Minutes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, and other miscellaneous documents pertaining largely to faculty appointments and promotions in the university, including the Medical School, Law School, School of Education, Hopkins Marine Station, and the Graduate School of Business. Other issues the Board considered include academic organization and structures, policies regarding students (including the welfare of women students 1904-05), retirement and pension issues, and sabbatical leaves.

The Advisory Board advises the President on recommendations for academic appointments, promotions, and dismissals; for the creation of new departments; for the abolition of departments; and any other matter that the President may choose to refer to it.

6.5 Linear feet

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