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Call Number: SC0124
Creator:
Stanford University. Dept. of Political Science.
Title: Stanford University, Department of Political Science, records
Dates: 1919-1988
Physical Description:
11 Linear feet
Language(s): In English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative transfers, 1974-1992.
The materials are partially restricted The faculty personnel files and the student grade files (Boxes 1-7 and 10) are closed
to researchers. The student correspondence files, the departmental records, and the miscellaneous faculty papers (Boxes 8
and 9) are open to researchers.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Stanford University, Department of Political Science, Records (SC0124). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Records include personnel files of faculty, 1923-1988; grade files and letters of recommendation on a sampling of students,
1919-1955; correspondence files of the same students, 1924-1957; miscellaneous departmental minutes, statistics, and memoranda,
1946-73; and miscellaneous correspondence, articles, clippings, and other papers of several faculty members. Of note in the
miscellaneous faculty papers is correspondence between Edwin A. Cottrell and Charles Fairman during World War II while Fairman
was on duty with the Armed Services; text of a debate between Willmoore Kendall and Mulford Sibley, 1959, on "War and the
Use of Force;" and lectures of Chester H. Rowell, 1933, for the course on current international politics.
The student correspondence files, largely with Edwin A. Cottrell, pertain to their experiences in graduate school, in the
Armed Services, and in their jobs. Of note are files for Merrill J. Collett pertaining to his work in public administration,
1935-45; J. Lyle Cunningham on his work with the County of Los Angeles and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1933-46; Robert
R. Gros pertaining to Democratic politics, 1940s; and Adolph H. Levy pertaining to city management, 1934-42.
Collett, Merrill J.
Cottrell, Edwin Angell, 1881-
Cunningham, J. Lyle.
Fairman, Charles.
Gros, Robert R.
Kendall, Willmoore, 1909-1967.
Levy, Adolph H.
Rowell, Chester Harvey, 1867-1948.
Sibley, Mulford Quickert.
Stanford University--Students.
Stanford University. Dept. of Political Science.
Political science--Study and teaching
Public administration.
World War, 1939-1945