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A01. Governance and Administration

 Record Group
Identifier: A01

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Office of the Treasurer: records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.08
Scope and Content Records include important historical documents and a variety of significant materials: early financial reports, pledge subscriptions, salary records, deeds, tuition records, cash disbursement records, and many other records of financial activity. Many of the records have been bound into volumes. Others are arranged by date. Financial records created after 1951 are found in the Vice President for Finance...
Dates: 1788 - 1959
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Joseph McKeen: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.01
Scope and Content This collection contains general correspondence concerning College affairs. Most primary source material concerning the administration of the College in the early years is found in the records of the Board of Trustees or in the ...
Dates: 1802 - 1806
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Jesse Appleton: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.02
Scope and Content This collection contains general correspondence concerning College affairs. Included is a document describing the "order of arrangement" at Appleton's inauguration as President, in 1807. Most primary source material concerning the administration of the College in the early years is found in the records of the Board of Trustees or in the ...
Dates: 1807 - 1819
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

William Allen: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.03
Scope and Content Correspondence and records concerning College affairs during William Allen's administration including Allen's inauguration, College laws, student petitions and degrees, professorships, the Allen vs. McKeen court case (1832-1833), Maine Hall fire (1822), Phi Beta Kappa, and the conferral of an honorary degree on Marquis de Lafayette in 1824. Additional primary source material concerning the early administration of the College is found in the records of the ...
Dates: 1820-1839
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Leonard Woods: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.04
Scope and Content The papers contain general correspondence concerning College affairs and three series of material on specific issues. One series consists of a group of depositions taken from all the students at the College in 1846 just after the wood yard burned on the night of October 29. One student was eventually dismissed for his alleged involvement in the incident.Another series concerns the Declaration of Denominational Status, also of 1846. This issue revolved around the status of the...
Dates: 1828 - 1866
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Samuel Harris: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.05
Scope and Content This collection contains general correspondence concerning College affairs. Included are letters from the spring of 1867 between Nehemiah Cleaveland, Samuel Backus, and William Smyth concerning Memorial Hall. Most primary source material regarding the early administration of the College is found in the records of the Board of Trustees or in the ...
Dates: 1867 - 1869
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.06
Scope and Content This collection contains general correspondence concerning College affairs. Most notable are items concerning the "Drill Rebellion" of 1874. Most primary source material concerning the early administration of the College is found in the records of the Board of Trustees and the Records of the Faculty...
Dates: 1871 - 1883
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

William DeWitt Hyde: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.07
Scope and Content The administrative records of William De Witt Hyde include subject files and his annual "Report of the President of Bowdoin College," from the initial report of 1891-1892 through 1916-1917. The bulk of the subject files contain general correspondence about College affairs and the 1894 centennial celebration. The President's Reports from 1891-1892 through 1903-1904 were published separately and are included in the box with the subject files. President Hyde's reports from 1904-1905...
Dates: 1882 - 1917
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Kenneth C.M. Sills: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.08
Scope and Content Files of President Kenneth C.M. Sills include general office correspondence and specific correspondence relating to the closing of the Medical School of Maine, the conferring of honorary degrees, athletics, fraternities, the Institute of Modern Literature, the establishment of the Kent Island Station, the Tallman Foundation and the Committee on the Limitation of Numbers. The files also include correspondence with a number of prominent alumni including Percival Baxter '98, William W. Lawrence...
Dates: 1889-1969
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

James Stacy Coles: administrative records

 Record Group
Identifier: A01.02.09
Scope and Content The collection contains correspondence, subject files, reports, and speeches. In addition to general administrative records, there are records concerning the Senior Center, the Capital Campaign, the Bowdoin Plan, R.O.T.C., and the College's self-study. Also included are files concerning WCBB, the Maine educational television network, A.C.H.E.S., the Advisory Commission for Higher Education Study, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Science. For related James Stacy...
Dates: 1946 - 1979
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

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