Dwight D. Miner papers on the history of Columbia University, 1938-1978

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Series III: Subject Files



Box 6 Academic Calendar


Box 6 Academic Freedom


Box 6 Academic Profession, The


Box 6 Acknowledgements


Box 6 Acknowledgements for Courtesies


Box 6 Acta Columbiana


Box 6 Administration of the University


Box 6 Administrative Boards


Box 6 Admissions - Rising Standards


Box 6 Admissions


Box 6 Advisory Committee on Educational Policy


Box 6 Age of Students - 18th Century to 20th Century


Box 6 Alumni - Activity


Box 6 Alumni - Attitudes toward Columbia


Box 6 Alumni - Distribution by Profession


Box 6 Alumni - Fund


Box 6 Alumni - Governors of New York


Box 6 Alumni - Lawyers


Box 6 Alumni - Mayors of N.Y.C., Brooklyn; Candidates for Mayoralty; Municipal Officers


Box 6 Alumni - Musicians


Box 6 Alumni - Physicians


Box 6 Alumni - Scientists (including Engineers) 1768-1954


Box 6 Alumni - Trustees



Box 7 Alumni - Blacks


Box 7 Alumni in Diplomacy


Box 7 Alumni in Education


Box 7 Alumni in Finance


Box 7 Alumni in Military Careers


Box 7 Alumni in Ministry


Box 7 Alumni in National Government (including Congress and the Executive Branch)


Box 7 Alumni in Painting, Drawing, Sculpture


Box 7 Alumni in Publishing


Box 7 Alumni in Sports


Box 7 Alumni in the Theater


Box 7 Alumni of Literary Attainment


Box 7 Alumni on the Bench


Box 7 Alumni Organizations


Box 7 American Education since WWII


Box 7 American Museum of Natural History


Box 7 American Negro - 20th Century


Box 7 American Quarterly Register


Box 7 American School at Athens


Box 7 American Students in European Universities: 1850-1900


Box 7 "And...by that Name"


Box 7 Appendices


Box 7 Arts Center


Box 7 Appendices - Presidents and Other Administrative Officers


Box 7 Association for University Teas


Box 7 Astronomy


Box 7 Athletic Fields


Box 7 Athletics at 49th Street


Box 7 Athletics - Morningside Heights


Box 7 Athletics - 49th street (except Crew)



Box 8 Barnard Administration


Box 8 Barnard College


Box 8 Barnard College


Box 8 Barnard Literary Society, 1877


Box 8 Bard College


Box 8 Benefactions: Butler Administration


Box 8 Benefactions under Barnard


Box 8 Benefactions under Low


Box 8 Bicentennial Committee


Box 8 Bicentennial History Project - Correspondence with Staff


Box 8 Book Stores


Box 8 Botanic Garden: also, Upper Estate


Box 8 Budget 1890-1920


Box 8 Buildings and Grounds: Morningside Heights


Box 8 Bursar


Box 8 "But None Has Said So Well"


Box 8 Casa Hispanica


Box 8 Casa Italiana


Box 8 Chapel


Box 8 Chapel and Religious Matters Prior to 1897



Box 9 Charter Volumes


Box 9 Charter of 1774 (Proposed)


Box 9 Chemical Engineering- Hixson


Box 9 Chemistry


Box 9 Chemistry - Nelson


Box 9 Classrooms


Box 9 Clubs - Schools and Departments


Box 9 Clubs and Associations at Columbia, 1776-1930


Box 9 Coatroom


Box 9 Coeducation: Collegiate Course; Mrs. Reed's School, etc., 1873-1886


Box 9 College and University Histories


Box 9 College of Pharmacy


Box 9 College of Physicians and Surgeons


Box 9 P & S: 1891-1921


Box 9 P & S: 1891-1928


Box 9 P & S: Dental and Oral Surgery


Box 9 P & S: Department of Cancer Research - Crocker Fund


Box 9 P & S: Dochez


Box 9 P & S: Extracts of Minutes



Box 10 P & S: Faculty of Medicine


Box 10 P & S: Independent Journey


Box 10 P & S: Library (Fleming)


Box 10 P & S: Medical Center


Box 10 P & S: Medical Center - University Files, 1927-1937


Box 10 P & S: Medical Center, 1928-1954


Box 10 P & S: The Medical Center Idea, 1910-1921


Box 10 P & S: Non-clinical Departments, 1921-1928; 1928-1952


Box 10 P & S: Palmer, W. W.


Box 10 P & S: Public Health


Box 10 P & S: Rappleye


Box 10 P & S: School of Nursing


Box 10 P & S: The Six Medical Departments


Box 10 P & S: Webster


Box 10 P & S: Woglom


Box 10 College of the City of New York


Box 10 Columbia College: 1787-1825


Box 10 C.C.: Colonial College Charters


Box 10 C.C.: 1825-1861


Box 10 C.C.: Administration


Box 10 C.C.: Athletics from 1920 on


Box 10 C.C.: Board of Columbia College, Proceedings of 1819-1891


Box 10 C.C.: Buildings and Grounds, 1783-1825


Box 10 C.C.: Catalogue, 1848-1893


Box 10 C.C.: The Civil War



Box 11 C.C.: College Papers 1754-1783


Box 11 C.C.: College Papers, 1784-1800


Box 11 C.C.: Curriculum, 1809-1850


Box 11 C.C.: Curriculum, 1809-1857


Box 11 C.C.: Curriculum (Arts), 1857-1889


Box 11 C.C.: Curriculum, 1890-WWII


Box 11 C.C.: Curriculum, 1920 to date


Box 11 C.C.: "The Chapel Record," 1847-1853


Box 11 C.C.: College Expenditures, 1804-July 1864 (from cash-books, checkbooks, C.P., etc.)


Box 11 C.C.: Finances-Expenditures, 1761-1862


Box 11 C.C.: Medical School, 1784-1813


Box 11 C.C.: New York City, 1825-1861


Box 11 C.C.: Student Life: 1920s and 1930s


Box 11 C.C.: Under N.Y. Regents


Box 11 Columbia Grammar School (including King's College Grammar School)


Box 11 Columbia Maps


Box 11 Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA)



Box 12 Columbia University: Columbia Club


Box 12 C.U.: Columbiad (Yearbook)


Box 12 C.U.: Degrees


Box 12 C.U.: Formation


Box 12 C.U.: Histories


Box 12 C.U.: Honorary Degrees from 1865 on


Box 12 C.U.: Libraries


Box 12 C.U.: Libraries - Columbiana


Box 12 C.U.: Libraries - Correspondence


Box 12 C.U.: Libraries - History, 1858-1897


Box 12 C.U.: Libraries - "A Report on Certain Problems of the Libraries..." Wilson, Metcalf, Coney, 1947


Box 12 C.U.: Libraries - Special Collections, Columbia Material


Box 12 C.U.: Libraries - White, Carl M.


Box 12 C.U.: Morningside Heights Campus


Box 12 C.U.: 175th Anniversary


Box 12 C.U.: Sports


Box 12 C.U.: Sundial


Box 12 C.U.: World War One (first draft)


Box 12 C.U.: World War One


Box 12 C.U.: World War Two


Box 12 C.U.: Columbia University Quarterly



Box 13 The Combined Course


Box 13 Cornbury Period and Early 18th Century in New York


Box 13 Commencement of 1811


Box 13 Commencements


Box 13 Committee of Reference


Box 13 Committee on Education - 1892 March 2


Box 13 Committee on Instruction (of respective faculties)


Box 13 Committee on the Elevation of the Course


Box 13 Commons


Box 13 Consolidation and Growth, 1902-1915


Box 13 Council for Research in the Humanities


Box 13 Council for Research in the Social Sciences


Box 13 Debt


Box 13 Debt Figures


Box 13 Decade of Anxiety, 1931-1941


Box 13 The Democracy of Ideas


Box 13 Department of Agriculture


Box 13 Dept. of Anthropology


Box 13 Dept. of Astronomy


Box 13 Dept. of Biochemistry


Box 13 Dept. of Botany


Box 13 Dept. of Chemical Engineering


Box 13 Dept. of Chemistry



Box 14 Dept. of Chinese and Japanese


Box 14 Dept. of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


Box 14 Dept. of Economics


Box 14 Dept. of Educational Research


Box 14 Dept. of Electrical Engineering


Box 14 Dept. of English: Campbell


Box 14 Dept. of English and Comparative Literature


Box 14 Dept. of Fine Arts and Archaeology


Box 14 Dept. of General and Comparative Linguistics


Box 14 Dept. of Geology


Box 14 Dept. of Germanic Languages


Box 14 Dept. of Greek and Latin


Box 14 Dept. of History


Box 14 Dept. of Mathematics


Box 14 Dept. of Mathematical Statistics


Box 14 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering



Box 15 Dept. of Microbiology


Box 15 Dept. of Mining, Metallurgy, and Mineral Engineering


Box 15 Dept. of Music


Box 15 Dept. of Near and Middle-Eastern Languages


Box 15 Dept. of Pathology


Box 15 Dept. of Pharmacology


Box 15 Dept. of Philosophy


Box 15 Dept. of Physics


Box 15 Dept. of Physiology


Box 15 Dept. of Psychology


Box 15 Dept. of Public Law and Government


Box 15 Dept. of Romance Languages


Box 15 Dept. of Slavic Languages


Box 15 Dept. of Sociology


Box 15 Dept. of Zoology


Box 15 Deutsches Haus


Box 15 Development Program



Box 16 Diary Entries (copies)


Box 16 Diplomas


Box 16 Discipline


Box 16 Discontents: l) Site; 2) Endowment


Box 16 Divinity, Dutch Professorship of


Box 16 Dormitories


Box 16 Dramatic Museum


Box 16 Dramatics - 49th Street


Box 16 Earl Hall


Box 16 Earle Diary


Box 16 Egleston Museum


Box 16 Electives


Box 16 Electric Lighting


Box 16 Employment


Box 16 Engineering


Box 16 Engineering Departments


Box 16 Enrollment: 1800-1900


Box 16 Enrollment: 1901 to Present


Box 16 Enrollment: Graphs


Box 16 Examinations


Box 16 Expositions


Box 16 The Faculty


Box 16 Faculty and Departmental Societies: 49th Street


Box 16 Faculty Clubs: Men's and Women's


Box 16 Faculty of Fine Arts


Box 16 Faculty of Philosophy


Box 16 Faculty of Political Science (1)


Box 16 Faculty of Political Science (2)



Box 17 Faculty of Pure Science


Box 17 Fellowship and Honors Awards


Box 17 Fellowships


Box 17 Finances


Box 17 Finances: Barnard Administration


Box 17 Football


Box 17 Foreign Students at Columbia


Box 17 Forestry Department (proposed)


Box 17 Forum


Box 17 49th Street Site - Botanic Garden


Box 17 49th Street Site - Madison Avenue


Box 17 Foucault Experiment


Box 17 General Reference Lists


Box 17 General Studies


Box 17 Geography


Box 17 Gibbs Affair


Box 17 Governors: 1754-1784


Box 17 Governor's Island


Box 17 Graduate Faculties



Box 18 Graduate School of Journalism


Box 18 Grammar School, 1829-1864


Box 18 Greenwood Cemetery


Box 18 Gymnasium


Box 18 Hankey Window


Box 18 Hazlett Property


Box 18 Health


Box 18 Higher Education: 18th Century America


Box 18 Higher Education: 20th Century America


Box 18 Higher Engineering


Box 18 Hispanic Society


Box 18 Historical Writing - Techniques


Box 18 Histories of American Universities


Box 18 History as Literature


Box 18 History in the Schools


Box 18 History of Columbia College


Box 18 History of C.U. Press



Box 19 Honor System


Box 19 Honorary Degrees


Box 19 Honorary Degrees and Visitors


Box 19 Honors Courses


Box 19 Illustrations: 49th St. - Portraits


Box 19 Illustrations: 49th St. - Scenes and Groups


Box 19 Illustrations: King's College


Box 19 Illustrations: Morningside Heights - Portraits


Box 19 Illustrations: Morningside Heights - Views and Groups


Box 19 Illustrations: Park Place - Scenes and Portraits 1784-1857


Box 19 Imaginary Lectures, 1900


Box 19 Imperial Years, 1920-1930


Box 19 ...in the City of New York


Box 19 In Token Whereof... (Butler Commencements)


Box 19 Institute for Urban Land-Use and Housing Studies


Box 19 Institute of Arts and Sciences


Box 19 Institute of Public Administration


Box 19 Institutes, Cultural


Box 19 Irish Elk


Box 19 Japanese Students at Columbia


Box 19 Jews


Box 19 Johnson, Samuel: Autobiography


Box 19 Joint Committee on Graduate instruction (1)


Box 19 Joint Committee on Graduate Instruction (2)


Box 19 King's College: Alumni


Box 19 King's College: Benefactors


Box 19 King's College: Board of Governors: Minutes 1770-1781


Box 19 King's College: Buildings and Grounds



Box 20 King's College: Charters (draft and final copy)


Box 20 King's College: Commencements


Box 20 King's College: Discipline


Box 20 King's College: During the Revolution


Box 20 King's College: Finances


Box 20 King's College: Founding


Box 20 King's College Governor's Minutes: Abstracts, Howson Files 1755-1781


Box 20 King's College: Grammar School


Box 20 King's College: Instruction


Box 20 King's College: Law


Box 20 King's College: Library


Box 20 King's College: Medicine


Box 20 King's College: Nova Scotia


Box 20 King's College: Students


Box 20 King's College: Student Activities


Box 20 King's College: Theology



Box 21 Landscape Architecture


Box 21 Law School, 1858-1891


Box 21 Legislative Drafting Research Fund


Box 21 Library, 1784-1889


Box 21 Library, 1890-1954


Box 21 Library of Congress


Box 21 Literary and Scientific Course, 1830-1843


Box 21 Long-Range Financial Policy: 1890-


Box 21 Loss of Touch, 1800-1880


Box 21 Lotteries


Box 21 Loubat, Duke de


Box 21 Lucke, Charles E.


Box 21 McKim, Mead and White


Box 21 Maison Francais


Box 21 Marks


Box 21 The M.A. Degree


Box 21 Mathematics


Box 21 Medical Faculty


Box 21 Meteorology


Box 21 Metropolitan Museum



Box 22 The Miner (Yearbook)


Box 22 Miner - Misc. Notes


Box 22 Modern Languages and Literatures


Box 22 The Morningside Community


Box 22 Morningside Heights Site (1)


Box 22 Morningside Heights Site (2)


Box 22 Morningside Heights Site (3)


Box 22 Museum


Box 22 Museum of the City of New York


Box 22 Natural Sciences - U.S. 1800-1865


Box 22 Nevis Estate


Box 22 New College


Box 22 New Hampshire Grants


Box 22 The New Site


Box 22 New York Academy of Science


Box 22 New York Historical Society


Box 22 New York Public Library


Box 22 New York State Library


Box 22 New York University


Box 22 Optometry


Box 22 Origin of Name of Columbia College


Box 22 Other Doctorates in Course


Box 22 Outlines for a History of Columbia University



Box 23 Park Place Site, 1755-1783


Box 23 Park Place Site, 1784-1857


Box 23 Patents


Box 23 Peithologian Society, 1806


Box 23 Pensions


Box 23 Personalia


Box 23 Personalities in King's College History


Box 23 The Ph.D. Degree


Box 23 Phi Beta Kappa


Box 23 Philolexian Society, 1802


Box 23 Pine Papers


Box 23 Pine Papers - Reference List and Howson-Handen Correspondence


Box 23 Post-graduate Hospital


Box 23 Post-war


Box 23 The Presidency of Columbia University


Box 23 Presbyterian Hospital


Box 23 Princeton University


Box 23 Printing


Box 23 Prizes



Box 24 Professors and Professorships


Box 24 Professors A-Z (not filed separately)


Box 24 Provost


Box 24 Psychological Examinations


Box 24 Psychology - Woodworth


Box 24 Public Health, School of


Box 24 Public Lectures


Box 24 Pulitzer Prizes


Box 24 Queen's Farm, 1702-


Box 24 Reform Club


Box 24 Regents - since 1787


Box 24 Registrar


Box 24 Religious Life at Columbia


Box 24 Religious Activities - Chapel; Dept.; Voluntary


Box 24 Reminiscences


Box 24 Removal from 49th Street


Box 24 Report of 1858


Box 24 Republic of Scholarship


Box 24 Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm Exchange Professorship


Box 24 Roxbury Mine



Box 25 Sachems


Box 25 Scholarships


Box 25 School of Architecture


Box 25 School of Business


Box 25 School of Dental and Oral Surgery


Box 25 School of Engineering


Box 25 School of International Affairs


Box 25 School of Journalism


Box 25 School of Law


Box 25 School of Library Service


Box 25 School of Mines


Box 25 School of Mines - Degrees Granted


Box 25 School of Mines, 1864-1901


Box 25 School of Social Work


Box 25 Science as a Liberal Art


Box 25 Science in Early American Colleges


Box 25 Scientific Societies at Columbia


Box 25 Secretary's Office


Box 25 Secretarial Studies


Box 25 Semi-Centennial: 1837


Box 25 Service to the Community



Box 26 Sloane Hospital


Box 26 Society for Promoting Religion and Learning


Box 26 Smoking


Box 26 South America


Box 26 South Field


Box 26 Speech Education at Columbia College, 1754-1940


Box 26 Special Students


Box 26 Spectator, 1877-1882


Box 26 Statistics


Box 26 Statutes


Box 26 Stevens Institute


Box 26 Struggle for Higher Education for Women - Vol. 1


Box 26 Student Aid


Box 26 Student Life - 49th Street


Box 26 Student Societies and Publications - 49th Street (notes used by Eckman)


Box 26 Student Life, 1830-1864


Box 26 Student Loans


Box 26 Summer Session


Box 26 Surveying


Box 26 Surveys



Box 27 Taxation of University Property


Box 27 Teachers College (1) (Miner)


Box 27 Teachers College (2) (Howson)


Box 27 Ticonderoga


Box 27 Time Schedule


Box 27 Townsend Library


Box 27 Trade School


Box 27 Treasurer


Box 27 Trinity Church: Correspondence


Box 27 Trinity Church: 18th Century


Box 27 Trinity Church: Charter Provisions, 19th Century


Box 27 Trinity Church: Charter Provisions, 20th Century


Box 27 Trinity Church: Official Support of Anglican Interests, Late 17th-Early 18th Century


Box 27 Tropical Medicine


Box 27 Trustees: 1787-1810


Box 27 Trustees: 49th Street


Box 27 Trustees: 1902


Box 27 Trustees: Committees


Box 27 Trustees: Minutes, 1784-1800


Box 27 Tuition, 1784-1954


Box 27 The Turn of the Century, 1898-1901


Box 27 The Undergraduate Student


Box 27 The Undergraduate Student, 1897-1917 (Stern)



Box 28 Union Theological Seminary


Box 28 University Council


Box 28 University Hall


Box 28 University Seminars


Box 28 The University Student


Box 28 The University Takes Form, Low: 1890-1896


Box 28 Vice-Presidents


Box 28 Washington College on Staten Island


Box 28 Wheelock Property


Box 28 William and Mary College


Box 28 Women and the University Courses,1890-1953 - Vol. II


Box 28 Women Students in the University: Growing Academic Opportunities (1890- )


Box 28 Worship and Religious Study,1890-I954 (Vol. II) (Fritz Stern)


Box 28 Yale-Columbia Course in Preparation for Foreign Service


Box 28 Yale University Library


Box 28 Y.M.C.A.


Box 28 Yule Log Ceremony: Clement C. Moore, "A Visit from St. Nicholas"


Box 28 Zoology