Humanities Council Records

Held at: Princeton University Library: University Archives [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: University Archives. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Call Number:

AC143

Repository:

Princeton University Library: University Archives

Extent:

6 boxes
1 websites
.03 gb

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Council of the Humanities Records, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1935-2021 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Humanities Council.

Form:

Manuscripts. and Web sites.

Abstract:

The Council of the Humanities was founded in 1953 at Princeton University to foster teaching, research and intellectual exchange. Consists of materials collected and generated by the Council of the Humanities, including materials pertaining to the Ford Foundation Project.

Princeton University. Humanities Council.

The Council of the Humanities was founded in 1953 at Princeton University to foster teaching, research and intellectual exchange. Its name was changed to the Princeton University Humanities Council in the 2000s. The Council brings together students, faculty, guest scholars, writers and artists in a wide variety of venues and sponsors a broad range of interdisciplinary courses, programs and initiatives, including the creative arts, media studies and the Society of Fellows. In the 1960s with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, the Council of Humanities undertook a project to appraise American humanistic scholarship in the preceding decades. Thirty-five scholars participated, resulting in the fifteen-volume series The Princeton Studies: Humanistic Studies in America.

Consists of materials collected and generated by the Council of the Humanities. Much of these materals pertain to the Ford Foundation Project, including grant reports, manuscripts, and correspondence with the various authors and scholars involved. Also included are collected student academic records pre-dating the formation of the Council; Council minutes; numerous drafts of the Council's 10-year plan from 1965; the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity's archived website and electronic records; and the Council's archived website.

The Council of the Humanities Records are organized into the following series:

The materials were internally transferred over the course of multiple accessions, the first of which having been acquired prior to 2011.

The most recent accession, AR.2022.035, occurred in August 2021 and contributes electronic records documenting the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.

Full text searching of this collection's archived web site(s) is available through the Archive-It interface.

Container lists were created, series established and the finding aid was updated by Christie Peterson with the assistance of Eleanor Wright '14 in November 2010. Series 4 added by Lynn Durgin in October 2017. Series 4 updated by Valencia L. Johnson in October 2017. Electronic records from the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity described in Series 2 by Quin DeLaRosa in 2022.

People

Schlatter, Richard, 1912-1987

Organization

Subject

Publisher

University Archives

Finding Aid Date

2007

Access Restrictions

Files older than 30 years that do not contain student educational records, faculty personnel matters or trustee issues are open.

All files in Series 1: Student Academic Records and some files in Series 2: Program Records contain student academic records and are closed for 75 years from date of file creation or for the lifetime of the student.

Some files in Series 3: Ford Foundation Project contain faculty personnel records and are closed for 75 years from the date of creation.

Restrictions beyond 30 years are noted in the relevant series and folder descriptions.

Series 4: Websites are open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. The Trustees of Princeton University hold copyright to all materials generated by Princeton University employees in the course of their work. If copyright is held by Princeton University, researchers will not need to obtain permission, complete any forms, or receive a letter to move forward with non-commercial use of materials from the Mudd Library. For materials where the copyright is not held by the University, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. If you have a question about who owns the copyright for an item, you may request clarification through the Ask Us! form.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Series 1: Student Academic Records comprises cards containing complete academic records and photographs of students from the classes of 1941 through 1964 who participated in the Special Program in the Humanities.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by class year.

Physical Description

1 box

Class of 1964, 1959-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1963, 1959-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1962, 1958-1962. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1961, 1957-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors Class of 1960, 1956-1960. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1959, 1955-1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1957-1958, 1953-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1956-1957, 1953-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1955-1956, 1949-1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1951, 1946-1951. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors - 1954-1955, 1951-1958. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1953, 1949-1957. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors - Class of 1952, 1948-1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1950, 1946-1952. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1949, 1943-1955. 1 box.

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1 box

Seniors 1953-1954, 1946-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1949 (Freshmen Who Went to War) Withdrawn for Military Service, 1943-1949. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Class of 1948, 1944-1949. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1947, 1943-1951. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1946 (Accelerated), 1942-1946. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1945 (Accelerated), 1942-1948. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1944 Accelerated - Cards, 1941-1946. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Class of 1943 - Cards, 1940-1946. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1942, 1939-1946. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1940, 1937-1940. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1939, 1936-1939. 1 box.

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1 box

Class of 1941, 1938-1945. 1 box.

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1 box

Scope and Contents

Series 2: Council Records contains administrative records of the committees and programs of the Council of the Humanities, as well as the Council itself.

Arrangement

The files in Series 2: Council Records remain in their original order.

Physical Description

4 boxes

Material Regarding Course Taught by George Thomas, 1948-1966. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Revision of Brochure of the Special Program in the Humanities August, 1960, 1948. 1 box.

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1 box

Senior Theses SPH, 1939-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Graduate Program Sponsored by the SPH, 1955. 1 box.

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1 box

Responses to Questionnaires, 1957. 1 box.

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1 box

Student Rosters, 1939-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Thesis Progress Reports, 1958-1962. 1 box.

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1 box

Plans and Speeches on Divisional Program in the Humanities, 1940-1944. 1 box.

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1 box

Divisional Examination Special Program in the Humanities, 1950-1957. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Honor Certificates, 1949-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Faulkner - Spring - 1958, 1957-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Personnel for Seminars in Area Studies, 1955-1957. 1 box.

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1 box

Roster of Students - SPH (Intermittent, Incomplete), 1939-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Advisory Council - Special Program in the Humanities : Correspondence on its Inaugural Meeting, 1942. 1 box.

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1 box

Advisory Council - Special Program in the Humanities, 1941-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Humanities 403: Thomas Mann, Professor Eric Kahler, 1960-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Humanities 401: Senior Seminar: Z, Dante, Montaigne, and Pascal, Mr. Blackmur - Fall Term 1959, 1960. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor R. Blackmur, The Lyric - Fall Term 1955, 1955-1958. 1 box.

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1 box

Senior Seminar, Leaders, Etc, 1950-1953. 1 box.

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1 box

Blackmur and Guillen, Fall Term, 1958-1959. 1 box.

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1 box

401 (Michelangelo), Professors D. R. Coffin, A. R. Turner, Fall Term, 1962. 1 box.

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1 box

403 (Proust & Gide), Professor Albert Sonnenfeld, Fall Term, 1962. 1 box.

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1 box

SPH Seminars for Academic Year 1962-63, 1961-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Humanities 403: Senior Seminar: From Classicism to Romanticism, Mr. Rosenblim, Fall Term, 1959, 1958-1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Senior Committee 1949; Also Gauss (Lit. Crit.) and Other Seminars, 1950-54 - Draft Outlines Etc., Correspondence (Oates, Borgerhoff, Stauffer, Fitzgerald...), 1949-1954. 1 box.

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1 box

Fall Term 1956-57 Plato (Oates), Tragedy (Schwarz), 1956-1958. 1 box.

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1 box

Professor Jose Ferrater-Mora Seminar, Tuesdays - 2:00-4:00 p.m., Humanities Seminar Room, 1957-1960. 1 box.

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1 box

Humanistic Library, 1942-1948. 1 box.

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1 box

Material for Proposed Newsweek Feature Write-Up by W. Irwin - Includes report on Views of 9 Undergraduates, 1942, 1941-1943. 1 box.

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1 box

Visit of British Humanities Commission 1959, 1956-1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Lecture Outlines - Humanities 201 Fall Term, 1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

History of Humanities Program, 1940-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Divisional Program in the Humanities / Special Program in the Humanities : Minutes, 1936 - 1943. 1 box.

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1 box

Divisional Program in the Humanities / Special Program in the Humanities : Examinations, 1939-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Special Program in the Humanities : Thesis Progress Reports, 1950-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

"Plato's Timaeus and the Problem of Evil," Milner S. Ball (Student Paper), 1958 February 1. 1 box.

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1 box

"The Will to Power in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche," by Lester L. Cooper, Jr. (Student Thesis), 1960 April 25. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

"An Outline for Poetry," by Peter Jay Marcus, '61 (Student Thesis), 1961 April 24. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Hendel, C.W. "Education and Politics", 1949. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Program Plans, 1956-1958. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Dilliard Lectures on David Graham Phillips, 1967. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Council of the Humanities, 1969-1972. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Council of the Humanities Minutes, 1960-1966. 1 box.

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1 box

Council of the Humanities Pre-1962, 1933-1934. 1 box.

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1 box

Council of the Humanities, 1962-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Council of the Humanities : Minutes, 1952-1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Bowen - Future of the Humanities, 1968. 1 box.

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1 box

Ten Year Plan : Revised February 1965, 1963-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Ten Year Plan : Correspondence and Reports, 1961-1965. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Ten Year Plan : Foreign and International Affairs, 1961-1962. 1 box.

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1 box

Ten Year Plan : Some Tentative Thoughts and Proposals by James H. Billington, 1960-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Ten Year Plan : Levy Proposal, 1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Geddes, Robert L.; Director, School of Architecture as of September, 1965, 1964-1966. 1 box.

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1 box

Medieval Studies - John Fleming, 1972-1974. 1 box.

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1 box

Jandl European Interviews Regarding School of Architecture, 1962-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Ad Hoc Committee - Architecture, 1963-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

The Medieval Studies Society of Princeton University 1972-1973, 1972-1974. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Literature in Translation - Subcommittee of Committee on Humanistic Studies, 1972-1973. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Justification of Courses Offered Under Humanities Council, 1970. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Mary John Goree Scholarship, 1971. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

ACLS - Commission on the Humanities, 1955-1966. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

ACLS - Commission on the Humanities : Humanities 1973-74 (Last Time), 1970-1974. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

The Twenty-Fifth Annual Kern-Medina Seminar DVD Recordings and Program Materials, 2014 June 12–17. 1 box.

Scope and Contents

Consists of lecture recordings (DVD) and programs from the 25th Annual Kern-Medina Seminar, held June 12-17, 2014 and sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, the Judiciary Leadership Development Council, Princeton University Council of the Humanities and Council on Science and Technology.

Physical Description

1 box

Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity Records, 2019-2021. .03 GB.

Scope and Contents

Consists of committee records, including lectures, fliers, and administrative records.

Physical Description

.03 GB

Scope and Contents

Series 3: Ford Humanities Project contains records of the project to appraise American humanistic scholarship that resulted in the fifteen-volume series The Princeton Studies: Humanistic Studies in America.

Arrangement

The files remain in the orignal order in which they were received by the archives.

Physical Description

2 boxes

Contracts (Signed), 1960-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Prentice-Hall, 1960-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Music, 1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Philosophy Conference, 1960. 1 box.

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1 box

Literature, 1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Linguistics, 1960-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Asian Studies, 1959-1960. 1 box.

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1 box

Art, 1958-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Classics, 1960-1965. 1 box.

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1 box

History, 1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Statements, 1958-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Financial Records, 1962-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Library Ideas, 1959. 1 box.

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1 box

Budget, 1959-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Expenses for Ford Humanities Project Conference November 14-15, 1958, 1958-1960. 1 box.

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1 box

Untitled, 1954-1965. 1 box.

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1 box

Docket Item, 1957-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Budget and Finances, 1960-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Haas, 1963-1965. 1 box.

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1 box

American Scholarship in Western Music, 1961 September. 1 box.

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1 box

Ackerman, 1962-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Essay on Art History, 1962. 1 box.

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1 box

Barber, 1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Carpenter, 1962-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Carpenter, undated. 1 box.

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1 box

Fong, 1962-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Art and Archaeology, 1960-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

History, 1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Knapp, 1963-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Krieger, undated. 1 box.

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1 box

The Origins of the American Humanist Scholar, Professor Knapp, undated. 1 box.

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1 box

Linguistics, 1962. 1 box.

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1 box

Uitti, Karl, 1963-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Linguists and Linguistic Theory, Karl D. Uitti, 1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Literature, undated. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Daiches, 1961-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Havelock, 1963 May 27. 1 box.

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1 box

Hugo, 1963-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Music, 1962-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Sutton, 1962-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Harrison, 1962-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Hood, 1962-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Palisca, 1961-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Passmore, 1961-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Philosophers, 1961-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Chisholm, 1961-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Feigl, 1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Frankena, 1961-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Putnam, 1961-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Thompson, 1960-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Religion, 1959-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Ashby, 1963-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Grant, 1962. 1 box.

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1 box

Gustafson, 1964 May 27. 1 box.

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1 box

Holbrook, 1962-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Nichols, 1962-1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Smith, 1964 January 8. 1 box.

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1 box

Welch, 1963. 1 box.

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1 box

Koch Manuscript, 1960 September. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Orlinsky, undated. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Material Regarding Professor Max Silberschmidt, 1956-1959. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Ford Humanities Project, 1960-1965. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Religion, 1959-1960. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Conference in Religion, 1959-1961. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Philosophy, 1959-1962. 1 box.

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1 box

Social Sciences, 1954-1961. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Lange Manuscript, 1965 December 16. 1 box.

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1 box

Dr. Richard Gilman, Associate, 1959-1962. 1 box.

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1 box

Professor Robert Gordis, 1960-1961. 1 box.

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1 box

Professor W. Haas, M.A., Associate Professor, 1961-1964. 1 box.

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1 box

Professor Howard E. Hugo, Associate Professor, 1961-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Roman Jakobson, Associate Professor, 1961-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

John Lotz, Associate, 1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Murphy, Arthur; Associate, 1961-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Francis George Steiner, Yr. 1959-60, Asst. Prof. Germanic Languages, 1959-1960. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor James Ackerman, Visiting Senior Fellow, Art, 1960-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Philip Ashby, 1960-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Rhys Carpenter, Associate, 1960-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Roderick M. Chisholm, Brown University, 1959-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Mr. David Daiches, Associate, 1960-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Herbert Feigl, Dept. of Philosophy, U. of Minn, 1960-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Wen Fong, 1959-1965. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor William K. Frankena, Dept. of Philosophy, 1959-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Felix Gilbert, Associate, 1960-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor James Gustafson, Associate, 1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Robert M. Grant, 1960-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Eric P. Hamp, Associate, 1963-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor James Holly Hanford, Associate, 1960-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Mr. Frank Harrison, Music, 1959-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Proessor Eric Havelock, Classics Visiting Senior Fellow, 1960-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor John Higham, Rutgers University, 1959-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Clyde A. Holbrook, Religion, 1959-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Mantle Hood, Music, 1959-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor R. H. Knapp, Associate, 1958-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Leonard Krieger, Associate, 1959-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor James H. Nichols, Associate Professor, 1960-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Harry M. Orlinsky, Associate, 1961-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Claude V. Palisca, Music, 1959-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor John Passmore, Philosophy Associate, 1959-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Henri Peyre, Yale University, 1961-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Hilary Putnam, Jr. Fellow, Department of Philosophy, 1959-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Richard Schlatter, Part-time Senior Fellow of the Council, Department of History, Co-director, 1959. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor John E. Smith, 1960-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Walter Sutton, Visiting Senior Fellow, 1959-1963. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Manley Thompson, Associate, 1959-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Karl D. Uitti, Associate, 1963-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Claude Welch, 1960-1962. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Rulon S. Wells, III, Associate, 1961-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Professor Eric R. Wolf, Associate Professor, 1962-1964. 1 box.

Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

Websites created and mantained by the Humanities Council

Arrangement

The original arrangement of the files was maintained.

Physical Description

1 websites

Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity Public Website, 2015-2017. 1 website.

Scope and Contents

The Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity public website provides information on the committee's events, program for graduate students, chair and committee members, and research projects and publications.

Full text searching of the Princeton University Reports website is available through the Archive-It interface.

Physical Description

1 website

Materials Viewable Online

View digital content

Humanities Council Website, 2016-2017. 1 website.

Scope and Contents

This website contains information about the 16 humanities departments and the 30+ interdepartmental centers, programs, and committees that the Humanities Council supports.

Full text searching of the Humanities Council website is available through the Archive-It interface.

Physical Description

1 website

Materials Viewable Online

View digital content

Suggest a correction

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Scope and Content

Arrangement

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Collection Inventory

Series 1: Student Academic Records, 1936-1968. 1 box.

Series 2: Council Records, 1933-2014 June 17. 4 boxes.

Series 3: Ford Humanities Project, 1954-1965. 2 boxes.

Series 4: Websites, 2015-2017. 1 websites.

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