Call Number:

C0434

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 4 boxes
• 2.7 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Arthur M. Greene Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1902-1953 (inclusive)

Creator:

Greene, Arthur Maurice, 1872-1953

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century, Lecture notes -- 20th century., and Reports -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of works, correspondence, and memorabilia of Princeton School of Engineering dean Arthur M. Greene, as well as papers of others about him.

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.