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Thomas Chase presidential papers
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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Thomas Chase (1827-1892) was the son of Anthony and Lydia (Earle) Chase of Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1848, where he later taught for one year. He began teaching at Haverford College in 1855, where he taught philosophy and both classical and English literature. He served on the American Committee for the revision of the Bible from 1881 to 1884. In 1875, he was named president of Haverford College, a position from which he resigned in 1886 due to failing health. He married Alice Underhill Cromwell (ca. 1837-1882), of New York, in 1860. They had four sons and one daughter.
The collection consists of two addresses, financial records, correspondence, and a song created by Thomas Chase, President of Haverford College.
Materials are arranged chronologically.
Processed by Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger, completed November 2021; additional processing by Cullen Worth, completed July 2024.
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger and Cullen Worth
- Finding Aid Date
- November, 2021
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The collection is open for research use
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Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17)
Collection Inventory
This folder contains two addresses on education given by Thomas Chase, President of Haverford College from 1868 to 1886. Chase's "Educational Addresses" was published by the Teachers' Association of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1868. At the time, Chase was a professor at Haverford. The collection also includes two copies of "Liberal Education: Its Objects and Methods," which was delivered at the opening of Bryn Mawr College and published in 1886.
This collection includes a Haverford song, written by Thomas Chase, a letter from Chase to an Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, a ticket to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition (held in Philadelphia) and a record of the receipts and expenditures of the "Haverford Greenhouse Company." The song, titled Carmen Haverfordeianum was dedicated by President Chase to the Class of 1887 and contains lyrics in Latin. Chase's letter to Hartshorne requests twelve copies of his address to Hartshorne's class and congratulates the him on recovering from a recent illness. The book of expenditures from the "Greenhouse Company" records the prices paid to various parties, usually in exchange for seeds or other plant materials.