Frank Thilly papers, 1889-1935.
Collection Number: 14-21-623

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Frank Thilly papers, 1889-1935.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-21-623
Abstract:
Correspondence and lecture notes relating to Thilly's career at the University of Missouri (1893-1904), Princeton (1904-1906), and Cornell University (1906-1934); notes in German (ca. 1889-1890) taken by Thilly while studying at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.
Creator:
Thilly, Frank, 1865-1934.
Quanitities:
2.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Philosophy.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence and lecture notes relating to Thilly's career at the University of Missouri (1893-1904), Princeton (1904-1906), and Cornell University (1906-1934); notes in German (ca. 1889-1890) taken by Thilly while studying at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg under Kuno Fischer, Friedrich Paulsen, and others; newspaper clippings; and other papers. Correspondence, 1904-1921, with Woodrow Wilson concerns Thilly's call to Princeton, administrative matters during Thilly's years there, and his recommendations of several men for national and local office during Wilson's terms as President. Other correspondents include Felix Adler, Ernest Albee, Benjamin Cardozo, Lord Charnwood, Morris Raphael Cohen, James E. Creighton, Charles W. Dabney, John Dewey, Livingston Farrand, James Morgan Hart, John Grier Hibben, William James, Hugo Münsterberg, Friedrich Paulsen, Cuthbert W. Pound, Josiah Royce, Nathaniel Schmidt, Jacob Gould Schurman, T.V. Smith, William Ritchie Sorley, William Strunk, Jr., William Howard Taft, Joseph P. Tumulty, Andrew Dickson White, and Stephen S. Wise.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Frank Thilly papers, #14-21-623. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Adler, Felix, 1851-1933.
Albee, Ernest, 1865-1927.
Cardozo, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nathan), 1870-1938.
Charnwood, John Roby Benson, Baron, 1901-1955.
Cohen, Morris Raphael, 1880-1947.
Creighton, James Edwin, 1861-1924.
Dabney, Charles William, 1855-1945.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939.
Hart, J. M. (James Morgan), 1839-1916.
Hibben, John Grier, 1861-1933.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Münsterberg, Hugo, 1863-1916.
Paulsen, Friedrich, 1846-1908.
Pound, Cuthbert Winfred, 1864-1935.
Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916.
Schmidt, Nathaniel, 1862-1939.
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
Smith, Thomas Vernor, 1890-1964.
Sorley, William Ritchie, 1855-1935.
Strunk, William, Jr., 1869-1946.
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.
Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1879-1954.
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949.
University of Missouri
Princeton University
Cornell University
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Universität Heidelberg
Freie Universität Berlin
Places:
United States. -- President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects:
Ethics.
Philosophy.

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