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Guide to the Frank Nugent Freeman Papers, 1939-1947
BANC MSS C-B 1025
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Collection Title: Frank Nugent Freeman Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1939-1947
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 1025
Origination: Freeman, Frank Nugent, 1880-1961
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 box
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence and manuscripts of Dean of School of Education, University of California, relating to education, to junior
college conferences, and to the publication of the 1947 handbook for the National Society for the Study of Education.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Frank Nugent Freeman Papers, BANC MSS C-B 1025, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
The papers, transferred from Archives to Bancroft Library March 8, 1966, had been given to Archives by the Education Library.
They contain a small portion of correspondence and related Papers concerning the programs for conferences on junior colleges,
and the preparation of the 1947 yearbook for the National Society for the Study of Education. A few manuscripts of articles
by Dean Freeman are also included.
Frank Nugent Freeman, educator and psychologist, was born in Canada in 1880. He obtained his degrees from Wesleyan University
and Yale. He taught at Yale and at the University of Chicago where he became chairman of the Department of Psychology, before
coming to the University of California. While at Berkeley he was appointed Dean of the School of education. He was active
in educational societies, took part in conferences concerning junior colleges in California, and wrote and edited many works
relating to education and psychology.