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Box 4

 Container

Contains 43 Results:

Invitations, receipts, and reports, 1935-1939

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 75
Scope and Contents

Invitations to a Mother's Day event and to commencement; tuition receipts; grade reports and transcript; Dean's list notifications.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1935-1939

Class of 1932 photograph at Hotel Lenox, 1941 December 28

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 76
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...
Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1941 December 28

Correspondence, 1920

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1920

Letter, 1940 December 19

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents

From Frances Quinn inviting Gill to a supper dance

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1940 December 19

Bound copy of Fourth of July Oration: The American Race, 1906-1911

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 32
Content notice

The speech contains eugenic and racist language.



Scope and Contents

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.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1906-1911

Political scrapbook, 1884 - 1937

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1884 - 1937

Biographies, correspondence, 1889 - 1903

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Biography and obituary, 1903 and after.

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1889 - 1903

Event invitations and menu, 1902 June 16-18

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1902 June 16-18

Scrapbook, 1941 - 1984

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 36-38
Scope and Contents

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.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1941 - 1984

Correspondence, biography, and service report, 1932-1945, 1995

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents

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.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1932-1945, 1995

Testimonial dinner program, 1941

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1941

Photocopies of poetry chapbooks, 1985, January 1994

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents

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.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1985, January 1994

Photograph, 1944 August

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1944 August

Correspondence, coursework, clippings, ephemera, and photographs, 1940- approximately 1944

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 45-49
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...
Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1940- approximately 1944

Class Day program and speech, 1947 June 13

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents

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

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1947 June 13

Ticket to Victory Dance sponsored by Class of 1955, 1954 October 9

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 51
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...
Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1954 October 9

Poems "Prophetic Ode to Boston College" and "The College Beautiful", 1908, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 33
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...
Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1908, undated

Correspondence, speeches, and obituary, 1898 - 1940

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 27-30
Scope and Contents

Consists of speeches, a small amount of correspondence, and documents relating to his work with the Charitable Irish Society

Access Note

Collection is open for research; some items available digitally.

Dates: 1898 - 1940