Box 0020.02
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Forestry, War Preparedness, and Other Materials
Series — Box: 0020.02
Scope and Contents
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
Forestry, 1911 - 1914
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 01
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1911 August 8 Michigan College of Mines 25th Anniversary “The Contribution of the Mining Profession to the Conservation of our
Natural Resources”
1913 February 4 Sterling Hotel, Wilkes Barre Dinner of the Engineering Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania re:importance of
conservation, President Roosevelt focus on national attention
1913 February 11 Dinner of the University Club of Brooklyn (see previous)
1913 October 18 Tome School, Port Deposit, MD “The Conservation of the Natural...
Dates:
1911 - 1914
Forestry, 1915
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 02
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1915 January 11 newspaper article The Evening Post, New York “Work to Save the Nation’s Wood Lands”
1915 January 11 American Forestry Association annual meeting remarks about New York’s great reserve of wilderness
1915 January 18 University of Illinois visit at request of Prof. Harry H. Stoek (LU 1887) to say something about conservation
of National resources (27 typed pages, 2 copies)
1915 February 23 Philadelphia Alumnae of Moravian College for Women remarks on the contributions women...
Dates:
1915
Forestry, 1916 - 1929
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 03
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1916 June 9 American Forestry Association Meeting and Dinner Reading, PA notes that Berks and Philadelphia are among the
leaders in Pennsylvania in promotion of forestry and conservation, one of the earliest forestry associations was
organized in 1886 in Philadelphia. Berks County Conservation Association speech (26 typed pages)
1917 June 21 Summer conference of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh notes the history of Pennsylvania forestry adding
that the 1886 founding of one of...
Dates:
1916 - 1929
Forestry Undated
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 04
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Pennsylvania Forestry Association (Drinker president) remarks about Poconos, Strobeck is district forester of the State, Pocono Fire Protection Association (9 typed pages)New York State Forestry Association establishment and growing timber reserves of over a million acres (12 typed pages)Remarks about the University of Pennsylvania’s useful study by Professor J. Russell Smith of the Wharton School on utilitarian
view of tree care. (4 typed pages)...
Dates:
1905 - 1929
Military Camps, 1913 - 1916
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 05
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1913 December 4 Richmond extract of speech remarking on the devastation of war (2 copies)
1915 March 27 Buffalo University Club dinner “The College Man and His Country”
1915 December 21 Newark, N. J. New England Society, Drinker noted as president of The National Student Reserve Corps
remarks that President Wilson calls for mobilization of country’s transportation resources for Army and Navy (3
copies)
1915? Washington, D.C. dinner for Centenary of Peace between English...
Dates:
1913 - 1916
Military Training, 1917 - 1919
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 06
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1917 January 18 Pittsburgh notes that Drinker is Chairman of the Pennsylvania Branch of the League to Enforce Peace remarks
that the world longs for peace (2 copies)
1918 June 6 Germantown Academy “What is the present Duty of our Universities, Colleges, and Schools, and of their Students
in Relation to War” (2 copies)
1919 September 15 from The Engleside (Beach Haven, N.J.) two Letters: General Haan (with handwritten enclosure) and Col.
Morrow (typed 3 page enclosure) re: ...
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Preparedness (Lebanon, Pa.), 1915
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 07
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1915 November 11 Lebanon High School and Lebanon Men’s Club (3 copies) re: President Wilson’s preparedness policy
Dates:
1915
Virginia Military Institute, 1915
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 08
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1915 November 19 Drinker referred to as president of The National Reserve Corps give a history of Corps (11 typed pages, copies)
Dates:
1915
War Time Changes in Colleges Engineers’ Club, 1919
File — Box: 0020.02, Folder: 09
Scope and Contents
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:
1919