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Arthur M. Greene Collection

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. 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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Greene

Arthur M. Greene was the first dean of Princetion University's School of Engineering. Under Greene's guidance, four-year undergraduate programs were offered in civil, chemical, electrical, mechanical, and mining (later geological) engineering, and one-year graduate courses leading to the corresponding engineering degree (later to the Master of Science in Engineering for all fields). Greene's devotion and energy gave the school a sure foundation. When he came to Princeton in 1922 there were 84 engineering students; by 1940, when he retired, the number had grown to 379.

The collection consists of works, correspondence, and memorabilia of Greene, as well as papers of others. The collection contains essays, articles, lectures, and notebooks by Greene and includes correspondence, much of which was written by friends and colleagues in 1921 congratulating him on his appointment to Princeton as dean of the newly formed School of Engineering and chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In addition, there are notes (1935-1936) taken by John W. Landis (Princeton Class of 1947) of Greene's lectures in theoretical physics and problems in Daugherty's hydraulics, reports by Landis on the various departments of the Inland Steel Company (1938), and a dissertation on a design of a power system by Edward Dunbar Purvis, William Mcafee Hanna, and James A. Wadsworth.

Gift of Mrs. John W. Landis.

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Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '14 in 2013.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2009
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Correspondence: A-H, 1902-1922. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence: J-P, 1919-1921. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence: R-W, 1902-1942. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1909-1945. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence: University of Missouri, 1901 December-1907. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence: Princeton University, 1921. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Correspondence: Letters of Congratulations on Appointment to Princeton, 1921. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence: Retirement, 1939-1940. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Correspondence: 30th Anniversary Dinner, 1953. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Report on Inland Steel Company, 1935-1936. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 boxTwo bound files

"Design of a Power System," Ph.D. thesis, 1925 June. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 boxBound typescript

"The Development of the Pumping Engine," typescript, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"The Fullness of Time," typescript, 1938. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Speeches, manuscripts, articles, etc., 1906-1940. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Speeches, manuscripts, articles, etc., 1906-1940. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Notebook for Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Class Notes, undated. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box5 notebooks

Princeton Class Schedule, 1922-1923. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

"Old Guard" Certificate, 1950 June. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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