Cornell University English Department records, 1891-1987.
Collection Number: 14-12-1227
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Cornell University English Department records, 1891-1987.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-12-1227
Abstract:
Records documenting the administration of the Cornell University English Department.
Creator:
Cornell University. English Department
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015.
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Records include office, committee, and personnel files; memos; student records; examinations,
including an 1891 entrance examination; English scholarship and fellowship materials
including lists of winners; selected records of the Freshman Humanities Program; correspondence;
pamphlets; minutes of faculty meetings (1946-1957); and records of the department
chairman, 1948-1968.
English Department lectures presented Monday, January 29, 2007 at Hollis E. Cornell
Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University: Sandra M. Gilbert, "Finding Atlantis:
Thirty Years of Exploring Women's Literary Traditions" and M.H. Abrams, "On Reading
Poetry Aloud."
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cornell University English Department records, #14-12-1227. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Access to departmental records restricted to the permission of the office of origin.
Names:
Cornell University -- : Entrance requirements -- : English.
Cornell University -- : Examinations -- : English.
Cornell University -- : Funds and scholarships.
Cornell University -- : Prizes.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Cornell University. Freshman Humanities Program
Cornell University. English Department
Subjects:
Oral interpretation of poetry.
Women and literature.
Feminism and literature.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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English Deartment lectures
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January 29, 2007 | |
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Scope and Contents
Presented Monday, January 29, 2007 at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith
Hall, Cornell University: Sandra M. Gilbert, "Finding Atlantis: Thirty Years of Exploring
Women's Literary Traditions" and M.H. Abrams, "On Reading Poetry Aloud."
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| Box 1 | Volume 1 |
Minutes of the meetings of the Department of English
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April 26, 1946 - November 12, 1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Entrance exam
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1891 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Exams
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1899-1913 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Exams
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1905-1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Exams
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1910-1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Intra-departmental memos
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1953-1963 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Administrative correspondence
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1941-1963 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Faculty biographical information
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1953-1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
List of instructors
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1940-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Memos concerning the medical insurance program at Cornell
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1954-1955 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Reading lists
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1949-1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Lists of graduate students
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1937-1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Lists of PhDs. and dissertation topics
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1938, 1948-1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Plagiarism
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1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Reading lists for Honors Program
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1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Honors Program Committee reports
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undated, 1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Honors Program correspondence
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1949-1955 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Honors Program exams
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1948, 1950-1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Honors Program seminars, lists of students in Honors Program
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undated, 1947-1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Honors Program memos
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1941-1955 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Fellowships and scholarships
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1949-1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Martin Sampson Fellowship
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1943-1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Fellowships
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1945, 1950, 1953, 1954 |
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Scope and Contents
Cornell - Glasgow Exchange Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Post War Fellowships
in Humanities
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Fellowship and scholarships
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1950, 1952, 1953, 1957 |
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Scope and Contents
Faculty Fellowships (Ford Foundation), Olmstead Scholarship, Class of 1916 Fellowship
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Fellowships and scholarships lists of elected
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1954-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Graduate program faculty meetings, memos about reform
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1966-1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Prizes
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undated, 1948-1951 |
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Scope and Contents
Coit Tyler, Jo Stafford, Martin Wright, Morrison Poetry Price, Rogers Peet Advertising
Prize.
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Prizes
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1943-1956 |
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Scope and Contents
Manuscript Club Contest, Guilford Essay Prize, Folder Library Prize, Cornell Dramatic
Club Playwriting, Corson Browning Prize, Bess Berlow Cohan.
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Prize information
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1943-1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Examanations - Masters and Ph.D. degrees
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1939-1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Schedule of exams
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1957-1958 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Examination notices, lists of seminars
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1946-1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Examination reading lists
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undated, 1948, 1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Committee files
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1936-1938, 1953, 1956 |
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Scope and Contents
Arts Festival, Fellowship, Committee on Graduate Work, Graduate Study, Special Committee
on the Conduct of Exams.
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Committee files
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1955, 1956, 1964 |
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Scope and Contents
General Committee, Ph.D Major - Minor Sub-committee, Graduate Training Sub-committee
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Committee files
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1954, 1956, 1963, 1964 |
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Scope and Contents
Graduate Committee, Registration and Schedules Committee, Faculty Research Grants
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Chairman's correspondence: Francis Mineka
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undated, 1948-1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Chairman's correspondence: Francis Mineka
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1953-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Foreign students
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1948-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Course proposals
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1960s |
| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Proposals
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1960-1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Teaching staff distributions
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undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Teaching staff distribution
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1948-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Edgar Rosenberg correspondence and memos
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1966, 1967 |
| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Edgar Rosenberg correspondence and memos
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1966, 1967 |
| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Statistics, charts, etc.
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1966-1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Humanities correspondence
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
English Humanities Committee
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1970, 1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Dorm courses Spring '71
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1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Humanities questionnaire
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Humanities Computer Project
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| Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Six year Ph.D. exemptions
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1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Questionnaire critiques
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Humanities Project notes, etc.
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1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 54 |
General problems
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1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 55 |
Staff / T.A.
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1968, 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Course rating results
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1968, 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Course rating results
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Spring1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Spring term humanities courses
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1967, 1968 |
| Box 1 | Folder 59 |
Requests to T.A.s for readers
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1968, 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 60 |
College scheduling patterns
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 61 |
Fall 1969-1970 humanities courses
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1969, 1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Fall term quotas
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 63 |
Fall charts
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 64 |
Fall English courses
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 65 |
Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Proposal (I.H.S.)
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| Box 1 | Folder 66 |
Social Sciences course Dowd, Lyons, Condry
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 67 |
English staff
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Fall 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 68 |
New course ideas
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 69 |
English
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Spring 1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 70 |
Course enrollment figures by college
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 71 |
Course preferences In English
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 72 |
Schedule pattern
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Spring 1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 73 |
Supply - demand statistics
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 74 |
T.A. course and hour preferences
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 75 |
Re-testing ok's
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1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 76 |
Teaching
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Fall 1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 77 |
Enrollment - Fall
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 78 |
Fall commitments
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 79 |
Scheduling patterns
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 80 |
Ballot and descriptions
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Fall 1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 81 |
Non-English courses, schedules
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 82 |
Faculty questionnaire
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| Box 1 | Folder 83 |
Student questionnaire
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| Box 1 | Folder 84 |
Freshman Writing Seminar brochure and John S. Knight Writing Program booklet
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1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 85 |
Class books, with schedules and grades for English Department courses taught by O.
F. Emerson. Includes note to Professor White from B.S. Monroe donating them to the
library.
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1891-1895 |