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Call Number: SC0196
Creator:
Cowley, W.H. (William Harold),
1899-1978.
Title: W.H. Cowley papers
Dates: 1913-1978
Bulk Dates: 1930-1970
Physical Description:
200 Linear feet
Summary: Collection includes extensive correspondence with leaders in the
pioneer field of higher education, administrative papers from Cowley's various positions
in college administrations, materials on the history, administration and taxonomy of
higher education, outlines from lectures given at Stanford, and a series of research
notebooks kept by Cowley on the subject of higher education. The collection also
includes published and unpublished articles, papers, speeches, and reports.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department 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
Gift of Mrs. W.H. Cowley and Ellen Cowley, 1978.
This collection is open for research.
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.
W.H. Cowley Papers (SC0196). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
William Harold (Hal) Cowley was born in Petersburg, Virginia, May 28, 1899; received
degrees from Dartmouth College (1924) and University of Chicago (Ph.D. in 1930). He held
various administrative positions in the field of higher education (Assistant to the
President and Head of Placement Services at the University of Chicago (1927-1929),
professor of psychology at Ohio State (1931-1937); President of Hamilton College
(1938-1944); professor of higher education at Stanford (1945-1978). In 1954 he was named
David Jacks Professor of Higher Education at Stanford. He died in Palo Alto, California
in 1978.
Collection includes extensive correspondence with leaders in the pioneer field of higher
education, administrative papers from Cowley's various positions in college
administrations, materials on the history, administration and taxonomy of higher
education, outlines from lectures given at Stanford, and a series of research notebooks
kept by Cowley on the subject of higher education. The collection also includes
published and unpublished articles, papers, speeches, and reports.
Eight series; I-A Biographical material (1899-1978); I-B Correspondence, writings and
speeches (1922-1978); I-C Miscellaneous correspondence (1922-1978); I-D Papers
(1928-1971); I-E Lecture series (1945-1968); II-A Professional notes (1900-1978); II-B
'PT' files (pamphlets) (1813-1975); II-C Workbooks (1938-1978).
Cowley, W.H. (William Harold), 1899-1978.
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.)
Ohio State University.
Stanford University
University of Chicago.
College teachers.
Education, Higher.
Educators.
Additional Note
Note
Cowley's collection of pamphlets was also reboxed, maintaining the numerical sequence
of the numbers he assigned them. No box listing was compiled for the pamphlets.