Guide to the Stanford University, Academic Council, Advisory Board records
SC0665
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford University, Academic Council, Advisory Board records
Creator:
Stanford University. Academic Council. Advisory
Board
Identifier/Call Number: SC0665
Physical Description:
6.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1904-1975
Date (bulk): 1904-1948
Summary: 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.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University
Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Language of Material:
English .
Information about Access
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format and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
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examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made
available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction
beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or
assigns.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
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.
Description of the Collection
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.
Cite As
Stanford University, Academic Council, Advisory Board Records (SC0665). Department of
Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women college students -- California -- Stanford.
Stanford University. Academic Council. Advisory
Board
Box 1, folder 1
1904 May – August
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Dr. W. F. Durand, procedures on students delinquent in
scholarship, salary guidelines, consolidation of departments
Box 1, folder 2
1904 September
Scope and Contents note
Of note: consolidation of departments, letters re Jean du Buy
Box 1, folder 3
1904 September – replies to Dr. Jordan's circular letter regarding salaries,
etc.
Box 1, folder 4
1904 October – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: report on art department by A. B. Clark, statement on new professorships
needed, salaries, social policies for women students, recommendations for Harris J.
Ryan and Henry W. Ballantine
Box 1, folder 5
1905 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: number of women students and their welfare, appointment of Julius Hanna as
stenographic assistant
Box 1, folder 6
1905 March – April
Scope and Contents note
Of note: formation of political science department, recommendations for Austin Flint
Rogers and Payson J. Treat. [There are no papers relating to the Goebel case.]
Box 1, folder 7
1905 May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: procedures for removal of faculty, recommendations for C. H. Huberich and
Elmer R. Drew, formation of political science department
Box 1, folder 8
1905 July – August
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Leon P. Lewis and Henry David Gray
Box 1, folder 9
1905 September – October
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for John E. Goodwin, committees for control of athletic
grounds
Box 1, folder 10
1905 November – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: creation of new departments, report on work of the Board for 1904/05
Box 1, folder 11
1906 January
Scope and Contents note
Of note: Carnegie Pension Fund, recommendations for A. A. Young and E. W. Kemmerer,
possible offer to Frederick Jackson Turner in History Department
Box 1, folder 12
1906 February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for A. A. Young
Box 1, folder 13
1906 March – April
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letter from Jordan on limiting numbers of students admitted and raising
standards, earthquake notice of April 19, Jordan's nomination of Thorstein B.
Veblen
Box 1, folder 14
1906 May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for John Crawford, response to Jordan's letter on limiting
admissions, letter from E. P. Cubberley on work of School of Education in regard to
certifying teachers, transfer of Cooper Medical College to Stanford
Box 1, folder 15
1906 June – August
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Frederick A. Manchester, Carnegie Pension Fund
Box 1, folder 16
1906 September – October
Scope and Contents note
Of note: junior college concept, possibility of tuition charges, report on work of
the board in 1905/06, retirement rules for faculty
Box 1, folder 17
1906 December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for James M. Motley, Theodore W. Koch, George H. Sabine,
Theodore De Laguna, and Henry W. Stuart
Box 1, folder 18
1907 January
Scope and Contents note
Of note: Law School appointments, appointment of university librarian,
recommendations for Sidney Dean Townley
Box 1, folder 19
1907 February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: appointment of university librarian, recommendations for Frederick C.
Woodward and D. O. McGovney, regulations for granting sabbatical leave
Box 2, folder 1
1907 March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: student fees, recommendation for Prof. Suzzallo and A. L. Guerard
Box 2, folder 3
1907 August – September
Scope and Contents note
Of note: military science courses and recommendations for Capt. U. G. McAlexander,
regulations for leave of absence
Box 2, folder 4
1907 October – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: student fees, rules for sabbatical leave
Box 2, folder 5
1908 January
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Mrs. Evelyn Wight Allan (Dean of Women)
Box 2, folder 6
1908 February – March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Percy A. Martin, possible appointment of a Dean of Men,
recommendation for Dr. Ram to teach class in Hebrew
Box 2, folder 7
1908 April
Scope and Contents note
Of note: transfer of Medical School and Medical School faculty
Box 2, folder 8
1908 May – June
Scope and Contents note
Of note: instruction in music courses
Box 2, folder 9
1908 August – September
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendation of Herbert F. Coolidge as Secretary to the Committee on
Student Affairs and the issue of student discipline, nomination of Herbert C. Hoover
as lecturer in mining
Box 2, folder 10
1908 October - November
Scope and Contents note
Of note: Jordan on desirability of Stanford representation at scholarly meetings,
making department of law a graduate professional school
Box 2, folder 11
1908 December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: junior college issue, recommendations for W. H. Lewis, A. W. Meyer, Herbert
E. Bolton, and Thomas A. Clark
Box 2, folder 12
1909 January
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Thomas A. Clark and Edward B. Krehbiel, separation of
the department of geology and mining
Box 2, folder 14
1909 May – July
Scope and Contents note
Of note: restoring title "Secretary of the University" for G. A. Clark,
recommendation and appointment for Robert E. Pellissier
Box 2, folder 15
1909 August – September
Scope and Contents note
Of note: proposal for appointing Dr. Hersch Ram instructor in Semitic Languages (with
funding from Rabbi Jacob Nieto)
Box 2, folder 16
1909 October – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: abolishing associate professorship in Greek
Box 3, folder 1
1910 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: status of Prof. H. W. Rolfe, retirement of Prof. M. B. Anderson,
Box 3, folder 2
1910 March – April
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendation of Aurelio Macedonio Espinoso
Box 3, folder 7
1911 March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for E. E. Robinson, including medical professors in Academic
Council
Box 3, folder 8
1911 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendation and appointment of Robert E. Pellissier
Box 3, folder 9
1911 June – July
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Dr. Thomas Addis
Box 3, folder 11
1911 October – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for a variety of medical appointments
Box 3, folder 12
1912 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: reorganization of Graphic Arts, possible appointment of Mr. Har Dayal to
teach Indian philosophy, recommendations for Murray S. Wildman
Box 3, folder 14
1912 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: legitimate uses of sabbatical leave, widow's pensions
Box 4, folder 1
1912 August – September
Scope and Contents note
Of note: Ernest B. Hoag's possible appointment in Education
Box 4, folder 2
1912 October
Scope and Contents note
Of note: possible elimination of Junior College work (i.e. freshman and sophomore
year), letter of J. M. Stillman regarding faculty leave
Box 4, folder 3
1912 November – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: research leave for faculty, widow's pensions, changing anatomy from a
division to a department
Box 4, folder 4
1913 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: anatomy department, letters of recommendation for Gottfried Hult and William
H. Carruth
Box 4, folder 8
1913 July – August
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Victor J. West and John William Davis
Box 4, folder 9
1913 September – December
Box 4, folder 10
1914 March – April
Scope and Contents note
Of note: proposed consolidation of graphic arts with education
Box 4, folder 13
1915 January – March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: merging of department of English philology with English literature and
rhetoric, recommendation for Ralph H. Lutz
Box 4, folder 14
1915 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for John S. P. Tatlock
Box 4, folder 15
1915 June – July
Scope and Contents note
Of note: nomination of Dr. Bailey Willis, recommendations for Charles Reining
Box 4, folder 16
1915 August – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: appointment of Margery Bailey
Box 5, folder 2
1916 April – August
Scope and Contents note
Of note: Carnegie pension plan
Box 5, folder 3
1916 September – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: major department system, reports from department heads about departmental
requirements for the A.B. degree
Box 5, folder 5
1917 March – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: plan for the organization of the School of Education
Box 5, folder 7
1917 September – December
Box 5, folder 11
1918 September – December
Box 5, folder 13
1919 March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: reports on the amalgamation of the departments of history, economics and
political science and the creation of a School of Public Affairs, memoranda on
political science by Victor J. West
Box 5, folder 14
1919 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: memoranda on creating School of Public Affairs, recommendations for Reginald
G. Trotter
Box 6, folder 2
1919 September – December
Box 6, folder 3
1920 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: possibility of limiting instructors to 5 years of service, sabbatical leave,
question of intramural golf and tennis on Sundays
Box 6, folder 7
1921 January
Scope and Contents note
Of note: Report of the Sub-Committee of Advisory Board on Sabbatical Leave
Box 6, folder 10
1921 September – December
Box 6, folder 11
1922 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: creation of the Department of Classical Literature, report on establishment
of School of Biology
Box 6, folder 13
1922 September – December
Box 7, folder 7
1925 September – December
Box 7, folder 9
1926 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: proposal for granting honorary degrees
Box 7, folder 14
1927 September – December
Box 8, folder 4
1928 June – August
Scope and Contents note
Of note: photos of Albert Haertlein with letter of recommendation
Box 8, folder 5
1928 September – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters of recommendation for C. B. van Niel and Eugene L. Grant (includes
photo of Grant)
Box 8, folder 13
1930 September – December
Box 9, folder 2
1931 March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: H. F. Blichfeldt's letter re Henry Lanz; letters of recommendation for Henry
Lang (Slavic languages) and James V. Uspensky (mathematics)
Box 9, folder 3
1931 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: proposed articles of organization of the faculty of the school of
medicine
Box 9, folder 4
1931 June – August
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters of recommendation for Hugh Hildreth Skilling
Box 9, folder 5
1931 September – December
Box 9, folder 7
1932 March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: H. F. Blichfeldt's endorsement of James V. Uspensky; annotated list of
clinical appointments for the school of medicine; M. R. Kirkwood's proposal for
changes in law degrees; letters of recommendation for Victor C. Twitty and Richard T.
LaPiere
Box 9, folder 8
1932 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters and proposal re authorizing a Bachelor of Arts degree in hygiene and
physical education
Box 9, folder 10
1932 September – December
Box 9, folder 13
1933 April – June
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for West lecturers
Box 10, folder 1
1934 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters of recommendation for Bayard Quincy Morgan, Chilton R. Bush,
Box 10, folder 4
1934 July – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letter of recommendation for Paul R. Hanna with bibliography
Box 10, folder 5
1935 January – March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters re C. B. van Niel, record of work of James Percy Baumberger
Box 10, folder 6
1935 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: memo re appointment of consulting professors in the GSB
Box 10, folder 8
1935 June – August
Scope and Contents note
Of note: career summaries for Profs. David Harris and Max Savelle (history dept.)
Box 10, folder 9
1935 September – December
Box 10, folder 10
1936 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters and c.v. for Stephen Timoshenko, letters of recommendation for
George S. Myers (Natural History Museum)
Box 10, folder 12
1936 May – June
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters re Victor C. Twitty
Box 11, folder 1
1936 September – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters of recommendation for I. James Quillen
Box 11, folder 2
1937 January – February
Scope and Contents note
Of note: letters of recommendation for John Reid (philosophy)
Box 11, folder 3
1937 March
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations and c.v.'s for F. E. Terman, Rolf. L. Bolin, Robert T. Ross,
P. A. Leighton, P. J. van Rysselberghe
Box 11, folder 4
1937 April – May
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations for Karl Spangenberg
Box 11, folder 5
1937 September – December
Scope and Contents note
Of note: recommendations and bibliographies for P. A. Leighton, George S. Parks,
Alvin C. Eurich
Box 12, folder 2
1941 October – 1942 August
Box 12, folder 3
1942 September – 1943 May
Box 12, folder 4
1943 September – December
Box 12, folder 6
1944 September – 1945 March
Box 12, folder 8
1945 September – December
Box 13, folder 2
1946 September – 1947 February
Box 13, folder 4
1947 September – 1948 February
