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Lehigh University Presidents' Correspondence
1866-1921


Held by Special Collections, Linderman Library
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015

Call No.: SC MS 003
67 boxes, 27.9 linear feet

A collection of letters written TO the office of the President (some to the Secretary of the Faculty or the Registrar) between 1866 and 192l. These letters cover many aspects of "Life as President of Lehigh" and have been compiled BY YEAR in the following categories (listed alphabetically).

  1. Sixty one "Letter Books" with the replies FROM the President in chronological order from 1878 to 1920 are also included at the end of this collection.
  2. ADMISSIONS: letters from prospective students concerning re- quirements, courses, etc.
  3. ALUMNI: correspondence FROM the Alumni Secretary and graduates including material on Alumni Endowment Fund; Alumni Class Tablets; Alumni Endowment Scholarships; Contributors; Drown Memorial Fund.
  4. ATHLETICS: correspondence concerning facilities and use of them, teams, eligibility of players, physical education classes, finances, etc.
  5. CATALOGS: letters of request for catalogs and/or registers of the University.
  6. ENTRANCE EXAMS: correspondence concerning locations, dates, proctors, material covered in tests, etc.
  7. FACULTY: in-house notes to the Secretary of the Faculty or President concerning class size, grades, use of facilities, salaries, disagreements, etc.
  8. FRATERNITIES: material concerning chapters, building houses, scholarship of members, etc.
  9. JOBS: applications from candidates (mostly unsolicited) and requests from former students for recommendations.
  10. OTHER SCHOOLS: correspondence concerning entrance requirements, students, transfers, surveys, rules, invitations to their programs, etc.
  11. PARENTS: letters FROM parents about grades, behavior, courses, health or whereabouts of son, and letters of complaint or thanks.
  12. SCHOLARSHIPS and TUITION: questions (particularly when Lehigh began to charge tuition in 1892), requests for aid, some application for aid forms and letters with repayment of loans given.
  13. STUDENTS: letters from currently enrolled students about grades, exams, excuses, petitions to the faculty, clubs, activities, etc.
  14. UNIVERSITY BUSINESS: general correspondence to the office of the President about advertising, printing, budgets, programs (including printed ones) and SUBTITLES as follows.
    • Board of Trustees; some sketchy material
    • Buildings and Grounds; including electrical and gas service, machinery, construction of buildings-specifically The Arboretum, the Commons, Coxe Lab, Drown Hall, Fritz Lab, Packer Chapel, the Physics Building, Sayre Park, Taylor Gym, Taylor Hall.
    • Carnegie Day: 1908
    • Carnegie Foundation: correspondence and applications for retirement allowances.
    • Conference Department: department established at Lehigh to help deficient students with their studies.
    • Honorary Degrees: material on recipients, Messrs Fritz,
    • Hammershlag, Raymond, Stillwell, Parshall, Doolittle, Gayley, Talmage.
    • Individuals: Presidents Copp‚e (1866-1875), Leavitt (1876-1880), Lamberton (1880-1893), Copp‚e (acting 1893-1895), Drown (1895-1905), Drinker (1905-1920), Richards (1922-). Vice President Emery; Registrar Walters; Faculty members Dr. Estes and Dr. Franklin (1915), Dr. Raymond (1910), Dr. Ringer (1910): also Eckley B. Coxe (1911), Dr. Fanshawe (1911), Col. George W. Goethels (1913), Charles Taylor (1914), Frank Williams (1915) and Students Mr. Rayeur (1909), Mr. May (1907), Mr. Bakewell (1908), Mr. Mount Pleasant (1908), Mr. Stockton (1910), Chu Fu (1912) and the Linderman boys.
    • Library; a lot from l883 to 1886, then very little.
    • Medico-Chirurgical College 1909-1910.
    • Mining and Mechanical Institute of the Anthracite Coal Region 1911
    • Rhodes Scholarships-correspondence and applications.
    • R.O.T.C. 1913-1919.
    • Supply Bureau-the early Book Store at Lehigh.
    • Water and Milk-copies of test results.
  15. MISCELLANEOUS:
    • American Association of Collegiate Registrars 1919-1921
    • Bach Festival 1912 and following years
    • Belgium Relief Fund 1914
    • College Entrance Exam Board beginning 1901
    • Delaware Forge and Steel Company
    • Forestry
    • Interchurch World Movement 1919-1921
    • Pocono Lake Preserve
    • Rockefeller Foundation
    • St. Luke's Hospital 1908
    • Tau Beta Pi 1910
    • War Preparedness 1917-1919
    • Water Power 1916
    • Workmen's Compensation 1911
    • World's Colombian Exhibition 1891-1892

Box 1: 1866-1884
Box 2: 1885-1889
Box 3: 1890-1891
Box 4: 1891 (cont'd)
Box 5: 1892
Box 6: 1892-1893
Box 7: 1893 (cont'd)
Box 8: 1894
Box 9: 1895
Box 10: 1895 (cont'd)
Box 11: 1896
Box 12: 1896 (cont'd)
Box 13: 1896 (cont'd)
Box 14: 1897
Box 15: 1897 (cont'd)
Box 16: 1898
Box 17: 1899
Box 18: 1899-1900
Box 19: 1900 (cont'd)
Box 20: 1901
Box 21: 1902
Box 22: 1903 (partial material)
Box 23: 1904
Box 24: 1905
Box 25: 1906
Box 26: 1906 (cont'd)
Box 27: 1906 (cont'd)
Box 28: 1907
Box 29: 1907 (cont'd)
Box 30: 1908
Box 31 1908 (cont'd)
Box 32: 1908 (cont'd)
Box 33: 1908 (cont'd)
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