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Guide to the Stanford University, President's Office, Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures Correspondence
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Call Number: SC0812
Creator:
Stanford University. Office of the President
Title: Stanford University, President's Office, Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures correspondence
Dates: 1909-1922
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Collection includes correspondence with Frederic West establishing the series; correspondence with lecturers and suggested
lecturers; correspondence with Stanford offices in regard to arrangements; and invitations to the lectures. Lecturers for
this time period were Charles Edward Jefferson, Samuel McChord Crothers, Hastings Rashdall, John Dewey, Charles Lewis Slattery,
Henry Osborn Taylor, and Irving Babbitt.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
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.
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and educational purposes.
Stanford University, President's Office, Raymond F. West Memorial Lectures Correspondence (SC0812). Dept. of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1910 by Mr. and Mrs. Frederic West of Seattle in memory of
their son, a student at Stanford University. The lectures are to promote the subject of "immortality, human conduct, and human
destiny."
Collection includes correspondence with Frederic West establishing the series; correspondence with lecturers and suggested
lecturers; correspondence with Stanford offices in regard to arrangements; and invitations to the lectures. Lecturers for
this time period were Charles Edward Jefferson, Samuel McChord Crothers, Hastings Rashdall, John Dewey, Charles Lewis Slattery,
Henry Osborn Taylor, and Irving Babbitt.
Babbitt, Irving, 1865-1933.
Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Jefferson, Charles Edward, 1860-1937.
Rashdall, Hastings, 1858-1924.
Slattery, Charles Lewis, 1867-1930.
Stanford University. Office of the President
Taylor, Henry Osborn, 1856-1941.
West, Frederic.
Lectures and lecturing.