Scope and content Papers relating largely to Laistner's position as chairman of the history department, including general correspondence (1935-39), and papers and correspondence on summer school (1936-46), former students (1936-54), music committee (1937-46), assistantships and scholarships (1939-40), deferment from the Selective Service (1939-40), Semitic Studies (1940), and the history of science appointment; Laistner's report (1938) on current research and research needs to the Trustee-Faculty Committee on...