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Edwin T. Reed Papers, 1886-1948View associated digital content.

Predominant Dates: 1900-1943
The Reed Papers consist of notes, publications and speeches, correspondence, photographs, and other materials pertaining to Edwin T. Reed's work as college editor, to OSU history, and to William Jasper Kerr.
ID: MSS Reed
Extent: 6.0 cubic feet
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Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation: Edwin T. Reed Papers (MSS Reed), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
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Series 1: General Historical Reference File - OAC, OSC, OSSHE and Other Subjects, 1902-1946 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.1 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Notes on "Commission to Select ... University Land", compiled by the historical Records Survey from sources in Benton County Courthouse, ca. 1936 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Transcripts of 19th century reports & notes on early college history Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.2 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Notes from journal (1889-1908) of OAC Board of Regents Add to Shelf
Item 2: Notes from newspaper articles (1881-1894) regarding OAC Add to Shelf
Item 3: Notes on Thomas Gatch Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.3: Invitations, programs, etc. of commencements and other college celebrations, 1902-1916 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.4: Replies to questionnaires and queries for information about OAC, 1922-1936 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.5 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Corvallis Gazette-Times, "OAC Special section", October 1, 1923 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Memorial Union campaign & dedication, 1927-1929 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.6 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Corvallis school district annual report, 1923/24 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Report of gas plant for campus, 1926 Add to Shelf
Item 3: A.D. Taylor Campus Plan (1926) and Corvallis report (1925), copies made in 1938 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.7 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Various references by name in Oregon laws to OSC, compiled by Delmer Goode, 1926 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Statement of salaries, December 1926 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Hanson's Leghorn Farm (Corvallis), 1928-1929 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.8: Oregon Property Tax Relief Commission reports, 1928-1929 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 1: Annual and biennial reports Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.9: Schools of Agriculture, Basic Arts & Sciences, Commerce, Engineering & Mechanic Arts/Engineering, Experiment Station, Forestry, Health & Physical Education Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.10: Schools of Home Economics, Mines, Pharmacy, Vocational Education, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1928/30 biennial reports Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.11: School of Science, Departments of Botany, Entomology, Mathematics, Physics, Military Science & Tactics, 1934/36 biennial reports Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.12 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Health Service annual report, 1935/36 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Oregon State Board of Higher Education biennial report, 1934/36 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.13: Oregon State College biennial report materials, 1940/42 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 2: Higher education reorganization and OSC/Univ. of Oregon disputes, 1931-1942: Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.14: Reed's lists of briefs, studies, reports, etc. (many included below) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.15: 1931 Add to Shelf
Includes Reed's? annotations.
Box-Folder 1.16 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Ten-Year Capital Outlay Program, 1931-1940 Inclusive", October 1930 (draft) & January 1931 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Budgetary Estimates for 18-Month Period, July 1, 1931-Dec. 31, 1932", Oregon State Agricultural College, May 4, 1931 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "Reports of Special Committees Representing University of Oregon & Oregon State College", May 25, 1931 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Reply to Dean Faville's Brief on the Commerce School Problem as Accompanied by President Hall's Letter of May 24, 1931", May 27, 1931 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.17 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Statement of Services Lost to the Institution and the State for the Year 1931-32", December 1931 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Consolidation ballot measure brochures (Zorn-MacPherson Bill), 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "Present Arrangements in Respect to Lower Division", Feb. 15, 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "A Definite and Concise Showing of Conditions Pertaining to Music", February 20, 1932 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.18 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Progress Report, Committee upon Unified Administration, Oregon State System of Higher Education (OSSHE), March 18, 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Meeting, Presidents Hall and Kerr, June 10, 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Coordination of state institutions in Ohio, 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Efficiency of Higher Education Threatened", Board's Report to Ways and Means Committee inquiry, Feb. 1933 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.19 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Transcript, State Board of Higher Education meeting, Sept. 11, 1933 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Controversy in Higher Education -- Who Started It?", November 22, 1933 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Outline charts on higher education, November 1933 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.20: Resolutions re: James T. Jardine, Wayne Morse, University of Oregon faculty, William J. Kerr, 1932-1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.21 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Administrative Organization, OSSHE", Feb. 3, 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Teaching loads, Fall Term 1935/36 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Commerce & Business Schools, 1937 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.22: Restoration of Science to the University of Oregon Statements, memos, briefs and reports, 1937-1938 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.23: Restoration of Science to the University of Oregon Statements, memos, briefs and reports, 1938-1941 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.24 Add to Shelf
Item 1: The Curricular Scope of Land-Grant Institutions by Delmer Goode, June 13, 1941 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Nov. 26, 1941 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.25: Correspondence, 1927-1942 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.26: Manuscripts pertaining to the University of Oregon (excerpts of briefs to Oregon State Board of Higher Education?) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.27: Notes and drafts of statements and briefs, ca. 1930-1932 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.28: Drafts of survey responses and briefs, ca. 1930-1932 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.29 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Draft of OSSHE general circular, undated Add to Shelf
Item 2: Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.30: Quotations on higher education Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 1.31: Clippings, 1927-1946 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.1 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "The Superfluous Generation", OSC commencement address by Herman F. Swartz, June 4, 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 2: President's address (Peavy), Dads' & Grads' Banquet, November 17, 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Publications Board proposal, 1934-1939 Add to Shelf
Item 4: OSSHE Division of Information manuscripts, ca. 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 5: "The Townsend Plan Exposed", by Richard Neuberger, October 1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.2 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Establishment of Oregon State Monographs series, 1935-1936 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Sigma Xi, 1935-1941 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 3: Student activities fee measure, 1935-1936: Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.3 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Correspondence Add to Shelf
Item 2: Promotional and background materials Add to Shelf
Item 3: Campaign financial records Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.4: Burton Hutton file (Correspondence, background material, clippings.) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.5: National Farm & Home Hour, NBC broadcast from OSC, May 20, 1936 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.6: Bill for abolition of compulsory military training in state institutions of higher education, 1936-1942 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.7 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Faculty members of long service, 1937 Add to Shelf
Includes statements by Frederick Berchtold.
Item 2: "Community Aspects of Medicine", paper by Ralph Couch, University of Oregon Medical School, October 1937 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.8-2.9: Typescript, "Economic Geography", 1938-1939 Add to Shelf
Extent: 2 folders
Box-Folder 2.10 Add to Shelf
Item 1: D.E. Stephens material, 1938 Add to Shelf
Item 2: OSC 1938/39 budget, March 30, 1938 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Land grant colleges/public support for education, 1938-1940 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "History of Pharmacy in Oregon", by Adolph Ziefle Add to Shelf
Item 5: List of OSC graduates in Chemistry, ca. 1940 Add to Shelf
Item 6: OSC "Beaver Bugle", July 1, 1941 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.11 Add to Shelf
Item 1: KOAC radio, 1941-1943 Add to Shelf
Item 2: John Burtner articles on John Fulton and A.L. Strand, 1942 Add to Shelf
Series 2: Writings and Publications, 1919-1948 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.12: Index to writings, ca. 1930 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 1 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.13 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Drafts of chapters Add to Shelf
Item 2: Correspondence, 1938-1943 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Background material for chapters on Finley, Arnold, Bloss, Miller & Gatch Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 2: "The First Eighty Years, 1868-1948: A History of Oregon State College" (revision of Orange & Black) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.14 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Early drafts, undated Add to Shelf
Item 2: Drafts & correspondence with E.B. Lemon & others, 1946-1948 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.15: Manuscript, sections I-VI Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.16: Sarah E. Finley materials for articles in Oregon State Monthlyand other publications, 1929-1937 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 3: Published articles Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.17 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "The Rise of an Agricultural College", School Education, March 1920 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "The Open Hearth", National School Digest, Nov. 1920 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "President W.J. Kerr", Journal Of Electricity (manuscript copy), July 15, 1922 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Aim of OAC is a Liberal and Practical Education", Corvallis Gazette-Times (manuscript copy), Jan. 1, 1925 Add to Shelf
Item 5: "Safeguarding the Agricultural Interests of Oregon", in Oregon, The State Magazine (manuscript copy), May 1927 Add to Shelf
Item 6: "Twenty Years of State-Wide Service", in Oregon, The State Magazine, June 1927 (manuscript & published copies) Add to Shelf
Item 7: "Vocational Tests Prove Valuable in Directing Students to Best Life Work", Sunday Oregonian, March 18, 1928 Add to Shelf
Item 8: "Vocational and Educational Guidance", in American Educational Digest, June 1928 (manuscript copy) Add to Shelf
Item 9: "The Broadcasting Plant of a State College", in The American School And University (reprint copy), 1928 Add to Shelf
Item 10: "Twenty-five Years of Distinguished Service", Pacific Coast Review, February 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 11: "OSC President for 25 Years", Oregon State Monthly, June 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 12: "Promised Land", Oregon State Monthly, Sept. 1932 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 4: Speeches and Talks Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.18: "Adaptation of Higher Education to New Conditions", University of Oregon, July 12, 1934 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.19 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "To the Graduates of the College", Commencement, June 4, 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "The Religion of Mark Twain", 39th annual session, East Willamette Assn. of Congregational Churches, Oct. 1, 1935 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Dedication of the Oregon Normal School buildings (written for F.E. Callister, member of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education), Oct. 26, 1936 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "The American Scholar", delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge (England?), August 31, 1937 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.20 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Address to Corvallis High School journalism students, Feb. 13, 1939 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "The Friends That I Have Known", probably delivered at Moorhead (Minnesota) State Teachers College, Sept. 1939 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "The Promised Land", delivered in Corvallis, undated (ca. 1930s) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.21: Correspondence regarding speaking engagements, 1928-1932 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.22 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Joint booklet of colleges & universities (John F. Dobbs, Pacific University), 1935 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Book reviews, 1936 & undated Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 5: Poetry Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.23 Add to Shelf
Item 1: The Bells of Long Ago and Other Memorial Poems (2 copies, published by Binfords & Mort, Portland, Oregon), 1946 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "To Frederick Berchtold", in Phi Kappa Phi Journal, March 1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.24: Typescripts (mostly Reed's poetry; includes a few poems written by others. Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.25 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Poems written by Ellwood Smith, 1936-1937 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Correspondence, 1940 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 6: Music Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 3.1: Published sheet music (words written by E.T. Reed) Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Dear Old College Days", 1920 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 2: "Love Letter Days", 1922 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 3: "Today", 1922 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 4: "The Sweetest, Whitest Rose", 1923 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 5: "Home Her Heroes Come (Oregon State Victory Song)", 1931 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 6: "Home Economics Extension Song", undated Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 7: "Back to Old O.A.C.", manuscript drafts of words & music, undated Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 8: "Dearest Land to Me", manuscript draft, undated Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 9: "My Old High", manuscript draft, undated Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Item 10: "Today", manuscript orchestration, undated Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Box-Folder 2.26 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Today", published orchestrations, undated Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Home Her Heroes Come", marching band arrangement, undated Add to Shelf
Item 3: "Oregon State for Me", ROTC band arrangement by Harry Beard, undated Add to Shelf
Item 4: Correspondence re: publication of "Oregon State for Me", and other OSC related music, 1941-1947 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.27: Published music written by others Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Carry Me Back", W. Homer Maris (OSU Alma Mater), 1919 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Oregon, My Oregon", by Henry B. Murtaugh & J.A. Buchanan, 1920 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "The Gathering Throng", by Bob Johnson, Bob Dickinson, & Rudy Hillstromca. (from the OAC Song Book), ca. 1920s Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Pride of Oregon", by George C. Lederer (dedicated to Harry Beard & the OSC ROTC band), 1940 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 7: Miscellaneous manuscripts Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.28 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Freshman Week Fables", 1935-1942 & undated Add to Shelf
Item 2: Draft of article on early campus life, undated Add to Shelf
Item 3: Dad's Club, ca. 1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.29 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Scope and Function of the Oregon State Agricultural College", ca. 1930 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Writings on education, 1939 & undated Add to Shelf
Item 3: Mayflower Chapel, 1936 & 1941 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Oregon State Creed and Student Obligation" (interpretation), undated Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.30 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Battleship OREGON, 1931-1938 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Junior colleges & junior college work at OSC, 1933 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Excerpts on women in education, etc., 1933-1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 2.31 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "The Fruits of Half a Century", ca. 1937 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Women's Group of Buildings", undated Add to Shelf
Item 3: Faculty scholarship, ca. 1936 Add to Shelf
Item 4: History of OSC/Gazette-Times, ca. 1938 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.1 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "The ROTC as a Training Ground for Citizenship and an Instrument of National Defense" (editorial for Dan Sowers, New York City), July 8, 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "In Defense of the Cooperative Managers Association", Dec. 16, 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "Plan for State System of Education Recommended by Oregon Teachers", undated Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Educational Leadership of Different Institutions", undated Add to Shelf
Item 5: "Brook Lane" Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.2 Add to Shelf
Item 1: General articles on OSC, 1936 & undated Add to Shelf
Item 2: Grange, ca. 1930s Add to Shelf
Item 3: Critique of 1937 baccalaureate service & commencement Add to Shelf
Item 4: General articles Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.3: "Mark Twain -- American" and other writings on Twain Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.4: Graduates -- Report to Chancellor Hunter, 1935-1936 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.5 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Obituaries and biographical sketches of OAC & OSSHE faculty and administrators & prominent Corvallis citizens Add to Shelf
James Dryden (1935), Ada Hastings Hedges, Hal Hoss, John B. Horner, Millard Long, Clara H. Waldo, James Knox Weatherford, James Withycombe.
Item 2: "Chats About Old Stories That Keep Young", by M. Ellwood Smith, ca. 1930 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.6: Oregon Writers League, 1923 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.7: Norway articles (typescripts and published articles from the Corvallis Gazette-Times), August-September 1939 Add to Shelf
Series 3: William Jasper Kerr Reference File and Biographical Manuscript, 1886-1947 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 1: Writings (addresses, articles, editorials, etc.) by Kerr, 1886-1938: Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.8: Bound volume of writings on mathematics, newspaper letters to the editor, Brigham Young College catalogue, 1886-1897 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.9 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "The Relations of the Land-Grant Colleges to the State Universities", reprint from the Deseret Evening News, Dec. 30, 1905; reprint by the Office of Experiment Stations, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture from proceedings of the annual convention of the Assn. of American Agricultural Colleges & Experiment Stations, Washington, D.C., Nov. 14-16, 1905 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Agricultural College of Utah", in the Deseret News, Dec. 25, 1905 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "Modern Demands of Education", address delivered at the County Superintendents Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1906 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Horticultural Education", address delivered to the Utah State Horticulture Society, Salt Lake City, April 1906 Add to Shelf
Item 5: "The Function of the Common Schools", address delivered to the Teachers' Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 7, 1906 Add to Shelf
Item 6: "Modern Tendencies in Education", address delivered at the State Teachers' Assn., Salem, July 3, 1907 Add to Shelf
Item 7: "The Farmer and Education", address delivered at the district fair, Grants Pass, Oregon, Sept. 1907 Add to Shelf
Item 8: "Oregon Agricultural College: Origin & Development--Function & Scope", notes on address delivered at the Fair Association, Gresham, OR, Oct. 19, 1907 Add to Shelf
Item 9: "The New Education", address delivered to the Teachers' Association, Portland, Nov. 25, 1907, and to the Eastern Division of the Oregon State Teachers' Association, LaGrande, OR, Nov. 26, 1907 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.10 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Educational Agriculture", notes on address delivered to the Oregon State Teachers' Assn., Eugene, June 1908 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Sources of Income and Departments of Instruction of Oregon Agricultural College", in the Pacific Grange Bulletin, October 1908 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "Education", address delivered at the Educational Congress Convention, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, July 4, 1909 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Equality of Educational Opportunity", address delivered at the Educational Congress, Seattle, Washington, July 1909 and at the Teachers' Institute, The Dalles, Oregon, October 7, 1909 Add to Shelf
Item 5: "Agricultural Interests", address delivered to the Dept. of Manual Training, National Education Association, Denver, Colorado, July 6, 1909 Add to Shelf
Item 6: "Education for the Masses", address delivered to the Teachers' Institute, Klamath Falls, OR, Sept. 6, 1909 Add to Shelf
Also included is a published version printed in the Rural Spirit, Dec. 1909.
Item 7: "Back to the Soil", address delivered at the Oregon State Fair, Salem, Sept. 14, 1909 Add to Shelf
Item 8: Address delivered to Oregon Agricultural College faculty, Sept. 23, 1909 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.11 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "The New Ideas in Education", address delivered to the Clackamas County Teachers' Institute, Oregon City, Nov. 5, 1909 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Horticulture and the Agricultural College", address delivered to the Oregon State Horticultural Society, Portland, Dec. 8, 1909 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Brief, Oregon Agricultural College to Board of Higher Curricula, March 15, 1910 Add to Shelf
Item 4: Memorial Day, notes and outline of address, Corvallis, Oregon, May 30, 1910 Add to Shelf
Item 5: "The Oregon Agricultural College", address delivered on September 25, 1910, 1910 Add to Shelf
Item 6: "Some Land Grant College Problems", address presented at the annual convention of the American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, Washington, D.C., November 16, 1910 Add to Shelf
Item 7: "Attack of the Carnegie Foundation on Policies of Agricultural Colleges", in the Oregonian, December 1910 Add to Shelf
Item 8: "The Country Life Problem", address delivered at the Farmers Banquet celebrating country life and Good Roads Week, Salem, OR, Feb. 8, 1912; also includes article re: address from the Salem Statesman, Feb. 9, 1912 Add to Shelf
Item 9: "The Relationship of Eugenics and Sex Education", address delivered to the Social Hygiene Society, Portland, OR, March 8, 1912 Add to Shelf
Item 10: Remarks made at a banquet given in honor of visitors on the Oregon-Portland Business Men Excursion to Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, April 26, 1912 Add to Shelf
Item 11: "The Country Life Problem", address delivered to the Oregon State Bankers' Assn., Gearhart, Oregon, June 22, 1912 Add to Shelf
Item 12: Address to Oregon Agricultural College faculty, September 19, 1912 Add to Shelf
Item 13: "Development of the Educational Idea", address delivered at the Grants Pass (OR) High School commencement exercises, May 21, 1913 Add to Shelf
Item 14: Address to Oregon Agricultural College faculty, September 18, 1913 Add to Shelf
Item 15: Address of welcome from the Agricultural College to the Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention, Corvallis, Sept. 23, 1913 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.12 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "The Work of OAC and the Future Prospects for the Farmer in Oregon", address delivered at the Bankers' and Business Men's Conference, Portland, January 30, 1914 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Address to Oregon Agricultural College faculty, September 21, 1914 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "Harmonizing of Vocational and Cultural Education", discussion at the National Education Association convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, Oct. 26, 1914 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Agricultural Economics or the Business of Farming", address delivered at the Farmers' Union convention, The Dalles, Oregon, December 2, 1914 Add to Shelf
Item 5: "Need of Education", excerpts from address delivered at the Cottage Grove (Oregon) High School commencement exercises, June 2, 1915 Add to Shelf
Item 6: Material for editorial prepared for Addison Bennett of the Oregonian, August 1915 Add to Shelf
Item 7: "The Ideal Public School", notes on address delivered at the Benton & Linn County Teachers Institute, Albany, Oregon, Sept. 14, 1915 Add to Shelf
Item 8: Address to Oregon Agricultural College faculty, September 16, 1915 Add to Shelf
Item 9: "Marks of Manhood in America", address delivered at the Older Boys' Conference, Salem, Nov. 28, 1915 Add to Shelf
Item 10: Address on irrigation practice, delivered at the Oregon Irrigation Congress, Portland, December 29, 1915 Add to Shelf
Item 11: Brief of statement submitted at a hearing of the Federal Land Bank Board, Portland, Sept. 7, 1916 Add to Shelf
Item 12: "The Work of the Dept. of Bacteriology", address delivered to the Oregon Medical Society, Portland, September 15, 1916 Add to Shelf
Item 13: Address to Oregon Agricultural College faculty, September 21, 1916 Add to Shelf
Item 14: Address delivered at the banquet, legislative visit to OAC, January 20, 1917 Add to Shelf
Item 15: "Education and the World War", delivered to the National Education Assn., Portland, July 13, 1917 Add to Shelf
Item 16: Articles used by Kerr in preparation of addresses for the Clatsop Co. Liberty Loan campaign and Eugene Parent-Teachers Assn., Oct. 1918, and OAC faculty meeting Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.13 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Address delivered at the anniversary celebration of the signing of the armistice by Germany, November 11, 1919 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Convocation address, Oregon Agricultural College, January 21, 1920 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Excerpts of address to OAC faculty, Sept. 27, 1923 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "Value of Specialized Training", in Oregon Business, April 1924 Add to Shelf
Item 5: "Education for Reality", in Oregon 'The State Magazine', December 1927/January 1928 Add to Shelf
Item 6: "Separate Boards of Control", editorial for the Oregon Grange Bulletin, undated Add to Shelf
Item 7: "Education Adapted to Life Need", notes of address, undated Add to Shelf
Item 8: "The College Bill and the Governor's Veto", undated Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.14 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Untitled manuscript for Utah Educational Review, March 31, 1931 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "The Spirit of the Land-Grant Institutions", addresses by Kerr and others delivered at the annual convention of the Assn. of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, Chicago, Nov. 17, 1931 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "Recent Experiences in Centralized Control of Higher Education in Oregon", delivered at the annual meeting of the National Assn. of State Universities, Chicago, Nov. 17, 1933 Add to Shelf
Typescript and published copies; also delivered at the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions meeting, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15-17, 1934.
Box-Folder 4.15 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "Adaptation of Higher Education to New Conditions", in Proceedings Of The Conference On Higher Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, July 11-14, 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 2: March 1938 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 2: Articles about Kerr (not by E.T. Reed) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.16 Add to Shelf
Item 1: "A Missionary to the Farmers", by Frances A. Groff, Sunset, The Pacific Monthly, March 1913 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Bring on the Wrecking Crew", "Higher Education, July 18", & The Press on Dr. Kerr, Oregon State Monthly, August 1932 Add to Shelf
Item 3: "The Depression and Education", an interview with Dr. W.J. Kerr, Chancellor of OSSHE, Jan. 18, 1933 Add to Shelf
Item 4: "The Retiring Chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education", School & Society, August 10, 1935 Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 3: Reference file/background material Add to Shelf
Includes original documents and supplementary notes provided by Kerr and transcripts made by Reed.
Box-Folder 4.17 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Kerr Family (includes genealogy compiled by Media Research Bureau, 1940) Add to Shelf
Item 2: W.J. Kerr personal information (supplementary materials file #3; includes information compiled for The National Cyclopedia Of American Biography and other biographical sketches of Kerr) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.18 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Boyhood and school days (supplementary materials file #4) Add to Shelf
Item 2: Smithfield Schools (supplementary materials file #5) Add to Shelf
Item 3: Brigham Young College Instructor (supplementary materials file #6) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.19 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Experiences at Cornell (supplementary materials file #7) Add to Shelf
Item 2: University of Utah (supplementary materials file #8) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.20 Add to Shelf
Item 1: President of Brigham Young College (supplementary materials file #9) Add to Shelf
Item 2: Utah State Constitutional Convention of 1895 (supplementary materials file #10) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.21: Utah State Agricultural College (supplementary materials file #11) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.22: Oregon State College (supplementary materials file #12) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 4.23: Scrapbook of clippings -- personal, Association of American Agricultural Colleges, Extension Service, National Education Association, 1907-1910 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.1: Kerr and Kansas State Agricultural College Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.2: Chancellorship (supplementary materials file #13) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.3: Resolutions adopted by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education upon Kerr's retirement as Chancellor, 1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.4: Chancellor Emeritus & OSSHE Director of Research in Production & Marketing (supplementary materials file #14) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.5: Published addresses & articles lists (supplementary materials files #15 & 17) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.6: Unpublished addresses (supplementary materials file #16) Add to Shelf
Item 1: Statement by Kerr at inauguration of University of Oregon President Arnold Bennett Hall, October 18, 1926 Add to Shelf
Item 2: "Higher Education in a Changing World", March 13, 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Remarks at University of Oregon commencement, 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 4: Conference on Higher Education, address by Kerr, July 12, 1934 Add to Shelf
Item 5: Utah State Agricultural College Founder's Day statement, 1936 Add to Shelf
Item 6: "Broadening the Ideal of Scholarship", address to Phi Kappa Phi, ca. fall 1936 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.7: Characterizations of Kerr Add to Shelf
Sub-Series 4: Kerr biography manuscript Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.8: Miscellaneous notes Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.9-5.20: Various drafts of chapters Add to Shelf
Extent: 12 folders
Box-Folder 5.21: Drafts of chapters reviewed by Kerr and correspondence with Kerr, 1940-1947 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.22-5.25: 1947 draft (2 copies; one sent to E.B. Lemon) Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 5.26: Illustrations (halftone proofs; see series VI for photos) Add to Shelf
Series 4: General Correspondence, 1916-1943 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.1 Add to Shelf
Item 1: F Miscellaneous, 1928-1937 Add to Shelf
Item 2: G Miscellaneous, 1926-1936 Add to Shelf
Item 3: H Miscellaneous, 1924-1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.2 Add to Shelf
Item 1: I Miscellaneous, 1926-1936 Add to Shelf
Item 2: J Miscellaneous, 1927-1936 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.3 Add to Shelf
Item 1: E.O. Holland (president, Washington State College), 1942 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Mrs. A.A. (Mary Bowman) Hull (secretary to Kerr), 1929-1936 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Frederick M. Hunter (OSSHE chancellor), 1935-1936 Add to Shelf
Item 4: James T. Jardine, 1931 & 1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.4: William A. Jensen (executive secretary to the college president), 1916-1942 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.5: Blanche Jones (editor of Oregon Teachers Monthly), 1920-1921 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.6: Albert Rebel (editor of Oregon, The State Magazine & Pacific Northwest), 1927-1928 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.7: Henry D. Sheldon, 1941-1943 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.8: Frank A. Weld (editor of American Educational Digest/School Executives Magazine), 1920-1935 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.9: Publications Office correspondence, 1927-1943 Add to Shelf
Series 5: Organizations and Special Events, 1921-1943 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.10: Federated Churches of Corvallis, Oregon, 1924-1932 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.11: University of Minnesota General Alumni Assn., The Minnesota Alumni Weekly, various issues, 1921-1931 Add to Shelf
Includes Reed's annotations.
Sub-Series 1: Harvard University Tercentenary, 1936 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.12 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Correspondence, 1935-1936 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Invitations Add to Shelf
Item 3: Schedules & programs Add to Shelf
Item 4: General celebration information Add to Shelf
Item 5: Tickets Add to Shelf
Item 6: Applications & product information Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.13 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Reed's note cards Add to Shelf
Item 2: Sept. 16, 1936 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Clippings Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 7.1: Clippings Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 20x24 in.
Box-Folder 7.2: Harvard Tercentenary Add to Shelf
Folder 1: "Harvard on View" Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 20x24 in.
Folder 2: Map Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 20x24 in.
Folder 3: Invitation from Harvard to OSC Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 20x24 in.
Folder 4: Text of OSC's message of congratulations Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 20x24 in.
Folder 5: Harvard University Tercentenary Gazette, #1-8, June-Sept. 1936 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 20x24 in.
Folder 6: Sept. 16 & 17, 1936 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 20x24 in.
Sub-Series 2: Moorhead State Teachers College Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 6.14 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Silver anniversary, ca. 1930s Add to Shelf
Item 2: Order of the Owls, 1936 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 7.3: 50th anniversary feature section, Moorhead Daily News, June 3, 1937 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 20x24 in.
Box-Folder 6.15 Add to Shelf
Item 1: National Assn. of State Universities, Chicago meeting, November 1933 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Old Oregon Trail Centennial, 1942-1943 Add to Shelf
Includes reviews, correspondence & other information about Reed's book of verse, Into the Promised Land.
Item 3: Oregon Council of English, 1922 Add to Shelf
Series 6: Photographs, 1900-1939 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 8.1 Add to Shelf
Item 1: Old Order of the Owls, Moorhead (Minnesota) State Teachers College, 1936 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Melrose Hall, Linfield College, ca. 1935 Add to Shelf
Item 3: Aerial views of Oregon State College, ca. 1938-1940 Add to Shelf
Extent: 4 images
Item 4: OSC President's residence, 1938 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 8.2: Kerr biography illustrations Add to Shelf
Item 1: Utah State Capitol building, ca. 1945 Add to Shelf
Item 2: Ceremony in Utah? State Capitol Building, ca. 1945 Add to Shelf
Extent: 2 images
Item 3: Views of Brigham Young College, ca. 1900 Add to Shelf
Extent: 5 prints & 4 copy negatives
Item 4: Portrait of Kerr when president of Brigham Young College, ca. 1900 Add to Shelf
Item 5: Kerr home?, Logan, Utah?, ca. 1900 Add to Shelf
Item 6: Mathematical models & instruments, University of Utah Add to Shelf
Extent: copy negative only
Item 7: Portrait of Kerr (photo by Harris & Ewing, Washington, DC), ca. 1915 Add to Shelf
Box-Folder 8.3: Postcards, views of Harvard University; from Harvard Tricentenary materials), 1936 Add to Shelf
Extent: 28 postcards, 1 photograph
Box-Folder 8.4: Photographs of Norway trip, 1939 Add to Shelf
Remain of ships, burial chambers, cart and sled
Box-Folder 3.2: Postcard album, ca. 1909-1910 Add to Shelf

Views of campus buildings from colleges and universities: Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Purdue, Washington State College, University of California, University of Idaho, Oregon Agricultural College, University of Washington, University of Oklahoma, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Ontario Agricultural College, Michigan Agricultural College, Ohio State University, Mills College.

OAC images include Administration Building (Benton Hall), Cauthorn (now Fairbanks) Hall, Waldo Hall, Agriculture (now Education) Hall, Shepard Hall, Lower Campus (with cadets in OAC formation), general campus views.

Views of public libraries, county courthouses, and high schools in various U.S. cities.

Views of buildings at Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909

Dimensions: apx 12x17 in.
Box-Folder 9.1: Photograph album of Oregon Agricultural College buildings and scenes, 1918-1920 Add to Shelf
Dimensions: apx 16x20 in.
Note: Many of these images appear in the 1921 Beaver yearbook. Current building names are in parentheses.
Item 1: View of Waldo Hall and Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 2: Drawing of campus. Add to Shelf
Item 3: Commerce Building (Bexell Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 4: A shady nook among the firs near the Women's Gym. Includes stone bench, a gift of the class of 1907. Add to Shelf
Item 5: Students in the Library Quad. Dairy Building (Gilkey Hall) and Agriculture Hall in the background. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 6: Drive in front of Apperson Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 7: Agriculture Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 8: Old Administration Building in summer. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 9: Campus grounds and the Old Administration Building (Benton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 10: Drive and walkway by Apperson Hall with light snow. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 11: Library (Kidder Hall) and Agriculture Hall in the fog. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 12: Library and Ida Kidder's wickermobile. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 13: Apperson Hall and Campus Way (unpaved). Add to Shelf
Item 14: Library Quad showing the Bandstand, Agriculture Hall, and the Dairy Building (Gilkey Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 15: Procession from Agriculture Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 16: Waldo Hall and Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall) with automobiles on Jefferson Avenue. Add to Shelf
Item 17: Walkway with trees near Apperson Hall. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 18: Marys River. Add to Shelf
Item 19: Campus drive near Old Administration Building (Benton Hall); Library Quad and buildings in background. Add to Shelf
Item 20: Campus Way and campus grounds near Old Administration Building (Benton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 21: Agriculture Hall and the end of the Library (Kidder Hall); looking through a tree. Add to Shelf
Item 22: Campus Way and campus grounds; taken near Apperson Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 23: Campus grounds with Science Hall (Education Hall) in the distance. Add to Shelf
Item 24: Campus grounds with Old Administration Building (Benton Hall) in the background. Add to Shelf
Item 25: Campus Way and campus grounds, looking southwest. Add to Shelf
Item 26: Campus grounds with the Women's Gymnasium (Valley Gymnastics Center) in the background. Add to Shelf
Item 27: Waldo Hall and drive. Add to Shelf
Item 28: Heating plant. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 29: Four men on sidewalk between Agriculture Hall and the Home Economics Building (Milam Hall). (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 30: Flower bed in middle of circular driveway by Waldo Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 31: Line of people outside of the Library (Kidder Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 32: Sidewalk between Agriculture Hall and the Dairy Building (Gilkey Hall). Also shows the Library (Kidder Hall) and the Old Administration Building (Benton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 33: Campus grounds near Apperson Hall covered with ice. Add to Shelf
Item 34: Science Hall (Education Hall) and walkways, looking south. Add to Shelf
Item 35: Campus trees covered with ice. (photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 36: Campus grounds with Science Hall (Education Hall) in the background. Add to Shelf
Item 37: Driveway near Waldo Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 38: Man drinking from water fountain; campus grounds covered with snow and ice. Waldo Hall in the background. Add to Shelf
Item 39: Campus grounds and Women's Gymnasium (Valley Gymnastics Center). Add to Shelf
Item 40: Campus Way with Shepard Hall and the Mines Building (Batcheller Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 41: Campus grounds and the Old Administration Building (Benton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 42: Campus Way with the Library (now Kidder Hall) and the Dairy Building (Gilkey Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 43: Shepard Hall and the Mines Building (Batcheller Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 44: Old Administration Building (Benton Hall) and automobiles. Add to Shelf
Item 45: Jefferson Street with the Forestry Building (Moreland Hall) and the Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall). (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 46: Cadets marching from the Armory (McAlexander Fieldhouse). Add to Shelf
Item 47: The Armory (McAlexander Fieldhouse). Add to Shelf
Item 48: Original (east) section of the Home Economics Building (Milam Hall), with home economics faculty and students out front. Add to Shelf
Item 49: Science Hall (Education Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 50: Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 51: Forestry Building (Moreland Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 52: Dairy Building (Gilkey Hall). (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 53: Campus Way and the covered loading dock of the Dairy Building. Add to Shelf
Item 54: Science Hall (Education Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 55: Withycombe House (home management or practice house). Add to Shelf
Item 56: Science Hall (Education Hall) and front walkway. Add to Shelf
Item 57: Students using the Library Culture Collection in the Library Reading Room. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 58: Woodworking shop and furniture. Add to Shelf
Item 59: Tractor lined up on Campus Way. Add to Shelf
Item 60: Cauthorn Hall (Fairbanks Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 61: Faculty (?) procession into Agriculture Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 62: YMCA "Hut" on Jefferson Street. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 63: Campus walk between Agriculture Hall and the Dairy Building (Gilkey Hall). Also shows the Library (Kidder Hall) and the Administration Building (Benton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 64: Assembly (commencement?) in the Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 65: Male students eating inside the Armory (McAlexander Fieldhouse). Add to Shelf
Item 66: Conference group in the Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall) Add to Shelf
Item 67: Football team in practice. Add to Shelf
Item 68: Male students in lobby area of Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 69: Football game. Add to Shelf
Item 70: Oregon Agricultural College cadets and cadet band on library quad; Agriculture Hall in the background. Add to Shelf
Item 71: Football fans sitting in the stands. Add to Shelf
Item 72: Football game; Waldo Hall in background Add to Shelf
Item 73: Fans in the stands at a football game. Add to Shelf
Item 74: William Jasper Kerr and other dignitaries and faculty in the covered portion of football stadium. Add to Shelf
Item 75: Administration Building (Benton Hall) and the Trysting Tree. Add to Shelf
Item 76: Cadets and others gathered around the Bandstand. Add to Shelf
Item 77: Waldo Hall, Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall), Forestry Building (Moreland Hall), and the Poultry Incubator House along Jefferson Street. Add to Shelf
Item 78: Crowd gathered around the Bandstand. Administration Building (Benton Hall) in the background. Add to Shelf
Item 79: Commencement exercises in the Men's Gymnasium (Langton Hall). Add to Shelf
Item 80: Crowd in the quad near the Library (Kidder Hall). Shepard Hall in the background. Add to Shelf
Item 81: Front entrance to Waldo Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 82: Crowd in covered (west) grandstand of the football stadium. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 83: The college library (Kidder Hall) in summer. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 84: Front (north) entrance to the Armory (McAlexander Fieldhouse). Add to Shelf
Item 85: Apperson Hall after the addition of the third floor. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 86: West and southwest grandstands of the football stadium filled with fans watching a game. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 87: Walkway and Apperson Hall. Add to Shelf
Item 88: The Trysting Tree. (Photo by Gardner Studio, Corvallis) Add to Shelf
Item 89: Serpentine crowd on the field during the OAC-University of Oregon football game. (Photo by Ball Studio, Corvallis), 1920 Add to Shelf