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* Columbia
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Record Group: 1 UW
Record Sub-Group: 1
Record Series: 5
Records Title: UM-System; Board of Curators Official Correspondence: Turn of the Century Expansion
Dates: 1898-1913
Volume: 2 cubic feet, 2.5 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Series Five of Sub-Group One contains records of the Board's actions during the first years of the new century. Included are records of decisions made concerning the establishment of a University Hospital and expanded course offerings for the School of Medicine.
Note to Archivist: This entire collection has been microfilmed. The microfilm consists of 33 microfilm reels (MFR) in 35mm format, located in the Archives Reading Room's Microfilm Cabinet. Call number: UW:1/4/1a (A01-154).
Note to Researcher: Researchers are encouraged to use the microfilm version of this Sub-Group as the original documents are fragile and responsible preservation requires minimum use of the original paper records.
Inventory
Series Five - Turn of the Century Expansion: 1898-1913
Box 10
FF 1 - 1898 - School of Mines Report of the Director and response of Jesse; treasurer's bond and report; correspondence regarding requests for salary increases; honorary degree recommendations; and the unconstitutionality of Yeater Scholarships; estimates of departmental needs; petition and material regarding E.H. Jones' participation in "class prank" and his dismissal; mustering of cadets; presentation of portrait of W.H. Duncan; resolution regarding securing a hospital facility for the Medical Department.
FF 1A - 1898 - Jesse to Governor Stephens regarding legislation against the proposed Collateral Inheritance Tax Bill; receipts for coal deliveries; Library Committee recommendation for periodicals and newspapers; resignations, applications for positions, recommendations, appointments and acceptances; "Programme and Constitution of the Scientific Association of the University of Missouri" and related correspondence; protest by W.G. Brown of proposed degree course; material regarding William L. Parker's donation for the hospital building; land sales and defective titles; curator oaths; Jesse's report; remission of student fees; United States Treasury Department regarding the lack of a need for tax stamps on University warrants; treasurer's bond.
Note to Researcher: A certificate appointing D.A. McMillan as a member of the University Board of Curators has been removed and placed in the map cabinet in the reading room.
FF 2 - 1899 - Payroll; letters to faculty regarding order that "no professor or teacher of this University be permitted to go to Jefferson City during the session of the Legislature..."; "An Act to Tax Gifts, Legacies, Inheritances..."; applications for positions, letters of recommendation; report of the Laws Observatory; report regarding "Statement of Needs of the University of the State of Missouri..."; "Election of 1898, Missouri..."; estimated income and expenses statement; Board of Curators refusal to endorse having a football team; "Memorial to Congress" regarding the need for a public school system in Indian Territory; Curator oaths; Jesse's report to the Board; Switzler regarding writing of a history of the University.
FF 2A - 1899 - Completed questionnaires from faculty for State Senate regarding the length of service each day, number of recitations heard each day, number of pupils per class, former residence, avocations besides teaching.
FF 2B - 1899 - School of Mines Report of the Director.
FF 3 - 1900 - Correspondence regarding Mary Hale's work on architectural drawings; remission of student fees; inspection of boilers; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; bids for goods and services; requests for increases in salaries; Parker Hospital construction; estimates of departmental needs; cadet uniforms; report from Steward of the Boarding Clubs; photo of the Cumberland Guards from the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
FF 3A - 1900 - Report of H.B. Shaw regarding water-power of the state; bids for goods and services; Report of the Committee on Summer School; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; sale of Agriculture College lands; bond of J.G. Babb, Secretary and Proctor; coal contract.
FF 3B - 1900 - Applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; material regarding Vanderbilt University's 25th anniversary; report of the Dormitories Steward; bids for goods and services; Librarian Gerould regarding control and centralization of the library; materials regarding selections of Agriculture College lands; C.F. Marbut regarding the Geological Survey and specimens.
FF 3C - 1900 - Applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; report of the Summer School Committee; Missouri Department of Education regarding admission requirements to the University and the resolution of the Association of Approved Schools; bank payments for A. Busch subscription to build a hospital clinic amphitheater; bids for goods and services; legislation; requests for supplies and equipment; Bulletins; report of the Dormitories Steward; gift of a boiler; needs of the University for next biennial period; complaint from University Board Club; estimation of salaries; boiler inspections; consolidation of libraries; selection of lands for the Agriculture College; "Certificates of Indebtedness Memorandum made after a conference with the Auditor elect..."; list of salaries paid; disbursements of land-grant College of Agriculture funds.
FF 4 - 1901 - "Salaries Paid by the University at Columbia" (January 1, 1901); faculty members answering Babb's questions regarding length of employment at the University, education and background.
FF 5 - 1902 - Report on collateral inheritance tax collections; Certificates of Award of gold metals at the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition; resolutions regarding death of McAlester, Easter Holidays, subscriptions to build a YMCA building; student petition regarding the promotion of L.M. Defoe; resignations, applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; materials regarding gathering information about completing a list of graduates of the University, includes General Odon Guitar who left days before he graduated to fight in Mexican War, "Address before the Alumni Association" (7/3/1856) by General Guitar; recommendations for degrees; recommendations for establishment of Chair of Mechanics of Engineering and Chair of Music; report of the Committee regarding restoration of entrance requirements to academic departments; report regarding scholarships and fellowships; recommendations for honorary degrees - including Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain; report regarding style and language of diplomas; protest by the Law Department against changing the names of divisions; report to the Board by President Jesse; Jesse regarding salaries paid; student discipline matters.
FF 5A - 1902 - President Jesse's memos to the Board of Curators; recommendations for honorary degrees; report regarding collateral inheritance tax collections; proposed changes in the University By-Laws; change in the Board of Curator's meeting date and responses; Report to the Board of Curators by Jesse; sale and lease of lands; names suggested for increased salaries; resignations and acceptances of positions; questions of laboratory fees; legislation, "For the promotion of Medical Science by the distribution and use of Unclaimed Human Bodies..."; entrance requirements for the Agriculture College; offering course in Chemical Engineering; necessity for additions to teaching force.
FF 5B - 1902 - Questions asked by the Visiting Committee; "Act Authorizing the Publication and Distribution of the History of the State University.." and Switzler regarding manuscript; "An act imposing an additional fee on corporations...to provide revenue for educational purposes"; payroll of University and salary lists; report regarding collateral inheritance tax collection; "Report of Secretary of the World's Fair Fraternal Building Association"; resolution regarding the death of Alex Martin; needs of the School of Mines and the Director's Report.
FF 6. - 1903-1904 - President Jesse's report to the Board of Curators; Jesse regarding changes in finances and libraries at Columbia and Rolla; establishment of a Commerce course; Chair of Homeopathic Medicine and inadequacy of funds due to collateral inheritance tax collections; name of new hall in Rolla, Norwood Hall; faculty leaves of absences; Rollins Scholarship recommendations - Law Department.
FF 6A - 1903-1904 - Correspondence to Andrew Carnegie regarding possible donation to build a library; income and expenditures of departments; copy of resolutions adopted by Missouri Corn Growers' Association; "HR 8678 A Bill to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agriculture experiment stations..."; recommendations for honorary degrees; request that faculty send copies of their publications to the Library; report of collateral inheritance tax collection; inquiry as to what date of founding to place on seal; recommendations for degrees.
FF 6B - 1904 - William Switzler sells manuscript of his book of MU history to the University; list of salaries paid in Columbia; Jesse regarding his objection to a raise in his salary; estimate on printing Switzler's history of MU; President Jesse's Report to the Board of Curators; "Act to appropriate money for construction of..."; building used as library and state historical museum to be known as "Missouri Soldiers Memorial Building" ( Ellis Library); report on appropriations and needs of the University; resolutions adopted by Missouri State Auctioneer's Association; Jesse's Report to the State Superintendent; recommendations of the Executive Committee of the State Board of Agriculture; death of John D. Vincil.
FF 6C - 1904 - Report of the Board of Visitors; I. Loeb regarding possible sources of University revenue; recommendations for degrees; materials regarding special revenue bills and proposed constitutional amendments; possible use of war claim funds; act authorizing the University to condemn property for public purposes; School of Mines Director's Report; treasurer's bond; actions of the Executive Committee.
FF 6D - 1904 - Materials regarding friction between W.E. Stone and J.T. Gerould.
FF 7. - 1905 - Jesse's letter to students of the University regarding the honor system; "UM Report and Accounts for the Biennial Period Ending" (12/31/1904) by Jones, Caesar, Dickinson, Wilmot and Company, CPA; granting furlough to Jesse; George English, Jr. regarding compensation; recommendations for degrees and scholarships; President's Report to the Board of Curators; honorary degrees; proposal for annual declamatory and oratorical contest for high schools; commencement programs; list of appointments; establishment of Graduate Conference Academic Faculty; School of Mines' charges of financial irregularities by Dr. George E. Ladd, Director; Director's Report; sale of lands.
FF 7A - 1905 - Report of Acting President Jones to the Board of Curators; correspondence of Jones, Caesar, Dickinson, Wilmot and Company, CPA; Committee's Report Regarding Annual Interscholastic Contests in Debating and Reading of Essays; petitions regarding salary of B.F. Hoffman from the German Department.
FF 8 - 1906 - Return of Jesse to post; request of Bible College faculty to get University credit for certain courses; resignation of Schweitzer; contract for the sale of Switzler's manuscript; list of ordinance stores; honorary degrees; University Council recommends enrollment in Military Department of Physical Training for all male students of first and second year classes; recommendations for degrees; appointments and acceptances; possible visit of President Roosevelt; increase in salaries; School of Mines' Director's Report.
FF 8A - 1906 - Committee report regarding promotion criteria; salary lists; material regarding disturbance between students and circus in town (5/10/1906).
FF 8B - 1906 - "Abrogation of Money Clause" for amateur athletes; materials regarding investigation of the School of Mines by Visiting Committee; "Appeal From the University" regarding funding needs; committee report regarding establishment of the College of Journalism; Captain J. Frazier's "Recommendation Regarding Missouri State Military School"; materials regarding condemnation of open privies and extension of sewer districts; entrance requirements; recommended amendments of By-Laws; establishment of various chairs and department names; University of California offers position to H.J. Waters.
Series Five - Turn of the Century Expansion: 1898-1913, (cont.)
Box 11
FF 1 - 1907 - Switzler regarding recommendations of the University Council; responses from other colleges regarding scheduling of classes, and social and athletic events; materials regarding former-president Minor's claim for back salary; responses to meeting notices; committee report regarding holidays and scheduling; by-laws regarding late registration fee; Jesse regarding Annual Report; increases in salaries; retirement of the President of the Board, G. Lathrop; honorary degrees; responses regarding salaries paid at institutions.
FF 1A - 1907 - Recommendations for degrees, medals and prizes; petitions regarding building of the Agriculture College building.
FF 1B - 1907 - Material regarding resignation of Jesse; committee report regarding plans for providing permanent income for the University; materials regarding Leave of Absence Policy; proposed amendments to the University Statutes; matters referred to the Board of Curators by the Executive Board; construction of the Agriculture Building; contract for donation by Barnes University and Centenary Hospital to the University of property to be used by Medical Department; Jesse's report to the Board of Curators; list of resignations and appointments (since 6/1/1907); School of Mines Action of Executive Committee; Director's Report.
FF 1C - 1907 - Switzler regarding enrollment figures; remission of student fees; report regarding "Inheritance Taxes in American States"; student petition regarding Doctor V.H. Roberts of the Law Department; bids for the construction of the Agriculture Building; possibility of Carnegie's help in building a library; Lawson regarding amendments to the By-Laws of the Board of Curators and the Rules of the Executive Board.
FF 2 - 1908 - Encumbrances on Centenary Hospital; recommendations for positions and degrees; Executive Board recommendation that the University dissolve relation with the Cooperative Store and its removal from University grounds; President's report to the Board of Curators; proposition submitted by the Trustees of the University Medical College of Kansas City; report of the Committee of Deans regarding the Rhodes-Clay Scholarship; Board of Curators meeting minutes (6/3/1908); organization of the Department of Journalism, appointment of Walter Williams as Dean, his resignation from the Board; Board's recognition of President Jesse's services; "A Bill to create a national University at the seat of the Federal government"; law student petition regarding Doctor V.H. Roberts; list of salaries; Certificate of Title to property of the Centenary Hospital.
FF 2A - 1908 - Materials regarding degrees for "Special Students" and M.A. Stafford of the Law Department; opposition of the President and deans to students deficient in entrance requirements receiving degrees; report of the Dean of Law; inauguration of President Albert Ross Hill; list of recommended salary increases; collection of tuition fees from non-resident students; Captain Frazier regarding refund of cadets fees and repeal of Board Order; School of Mines' Director's Report.
FF 3 - 1909 - Contract with Barnes University; suggested University budget; "Needs of the University"; Report of Committee on the Scholarship in American Citizenship; list of "Outstanding Warrants"; "Proposed Cooperation Between the College of Agriculture at Columbia and the State Normal School at Maryville, Missouri" and related materials; committee report regarding revisions and amendment of the Statutes of Missouri; proposition for the merging of the University Medical College of Kansas City into the Medical Department of the University; report on collateral inheritance tax collection.
FF 3A - 1909 - Establishment of the Rhodes-Clay Scholarship; actions of the University Council regarding holidays and schedule; petition of Marion A. Rose declined by Board of Curators; resignations including Professor Max Myer; correspondence and material regarding withholding of appropriation by the Governor; house bill regarding support and maintenance of the University, deficiencies of former appropriation caused by over-appropriation; collateral inheritance tax Funds; review of the status of the Experiment Station; list of vacancies, leaves of absence, and expired terms; opinion of the Attorney General regarding University appropriations not fully expended on December 31; recommendations for scholarships, degrees and prizes; resignation of McAlester; Attorney General's opinion regarding how funds of Rhodes-Clay Scholarship should be invested and related correspondence; petition of proprietors of local Columbia newspapers protesting publication of the University Missourian; committee report regarding investigation of the management of the Cooperative Store and consideration of the future of the store.
FF 3B - 1909 - Board resolution authorizing the execution of bond for the return of ordinance and ordinance stores; report of faculty, deans and departments regarding activities including judging at county fairs, Boy's Corn Growing Contest, meeting of the National Grange, Lawson's appointment as a member of the committee by American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology; J.A. Kurtz regarding administration of Collateral Inheritance Tax Law; material regarding Orton and Orton vs Curators; report of collateral inheritance tax collections; resignations, appointments and acceptances of appointments; meeting minutes (5/31-6/2/1909).
FF 4 - 1910 - Hill regarding organization of Extension Division and appointment of a director; change of name of the University Council to the University Faculty; meeting minutes (1/26/1910 & 2/26/1910); authorization to charge mileage and expenses by the Board of Curators to the University; State Auditor regarding Thomas Connor's estate tax; "Statement of Maintenance Account UM"; initiative petition regarding adding the proposed amendment to the Constitution on ballot; list of promotions and salary increases; Hinton correspondence regarding land donation by Barnes University; proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution; recommendations for appointments and degrees; resolution regarding interstate football games; posters advertising free lectures by Agriculture Special and Dairy Special Trains via the MK&T Railway and Burlington Route; report of lectures on special trains; recommendations of Mumford; recommendations for honorary degrees.
Note to Researcher: Three oversized broadsides advertising lectures were removed and placed in the map cabinet in the reading room.
FF 4A - 1910 - Recommendations for degrees; commencement program; proposal to admit women to the University Dining Club; report regarding the sale of dairy products; bid for bird's eye view photo; resignations, recommendations, appointment notices, and acceptances; Missouri State Medical Association resolution regarding appropriation of funds to maintain a Medical Department at Columbia; bids for Agriculture College lands.
FF 4B - 1910 - Correspondence regarding Captain Herschel Tupes relief from duties; resignations, recommendations, appointment notices and acceptances; state fair exhibit expenses; application by Rohani K. Das for Research Fellowship in Animal Husbandry; recommendations for degrees.
FF 4C - 1910 - Bond of Stewart Brothers for construction of a two story stone buildings; correspondence regarding title to land owned by Ida B. Hankins; material regarding demand for Medical Department funds; Board of Curators takes all lands off of the market; report of prizes won by fat steers exhibited by Department of Animal Husbandry; recommendations and reports of Mumford; statement of work done by YWCA; list of members of the Graduate Faculty; Shaw's appointment by the Mayor of Columbia to be Consulting Engineer for the extension of the Water and Light Plant; arrangement for Leslie Cowan to do engineering office work; recommendations for degrees.
FF 5 - 1911 - Special appropriations for sewer and pavement on University lands; material regarding proposed gift of University Medical College of Kansas City; resignations, recommendations, appointments and acceptances; Parker Memorial Hospital Report (12/1910); location of the new gate to Rollins Field, concrete bleachers; death Dr. J.M. Allen's bequeathment of his library to the University; dates for filing of mid-year exam grades; F.C. Connell regarding the collection of inheritance tax in Marion County.
FF 5A - 1911 - Committee report regarding manuscript of Switzler's history of MU; Mumford regarding news and exhibits at county fairs; recommendations, appointments and acceptances; Guy L. Noyes regarding the Training School for Nurses; Babb regarding selection of the University depository.
FF 5B - 1911 - Materials regarding controversy over payment of special counsel employed for collection of inheritance tax; material regarding College lands including mineral leases, building of roads and right of way requests, request for land for school house sites, proposed railway over land in Ripley County; recommendations for building authorization; University faculty moves for compulsory student vaccinations and required two years physical training for all women; recommendations for degrees; resignations, recommendations, appointments and acceptances; commencement program.
FF 5C - 1911 - List of insurance coverage; "Some Benefactions to State Institutions"; recommendations for salaries, appointments to positions; report on Apportionment of Funds of the Experiment Station; protests regarding cornerstone in Rolla to be laid by Masonic Rites; resolution by Missouri State Medical Association regarding establishment of four year Medical Department; material regarding establishment of Latin-American scholarship.
FF 6 - 1912 - Recommendations for salaries; appointments; positions; resignations; Babb regarding sale policy for lands; recommendations for degrees, prizes and scholarships; committee report regarding investigation of medical colleges and recommendations regarding development of a medical school at Columbia; Cope and Stewardson architect for Veterinary and Dairy buildings, cost of work done by workmen directly employed by the University; construction work on hospital and clinic; accidental death of K.L. Chandler as a patient in the hospital; collection of inheritance tax; Noyes report on hospital (12/1911).
FF 6A - 1912 - Endowment by Peabody Education Fund; recommendations for degrees; commencement program; J.J. Gwynn's gift for thesis prizes in agriculture; collection of inheritance tax by local attorneys; material regarding "24 hour rule" and fraternities and sororities.
FF 6B - 1912 - Resignations; recommendations for salaries and appointments; survey of school management in Missouri; Report of Parker Hospital (9/12/1912); "UM Report of Statistics on Scholarship of Fraternities, Sororities, Athletes for 2nd Semester 1911-1912"; recommendations for degrees; land sales.
FF 7 - 1913 - Report of judging at county fairs; collection of collateral inheritance tax; appointments of farm advisers; resignations and appointments.
FF 7A - 1913 - Material and correspondence regarding return of annual football game to Kansas City.
FF 7B - 1913 - School of Mines controversy over building of gym, selection of architect for project; commencement program; Executive Committee meeting minutes (5/29/1913); Director's of the School of Mines Report; resignation of Director L.E. Young; recommendations for degrees, prizes and scholarships; attempt to buy land for a library building, erection and condemnation procedures.
FF 7C - 1913 - Collection of collateral inheritance taxes; recommendations for degrees and scholarships; fat cattle prizes, judging team activities; Loeb Report regarding Conference of Deans and Similar Officer of Graduate Schools and meeting of Association of American Universities; Mumford Report including Fertilizer Control; recommendations for salaries, appointments; resignations; meeting with Alumni Association regarding playing football game at Kansas City, Missouri Valley Conference rule that intercollegiate athletic contests be held on home campus, return of game to Kansas City instead of to Lawrence, Kansas.
