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Office of the President
Samuel C. Mitchell
1909-1913
Roll # 4617 (1909-13)
Acting President 1907-09: Correspondence of Acting
President
A.C. Moore re: various topics including admissions, appropriations,
advertisements,
scholarships.
Addresses/Lectures 1909-13: Copies of addresses/lectures by
Mitchell.
Admissions 1908-13: Samples of requests for catalogues, tuition
and housing information, and other admissions information.
Advertisements 1908-10: Correspondence re: advertisements for
USC,
placing and renewing ads in magazines and newspapers, text of ads
Advertisements 1911-13: Ibid.
Alumni 1908-09: Correspondence re: alumni association, forming
local chapters, memberships, meetings, contributions
Alumni 1910-11: Ibid.
Alumni 1912-13: Ibid.
Associations and Boards 1908-09: Correspondence with
representatives
of various associations, including General Education Board, Harvard Alumni
Association, American Historical Association, National Association of
State
Universities.
Associations and Boards 1910-11: Ibid.
Associations and Boards 1912-13: Ibid.
Athletics 1908-13: Correspondence re: setting up
"meets"
with other schools, gymnasium supplies, student eligibility.
Roll # 4618 (1909-13)
Board of Trustees 1908-10: Correspondence re: reports to
BOT, resolutions, academic matters, committees, appropriations
Board of Trustees 1911-13: Ibid.
Building Funds and Appropriations 1908-13: Re: funding and
appropriations
for building projects.
Building Program 1907-13: Re: building construction, planning,
applications for
construction and design contracts.
Coker Family 1908-13: Correspondence between Mitchell and Coker
family, primarily David R. Coker re: Founder's Day, bulletins, alumni,
Coker
College, commencement addresses
Colleges and Universities 1908-09: Correspondence between
Mitchell
and representatives of other colleges and universities re: curricula,
seminars,
speaking engagements, associations, publications
Colleges and Universities 1910: Ibid.
Colleges and Universities 1911: Ibid.
Colleges and Universities 1912-13: Ibid.
Committees 1908-10: Correspondence on committees including
Faculty
Com., Organization Com., Com. on Colleges and Schools, Discipline Com.,
Appropriations Com., Senate and House Committees on Indian Affairs, and
other community committees
Committees 1911-13: Ibid.
Conferences 1909-13: Correspondence re: various conferences,
including
Conf. for Education, Southern Student Health Conf., National Conservation
Congress
Dean's Office 1908-12: Correspondence by A.C. Moore as Acting
President
and Dean of the University re: student absences from chapel and academic
credits.
Departments 1908-10: Correspondence with faculty and others re:
the various departments, inc. English, Civil Engineering, Sciences.
Departments 1911-13: Ibid.
Roll # 4619 (1909-13)
Faculty 1908-10: Correspondence between Mitchell,
faculty
members and Faculty Committee re: salaries, academics, students,
personal
topics. Faculty members including Wauchope, Moore, Wardlaw, Morse,
Porcher, and esp. Homes.
Faculty 1911-13: Ibid.
Finances 1908-10: Correspondence re: univ. accounts, debts,
contracts,
tuition fees, etc.
Finances 1911: Ibid.
Finances 1912-13: Ibid.
Football 1908-13: Correspondence re:contracts, reform in football
rules, coaches, players.
Founder's Day 1910-13: Correspondence re: speakers for Founder's
Day, guests, bulletins, invitations.
Funds and Foundations 1908-13: Correspondence re: foundations,
primarily Carnegie and Negro Rural School Fund
Gifts 1908-13: Correspondence, primarily thank-yous by Mitchell
for gifts, including books, paperweights, photographs
Good Roads 1910-13: Correspondence re: Good Roads Commission and
bulletins, requests for bulletins, efforts to improve
SC roads
Governor of S.C. 1907-13: Correspondence with and about Governors
Ansel and Blease, re:meetings, Carnegie Foundation, appropriations
Health/Infirmary 1908-13: Correspondence re: furnishings,
bills, sanitary conditions at USC, lectures.
Roll # 4620 (1909-13)
Invitations by Mitchell for persons to speak at USC
1908-1910
Invitations by Mitchell 1911
Invitations by Mitchell 1912-13
Invitations to Mitchell to speak Jan – May 1910.
Invitations to Mitchell to speak June – Dec 1910.
Invitations to Mitchell to speak Jan – March 1911.
Roll # 4621 (1909-13)
Invitations to Mitchell to speak April – Sept
1911.
Invitations to Mitchell to speak Oct – Dec 1911.
Invitations to Mitchell to speak Jan – March 1912.
Invitations to Mitchell to speak April – June 1912.
Invitations to Mitchell to speak July – Dec 1912.
Invitations to Mitchell to speak 1913.
Peabody Funds 1909-13: Correspondence re: distributing funds,
board
meetings.
Personal Correspondence 1908-09: Correspondence re: various
topics
including temperance, friends, business associates, associations, univ.
officials (including August Kohn and school superintendents).
Personal Correspondence 1910: Ibid.
Roll # 4622 (1909-13)
Personal Correspondence 1911: Ibid.
Personal Correspondence 1912-13: Ibid.
Photographs 1909-13: Correspondence re: photographs of the univ.
between Mitchell and businesses.
Physical Director 1908-13: Correspondence to and by Mitchell re:
filling position of univ. physical director.
Post Office 1909-13: Correspondence between Mitchell, Rep. David
Finley and Postmaster George Huggins re: the lack of adequate postal
facilities
at the univ.
Prohibition (Temperance Committee) 1909-13: Correspondence mainly
re: speaking engagements.
Publications, Articles, Papers 1908-09: Several undated
handwritten
notes on unjust imprisonment, typed copies of speeches, press releases and
announcements, c. with newspapers/magazines re: advertisements, upcoming
publications and reviews, requests for bulletins.
Publications, Articles, Papers 1910: Ibid.
Publications, Articles, Papers 1911: Ibid.
Publications, Articles, Papers 1912: Ibid.
Publications, Articles, Papers 1913: Ibid.
Purchases 1908-12: Orders for various items including scientific
apparatus, biology supplies, photographs, books.
Registrar 1909-12: Primarily requests to Registrar for
information
on univ. and students.
Rural Schools 1909-12: Correspondence re: rural schools in
S.C., especially Negro Rural School Fund, between Mitchell and other
univ./college presidents, community leaders, principals and
superintendents
(including W.K. Tate. State Supervisor of Elementary Rural Schools
and J.E. Swearingen, State Superintendent of Education).
Roll # 4623 (1909-13)
Scholarships 1908-09: Correspondence re: Alumni
Loans,
scholarship applications, scheduling scholarship examinations,
awarding
of and loss of scholarships, establishment of scholarship for United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Scholarships 1910: Ibid.
Scholarships 1911: Ibid.
Scholarships 1912-13: Ibid.
Secretary 1910-13: Correspondence of Sarah Fickling with
students,
parents and businesses.
Special/Distinguished Persons 1909-13: Correspondence between
Mitchell
and various distinguished persons, including Booker T. Washington, Wil Lou
Gray, Sol Blatt, Woodrow Wilson, Columbia Mayor W.H. Gibbes, George Foster
Peabody, and other state and federal officials re: speaking engagements,
legislation and students.
Students 1908-09: Correspondence with parents, guardians and
students
re: admissions, finances, students withdrawals from school, student
illnesses,
discipline.
Students Jan. 1910-June 1910: Ibid.
Students July 1910-Dec. 1910: Ibid.
Students Jan. 1911-June 1911: Ibid.
Students July 1911-Dec. 1911: Ibid.
Roll # 4624 (1909-13)
Students Jan. 1912-Mar. 1913: Ibid.
Student Housing 1908-12: Correspondence re: univ. housing,
including
dorm rooms and furnishings, fees, room assignments, problems and boarding
houses in Columbia.
Student Organizations 1909-13: Correspondence between Mitchell
and primarily fraternities, especially Sigma Nu, also literary societies
and Glee Club.
Student Reports 1908-10: Primarily Mitchell's cover letters to
student reports sent to parents and correspondence with parents re:
grades,
absences and discipline.
Student Reports 1911-13: Ibid. also includes correspondence re:
Cole Blease's expulsion.
Treasurer 1908-13: Correspondence with treasurer Sarah Fickling
re: bills owed to and by the univ., including furniture, diplomas,
printing,
legal fees, academic equipment and supplies, student room and board and
tuition.
Women's Movement 1909-13: Correspondence primarily to Mitchell
re: women's movement, including education.
YMCA 1909-11: Correspondence re: speaking invitations, programs,
classes, funding, preparation for formal opening of Flinn Hall as YMCA.
YMCA 1912-13: Ibid.
YWCA 1910-12: Correspondence primarily re: speaking
invitations.
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September 28, 2005