Office of the Secretary records, 1866-2004

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Series IV: Honors and Prizes, 1910-1999

These boxes, part of accession 2001-048 (originally received in March 2000), contain files from the Office of the Secretary regarding various prizes, honors, special convocations and lectures administered by that office and/or the Board of Trustees. The records have been arranged alphabetically and chronologically and are housed in three record cartons. Photographs have been removed to the Historical Photograph Collection (UA#0003).


Bampton Lectures



Box IV.1 Folder 1 1974-1979


Box IV.1 Folder 2-3 1982, 2 folders


Box IV.1 Folder 4-5 1983, 2 folders


Box IV.1 Folder 6 1984


Box IV.1 Folder 7 1986


Box IV.1 Folder 8 1987


Box IV.1 Folder 9 1988


Box IV.1 Folder 10 1989


Box IV.1 Folder 11 Bancroft Nominations, 1978-1983


Box IV.1 Folder 12 Bancroft Recipients Bios, 1974-1993


Box IV.1 Folder 13 Bancroft Prize Jury Master Lists, 1986-1997


Box IV.1 Folder 14 Bancroft Procedures, 1946-1948, 1963-1994


Box IV.1 Folder 15 Bancroft Announcements, 1972-1995


Box IV.1 Folder 16 Bancroft Dissertation Awards, 1967-1994


Bancroft Prize - Information/Correspondence


Box IV.1 Folder 17 1943-1947


Box IV.1 Folder 18 1972-1977


Box IV.1 Folder 19 1978-1981


Box IV.1 Folder 20 1982-1984


Box IV.1 Folder 21 1985-1986


Box IV.1 Folder 22 1986-1989


Box IV.1 Folder 23 1990-1996


Box IV.1 Folder 24 Bancroft Prize, 1997-1998



Box IV.2 Folder 1 Barnard Medal, 1910-1986


Box IV.2 Folder 2 Bearns (Joseph H.) Prize in Music, 1983-1987


Box IV.2 Folder 3 Berger (Mike) Awards, 1983-1985


Box IV.2 Folder 4 Breevort Eickemeyer Prize, 1951-1987


Box IV.2 Folder 5 Butler Medal, 1974-1995


Box IV.2 Folder 6 Cabot Prizes, 1974-1996


Box IV.2 Folder 7 Chandler Lecturer and Medal, 1972-1986


Box IV.2 Folder 8 Citations, 1972-1984


Box IV.2 Folder 9 Con Edison Lecture (Nuclear Engineering), 1984-1985


Box IV.2 Folder 10 Coss Memorial Prize, 1956


Box IV.2 Folder 11 Ditson (Alice M.) Conductor's Award, 1940, 1960-1993


Box IV.2 Folder 12 duPont (Alfred I.) Awards Foundation, 1993


Box IV.2 Folder 13 Egleston Medal, 1943


Box IV.2 Folder 14 Fisher (Alexander Ming) Lecture, 1996


Box IV.2 Folder 15 Handler (Milton) Prizes for Scholastic Achievement, 1989-1990


Box IV.2 Folder 16 Harcourt Awards - General Information/Correspondence, 1981-1985, 1993


Box IV.2 Folder 17 Harper (Carroll C.) Prize, 1983


Box IV.2 Folder 18 History Department Prizes, 1982-1983


Box IV.2 Folder 19 Honors Correspondence, 1968-1986


Box IV.2 Folder 20 Honors Guidelines/Correspondence, 1977-1988, 1997


Box IV.2 Folder 21 Horowitz Prize, 1965-1999

[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2025]


Box IV.2 Folder 22 Horowitz Committee, 1989-1998


Box IV.2 Folder 23 Horowitz Recipients, 1975-1993


Box IV.2 Folder 24 Horowitz Prize, 1989-1996


Box IV.2 Folder 25 Horowitz Prize, 1996


Box IV.2 Folder 26 John Jay Awards, 1983-1990


Box IV.2 Folder 27 Jesup Lectures, 1983-1987


Box IV.2 Folder 28 Karpf Peace Prize, 1982-1983


Box IV.2 Folder 29 Kemp Prize, 1936


Box IV.2 Folder 30 Lodge (Stanwood Cockey) Foundation Committee, 1979


Box IV.2 Folder 31 Loubat Prize, 1974-1989


Box IV.2 Folder 32 Loubat Prizes, 1952-1958


Box IV.2 Folder 33 Medal for Excellence - General Information and Correspondence, 1935-1993


Box IV.2 Folder 34 Mendelssohn (Adele) Memorial Award, 1975-1983


Box IV.2 Folder 35 Nevins Prizes 1976, 1982


Box IV.2 Folder 36 Palfrey Memorial Lecture, 1983


Box IV.2 Folder 37 Plaques, 1966-1991


Box IV.2 Folder 38 Presidential Award for Great Teaching, 1996


Box IV.2 Folder 39 Public Finance Prize Fund, 1976-1984



Box IV.3 Folder 1 Pulitzer Prize, 1930-1969


Box IV.3 Folder 2 Pulitzer Prize, 1970-1972


Box IV.3 Folder 3 Pulitzer Prizes - General, 1974-1979


Box IV.3 Folder 4 Pulitzer Prize, 1981-1996


Box IV.3 Folder 5 Pupin Medal, 1983, 1992


Box IV.3 Folder 6 Radner Lectureship, 1987-1988


Special Convocations


Box IV.3 Folder 7 Fall 1976, 1976


Box IV.3 Folder 8 Pupin Physics Laboratories, 1977 October 17


Box IV.3 Folder 9 American Bar Association Centennial Celebration - August 6, 1978, 1977-1978


Box IV.3 Folder 10 Hammer Health Sciences Center - September 20, 1978, 1978


Box IV.3 Folder 11 Sherman Fairchild Center Dedication - October 5, 1978, 1978


Box IV.3 Folder 12 Graduate Faculties Centennial - April 17, 1980, 1980


Box IV.3 Folder 13 President of Italy, Alessandro Pertini - March 31, 1982, 1981-1982


Box IV.3 Folder 14 Bishop Desmond M. Tutu - August 3, 1982, 1981-1982


Box IV.3 Folder 15 Fung Yu-lan - September 10, 1982, 1981-1982


Box IV.3 Folder 16 Herbert A. Simon at Computer Science Convocation - October 11, 1983, 1982-1983


Box IV.3 Folder 17 Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute - March 30, 1984, 1983-1984


Box IV.3 Folder 18 Richard von Weizsacker, President, Federal Republic of Germany (Proposed), 1986


Box IV.3 Folder 19 Noboru Takeshita - January 22, 1986, 1985-1986


Box IV.3 Folder 20 Mario Cuomo (Proposed), 1983, 1987


Box IV.3 Folder 21 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan - April 25, 1987, 1985-1987


Box IV.3 Folder 22 National Institutes of Health - September 15, 1987, 1986-1987


Box IV.3 Folder 23 John Kluge - October 19, 1988, 1987-1988


Box IV.3 Folder 24 Teachers College Centennial - November 29, 1988, 1986-1988


Box IV.3 Folder 25 Teachers College Centennial - November 29, 1988, 1988


Box IV.3 Folder 26 Francesco Cossiga - October 17, 1989, 1989


Box IV.3 Folder 27 Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia - February 22, 1990, 1990


Box IV.3 Folder 28 Nobel Recipients - September 26, 1990, 1990


Box IV.3 Folder 29 Dalai Lama - April 26, 1994, 1989-1994


Box IV.3 Folder 30 Tobenkin (Paul) Memorial Award, 1983


Box IV.3 Folder 31 Trilling (Lionel) Award, 1983


Box IV.3 Folder 32 University Prizes - List, 1972-1979


Box IV.3 Folder 33 Vetlesen Prize, 1959-1999

[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2025]


Box IV.3 Folder 34 Wertheimer Prize in Labor Law, 1981


Box IV.3 Folder 35 Whitney Young Lectureship, 1983


Box IV.3 Folder 36 Wien (Lawrence A.) Prize, 1981-1982