Box 0020.01
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Contains 24 Results:
General
Series — Box: 0020.01
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From the Collection:
Speeches are on a variety of topics, including Lehigh University and Bethlehem affairs, the influenza epidemic, education and its role in wartime, military preparedness and training, the League of Nations, conservation, and others. It includes a few letters written by Dr. Drinker as president of Lehigh University, some personal reminiscences, and one speech by Dr. Henry S. McCracken, chancellor emeritus of New York University, on war preparedness, delivered in 1899. What is of special...
Dates:
1905 - 1929
Coxe, Fritz, Taylor Dedications, 1910
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 01
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January 11, 1910 Alumni Day dedications of Fritz and Coxe Laboratories 4 page typed speech remarks about Charley Taylor ’76 as
to the dedications of the Fritz Engineering Laboratory (John Fritz) and Coxe Mining Laboratory (Eckley B. Coxe); Coppée
Hall Dedication - Coppée Hall Opening Program listing Formal Opening Speakers: Henry Sturgis Drinker, Robert W. Blake
and Charles L. Doolittle; 6 page typed speech by President Drinker which outlines the 1866 organization of...
Dates:
1910
Founders’ Days and Commencements , 1906 - 1916
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 02
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August 2 Four page speech Extension School courses mentions Christmas Hall and Professors Hughes and Drown
October 11, 1906 Founder’s Day four page speech mentions Profs. Charles L. Doolittle, Thornburg and Ogburn, John A. Brashear,
Robert H. Sayre Observatory, Zenith telescope
October 13, 1910 Four page speech discusses first Founder’s Day October 9, 1879 following Judge Packer’s death, acknowledges
John Fritz as lone survivor of that era
October 1911 Two page speech installation of...
Dates:
1906 - 1916
Letters re: the Influenza Epidemic, 1918
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 03
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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,...
Dates:
1918
Lehigh University Opening Days, 1906 - 1920
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 04
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1906 Sept. 19 Announcements re: teaching force – Arthur E. Meaker, Preston A. Lambert, John H. Ogburn, Philip M. Palmer,
Barry MacNutt, William H. Chandler resignation, W. B. Schober,V. S. Babsinian, Samuel H. Salisbury Jr., Leon D.
Conkling, Sylvanus A. Becker, Lowell E. Conrad, Albert J. Willis, Sidney J.Lockner, Arthur J. Weston, C. M. Crawford,
C. C. Scheneck, Frank Richmond Ingalsbee, H. S. Wingert; first large donation received from E. H. Williams ’75
...
Dates:
1906 - 1920
Personal Background, Panama Canal Trip
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 05
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1911 May 31 Montour PA High School Commencement 15 pages of
remarks that his uncle Henry Drinker and Judge Asa Packer became
acquainted in Springville, Susquehanna County before Packer went
to Mauch Chunk, the Susquehanna County connection is strong at
Lehigh as William A. Lathrop formerly of Springville now president
of Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., Samuel D. Warriner of Lehigh
Valley Coal Co., Ruel C. Warriner of Crown Mines in South Africa,
all came from Lehigh;...
Dates:
1905 - 1929
Letters re University Business, 1911 - 1919
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 06
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1911 July 7 to B. L. Miller from Drinker re: arrangements for
Department and Drinker’s vacation trip with American Institute of
Mining Engineers to Japan 1911 July 17 to Pres. Drinker from Henry S. Pritchett (Carnegie
Foundation) re: a survey of teaching force 1911 July 26 from N. M. Emery re: Drinker’s request to comply
with Carnegie Foundation survey request (see July 17 letter) 1911 September 19 to Drinker from B. L. Miller? re:...
Dates:
1911 - 1919
Alumni Clubs, 1906 - 1912
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 07
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1906 January 31 Philadelphia Lehigh Club Smoker
1906 February 16 Wilkes Barre
1906 February 26 Lehigh Club of Washington, D.C.
1906 March 27 Chicago Lehigh Club – Song Sheet
1906 December 29 LU Berks Club at Mineral Springs, Reading
1909 February 22 Home Club Bethlehem
1909 November 6 Baltimore
1910 April 30 Northeastern Pennsylvania Alumni – Wilkes Barre
1910? Wilkes Barre Scranton
1912 February 17 Hotel Shoreham
???? March 13 Southern Lehigh Club (two copies)
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Dates:
1906 - 1912
Association of College Presidents of Pennsylvania
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 08
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???? January 25 “War Service of our Colleges”
Dates:
1905 - 1929
Bethlehem Area Occasions, 1906 - 1919
File — Box: 0020.01, Folder: 09
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1906 June address at Central High School of South Bethlehem
1908 March 30 The Globe “Lehigh University and the Bethlehems”
1913 April 2 Commercial League Banquet at Colosseum
“Bethlehem as an Educational Center”
1914 June 11 Address at celebration of 25th anniversary of Father
McGettigan priesthood at Church of Holy Infancy
1915 October 4 “Memories of Old South Bethlehem” opening of
Semi-Centennial of South Bethlehem
1917 July 9 Consolidation Committee meeting
1918...
Dates:
1906 - 1919