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Series I: Seth Low's Summer Session correspondence, 1898
Series II: Administrative records, 1900-1997
Series III: Bulletins, 1900-2006

Summer Session records, 1898-2006

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Series I: Seth Low's Summer Session correspondence, 1898

This series consists of the faculty responses to President Seth Low's inquiry about starting a summer session at Columbia. The series includes the individual responses as well as a summary sheet which organizes the faculty by department and lists those who offered a "conditional acceptance" or an "unconditional acceptance." Some of the letters were originally kept in a binder and these have been foldered individually. The rest were collected in an envelope. This series also includes correspondence related to the establishment of the first summer session in 1900.


Box 1 Folder 1 President Seth Low's circular re: summer school, 1898 December 7

Individual faculty responses

Box 1 Folder 2 Frederic Bancroft, 1898

Box 1 Folder 3 Franz Boas, 1898

Box 1 Folder 4 Nicholas Murray Butler, 1898

Box 1 Folder 5 Charles F. Chandler, 1898

(Prof. Chandler discusses the Chemistry Department's summer session experience in the late 1880s.)

Box 1 Folder 6 James Egbert, Jr., 1898

Box 1 Folder 7 William Addison Hervey, 1898

Box 1 Folder 8 George Philip Krapp, 1898

Box 1 Folder 9 Edward MacDowell, 1898

Box 1 Folder 10 Brander Matthews, 1898

Box 1 Folder 11 M.I. Pupin, 1898

Box 1 Folder 12 John Howard Van Amringe, 1898

Box 1 Folder 13 G.E. Woodberry, 1898

Box 1 Folder 14-15 Faculty responses, 1898, 2 folders

Box 1 Folder 16 Conditional and Unconditional Acceptances, 1898

(A summary sheet which organizes the faculty by department and lists those who offered a "conditional acceptance" or an "unconditional acceptance" to teach during the summer session.)

Box 1 Folder 17 Records of Official Action in Regard to the Establishment and Development of the Summer Session, undated

(Excerpts from the minutes of the University Council and the Trustees' Committee on Education.)

Correspondence from Nicholas Murray Butler to President Seth Low

Box 1 Folder 18 Summer School Plan, 1899 January 31

(11-page plan submitted to President Seth Low by Nicholas Murray Butler.)

Box 1 Folder 19 Faculty compensation, 1899 October 28

Box 1 Folder 20 William F. Ganong of Smith College, 1899 November 1

Box 1 Folder 21 Faculty of Summer Session of 1900, 1899 November 28

Box 1 Folder 22 Frederick R. Hutton to President Seth Low re: Summer Courses in Applied Sciences, 1899 November 6

(Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences)

Series II: Administrative records, 1900-1997

This series contains the administrative records of the Summer Session, including the financial statements from 1900 to 1919, the minutes of the Administrative Board from 1905 to 1940, and the Registrar's reports on enrollments by academic department for the last five years.

Box 1 Folder 23 Administrative Board minutes, 1905 December-1940 October

Box 1 Folder 24 Financial statements, 1900-1919

5-year enrollments by department reports


Box 6 Folder 1 1990

Box 6 Folder 2 1991

Box 6 Folder 3 1992

Box 6 Folder 4 1993

Box 6 Folder 5 1994

Box 6 Folder 6 1995

Box 6 Folder 7 1996

Box 6 Folder 8 1997

Box 6 Folder 9 Summer School in Higher Education, 1961 March 10

(Includes schedule and proceedings. Conference held at Columbia and sponsored by Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, New York University, Trinity College, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania.)

Box 6 Folder 10 Summer Sessions in Colleges and Universities: Perspectives, Practices, Problems, Prospects, 1991

(Raymond J. Young and William P. McDougall. Distributed by the National American Association of Summer Sessions.)

Series III: Bulletins, 1900-2006


Box 2 1900-1904

Box 2 1900-1905

Box 2 1905-1908

Box 2 1909-1911

Box 2 1912-1914

Box 2 1915-1917

Box 2 1918-1920

Box 2 1921-1923

Box 2 1924-1925


Box 3 1926-1927

Box 3 1928

Box 3 1929

Box 3 1930

Box 3 1931

Box 3 1932

Box 3 1933

Box 3 1934


Volume CX7 I 1935 1935


Volume CX7 I 1936 1936


Volume CX7 I 1937 1937


Volume CX7 I 1938 1938


Volume CX7 I 1939 1939


Volume CX7 I 1940 1940


Volume CX7 I 1941 1941


Volume CX7 I 1942 1942


Volume CX7 I 1943 1943


Box 3 1944


Volume CX7 I 1944 1944


Volume CX7 I 1945 1945


Volume CX7 I 1946 1946


Volume CX7 I 1947 1947


Volume CX7 I 1948 1948


Volume CX7 I 1949 1949


Volume CX7 I 1950 1950


Volume CX7 I 1951 1951


Volume CX7 I 1952 1952


Volume CX7 I 1953 1953


Volume CX7 I 1954 1954


Volume CX7 I 1955 1955


Volume CX7 I 1956 1956


Volume CX7 I 1957 1957


Volume CX7 I 1958 1958


Box 3 1959

Box 3 1960

Box 3 1961

Box 3 1962

Box 3 1963

Box 3 1964


Volume CX7 I 1965 1965


Box 4 1966

Box 4 1967

Box 4 1968


Volume CX7 I 1969 1969


Box 4 1970

Box 4 1971

Box 4 1972

Box 4 1973

Box 4 1974

Box 4 1975

Box 4 1976

Box 4 1977


Volume CX7 I 1978 1978


Box 4 1979

Box 4 1980

Box 4 1981

Box 4 1982

Box 4 1983

Box 4 1984

Box 4 1985

Box 4 1986

Box 4 1987


Box 5 1988

Box 5 1989

Box 5 1990

Box 5 1991

Box 5 1992

Box 5 1993

Box 5 1994

Box 5 1995

Box 5 1996

Box 5 1997

Box 5 1998

Box 5 1999

Box 5 2000

Box 5 2001

Box 5 2002

Box 5 2003

Box 5 2004

Box 5 2005

Box 5 2006