Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Office Kendric Charles Babcock Papers Finding Aid Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Office Kendric Charles Babcock Papers Finding Aid By (Unknown); Salvatore V. De Sando
Title: Kendric Charles Babcock Papers, 1881-1932
ID: 15/1/24
Primary Creator: Babcock, Kendric Charles (1864-1932)
Extent: 1.1 cubic feet
Arrangement: Chronological
Subjects: Delta Tau Delta, Fraternities, Higher Education, Immigration, Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of, University Administration, University of Arizona, University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, World War I - Service and Training
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Papers of Kendric Charles Babcock (1864-1932), Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1913-31), including correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, and photographs, concerning Babcock's student days at the University of Minnesota (1885-1889); European trip (1890); professorship at the University of California (1896-1903); University of Arizona presidency (1903-10); work as specialist for the United States Bureau of Education (1910-13); and University of Illinois deanship. Major correspondents and subjects include Frank Abernethy, James Armstrong, Army Overseas Educational Commission, A. Read Baker, Elmer Brown, Henry T. Bruck, Dewey Campbell, Joseph Carey, Philander Claxton, R. W. Clothier, R. J. Cook, Roy Cornell, James Curtis, Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, C. A. Duniway, Charles Lincoln Edwards, Frederick Ferry, Raymond Gauger, J. Paul Goode, Albert Bushnell Hart, Miller Haskell, Edmund J. James, L. A. Kalbach, George MacLean, Jack Mearns, E. H. Moffett, Raymond Newton, Henry Pritchett, George Rines, Lew Sarett, Scandinavian immigration, Frances Strong, United States Bureau of Education, Benjamin Wheeler, Frank Wieland, Arthur Wilde, and George Winship. The Babcock Papers also include a small collection of letters from University of Illinois students to Dean Babcock relating their experiences as members of an ambulance corps on the western front during World War I.
Delta Tau Delta
Fraternities
Higher Education
Immigration
Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of
University Administration
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of Minnesota
World War I - Service and Training
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1501024.pdf
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