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Office of the President Records: Jonathan Dickinson to Harold W. Dodds Subgroup, 1746-1999 (bulk 1830-1869): Finding Aid
AC117
Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879 and thirteenth president of Princeton University, and Andrew Carnegie lead a graduation procession, circa 1906.
These papers were processed with the generous support of former Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro, Charles Brothman '51, and the John Foster Dulles and Janet Avery Dulles Fund.
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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Office of the President.
- Title and dates:
- Office of the President Records : Jonathan Dickinson to Harold W. Dodds Subgroup, 1746-1999 (bulk 1830-1869)
- Abstract:
- This collection contains records relating to Princeton University presidents from Jonathan Dickinson, who served in this capacity from 1746 to 1747, to Harold W. Dodds, whose tenure spanned the period from 1933 to 1957. It brings together both primary and secondary materials pertaining to individual presidents as well as the office of the president itself. The Princeton University Presidents' Records document the lives and accomplishments of each president with varying completeness, as well as the functions of their office.
- Size:
- 91.1 linear feet (189 archival boxes, two half-size archival boxes, 21 9 x 11 boxes, 1 15 x 12 box, 7 15 ½ x 12 boxes, 2 14 ½ x 18 ½ boxes, 1 15 x 19 box, and 38 custom boxes)
- Call number:
- AC117
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Princeton University Archives.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA - Language(s) of material:
- English.
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at the Mudd Manuscript Library.
History of the Office of the President
The role of Princeton University's president, who is chosen by and answerable to the Board of Trustees, has evolved significantly since Jonathan Dickinson first taught a handful of students in his Elizabeth, New Jersey parsonage in 1747. By the close of Harold Dodds's tenure, more than two centuries later, the undergraduate and graduate student body had swelled to 3,584 and the faculty to 582, supported by an extensive infrastructure of libraries, laboratories, classrooms, and residential and recreational facilities. By the middle of the twentieth century, the president, once the heart and soul of a fledgling college chiefly concerned with preparing men for ministry, was charged with leading a complex multi- disciplinary and non-sectarian institution.
The presidents of Princeton University (or the College of New Jersey as it was known prior to 1896) have always served as their institution's chief executive officer. Their primary function, however, is no longer pedagogical but administrative, and even in this sphere, they now share their duties with others. Their leadership remains a critical factor in Princeton University's success, but their centrality and ubiquity have slowly diminished. In the words of Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, “Today the president of an American college, as its educational leader and chief administrative officer, is vital to its prosperity and progress, but two centuries ago he was still more important, for the entire life of the institution centered upon him.” Of Aaron Burr, Sr., the College of New Jersey's second president, Wertenbaker writes: “He was president, professor, secretary, librarian, purchasing agent all in one.” ( Princeton, 1746-1896)
Even when Princeton University had far outgrown its small beginnings, presidents like Francis Landey Patton carried a disproportionate burden, though by the close of the nineteenth century, this was seen as an error in judgment rather than a necessary virtue. According to David W. Hirst, “Even by standards of that day, the administrative structure of Princeton was spare to the extreme. Patton conducted college affairs from his study in Prospect. He had no personal secretary until 1895 when he assigned that position to his son, George Stevenson Patton '91, and there was no college or university secretary until the election of Charles Williston McAlpin in December 1900. Patton was assisted by only one dean for most of his term, during which he turned aside the faculty's urgent appeals to inaugurate a system of deans to accommodate the expanding institution.” ( A Princeton Companion) In contrast, by 1957, when Dodds retired, the president could draw on the talents of no fewer than six deans, aided, in turn, by six assistant or associate deans.
The 15 presidents whose records can be found in this collection faced a wide range of challenges, from the warfare of the American Revolution, which left Nassau Hall in ruins, to the twentieth-century educational reforms that propelled Princeton University into the first tier of the world's universities. Their training and abilities also varied, and it is this diversity of men and issues, interacting with one another in unique ways, that have defined the office of Princeton University's president.
It has never been a self-sufficient office, even in its earliest incarnation, for presidents have always had to work in concert with the Board of Trustees and, as the latter's day-to-day involvement in the life of the institution lessened, with a corps of administrative officers as well. The will of the faculty, students, and alumni have also had an important impact on the power of presidents. Each of these groups has asserted itself at different points in history, from the rampaging students who helped to wreck the presidency of Samuel Stanhope Smith, to the faculty who agitated for Patton's removal, to the alumni who undermined Woodrow Wilson's initiatives concerning graduate education and undergraduate eating clubs. At times, however, power has been willingly shared, as the close partnership of James Carnahan and John Maclean, Jr., the College of New Jersey's ninth and tenth presidents, demonstrates.
Variety has also marked the length of presidential tenures. The combined service of Princeton University's first five presidents was under 20 years, thanks to stress and illness.
Carnahan, in contrast, headed the College of New Jersey for no fewer than 31 years, and four of the presidents represented here enjoyed tenures of between 20 and 30 years.
Familial and religious cohesion has given way to pluralism. Until Wilson assumed the presidency of Princeton University in 1902, the men who held this office were exclusively Presbyterian clergymen, and in two cases, family members succeeded one another: Burr by his father-in-law, Jonathan Edwards, and John Witherspoon by his son-in-law, Smith. It was not until 2001, however, that the gender barrier was broken with the election of Shirley Tilghman, Princeton University's first female president.
The contributions of Princeton University's presidents have varied with the times in which they lived and in proportion to their talents and resources. Their ranks have included statesmen of the stature of Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, and Wilson, who guided the United States through the First World War. They have included accomplished educators like James McCosh, whose impact was likened to “an electric shock, instantaneous, paralyzing to the opposition, and stimulating to all who were not paralyzed.” They have included pioneers like Burr, who oversaw his institution's move from Newark to Princeton in 1756 and the erection of Nassau Hall. They have included gifted administrators like Dodds, who, notwithstanding the turmoil of the Great Depression and the Second World War, set a new standard of academic excellence and, as the development of the Woodrow Wilson School attests, gave his university a global outlook. And, inevitably, there were presidents who failed to sustain the burdens of their office: men like Smith, whose tenure was marred by a fire that gutted Nassau Hall in 1802 and student riots that led to mass suspensions in 1807. Indeed, Smith is one of four presidents who have been compelled to resign under pressure. The other three are Ashbel Green, Patton, and Wilson.
The series descriptions that follow provide individual profiles of Princeton University's first 15 presidents, as well as insights into the changing character of their office. As a whole they were an able group of leaders who successfully guided their institution through the social, political, and economic vagaries of two centuries. Though Latin and Greek have fallen from their position of curricular pre-eminence, though Nassau Hall is no longer the place where students study, eat, sleep, and worship, and though financial transactions are no longer entered in the president's own hand, the work of the presidents documented in this collection continues to bear fruit today. The names and tenures of these men are listed below:
President Tenure
- Jonathan Dickinson 1747
- Aaron Burr, Sr. 1748-1757
- Jonathan Edwards 1758
- Samuel Davies 1759-1761
- Samuel Finley 1761-1766
- John Witherspoon 1768-1794
- Samuel Stanhope Smith 1795-1812
- Ashbel Green 1812-1822
- James Carnahan 1823-1854
- John Maclean, Jr. 1854-1868
- James McCosh 1868-1888
- Francis Landey Patton 1888-1902
- Woodrow Wilson 1902-1910
- John Grier Hibben 1912-1932
- Harold Willis Dodds 1933-1957
Description
The content of this collection varies markedly over time. The eighteenth and early nineteenth-century presidents' records are typically secondary sources such as clippings or letters written by others, most of which long postdate the lifetimes of the men to whom they refer. In a few instances, primary material in the form of correspondence, financial records, and sermons exists. The early presidents' records are usually divided into five broad categories: biographical information, their presidency, family members, post- mortem material, and portraits. It is only with the presidency of John Maclean, Jr. that original materials such as correspondence begins to predominate, nor can any set of records be said to be voluminous save his and those of Harold Dodds. In the post-Maclean era, James McCosh's administration is the least well documented, comprising just six boxes of material, and those of Francis Landey Patton, Woodrow Wilson, and John Grier Hibben, though informative in many regards, are by no means complete.
Presidential portraits and other images have been placed at the end of the collection under the appropriate series number and are referenced in the following series descriptions. Every president is depicted, along with many of their wives, though these images are limited in number and variety until the advent of photography in the middle years of the nineteenth century. Photographs of Presidents Robert Goheen (1957-1972), William Bowen (1972-1988), and Harold Shapiro (1988-2001), whose records are presently closed and unprocessed, can be found in the box 252.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- Series 1: Jonathan Dickinson Records, 1746-1977
- Series 2: Aaron Burr, Sr. Records, 1753-1999
- Series 3: Jonathan Edwards Records, 1758-1993
- Series 4: Samuel Davies Records, 1753-1997
- Series 5: Samuel Finley Records, 1749-1996
- Series 6: John Witherspoon Records, 1772-1996
- Series 7: Samuel Stanhope Smith Records, 1804-1979
- Series 8: Ashbel Green Records, 1782-1985
- Series 9: James Carnahan Records, 1775-1983
- Series 10: John Maclean, Jr. Records, 1752-1997
- Subseries 10A: General Materials, 1774-1997
- Subseries 10B: Correspondence, 1752-1898
- Subseries 10C: Subject Files, 1769-1920
- Subseries 10D: Sermons and Addresses, 1827-1879
- Series 11: James McCosh Records, 1747-1995
- Series 12: Francis Landey Patton Records, 1877-1994
- Subseries 12A: General Materials, 1877-1994
- Subseries 12B: Letterpress Books, 1889-1902
- Series 13: Woodrow Wilson Records, 1826-1985
- Subseries 13A: Subject Files, 1898-1985
- Subseries 13B: Correspondence, 1896-1923
- Subseries 13C: General Materials, 1826-1961
- Series 14: John Grier Hibben Records, 1806-1986
- Subseries 14A: Subject Files, 1806-1986
- Subseries 14B: Correspondence, 1882-1935
- Subseries 14C: Addresses and Publications, 1894-1933
- Subseries 14D: Acting President Edward D. Duffield, 1871-1955
- Subseries 14E: General Materials, 1882-1933
- Series 15: Harold Willis Dodds Records, 1896-1990
- Subseries 15A: Correspondence, 1896-1988
- Subseries 15B: Speeches and Writings, 1929-1976
- Subseries 15C: Subject Files, 1907-1990
- Subseries 15D: Arthur E. Fox, 1939-1956
- Subseries 15E: Edgar M. Gemmell, 1940-1958
- Subseries 15F: Memorabilia, 1898-1980
- Series 16: Portraits and Other Images, 1826-1996
Access and Use
Access
Materials generated by the office of the president are closed for 40 years from the date of their creation. Some records relating to personnel or students are closed for longer periods of time.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the University Archivist. Copyright is held by the Trustees of Princeton University.
Other Finding Aids
The Office of the President Records: Jonathan Dickinson to Harold W. Dodds Subgroup forms part of the Princeton University Office of the President Records. Finding Aids for other subgroups and portions of the collection are also available online:
Office of the President Records: Robert F. Goheen Subgroup, 1924-1988 (bulk 1957-1972): Finding Aid.
Office of the President Records: William G. Bowen Subgroup, 1940-1998 (bulk 1972-1987): Finding Aid.
Office of the President Records: Harold Shapiro Subgroup, 1961-2001 (bulk 1987-2001): Finding Aid.
Acquisition and Appraisal
Provenance and Acquisition
This is an artificial collection that came to the Princeton University Archives from a variety of sources over a period of years, including the office of the president, former Secretary of the University Varnum Lansing Collins, and other donors.
Processing and Other Information
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Carol V. Burke and Stacey C. Peeples in 2002. Finding aid written by Carol V. Burke and Stacey C. Peeples in 2002.
Descriptive Rules Used
Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Encoding
Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks and Cristela García-Spitz on October 06, 2006.
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Office of the President Records (Jonathan Dickinson to Harold W. Dodds); box and, if applicable, Box and Folder Number; Princeton University Archives, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- Bowen, William G. -- Photographs.
- Burr, Aaron, 1716-1757 -- Contributions to education.
- Carnahan, James, 1775-1859 -- Contributions to education.
- Davies, Samuel, 1723-1761 -- Contributions to education.
- Dickinson, Jonathan, 1688-1747 -- Contributions to education.
- Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980 -- Contributions to education.
- Duffield, Edward D. (Edward Dickinson), 1871-1938 -- Contributions to education.
- Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758 -- Contributions to education.
- Finley, Samuel, 1715-1766 -- Contributions to education.
- Fox, Arthur E. (Arthur Eugene), 1891-1957 -- Contributions to education.
- Gemmell, Edgar M. (Edgar Mills), 1911-1990 -- Contributions to education.
- Goheen, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1919- -- Photographs.
- Green, Ashbel, 1762-1848 -- Contributions to education.
- Hibben, John Grier, 1861-1933 -- Contributions to education.
- McCosh, James, 1811-1894 -- Contributions to education.
- Maclean. John, 1800-1886 -- Contributions to education.
- Patton, Francis L. (Francis Landey), 1843-1932 -- Contributions to education.
- Shapiro, Harold T., 1935- -- Photographs.
- Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819 -- Contributions to education.
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 -- Contibutions to education.
- Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794 -- Contributions to education.
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Clergy.
- Princeton University Administration.
- Princeton University -- Presidents.
- College administrators -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
- Universities and colleges -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- Administration.
- Articles.
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Reports.
- Scrapbooks.
- Speeches.
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Contents List
Series 1: Jonathan Dickinson Records, 1746-1977
Series Description
Jonathan Dickinson, born in 1688 and graduated from Yale College in 1706, was the first president of the College of New Jersey. After becoming the pastor of the Congregational church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Dickinson shifted from Congregational to Presbyterian teachings in order to join the Presbytery of Philadelphia. Yet while becoming a leader within the Presbytery and the higher Synod of Philadelphia, Dickinson steadfastly maintained his belief in the freedom of the individual clergy. Having first envisioned an educational institute within the Synod, Dickinson only realized his dream of founding a school to train future Presbyterian ministers and pious laymen when he and others founded the College of New Jersey in 1746. Dickinson died in office in October 1747.
Material on Dickinson is arranged topically and divided into four categories: biographical information, his association with the College of New Jersey, genealogical material, and post mortem material. This series contains only secondary documents, most of which take the form of letters and clippings. The biographical folder contains brief summaries of Jonathan Dickinson's life, as well as a few cards referencing other sources. Material relating to his foundational work on behalf of the College of New Jersey includes numerous letters, documents concerning his death, such as the epitaph on his tombstone, and a paper discussing the establishment of the College. Family members are documented through the correspondence to and from descendents of Dickinson and his wife, Joanna Melyen, and include two genealogical charts. In several cases Dickinson's seven children, Abigail, Jonathan, Temperance, Joanna, Elizabeth, Mary, and Martha, are mentioned. Post mortem material details the buildings dedicated to him at both Yale and Princeton Universities. Also to be found are several images of Dickinson and a pamphlet about him and the College of New Jersey by Professor Henry Cameron.
Biographical Information, 1915-1977
Box 1, Folder 1 The College of New Jersey Years, 1746-1961
Box 1, Folder 2 Family Members, 1906-1967
Box 1, Folder 3 Post Mortem, 1928-1946
Box 1, Folder 4 Series 2: Aaron Burr, Sr. Records, 1753-1999
Series Description
While Jonathan Dickinson bears the distinction of serving as Princeton University's first president, Aaron Burr played a central part in organizing the College after its initial establishment and overseeing its move to Princeton in 1756. Burr was born in Fairfield, Connecticut in c. 1715/1716 and graduated at the head of his Yale College class in 1735. From there he moved to Newark, New Jersey to head both the Presbyterian church and a school in classics. Burr, along with Dickinson and five others, established the College of New Jersey in 1746. In 1748 Burr was named president of the college, though he had filled this office unofficially since Dickinson's death in 1747. During Burr's ten years of service he increased enrollment, raised much-needed funds, presided over the erection of Nassau Hall, and instructed the first classes of students to graduate from the College of New Jersey.
This series is arranged topically and consists of textual material relating to Burr, his career, family, and legacy. Burr's early life is chronicled in a biographical folder, while another folder documents his tenure as president. Genealogical information about family members such as Aaron Burr, Jr. and Esther Edwards Burr is included in this series. A folder containing information collected post mortem discusses his death and burial as well as monuments, books, statues, and celebrations in his honor. This series also contains a paper and microfilm copy of Burr's account book during his latter years as president, as well as index cards relating to this book. There are numerous images of Burr, and a few of his wife, Esther Edwards Burr.
Biographical Information, 1939-1999
Box 1, Folder 5 The College of New Jersey Years, 1916-1931
Box 1, Folder 6 Account Book: Name Index Cards, 1753-1760
Box 1, Folder 7-8 Account Book: Microfilm, 1753-1758
Box 1, Folder 9 Family Members, Esther Burr, 1902-1985
Box 1, Folder 10 Family Members, 1928-1984
Box 1, Folder 11 Post Mortem, 1757-1977
Box 1, Folder 12 Account Book, 1753-1759
Box 1A, Folder 1 Series 3: Jonathan Edwards Records, 1758-1993
Series Description
Jonathan Edwards succeeded his son-in- law, Aaron Burr, Sr., to become the third president of the College of New Jersey in September 1757. Edwards studied theology at Yale College, preached in the Presbyterian Church, and is remembered for his belief that only the truly converted should receive Communion, rather than all baptized persons. However, his proposal along these lines led to his dismissal from the Northampton, Massachusetts Presbyterian church in 1750, after which he passed his days serving as a missionary and writing with a passion. Edwards accepted the office of president with some reluctance but continued to preach actively from the College's pulpit. He died in March 1758 after being inoculated for smallpox, just six months into his tenure. His three sons and eight daughters survived him.
This series is arranged topically and contains folders concerning Edwards's life, his time in Princeton, his family, and his legacy. Materials include a newspaper obituary, several copies of the inscription on his tomb and a memorial to him in Latin, and information about his descendents and various Edwards artifacts such as his bust, his desk, and one of his letters. A folder entitled “Information on Portraits” contains an inventory of the Edwards portraits located in the Princeton Art Museum, information about the portraits, and several letters regarding their donation. Of particular interest among the images in this series are photographs of a portrait of Edwards's wife, Sarah Pierpont Edwards. Other images include views of his tomb and the Edwards Elm.
Biographical Information, 1769-1981
Box 1, Folder 13-14 Family Members, 1932-1969
Box 2, Folder 1 Post Mortem, 1758-1993
Box 2, Folder 2 Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University, Medal, undated
Box 2, Folder 3 Portrait Information, 1929-1993
Box 2, Folder 4 Series 4: Samuel Davies Records, 1753-1997
Series Description
Having declined the presidency of the College of New Jersey in 1758, Samuel Davies accepted it in 1759 with a reluctance akin to that of his predecessor, Jonathan Edwards. Davies, who thought that his successor, Samuel Finley, was the right man for the job, was urged to take the position, even though some of the College's trustees shared his high opinion of Finley. Born in 1724 in Summit Ridge, Delaware and educated both at home and in the Rev. Samuel Blair's seminary, Davies received his license to preach in 1746 in Newcastle, Delaware. Ordained the following year as an evangelist to Virginia, he went on to serve as the first moderator of the Presbytery of Hanover, encompassing all the Presbyterian ministers in Virginia and North Carolina. At the request of the trustees, Davies traveled to Great Britain with Gilbert Tennent in 1753 to raise funds for the College. Among other uses, the donations collected abroad served to fund the construction of Nassau Hall and the president's house. As president and professor at the College of New Jersey, he was renowned for his emphasis on public service.
This series is arranged topically and documents Davies's life, his years as president, his family, and his legacy. Materials include letters referring to his travels to Great Britain, excerpts from his diary, articles about his death in office, and letters and documents concerning his immediate family, including his first and second wives, Sarah Kirkpatrick and Jean Holt, and distant descendents. Also included is information about Davies “artifacts,” such as his portrait and a book of his sermons, and the performance of music he composed. There are also several images of Davies.
Sermons, 1753, 1756
Box 1A, Folder 2-3 Valedictory Address, 1760
Box 1A, Folder 4 Sermon, 1761
Box 1A, Folder 5 Biographical Information, 1753-1997
Box 2, Folder 5 The College of New Jersey Years, 1760-1971
Box 2, Folder 6 Family Members, 1917-1985
Box 2, Folder 7 Post Mortem, 1761-1977
Box 2, Folder 8 Series 5: Samuel Finley Records, 1749-1996
Series Description
As president of the College of New Jersey, Samuel Finley is known for increasing enrollment and for his popularity as a teacher. Finley was born in 1715 in Armagh County, Ireland. On immigrating to America in 1734, he immediately began to educate himself with the goal of becoming a minister and was ordained in 1740 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. During his seventeen years as pastor of the church of Nottingham, Maryland, he oversaw its educational academy. Early in his career, Finley preached in a contentious manner, very much in keeping with the spirited religious revivals of the Great Awakening, but he later moderated his tone. He received an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow before becoming the fifth president of the College of New Jersey in June 1761, serving in this role until his death in July 1766.
This series is arranged topically and contains biographical, College of New Jersey and family-related documents, and a folder pertaining to post-mortem issues. The material includes brief accounts of Finley's life, documents concerning his tenure as president, a genealogy of the Finley family, and information on Finley portraits. In addition to these secondary materials, there are six contemporary sermons, each dated in the late eighteenth century. Photographs of portraits of Finley also form part of this series.
Biographical Information, 1749-1970
Box 2, Folder 9 The College of New Jersey Years, 1761
Box 2, Folder 10 Family Members, 1880-1996
Box 2, Folder 11 Post Mortem, 1766-1968
Box 2, Folder 12 Series 6: John Witherspoon Records, 1772-1996
Series Description
John Witherspoon arrived in America from Scotland in 1768 having been persuaded by the trustees and then medical student Benjamin Rush to assume the presidency of the College of New Jersey. After declining initially, Witherspoon, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, became one of the most popular and influential presidents in Princeton University's history. Witherspoon served not only Princeton, but also the nascent United States as a member of the Continental Congress. During Witherspoon's tenure the College weathered the turmoil caused by the American Revolution: Nassau Hall sustained heavy damage, enrollment declined, and finances were precarious. In the wake of this conflict, Witherspoon's preaching tours increased enrollment, particularly from the southern United States, and he broadened the curriculum by his emphasis on English grammar and composition. He also obtained needed instruments of instruction such as books for the library and apparatus for scientific study (such as the Rittenhouse Orrery). Witherspoon advocated a well-rounded clergy, emphasizing the liberal education of students, rather than just religious instruction. It was his aspiration to produce men who would not only make exceptional clerics, but also outstanding statesmen. Witherspoon instructed many students who became notable for their contributions to state and federal government, including James Madison, Aaron Burr, Jr., William Smith Livingston, Andrew Kirkpatrick, and Ashbel Green. Part of Witherspoon's popularity and influence with both students and politicians derived from his ability to discuss the merits of contesting views, while using reason to reach an ultimate conclusion.
This series is arranged topically and contains biographical, genealogical, and post- mortem documents, as well as information about Witherspoon's years at the College of New Jersey, including original letters. Information concerning Witherspoon possessions donated to the College and Tusculum, his home one mile north of the College, is also present, as are business papers, including an account of repairs completed at the College, trustee accounts, and receipts. This series contains several pamphlets and sermons referencing Witherspoon, as well as Varnum Lansing Collins's notes for his book, President Witherspoon: A Biography. There are a significant number of images in this series, including portraits, photographs of cameos and statues, and views of Tusculum and St. George's Church in Paisley, Scotland, the town where Witherspoon ministered prior to coming to Princeton.
Biographical Information, 1834-1973
Box 2, Folder 13-14 V. Lansing Collins research notes and letters re Witherspoon, 1925
Box 3, Folder 1 The College of New Jersey Years, 1772-1996
Box 3, Folder 2 The College of New Jersey, Repair Account, 1772
Box 3, Folder 3 Accounts of the Trustees of The College of New Jersey, 1774-1788
Box 3, Folder 4 Receipts, 1783-1794
Box 3, Folder 5 Tusculum, 1796-1932
Box 3, Folder 6 Family Members, 1834-1973
Box 3, Folder 7-8 Genealogical Charts, undated
Box 3, Folder 9 Post Mortem, 1794-1996
Box 3, Folder 10-11 Princeton-Paisley Service, Audio Tape, Reel I, 1968
Box 3A, Folder 1 Princeton-Paisley Service, Audio Tape, Reel II, 1968
Box 3A, Folder 2 Princeton-Paisley Service, Audio Tape, 1968
Box 3A, Folder 3 Memorial of Emigration to Princeton, 1968
Box 3A, Folder 4 Professor Talbot Rice, University of Edinburgh, Audio Tape, 1968
Box 3A, Folder 5 Witherspoon Desk, 1936-1946
Box 4, Folder 1 Witherspoon Watch, 1902
Box 4, Folder 2 Witherspoon Clock, 1930-1931
Box 4, Folder 3 Post Cards, 1924, 1941
Box 4, Folder 4 Witherspoon Memorial, Paisley to Princeton, 1901-1976
Box 4, Folder 5 United States Postal Service, John Witherspoon Nine Cent Post Card, 1975
Box 4, Folder 6 Witherspoon Statue, Washington, D.C., 1907, 1908, 1976
Box 4, Folder 7 Sermons by Freddie Fox, 1976
Box 4, Folder 8 Writings Referencing Witherspoon, 1913-1974
Box 4, Folder 9 Series 7: Samuel Stanhope Smith Records, 1804-1979
Series Description
Samuel Stanhope Smith, born in 1751 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the first alumnus to become president of the College of New Jersey. His father, Robert Smith, taught him at the school he headed in Pequea, Pennsylvania until the age of sixteen, when Samuel entered the College of New Jersey as a junior. He graduated with honors in 1769 before returning to Pennsylvania to teach in his father's school. In 1771 he returned to Princeton to tutor and study theology under John Witherspoon. For health reasons, he left Princeton to work as a missionary in Virginia. In 1775 the seminary that later became Hampden-Sydney College was founded, and Smith became its president. Married to Ann Witherspoon, Witherspoon's daughter, Smith returned to Princeton in 1779 as a professor of moral philosophy, and his brother, John Blair Smith, replaced him as president of Hampden-Sydney College. On Witherspoon's death in 1794, Smith, who had become vice president in 1786, assumed the leadership of the College. After the Nassau Hall fire of 1802, he raised enough money not only to reconstruct the landmark but also to add two additional buildings. Unfortunately, a riot in 1807 led to the suspension of 125 students and a growing distrust on the part of trustees. Faculty resignations and a declining student body led to Smith's resignation in 1812.
This series is arranged topically and contains biographical and family information, details of Smith's Hampden-Sydney College and College of New Jersey years, and original correspondence. Material relating to Hampden-Sydney College includes a document describing the courses of study there and a pamphlet about the institution. The correspondence folder contains a short letter from Smith written in 1806 relating to a stock of books. There are also two letters to Smith: one relating to a shipment of books and one concerning administrative matters. Other correspondence dates from the twentieth century and pertains to gifts to and from Princeton University. A number of portraits of Smith can be found in this series.
Biographical Information, 1916-1974
Box 4, Folder 10 Hampden-Sydney College and The College of New Jersey Years, 1809-1976
Box 4, Folder 11 Correspondence, 1804-1807
Box 4, Folder 12 Correspondence Referring to Gifts, 1919-1965
Box 4, Folder 13 Family Members, 1934-1979
Box 4, Folder 14 Post Mortem, 1819
Box 4, Folder 15 Series 8: Ashbel Green Records, 1782-1985
Series Description
Ashbel Green was born in 1762 in Hanover, New Jersey, the son of Jacob Green, a Presbyterian minister and a trustee of the College of New Jersey. Green studied under his father until the age of sixteen, before becoming a revolutionary soldier in 1778. He returned home in 1781 to prepare for college, and the following year he entered the junior class of the College of New Jersey. He graduated in 1783, delivering his class' valedictory before George Washington and other members of the Continental Congress. He remained at the College as a tutor and then as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy until he received his license to preach in 1786, whereupon he assumed the role of junior pastor at the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. The year before he had married Elizabeth Stockton, a member of one of Princeton's most prominent families. In 1792 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by the University of Pennsylvania and was elected chaplain to the United States Congress. He was re-elected to this position several times until 1800, when Congress moved to Washington, D.C. Green returned to the College of New Jersey as its president in 1812 and held office until 1822, emphasizing religion and discipline. During his tenure, he was part of the planning committee for the Princeton Theological Seminary, and he remained closely associated with the Seminary until his death in 1848. He resigned the presidency in 1822 over differences with the Board of Trustees, returning to Philadelphia to become editor of the Christian Advocate.
This series is arranged topically and contains biographical information, writings, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and Green's valedictory oration. Among Green's records are a photocopy of his letter of resignation, an original letter of recommendation for one of his students, a document written during his own student days, an account of the student unrest that shook the College in 1817, and three original letters that were sent to Green in 1815 and 1816. The first is from a student, and the others are about students. Biographical information comes from a variety of publications, including the Princeton Alumni Weekly, the New York Observer, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, among others. Portraits of Green are also included in this series.
Biographical Information, 1917-1970
Box 4, Folder 16 The College of New Jersey Years, 1822-1931
Box 4, Folder 17 Writings, 1782-1848
Box 4, Folder 18 Correspondence, 1815-1982
Box 4, Folder 19 Family Members, 1864-1918
Box 4, Folder 20 Gifts to Princeton University, 1925-1985
Box 4, Folder 21 Post Mortem, 1848
Box 4, Folder 22 Series 9: James Carnahan Records, 1775-1983
Series Description
James Carnahan, the longest serving president in Princeton University's history, was the son of a farmer, Major James Carnahan. Born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1775, Carnahan soon moved with his family to Sewickley, Pennsylvania. When James was 13, his father died, leaving him to work the family farm and attend Canonsburg Academy. During his time there, he founded the Franklin Literary Society, which was modeled after the College of New Jersey's American Whig and Cliosophic Societies, and taught classics during his last year. Carnahan entered the College of New Jersey as a junior in 1798, graduated second in his class in 1800, and returned to Canonsburg Academy for one year to study theology. In 1801 he returned to Princeton as a tutor, studying theology under Samuel Stanhope Smith. In 1803 he married Mary Vandyke, with whom he had two daughters, and the following year was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. He became the pastor of the united churches of Whitesboro and Utica in New York in 1805, where he remained until 1812. The next major phase of his career began in 1814, when he founded and became the headmaster of a classical seminary in Georgetown, D.C. He held this position until he was invited to assume the presidency of the College of New Jersey in 1823. Unfortunately, he found the College in difficult straits, with a divided Board of Trustees, declining enrollments, and inadequate funds. Things grew so bad that Carnahan considered closing the institution, but his successor, John Maclean, Jr., persuaded him and the trustees to strengthen the faculty instead. Enrollments began to increase, and by Carnahan's retirement in 1854, the student body had doubled, and the faculty had tripled. During his tenure, East and West Colleges and the first Whig and Clio Halls were added to the campus. In addition, a new refectory, chapel, and three new faculty homes were built or purchased, and trees from his nursery were planted at the College's entrance.
This series is arranged topically and contains biographical and genealogical information, correspondence, and financial records. The correspondence folder contains two items in Carnahan's hand: the first is his acceptance of the presidency in 1823; the second is a report on the state of College in 1852. Also to be found is a letter from John Quincy Adams declining an invitation to attend the College's centennial celebrations, as well as various letters sent to Carnahan. Financial materials include treasurer's and president's vouchers and checks. Among the images in this series is a photograph of a portrait of Carnahan's wife, Mary Vandyke.
Biographical Information, 1893-1978
Box 4, Folder 23 The College of New Jersey Years, 1916-1978
Box 4, Folder 24 Correspondence, 1801-1857
Box 4, Folder 25 Family Members, 1792-1983
Box 4, Folder 26 Post Mortem, 1775
Box 4, Folder 27 Treasurer's Vouchers and Checks, 1841-1846, 1851-1852
Box 5, Folder 1-7 President's Vouchers, 1843-1844, 1846
Box 5, Folder 8-9 President's Vouchers, 1847-1848
Box 6, Folder 1-2 Series 10: John Maclean, Jr. Records, 1752-1997
Series Description
John Maclean, Jr. was the eldest of six children of John Maclean, Sr. and Phoebe Bainbridge. His father was born in Glasgow, studied for the medical profession, and became a surgeon. At 24, the elder Maclean immigrated to the United States for political reasons. He was invited to take the vacant chair of natural philosophy, which included chemistry, at the College of New Jersey, becoming the institution's first professor of chemistry. He married in 1797, and John was born on March 3, 1800. Entering the College of New Jersey as a sophomore, he graduated in 1816 as the youngest in his class. He taught for a few months in Lawrenceville, New Jersey before earning a divinity degree from the Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1818 he was appointed as a tutor of Greek at the College of New Jersey, beginning a long, varied, and devoted career at his alma mater. Four years later he was elected to fill the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy, though this did not prevent him from subsequently teaching languages and literature. Maclean also served as the College's librarian from 1824 until 1849.
When James Carnahan wanted to resign as president and, later, close the College, citing falling enrollments, financial problems, and the necessity of cutting faculty salaries, Maclean convinced him to persevere. The energetic professor collected funds due the College and recruited additional faculty. Enrollment increased as a result, and Maclean was named vice president at the age of twenty-nine. In 1854 Maclean assumed the presidency. The following year Nassau Hall caught fire, forcing him to tighten the budget and raise funds from friends and alumni for the building's restoration. He contributed part of his own salary as well, and Nassau Hall was completely restored in 1860. During the Civil War Maclean and his faculty supported the Union cause, yet demonstrated understanding towards the plight of Southern students. In 1868 he resigned after half a century of service to the College of New Jersey. During his presidency he added 10 new professors to the faculty, and 895 students (an average of 64 per year) graduated.
Maclean never married. He lived on campus along with his two unwed sisters and dedicated his life to the students around him. According to published sources, Maclean often walked the campus during the night with his lantern, carrying food and a teakettle to the rooms of ailing students. The Macleans would bring particularly ill students into their own home, as well as lodging a worried relative if need be. Maclean kept a close watch on the students and was known to detect inappropriate behavior quickly, often pursuing delinquents at a run, but he was lenient when assigning penalties. He was generous with those who needed financial help and had a drawer full of watches and other items that students had pledged as payment but never redeemed. Students affectionately called him “Old Johnny” among themselves. Maclean was also involved in a plethora of associations and charities. These included religious, educational, prison reform, literary, and temperance societies. During his retirement he wrote a two-volume history of the College of New Jersey from the granting of its charter to the resignation of his predecessor. He died on August 9, 1886.
Jacob N. Beam, Class of 1896, initially organized Maclean's records in 1940. He created a useful and copious index to much of the material, dividing the collection into two groupings: letters and papers. He created a card catalog for these records, which was updated in 2001 to include the names of correspondents and dates of letters that were added to the collection after Beam's work. The card catalog is located in the lobby of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. The bulk of the records remain in Beam's order, though additional folders were added at the beginning of this series. Most of the collection relates to Maclean's tenure as president. It is divided into four subseries: General Materials, Correspondence, Subject Files, and Sermons and Addresses.
Subseries 10A: General Materials, 1774-1997 [bulk: 1855-1886]
Subseries Description
Subseries 10A: General Materials, 1774-1997 [bulk: 1855-1886], is arranged topically and contains indices; correspondence from former Secretary of the University Varnum Lansing Collins, notably between Collins and Agnes Maclean, Maclean's niece, on the subject of her uncle's papers; biographical information; gift descriptions; and financial records from Maclean's time. Of special interest in the biographical folder are the reprinted diary of a sophomore and the account of two students who saw President Lincoln in 1861, also in reprinted form. There is also a very brief and informal autobiography by Maclean that was written at the request of Professor Edward Duffield. This subseries also contains a letter referring to Maclean's inauguration, indentures, and post-mortem articles about Maclean's life and accomplishments. In addition, there is his wallet, his checkbook, containing stubs and a few blank checks, two scrolled genealogies of the Maclean and Bainbridge families, “The Clan Maclean” book, and a scrapbook. The scrapbook contains newspaper articles and letters to the editor referring to temperance from Maclean and other professors. Photographs of Maclean have been grouped with other presidential images and can be found in boxes 234 and 235.
Indexes, 1940
Box 6, Folder 3 V. Lansing Collins Correspondence, 1912-1934
Box 6, Folder 4 Biographical Information, 1886-1997
Box 6, Folder 5 The College Of New Jersey Years, 1834-1937
Box 6, Folder 6 Gifts/Plaques, 1925-1978
Box 6, Folder 7 Legal Documents, 1774-1878
Box 6, Folder 8 Post Mortem, 1886-1969
Box 6, Folder 9 Receipts and Bills, 1828-1878
Box 6, Folder 10 President's Vouchers, 1855-1856, 1869
Box 6, Folder 11-14 Scrapbook, 1831-1881
Box 34A Checkbook, 1857-1860
Box 34B Lectures on Probabilities, undated
Box 34C, Folder 1-3 Notes on the Founding and Early Years of The College of New Jersey, 1869
Box 34C, Folder 4 Maclean Genealogy, John Maclean, Sr. Wallet, 1810-1819
Box 34D Subseries 10B: Correspondence, 1752-1898 [bulk: 1830-1869]
Subseries Description
Subseries 10B: Correspondence, 1752-1898 [bulk: 1830-1869], contains letters written to or by Maclean organized in chronological order by year and then alphabetically. The first folder contains letters that are unsigned or undated, and the second contains letters that are signed but not dated. Letters then proceed chronologically by year from 1752 to 1898. The final folder contains a few letters with unidentified signatures. Beam's card catalog provides individual name access to these letters.
Letters: Not Signed, Not Dated, undated
Box 7, Folder 1 Letters: Signed, Not Dated, undated
Box 7, Folder 2 Letters, 1752-1807
Box 7, Folder 3-7 Letters, 1808-1829
Box 8, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1830-1834 (A-G)
Box 9, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1834-1836
Box 10, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1837-1839, 1830-1839, (not further dated)
Box 11, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1840-1843 (A-K)
Box 12, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1843-1849, 1840-1849, (not further dated)
Box 13, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1850-1853 (A-Mc)
Box 14, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1853-1858 (A-G)
Box 15, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1858-1859 (A-R)
Box 16, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1859-1861 (A-L), 1850-1859, (not further dated)
Box 17, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1861-1862
Box 18, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1863-1864 (A-P)
Box 19, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1864-1866
Box 20, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1867-1869
Box 21, Folder 1-5 Letters, 1860-1869(undated)
Box 22, Folder 1-2 Letters, 1870-1879(undated), 1870-1874
Box 22, Folder 3-5 Letters, 1875-1898, unidentified letters
Box 23, Folder 1-3 Subseries 10C: Subject Files, 1769-1920 [bulk: 1820-1869]
Subseries Description
Subseries 10C: Subject Files, 1769-1920 [bulk: 1820-1869], contains a variety of papers that are grouped by subject and then arranged alphabetically. Beam's index is indispensable for quickly accessing topics in this subseries, which was originally entitled Papers. There are 36 categories listed in Beam's index and most contain descriptions. The categories range from college associations, including alumni associations, to religious, educational, and prison reform associations. In addition, the Subject Files house a genealogy of the Maclean and Bainbridge families and personal letters between relatives and friends of John Maclean. Of note in the family letters section, Box 28, Folder 3, is a letter of advice dated 1812 from John Maclean, Sr. to his son, John. There are a number of love letters from John's brother, George, to his third wife, Caroline (Carrie) Fitch Maclean. Presidential reports, student finances, and trustee minutes, the last of which is further organized by topic, comprise the remainder of this subseries. For a detailed listing of the Subject Files, please refer to the index in Box 6, Folder 3 of this subseries.
Papers 1: Administrative Details, 1850-1859
Box 23, Folder 4 Papers 2: Alumni Association of Nassau Hall, 1820-1879
Box 23, Folder 5 Papers 3: American Colonization Society, 1820-1849
Box 23, Folder 6 Papers 3: American Colonization Society, 1850-1890, undated
Box 24, Folder 1-3 Papers 4: American Tract Society, 1830-1839
Box 24, Folder 4 Papers 5: Bible Societies, 1820-1869
Box 24, Folder 5 Papers 6: Candidates for A.M. Degree, 1830-1859
Box 24, Folder 6 Papers 7: Cliosophic Society, 1820-1859
Box 24, Folder 7 Papers 8: College Finances, 1780-1829
Box 24, Folder 8 Papers 8: College Finances, 1830-1859
Box 25, Folder 1-5 Papers 8: College Finances, 1850-1869
Box 26, Folder 1-2 Papers 9: College Property Outside Princeton, 1836-1838
Box 26, Folder 3 Papers 10: Committee on Education, 1849-1880
Box 26, Folder 4 Papers 11: Edgehill School, 1852
Box 26, Folder 5 Papers 12: Faculty Reports, 1850-1869
Box 26, Folder 6 Papers 13: Inspector's Reports, 1800-1869
Box 26, Folder 7 Papers 14: Librarian's Reports, 1810-1869
Box 26, Folder 8 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (a) Address Book on Trip to Europe, 1850
Box 26, Folder 9 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (b) Articles for Publication, undated
Box 26, Folder 10 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (c and d) Biology and Chemistry Notes, undated
Box 27, Folder 1 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (e) Chronological Tables, undated
Box 27, Folder 2 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (f) Class Rolls and Notebooks, undated
Box 27, Folder 3 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (g) Finances, 1820-1869
Box 27, Folder 4-5 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (h) Medicine (Notes by Father and Brother), undated
Box 27, Folder 6 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (i) Notes and Sources for History of the College, undated
Box 27, Folder 7 Papers 15: John Maclean Personal: (j) Sermons and Lectures, undated
Box 27, Folder 8 Papers 16: Maclean Family: (a) Genealogies of Maclean and Bainbridge Families, undated
Box 28, Folder 1 Papers 16: Maclean Family: (b) Letters, undated, 1799-1839
Box 28, Folder 2-5 Papers 16: Maclean Family: (b) Letters, 1830-1849
Box 29, Folder 1-5 Papers 16: Maclean Family: (b) Letters, 1850-1920
Box 30, Folder 1-3 Papers 17: Missionary Societies, 1820-1839
Box 30, Folder 4 Papers 18: Nassau Hall Education Society, 1831-1855
Box 30, Folder 5 Papers 19: New Jersey Education Society, 1823-1824
Box 30, Folder 6 Papers 20: New Jersey Howard Society, 1832-1838
Box 30, Folder 7 Papers 21: New Jersey Literary and Philosophical Society, 1775-1825
Box 30, Folder 8 Papers 22: New Jersey State Temperance Soc., 1816
Box 30, Folder 9 Papers 23: Presbyterian Church: General, 1810-1829
Box 30, Folder 10 Papers 24: Presbyterian Church: 1st, Princeton, 1808-1811
Box 30, Folder 11 Papers 25: Presbyterian Church: 2nd, Princeton, 1852-1878
Box 30, Folder 12 Papers 26: President's Reports, 1810-1869
Box 31, Folder 1 Papers 27: Princeton Charitable Institution, 1870-1875
Box 31, Folder 2 Papers 28: Princeton Reform Society, 1833-1850
Box 31, Folder 3 Papers 29: Public Schools Princeton Township, 1850
Box 31, Folder 4 Papers 30: Rebuilding of Nassau Hall, 1855
Box 31, Folder 5 Papers 31: Refectory Accounts, 1800-1859
Box 31, Folder 6 Papers 32: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1809-1820
Box 31, Folder 7 Papers 33: Student Finances, 1810-1839
Box 31, Folder 8-9 Papers 33: Student Finances, 1840-1869
Box 32, Folder 1-2 Papers 34: Thompson Legacy, undated
Box 32, Folder 3 Papers 35: Dockets, 1861-1865
Box 32, Folder 4 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (a) Building Committee, 1836-1847
Box 32, Folder 5 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (b) Cemetery, 1856
Box 32, Folder 6 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (d) Cliosophic Society, 1849
Box 32, Folder 7 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (d) Commencement, 1819-1849
Box 32, Folder 8 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (e) Corrected Copies, 1859-1862
Box 32, Folder 9 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (f) Curriculum, 1825-1846
Box 32, Folder 10 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (g) Discipline, 1807-1850
Box 32, Folder 11 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (h) Examinations, 1810-1853
Box 32, Folder 12 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (i) Extracts, 1783-1844
Box 32, Folder 13 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (j) Faculty, 1808-1861
Box 32, Folder 14 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (k) Finances, 1769-1861
Box 32, Folder 15 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (l) Grounds, 1830-1838
Box 33, Folder 1 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (m) Holmes Legacy, 1861
Box 33, Folder 2 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (n) Insurance, undated
Box 33, Folder 3 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (o) Miscellaneous, 1773-1813
Box 33, Folder 4 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (p) Use of First Church, 1816
Box 33, Folder 5 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (q) President's Reports, 1838-1867
Box 33, Folder 6 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: I Repairs, 1828-1856
Box 33, Folder 7 Papers 36: Trustee Minutes: (s) Theological Seminary, 1811-1816
Box 33, Folder 8 Subseries 10D: Sermons and Addresses, 1827-1879 [bulk: 1827-1879]
Subseries Description
Subseries 10D: Sermons and Addresses, 1827-1879 [bulk: 1827-1879], contains Maclean's thoughts on a number of topics, especially those of a religious nature. Many of the Biblical texts on which he preached are drawn from Psalms, and the books of the New Testament are also well-represented. His baccalaureate addresses contain words of wisdom for the graduating class, including the admonition not to “consider your education completed.” His address in the spring of 1861 makes reference to the Civil War, which had erupted just a month before, and voices his hope that “we shall yet, and forever, be one people.”
Sermons and Addresses, 1827-1879
Box 33, Folder 9-11 Sermons and Addresses, 1827-1879
Box 34, Folder 1-2 Baccalaureate Addresses, 1855-1868
Box 34, Folder 3-4 Series 11: James McCosh Records, 1747-1995
Series Description
James McCosh was the first president since John Witherspoon who was not an alumnus of the College of New Jersey. Many similarities have been noted between the two men. Both were born in Scotland and graduated from the University of Edinburgh. Witherspoon was inaugurated in 1768, and McCosh was inaugurated one hundred years later in 1868. They died one hundred years apart, almost to the day, and like all presidents until Woodrow Wilson, both were ministers.
McCosh was born April 1, 1811 on a farm in Ayrshire, Scotland. His father, who died when James was nine, had decided that he should be educated for the ministry. McCosh attended Glasgow University and then Edinburgh University. In Edinburgh he joined debating societies, discussing such issues as theology and the power of patronage. He sided with several others in believing that the major landowners should not have the final say on who became the minister of a congregation. This issue would resurface later. Inspired by his professor, Thomas Chalmers, McCosh and other students went to the poorer districts of Edinburgh to preach and do missionary work. He also began to study philosophy and created the groundwork for what would become his most noted published work , The Method of Divine Government, Physical and Moral. Licensed to preach in 1833, his first assignment was the Abbey Chapel in Arbroath; his second at Brechin in Forfarshire, where he met his wife, Isabella Guthrie. The two were married in September 1845. In 1843 “The Disruption” occurred when McCosh, along with one-third of his fellow ministers, left the security of the established Church of Scotland to begin the Free Church of Scotland. The rebellion was caused by the increased interference of Great Britain's central government in church affairs, with ministers being settled in parishes against the will of the people.
McCosh also disagreed with the lack of weight given to supernatural powers in John Stuart Mill's System of Logic and wrote The Method of Divine Government, Physical and Moral in response. The work received much recognition and led to his appointment to the chair of logic and metaphysics at Queen's College, Belfast. He spent 16 years in Ireland, published several other works, and became well known in the English-speaking world. He was one of the few clergymen who agreed with the theory of evolution, albeit within limits. He taught that it served “to increase the wonder and mystery of the process of creation.” His published lecture on this subject was The Religious Aspect of Evolution.
McCosh was offered and accepted the presidency of the College of New Jersey in 1868. He found an institution that was in need of repair after the turbulence caused by the Civil War, and McCosh, an expert fundraiser, undertook great improvements. He added distinguished faculty, increased the size of the student body, developed elective courses, bought scientific equipment, founded schools of science, philosophy, and art, added buildings, and enhanced the campus landscape. McCosh believed that the body as well as the mind should be cultivated, and on his arrival, he announced that he would build a gymnasium. When the Bonner-Marquand Gymnasium was completed a year later, it was the first college gymnasium built in the United States. McCosh also added Chancellor Green Library (1873), the Marquand Chapel (1881), and the Observatory (1869), among other buildings, while increasing the treasury by three million dollars. During his presidency The Daily Princetonian, The Tiger, and the Bric-a-Brac were founded, and extracurricular activities that evolved into the Triangle Club, the Glee Club, and intercollegiate football were initiated. With all these accomplishments to his credit, it is no wonder that McCosh referred to the College of New Jersey as “me college.” His students affectionately referred to him as “Jimmie,” and his wife also took a personal interest in students by caring for those who were ill. Four years after McCosh retired, the trustees erected the College's first infirmary and named it in her honor. McCosh ranks among Princeton University's most successful presidents, setting his institution well on the path to university status.
The McCosh records are arranged topically. Materials of note during his presidency include information about commencements, the regulation of liquor in the town of Princeton, and his request to stop teaching while serving as president. Pre-presidency highlights include the certificate appointing McCosh as the first minister of the church of Brechin, a farewell letter signed by his associates and friends in Ireland, plans for the Queen's College Library, and invitations and programs from his inauguration. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with foreign letters at the end of the run. Letters from McCosh with unidentifiable addressees are filed under McCosh in chronological order. This series also contains numerous clippings and articles of a biographical nature. Also of interest are a large number of images, including photographs of McCosh and the construction of his Prospect Street house.
Biographical Information, 1844-1995
Box 34, Folder 5 Belfast, Ireland and Brechin, Scotland, 1838-1868
Box 34, Folder 6 Inauguration, 1868
Box 34, Folder 7 The College of New Jersey Years, 1869-1880
Box 34, Folder 8 Resignation/Retirement, 1887-1891
Box 34, Folder 9 Notes on Books, Vol. I, undated
Box 34C, Folder 5 Notes on Books, Vol. II, undated
Box 34C, Folder 6 Wax Seal, undated
Box 34D Prospect Street House, 1894-1980
Box 35, Folder 1 Gifts/Memorabilia, 1893-1983
Box 35, Folder 2 Family Members, 1907-1987
Box 35, Folder 3 Correspondence: A-C, 1837-1894
Box 35, Folder 4 Correspondence: D-Z, 1837-1893
Box 35, Folder 5 Correspondence: Foreign, 1852-1875
Box 35, Folder 6 Post Mortem, 1894-1979
Box 35, Folder 7 Publications/Writings, 1747-1983
Box 35, Folder 8 Publications, 1868-1890
Box 36, Folder 1-4 Baccalaureate Addresses, 1869-1875
Box 36, Folder 5 Queen's College, Belfast, 1868
Box 37 Reports to the Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey, 1868-1887
Box 38 Reports to the Board of Trustees of the College of New Jersey, 1868-1888
Box 39 Series 12: Francis Landey Patton Records, 1877-1994
Series Description
Francis Landey Patton served as president from 1888 to 1902 during an era of change and growth, reflected in the adoption of the name Princeton University in 1896. Born January 22, 1843 in Warwick, Bermuda in a house called Carberry, Patton was the eldest of three sons. His father died when he was six years old. Patton attended the Warwick Academy in Bermuda and graduated from Knox College at the University of Toronto in 1862 and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1865, the year in which he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. His first three pastorates were in the state of New York. In 1865 he married Rosa Antoinette Stevenson, with whom he had seven children.
Patton moved to Chicago, where he served as pastor of the Jefferson Park Presbyterian church from 1873 to 1876 and occupied the chair of didactic and polemical theology at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest from 1872 to 1881. He was also editor of the Chicago Presbyterian paper, The Interior. In 1874 Patton joined in the prosecution of the Rev. David Swing, an influential preacher at four Chicago churches whose sermons were often published. Patton, a conservative who preached the classic doctrines of Calvinism, wrote editorials against Swing's liberal teaching and brought charges of heresy against him. The Presbytery acquitted Swing, but Patton was ready to appeal to the Synod when Swing forestalled him by forming an independent church. In the aftermath of this controversy, Patton became a prominent leader of Presbyterian orthodoxy, serving as moderator of the General Assembly in 1878. In 1881 he accepted the chair of the relations of philosophy and science to the Christian religion at the Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition, in 1884, he began teaching ethics and philosophy of religion courses at the College of New Jersey, and after James McCosh's retirement in 1888, became its president.
During Patton's presidency the endowment increased, the number of faculty and students more than doubled, the Graduate School was created, 17 buildings were erected, the undergraduate eating clubs grew in popularity, and interest in sports increased. Of all his improvements, Patton was proudest of inaugurating the honor system. However, most of the other changes during his tenure were largely due to a robust economy, his predecessor, McCosh, and the work of faculty and trustees. Economic growth made college more affordable, and enrollments increased at colleges in the United States in general. Faculties also increased to accommodate this growth, and Patton was responsible for appointing Woodrow Wilson, Bliss Perry, John Grier Hibben, and several other accomplished scholars to the faculty. However, it was McCosh, not Patton, who initiated the vast expansion of the campus, though much of the building took place during Patton's time in office. Known as a great intellectual and preacher, Patton was characterized as a contemplative yet witty man. He was popular with the students, and his sermons drew them to chapel. While Patton allowed modern languages to be taught, he loved the classics and insisted that Latin be kept in the curriculum.
The role of Princeton University's president was in flux, with an ever-greater emphasis on administrative and business skills. However, administratively speaking, Patton was viewed as somewhat inept, and in an era of change, some of the faculty and trustees regarded him as a hindrance rather than an impetus to progress. When the faculty and trustees established the Graduate School, the trustees bypassed Patton and directly appointed Andrew Fleming West as its dean, allowing West to manage the School without Patton's approval. The Board of Trustees, like the presidency, was also changing as professional and businessmen replaced the clergy who had once been dominant. In 1902 trustees and faculty suggested that Patton create an executive committee from among the two groups to perform some presidential functions. Patton protested at first, but then resigned instead, after negotiating and receiving compensation for leaving six years earlier than he had anticipated. He retained his position as professor of ethics and continued to teach at the Princeton Theological Seminary, whose presidency he assumed in the fall of 1902. In 1913 Patton retired and returned to Carberry in Bermuda, but he continued to write and preach. He died on November 25, 1932.
The Patton records contain correspondence, publications, and speeches documenting his life as a clergyman and as a college and, beginning in 1896, university president, as well as 16 letterpress books containing copies of his outgoing correspondence. This series is arranged in two subseries, the first topically and the second in chronological order: General Materials and Letterpress Books.
Subseries 12A: General Materials, 1877-1994 [bulk: 1888-1932]
Subseries Description
Subseries 12A: General Materials, 1877-1994 [bulk: 1888-1932], is housed in boxes 40, 40A, 57, 238, and 239, the latter two comprising portraits. Biographical information is limited but does contain some interesting anecdotes, one of which is from a student from the class of 1899. A copy of an article about the David Swing trial is the only record from Patton's pre- Princeton years. Both his College of New Jersey and Princeton Theological Seminary inaugurations are documented, including a few letters about the preparations for these events. There is a copy of a paper on Patton's presidency from “The Aims of Education” course taught by President Harold T. Shapiro in the 1990s. There is also an article from The New York Observer that offers a complimentary perspective on Patton. Another item of interest can be found in the Honors/Portrait folder, in the form of a prayer that the then ex-president Patton offered when the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on President Harding. The correspondence in this subseries is arranged in alphabetical order by author. If the author is unknown, the letter is filed under the addressee's name. There are numerous photographs of Patton, and it is interesting to note the change in his countenance, as his stark youthful features yielded to his older, kindlier appearance.
Biographical Information, 1943-1994
Box 40, Folder 1 Clerical Years, 1972
Box 40, Folder 2 Inaugurations at the College of New Jersey and Princeton Theological Seminary, 1888-1903
Box 40, Folder 3 The College of New Jersey/Princeton University Years, 1902-1994
Box 40, Folder 4 Honors and Portraits, 1922-1956
Box 40, Folder 5 Writings/Articles about Patton, 1888-1935
Box 40, Folder 6 Published Sermons and Addresses, 1888-1924
Box 40, Folder 7 Commencement Speech, 1918
Box 40, Folder 8 Hodge Memorial Address, 1918
Box 40, Folder 9 Family Members, 1940-1964
Box 40, Folder 10 Sesquicentennial Sermon, 1896
Box 40A Correspondence, 1877-1942
Box 57, Folder 1 Post Mortem, 1932-1933
Box 57, Folder 2 Subseries 12B: Letterpress Books, 1889-1902 [bulk: 1889-1902]
Subseries Description
Subseries 12B: Letterpress Books, 1889-1902 [bulk: 1889-1902], comprises the greater part of the Patton records and contains 16 letterpress books whose contents provide a running record of Patton's presidential duties. Most were either written or dictated by Patton, but some are from Registrar Henry N. Van Dyke and his secretary and son, George Patton. Each volume begins with an alphabetical listing of the addressees, though the letters are ordered chronologically. A card catalog in the lobby of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library contains an alphabetical listing of addressees. The subject of the letters vary, but most deal with academic issues, including college entrance, scholarships, the curriculum, the affordability of tuition, degree requirements, and faculty applications. Other topics include preaching and speaking engagements, religious and academic references, and student employment and discipline. In perusing his correspondence, Patton's lack of administrative skills becomes increasingly apparent. He often states what he cannot do or what he is not aware of rather than offering alternatives or solutions to the problems posed to him. Many letters are declinations to attend events or write articles. Due to the varying force with which letters were pressed, some are pale and others are smudged. Approximately half of the letters are difficult to read. Later volumes, containing a greater number of typed letters, tend to be more legible.
Vol. I, 1889-1890
Box 41 Vol. II, 1889-1890
Box 42 Vol. III, 1890-1891
Box 43 Vol. IV, 1891-1892
Box 44 Vol. V, 1892-1893
Box 45 Vol. VI, 1893-1894
Box 46 Vol. VII, 1894
Box 47 Vol. VIII, 1894-1895
Box 48 Vol. IX, 1895-1896
Box 49 Vol. X, 1896-1897
Box 50 Vol. XI, 1897
Box 51 Vol. XII, 1897-1898
Box 52 Vol. XIII, 1898-1899
Box 53 Vol. XIV, 1899-1900
Box 54 Vol. XV, 1901
Box 55 Vol. XVI, 1902
Box 56 Series 13: Woodrow Wilson Records, 1826-1985
Series Description
Born December 29, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia, Woodrow Wilson was the son of Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister trained at the Princeton Theological Seminary. His father sympathized with the South during the Civil War and was a leader in the Southern Presbyterian Church and a professor at the Columbia Theological and Southwestern Theological Seminaries. Woodrow was raised in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. Born into a religious family, he accompanied his father on pastoral calls and edited minutes of the General Assembly. He attended Davidson College in his freshman year (1873-1874), and then prepared for entrance to the College of New Jersey, enrolling in 1875. An ambitious reading program offset his light course load. He became known as a leader, and his classmates elected him speaker of the American Whig Society, secretary of the Football Association, president of the Baseball Association, and managing editor of The Daily Princetonian. He graduated in 1879 and then studied law at the University of Virginia from 1879 to 1880 before briefly practicing in Atlanta, Georgia. Wilson's graduate work, undertaken between 1883 and 1886 in political science and history at Johns Hopkins University, culminated in a doctoral dissertation entitled Congressional Government. Wilson married Ellen Louise Axson of Rome, Georgia in 1885 and had three daughters. Ellen died in 1914, and he married Edith Bolling Galt in 1915.
After receiving his Ph.D. in 1886, Wilson taught political science and constitutional law at Bryn Mawr College, and, from 1888 to 1890, he was chair of history and political economy at Wesleyan University. In 1890 he accepted the professorship of jurisprudence and political economy at the College of New Jersey. He soon made his presence felt, unsuccessfully encouraging Francis Landey Patton, the man he would succeed as president, to raise money for a law school. Stymied, Wilson prepared the best pre-law curriculum in the nation. An eloquent speaker, he was consistently voted the most popular teacher, and some 400 students, representing most of the junior and senior classes, attended his lectures. He delivered the keynote speech, “Princeton in the Nation's Service,” at Princeton University's sesquicentennial celebrations in 1896. While serving on the faculty, Wilson wrote four books: Division and Reunion, An Old Master, Mere Literature, and George Washington. In 1902 he was elected president of his alma mater.
As president, Wilson attempted to initiate three major programs: curricular changes, the preceptorial method, and the quadrangle plan. The first two programs were very successful, but he never received sufficient support for the third. Wilson formed a committee on examination and standing to raise standards, and students who failed exams were dismissed regardless of social pull. He also tightened academic standards for entrance and performance, and enrollment declined until 1907. Since Princeton University had no administrative structure to speak of, he created departments according to subjects, with deans reporting directly to the president. He also empowered the faculty to make faculty nominations, taking that authority away from the trustees' curriculum committee. In his curricular changes of 1904, Wilson unified general studies during the freshman and sophomore years, while concentrating study in one discipline and related fields during the junior and senior years. This represented the emergence of the course format used in most colleges and universities today, a format that enables a student to acquire general knowledge and then focus on a major subject. Wilson did not want students to prepare for a vocation; instead he wanted them to be broadly educated for life. Another of his curricular changes was to take Biblical instruction away from a fundamentalist and appoint a scholar in his place. He effectively ended conservative Presbyterian control over the Board of Trustees, and, in 1906, the University was declared a non-sectarian institution. Shortly afterwards, Wilson appointed the first Roman Catholic and first Jewish professor to the faculty.
In order to curb the influence of the conservative faculty, Wilson began the preceptorial program, contracting 45 talented assistant professors to be preceptors before the trustees had approved the plan. In 1905 the faculty doubled with the influx of preceptors, who guided undergraduates in mastering subjects instead of memorizing notes. The success of Wilson's scheme, which continues to this day, is reflected in the Library's records, which show an increase in undergraduate borrowing following the introduction of precepts. The campus also grew in the course of Wilson's tenure, including the construction of a gymnasium, McCosh Hall, Palmer Laboratory, Guyot Hall, and four dormitories: Seventy-Nine, Patton, Campbell, and Holder Halls. Lake Carnegie was also built, transforming the approaches to the University.
Unlike his other initiatives, Wilson's quadrangle plan ran into fierce opposition. His plan reflected his belief that social life at Princeton University was undemocratic and detrimental to the intellectual atmosphere he envisioned. The social life of two-thirds of the upperclassmen centered on a number of private eating clubs, which he felt encouraged snobbishness and elitism, leaving one-third of the upperclassmen ostracized and humiliated. Wilson believed that freshmen and sophomores should have exposure to the upperclassmen, as well as to professors, outside the classroom, and he proposed vertically dividing the University so that all three groups could reside and eat in quadrangles. Membership in the quadrangles would be determined by lot, and the eating clubs would eventually be absorbed or abolished. The trustees initially approved the plan, and Wilson announced it at Commencement exercises in June 1907. However, alumni, mostly from New York and Philadelphia, vehemently opposed his proposals, citing loss of class spirit and freedom of choice as reasons. Moses Taylor Pyne, a wealthy trustee and donor, threatened to withdraw support if Wilson pursued his plan. Opposition increased, and contributions to the endowment fell, causing the trustees to withdraw their approval in October 1907.
Wilson's final controversy pitted him against Andrew Fleming West, Dean of the Graduate School. He and West agreed that Princeton University needed a rigorous graduate program, but they disagreed on one important point: the location of the college that would form the heart of graduate life. Wilson wanted the graduate college located at the center of campus, preferably near Prospect House. West had decided that a remote location would be preferable in that students would not be distracted by undergraduate life, which he described as “wild, unruly and obstreperous.” The ensuing battle over the graduate college's location divided the University, and by 1910 the controversy had ballooned into a national issue. The death of Isaac C. Wyman, Class of 1848, in May of that year brought the conflict to an end. Wyman left his entire estate, initially estimated at over two million dollars, for construction of West's graduate college, giving the latter the leverage he needed. Wilson conceded the fight, stating, “The game is up. We've beaten the living, but we can't fight the dead.” Shortly thereafter, the trustees forced him to resign, and Wilson exchanged academic controversies for state and national politics as Governor of New Jersey, beginning in 1911, and President of the United States, beginning in 1913. He served two terms in the White House and died February 3, 1924. Fittingly, the Woodrow Wilson Award is the highest honor Princeton University bestows for distinguished public service.
The Wilson Records are divided into three subseries, Subject Files, Correspondence, and General Materials, that document Wilson's life and his successes and failures as president of Princeton University, though not as fully as his importance warrants. A much more extensive documentary legacy can be found in the 69-volume edition of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson edited by Arthur S. Link, a copy of which is located in the reference room of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Subseries 13A: Subject Files, 1898-1985 [bulk: 1902-1974]
Subseries Description
Subseries 13A: Subject Files, 1898-1985 [bulk: 1902-1974], which can be found in boxes 57 and 61, is arranged topically and contains biographical, inaugural, familial, memorial, and commemorative information. There are speeches and writings by and about Wilson, including a recollection by Benjamin B. Chambers, Class of 1909, entitled “The Character of Woodrow Wilson;” invitations to events in his honor; a list of his honorary degrees; and information concerning his 1919 Pierce Arrow limousine. The Wilson Papers/Collection Location folder describes the mammoth project to collect and publish Wilson's papers that began in 1958 and was completed in 1993.
Biographical Information, 1911-1984
Box 57, Folder 3 Inaugurations as Princeton University President/N.J. Governor/U.S. President, 1902-1963
Box 57, Folder 4 Publications and Speeches, 1898-1972
Box 57, Folder 5 Invitations, 1902-1913
Box 57, Folder 6 Honorary Degrees, 1917-1946
Box 57, Folder 7 Family Members, 1914-1985
Box 57, Folder 8 Property: Houses/Automobile, 1956-1974
Box 57, Folder 9 Memorial Services, 1924-1929
Box 57, Folder 10 Wilson Papers/Collection Location, 1959-1971
Box 57, Folder 11 Writings/Articles about Wilson, 1913-1967
Box 61, Folder 1-2 Chambers, Benjamin B.: “The Character of Woodrow Wilson”, 1932
Box 61, Folder 3 Commemorative Items/Events, 1931-1975
Box 57, Folder 4 Subseries 13B: Correspondence, 1896-1923 [bulk: 1902-1910]
Subseries Description
Subseries 13B: Correspondence, 1896-1923 [bulk: 1902-1910], is arranged topically and is composed of academic and administrative correspondence, principally from Wilson's time as Princeton University's president. It contains information about many aspects of university life, such as courses, departments, grounds and buildings, faculty, trustees, student discipline, and the conferral of honorary degrees, as well as Wilson's quadrangle and preceptorial plans. The contentious issue of the location of the graduate college is also amply represented. Even football receives attention, reflecting Wilson's concern “that the game as at present played is unnecessarily dangerous and contains an unnecessary number of temptations to brutality.”
Biology Department, 1906-1909
Box 61, Folder 5 Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1908-1909
Box 61, Folder 6 Carnegie Foundation, 1906-1910
Box 61, Folder 7 Chemistry Department, 1902-1908
Box 61, Folder 8 Classics Department, 1908-1910
Box 61, Folder 9 Cleveland Tower, 1910
Box 61, Folder 10 College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB), 1907-1910
Box 61, Folder 11 Committee of Fifty, 1908
Box 61, Folder 12 Corpus Christi Sun Dial, 1906-1907
Box 62, Folder 1 Course of Study, 1904-1910
Box 62, Folder 2 Curriculum Committee, 1906-1910
Box 62, Folder 3 Discipline, 1909
Box 62, Folder 4 Dodge, Cleveland, 1909
Box 62, Folder 5 Eating Clubs, 1907-1909
Box 62, Folder 6 English Department, 1907-1910
Box 62, Folder 7 Faculty, 1902-1910
Box 62, Folder 8 Finance Committee, 1907-1909
Box 62, Folder 9 Football, 1905-1910
Box 62, Folder 10 Graduate College, 1907-1910
Box 62, Folder 11 Graduate Council, 1908-1910
Box 62, Folder 12 Graduate School Committee, 1905-1910
Box 63, Folder 1 Grounds and Building Committee, 1907-1910
Box 63, Folder 2 History, Politics, and Economics Department, 1905-1910
Box 63, Folder 3 Honor System, 1909-1910
Box 63, Folder 4 Honorary Degrees Committee, 1907-1910
Box 63, Folder 5 Infirmary, 1908-1910
Box 63, Folder 6 Library, 1906-1910
Box 63, Folder 7 Paleontology Department, 1907-1908
Box 63, Folder 8 Philosophy Department, 1907-1910
Box 63, Folder 9 Physics Department, 1906-1908
Box 63, Folder 10 Preceptorial System, 1906-1910
Box 63, Folder 11 Pyne, M. Taylor, 1906-1910
Box 63, Folder 12 Quad Plan, 1907-1923
Box 63, Folder 13 Teacher and Schools Committee, 1903-1910
Box 63, Folder 14 Trustees, 1896-1910
Box 64, Folder 1 Miscellany, 1897-1916
Box 64, Folder 2 Subseries 13C: General Materials, 1826-1961 [bulk: 1902-1910]
Subseries Description
Subseries 13C: General Materials, 1826-1961 [bulk: 1902-1910], contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and a guest book from Wilson's inauguration as president of Princeton University, a volume of speeches he delivered during his 1910 gubernatorial campaign, and medallions celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the American Whig Society's Woodrow Wilson '79 speakership. There are also three boxes of photographs depicting Wilson as a student, professor, and university president, among other images.
50th Anniversary Woodrow Wilson ‘79 Medal Duplicates and Prototype, 1929
Box 34D Scrapbook, 1902-1903
Box 58 Inauguration Register, 1902
Box 59 Campaign Speeches for Governor of New Jersey, 1910
Box 60 Series 14: John Grier Hibben Records, 1806-1986
Series Description
Born in Peoria, Illinois April 19, 1861, John Grier Hibben was the son of the Rev. Samuel Hibben, a Union chaplain in the Civil War who died when he was one, and Elizabeth Grier Hibben. Hibben graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1882. As a student, he was a junior orator, editor of the Bric-a- Brac, winner of the mathematical prize, sophomore honor prize, and the Class of 1861 prize. He was also valedictorian, class president, and received the J.S.K. fellowship in mathematics. Having completed a one-year post-graduate course at the University of Berlin, he attended the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1883 to 1886. During this time he temporarily took the place of Henry B. Fine, Class of 1880, as instructor in mathematics at the College of New Jersey, and he briefly taught French and German at the Lawrenceville School. Hibben was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1887 and married Jenny Davidson of Elizabeth, New Jersey the same year. They had one daughter.
A pastor in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania for four years, he had to end his ministerial career due to a throat ailment, returning to his alma mater to study philosophy. In 1891 he accepted an appointment as instructor in logic and received his Ph.D. in 1893. Promoted to assistant professor of philosophy, he became a full professor in 1907. He was named Stuart Professor of Logic and, on January 11, 1912, was elected president. Between 1896 and 1910 Hibben wrote five books about philosophy. His first was Inductive Logic, followed by The Problems of Philosophy and Introduction to the Logic of Hegel. Logic Deductive and Inductive became a widely used textbook in American colleges, and Philosophy of the Enlightenment was his most esteemed work. He went on to write A Defense of Prejudice and Other Essays in 1911 and The Higher Patriotism in 1915.
Hibben's relationship with his predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, had deteriorated after Hibben sided with Wilson's opponents during the graduate college controversy. The dispute had divided the University, and the search for a successor to Wilson lasted 15 months. Once elected, Hibben immediately addressed the issue, uniting the two factions. He announced that he represented “no group or set of men, no party, no faction, no past allegiance or affiliation — but one united Princeton.” He consciously sought the help of faculty who had sided with Wilson and encouraged them to continue the former president's work. Hibben was frequently described as a calm, patient, and temperate man, and these qualities undoubtedly helped him to unify the University. His task was eased when the trustees decreased Dean Andrew Fleming West's autonomy by subjecting the Graduate School to the president's authority. During the First World War, Hibben offered University resources to the federal government, including access to buildings and laboratories for army, navy, and aviation training schools and research programs. Only 60 undergraduates were not in service by the fall of 1918.
Hibben enhanced the curriculum by extending the preceptorial program to the sophomore class and, in 1923, by initiating the four course or upper-class plan of study, which gave students freedom to do independent reading in a particular subject instead of taking a fifth course. The reading was followed by a senior thesis and a comprehensive examination, an innovation that soon became a hallmark of a Princeton education. Other changes in the curriculum were achieved through the reorganization of academic departments. Hibben separated Psychology and Philosophy and divided the Department of History, Politics, and Economics into three separate units. In 1922 he limited enrollment and established a system of selective admission. In the same year, the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures was founded, and three schools were added during his presidency: Architecture in 1919, Engineering in 1921, and Public and International Affairs in 1930. In order to help freshmen adjust to campus life, Hibben created a pool of faculty advisors. He also established the Council on Undergraduate Life in 1930, allowing undergraduates to discuss problems and concerns.
During his tenure, the budget grew and enrollment increased by almost a thousand students. The faculty grew by 73 percent and received salary increases, pensions, insurance, and a minimum pay scale owing largely to Hibben's effectiveness in increasing endowments. Between January 1912 and June 1932, endowments increased from approximately five million to 24 million dollars. The number of buildings on campus doubled, including ten dormitories, which encouraged students to remain in Princeton on weekends. Other construction projects resulted in five new undergraduate dining halls, the north court quadrangle at the graduate college, six new classroom and research buildings, Palmer Stadium, Baker Rink, McCosh Infirmary, McCarter Theatre, and the University Chapel with its nave named in Hibben's honor. Yet another feature of this explosive growth, which reflected a general economic expansion, was the doubling of books in the Library.
Hibben belonged to more than 60 educational, international, and patriotic societies, and many honors were bestowed on him, including admission to the French Legion of Honor in 1919. He served on the advisory board for the American Defense Society and the National Security League, and he was a member of the Naval League of the United States, the United States Junior Naval Reserve, and the executive committee of the League to Enforce Peace. A promoter of world peace, he was decorated by a number of foreign governments and received honorary degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, Lafayette, Brown, Harvard, the University of Toronto, McGill, and Princeton. One year before his death, alumni established the Hibben Loan Fund of $1,000 per year to aid deserving undergraduates. In June 1932 Hibben resigned after 20 fruitful years as president of Princeton University. Sadly, he died in an automobile accident the following year, an accident that also fatally injured his wife.
The Hibben records are divided into five subseries. Four are based on the form of the material, namely, Subject Files, Correspondence, Addresses and Publications, and General Materials, and one consists of a box of documents relating to the interim administration of Edward D. Duffield, who served as Princeton University's acting president from 1932 to 1933. A biographical sketch of Duffield accompanies the description of this subseries.
Subseries 14A: Subject Files, 1806-1986 [bulk: 1912-1933]
Subseries Description
Subseries 14A: Subject Files, 1806-1986 [bulk: 1912-1933], is organized by topic and contains biographical, familial, and testimonial material, particularly in regard to Hibben's inauguration and retirement, as well as his accidental death. Other folders document his long career at Princeton University. This subseries also contains a folder of philosophy lectures and notes and a folder of prayers, reflecting Hibben's professional duality.
Biographical Information, 1892-1982
Box 64, Folder 3 Philosophy Notes and Lectures, 1899, undated
Box 64, Folder 4 Election as President of Princeton University, 1911-1912
Box 64, Folder 5 Inauguration Committee, 1912
Box 64, Folder 6 Inaugural Address and Program, 1912
Box 64, Folder 7 Inaugural Publications, 1912
Box 64, Folder 8 The Princeton Years: News Releases, 1893-1932
Box 64, Folder 9 News Publications, 1913-1932
Box 65, Folder 1 Dinners: Alumni, 1912
Box 65, Folder 2 Dinners, 1912
Box 65, Folder 3-4 Dinner: Retirement, 1932
Box 65, Folder 5 Family/Genealogical Inquiries/Anecdotes, 1806-1983
Box 65, Folder 6 Birthday Congratulations, 1927-1932
Box 65, Folder 7 Prayers, 1916-1933
Box 65, Folder 8 Tributes/ PAW/Medal/Portrait, 1912-1986
Box 66, Folder 1 Retirement/Review of Presidency, 1932-1933
Box 66, Folder 2 Degrees/Honors, 1912-1943
Box 66, Folder 3 Resignation Correspondence, 1932
Box 66, Folder 4 Retirement/Testimonial Committee, 1931-1932
Box 66, Folder 5 Fatal Automobile Accident, 1933
Box 66, Folder 6 Post Mortem/Funeral/Memorial Services, 1933
Box 66, Folder 7 Post-Mortem Tributes, 1933
Box 66, Folder 8 Real Estate, 1911-1931
Box 66, Folder 9 Hibben Day, 1932
Box 66, Folder 10 Hibben Fund, 1931-1934
Box 67, Folder 1 Readings, 1930, undated
Box 67, Folder 2 Leitch, Alexander Notes I, undated
Box 67, Folder 3 Leitch, Alexander Notes II, undated
Box 67, Folder 4 Subseries 14B: Correspondence, 1882-1935 [bulk: 1914-1918]
Subseries Description
Subseries 14B: Correspondence, 1882-1935 [bulk: 1914-1918], is arranged chronologically, and while it ranges across Hibben's entire presidency, most of this material relates to the First World War and the curricular and institutional adjustments that were designed to promote the Allied cause. Hibben was a strong proponent of preparedness and advocated American intervention on behalf of the Allies. Examples of Hibben's wartime correspondence include descriptions of the war in England from Arthur Shipley, master of Christ's College, Cambridge (box 70, folder 2); letters concerning the Belgium relief effort (box 61, folder 2) and summer military training camps (box 61, folder 5); and the process of forming an Officers Training Corps unit (box 70, folder 3) and a school of military aeronautics (box 70, folder 5) at Princeton University. In addition, this subseries contains correspondence from Anne Lindbergh to Mrs. Hibben.
Correspondence, 1882-1918
Box 67, Folder 5-7 Correspondence, 1919-1933
Box 68, Folder 1-4 Correspondence: Cleveland, Grover and Wilson, Woodrow, 1899-1919
Box 68, Folder 5 Correspondence: Lindbergh, Anne, 1931-1935
Box 68, Folder 6 World War I Correspondence, undated, 1913- Nov. 1914
Box 68, Folder 7-8 World War I Correspondence, Dec. 1914-Aug. 1915
Box 69, Folder 1-2 World War I Correspondence: Mohonk Conference, 1915
Box 69, Folder 3 World War I Correspondence, Sept. 1915-Oct. 1916
Box 69, Folder 4-6 World War I Correspondence, Nov. 1916-Nov. 1917
Box 70, Folder 1-6 World War I Correspondence, Dec. 1917-1930
Box 71, Folder 1-5 Subseries 14C: Addresses and Publications, 1894-1933 [bulk: 1920-1933]
Subseries Description
Subseries 14C: Addresses and Publications, 1894-1933 [bulk: 1920-1933], is arranged chronologically and contains many of Hibben's utterances and writings. Topics range from an untitled address in which Hibben philosophizes about good and evil and quotes the Bible, Nietzsche, and Kant (box 72, folder 1) to words of welcome for Albert Einstein and a description of Hibben's visit, as an undergraduate, to Thomas Edison's laboratory soon after the invention of electric light (box 72, folder 6).
Addresses: Untitled, undated
Box 71, Folder 6 Addresses, undated
Box 71, Folder 7 Addresses: Miscellaneous, 1912-1933
Box 72, Folder 1-4 Addresses: Memorial Services, 1924-1933
Box 72, Folder 5 Addresses: Typescript for Unpublished Collection I, undated
Box 72, Folder 6 Addresses: Typescript for Unpublished Collection II, undated
Box 72, Folder 7 Addresses: Typescript for Unpublished Collection III, undated
Box 73, Folder 1 Publications, 1894-1933
Box 73, Folder 2-4 Subseries 14D: Acting President Edward D. Duffield, 1871-1955 [bulk: 1929-1939]
Subseries Description
Subseries 14D: Acting President Edward D. Duffield Records, 1871-1955 [bulk: 1929-1939], is arranged topically and includes biographical and post-mortem information, a modest amount of correspondence, three folders of addresses, a scrapbook of news clippings and photographs, and a variety of other items. The inclusion of this material reflects the fact that Princeton University's Board of Trustees had not found a new president when Hibben retired in June 1932, leading to Duffield's appointment as acting president. He filled this position until June 1933, when Harold W. Dodds took office. Images of Duffield can be found at the end of the collection in boxes 242 and 245.
Duffield was born in 1871 in Princeton, New Jersey. His father, John T. Duffield, was a clergyman and professor of mathematics at the College of New Jersey, as well as an alumnus, and his mother was Sarah Elizabeth Green of Groville, New Jersey. Duffield was also a descendent of Jonathan Dickinson, Princeton University's first president. Like his two older brothers, Duffield attended the College of New Jersey, graduating in 1892. He was an active participant in Clio Hall debates and received a prize in oratory. In 1894 he graduated from the New York Law School and in 1895 received a Master's degree from his alma mater. Duffield married Josephine Reade Curtis in 1897, with whom he had two children. Josephine died in 1914, and Duffield married Barbara Freeman in 1916.
A practicing lawyer, Duffield served as Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey from 1905 to 1906. He then became the general solicitor for the Prudential Insurance Company, rising to vice president in 1916 and president in 1922. His interest in education is reflected in his appointment as chairman of a committee formed to adjust the relationship between the State of New Jersey and Rutgers University. The work of this committee resulted in the creation of the State Board of Regents, which regulates higher education in New Jersey. From 1920 to 1938 Duffield served as a trustee of Princeton University, and in 1932 he was asked to fill the role of acting president. Retaining his position as president of the Prudential Insurance Company, he stayed in Princeton two days per week, leaving Dean Luther Eisenhart to run the University in his absence. Duffield would also serve as chairman of the Board of Trustees and president of the Class of 1892 before succumbing to the effects of a stroke on September 17, 1938. For all his success, he was never prideful and was quoted in the Princeton Alumni Weekly as referring to himself as the trustee who represented “the great intellectual middle-class.”
Duffield received many tributes in his lifetime, including honorary degrees from Princeton and Rutgers Universities and Lafayette College. In 1932 Time named him Man of the Year. He was a member of numerous clubs involved in professional, religious, civic, and leisure activities. He also served on many University committees. As chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Life, which he was instrumental in organizing, he worked to ensure that Princeton University remained hospitable to young men of all economic classes from all parts of the country. He believed that the University would fail if young men of ability who were poor in material terms could not enroll and enjoy ample participation in campus activities. In 1939 a scholarship fund was established in his memory, honoring his interest in educating young men of moderate means.
Duffield, Edward D., Acting President, 1932-1933
Box 73, Folder 5 Biographical Information, 1871-1934
Box 74, Folder 1 Correspondence, 1903-1938
Box 74, Folder 2 Publication/Press Releases, 1903-1955
Box 74, Folder 3 Writing/Addresses, 1889-1933
Box 74, Folder 4 Addresses/Dinners, 1912-1939
Box 74, Folder 5-6 Scrapbook, 1919-1921
Box 74, Folder 7 Miscellaneous, 1885-1896
Box 74, Folder 8 Post Mortem, 1938-1939
Box 74, Folder 9 Subseries 14E: General Materials, 1882-1933 [bulk: 1911-1933]
Subseries Description
Subseries 14E: General Materials, 1882-1933 [bulk: 1911-1933], includes Hibben's honorary degrees; numerous medals; the autograph book from his years in Prospect, the former residence of Princeton University's presidents; five scrapbooks, containing an abundance of newspaper articles; and a variety of photographs located at the end of the collection in boxes 236 and 242-244.
Prospect Autograph Book, 1912-1932
Box 73, Folder 6 Scrapbook, 1911-1933
Box 75 Scrapbook Vol. I, 1912-1913
Box 76 Scrapbook Vol. II, 1913-1915
Box 77 Scrapbook Vol. III, 1915-1917
Box 78 Scrapbook Vol. IV, 1919-1929
Box 79 Medals, undated
Box 79A, Folder 1 Medals, undated
Box 79B Honorary Degrees, 1908-1921
Box 80, Folder 1 Series 15: Harold Willis Dodds Records, 1896-1990
Series Description
At 43, Harold W. Dodds was Princeton University's third youngest president. He was also the second layman to hold this office, following Woodrow Wilson; however, both men were sons of Presbyterian ministers. Born June 28, 1889 in Utica, Pennsylvania, Dodds was the son of Alice A. Dunn and Dr. Samuel Dodds, professor of Bible at Grove City College and professor emeritus of biblical doctrine at Wooster College. The couple had three sons: LeRoy, Harold, and John, all of whom went on to earn doctorates.
Harold graduated from Grove City College in 1909 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, taught high school Latin and English for two years, and received his M.A. from Princeton University in 1914 and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1917. In the same year he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected due to poor vision. On December 25, 1917, Dodds married Margaret Murray of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In 1918 Dodds wrote Procedure in State Legislatures. He worked for the United States Food Administration during World War I and became assistant professor of political science at Western Reserve University from 1919 to 1920. Deciding to apply political science in a practical manner, Dodds left the University to become secretary of the National Municipal League and editor of its magazine, the National Municipal Review. He later served as the League's president from 1934 to 1937. In 1925 Dodds acted as an adviser to the Tacna- Arica Plebiscitary Commission, chaired by General John J. Pershing, which attempted to arrange a plebiscite to end Chile and Peru's dispute over the towns of Tacna and Arica. He also drafted Nicaragua's Electoral Law of 1923 and helped supervise its 1928 elections. In 1935 he arbitrated an electoral dispute in Cuba. Dodds was also a lecturer at Purdue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and New York Universities prior to joining the faculty of Princeton University in 1925.
At Princeton Dodds taught municipal government and public administration. He became a full professor of political science in 1927, and in 1930, he was named chairman of the administration committee of the School of Public and International Affairs. Dodds and his colleagues conducted a financial and administrative survey of the New Jersey government at the request of Governor A. Harry Moore. It was known as the Princeton Survey, and some proposals were enacted into law.
Dodds was elected president of Princeton University in 1933. He served during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar period of adjustment, a time of strain for both the University and its president. During the Second World War Princeton University instituted an accelerated program of study to meet wartime requirements. As of December 15, 1941 the Special War Supplement was issued to students, giving them the option to change their programs and elect new emergency courses such as navigation and cryptanalysis. By January 1942 75 percent of students, with the exception of seniors, participated. In 1940 Dodds established a University Committee on National Defense, and the Army, Navy, and Marines stationed hundreds of their reserves on campus for training, causing the number of students to fluctuate widely from month to month. A large percentage of undergraduates who left for service returned after the war, attributable, in part, to the fact that Dodds kept in touch with the absent students and set up the Princeton Program for Servicemen in order to facilitate the continuation of their education. In 1943 the State Department asked Dodds to lead the American delegation to the Bermuda Anglo-American Conference to discuss the problem of refugees.
Princeton University's Bicentennial celebration occurred during the Dodds administration from 1946 to 1947. The celebration included a host of scholarly conferences and three major convocations that renewed scholastic ties after the war. In addition, Bicentennial Preceptorships were established, giving one year of free research time to the most promising assistant professors.
Dodds was noted for his skill at promoting intelligent young faculty and attracting top scholars from other institutions. He received good advice from deans and departmental chairmen and supported them in securing candidates. One of the professors whom Dodds promoted was Robert Goheen, his successor. New departments and programs were created during the Dodds administration, including Music, the Office of Population Research, the Creative Arts Program, Religion, Aeronautical Engineering, and Near Eastern Studies. The Woodrow Wilson School and sponsored research programs were expanded.
New buildings constructed during Dodds's tenure included Firestone Library (1948), Dillon Gymnasium (1947), Class of 1915 Dormitory (1949), Woodrow Wilson Hall, now Corwin Hall (1952), Hayes Engineering Laboratory (1951), and a new building to house Project Matterhorn for the study of plasma physics. Pyne Library was converted to administrative office space, and Chancellor Green became the Student Center. Housing for faculty, graduate students, and staff increased by 312 units. The James Forrestal Research Center was established in 1951 with the acquisition of 825 acres formerly occupied by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Under Dodds income and expenses increased significantly. Thirty endowed professorships were established. The Higgins Trust, shared with Yale, Harvard, and Columbia Universities, increased funds for the sciences. In 1941 Annual Giving by alumni began with contributions totaling $80,000, and by 1957 the amount given annually had increased to $1,281,000. Undergraduate enrollment increased from 2309 in 1933 to 2948 in 1956, and the faculty grew from 327 to 582 in the same period. The largest growth occurred in Graduate School enrollment, which jumped from 293 to 636, due in part to an influx of foreign students.
Dodds grew with the demands of his position, armed with an optimistic attitude towards new problems, a sense of humor, and quiet confidence. He believed that any expert should put knowledge to practical use, noting that “an academic social scientist is improved by some contact with reality.” He also championed a liberal arts focus in response to educational trends after World War II, though he also held that a liberal education “should be an education for use.” Dodds stressed the importance of religion in a university setting and argued that “there is no avenue to truth which neglects the place of religion as the fountain of those human values which sustain and energize both individuals and a free society.”
Dodds was a Republican and a Presbyterian. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the General Education Board. In addition, he was one of nine members of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training. He was also a director of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
On June 19, 1957 Dodds retired, but he remained active. He chaired the James Madison Memorial Commission, which was formed to plan the building of the Madison Library of the Library of Congress. In 1958 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching awarded him a grant that led to his book, The Academic President — Educator or Caretaker? He was also chairman of the Board of Trustees of a corporation established to operate Miss Fine's School and the Princeton Country Day School as one entity called the Princeton Day Schools.
Dodds died October 25, 1980 at the age of 91 in a retirement community in Hightstown, New Jersey. Additional biographical information can be found in a commemorative issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly from December 1, 1980 in box 196, folder 8.
The Dodds records are divided into six subseries: Correspondence, Speeches and Writings, Subject Files, Arthur E. Fox, Edgar M. Gemmell, and General Materials. Together they constitute the largest body of material in this collection of presidential records and, in fact, are roughly three times the size of all the other series put together. This is attributable, in part, to the growth of Princeton University and the increasing complexity of its administration, but sound clerical practices, including a systematic filing system, also played an important role. It should be noted that the division between correspondence (Subseries 1) and subject files (subseries 3) is not absolute and that a significant amount of personal and family correspondence can be found under the latter heading.
Subseries 15A: Correspondence, 1896-1988 [bulk: 1933-1957]
Subseries Description
Subseries 15A: Correspondence, 1896-1988 [bulk: 1933-1957], the largest of the six subseries that comprise Dodds's records, is arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic. Correspondence that does not warrant its own folder is grouped under A, B, C and so forth in the general alphabetical sequence. This subseries illustrates the complexity of a modern university and the extent to which Princeton University had expanded, even during Dodds's own time. Correspondence concerns such subjects as academics, administrative offices and committees, associations and clubs, athletics, endowments and foundations, financial aid, the Library, the ROTC, and the Board of Trustees, as well as numerous individuals. Material relating to academics can be found under the appropriate department — from biology to philosophy — and includes discussions of budgets, grants, hiring and recruiting, office space and equipment, research, and meetings. The largest concentration of academic subject matter pertains to the School of Public and International Affairs (known as the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs since 1948), with which Dodds was closely associated. Of particular interest may be Dodds's Princeton University-related post- retirement correspondence in Box 138, Folders 10-12, which contains, among other topics, recommendations for his successor, Robert Goheen; mention of the Alger Hiss controversy and its impact on financial contributions; correspondence about the early days of the School of Public and International Affairs; bequests for fellowships; and Dodds's views on co- education.
Some topics and individuals command more attention than others. The importance of financial issues, particularly under the exigencies of World War II, is reflected in the 11 folders of material pertaining to George A. Brakely, Princeton University's financial vice president and treasurer during much of Dodds's tenure. The Library, which acquired its current home under Dodds, is also well documented, not only in folders with “Library” as their title but also in those relating to librarians Julian P. Boyd and William S. Dix. The development of Firestone Library (the argument for which can be found in Dodds's files as early as 1934) is understandably prominent, but other matters are addressed as well, among them, the procurement of collections, notably those of Messrs. Parrish, Scheide, Witney, and Gest; the creation of a regional depository for seldom-used books in New York and Philadelphia libraries; and wartime dangers, including a memorandum dated March 19, 1941 concerning the removal of rare materials to safety in the event of bombing. The Association of American Universities, though not specific to Princeton, is another topic that consumes a substantial number of folders in this subseries. Among the topics addressed in this material are testing, accreditation, federal aid to education, taxes, and the draft. Finally, many folders contain information concerning foundations and the grants they awarded to Princeton University. The Rockefeller Foundation was especially generous, extending support for research in subjects ranging from Arabic and Islamic studies and organic chemistry to public opinion and literary criticism.
General “A” Correspondence, 1934-1979
Box 81, Folder 1 Abell, Neilson, 1944-1945
Box 81, Folder 2 Academic Freedom, 1939-1955
Box 81, Folder 3 Academics, 1928-1954
Box 81, Folder 4 Accreditation, 1952-1958
Box 81, Folder 5 Adler, Julius Ochs (Brigadier General), 1937-1955
Box 81, Folder 6 Adler, Julius Ochs (Brigadier General): Memorial Fund, 1955-1956
Box 81, Folder 7 Administrative Committee, 1933-1942
Box 81, Folder 8 Admissions, 1936-1953
Box 81, Folder 9 Advisory Committee on Computer Problems, 1956
Box 81, Folder 10 Advisory Committee on Humanistic Collections, 1938-1943
Box 81, Folder 11 Advisory Council, 1933-1955
Box 81, Folder 12 Air Force ROTC, 1950-1955
Box 81, Folder 13 Air Force ROTC, 1956-1957
Box 82, Folder 1 Air Transportation, 1956
Box 82, Folder 2 Aldrich, Donald B., 1938-1947
Box 82, Folder 3 Alumni Associations, 1955-1957
Box 82, Folder 4 Alumni Committee on Princeton Objectives (Whitehouse Committee), 1956-1957
Box 82, Folder 5 Alumni Rights Campaign of Charles E. Whitehouse ‘15, 1953-1956
Box 82, Folder 6 American Association of University Professors, 1937-1953
Box 82, Folder 7 American Civilization Program, 1941-1955
Box 82, Folder 8 American Council on Education, 1950-1957
Box 82, Folder 9-12 American Whig and Cliosophic Societies, 1940-1941
Box 82, Folder 13 Ames, John D., 1946
Box 82, Folder 14 Andrew, A. Piatt, 1935-1936
Box 83, Folder 1 Anniversary Stamp: Nassau Hall 20th, First Day Cover, 1956
Box 83, Folder 2 Anti-Discrimination, 1948
Box 83, Folder 3 Arbuckle - Jamison Foundation, 1951-1954
Box 83, Folder 4 Architects, 1935-1957
Box 83, Folder 5-6 Architecture, School of, 1933-1957
Box 83, Folder 7-9 Archives of American Letters, 1941
Box 83, Folder 10 Armour, Norman, 1935-1977
Box 83, Folder 11 Arms, John Taylor, 1940-1954
Box 83, Folder 12 Armstrong, C. Vincent, 1947-1956
Box 83, Folder 13 Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 1935-1957
Box 83, Folder 14 Army, Department of, 1951-1955
Box 83, Folder 15 Army Affairs, 1941-1953
Box 83, Folder 16 Art and Archaeology, 1933-1957
Box 84, Folder 1-7 Art Museum, 1946-1947, 1953
Box 85, Folder 1 Associated Prudential Theatres, 1951, 1954
Box 85, Folder 2 Associated Universities, Inc., 1948-1956
Box 85, Folder 3 Association of American Colleges, 1954-1957
Box 85, Folder 4 Association of American Universities, 1948-Apr. 1953
Box 85, Folder 5-9 Association of American Universities, May 1953-1956
Box 86, Folder 1-6 Association of American Universities, 1957, undated
Box 87, Folder 1 Association of American Universities: Committee on Outside Activities of Faculty, 1953-1954
Box 87, Folder 2 Association of American Universities: Constitution, 1949-1954
Box 87, Folder 3 Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, 1952-1954
Box 87, Folder 4 Astronomy, 1933-1957
Box 87, Folder 5-7 Athletic Association, 1933-1934
Box 87, Folder 8 Athletic Policy Committee, 1932-1947
Box 87, Folder 9 Athletics, 1945-1953
Box 87, Folder 10 Athletics, 1954-1957
Box 88, Folder 1-2 Athletics, Ivy League, 1945-1951
Box 88, Folder 3 Athletics, University Council on, 1944-1947
Box 88, Folder 4 Atomic Energy Commission, 1948-1957
Box 88, Folder 5 General “B” Correspondence, 1930-1979
Box 88, Folder 6-8 Baccalaureate Address “Perils of Security”, 1937
Box 89, Folder 1 Baetjer, Harry N., 1944-1946
Box 89, Folder 2 Baird, Matthew, 1937-1956
Box 89, Folder 3 Baker, H. P., 1940-1953
Box 89, Folder 4 Baker Charity Trust, George F., 1945, 1948, 1951
Box 89, Folder 5 Barr, J. McFerran, 1936-1941
Box 89, Folder 6 Bedford, Paul, 1933-1948, 1961
Box 89, Folder 7 Belgian American Educational Foundation, Inc., 1955-1963
Box 89, Folder 8 Belknap, Chauncey, 1943-1956
Box 89, Folder 9 Benson, Alexander, 1935-1938, 1943
Box 89, Folder 10 Benva, W. E., 1944-1946
Box 89, Folder 11 Berrien, Mrs. Alfred B., 1955
Box 89, Folder 12 Berry, Dr. George P., 1955-1957, 1965-1966
Box 89, Folder 13 Betts, Jr., George Whitefield, 1939-1953
Box 89, Folder 14 Bicentennial Preceptorships, 1949-1950
Box 89, Folder 15 Biology, 1933-1943
Box 89, Folder 16-17 Biology, 1944-1957
Box 90, Folder 1 Black, Mrs. Charles C., 1948-1949
Box 90, Folder 2 Blaine Foundation, 1954
Box 90, Folder 3 Bloom, Sol, 1947
Box 90, Folder 4 Board of Advisers, 1955-1957
Box 90, Folder 5 Board of Scientific and Engineering Research, 1954-1957
Box 90, Folder 6 Bohm, David, 1949-1951
Box 90, Folder 7 Bonsall, Mrs. John, 1944-1951
Box 90, Folder 8 Boudinot Portrait, 1944-1946
Box 90, Folder 9 Bowen, William G., 1971-1980
Box 90, Folder 10 Boyd, James, 1939-1948
Box 90, Folder 11 Boyd, Julian P., 1939-1971
Box 90, Folder 12 Brackett, Cyrus Fogg Bust, 1943-1945
Box 90, Folder 13 Brackett Lectures, Guild of, 1933-1937
Box 90, Folder 14 Brakeley, George A., 1938-1940
Box 90, Folder 15 Brakeley, George A., 1941-Sept. 1947
Box 91, Folder 1-8 Brakeley, George A., Oct. 1947-1955
Box 92, Folder 1-2 Braun, C. F., 1949-1953
Box 92, Folder 3 Brawner, Alexander H., 1941-1945
Box 92, Folder 4 Brown, J. Douglas, 1946-1976
Box 92, Folder 5-8 Brown, Mrs. Marshall Ludington, 1947-1950
Box 92, Folder 9 Bryant, Henry G., 1932-1950
Box 92, Folder 10 Buchanan, John G., 1939-1954
Box 92, Folder 11 Burchfield, William H., 1939-1951
Box 93, Folder 1 Bureau of Urban Research, 1940-1956
Box 93, Folder 2-3 Butler, Lee D., 1956
Box 93, Folder 4 General “C” Correspondence, 1931-1980
Box 93, Folder 5-7 Callaway, Merrel P., 1935-1957
Box 93, Folder 8 Campus Center, 1952-1954
Box 93, Folder 9 Campus Center Master Plan, 1957
Box 93, Folder 10 Caples, Ralph C., 1941-1948
Box 93, Folder 11 Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1933-1952
Box 94, Folder 1-3 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1933-1947
Box 94, Folder 4-6 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1948-1957
Box 95, Folder 1-2 Carpenter, William S., 1953
Box 95, Folder 3 Carrier, Robert M., 1953
Box 95, Folder 4 Cartan, Alfred T., 1940-1948, 1951-1960
Box 95, Folder 5 Carton, Lawrence R., 1951
Box 95, Folder 6 Case, Everett N., 1934-1979
Box 95, Folder 7 Center for Research on World Political Institutions, 1949-1954
Box 95, Folder 8 Center for Research on World Political Institutions, 1955-1956, undated
Box 96, Folder 1-2 Channing, Roscoe, 1939-1952
Box 96, Folder 3 Chapel, 1943, 1952
Box 96, Folder 4 Chemistry, 1933-1957
Box 96, Folder 5-7 Chicago, University of, 1956
Box 96, Folder 8 Christie, Jr., Robert E., Memorial Fund, 1936, 1939
Box 96, Folder 9 Civil Defense, 1953, 1955
Box 96, Folder 10 Civil Liberties, Governor's Committee on, 1947-Apr. 1948
Box 96, Folder 11 Civil Liberties, Governor's Committee on, May 1948-1949, undated
Box 97, Folder 1-2 Civilian National Honors, Committee on, 1956-1957
Box 97, Folder 3-4 Clark, Grenville, 1939-1975, 1979
Box 97, Folder 5-6 Class of, 1926, 1948
Box 97, Folder 7 Classics, 1933-1937
Box 97, Folder 8 Classics, 1938-1957
Box 98, Folder 1-2 Cleland, Robert G., 1945-1948, 1955
Box 98, Folder 3 Cleveland, Richard F., 1944-1948
Box 98, Folder 4 Clothier, Robert C., 1936-1940
Box 98, Folder 5 Clubs, 1940-1956
Box 98, Folder 6-7 Cochran, Henry J., 1934-1952
Box 98, Folder 8-9 College Club Savings Plan, 1957
Box 98, Folder 10 Collins, V. Lansing, Secretary, 1933-1934
Box 98, Folder 11 Columbia University Bicentennial, 1953
Box 99, Folder 1 Commencement, 1957
Box 99, Folder 2 Commission on History, 1934-1936
Box 99, Folder 3 Committee on Committees, 1957
Box 99, Folder 4 Committees, Clubs, and Societies, 1932-1957
Box 99, Folder 5-9 Communism, 1936-1955, undated
Box 100, Folder 1-4 Communism: Magistrate's Court, City of Toronto, 1940-1941
Box 100, Folder 5 Compton, James R., 1950-1954
Box 100, Folder 6 Compton, John Parker, Memorial Fund, 1945-1947
Box 100, Folder 7 Compton, Karl T., 1952-1966
Box 100, Folder 8 Conant, James B., 1946-1982
Box 100, Folder 9 Conant, William S., 1925-1953
Box 100, Folder 10 Congress of Industrial Organizations, New Jersey State Council, 1953-1954
Box 100, Folder 11 Conservation Foundation, 1957-1962
Box 100, Folder 12 Conway, W. P., 1939-1945
Box 100, Folder 13 Corbin, Horace K., 1947-1958
Box 100, Folder 14 Cornell University, 1949-1952
Box 100, Folder 15 Cotharin, Kate Leah, 1941
Box 100, Folder 16 Course of Study Committee, 1952-1956
Box 100, Folder 17 Crane, Jasper E., 1935-1957
Box 101, Folder 1 Creative Arts Program, 1944-1951
Box 101, Folder 2 Cromwell, Jarvis, 1939-1977
Box 101, Folder 3 Cromwell Chair of Public Law, 1956-1957
Box 101, Folder 4 Crowell, William Beers, 1932
Box 101, Folder 5 Curriculum Committee, 1957
Box 101, Folder 6 General “D” Correspondence, 1931-1962
Box 101, Folder 7 Daily Princetonian, 1933-1957
Box 101, Folder 8 Danforth, Donald, 1942-1957
Box 101, Folder 9 Danforth Foundation, 1957-1965
Box 101, Folder 10-11 D'Arcy, William C., 1940-1960
Box 101, Folder 12 Darrow, Whitney, 1939-1961
Box 102, Folder 1 Davis, Roblin H., 1937-1943
Box 102, Folder 2 DeCoppet, Andre, 1935-1955
Box 102, Folder 3 Delaware, University of, 1961-1962
Box 102, Folder 4 Dell, Burnham N., 1942-1943
Box 102, Folder 5 De Long, Mrs. George B., 1935-1950
Box 102, Folder 6 Demler, Mrs. Douglas W., 1953-1954
Box 102, Folder 7 Development Office, 1955-1957
Box 102, Folder 8 De Witt, Helen E., 1938-1939
Box 102, Folder 9 Dix, William S., Librarian, 1952-1957
Box 102, Folder 10-11 Dodds Fellowship, 1959-1965
Box 102, Folder 12 Dodds, Margaret, 1933-1988
Box 102, Folder 13-15 Dodds, Robert, 1963-1964
Box 103, Folder 1 Dodds, Samuel and Alice, 1938-1947, undated
Box 103, Folder 2 Dodge, Cleveland E., 1941-1945
Box 103, Folder 3 D'Olier, Franklin, 1933-1954
Box 103, Folder 4-7 Duffield, Edward D., 1933-1939
Box 103, Folder 8 Duffield, Edward D., Memorial Scholarship Fund, 1939-1946
Box 103, Folder 9 Dulles, John Foster, 1942-1959
Box 103, Folder 10 General “E” Correspondence, 1937-1979
Box 103, Folder 11 Earle, Ellis P., 1934-1942
Box 103, Folder 12 Earle, Jr., Mrs. William P., 1933-1938
Box 103, Folder 13 Easton, Roswell W., 1953-1957
Box 104, Folder 1 Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 1948-1951
Box 104, Folder 2 Economics and Social Institutions, 1933-1957
Box 104, Folder 3-8 Eddy, William A., 1940-1953
Box 105, Folder 1 Edge, Governor Walter E., 1944-1956
Box 105, Folder 2 Education: Commission on Financing Higher Education, 1950-1952
Box 105, Folder 3 Education, New Jersey State Department of, 1949-1956
Box 105, Folder 4 Education, Study of, 1946-1953
Box 105, Folder 5 Educational Testing Service, 1947-1957
Box 105, Folder 6 Eisenhart, Dean Luther P., 1933-1934
Box 105, Folder 7 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1947-1957
Box 105, Folder 8 Engelhard, Charles, 1948-1957
Box 105, Folder 9 Engineering, School of, 1933-Nov. 1945
Box 105, Folder 10-13 Engineering, School of, 1946-1957, undated
Box 106, Folder 1-4 English, Department of, 1933-1957
Box 106, Folder 5-8 Enrollment, Impending Increase in, 1954-1955
Box 107, Folder 1 Etherington, S. G., 1947-1953
Box 107, Folder 2 Executive Committee, 1942-1946
Box 107, Folder 3 General “F” Correspondence, 1936-1979
Box 107, Folder 4 Faculty Committees, 1944-1957
Box 107, Folder 5 Faculty Meeting Minutes, 1943-1945
Box 107, Folder 6 Farrand, Wilson, 1933-1942
Box 107, Folder 7 Federal Security Agency, 1951-1953
Box 107, Folder 8 Fentress, Calvin, 1941-1957
Box 107, Folder 9 Ferrer, Jose, 1952
Box 107, Folder 10 Fetter, Frank A., 1939-1950
Box 107, Folder 11 Fielding, Benjamin, 1953
Box 107, Folder 12 Finance Committee, 1948-1957
Box 107, Folder 13 Financial Aid to Education, Council for, Oct. 1954-May 1955
Box 107, Folder 14 Financial Aid to Education, Council for, June 1955-June 1957, undated
Box 108, Folder 1-7 Financing Higher Education, Commission on (Aid to Universities in Great Britain), 1951
Box 108, Folder 8 Financing Higher Education, Grants for Great Britain/Glasgow, 1951
Box 108, Folder 9 Finch, Jeremiah S., 1954-1957
Box 109, Folder 1 Finney, George G., 1946-1956
Box 109, Folder 2 Finny, John M. T., 1934-1942
Box 109, Folder 3 Firestone, Jr., Harvey S., 1937-1948
Box 109, Folder 4 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, 1944-1957
Box 109, Folder 5 Fishburn, Junius P., 1939-1953
Box 109, Folder 6 Fleming, Matthew C., 1933-1945
Box 109, Folder 7-8 Flexner, Abraham, 1948-1956
Box 109, Folder 9 Follis, R. Gwin, 1953
Box 109, Folder 10 Football Squad, 1951-1952
Box 109, Folder 11 Ford, Emory L., 1936-1942
Box 109, Folder 12 Ford Foundation, 1946-Nov. 1955
Box 109, Folder 13-15 Ford Foundation, Dec. 1955-Dec. 1956, undated
Box 110, Folder 1-3 Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., 1935
Box 110, Folder 4 Forrestal, James: Correspondence, 1939-1954
Box 110, Folder 5 Forrestal, James: Memorials, 1949-1952
Box 110, Folder 6 Forrestal, James: Papers, 1951-1953
Box 110, Folder 7 Forrestal Research Center, Jan. 1950-June 1957
Box 110, Folder 8-9 Fosdick, Raymond B., 1933-1935
Box 110, Folder 10 Fox, Arthur E., 1951-1957
Box 110, Folder 11 Fox, Frederic, 1978-1979
Box 110, Folder 12 Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1943-1953
Box 110, Folder 13 Freeman, William C., 1950-1954
Box 111, Folder 1 Frelinghuysen, Peter, 1935-1957
Box 111, Folder 2 Friedlaender, Marc, 1939-1940
Box 111, Folder 3 Fuess, Claude M., 1948-1957
Box 111, Folder 4 Fulbright Awards, 1957
Box 111, Folder 5 Fund Committee, 1934-1935
Box 111, Folder 6 General “G” Correspondence, 1932-1979
Box 111, Folder 7 Gardiner, William Howard, 1944
Box 111, Folder 8 Garrett, Robert, 1933-1956
Box 111, Folder 9-10 Gauss, Dean Christian, 1933-1955
Box 111, Folder 11 Gauss, Dean Christian: Seminars, 1952-1957
Box 111, Folder 12 Gemmell, Edgar M., 1953-1957
Box 111, Folder 13 General Education Board, Sept. 1933-June 1954
Box 112, Folder 1-2 Geology, Sept. 1933-May 1957
Box 112, Folder 3-7 Godolphin, Dean F. R. B., 1953-1955
Box 112, Folder 8 Goheen, Robert F., 1956-1972
Box 112, Folder 9 Graduate College, 1948-1956
Box 113, Folder 1 Graham, George A., July 1953-1979
Box 113, Folder 2-5 Griffith, Richard M., 1934-1937
Box 113, Folder 6 Grounds and Buildings, Committee on, 1956-1957
Box 113, Folder 7 Grove City College, 1941-1950
Box 113, Folder 8 Gulick, Archibald A., Sept. 1939-July 1957
Box 113, Folder 9-10 Gymnasium Fire, 1944
Box 113, Folder 11 General “H” Correspondence, 1930-1979
Box 114, Folder 1-2 Hall of Fame for Great Americans, 1950-1971
Box 114, Folder 3 Hall of Fame for Great Americans: Adolph Ochs Campaign, 1967-1970
Box 114, Folder 4 Hardin, John R., 1934-1945
Box 114, Folder 5 Hargest, William M., 1942
Box 114, Folder 6 Harvard University, 1952-1957
Box 114, Folder 7 Health and Physical Education, Sept. 1937-Oct. 1956
Box 114, Folder 8-9 Helm, Harold H., 1947-1978
Box 114, Folder 10 Henry, Mrs. Bayard, 1933-1945
Box 115, Folder 1 Hensel, H. Struve, 1946-1954
Box 115, Folder 2 Hetherington, Hector, Mar. 1948-Jan. 1965
Box 115, Folder 3-5 Hicks, Wenman A., 1948-1953
Box 115, Folder 6 History, June 1933-Jan. 1957
Box 115, Folder 7-10 Hodge, Edward B., 1933-1945
Box 115, Folder 11 Holden, Arthur C., 1937-1979
Box 116, Folder 1 Homans, Sheppard, 1939-1953
Box 116, Folder 2 Hoover, Herbert, 1954-1964
Box 116, Folder 3 Hope, Walter E., 1933-1957
Box 116, Folder 4-8 Hopkins, Ernest M., 1934-1945
Box 116, Folder 9 Hornfeck, Herman G., 1946-1954
Box 116, Folder 10 Horton, Douglas, 1948, 1955
Box 116, Folder 11 Howell, Charles R., 1952-1953
Box 116, Folder 12 Humanities, May 1934-1957
Box 117, Folder 1-2 Humanities, Divisional Program in the, 1939-1945
Box 117, Folder 3 Humanities: Liberal Arts Conference, 1950-1951
Box 117, Folder 4 The Hun School, 1958-1975
Box 117, Folder 5 Hygiene and Physical Education, 1933-1937
Box 117, Folder 6 Harvard-Yale-Princeton President's Agreement, 1950-1951
Box 117, Folder 7 General “I” Correspondence, 1936-1958
Box 117, Folder 8 Industrial Relations Section, Sept. 1933-July 1945
Box 118, Folder 1-2 Initiatory University Group, 1946
Box 118, Folder 3 Institute for Advanced Study, June 1933-Feb. 1957
Box 118, Folder 4-6 Institute for College and University Administrators, 1956-1957, 1960
Box 118, Folder 7 Institute of Current Affairs, 1947-1950
Box 118, Folder 8 Institute of International Education, 1948-1957
Box 118, Folder 9 Institute for International Order, Nov. 1958-Apr. 1966
Box 118, Folder 10 Internal Survey re Plant Utilization, 1955
Box 119, Folder 1 International Associations of Universities, Mar. 1951-Aug. 1957
Box 119, Folder 2 International Finance, 1926-1941
Box 119, Folder 3 Italian Government, Art, 1935-1954
Box 119, Folder 4 General “J” Correspondence, 1936-1978
Box 119, Folder 5 Jacobus, Melancthon W., 1933-1937
Box 119, Folder 6 Jewett, Frank B., 1943-1950
Box 119, Folder 7 Johnson, Robert W., 1949-1957
Box 119, Folder 8 Jones, Carl W., 1947, 1954, 1956
Box 119, Folder 9 General “K” Correspondence, 1934-1979
Box 119, Folder 10 Kennan, George F., 1951-1954, 1961
Box 119, Folder 11 Kerr, Clarence D., 1945-1957
Box 119, Folder 12 Kerr, E. S. Wells, 1942-1948, 1964
Box 119, Folder 13 Kirkland, William A., 1940-1979
Box 119, Folder 14 Krock, Arthur, 1948-1956, 1965-1973
Box 119, Folder 15 General “L” Correspondence, 1930-1979
Box 120, Folder 1-2 Langenburg, Harry H., 1933-1952
Box 120, Folder 3 Larkin, Jr., Lt. John A., Memorial Scholarship, 1945-1948
Box 120, Folder 4 Lawrence, David, 1935-1936
Box 120, Folder 5 League of Nations, 1940-1941, 1946
Box 120, Folder 6 Lectures: Stafford Little, etc., 1957
Box 120, Folder 7 Lee, P. Blair, 1935-1940
Box 120, Folder 8 Library, June 1933-Dec. 1942
Box 120, Folder 9-12 Library, Jan. 1943-June 1952
Box 121, Folder 1-6 Library, Gest, 1936-1952
Box 121, Folder 7 Library of Congress, 1945-1946, 1950-1953
Box 122, Folder 1 Long, Breckinridge, 1937-1956
Box 122, Folder 2 Lynch, John B., 1933-1956
Box 122, Folder 3 General “M” Correspondence, 1931-1980
Box 122, Folder 4-6 MacCoy, W. Logan, 1939-1948
Box 122, Folder 7 Mann, Thomas, 1938-1939
Box 122, Folder 8 Mannerfrid, Henrik, 1949
Box 122, Folder 9 Committee on Manuscripts and Inscriptions, 1938
Box 122, Folder 10 Markle Foundation, 1960-1969
Box 122, Folder 11-12 Marshall, General George and Mrs. George, 1947-1958
Box 122, Folder 13 Marshall Scholarships, 1961-1963
Box 122, Folder 14 Marshall Scholarships, 1964-1967
Box 123, Folder 1 Martin, Paul C., 1933-1939
Box 123, Folder 2 Martin, Mrs. Paul C., 1941, 1946-1951
Box 123, Folder 3 Mason, Jr., H. Lee, 1938-1949
Box 123, Folder 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950-1953
Box 123, Folder 5 Material for President's Report, 1950
Box 123, Folder 6 Mathematics, Department of, 1933-1957
Box 123, Folder 7-8 Mathey, Dean, 1939-1967
Box 123, Folder 9-11 May, Mary T., 1948
Box 123, Folder 12 McAlpin, David H., 1945-1955
Box 123, Folder 13 McCormick, Cyrus H., 1934-1936
Box 123, Folder 14 McCormick, Cyrus H., 1937-1938, 1947
Box 124, Folder 1 McCormick, Gordon, 1940-1950, 1956
Box 124, Folder 2 McCullough, W. G., 1935-1950
Box 124, Folder 3 McIlwain, Charles H., 1936-1946, 1955
Box 124, Folder 4 McIntire, Charles Curtis, 1940-1945, 1949-1952
Box 124, Folder 5 McLure, Norman R., 1937-1940
Box 124, Folder 6 Medina, Harold R., 1943-1956
Box 124, Folder 7 Memorials, 1937, 1941
Box 124, Folder 8 Mercer County Community College, 1964-Dec. 1966
Box 124, Folder 9-11 Mercer County Community College: President Richard Greenfield, May 1967-Dec. 1970
Box 124, Folder 12-13 Mercer County Community College, 1971-1978
Box 125, Folder 1-2 Mercer County Community College: President's Contract, 1966-1969, 1973
Box 125, Folder 3 Messerole, C. V., 1938-1952
Box 125, Folder 4 Milbank, Albert Goodsell, 1933-1948
Box 125, Folder 5-6 Milbank, Albert Goodsell: Memorials, 1896-1955
Box 125, Folder 7 Milbank, Robbins, 1950-1953
Box 125, Folder 8 Military Science and Tactics, 1942-1946
Box 125, Folder 9 Miller, Jr., Frank L., 1951-1958
Box 125, Folder 10 Miller, Neville, 1944-1962
Box 125, Folder 11 Miller, Neville, 1963-1976
Box 126, Folder 1 Mills, G. A., 1935-1947
Box 126, Folder 2-7 Mills, G. A., 1948-1957
Box 127, Folder 1 Moberly, Sir Walter, 1949-1956
Box 127, Folder 2 Modern Languages, 1934-1957
Box 127, Folder 3-6 Moffett, George M., 1944-1953
Box 127, Folder 7 Moley Editorial, May 1950-July 1951
Box 127, Folder 8-9 Morris, Mrs. Ira Nelson, 1945
Box 128, Folder 1 Morris, Roland S., 1934-1946
Box 128, Folder 2 Morton, Sterling, 1935-1957
Box 128, Folder 3 Motion Picture Contracts: Woodrow Wilson Film, 1943-1944
Box 128, Folder 4 Muir, Edwin H., 1945-1946, 1949
Box 128, Folder 5 Munger, Miss Jessie, 1938-1946
Box 128, Folder 6 Music, 1933-1957
Box 128, Folder 7-11 General “N” Correspondence, 1934-1972
Box 129, Folder 1 Names to be Considered for Charter Trustees, 1952-1955
Box 129, Folder 2 National Association of State Universities, 1959
Box 129, Folder 3 National Broadcasting Company, 1945, 1946, 1953
Box 129, Folder 4 National Defense Research Committee, 1940-1943
Box 129, Folder 5 National Education Association, 1951, 1954, 1955
Box 129, Folder 6 National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1957, 1960-1962
Box 129, Folder 7 National Municipal League, 1932, 1952-1977
Box 129, Folder 8-9 National Planning Association, 1958-1959
Box 129, Folder 10 National Research Council, 1947
Box 129, Folder 11 National Science Foundation, Jan. 1952-May 1955
Box 129, Folder 12-14 National Science Foundation, June 1955-Mar. 1957
Box 130, Folder 1-3 NATO Conference, June 1957: “The Future of NATO”, 1956-1957
Box 130, Folder 4 Newcomen Society of England, 1947-1950
Box 130, Folder 5 New M. A. Degree, 1943-1945
Box 130, Folder 6 New Jersey, State of, 1948-1956
Box 130, Folder 7 New Jersey, Association of Colleges and Universities, 1944, 1956, 1959
Box 130, Folder 8 New Jersey, Division of Aging, 1958-1961
Box 130, Folder 9 New Jersey Justice: The Hauptmann Execution, 1935-1936
Box 130, Folder 10 New Jersey Justice: The Hauptmann Execution, 1937
Box 131, Folder 1 New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1932, 1936-1937
Box 131, Folder 2 New York University, 1963-1975
Box 131, Folder 3 NROTC Program, 1945-1957
Box 131, Folder 4-7 General “O” Correspondence, 1934-1981
Box 131, Folder 8 Operations: Committee on the Study of Future Operations, 1948-1949
Box 131, Folder 9 Orders: Contingent Fund, 1956-1957
Box 132, Folder 1 Orders: Purchasing Department, 1954-1957
Box 132, Folder 2 Oriental Languages and Literatures, 1933-1957
Box 132, Folder 3-7 Osborn, Fairfield, 1948-1955
Box 132, Folder 8 Osborn, Frederick H., 1943-1953
Box 132, Folder 9 Osborn, William Church, 1933-1935
Box 132, Folder 10 Osborn, William Church, 1936-1947, 1951
Box 133, Folder 1-2 General “P” Correspondence, 1930-1980
Box 133, Folder 3-4 Pace, Jr., Frank, 1949-1953
Box 133, Folder 5 Page, John V. D., Lt. Col., 1950-1952, 1957
Box 133, Folder 6 Palmer, Edgar, 1936-1946, 1951
Box 133, Folder 7 Panel of Civilian Consultants to the President, 1957-1958
Box 133, Folder 8 Parrish, Morris L., 1938-1944
Box 133, Folder 9 Patent Policy, 1938
Box 133, Folder 10 Payson, Lawrence G., 1938-1943
Box 133, Folder 11 Pendleton, Joseph S., 1936-1943
Box 133, Folder 12 Penick, S. Barksdale, 1952-1956
Box 133, Folder 13 Pennington, Mrs. Louis, 1937-1951
Box 133, Folder 14 Perkins, George W., 1935-1939
Box 133, Folder 15 Personnel Services Department, 1952-1957
Box 133, Folder 16 Pew, Arthur E., Jr., 1953-1957
Box 133, Folder 17 Philosophy, 1933-1940
Box 133, Folder 18 Philosophy, 1941-1957
Box 134, Folder 1-3 Physics, 1909-1946
Box 134, Folder 4-7 Physics, 1947-1957
Box 135, Folder 1-3 Politics, Department of, Mar. 1934-June 1943
Box 135, Folder 4-8 Politics, Department of, July 1943-June 1959
Box 136, Folder 1-4 Population Research, Office of, Aug. 1944-May 1955
Box 136, Folder 5 Portraits, Commissioning of, 1945-1952
Box 136, Folder 6 Post-Doctoral Fellowships and Grants, Tax Ramifications, 1950
Box 136, Folder 7 Post-War Planning Committee, International Relations Group, 1943-1944, 1950
Box 136, Folder 8 Post-War Proposal for Organization of Security Owners, 1942
Box 136, Folder 9 Prentice, William K., 1939-1954
Box 136, Folder 10 President's Fund, 1935-1936, 1944-1952
Box 136, Folder 11 Price, Mrs. William Jennings, 1949-1954
Box 137, Folder 1 Princeton Borough, 1944-1957
Box 137, Folder 2-3 Princeton Club of Paris, 1954-1955
Box 137, Folder 4 Princeton Club of St. Louis, 1960-1961
Box 137, Folder 5 Princeton Club of Washington, D.C., 1962-1966
Box 137, Folder 6 Princeton Community Fund, 1956
Box 137, Folder 7 Princeton Day Schools, Sept. 1959-1972
Box 137, Folder 8-12 Princeton Federation of Teachers, 1942
Box 138, Folder 1 Princeton in Asia, 1956-1957
Box 138, Folder 2 Princeton Oriental Association, Near Eastern Studies, 1942-1945
Box 138, Folder 3 Princeton Plan, 1955-1956
Box 138, Folder 4 Princeton Surveys, 1936-1958
Box 138, Folder 5 Princeton Theological Seminary, 1949-1956
Box 138, Folder 6 Princeton University Foundations Committee: $53 Million for Princeton University Program, 1960-1962
Box 138, Folder 7 Princeton University: Activities, Functions, 1958-1966
Box 138, Folder 8 Princeton University Conference, 1954-1957
Box 138, Folder 9 Princeton University: Dodds's Post-Retirement Correspondence, 1957-1978
Box 138, Folder 10-12 Princeton University Fund, 1950-1957
Box 138, Folder 13 Princeton University Fund: Board of Directors, 1952-1957
Box 138, Folder 14 Princeton University Fund: Annual Giving, 1948-1957
Box 139, Folder 1 Princeton University Press, 1955-1957
Box 139, Folder 2 Prizes, 1937
Box 139, Folder 3 Procter, Mrs. William Cooper, 1934-1953
Box 139, Folder 4 Proctor, Carlton S., 1939-1955
Box 139, Folder 5 Project Research and Inventions, Committee on, 1943-Jan. 1952
Box 139, Folder 6-11 Project Research and Inventions, Committee on, Feb. 1952-1957
Box 140, Folder 1-4 Prudential Insurance Company, July 1935-Nov. 1975
Box 140, Folder 5-6 Psychology, Department of, Nov. 1933-June 1942
Box 140, Folder 7 Psychology, Department of, July 1942-Feb. 1957
Box 141, Folder 1-3 Public Opinion Quarterly, 1953-1957
Box 141, Folder 4 Public Opinion Research, Office of, Sept. 1941-June 1957
Box 141, Folder 5-6 Pusey, Nathan M., Feb. 1960-Sept. 1977
Box 141, Folder 7 Pyne, II, Percy R., 1934-1942
Box 141, Folder 8 General “Q” Correspondence, 1931, 1957
Box 141, Folder 9 General “R” Correspondence, RAC-ROE, 1937-1980
Box 141, Folder 10 General “R” Correspondence, ROY-RY, 1935-1967
Box 142, Folder 1 Rainsford, Dr. William S., 1933-1934
Box 142, Folder 2 Rea, James C., 1939
Box 142, Folder 3 Real Estate Department, 1955-1957
Box 142, Folder 4 Reece Committee to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundation, 1952-1954
Box 142, Folder 5 Reed, David A., 1933-1953
Box 142, Folder 6 Reed, Mrs. Edna F., 1953
Box 142, Folder 7 Reed, Robert R., 1943-1945
Box 142, Folder 8 Refugee Problem, 1938-1939
Box 142, Folder 9 Religion, Oct. 1940-June 1957
Box 142, Folder 10-11 Religious Instruction, 1942-1944
Box 142, Folder 12 Rentschler, Gordon S., 1933-June 1944
Box 142, Folder 13-15 Rentschler, Gordon S., July 1944-Jan. 1952
Box 143, Folder 1-2 Rentschler Memorial at Princeton, 1948-1950
Box 143, Folder 3 Requests, 1956-1957
Box 143, Folder 4 Research Committee, 1933-1934
Box 143, Folder 5 Research Corporation, 1938
Box 143, Folder 6 Retirement: Letters of Congratulations, June 1956-Dec. 1957
Box 143, Folder 7-9 Reunions, 1953-1957
Box 143, Folder 10 Richard, Harold C., 1948-1958
Box 143, Folder 11 Ridgway, Matthew B., 1955-1976
Box 143, Folder 12 Robb, President Felix C., 1960-1974
Box 143, Folder 13 Roberts, S. C., 1951-1956
Box 143, Folder 14 Rockefeller, III, John D., 1936-1957, 1970
Box 143, Folder 15 Rockefeller, Laurence S., 1946-1956
Box 143, Folder 16 Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1955-1958
Box 143, Folder 17 Rockefeller Foundation, 1933-June 1946
Box 144, Folder 1-7 Rockefeller Foundation, July 1946-Apr. 1963
Box 145, Folder 1-6 Rockefeller Institute, Oct. 1948-Nov. 1950
Box 145, Folder 7 Rockefeller Public Service Awards, 1958-1960
Box 145, Folder 8 Roebling, John A. Roebling's Sons Company, 1935-1951
Box 146, Folder 1 Rogerson, E. E., 1952-1953
Box 146, Folder 2 Root, Robert K., Estate of, 1947-1951
Box 146, Folder 3 Root, Dean Robert K., 1933-1936
Box 146, Folder 4 ROTC Program, Sept. 1948-Apr. 1957
Box 146, Folder 5-6 Rothschild, Walter N., 1938-1957
Box 146, Folder 7 Rush, Benjamin, 1939-1944
Box 146, Folder 8 Rushton, U. J. P., 1942-1948
Box 146, Folder 9 Rutgers University, Oct. 1947-Feb. 1956
Box 146, Folder 10 General “S” Correspondence, 1933-1980
Box 146, Folder 11-13 Savage, Ernest C., 1946-1957
Box 147, Folder 1 Scheide, John H., 1935-1941
Box 147, Folder 2 Schmon, Arthur A., 1946-1956
Box 147, Folder 3 School of Public and International Affairs, 1933-May 1937
Box 147, Folder 4-9 School of Public and International Affairs, June 1937-1946
Box 148, Folder 1-5 Schools and Scholarship Committee, 1952-1953
Box 148, Folder 6 Scientific Research and Development, Office of, 1942-1945
Box 148, Folder 7 Scientific Research Committee, 1949-1953
Box 148, Folder 8 Scribner, Charles, Jr., 1944-1951
Box 148, Folder 9 Secretary of Defense, Sept. 1950-Oct. 1951
Box 148, Folder 10-11 Secretary of Defense, Nov. 1951-Sept. 1955
Box 149, Folder 1 Security, 1946-1954
Box 149, Folder 2 Seeger, Dr. Stanley J., 1948-1952
Box 149, Folder 3 Senate Bills and Hearings, 1948-1957
Box 149, Folder 4-5 Seymour, Harold, Dec. 1957-Oct. 1966
Box 149, Folder 6 Sinclair, Gregg, Mar. 1959-May 1970
Box 149, Folder 7 Sly, John F., 1935-1954
Box 149, Folder 8 Smith, Albridge C., 1933-1954
Box 149, Folder 9-10 Smith, H. Alexander, 1937-1957
Box 150, Folder 1-2 Smith, Henry D., 1953-1955
Box 150, Folder 3 Social Science Research Council, 1948-1954
Box 150, Folder 4 Speeches, Material for, 1945-1957
Box 150, Folder 5 St. John, Fordyce B., 1946-1954
Box 150, Folder 6 State Department, 1941-1955
Box 150, Folder 7 Stephan, F. F., 1949-1957
Box 150, Folder 8 Stevens, Richard K., 1952-1979
Box 150, Folder 9-10 Stevenson, Adlai E., 1952-1957
Box 150, Folder 11 Stevenson, William E., 1934-1956
Box 150, Folder 12 Stillwell, Lewis B., 1934-1938
Box 150, Folder 13 Straus, Roger Williams, 1935-1948
Box 151, Folder 1 Stuart, John, 1934-1975
Box 151, Folder 2-5 Study of Education, 1953-1954
Box 151, Folder 6 Supple, Jr., Henderson, 1953-1957
Box 151, Folder 7 General “T” Correspondence, 1932-1980
Box 151, Folder 8 Tax Policy League, 1934-1935
Box 151, Folder 9 Taylor, Hugh S. (Dean of the Graduate School), 1945-1957
Box 151, Folder 10 Television-WNBT, 1952-1953
Box 151, Folder 11 Television and Radio, Feb. 1951-1955
Box 152, Folder 1-3 Textile Research Institute, 1943-1950
Box 152, Folder 4 Theological Education, Proposed Study of, undated
Box 152, Folder 5 Thomas, Lowell, 1966-1972
Box 152, Folder 6 Thompson, Henry B., 1934-1935
Box 152, Folder 7 Thompson, Mrs. Lewis S. re Hungarian Relief, 1953-1957
Box 152, Folder 8 Traffic Planning, 1951
Box 152, Folder 9 Treasurer (Ricardo A. Mestres), 1951-1957
Box 152, Folder 10 Triangle Club, 1937, 1950-1953
Box 152, Folder 11 Triple Athletic Agreement (Harvard, Princeton, Yale), 1939-1945, 1951
Box 152, Folder 12 Trustee-Faculty Dinner, 1956
Box 152, Folder 13 Trustees, 1934-1945
Box 153, Folder 1-5 Trustees: Committee on the Reorganization of the Board of Trustees, 1942
Box 153, Folder 6 General “U” Correspondence, 1931-1970
Box 153, Folder 7 Underclass Years Committee, 1954-1956
Box 154, Folder 1 Unidentified Correspondence, 1942-1980
Box 154, Folder 2 Union Theological Seminary, 1957-1975
Box 154, Folder 3-4 United States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission, 1957-1974
Box 154, Folder 5 United States Trust Company, 1957-1971
Box 154, Folder 6-8 Universal Military Service and Training Bill, 1948-1951
Box 154, Folder 9 University College of the West Indies, 1960-1969
Box 155, Folder 1 University of Pennsylvania, 1948-1956
Box 155, Folder 2 University Research Committee, 1957
Box 155, Folder 3 University Store, 1951-1956
Box 155, Folder 4 General “V” Correspondence, 1930-1970
Box 155, Folder 5 Van Dusen, Henry P., 1934-1971
Box 155, Folder 6-8 Veterans of Future Wars, 1936
Box 155, Folder 9 von Kienbusch, C. Otto, 1958-1976
Box 155, Folder 10 Voorhees, S. Frank, 1943-1957
Box 155, Folder 11 General “W” Correspondence, 1933-1979
Box 156, Folder 1-2 Wanamaker, Rodman, Estate of, 1931-1934
Box 156, Folder 3 Warren, Howard, Estate of, 1934-1953
Box 156, Folder 4 West Chair of Classics, 1937-1939
Box 156, Folder 5 Westminster Choir School, 1937-1956
Box 156, Folder 6 Whipple, Allen O., 1943-1955
Box 156, Folder 7 Wiess, Harry C., 1945-1950
Box 156, Folder 8 Wilcox, T. Ferdinand, 1936-1957
Box 156, Folder 9 Wilcox, T. Ferdinand: Academic Records, 1949, 1953
Box 157, Folder 1 Willits, Joseph H., 1957-1966
Box 157, Folder 2 Wintringer, G. C. (Controller), 1935-1941
Box 157, Folder 3 Woodrow Wilson, Centennial of, 1955-1956
Box 157, Folder 4 Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, 1951-1957
Box 157, Folder 5-6 Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1947-1957
Box 157, Folder 7-8 Woodrow Wilson Hall: Dedication, 1951-1952
Box 157, Folder 9 Woodrow Wilson Memorial, 1959-1969
Box 157, Folder 10 Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1957-1963
Box 158, Folder 1 Woodrow Wilson School, Sept. 1945-1957
Box 158, Folder 2-5 General “XYZ” Correspondence, 1939-1979
Box 158, Folder 6 Yale University, 1950, 1956-1957
Box 158, Folder 7 YMCA, 1960-1961
Box 158, Folder 8 Zinsser, Rudolph, 1955
Box 158, Folder 9 Subseries 15B: Speeches and Writings, 1929-1976 [bulk: 1935-1957]
Subseries Description
Subseries 15B: Speeches and Writings, 1929-1976 [bulk: 1935-1957], contains speeches, lectures, notes, articles, and reports that Dodds wrote or delivered before, during, and after his presidency. Among the speeches in this subseries, which is organized chronologically, are Dodds's inaugural address and various baccalaureate, opening exercises, and alumni association addresses. Topics include education, government, the social sciences, religion, athletics, and war preparation. Prophetically, Dodds's speech on the occasion of Princeton University's opening exercises in September 1941 was entitled “America's Place in a World at War.” Dodds's writings are much less voluminous than his speeches and include scholarly and popular articles, annual reports to the Board of Trustees, and a piece in both draft and final form that appeared in The American Magazine in which he critically assesses America's public high schools. Box 159, folder 5 contains indices of Dodds's speeches, articles, and books.
Address to the Faculty, 1939-1956
Box 159, Folder 1 Lectures, Stafford Little, 1958-1959
Box 159, Folder 2-4 Speeches: List of Speeches, 1929-1967
Box 159, Folder 5 Speeches, 1929-June 1935
Box 159, Folder 6-9 Speeches, June 1935-June 1938
Box 160, Folder 1-7 Speeches, Sept. 1938-Nov. 1940
Box 161, Folder 1-7 Speeches, Feb. 1941-Apr. 1943
Box 162, Folder 1-6 Speeches, May 1943-Oct. 1944
Box 163, Folder 1-7 Speeches, Nov. 1944-June 1947
Box 164, Folder 1-7 Speeches, June 1947-June 1948
Box 165, Folder 1-6 Speeches, Sept. 1948-Sept. 1949
Box 166, Folder 1-7 Speeches, Oct. 1949-Dec. 1951
Box 167, Folder 1-7 Speeches, Jan. 1952-Mar. 1954
Box 168, Folder 1-6 Speeches, June 1954-Jan. 1956
Box 169, Folder 1-7 Speeches, Feb. 1956-June 1957
Box 170, Folder 1-8 Speeches, June 1957-Dec. 1962
Box 171, Folder 1-7 Speeches, Mar. 1963-1975, undated
Box 172, Folder 1-8 Speeches, undated
Box 173, Folder 1 Speeches, Jokes/Anecdotes, undated
Box 173, Folder 2 Speech Material/News Articles/Notes, 1937-1973, undated
Box 173, Folder 3-5 Speeches/Statements/Announcements, undated
Box 173, Folder 6 Writings, 1929-1939
Box 173, Folder 7-8 Writings, 1941-1976
Box 174, Folder 1-3 Subseries 15C: Subject Files, 1907-1990 [bulk: 1936-1956]
Subseries Description
Subseries 15C: Subject Files, 1907-1990 [bulk: 1936-1956], consists of a number of different subjects arranged alphabetically, including the A. P. Smith Manufacturing Case, Harold Dodds's personal correspondence, Margaret Dodds's diaries, the Eugene Higgins Trust, Alger Hiss, the Hoover Commission Task Force, the Madison Memorial Commission, the Princeton Local Government Survey, and World War II. Particulars about these subjects follow.
The A. P. Smith Manufacturing Case evolved from a desire to legitimize unrestricted gifts from businesses to educational institutions. In 1952 the A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company of East Orange, New Jersey gave an unrestricted gift of $1,500 to Princeton University. Stockholders complained that the gift was a misapplication of corporate funds. The State Superior Court ruled that the gift was legal, with Dodds testifying on behalf of Princeton University.
Dodds's personal correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Most letters are from his family, with the majority coming from his brother John Dodds. With regard to his wife Margaret Dodds's diaries, their dates overlap. Topics include the weather, entertaining, engagements, impressions of speeches, health, concerns of family and friends, travel, and references to her husband's schedule.
The Eugene Higgins Trust, a $34,000,000 perpetual trust, was allocated among four universities, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, in order to enhance their science departments. The Trust was to be controlled by the president of each university.
Alger Hiss, a former State Department official and convicted perjurer, was one of several speakers invited to address the Whig-Cliosophic Society. The president's administrative council, which had not been consulted in advance, cautioned the students about the serious implications of the invitation but did not force them to rescind it. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, both alumni and the general public deluged Dodds's office with letters. Most were passionately against the Hiss lecture, stating that he was a spy and responsible for the deaths of American soldiers. Hiss lectured on April 26, 1956. Father Hugh Halton, chaplain to Princeton University's Roman Catholic students, arranged a lecture about Hiss the preceding night. The lecture featured Willard Edwards, a Chicago Tribune reporter who had followed Hiss's career and trial.
Dodds was chairman of the Hoover Commission Task Force, which was established to investigate and make recommendations about Civil Service and personnel issues in the Federal Government. The material relating to this undertaking consists of reports, bills, and correspondence. Dodds was also chairman of the Madison Memorial Commission, which was formed to establish the Madison Memorial Library, part of the Library of Congress, in Washington, D. C. Folders on this topic contain correspondence regarding the location of the library, its architectural design, office space, and exhibits.
A committee composed of Dodds, Harley Lutz (public finance), and William S. Carpenter (politics) organized the Princeton Local Government Survey on September 1, 1935. Its purpose was to devise a program for the improvement of local government in New Jersey, to explain the program, and to place the program in a form suitable for practical implementation. The Survey, which functioned even during World War II, generated numerous recommendations, as well as reports on its work. One folder contains correspondence with Robert Wood Johnson, who had subscribed to the cost of the Survey and delegated to a lawyer, Russell E. Watson, the task of seeking other subscriptions.
World War II-related topics include the military branches and accelerated training courses. Various conferences, committees, commissions, and associations are represented, and there is material relating to programs such as Books for Men in Service, in which servicemen received three books of their choosing free of charge. Educational matters such as emergency courses in Near Eastern languages and culture, military planning, French for government service, topography and map interpretation, radio communication, marine and air navigation, and Japanese, Russian, and Arabic can also be found. There were also military language courses in French, German, Spanish, and Italian designed for intelligence, censorship, and interpreter services. Of note in the correspondence folder are letters from British Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill and James V. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy.
A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company Case: Correspondence, Jan. 1952-June 1986
Box 174, Folder 4 A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company Case: Case Preparation, Aug. 1951-Oct.1953
Box 174, Folder 5 A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company Case: News Clippings/Reports/Notes, Mar. 1952-Apr. 1967
Box 174, Folder 6 A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company Case: Proceedings and Testimonies, Jan. 1952-Mar. 1953
Box 174, Folder 7 Accounts: Household, 1936-1954
Box 174, Folder 8 Alumni: Princeton Students Whose Fathers are Alumni, Aug. 1948-Oct. 1955
Box 175, Folder 1 Alumni Trip, Dec. 1939-Apr. 1956
Box 175, Folder 2 Autobiographical Memoirs of Dodds's father and brother, June 1939-Jan. 1971
Box 175, Folder 3 Belgian American Educational Foundation, Mar. 1964-June 1967
Box 175, Folder 4-5 Bermuda Anglo-American Conference, Apr. 1943-Sept. 1943
Box 175, Folder 6 Biographical Information, 1928-1976
Box 175, Folder 7 British Service Courses, 1943-1945
Box 175, Folder 8 Campus, 1954, 1974
Box 175, Folder 9 Commentaries on Newspaper Articles/Discussions, 1941, 1945
Box 175, Folder 10 Committee on Integration of the Medical Services of the Government, 1946
Box 175, Folder 11 Congressional Investigation Memorandum, Harold W. Chase, 1948-1954
Box 176, Folder 1 Correspondence: Condolences re Dodds's Death, 1980
Box 176, Folder 2-5 Correspondence: Condolences re Dodds's Mother, 1938
Box 176, Folder 6 Correspondence: A-B, Congratulations on Presidency, 1933
Box 176, Folder 7 Correspondence: C-Y, Congratulations on Presidency, 1933-1934
Box 177, Folder 1-6 Correspondence: to Margaret Dodds, Congratulations on Husband's Presidency, 1933
Box 177, Folder 7 Correspondence: Condolences re Dodds's Father, Dec. 1947-Jan. 1948
Box 178, Folder 1-2 Correspondence: Family, Dodds, Mrs. Dodds, 1944-1967
Box 178, Folder 3 Correspondence: Personal, Dodds, Mrs. Dodds, 1922-1986
Box 178, Folder 4-6 Correspondence: Princeton Community, Dodds, Mrs. Dodds, 1972-1988
Box 178, Folder 7 Correspondence: A-D, Dodds, 1934-1980
Box 178, Folder 8-10 Correspondence: D-H and M-W, Dodds, 1947-1978
Box 179, Folder 1-2 Correspondence: Miscellaneous, Dodds, 1939-1946
Box 179, Folder 3 Crank Letters, 1957
Box 179, Folder 4 Cuban Elections, 1934-1936
Box 179, Folder 5 Dinners/Functions/Programs/Menus, 1933-1973
Box 179, Folder 6-7 Dodds, Margaret, Diaries, Mar. 1935-Sept. 1956
Box 179, Folder 8-10 Dodds, Margaret, Diaries, Mar. 1949-Aug. 1971
Box 180, Folder 1-6 Dodds, Margaret, Diaries, May 1971-Feb. 1988
Box 181, Folder 1-2 Entertaining, 1907-1956
Box 181, Folder 3-6 Entertaining: Honorary Degree Dinners, 1938-1957
Box 181, Folder 7 Halton, Father Hugh, Roman Catholic Chaplain of Princeton University (Restricted), 1956-1957
Box 182, Folder 1 Higgins Trust, Eugene: Correspondence, 1948-1957
Box 182, Folder 2-7 Higgins Trust, Eugene: Reports, 1949-1953
Box 182, Folder 8 Higgins Trust, Eugene: Reports, 1953-1956
Box 183, Folder 1-3 Higgins Trust, Eugene: Board of Control, Mar. 1953
Box 183, Folder 4 Higgins Trust, Eugene: Board of Control, Agenda for Meeting of 4/4/51, Apr. 1951
Box 183, Folder 5 Higgins Trust, Eugene: Board of Control, 1952-1953
Box 183, Folder 6-7 Higgins Trust, Eugene: Board of Control, Agenda and Proposals, May 1952-Apr. 1957
Box 184, Folder 1 Higgins Trust, Eugene: Will and Trust, 1948-1949
Box 184, Folder 2 Hiss, Alger, 1956
Box 184, Folder 3 Hiss, Alger: Congressional Record, 1956
Box 184, Folder 4 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Administrative, 1956-1957
Box 184, Folder 5 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Alumni Against Hiss Lecture, Apr. 1956-Sept. 1956
Box 184, Folder 6-9 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Relatives of Alumni Against Hiss Lecture, 1956
Box 184, Folder 10 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Alumni Against Hiss Lecture, undated
Box 184, Folder 11 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Alumni For Hiss Lecture, Apr. 1956-July 1956
Box 185, Folder 1-2 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Form Letter Responses, Apr. 1956-July 1956
Box 185, Folder 3 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, List, Form Letters, Administrative Matters, 1956
Box 185, Folder 4 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1955-1956
Box 185, Folder 5 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Non-alumni Against Hiss Lecture, Apr. 1956-May 1956
Box 185, Folder 6-9 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Non-alumni Against Hiss Lecture, May 1956, undated
Box 186, Folder 1-2 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Postcards Against Hiss Lecture, Apr. 1956-May 1956
Box 186, Folder 3 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Non-alumni For Hiss Lecture, 1956
Box 186, Folder 4 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Unsigned, Against Hiss Lecture, 1956
Box 186, Folder 5 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Whig-Clio Against Hiss Lecture, 1956
Box 186, Folder 6 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Whig-Clio For Hiss Lecture, 1956
Box 186, Folder 7 Hiss, Alger: Correspondence, Whig-Clio, Neutral/Ticket Requests, 1956
Box 186, Folder 8 Hiss, Alger: Crank Correspondence, 1956
Box 186, Folder 9 Hiss, Alger: Daily Princetonian, 1956
Box 187, Folder 1 Hiss, Alger: Faculty and Staff For Hiss Lecture, 1956
Box 187, Folder 2 Hiss, Alger: Father Halton Restricted, 2007, Apr. 1956
Box 187, Folder 3 Hiss, Alger: Magazine Articles, 1956-1976
Box 187, Folder 4 Hiss, Alger: Newspaper Articles, Apr. 1956
Box 187, Folder 5-8 Hiss, Alger: Newspaper Articles, Apr. 1956-Sept. 1967
Box 188, Folder 1-6 Hiss, Alger: Newspaper Articles Sent to Dodds Anonymously, 1956, undated
Box 189, Folder 1-2 Hiss, Alger: Newspaper Articles sent to Whig-Clio, 1956, undated
Box 189, Folder 3 Hiss, Alger: Petition to Protest Hiss Lecture, 1956
Box 189, Folder 4 Hiss, Alger: Speech Logistics for Edwards and Hiss, Apr. 1956-May 1956
Box 189, Folder 5 Hiss, Alger: Statement of Trustees, Apr. 1956
Box 189, Folder 6 Honorary Degrees, 1931-1958
Box 189, Folder 7-10 Honorary Degrees/Honors/Commemorations, 1933-1975
Box 189, Folder 11 Honors, Stockberger Award, 1955-1956
Box 190, Folder 1 Hoover Commission Task Force Members, Committee of, Jan. 1953-Oct. 1956
Box 190, Folder 2-7 Hoover Commission Task Force Members, Committee of, Nov. 1956-Jan. 1967
Box 191, Folder 1-2 House: Prospect, Furnishings and Garden, 1933-1957
Box 191, Folder 3 Housing: Faculty Life Occupancy, Jan. 1953-May 1954
Box 191, Folder 4-5 Housing: Faculty Life Occupancy, Short Survey B-W, 1953
Box 191, Folder 6 Housing: Faculty Life Occupancy, Surveys A-W, 1953
Box 191, Folder 7-8 Infirmary, Isabella McCosh, 1941-1956
Box 192, Folder 1 Invitations/Thank Yous/Miscellaneous, 1935-1970
Box 191, Folder 2 Madison Memorial Commission: Architectural Drawings, Aug. 1960-1972
Box 191, Folder 3-4 Madison Memorial Commission: Artists/Advisors/Consultants, 1972, undated
Box 191, Folder 5 Madison Memorial Commission: Biographical Information, 1951-1965
Box 191, Folder 6 Madison Memorial Commission: Chairman's Report, 1972
Box 191, Folder 7 Madison Memorial Commission: Congressional Record/Bills/Reports, 1960-1961, 1963-1971
Box 191, Folder 8-9 Madison Memorial Commission: Correspondence, Oct. 1959-Feb. 1961
Box 191, Folder 10 Madison Memorial Commission: Correspondence, Mar. 1961-Dec. 1969
Box 193, Folder 1-6 Madison Memorial Commission: Correspondence, Jan. 1970-Dec. 1977
Box 194, Folder 1-5 Madison Memorial Commission: Correspondence to Prevent House Takeover of Memorial for Office Space, 1975
Box 194, Folder 6 Madison Memorial Commission: Correspondence, Clinton M. Hester, July 1960-Dec. 1962
Box 194, Folder 7 Madison Memorial Commission: Correspondence, Clinton M. Hester, Jan. 1963-Dec. 1971
Box 195, Folder 1-7 Madison Memorial Commission: Dedication, 1980
Box 196, Folder 1 Madison Memorial Commission: Meeting Agendas, 1960-1973
Box 196, Folder 2 Madison Memorial Commission: Memoranda/Aides Memoires, 1960-1970
Box 196, Folder 3 Madison Memorial Commission: Other Memorials, 1937-1962
Box 196, Folder 4 Madison Memorial Commission: Newspaper Articles, 1960-1973
Box 196, Folder 5 Madison Memorial Commission: Press Releases, 1961-1967
Box 196, Folder 6 Madison Memorial Commission: Travel Expenses, 1960-1973
Box 196, Folder 7 Memorials/Announcements/Obituaries, Dodds, Jan. 1954-Apr. 1981
Box 196, Folder 8-9 Memorial/Obituary, Mrs. Dodds, Mar. 1990
Box 196, Folder 10 Memorial/Estate of Samuel Dodds, 1947-1952
Box 197, Folder 1 “The Mercer County Plan: A Guide for Future Development”, Jan. 1931
Box 197, Folder 2 Military Correspondence: Draft, Jan. 1951-Apr. 1951
Box 197, Folder 3 Military Correspondence: Universal Training and Miscellaneous, Jan. 1926-Feb. 1957
Box 197, Folder 4 Miscellaneous, 1925-1956
Box 197, Folder 5 Montebello Meeting Scholarship Candidates, 1964
Box 197, Folder 6 Nicaragua Elections, 1921-1932
Box 197, Folder 7-9 Nicaragua Elections, 1929
Box 198, Folder 1 New Articles: Education/Politics, Jan. 1936-Mar. 1974, undated
Box 198, Folder 2-5 Newspaper/Magazine Articles re Dodds, 1933-1937
Box 198, Folder 6 Newspaper/Magazine Articles and Press Releases, 1938-1943
Box 198, Folder 7 Newspaper/Magazine Articles and Press Releases, 1944-Dec. 1957
Box 199, Folder 1-7 Newspaper/Magazine Articles and Press Releases, Feb. 1958-Apr. 1989
Box 200, Folder 1-2 Newspaper Articles, Mr. & Mrs. Dodds, 1947-1949
Box 200, Folder 3 Oral History, Columbia University, 1968
Box 200, Folder 4 Oral History, Columbia University: Correspondence, 1962-1982
Box 200, Folder 5 Portrait: Dodds, 1934-1957
Box 200, Folder 6 Properties/Investments, Personal, 1933-1980
Box 200, Folder 7 Property: Waquoit, 1957-1959
Box 200, Folder 8 Publications: The Academic President, Complimentary Book Copies, 1962-1963
Box 200, Folder 9 Publications: The Academic President, Correspondence, 1962-1963
Box 200, Folder 10 Publications: The Academic President, Memorandum/Outline for the Study of the Academic Presidency, 1958
Box 200, Folder 11 Publications: The Academic President Reviews, 1962-1964
Box 200, Folder 12 Publications: The Academic President Review Correspondence, 1962
Box 201, Folder 1 Publications: The Academic President Royalty Statements, 1962-1964
Box 201, Folder 2 Publications: Article for Duke University, 1963
Box 201, Folder 3 Publications: Proposed Article for New York Times, 1959
Box 201, Folder 4 Publications: Article for Public Administration Review, 1959-1960
Box 201, Folder 5 Publications: “The College and University President at Work”, 1961
Box 201, Folder 6 Publications: Out of this Nettle, Danger, Correspondence, 1944-1945
Box 201, Folder 7 Publications: Reviews, 1958-1967, undated
Box 201, Folder 8 Publications: Letter to Alumni and Parents of Undergraduates, 1953
Box 201, Folder 9 Reports: Cosmic Ray Programs, 1947
Box 201, Folder 10 Reports: Graduate Schools, The Association of Graduate Schools in the AAU, 1954
Box 201, Folder 11-12 Reports: New York University, Confidential Report to President James M. Hester on the Operation of New York University, 1964
Box 201, Folder 13 Reports: The President's Annual Report, 1944-1951
Box 202, Folder 1 Reports of the University, 1950-1951
Box 202, Folder 2-3 Reports: Two-Year Post-War Program, Executive Committee on Urban Research, 1945
Box 202, Folder 4 Retirement, 1953-1978
Box 202, Folder 5 Retirement: Newspaper Articles and Notes, 1956-1974
Box 202, Folder 6 Survey: Princeton Local Government Survey, 1936
Box 202, Folder 7 Survey: Princeton Local Government Survey, Correspondence, 1936-1944
Box 202, Folder 8 Survey: Princeton Local Government Survey, Donors, 1935-1942
Box 202, Folder 9 Survey: Princeton Local Government Survey, Civil Rights, 1937-1947
Box 203, Folder 1 Survey: Princeton Local Government Survey, Civil Rights, Correspondence, and Reports, 1947-1948
Box 203, Folder 2 Survey: Princeton Local Government Survey, Reports, Sept. 1935-Oct. 1944, undated
Box 203, Folder 3-5 Survey: Princeton Local Government Survey, Robert W. Johnson, 1934-1952
Box 203, Folder 6 Testimony of Dodds Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jan. 1937-Apr. 1937
Box 203, Folder 7-8 Travel, 1943-Dec. 1957
Box 204, Folder 1-3 Writings: Education (with Annotations), 1945-1962, 1965-1973
Box 204, Folder 4-5 Writings: Educational Institutions, 1932-1961
Box 204, Folder 6 Writings: Liberal Arts, 1955-1962
Box 204, Folder 7 Writings: Politics, 1958
Box 204, Folder 8 World War II: American Council on Education, 1942-1943
Box 205, Folder 1 World War II: American Defense, Harvard Group, 1940-1943
Box 205, Folder 2 World War II: Alumni in Service, 1939-1946
Box 205, Folder 3-4 World War II: Atomic Bomb Energy, 1945-1947
Box 205, Folder 5 World War II: Awards, 1945-1947
Box 205, Folder 6 World War II: Books for Men in Service, 1943-1945
Box 205, Folder 7 World War II: Campus Center, 1943
Box 205, Folder 8 World War II: Citizens Committee for a National War Service Act, 1944
Box 205, Folder 9 World War II: Committee Work, 1941-1944
Box 205, Folder 10 World War II: Compton, Karl T. (MIT President), Mission to Tokyo, undated
Box 205, Folder 11 World War II: Conferences, 1941-1946
Box 205, Folder 12 World War II: Correspondence, 1942-1975
Box 205, Folder 13 World War II: Correspondence, Letters to Parents of Undergraduates from Dodds, 1941-1945
Box 205, Folder 14 World War II: Defense Projects/Faculty Participation/Princeton Facilities, 1940-1946
Box 205, Folder 15 World War II: Education, 1941-1946
Box 206, Folder 1 World War II: Education, Emergency Courses, 1941-1942
Box 206, Folder 2 World War II: Education, Postwar/Veterans, 1940-1945
Box 206, Folder 3 World War II: Education, Scientific Apparatus, 1941
Box 206, Folder 4 World War II: Education, Training, Military, 1941-1945
Box 206, Folder 5 World War II: Education, Accelerated Programs, Policy Addresses and Statements, 1941-1944
Box 206, Folder 6 World War II: Fort Dix, 1940-1944
Box 206, Folder 7 World War II: Japanese Citizens and Aliens in USA, 1942
Box 206, Folder 8 World War II: Memorials, Honor Rolls, 1944-1946
Box 206, Folder 9 World War II: Military, Army, 1944-1946
Box 206, Folder 10 World War II: Military, Army Air Force Redistribution Center, 1944
Box 206, Folder 11 World War II: Military, British, 1943-1952
Box 206, Folder 12 World War II: Military, Marine Corps, 1941-1946
Box 206, Folder 13 World War II: Military, Navy, 1940-1947
Box 206, Folder 14 World War II: Military, Naval Education/Training, 1942-1946
Box 206, Folder 15 World War II: Military, Organizations, 1941
Box 207, Folder 1 World War II: Miscellaneous, 1942-1946
Box 207, Folder 2 World War II: Post-War Plans, International Affairs (Japan, Korea), 1944
Box 207, Folder 3 World War II: Post-War Personnel Index, 1942-1946
Box 207, Folder 4 World War II: U.S.S. Princeton, 1942-1950
Box 207, Folder 5 World War II: Reserves, 1940-1944
Box 207, Folder 6 World War II: Reserves, Army Enlisted Reserve Corps, 1942
Box 207, Folder 7 World War II: ROTC, 1945-1947
Box 207, Folder 8 World War II: S.S. John Gier Hibben, S.S. W.H. Edwards, 1943-1945
Box 207, Folder 9 World War II: Security/Defense, 1940-1944
Box 207, Folder 10 World War II: Tiger Tales, 1943-1944
Box 207, Folder 11 World War II: War Records Commission, 1943-1944
Box 207, Folder 12 World War II: Wartime Placement of College Faculties, Commission on, 1942-1943
Box 207, Folder 13 Subseries 15D: Arthur E. Fox, 1939-1956 [bulk: 1948-19352]
Subseries Description
Subseries 15D: Arthur E. Fox, 1939-1956 [bulk: 1948-1952], pertains to Arthur E. Fox, assistant to the president. His folders cover a wide range of topics, underscoring the multifaceted nature of Dodds's concerns and those of his staff: from office space to football; from student discipline to visiting dignitaries, including the Shah of Iran in 1949. The impact of World War II is reflected in the presence of military training data and material relating to the R.O.T.C., the Army Specialized Training Program Unit, and the Army Exchange School, as well as to veterans' benefits. (All records of the Department of Military Science, including the historical records of the Princeton R.O.T.C., were destroyed in the gymnasium fire of May 24, 1944.)
Academics: Astronomy, 1950
Box 207, Folder 14 Academics: Biology, 1948-1949
Box 207, Folder 15 Academics: Humanities, 1952
Box 207, Folder 16 Academics: Near East Conference, 1947-1951
Box 207, Folder 17 Academics: Philosophy, 1952
Box 207, Folder 18 Academics: Psychology, 1952
Box 207, Folder 19 Administrative Council, 1946-1948
Box 207, Folder 20 Admissions, 1950-1951
Box 207, Folder 21 Alumni Records, 1948-1951
Box 207, Folder 22 Anti-Discrimination Legislation: Correspondence, 1947-1949
Box 207, Folder 23 Anti-Discrimination Legislation: Writings, 1948-1949
Box 208, Folder 1 Athletics, 1951
Box 208, Folder 2 Athletics and Health, 1945
Box 208, Folder 3 Bicentennial Celebration: Princeton University and Nassau Hall, 1946-1951
Box 208, Folder 4 Broadcasting, 1949-1950
Box 208, Folder 5 Campus Center, University Store, 1951-1952
Box 208, Folder 6 Chapel, 1951
Box 208, Folder 7 Chubb, Hendon, 1950-1951
Box 208, Folder 8 Class of, 1913, 1951-1952
Box 208, Folder 9 Commencement, 1950-1952
Box 208, Folder 10 Committee of Fifty, 1949-1951
Box 208, Folder 11 Complaint Letters, 1949-1951
Box 208, Folder 12 Counseling Service, 1950-1952
Box 208, Folder 13 Crank Letter: Hunsicker, Joseph W., 1949-1953
Box 208, Folder 14 Darrow, Whitney, 1952
Box 208, Folder 15 Discipline (Alcohol) Restricted until, 2024, 1948-1949
Box 208, Folder 16 Education, 1949-1951
Box 208, Folder 17 Faculty, 1950
Box 208, Folder 18 Faculty Cafeteria, Mar. 1948-Nov. 1951
Box 208, Folder 19 Football, Oct. 1941-Mar. 1952
Box 208, Folder 20 Forrestal Center, Oct. 1951-May 1952
Box 209, Folder 1 Fund, Donor Acknowledgement, Oct. 1947-Apr. 1949
Box 209, Folder 2 Fund Raising/Grant/Community Chest, 1949-1951
Box 209, Folder 3 Gift Collections, 1948
Box 209, Folder 4 Glyndebourne Opera, Dec. 1948-Mar. 1950
Box 209, Folder 5 Graduate Council, Oct. 1951-June 1952
Box 209, Folder 6 Grants, Rockefeller Foundation, Oct. 1948-Dec. 1948
Box 209, Folder 7 Health, Aug. 1949-Apr. 1950
Box 209, Folder 8 Honor Roll, Dec. 1945-Jan. 1946
Box 209, Folder 9 Institute for Advanced Study, 1949
Box 209, Folder 10 International Education, Institute of, 1949-1952
Box 209, Folder 11 Inter University High Altitude Laboratory, 1948-1949
Box 209, Folder 12 Jefferson Dinner, 1950
Box 209, Folder 13 Jefferson Papers, 1950
Box 209, Folder 14 Law School Proposal, 1945
Box 209, Folder 15 Libraries, Aug. 1944-July 1952
Box 209, Folder 16 Memorials, June 1939-Nov. 1947
Box 209, Folder 17 Memorials/Gifts, Sept. 1944-Dec. 1949
Box 209, Folder 18 Mestres, Ricardo A., July 1950-June 1952
Box 209, Folder 19 Military History Course, 1951
Box 209, Folder 20 Military Service: Accreditation of Education, Nov. 1950-Mar. 1951
Box 209, Folder 21 Military Training, 1941-1947
Box 209, Folder 22 Miscellaneous, 1945-1956
Box 210, Folder 1 Music, 1950-1952
Box 210, Folder 2 Navy, 1945
Box 210, Folder 3 Nursery School, Feb. 1949-June 1952
Box 210, Folder 4 Office Space, Nov. 1945-June 1952
Box 210, Folder 5 Office Space, Committee on, Sept. 1951-June 1952
Box 210, Folder 6 Office Personnel, 1952
Box 210, Folder 7 Operations Committee on the Study of Future Operations, Dec. 1948-May 1949
Box 210, Folder 8 Platt, Charles H., 1951
Box 210, Folder 9 Princeton Township Planning Board, 1948
Box 210, Folder 10 Pyne Administration Building, June 1946-July 1952
Box 210, Folder 11 Scholarships, Oct. 1950-Oct. 1951
Box 210, Folder 12 Scientific Research, Jan. 1949-Feb. 1952
Box 210, Folder 13 Seminar, Literary Criticism, 1949-1950
Box 210, Folder 14 Speeches/Statements, 1948-1955
Box 210, Folder 15 Student Advisory Group, Mar. 1941-Jan. 1949
Box 210, Folder 16 Student Employment, Bureau of, 1949
Box 210, Folder 17 Universities Research Center, Dec. 1947-Jan. 1948
Box 210, Folder 18 University Press, 1951
Box 210, Folder 19 Veterans Legislation for Benefits, 1952-1956
Box 210, Folder 20 Visiting Dignitaries, Etc., 1949-1951
Box 210, Folder 21 Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Feb. 1949-Mar. 1950
Box 210, Folder 22 Woodrow Wilson School, Jan. 1946-June 1951
Box 210, Folder 23 Subseries 15E: Edgar M. Gemmell, 1940-1958 [bulk: 1954-1957]
Subseries Description
Subseries 15E: Edgar M. Gemmell, 1940-1958 [bulk: 1954-1957], was generated by Edgar M. Gemmell, Dodds's administrative vice president. This subseries contains correspondence from individuals, as well as administrative records relating to various departments, councils, conferences, and issues such as fund raising. The Princeton Community folder contains a variety of politically charged subjects, including infrastructure, the location of reservoirs, and censorship of obscene literature.
Academics: Art and Archaeology, 1953, 1955-1956
Box 210, Folder 24 Academics: Athletic Department, Mar. 1955-June 1956
Box 210, Folder 25 Academics: Biology Department, Sept. 1954-Jan. 1957
Box 210, Folder 26 Academics: Engineering School, 1954-1957
Box 211, Folder 1 Academics: Far Eastern Studies, 1954-1957
Box 211, Folder 2 Academics: Modern Languages, 1953-1955
Box 211, Folder 3 Academics: Music, 1954-1957
Box 211, Folder 4 Academics: Near Eastern Studies, 1947-1954
Box 211, Folder 5 Academics: Religion, 1954-1957
Box 211, Folder 6 Alumni Conference, Cincinnati/Louisville, 1955-1956
Box 211, Folder 7 Breuer, Carl, Dec. 1956-July 1957
Box 211, Folder 8 Brown, Dean J. Douglas, May 1954-June 1957
Box 211, Folder 9 Conference, Pocono Manor, 1955
Box 211, Folder 10 Controller, Sept. 1956-May 1957
Box 211, Folder 11 Corporate Donations, Jan. 1954-Mar. 1957
Box 211, Folder 12 Corporate Giving/Relations, 1954-1957
Box 211, Folder 13 Council of the Humanities, Oct. 1951-Jan. 1954
Box 211, Folder 14 Council of the Humanities, Mar. 1954-1958
Box 212, Folder 1 Davis, Charles T., 1955-1956
Box 212, Folder 2 Dodds, Harold W.: Correspondence, 1954-1957
Box 212, Folder 3-4 Donations, Endowments, Fund-raising Campaigns, 1954-1957
Box 212, Folder 5 Eating Clubs, 1955-1956
Box 212, Folder 6 Faculty, 1955-1957
Box 212, Folder 7 Financial Aid, Council for, 1954-1955
Box 212, Folder 8 International Studies, Center for, 1952-1955
Box 212, Folder 9 Gauss Seminars, 1949-1956
Box 212, Folder 10 Graduate Council, 1940-1957
Box 213, Folder 1 Graduate School, 1954-1957
Box 213, Folder 2 Helm, Harold H., 1954-1957
Box 213, Folder 3 Ivy Group Meeting, 1951, 1954-1955
Box 213, Folder 4 Leeb, Brian P., 1954-1957
Box 213, Folder 5 Library, 1956-1957
Box 213, Folder 6 Luckett, E. H., 1954-1957
Box 213, Folder 7 McCarter Theatre, 1954-1955
Box 213, Folder 8 Mestres, Ricardo A., 1954-1957
Box 213, Folder 9 Miscellaneous, 1953-1957
Box 213, Folder 10 Nassau Hall Bicentennial, 1954-1956
Box 213, Folder 11 Orr, Douglas W., 1955-1957
Box 213, Folder 12 Penick, S. Barksdale, Jr., 1952-1957
Box 213, Folder 13 Placement Bureau, 1955-1956
Box 213, Folder 14 Population Research, 1954-1957
Box 213, Folder 15 Princeton Alumni Weekly, 1954-1957
Box 213, Folder 16 Princeton Community: Miscellaneous, 1955-1957
Box 213, Folder 17 Princeton Plan, 1950-1956
Box 214, Folder 1 Princeton University Conference, 1956-1957
Box 214, Folder 2 Princeton University Fund, 1953-1957
Box 214, Folder 3 Princeton University Fund Development Office, 1956-1957
Box 214, Folder 4 Public Opinion Quarterly, 1955-1956
Box 214, Folder 5 Public Relations, 1954-1957
Box 214, Folder 6 Scholarships, 1954-1957
Box 214, Folder 7 Seven Universities Group, 1956-1957
Box 214, Folder 8 Seymour, Harold J., 1954-1957
Box 214, Folder 9 Seminary, 1955-1956
Box 214, Folder 10 Sjoqvist, Erik, 1951-1957
Box 214, Folder 11 Sly, John F.: Facilities, 1954-1955
Box 214, Folder 12 Stevens, Richard K., 1955-1956
Box 215, Folder 1 Stevenson, Adlai E., 1954, 1956
Box 215, Folder 2 Student Aid and Employment, 1954-1955
Box 215, Folder 3 Student Center, 1954-1955
Box 215, Folder 4 Supplee, Henderson, 1956-1957
Box 215, Folder 5 Trustees, 1955-1956
Box 215, Folder 6 Urban Research, Bureau of, 1956
Box 215, Folder 7 Undergraduate Years, 1955-1956
Box 215, Folder 8 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program, 1954, 1957
Box 215, Folder 9 Subseries 15F: Memorabilia, 1898-1980 [bulk: 1933-1957]
Subseries Description
Subseries 15F: Memorabilia, 1898-1980 [bulk: 1933-1957], is an eclectic grouping of materials that includes scrapbooks, photographs (housed at the end of the collection in boxes 236 and 245-252), record albums, a bound collection of presidential reports, medals, memorials, and other tributes, and drawings of the Madison Library of the Library Congress, in whose planning Dodds played a leading role.
Scrapbook, Madison Library Drawings, Tributes, Honorary Degree from Princeton University, 1928-1980
Box 216 Scrapbook with Photographs, 1933-1957
Box 217 Record Albums: The Library of Congress and Testimonial Dinner, 1940-1957
Box 218 President's Reports, Vol. I, 1933-1957
Box 219 President's Reports, Vol. II, 1933-1957
Box 220 Scrapbook, 1957
Box 221 Scrapbook, 1929-1954
Box 222 Scrapbook, 1933-1971
Box 223 Trustee Memorial, Faculty Memorial, 1943, 1957
Box 224 Medals, 1933-1965
Box 225 Series 16: Portraits and Other Images
Series 1-2 (Dickinson, Burr): Portraits, undated
Box 226 Series 2-3 (Burr, Edwards): Portraits, undated
Box 227 Series 3-5 (Edwards, Davies, Finley): Portraits, undated
Box 228 Series 6 (Witherspoon): Portraits, Drawings of Paisley, Scotland, undated
Box 229 Series 6 (Witherspoon): Images of Statues, Cameos, and Tusculum (Witherspoon's Residence), undated
Box 230 Series 6 (Witherspoon): Images and Slides of Scotland, undated
Box 231 Series 6 (Witherspoon): Witherspoon United States Postal Card and First Day of Issue Ceremony Photographs, 1975
Box 232 Series 7-9 (Smith, Green, Carnahan): Portraits, undated
Box 233 Series 10 (Maclean): Portraits, undated
Box 234 Series 3, 6-10 (Edwards, Witherspoon, Smith, Green, Carnahan, Maclean): Portraits, undated
Box 235 Series 6, 14-15 (Witherspoon, Hibben, Dodds): Oversized Portraits, undated
Box 236 Series 11 (McCosh): Portraits, undated
Box 237 Series 11-12 (McCosh, Patton): Portraits, undated
Box 238 Series 12 (Patton): Portraits, 1886-1932
Box 239 Series 13 (Wilson): Portraits, Photographs, Negatives, Law License Duplicate, 1826-1910
Box 240 Series 13 (Wilson): Portraits, Photographs, Wilson's House, 1879-1961
Box 241 Series 13-14 (Wilson, Hibben, Acting President Duffield): Oversized Portraits, 1878-1929
Box 242 Series 14 (Hibben): Portraits, Photographs, Negatives, 1912-1932
Box 243 Series 14 (Hibben): Portraits, Photographs, 1882-1932
Box 244 Series 14-15 (Acting President Duffield, Dodds): Portraits, Photographs, 1898-1933
Box 245 Series 15 (Dodds): Photographs, 1937-1974
Box 246 Series 15 (Dodds): Photographs, 1917-1972
Box 247 Series 15 (Dodds): Photographs, 1925-1969
Box 248 Series 15 (Dodds): Photographs, 1933-1957
Box 249 Series 15 (Dodds): Portraits, Photographs, 1937-1963
Box 250 Series 15 (Dodds): Portraits, Photographs, 1945-1962
Box 251 Series 15 (Dodds) and Presidents Goheen, Bowen, and Shapiro: Photographs, 1971-1996
Box 252
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