Letters re: the Influenza Epidemic, 1918

October 8, 1918 to Col. Grenville Clark on advice from University’s physician Dr. W.L. Estes and Mayor of Bethlehem (Archibald Johnston) request to send all Students sent home and close University, as well as the S.A.T.C. Company A inductees. October 9 to Heads of Departments re: thoroughly airing Classrooms October 9 Important Notice – quarantine of University Grounds enforced by military guards beginning today – Student accommodations in Gymnasium. A. G. Van Atta (Capt. Infantry, U.S.A. Comd’g) Henry S. Drinker (President) October 10 to Heads of Departments re: notice at request of Medical officer of S.A.T.C. to be posted October 11 October 10 Notice Morning classes go on as usual but all afternoon classes closed to allow students open air exercise October 24 NOTICE – Change in housing arrangements as of October 30 Members of Students’ Army Training Corps Housed in Price Hall, Taylor Hall, Delta Tau Delta, Psi U, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Nu, Delta U, Chi Psi, A.T.O. October 26 To Heads of Departments re: F. P. McKibben, Eckfeldt, MacNutt, Berry professors’ Reports as to number of absent students due to influenza (three page report)