Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael P. Walsh, SJ, President’s Office Records document Walsh’s tenure as twenty-second president of Boston College, 1958-1968. This collection consists largely of administrative records and contains committee, departmental, and faculty files as well as admission records, building plans, correspondence, subject files, and materials relating to the University's centennial celebrations in 1963. Subject files contain biographical information in addition to other topics of interest to...

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Collection is open for research. Series I. Admissions is closed in its entirety due to privacy restrictions, and is stored off-site. A small amount of material in other series is also closed due to privacy restrictions.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The William J. Murphy, SJ, President’s Office records contain correspondence, memos, student applications, contracts, notes, brochures, pamphlets, architectural drawings, and maps documenting Murphy's term as the nineteenth president of Boston College. Murphy's presidency coincided with World War II, and these records document the war's effects on campus military programs and funding. The collection spans from 1911 through 1945, although the bulk of the material dates from Murphy's...

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The William James McGarry, SJ, President’s Office records contain correspondence, photographs, financial statements, student applications, and booklets documenting the work of William McGarry, SJ, eighteenth president of Boston College from 1937 to 1939. The records reflect the activities of the College of Business and Administration, the Evening School held at the Intown College, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Correspondence files contain letters to Henry Cabot Lodge...

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Louis J. Gallagher, SJ, President's Office records contain correspondence, contracts, ephemera, memorandums, reports, photographs, drawings, and plans documenting the work of Louis J. Gallagher as the seventeenth president of Boston College. The collection dates from 1920 to 1945, though the bulk of the items date from the years of Gallagher's presidency, 1932 to 1937. Like many of his predecessors, Gallagher maintained correspondence regarding buildings and grounds of Boston...

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Collection open for research; portion also available digitally. Three items in Series V. have been closed due to fragility.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Robert Fulton, SJ, President’s Office Records contain correspondence, manuscript material, notes, programs, and ephemera documenting the life and work of Robert Fulton, SJ. Of note are materials related to Fulton’s establishment of the Young Men’s Catholic Association, Fulton’s retirement reception (including the ode composed for him and read by John Boyle O’Reilly), and a notebook kept by Anna Ward (née Anna Hazard Barber), documenting a retreat led by Fulton in 1866. One frequent...

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The President's Office records of James H. Dolan, SJ, the sixteenth president of Boston College, contain correspondence, material relating to the construction of two buildings as well as other facilities concerns, administrative records and notes, photographs, artwork, and artifacts documenting both his administration and the College's development from 1925 to the end of his tenure in 1932. Records regarding the completion of Bapst Library and the addition to St. Mary's,...

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Collection is open for research; portions available digitally.