Thomas A. Clark Papers, 1874-1948 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Thomas Arkle Clark (1862-1932) '90, dean of undergraduates (1901-1909) and men (1909-1931) and instructor and professor of English (1893-1899), including correspondence (1903-1932); subject files (1874-1931); photographs; manuscripts of articles, "Eight O'Clock" homilies and talk (1911-1924); publications (1900-1932); press releases (1927-1932); scrapbooks and newspaper clippings (1881-1932) relating to manuscripts; publications; fraternities; fraternity house notes (1907-1919); university administration; English and rhetoric instruction (1895-1910); student discipline and regulation (1905-1913); investigation reports on student employment, boarding clubs, restaurants, rooming houses and hospitals (1914-1920); Theta Nu Epsilon (1913-1915, 1920-1922); Presbyterian Church (1908-1913, 1931); World War I service (1917-1920); estates (1894-1920); letter writing (1910-1922) and the Office of Dean of Men (1916-1920).  Correspondence includes personal letterbooks (9/1901 - 9/1909), North Central Association letterbooks (3/1906 - 10/1909) and letters received at Silver Jubilee as Dean of Men (1/1927) and while in the hospital (1927, 1930-1931).  Publications include Facts for Freshmen (1911, 1914, 1916, 1927) The Fraternity and the College (1915), Sunday Eight 0'Clock (1916) and many magazine articles on fraternities and college life.  For other Clark material, see record series 3/1/2, 3/1/3, 5/10/3, 41/2/1 and 41/2/2.