Content Description

Preservation copies of Cornell University electronic theses and dissertations.

Abstract

11 volumes of correspondence, administrative records, and statistics of the Cornell University Graduate School; also, announcements, speeches, reports, catalogs, applications, minutes, department self studies, program reviews, and external reports. Includes Graduate School annual reports for 1922 and 1952/1953-1986/1987 as well as 2001/2002-2002/2003.

Scope and content

Includes political broadsides concerning campus and national issues; issues of the CORNELL WALK, a biweekly newspaper published briefly by the Interfraternity Council; material concerning issues affecting the Cornell University Graduate School; and pamphlets concerning University policies, Health Services, Willard Straight Hall, student regulations and fraternities.

Abstract Collection includes material pertaining to Merritt's years at Cornell, including a student scrapbook of photographs, programs, and pamphlets; loose photographs of colleagues, laboratory equipment, and Cornell views; Merritt's notes on lectures concerning electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, and theoretical mechanics; four volumes of notes taken by teaching assistant Ernest Blaker (Ph.D. 1901) at Merritt's lectures, as well as undated notes on advances in experimental physics; calculations...

Abstract

Largely notes for and rough drafts of the revised edition of Sabine's chief work, A History of Political Theory, as well as additional books and correspondence.

Scope and content

Correspondence concerning the Dept. of German and White's professorship and lectures, University policy, student affairs, and personal matters. Correspondents include Tracy Peck, Willard Fiske, Charles Kendall Adams, Henry Shaler Williams, and others.