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Program for a testimonial dinner held in George Kerr's honor, which includes a list of accomplishments and and a menu for the evening

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Photocopies of two chapbooks written by Bill Lyons entitled The Far Horizon and If I Am Enough of a Brother. They are minimally annotated by the author and include handwritten dedications to the the Boston College librarians and to poetry students at Boston College.

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Photograph of the Army Air Corps B-29 "Rankless Wreck" bombing crew, taken in Herington, Kansas.

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Scope and Contents Correspondence, clippings, coursework, photographs, and ephemera. The correspondence primarily concerns the Boston College War Fund and Boston College Law School financial aid. The newspaper clippings include articles about the Boston College Debating Team, of which White was a member, and clippings about Boston College sports. The file also includes student life ephemera accumulated during White's time at Boston College, including invitations to the First Annual Dinner of the Forty-Four...

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Invitation to the Seventy-first Class Day of Boston College, as well as the text of the "Tower Oration" Jennings gave at the event.

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection documents the student experience at Boston College through materials collected and created by its alumni. Materials include autograph books, correspondence, course notebooks, drawings, ephemera, interviews, medals, needlepoint, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, speeches, student papers, photographs, and poems. Of particular note are academic achievement award medals from the 1860s to the 1910s, given by Boston College for top overall performance in class, as well as top...

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Biography and obituary, 1903 and after.

Petition for sympathy in deciding justice regarding an incident at the Massachusetts State Prison, 1889.

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection documents the student experience at Boston College through materials collected and created by its alumni. Materials include autograph books, correspondence, course notebooks, drawings, ephemera, interviews, medals, needlepoint, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, speeches, student papers, photographs, and poems. Of particular note are academic achievement award medals from the 1860s to the 1910s, given by Boston College for top overall performance in class, as well as top...

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Invitation to the 1902 Boston College Commencement Exercises, and an invitation and menu to the Sigma Beta Society's Class of 1902 Class Day Spread

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Principally documents Barry's career as a Naval Reserve Officer, including his work as a Naval Recuitment Officer, as well as his career as a Boston Public Schools Principal, his retirement in Cocoa Beach Florida, and his attendance at various Boston College Class of 1924 reunions and other Boston College events. Includes photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, invitations, speeches, and memos.

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Contains a letter from George H. Nicholson to his wife celebrating V-E Day, as well as a short biography of Nicholson published in Sub Turri, an announcement of Nicholson's death published in Boston College Alumni News, and a letter from Nicholson's wife, Alice K. Nicholson Cadley, concerning Nicholson's V-E Day letter and his death four days later.

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Photographic slides that document Boston College campus and events during Jack Lambert Jr.'s time as a Boston College student, including slides from Boston College athletics and homecoming; Drama Club, Camelot Drama Club, and Russian Dance performances; a Beach Boys concert held at Boston College; and a visit from Cardinal Cushing.

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From Frances Quinn inviting Gill to a supper dance

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The speech contains eugenic and racist language.

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Bound copy of a Fourth of July oration Coakley gave at Faneuil Hall entitled The American Race: Its Origin, the Fusion of Peoples; Its Aim, Fraternity, which includes a handwritten dedication to fellow Boston College alum Charles Birmingham.

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Clippings and other ephemera relating to Aylward's political career in local and state government in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Letter to the editor of The Heights signed "The Old Man," suggesting that Boston College adopt the eagle as a mascot

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Commemorates 50 years since the death of Coakley, "one of the most picturesque figures in Boston public life."

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About Mulroy's work as a probation officer in Sommerville, MA.

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Includes correspondence between Barry and Boston College President J. Donald Monan.

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Cartoon from the Boston Sunday Post, which names Gill as one of East Boston's all-time big ten athletes

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Documents Kerr's remarks at a Jubilee dinner put on in honor of the 1941 Boston College Sugar Bowl team.

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Charles McCool carrying a hat and cane and standing in front of Gasson Hall.

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Scope and Contents Printed research materials on Catholic oath libels, which Leo Christopher Donahue collected while working on his doctoral thesis. Includes both anti-Catholic materials, materials defending Catholics against libel, and copies of fabricated Jesuit, Knights of Columbus, and Ancient Order of Hibernia oaths. The file also includes correspondence regarding Donahue's research. Content notice This file contains both materials promoting and materials...

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Photograph of the cast and crew of the stage production Hot Water, in which John C. Fitzgerald participated, as well as a list of the people appearing in the photograph.

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Materials relating to Samuel T. Church's Boston College fundraising efforts. Primarily speeches Church gave at fundraising events, a Boston College Telethon and Fides Annual Banquets, but also includes speeches and correspondence concerning the William V. McKenney Award conferred on Church by the Boston College Alumni Association in honor of his fundraising service.

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