Home Study records, 1919-1951

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Series I. Home Study records, 1919-1951



Box 6 Folder 15 Academic credit, 1928-1936



Box 1 Folder 1 Administrative, 1939-1942

(Re: the Home Study records after the program was discontinued.)


Box 1 Folder 2-4 Advertising, 1931-1936, 3 folders

(Cross & Labeaume, Inc.)


Box 1 Folder 5 Advisory Committee, 1925-1936


Box 1 Folder 6 Alumni Federation, 1931


Box 1 Folder 7 Benjamin Franklin Institute, 1920-1923

(See also Brownell, Langston and Tyson)


Box 1 Folder 8 Blair, Frederick, 1921-1922

(Wharton School of Commerce)


Box 1 Folder 9 Bookstore (Columbia University), 1927-1938

(Harold Bentley and S.H. Woodbridge)


Box 1 Folder 10 Bradstreet Adjustment Service, 1927-1932

(Financial and character credit reports)


Box 1 Folder 11 Brownell, H.T., 1924-1925

(See also Benjamin Franklin Institute, Langston and Tyson)


Box 1 Folder 12 Buildings and Grounds, Department of, 1924-1935


Box 1 Folder 13-14 Bursar, Office of the, 1923-1939, 2 folders


Box 1 Folder 15 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1920-1932

(University President)


Box 1 Folder 16-17 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps, 1935-1937, 2 folders

(Correspondence with Camp Educational Advisers)


Box 1 Folder 18 "Columbia and Adult Education" by Levering Tyson, 1928-1930


Box 1 Folder 19-22 Columbia University Press, 1926-1938, 4 folders


Box 1 Folder 23 World Literature Course, 1929-1933



Box 2 Folder 1 Copyright, 1927

(Library of Congress)


Box 2 Folder 2-3 Course fees, 1924-1931, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 4-5 Courses by radio, 1924-1925, 2 folders

(Includes syllabi and lecture transcripts)


Box 2 Folder 6-7 Courses by radio, 1935-1936, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 8 Coykendall, Frederick, 1921-1935


Box 2 Folder 9-10 Cross, Anson K. (A.K.), 1926-1938, 2 folders

(Instructor of Drawing and Painting using the Cross Visual Training Method (and the Cross drawing and painting glass). Includes the disposition of the Anson K. Cross Vision Training Fund.)


Box 2 Folder 11 Cyko Marketing Services, 1936-1937


Box 2 Folder 12 D-R Special List Bureau, 1936-1938


Box 2 Folder 13 Davisson Direct Mail Service, 1936-1937


Box 2 Folder 14 Defense Training Institute, 1941-1942

(Flying Cadets Pilot Training)


Box 2 Folder 15-19 Egbert, James C., 1919-1938, 5 folders

(Director of University Extension)


Extramural Courses


Box 2 Folder 20 Academic credit, 1927-1939


Box 2 Folder 21 Budget, 1940-1943



Box 5 Folder 23 Course registrations, 1939-1942



Box 2 Folder 22 Dress design course marketing, 1941-1942


Box 2 Folder 23 General, 1930-1936


Box 2 Folder 24 Newburgh Free Academy, 1939



Box 3 Folder 1 Passaic, New Jersey, 1941


Box 3 Folder 2 Paterson, New Jersey, 1941


Box 3 Folder 3 Pending, 1940-1942


Box 3 Folder 4 Sociology course in White Plains, 1941


Box 3 Folder 5 YMCA Newark, New Jersey, 1939-1942


Box 3 Folder 6 Fackenthal, Frank D., 1920-1936

(University Secretary)


Box 3 Folder 7 Gas, 1925-1936

(Courses on Gas Practice, Manufactured Gas, Gas Production, and Distribution and Utilization)


Box 3 Folder 8-9 General correspondence, 1927-1938, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 10-11 General correspondence, 1939-1942, 2 folders


Guidance Study


Box 3 Folder 12 Course assignments, 1939-1940


Box 3 Folder 13-17 Mailings, 1939-1940, 5 folders

(Mailing to former Home Study students and to those who submitted a Home Study request for information.)



Box 5 Folder 22 Schedule of Assignments, 1939

(Includes book(s) and materials used in the course, and due dates for the assignments for the fall/winter session for courses in Accounting, Advertising, Dramatic Arts/Play Writing, English Composition, English Business Writing, Finance/Investments, Business Law, Magazine Article Writing, Juvenile Story Writing, Psychology, Salesmanship, and Statistics.)



Box 3 Folder 18 Student correspondence, 1940

(Assignments, enrollment issues, etc.)


Box 3 Folder 19 Hawkes, Herbert E., 1928-1931

(Dean of Columbia College)


Box 3 Folder 20 Hayden, Philip M., 1929-1938

(Assistant Secretary and later University Secretary)


Box 3 Folder 21 High school courses, 1932-1937



Box 5 Folder 24 Home Study Idea, 1936

(Monthly, one-sheet bulletin published by Home Study. Includes some issues and related correspondence.)



Box 3 Folder 22-23 Instructors, 1933-1939, 2 folders


Box 3 Folder 24 Keppel, Frederick P., 1926-1930

(President, Carnegie Corporation)


Box 3 Folder 25-26 Langston, L.H. (Loyd Helvetius), 1924-1938, 2 folders

(See also Benjamin Franklin Institute, Brownell and Tyson)


Box 3 Folder 27 Libraries, 1924-1933

(Columbia University (CUL) and New York Public Library (NYPL))



Box 4 Folder 1 Mailing services, 1925-1937


Box 4 Folder 2 Mosely Selective List Service, 1937


Box 4 Folder 3 MS. - a magazine for writers, 1923-1936


Box 4 Folder 4 Neuro-Psychiatric Institute of the Hartford Retreat, 1932-1938


Box 4 Folder 5 New York State Education Department, 1924-1937


Box 4 Folder 6 Office supplies, 1931-1936



Box 6 Folder 14 Polish grammar course (Elementary Polish), 1935-1938

(Inlcudes materials from a Russian course.)



Box 4 Folder 7 Post office, 1928-1938


Box 4 Folder 8 Prison students, 1921-1938


Box 4 Folder 9-10 Promotion, 1931-1936, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 11-12 Registrar, Office of the, 1920-1938, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 13 Purchasing Office, 1924-1938


Requests for information


General


Box 4 Folder 14-16 1938-1939, 3 folders


Box 4 Folder 17-18 1939-1940, 2 folders


By subject


Box 4 Folder 19 Accounting, 1938-1939


Box 4 Folder 20 Advertising, 1938-1939


Box 4 Folder 21 Business Administration, 1938-1939


Box 4 Folder 22 Business English, 1938-1939


Box 4 Folder 23 Creative Writing, 1938-1939


Box 4 Folder 24 English Composition, 1938-1939



Box 5 Folder 1 English Literature, 1938-1939


Box 5 Folder 2 Finance, 1939


Box 5 Folder 25 Journalism, 1938-1938


Box 5 Folder 26 Juvenile Story Writing, 1938-1939


Box 5 Folder 3 Law, 1938-1939


Box 5 Folder 4 Magazine Article Writing, 1937-1939


Box 5 Folder 5 Personnel Management, 1938-1939


Box 5 Folder 6 Playwriting and the Dramatic Arts, 1937-1939


Box 5 Folder 7 Poetry, 1938-1939


Box 5 Folder 8 Psychology, 1938-1939


Box 5 Folder 9 Salesmanship, 1938-1939


Box 5 Folder 10-11 Short Story Writing, 1938-1939, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 12 Statistics, 1938-1939


Box 5 Folder 13 Saxe, John G., 1924-1936

(Law Office of Worcester, Williams & Saxe. Includes correspondence with Stephen Williams.)


Box 5 Folder 14 Scoutmastership, 1921-1935

(Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts, Knights of Columbus)


Box 5 Folder 15 Student testimonials, 1939-1940

(Including students in the Guidance Study program.)


Box 5 Folder 16 Taylor, Fidelia, 1919-1938

(University Extension)


Box 5 Folder 17 Teachers College, 1925-1938


Box 5 Folder 18-19 Treasurer, Office of the, 1919-1936, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 20 Tyson, Levering, 1924-1951

(Transferred to Columbiana in 1951. Levering's copies of correspondence related to the Benjamin Franklin Institute, Brownell and Langston.)


Box 5 Folder 21 University Extension (Columbia), 1932-1937

(Home Study and adult education reports and memos)


University Extensions (National)



Box 6 Folder 1-5 General, 1931-1938, 5 folders


Organizations and councils


Box 6 Folder 6 American Association for Adult Education, 1925-1937


Box 6 Folder 7 National Home Study Council, 1929-1936


National University Extension Association


Box 6 Folder 8-9 1920-1930, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 10-11 1931-1934, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 12 1936


Box 6 Folder 13 YMCA courses, 1924-1937