Box 2

Scope and Contents

This series includes research papers arranged by chronological period. Records for each period include chapter outlines with corresponding primary source material, such as copies of pages from reports, course catalogs, yearbooks, newspapers, etc. Periods include beginnings (1867-1901), the Raymond years (1895-1901), Purinton as Dean and President (1901-1911), and so on. It also includes an original West Virginia University course catalog from 1898 (box 1).

Scope and Contents

This series includes transcripts of interviews conducted for the centennial history.

Scope and Contents

This series includes lists of faculty, their publications, and a few biographical narratives, including ones for Louis Watson Chappell and Wilson Porter Shortridge.

Scope and Contents This series includes files of photocopies of research material, including, among other material, a manuscript by history professor James Morton Callahan entitled "Presidents of West Virginia University: Sketches of Their Educational Service" (1944); a manuscript by Callahan entitled "Brief Historical Sketch of West Virginia University" (undated); a syllabus for "Humanities 1 and 1, Introductory General Course" (1947); a research file on mathematics professor Margaret Buchanan Cole (ca....