friendliness?" address to the National Education
Association's World Conference on Education, July 2, 1923
|
|
| 20.5 |
"Preparation of the College Instructor for His Job" article
for “American Education”, February
1924
|
|
|
Includes reprint, typewritten draft, notes for reworked speech, "Requirements for College Teachers." Also includes "The Discovery and Treatment of Superior Students" commencement address, Albany. |
||
| 20.6 |
Inauguration of William Mather Lewis, Washington University:
invitation, program, clipping, November 11, 1923
|
|
| 20.7 |
"Certain Tendencies in Professional Education," 1923
|
|
|
Includes speech and program for the 4th Annual Cornell Alumni Corporation banquet, October 12, 1923; speech read at 9th Annual Convention of the Association of Urban Universities, November 15, 1923. |
||
| 20.8 |
"Why Colleges Fail to Educate" reprint, 1924
|
|
| 20.9 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1924
|
|
| 20.10 |
"The Determination of the Content of Professional and
Pre-Professional Training" address delivered before the Association
of American Colleges, February 28, 1924
|
|
| 20.11 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, 1924
|
|
| 20.12 |
Commencement remarks, Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics
Institute (Rochester Institute of Technology), June 26,
1924
|
|
|
Includes program. |
||
| 20.13 |
American Education Week radio broadcast, Buffalo WGR,
November 20,
1924
|
|
|
Includes handwritten draft. |
||
| 20.14 |
"An Educator's View of the Liberal Church" sermon to the
First Unitarian Church (Unitarian-Universalist Church), Buffalo,
December 14,
1924
|
|
|
Includes program, reprint. |
||
| 20.15 |
Chancellor's Medal Award to Bishop Charles
Brent, University of Buffalo, February 1925
|
|
| 20.16 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, 1925
|
|
| 20.17 |
"Liberal Education of Today and Tomorrow" Phi Beta Kappa
Commencement address, Hobart College, June 15, 1925
|
|
|
Includes program. |
||
| 20.18 |
"Hindrances to University Action in Medical Education" speech
from a discussion on Dr. Jessup's paper given at the meeting of the
Council on Medical Education, February 15, 1926
|
|
| 20.19 |
Inauguration address for William T. Sanger, Medical College
of Virginia, May 21,
1926
|
|
| 20.20 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, 1926
|
|
|
Includes ROTC Commissions address. |
||
| 20.21 |
"Pre-Medical Education" typewritten article, July 1926
|
|
| 20.22 |
Installation speech for Reverend Palfrey
Perkins, First Unitarian Church
(Unitarian-Universalist Church), Buffalo, October 1926
|
|
| 20.23 |
Address to the American Academy of Political and Social
Sciences, October 30,
1926
|
|
| 20.24 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 6, 1926
|
|
| 20.25 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1926
|
|
|
Includes program. |
||
| 20.26 |
"Progress of the University from 1922 to 1926" article for
University of Buffalo's Alumni News,
1926
|
|
| 20.27 |
"Thaddeus Kosciuszko" radio broadcast, Buffalo WGR, 1926
|
|
| 20.28 |
"The People and the Universities" radio broadcast, Buffalo
WGR, 1926
|
|
| 20.29 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 5, 1927
|
|
| 20.30 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, 1927
|
|
| 20.31 |
"The Imperative of the University" George Washington
University commencement address, June 8, 1927
|
|
| 20.32 |
"The University of Buffalo" article for Erie Railroad Magazine, June 1927
|
|
|
Includes copy of magazine. |
||
| 20.33 |
"Administration and Supervision of Academic Work in Colleges
and Universities" notes from course taught at the University of
Chicago, Summer
1926
|
|
| 20.34 |
"University of Buffalo" address to the Chamber of Commerce,
September 29,
1927
|
|
| 20.35 |
"Required for College Teachers" address at the University of
Kentucky, October 22,
1927
|
|
| 20.36 |
"Standardizing Agencies" discussion of Dead Kelly's paper
presented at the Association of Urban Universities conference,
November
1927
|
|
| 20.37 |
"Who Should Go To College?" radio broadcast, Buffalo WGR,
December 3,
1927
|
|
| 20.38 |
"Greetings from the Endowed Universities" handwritten address
delivered at the Inauguration of President Frederick B. Robinson,
College of the City of New York, 1927
|
|
| 21.1 |
"The Best Thing Universities can do for American Life"
Baccalaureate Address, University of Buffalo and address to the
Parkside Lutheran Church, Buffalo, February 5, 1928
|
|
| 21.2 |
Dedication of Hayes Hall and University Day (Midyear
Convocation) convocation remarks, February 22, 1928
|
|
|
Includes introductory remarks, response to the formal dedication, program. |
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| 21.3 |
"The Reorganization of the American Educational System: Final
Report of the Committee on Administrative Unites of the Commonwealth
Fund" published in The University of Buffalo
Studies (reprint only), April 1928
|
|
| 21.4 |
"General Problems of Professional Curriculum" National
Conference on Education session, April 11, 1928
|
|
|
Includes draft with handwritten notes. |
||
| 21.5 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, 1928
|
|
| 21.6 |
Encyclopedia Britannica articles,
June
1928
|
|
|
Includes "Experiments in Education" and "Professional Schools." |
||
| 21.7 |
"University of Buffalo" article in Buffalo Truth publication, October 1928
|
|
|
Includes correspondence. |
||
| 21.8 |
Article on the University of Buffalo, Grace Church News, Grace Episcopal Church, Buffalo,
November
1928
|
|
| 21.9 |
"Review of the Work of the University of Buffalo for the Year
1928" article for Alumni News,
1928
|
|
| 21.10 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1929
|
|
|
Includes eulogy for Professor Wilfred H. Sherk. |
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| 21.11 |
"How Can Time Best be Economized in the Reorganization of
Educational Units?" address to the Department of Superintendence of
the National Education Association conference, February 24, 1928
|
|
| 21.12 |
Commencement remarks, handwritten speech, University of
Buffalo, 1929
|
|
| 21.13 |
"Laying the Cornerstone" remarks to the new Buffalo State
Teachers College, 1929
|
|
| 21.14 |
"Relation of the State College to the New Movements in Higher
Education" address delivered at the Inauguration of President
George A. Works, Connecticut State College,
November 8,
1929
|
|
|
Includes reprint. |
||
| 21.15 |
Address to the Faculty of the School of Dental and Oral
Surgery, Columbia University at the 40th Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Dental Colleges, November 9, 1929
|
|
|
Includes typewritten draft of entire proceedings, correspondence. |
||
| 21.16 |
"Is Religion Dying Out" address before the First Unitarian
Church (Unitarian-Universalist Church), Buffalo, 1929(later presented
to the Thursday Club).
|
|
| 21.17 |
"The Appropriate Educational Fields of the Municipal
University" address delivered at the Conference on Municipal Higher
Education for the Inauguration of President Raymond A.
Kent, University of Louisville, November 21,
1929
|
|
|
Includes program. |
||
| 21.18 |
"Buffalo Educational Council" radio broadcast, Buffalo WGR,
1929
|
|
| 21.19 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1930
|
|
| 21.20 |
"The University of Buffalo" article for School publication, New York (printed article only),
May 8, 1930
|
|
| 21.21 |
Baccalaureate and commencement remarks, University of
Buffalo, June 8,
1930
|
|
| 21.22 |
"Report of the Survey Committee (Samuel Paul Capen, Luther
Pfahler Eisenhart, Guy Stanton Ford)" for Brown University,
published in the Bulletin of Brown University (published report
only), October
1930
|
|
| 21.23 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1931
|
|
| 21.24 |
"The Principles Which Should Govern Standards and Accrediting
Practices" address delivered before the North Central Association
meeting, March 18,
1931
|
|
| 21.25 |
Welcome remarks to the Association of University Registrars
conference, April 21,
1931
|
|
| 21.26 |
"Report of the Committee on Problems and Plans in Education"
address to the American Council on Education, May 8, 1931
|
|
| 21.27 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 7, 1931
|
|
| 21.28 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, June 10, 1931
|
|
| 21.29 |
Commencement remarks, Buffalo State Teachers College,
June 16,
1931
|
|
| 21.30 |
"Tendencies in University Curriculum Administration" session
at the Association of Urban Universities conference, November 6, 1931
|
|
| 21.31 |
"Does the Public High School Prepare for College?" radio
broadcast, WGY Schenectady for New York State Teachers Association,
December 2,
1931
|
|
|
Includes reprint. |
||
| 21.32 |
"Deviations from the Four Year Homogeneous Unit" article for
the National Society of Education
Yearbook, Chapter IV, 1932
|
|
| 21.33 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1932
|
|
| 21.34-21.35 |
"The Unknowns of Higher Education" address at the Conference
on Higher Education and commencement ceremonies, University of
Chicago, March 15,
1932
|
|
|
Includes typewritten draft, galley proof, reprint, invitation, program, correspondence, degree awarding Capen an honorary Doctor of Laws. |
||
| 21.36 |
Dedication of Crosby Hall remarks, April 28, 1932
|
|
|
Includes copy of statement enclosed in the cornerstone. |
||
| 21.37 |
"President George F. Zook, A Leader in American Higher
Education" article for University of Akron Alumni Bulletin,
May 1, 1932
|
|
| 21.38 |
Article for the Journal of Higher
Education, 1932
|
|
|
Includes handwritten note cards, correspondence (complete article not included). |
||
| 21.39 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 12, 1932
|
|
| 21.40 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, 1932
|
|
| 21.41 |
"Vital Educational Measures Applicable to Colleges" address
delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Colleges, January 22,
1932
|
|
|
includes abstract, handwritten notes, essay: "National Survey of State Universities: How should it be undertaken?" address delivered before the National Association of State Universities, November 13, 1920. |
||
| 21.42 |
"The University: Its Aims and Province" presented at the New
York University Conference, November 15, 1932
|
|
| 22.1 |
"Results of the Work of the Commission on Medical Education"
address delivered at the Annual Congress on Medical Education,
Medical Licensure, and Hospitals, February 13, 1933
|
|
|
Includes correspondence. |
||
| 22.2 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1933
|
|
| 22.3 |
"The University and the Doctrine of Laissez-Faire" paper
presented at the Thursday Club, April 13, 1933
|
|
| 22.4 |
"The Relation of Dental to Medical Education" presented at
the Celebration of a Half Century of Progress in Dentistry at the
University Pennsylvania conference and convocation, May 18,
1933
|
|
|
Includes correspondence, program, citation for honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. |
||
| 22.5 |
Interview broadcast on "Voice of Trend Radio Hour" WKBW
Buffalo, September 29,
1933
|
|
| 22.6 |
"Professional Education in America" address at the 69th
Convocation of the University of the State of New York, Albany,
October 13,
1933
|
|
|
Includes program, correspondence, handwritten draft. |
||
| 22.7 |
"Wanted: The Graduate School of Teacher Training" proposal
for paper, Modern Language Association, 1933
|
|
| 22.8 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 11,
1933
|
|
|
Includes commencement remarks. |
||
| 22.9 |
Dedication of Norton Hall (now Harriman Hall), February 26,
1934
|
|
|
Includes program. |
||
| 22.10 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June
10, 1934
|
|
|
Includes commencement remarks. |
||
| 22.11 |
Commencement address, Radcliffe College, June 20, 1934
|
|
| 22.12 |
"Too Many Yet Too Few" address before the Annual Meeting of
the New York State Organizations of Nurses, Buffalo, October 17,
1934
|
|
|
Includes correspondence. |
||
| 22.13 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1934
|
|
| 22.14 |
"The Responsibility of Boards of Trustees for the
Preservation of Academic Freedom" address before the Conference of
Trustees of Colleges and Universities, April 26, 1935
|
|
|
Includes handwritten draft. |
||
| 22.15 |
Dedication of Lockwood Memorial Library (now Charles D.
Abbott Hall), May 15,
1935
|
|
| 22.16 |
Abstract of remarks made at a Buffalo Club of New York City
dinner, May 27,
1935
|
|
| 22.17 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 9,
1935
|
|
|
Includes reprint of address published as "The Obligation of the University to American Democracy." |
||
| 22.18 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, June 12, 1935
|
|
| 22.19 |
"Educational Problems Common to Canada and the United States"
address at the conference on Canadian-American Affairs, June 22, 1935
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| 22.20 |
"Should Medicine be Socialized?" paper presented at the
Thursday Club, February 13,
1936
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| 22.21 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, University of
Buffalo, February 22,
1936
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Includes eulogy for A. Glenni Bartholomew, introduction of speaker Allan Valentine, President of the University of Rochester. |
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| 22.22 |
Radio broadcast of remarks made as "honorary Chairman of the
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society," WKBW Buffalo, March 15, 1936
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| 22.23 |
Chancellors' Message for 1936 Buffalonian yearbook, March 24, 1936
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| 22.24 |
Abstract of remarks on the "Regent's Inquiry into the
Character and Cost of Public Education in the State of New York,"
Elementary School Principals meeting, Buffalo, March 16, 1936
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| 22.25 |
"Procedures of the Commission of Appraisal" comments from the
American Unitarian Commission on Appraisal, May 1936
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| 22.26 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 7, 1936
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| 22.27 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, June 10,
1936
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Includes handwritten draft. |
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| 22.28 |
Address delivered at the Inauguration of President
Albert N. Jorgensen, Connecticut State
College, June 12,
1936
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Includes program, handwritten draft. |
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| 22.29 |
"Regents Survey" address delivered at the 10th Annual Meeting
of the New York State Association of Deans (copy of entire
proceedings), November 13,
1936
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| 22.30 |
"Privileges and Immunities" address on academic freedom
delivered at the meeting of the American Association of University
Professors (AAUP), December
28, 1936
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Includes published article. |
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| 22.31 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks (February 22)
and Chancellor's Message for the 1937 Buffalonian yearbook (April 20), 1937
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Includes handwritten draft. |
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| 22.32 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 6, 1937; includes
reprint of address published as "The University as a Social
Institution."
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| 22.33 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, June 1937
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| 22.34 |
Irwin B. Clark Memorial Gymnasium cornerstone ceremonies,
October 9,
1937
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Includes correspondence. |
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| 23.1 |
"Should the Professions Adopt the Principle of the Closed
Union?" paper presented at the Thursday Club, January 12, 1938
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| 23.2 |
"Some Things the Citizen Should Know About the Schools"
address to the Twentieth Century Club, February 16, 1938
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| 23.3 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks (February 22)
and statement for the 1938 Buffalonian
(April 22), 1938
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| 23.4 |
"The Preparation of College Teachers" address delivered at
the meeting of American Association of School Administrators,
March 1,
1938
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Includes abstract. |
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| 23.5 |
"The Evolution of a College: A Century of Higher Education in
Buffalo" by Julian Park
, The University of Buffalo Studies, (page proof only) May 1938 |
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| 23.6 |
Remarks made at the"25th Anniversary of the College of Arts
& Sciences" May 14,
1938
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Includes press release. |
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| 23.7 |
Commencement address, McMaster University, May 25,
1938
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Includes program. |
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| 23.8 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 5,
1938
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Includes reprint of address published as "The World To-day," commencement remarks. |
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| 23.9 |
"As We See Ourselves" abstract of remarks at the 25th Annual
Meeting of the Association of Urban Universities, October 25, 1938
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| 23.10 |
Address delivered at the Inauguration of President Leonard
Carmichael, Tufts College, November 4, 1938
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Includes correspondence, handwritten draft. |
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| 23.11 |
Radio broadcast for "Your Community" program, WEBR, Buffalo,
December 1,
1938
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| 23.12 |
"Introduction of President Day" University Day (Midyear
Convocation), February 22,
1939
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Includes Chancellor's Message for the 1939 Buffalonian yearbook. |
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| 23.13-23.14 |
"Seven Devils in Exchange for One" address to the Accrediting
Agencies Representatives' Meeting sponsored by the American Council
on Education, April 7,
1939
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Includes correspondence, Earl McGrath, "Report of the Joint Committee of the NASU and the Land-Grant College Association" by President John J. Tigert, University of Florida. |
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| 23.15 |
Address at the dedication of the Edward J. Meyer Memorial
Hospital, April 20,
1939
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| 23.16 |
Commencement address, Iowa State Teachers College, May 29, 1939
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| 23.17 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 1939
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| 23.18 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, June
14, 1939
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Includes handwritten draft. |
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| 23.19 |
"Professional Standards" address before the Western Zone
Meeting of the New York State Teachers Association, October 28,
1939
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Includes handwritten draft. |
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| 23.20 |
"The Effect of the World War 1914-18 on American Colleges and
Universities," (reprint only), January 1940
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| 23.21 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, February 22, 1940
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| 23.22 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 9, 1940
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| 23.23 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, June 12, 1940
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| 23.24 |
Testimonial dinner for Edward H. Letchworth on the completion
of Kleinhans Music Hall, October 16, 1940
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Includes program, notes. |
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| 23.25 |
University Day (Midyear Convocation) remarks, February 22, 1941
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| 23.26 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 8, 1941
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| 23.27 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, June 11, 1941
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| 23.28 |
Address delivered at the Inauguration of Head Master
Charles S. Tippetts, The Mercerburg
Academy, October 18,
1941
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Includes reprint, handwritten draft. |
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| 23.29 |
"The Pace of Medical Sciences in Dental Education" address
delivered at a meeting of the American Association of Dental
Schools, March 16,
1942
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Includes reprint. |
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| 23.30 |
"The Higher Learning in a National Crisis" paper presented at
the Thursday Club, April 9,
1942
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| 23.31 |
"The Government and the Colleges in Wartime" remarks from
presentation of the National Conference of College and University
Presidents, January 3,
1942
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Includes reprint, handwritten draft. |
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| 23.32 |
"Resolutions Presented at the Dinner Meeting of the
University Council" honoring George Croft's
twenty years as Comptroller and Treasurer of the University,
January 28,
1942
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| 23.33 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 7, 1942
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| 23.34 |
Commencement remarks, University of Buffalo, June 10,
1942
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Includes University Day (Midyear Convocation), February 23, 1942. |
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| 23.35 |
Article for the New York Times
on universities in wartime, October 12, 1942
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Includes letter to the editors of The Bee regarding some students' poor academic standing during wartime. |
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| 23.36 |
"Speech at 20th Anniversary" handwritten speech commemorating
twenty years as Chancellor of UB, November 5, 1942
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| 24.1 |
Victory Fund Committee radio broadcast, Buffalo WBEN,
April 27,
1943
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| 24.2 |
"The Exchange of Educational Ideas Through the Exchange of
Lectures, Teachers, Students, Research Workers and Others Actively
Engaged in Education," 1943
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Includes handwritten draft. |
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| 24.3 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, May 23, 1943
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| 24.4 |
Remarks to students, 1943
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Includes Midyear convocation (formally University Day), Medical School graduation, Chancellor's message for the 1943 Buffalonian yearbook. |
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| 24.5 |
Commencement address, Lafayette College, December 23,
1943
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Includes clipping. |
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| 24.6 |
Remarks to students, 1944
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Includes Midyear convocation, Medical School graduation, Chancellor's message for the 1944 Buffalonian yearbook, Chancellor's message for the 1944 Student Handbook. |
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| 24.7 |
Commencement address, Syracuse University, May 2, 1944
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| 24.8 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, May 21, 1944
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| 24.9 |
"The Responsibilities of a Trustee of an Urban University,"
December 6,
1944
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Includes "Remarks at the Cult of the White Buffalo Dinner in honor of Mr. James McCormack Mitchell," December 6, 1944. |
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| 24.10 |
Remarks to students, 1945
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Includes Midyear convocation, Medical School graduation, Chancellor's message for the 1945 Buffalonian yearbook. |
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| 24.11 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, May 27, 1945
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| 24.12 |
Article for University of Buffalo Alumni Bulletin (October issue), September 22, 1945
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| 24.13 |
"The Grand Manner of the French" paper presented at the
Thursday Club, December 13,
1945
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| 24.14 |
Statement for the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce brochure on the
proposed State Institutes of Applied Arts and Sciences, January 14,
1946
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Includes article, "The Best Thing Universities Can do for American Life" (1927?). |
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| 24.15 |
Remarks to students, 1946
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Includes Midyear convocation, Medical School graduation, Chancellor's message for the 1946 Student Handbook, Chancellor's message for the 1946 Buffalonian yearbook. |
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| 24.16 |
Radio broadcast: roundtable on "What are Buffalo college's
doing to meet the enrollment emergency" a discussion on the G.I.
Bill of Rights, May 12,
1946
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Includes outline, "essay "The Expansion of University Education." |
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| 24.17 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 2,
1946
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Includes souvenir booklet. |
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| 24.18 |
University of Buffalo Centennial Celebration, October 4,
1946
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Includes Opening Convocation address, acceptance of the alumni memorial, honorary degree citations, programs, handwritten drafts. |
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| 24.19 |
"We Dare Not Forget" address at Founder's Day, Alfred
University, November 7,
1946
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Includes correspondence regarding honorary Doctorate of Laws. |
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| 24.20 |
"The Teaching Profession and Labor Unions" article written in
response to the Buffalo public teachers' strike, January
1947
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Includes handwritten draft, reprints, clippings, correspondence. |
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| 24.21 |
Remarks to students, 1947;
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Includes Midyear convocation, Chancellor's message for Student Handbook, Chancellor's message for the 1947 Buffalonian yearbook, letters to alumni for Honor Roll edition of Alumni Bulletin, clipping. |
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| 24.22 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 2,
1947
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Includes reprint of address published as "The Truth Will Prevail." |
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| 25.1 |
Remarks to students, 1948
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Includes Midyear convocation, Chancellor's message for Student Handbook, Commencement, Chancellor's message for the 1947 Buffalonian yearbook. |
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| 25.2 |
News release regarding speech to the Twentieth Century Club
on the effects of the G.I. Bill of Rights, April 6, 1948
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| 25.3 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 13, 1948
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| 25.4 |
"Reflections on Freedom in Education" (reprint only),
June 4, 1948
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| 25.5 |
Eulogy for James McCormack Mitchell,
Chairman of the Council, July 16, 1948
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| 25.6 |
Articles for Alumni Bulletin,
1948
|
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| 25.7 |
"Who Should Manage Universities, And How?" paper presented at
the Thursday Club, January
13, 1949
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| 25.8 |
Remarks to students, 1949
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Includes Midyear convocation, Chancellor's message for Student Handbook, commencement. |
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| 25.9 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, May 29, 1949
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| 25.10 |
Articles for Alumni Bulletin,
1949
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| 25.11 |
"Memoranda to the Trustees of the State University of New
York urging consideration of state aid to the medical and dental
schools of the University of Buffalo," May 20, 1949
|
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| 25.12 |
Remarks to students, 1950
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Includes Midyear Convocation, Chancellor's message, commencement. |
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| 25.13 |
Baccalaureate address, University of Buffalo, June 4,
1950
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Includes handwritten draft. |
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| 25.14 |
Chancellor Medal citations, 1925-1950
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Includes University Day (Midyear Convocation) program. |
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| 25.15 |
Limericks (handwritten), undated
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| 25.16-15.17 |
The Enlightenment and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 'Nathan der Weiss' typewritten edited draft
with handwritten corrections, circa 1908-1914
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Includes bibliography, annotated translations, sections: "Lessing's Place in German Literature and his Personality," "Lessing's Life," "Lessing's Attitude towards Christianity," "The Genesis and Sources of Nathan." |
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[Arrangement: during reprocessing, main manuscript was numbered in the order it was found in the folder. Might not reflect original order.] |
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 26.1-27.12 |
Notes for speeches, 1921-1938,
undated
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Includes opening convocation speeches, Ivy Day, AAUP, local clubs, Acquaintance Day, Council Meeting dinners. |
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| In this subseries there are folders of general topics that Capen took a deep interest in such as academic freedom. There are also folders on the various committees and organizations in which Capen was a member. Some of the organizations include important, but under-documented local organizations of Buffalo. Most folders contain articles, correspondence or reports. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 28.1-28.5 |
Academic freedom, 1953;
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Includes Homer P. Rainey case; reprint of John Lord O'Brian lectures: "The Government and Civil Liberties: World War I and After," "New Dangers and Contemporary Governmental Activities," "Changing Attitudes Towards Freedom," "new Encroachments on Individual Freedom"; John Reed Club controversy; "The Rights and Responsibilities of Universities and Their Faculties" pamphlet; "Statement by Chancellor [McConnell] to the University Faculty; William T. Parry and the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); Harvard Professor Wendell H. Furry and the HUAcirca. |
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| 28.6 |
Alien Hearing Board member, Attorney General office,
1943-1945
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Includes official certificate signed by Francis Biddle, Attorney General of the United States. |
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| 28.7 |
American Institute of France, Incirca : advisory board,
1946-1950
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Includes photograph. |
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| 28.8-28.9 |
Army Advisory Committee for the First United States Army in
Buffalo, New York, 1947-1950
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Includes certificate, Army Advisory Committee Bulletin, July 1947-May 1949. |
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| 28.10-28.12 |
Association on American Colleges: issues of Academic Freedom,
1925,
1945-1951
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Includes "Changing Issues in Academic Freedom in the United States Today" by Harry D. Gideonse reprint, 1950; "A Symposium on the Philosophy of Freedom," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. VIII, No. 4, June 1948. |
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| 28.13 |
Bell Aircraft Board of Inquiry, 1949-1950
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Includes clipping, "Award of Board of Inquiry In the Matter of the Arbitration Between Bell Aircraft Corporation and UAW-CIO, Local 501." |
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| 28.14 |
Buffalo Council on World Affairs, 1948-1949
|
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| 28.15 |
Buffalo Research Associates, 1954-1956
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| 28.16-28.17 |
Century Association, New York City, 1933-1949
|
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| 29.1-29.2 |
Civic Full Employment Committee of Buffalo, 1945-1946
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Includes final reports, minutes, committee members list, clipping. |
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| 29.3 |
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, Municipal Affairs
Committee, advisory board, 1947-1950
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Includes minutes, reports, committee members list, "Summary Outline of the Principle Public Improvements Needed in Buffalo." |
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| 29.4 |
Conference of the Trustees of Colleges and Universities,
Lafayette College, 1935, 1938-1942
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Includes clippings, programs. |
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| 29.5-29.6 |
Cult of the White Buffalo, 1936-1950
|
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Includes programs, invitations, correspondence regarding tribute dinner to Capen, 1941. |
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| 29.7 |
Montessori Educational Association, 1913
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Includes clippings, pamphlets. |
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| 29.8-29.11 |
New York State Crime Commission,
1951; includes executive order from
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Statement from J.
Edgar Hoover, meeting agendas, Supreme Court of New York appeals,
claim of Elizabeth A. Holmes v. Erie County,
correspondence, photographs.
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| 29.12-29.13 |
Phi Beta Kappa Associates, 1940-1945
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Includes invitation, by-laws, letters of acceptance and resignation, meeting minutes. |
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| 30.1 |
Public Education Association (PEA) of Providence, Rhode
Island pamphlet "Should Providence Have a Small School Commission?"
1913
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| 30.2 |
Public Education Association (PEA) of Worcester,
Massachusetts annual reports, 1907-1911,
1913
|
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| 30.3-30.6 |
Socialism and politics, 1909
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Includes flyers, pamphlets, clippings, Capen draft of speech. |
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| 30.7 |
Thursday Club, 1945-1950
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Includes "American Education in a Quandary" talk by circa circa Furnas, programs, correspondence. |
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
