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Herbert Crombie Howe scrapbook and article

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 47-1-3897m

Scope and content

Small notebook, "Letters to N.Y. Evening Post," with clippings from the New York Evening Post of letters written by Howe reporting on events at Cornell. Some of the colums were also published in The American University Magazine's "University World" section. Also "American Universities and Colleges: Something about our Great Educational Institutions. II. Cornell University," reprinted from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, December, 1896.

Dates

1895-1896.

Creator

Howe, Herbert Crombie, 1872-1940. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

H. C. Howe attended Cornell from 1889 to 1901, receiving a Bachelor of Litterature degree in 1893. From 1893 to 1895, he was a Sage Scholar in Philosophy, receiving a B.A. degree in 1896. He served as Secretary to Cornell President Jacob Gould Schurman from 1895 to 1901. In 1901, he was appointed Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Oregon, from 1904 to 1925, he was head of the Department of English at Oregon and from 1925 to his death in 1940, Professor of English. His papers are in the University of Oregon Archives.