Call Number:

001.048

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.01 linear ft. (1 folder )

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Lyman Beecher Hall Prize in Chemistry correspondence (HCS.001.048) Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1923-1924, 1962 (inclusive)

Form:

letters (correspondence)

Abstract:

This collection contains documents relating to the establishment of a 100-dollar prize in Chemistry dedicated to Lyman Beecher Hall, a renowned professor of Chemistry at Haverford College.

Lyman Beecher Hall (1852-1935) was a professor of Chemistry at Haverford College from 1880 to 1917. He attended Amherst College (1869-1873), before attaining a doctorate from the University of Göttingen (1875). Hall was a fellow and instructor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University (1877-1880) and taught at Haverford for 37 years before his retirement in 1917. The "New Chemistry building" (now known as Hall Building) was named in his honor. He died in 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin.

This collection contains documents relating to the establishment of a 100-dollar prize in Chemistry dedicated to Lyman Beecher Hall, a renowned professor of Chemistry at Haverford College. The fund for the prize was established by the class of 1898, as a reward to a student who "shows promise of contributing substantially to the advancement of science in any field of service." Included are correspondences between Hall and Walter C. Janney as well as W. Buell Meldrum regarding Hall's thoughts on the prize and the statement by which it would be made known to students.

Materials are arranged chronologically