VOLUME: 7.5 linear feet
Forms Part of Record Group No. 3, Records of the Office of the President
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Paul Frederick Douglass was born in Corinth, New York on November 7, 1904. He received his A.B. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1931 where he was a Taft fellow in government and public law. He also attended the University of Berlin for two years as a fellow in economics and jurisprudence. He was admitted to the Vermont Bar in the late 1930s.
Douglass was an author, journalist, lawyer, Methodist minister, and a member of the Vermont state senate. He worked as a reporter and educational editor for the Cincinnati Post from 1926 to 1928 and as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. In 1933, he was ordained and served as a pastor of the Methodist Church in Poultney, Vermont until 1941. When serving in the Vermont State Legislature from 1933-1943, he chaired the House Committee on Education.
Douglass was nominated to be president of the 小蓝视频 by a special committee of the Board of Trustees when he was 37 years old. In his first month at the University, he impressed the students when he interviewed all the seniors, administered the graduate record examination, revitalized the school鈥檚 chapel programs, and preached to the students during Sunday services.
Douglass led 小蓝视频 through the turbulent war years. He was very active in the movement to establish the United Nations and worked diligently on refugee relief programs and international organizations. Hew as the first president to help foster integration at 小蓝视频 and he also initiated courses for disabled veterans of the war.
In 1951, Douglass decided against re-election to the presidency so he could spend more time writing. He became an advisor to the South Korean President Syngman Rhee from 1952 to 1955. From 1971 to 1978 he acted as General Counsel to the postmaster鈥檚 league in Washington.
Douglass never married and died at the age of 83 in Rutland, Vermont after a long illness. He authored more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects including city planning, education, estate planning, industrial parks, and recreation.
The collection documents Douglass鈥 tenure as President of 小蓝视频 (1941-1951) through correspondence, programs, questionnaires, reports, and speeches. Topics include: the administration of 小蓝视频, the Alfred Sloan Foundation Teaching Institute on Economics, the Methodist Church, and veterans鈥 benefits.
The Collection was transferred to the Archives when it was discovered in the attic of the McKinley Building in 1962.
Box 1
- Academy of Time Fellowship - Gordon Cowan Manuscript, 1948
- Accreditation - American Chemical Society
- Administration - Groups and their Administration - Preliminary Draft of Outline - An Orientation for Technical Courses in Administration - Faculty Seminar, L.C. Marshall, 1938
- Administrative Committee of the Board of Trustees, 1941-1943
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Teaching Institute of Economics
- 1937-1945
- 1945-1946
- 1945-1949 (2 folders)
- 1945-1952
- 1964, correspondence Hurst
- Misc. brochures/booklets
- Alumni contributions and gifts, 1926-1949
- Area Studies - Institute of the Americas Proposal, 1949
Box 2
- North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools - Faculty Records,
- A - M, 1950-1951
- N - Z, 1950-1951
- Audio visual aids, 1945-1948
- Budget, 1951-1952
- Budget Data, 1951-1953 (2 folders)
- Bureau of Social Science Research, 1950-1956 (2 folders)
Box 3
- Campus plans and orientation literature
- Citizens Policy Conference, 1951
- Clippings (mostly relating to problems of returning and disabled veterans)
- Cohen, Benjamin - Luncheon for Assistant Secretary of the United Nations, Sept. 24, 1947
- College Program - Colloquiums and Seminars, 1949-1950
- Committee of Three, 1951 - Committee on the Proposed Protestant-sponsored School of International Service - Harold Davis, Dec, 19, 1951
- Department of Communication - Annual Report, 1950 (AC6309.1)
- The Community War Fund, 1943-1946
- Correspondence - General, 1935-1941 (2 folders)
- C.C. McCabe Lecture by Kenneth DeCourcy, 1950
- Development Program - New York Meeting, May 1951
- 小蓝视频 and its Educational Service - Memo from Pres. Douglass, Feb 7, 1944
- President Douglass 鈥 Chronology
- Paul Douglass 鈥 Copies (Obituary, Resignation, etc.)
Box 4
- President Douglass Correspondence, 1940s-1951 (2 folders)
- Miscellaneous Correspondence - President Douglass, 1949-1952; 1961
- Douglass, Paul 鈥 Pictures from Rotogravure, Washington Post, June 1, 1941
- President Paul F. Douglass 鈥 Resignation - News Clippings - The Eagle (Oct. 18, 1951)
- Enrollment - Registration, 1946-1952
- Faculty Appointments - Salaries
- Faculty Questionnaire to the faculty, 1950
- Committee on faculty and curriculum college - CAS, 1948
- Faculty meetings and committees, 1946-1949
- Financial statements and records, 小蓝视频, 1930, 1948, 1951
- Fire Damage - Repair Work at Recreational Building, 1949
- Foreign Students, 1955
- Health and Physical Education, 1947-1949
- Institutes - Federal Taxes, 1945-1951
- Institutes - 小蓝视频 Teaching Institute of Economics, 1948-1949
Box 5
- Insurance - Lumberman's Mutual Casualty, 1939-1942
- International Students Day, 1943-1945
- Investments - Loomis, Sayles & Co., Feb 1949 - June 1951
- Lectures and Courses, etc., 1937-1943
- Lectures before the diplomatic corps, 1937
- Legal counsel - Colladay, Colladay & Wallace, 1929-1949
- Leonard, Adna Wright, Jr., 1943-1945
- Legendre, Leonce R. - Correspondence - Boy's Nation Program, 1943
- Littauer, Lucius N. - Fellowship, 1940-1941
- Lobingier, Charles S. - The Lobingier Foundation, 1939-1949
- Long Scholarship - Long and Eaton Correspondence, 1928-1931
- Macomb Street property, 1929-1949
- The Maret School and 小蓝视频, 1947-1951
- Ice Marketing Institute - Milk Ind. Foundation, 1949
- Medical Technology and Nursing, 1942-1948
- Methodist Church Relationships, 1947-1950
- Methodist Youth Fellowship, 1941-1943
Box 6
- Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church - Pledges with signatures of US Grant and Salmon P. Chase (printed), May 1871
- Metropolitan Memorial Church - Papers and Correspondence re: relocating church on 小蓝视频 campus, 1929-1945
- Methodist Church - Statement by 小蓝视频 to the Methodist conference, 1952
- Mexican Claim - Estate of John W. DeKay, 1943
- Mexico - Students, Hall of Nations, Ambassador Daniels, 1936-1942
- Military programs and 小蓝视频 contract, 1948-1951
- Military program (小蓝视频) - 小蓝视频 War Bulletins (Korean War), 1950-1951
- Minister's Seminar
- Direction our society is moving, April 1944
- Copies of speeches and materials 1944
- Courses of study at 小蓝视频, 1945
- April 3-5, 1945
Box 7
- Minister鈥檚 Seminar (continued)
- April 23-25, 1946
- Syllabi and materials, April 23-25, 1946
- Graduate Seminar, 1947, 1948, 1949
- Graduate Seminar, April 1950
- Pittsburgh Area, Oct. 1950
- Richmond, VA, 1950
- Graduate Seminar, April 10-12, 1951
- Illinois, 1949-1952
- Miscellaneous Memoranda by Pres. Douglass
- Nasht, John - Hochschild Scholarship, 1944-1947
- National Capital Sesquicentennial - 小蓝视频's participation, 1950
- National Institute of Public Affairs
- Correspondence, 1937-1945
- 1936-1945
Box 8
- National Service Officers - Memoranda and Syllabus - Standing Committee on English Program, 1946
- National Youth Administration, 1938-1942
- Navy Department - correspondence, contracts, bulletins, lease equipment, 1943-1950
- Negro Students, 1944-1949
- Observatory (小蓝视频) - correspondence re: possibility of mounting a telescope on the campus, 1946
- Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1942-1950
- Office of War Information Broadcasts, 1943-1946
- Olsen, George W. Correspondence, 1945-1946
- The Optimist International - 小蓝视频 meeting, June 1946
- Order of Patron Forms (小蓝视频)
- Parkhill Construction Company - Alterations to 小蓝视频 Buildings and Repairs - The Quonset Huts, 1945-1947
- Patent Office Survey - Research Program at 小蓝视频, 1948,/li>
- Parker, Judge Edwin - Will, 1929
- Pension Plan - TIAA, 1947
Box 9
- Pension records, 1947
- Peyser, Julius I., 1942-1950
- Police, 1948
- Posner, Stanley 鈥 Correspondence - 5th Institute on the US in World Affairs, 1949-1950
- President Harding Death (Pittsburgh Post: August 3, 1923)
- Presidential System - Research and Writing - Letter to William D. Hasset, Sec. to FDR, 1946
- Protestants and other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 1951
- Public Administration Dept. (SSSPA) courses and Bibliography, 1946, 1948
- Public Administration Clearing House - Civil Service Assembly of the US and Canada, 1935-1944
- Public Opinion Clearing House, 1935-1946
- Publications Board, 小蓝视频 organization, etc.
- Questionnaires, 1939-1941
- Rankin, W. A. - correspondence relating to his will, 1917
- Reading program, 1948-1951<.li>
- Recreation, 1950
- Rendezvous Room, 小蓝视频, 1945-1946
- Report - Director of Research, 1918
- Report of the President to the Board of Trustees, October 1951
- Rhee, Syngman - copy of letter to Mrs. Parmly, 1942
- Resignation, 1951
- Resume
- Rhode Scholar Program (小蓝视频), 1949-1950
Box 10
- Robinson, James Frank - Will and Estate, 1930-1940
- Robson, Matthew, 1928-1929
- Rockefeller Foundation
- 1935-1983
- 1934-1939
- The Rockefeller Foundation and the Establishment of Public Affairs at 小蓝视频
- Roper Chimes, 1941-1950
- Rosenwald, Julius - Fund, 1938-1944
- ROTC, 1946-1951
- Russell Sage Foundation, 1937-1938
- Russia, 1943-1946
Box 11
- Sedgewick, Anne Douglas - a portrait in letter
- School of Public Affairs
- Statement - 小蓝视频 Today and Tomorrow
- Summer Institute, 1935
- Publications, 1936-1937
- SSSPA
- Committee on Faculty and Curriculum School, 1948
- History, Feb. 1948
- Objectives, 1937-1942
- Standing Committee, 1946-1947
- Standing Committee Memoranda, 1947-1949
- Undergraduate Counseling Manual, 1949
- Social Activities - Report of the Advisors of Extra Curricula Activities, Fraternities, 1941-1942
- Social Science Research Council, 1936-1947
- College Council - Student Affairs and Activities, 1948-1950
- Stocks - President Douglass records, 1949
- Student Guidance, Committee of, 1939
- Student Loan Fund of Methodist Church, 1927, 1942-1944
Box 12
- Summer Sessions, 1931-1951
- Surplus war property, 1944-1948
- Testing Program 鈥 Graduate Record Examination, 1940-1951
- Thesis on William and Mary library in 17th and 18th c. by J.M. Jennings, 1947
- The United Nations war relief, 1943-1945
- University officers and administrative council minutes, 1947-1953
- University Organization
- CAS - Divisional Academic Program, 1947-1948
- Graduate Division
- Undergraduate Division, 1940-1949
Box 13
- University Senate - Methodist Church, 1940-1947
- University Statistics on Questionnaires, 1923-1941
- University Statistics - admissions, rules, degrees, 1937-1940 (2 folders)
- Veterans dwelling units - temporary housing provided by public housing authority, 1946-1947
- Veterans program, 1947-1949
- War Council, 1950-1951 (2 folders)
Box 14
- War Bulletins, etc., 1950-1951
- War programs
- Letters from servicemen, 1950
- Legislation 鈥 Congressional Publications, 1948-1951
- Ward Circle campus - Correspondence, 1946-1949
- Washington Federation of churches - Visual education workshop - 小蓝视频 campus, 1945-1948
- Wesley Junior College, 1941-1945, 1962
- World Federation of Educational Associations in cooperation with 小蓝视频 Institute on World Problems, July 12 - August 15, 1942
- The World through Washington - Fortnightly news letter 鈥 小蓝视频, April 1944 - July 1946
- World War II Honor Roll (小蓝视频)
Box 15 - Addresses, Sermons, Speeches, and Writings
- Writings of Paul F. Douglass 鈥 Index
- 鈥淭he Indicative Mood鈥 (no date)
- 鈥淢ethodism鈥 (no date)
- Pastoral Psychiatry (September, 1940)
- 鈥淭he Construction & Interpretation of Orders for Civilian Tactical Defense Exercises鈥 (1941)
- 鈥淭he Idea of a University鈥 (July 14, 1941)
- 鈥淒ynamic Democracy鈥 (May 22, 1941)
- 鈥淢orale鈥 (July 14, 1941)
- 鈥淭he Obligations of a University鈥 (November 24, 1941)
- 鈥淚ntellectual Freedom in Education鈥 (May 12, 1942)
- 鈥淕reat Teachers & Great Students鈥 (May 31, 1943)
- President Paul Douglass Address in support of the Educational Financial Act of 1943
- 鈥淭he Healing Fact: Common Ground of Faith & Action鈥 (January 12, 1943)
- 鈥淢emorandum Submitted by Pres. Paul F. Douglass鈥 (April, 1943)
- 鈥淗uman Engineering in the Age of the Machine鈥 (1943)
- Memorandum on the Educational Program of a University (July, 1943)
- 鈥淎n American Pattern: Education for Mature, Mission-motivated Individuals鈥 (1943)
- 鈥淭he Return of the Banker to Banking Business鈥 (November 5, 1943)
- 鈥淲ashington: New Frontier Town鈥 (1943)
- Article re: Carrie Chapman Catt (March 14, 1944)
- 鈥淥ur Contemporary Problems as Defined by Current Court Decisions鈥 (April 11, 1944)
- 鈥淒isabled Veterans and their Education鈥 (January, 1946)
- 鈥淭he American Idiom鈥 (September 25, 1946)
- 鈥淭he Climate of Isolation鈥 (June 9, 1946)
- 鈥淭elevision is here: The Communications Revolution鈥 (1946)
- 鈥淎dvertising鈥檚 Idea of Modern Man鈥 (February 18, 1947)
- 鈥淲e Live Forward鈥 (April 23, 1947)
- 鈥淐adres of the Sane鈥 (April 23, 1947)
- 鈥淧oet as Government Clerk: Robert Burns, 1789-1796 鈥 Internal Revenue Collector鈥 (1947)
- 鈥淗ow Shall the College Curriculum be Adjusted Wartime鈥 (1947)
- 鈥淭he New Pattern of Our Lives鈥 (September 10, 1947)
- 鈥淭he Civilizing Road鈥 (November 4, 1947)
- 鈥淎n Ostrich Lesson for Phi Beta Kappas鈥 (December 29, 1947)
- 鈥淏roadening the Base of Leadership鈥 (1948)
- Address at Advertising Club of Baltimore (January 18, 1948)
- 鈥淭he Stewardship of Democracy鈥 (April 6, 1948)
- 鈥淪ecular Catastrophe on the Terrestrial Road鈥 (July 19, 1948)
- 鈥淭he Act of Oral Communication鈥 (December 30, 1948)
- 鈥淪aints in History鈥 (January 30, 1949)
- 鈥淐hanging the Minds of Men鈥 (March 9, 1949)
- 鈥淭he Need for a Philosophy of Government鈥 (May 4, 1949)
- Welcoming Address of Douglass to Conf. on Improving Gov. Management (June 3, 1949)
- 鈥淪aints Live in History鈥 (June 6, 1949)
- 鈥淗elp Wanted for All-Tangled-Up People鈥 (July 20, 1949)
- 鈥淚n Search of a Good Road for Better People in a Better World鈥 (August 31, 1949)
- 鈥淪cientific Management in Modern Society鈥 (September 26, 1949)
- 鈥淭he University and its Teaching Function鈥 (September 30, 1949)
- 鈥淭he University in the Urban Age鈥 (October 31, 1949)
- 鈥淐ounseling by Newspaper鈥 (January, 1950)
- 鈥淥pportunity Unto all Men鈥 (February 21, 1950)
- 鈥淗ow far has America moved toward Socialism鈥 (May 15, 1950)
- 鈥淭he Protestant Witness in Washington鈥 (1950)
- 鈥淭he Public Office of the Private Citizen鈥 (March 17, 1950)
- 鈥淭he Income Tax Payer as Historian鈥 (March 25, 1950)
- 鈥淎n Audit of Mid-century America鈥 (1950)
- 鈥淭elevision and its Effect on Children鈥 (May 10, 1950)
- 鈥淔inancing Higher Education鈥 (1950)
- 鈥淧enalties for Being Bright鈥 (May 17, 1950)
- 鈥淐ommunication鈥擶eather Reporting鈥 (June 14, 1951)
- 鈥淭he Dismal Chant: Into the Hollow Age鈥 (1951)
- 鈥淣ow Mine Eye Seeth Thee鈥 (1951)
- 鈥淓veryman a Traveler鈥 (October 24, 1951)
- 鈥淪mall Business is Man with Ideas鈥 (1951)