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Materials Concerning President Alexander Meiklejohn
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Contents List
Series 1: Printed Reports of Trustee Committees
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Series 1, PRINTED REPORTS OF TRUSTEE COMMITTEES, consists of reports issued by three different College committees charged with investigating various aspects of the Meiklejohn presidency:
- "Rugg" Committee: Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of Amherst College to Confer with the President. Appointed May 28, 1921. Members were Arthur P. Rugg, Chairman; Arthur L. Gillett; Dwight W. Morrow; George A. Plimpton. The purpose of the committee was to confer with President Meiklejohn with reference to the financial relations between the College and President Meiklejohn personally.
- "Rounds" Committee: Special Committee, appointed June 3, 1922, Pursuant to a Vote of the Executive Committee of the Trustees. Members were Arthur C. Rounds, Chairman; Stanley King; Edward T. Esty. This committee was appointed to report to the Executive Committee of the Board as to the existing powers of the Board, the President and the faculty with respect to appointments, promotions and dismissals of members of the faculty, educational policy and curricular requirements of the College, and administration of the College in general. The committee was also to report on current and past practice in these matters and make recommendations regarding procedure to be adopted for the future.
- "Plimpton" Committee: Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of Amherst College, appointed May 26, 1923. Members were George A. Plimpton, Chairman; Edward T. Esty; Arthur L. Gillett; Stanley King; Dwight W. Morrow. Committee was appointed, after the Rugg and Rounds reports had been presented to the Board, to secure a definite expression of opinion from the faculty as to the advisability of President Meiklejohn continuing as chief administrator of the College.
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Rugg Report, 1923 Mar 2 (Proof); 1923 May 26 (Proof); President Meiklejohn's comment, 1923 Mar 9 and Supplemental Statement of the Rugg Committee, 1923 May 23
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1923 Mar-May
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Box 1: folder 1
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Rounds Report (3 copies) signed by members of the committee
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1923 May 25
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Box 1: folder 2
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Rounds Report, Schedules A,B,C,D,E (2 copies)
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Box 1: folder 3
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Plimpton Report dated 1923 Oct 20 - 2nd revision
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1923 Oct 19
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Box 1: folder 4
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Plimpton Report (3 copies) signed on p. 25 by members of the committee
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1924 May 20
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Box 1: folder 5
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Plimpton Committee - confidential memoranda (2 copies) - "Data used in drafting the report of the Plimpton Committee, but not incorporated in the report itself in order to avoid making the report too long"
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1924 Apr 25
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Box 1: folder 6
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Series 2: Files of Individual Members of the Board
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Series 2, FILES OF INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, consists of both contemporary and subsequent papers related to the aforementioned committees, all held by individual Trustees. These include minutes and notes on work of the Plimpton Committee kept by F. S. Allis (AC 1893), Secretary, and much later retrospective material (1947-1948) generated by Stanley King.
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King, Stanley. "President Meiklejohn's Resignation." Typescript, 16 pp., plus 2 carbon copies
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Ca. 1948
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Box 2: folder 7
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King, Stanley. "President Meiklejohn's Resignation." Typescript (draft, annotated), 36 pp.
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Ca. 1948
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Box 2: folder 7
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King, Stanley, to Paul D. Weathers, Amherst, Mass.: TLS acknowledging receipt of confidential Trustee documents to be used in preparing manuscript dealing with President Meiklejohn's resignation
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1947 Sep 10
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Box 2: folder 7
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Allis, Frederick. "Excerpts from Memorandum written in 1923 or 1924." Typescript, 8pp., n.d., plus 2 carbon copies. (Memorandum summarizes President Meiklejohn's administration.)
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Ca. 1923-1924
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Box 2: folder 8
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King, Stanley, to Edward T. Esty and Paul D. Weathers regarding F. S. Allis files on President Meiklejohn (3 letters)
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1941 Nov-Dec
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Box 2: folder 8
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Faculty statements to Plimpton Committee concerning President Meiklejohn (file of F. S. Allis, Secretary)
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Box 2: folder 9
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Typescript copies of notes by members of Plimpton Committee during interviews with faculty members (file of F. S. Allis, Secretary)
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Box 2: folder 9
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Minutes and correspondence of Plimpton Committee (file of F. S. Allis, Secretary)
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1923 May-Jun
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Box 2: folder 10
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Series 3: Records Regarding Access to Trustee Materials Concerning Meiklejohn
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Series 3, RECORDS REGARDING ACCESS TO TRUSTEE MATERIALS CONCERNING MEIKLEJOHN, consists of envelopes originally used to seal the Trustee materials when their access was restricted. The envelopes served as a record of who had examined the contents.
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Original wrappings for various materials contained in Folders 1-8, annotated by those who examined them
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Box 2: folder 11
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Sign-out sheet for materials previously stored in Treasurer's vault but now incorporated into this collection
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Box 2: folder 11
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