Finding Aid to the Records of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office of the President, 1930-1959

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Administrative History of the Office of the President

When Karl Taylor Compton took office as the ninth President of MIT on 1 July 1930, he assumed duties somewhat different from those of his predecessor, Samuel Wesley Stratton. Compton accepted the presidency with the understanding that Stratton would assume the newly-created office of chairman of the Corporation and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Corporation. The president previously chaired Corporation meetings. Since the president is "subject to the direction of the Executive Committee,"1 the creation of a separate chairmanship had the potential to weaken the presidency. In fact, Stratton's position as chairman was largely honorary and Compton was named secretary of the Executive Committee on 6 January 1931. After Stratton's death on 18 October 1931, the chairmanship was left vacant and Compton presided over Corporation and Executive Committee meetings. When Compton retired from the presidency, he assumed the chairmanship in 1948.

The president's staff was small. When Compton assumed his position in 1930, the office consisted of two staff members: Anne Lahey (Stanton), a secretary who came with Compton from Princeton University, and Claire Perham Edwardson, former secretary to President Stratton, who remained to assist the new president. The president made virtually all administrative decisions and had only a few administrative officers to assist him. These included the registrar, bursar, dean of undergraduate students, dean of graduate students, and director of admissons. Each of these office holders reported directly to the president. The faculty, over which the president presided, had virtual control over academic programs and policies.

Compton's first goals were to increase the number of administrative officers, to encourage research, and to strengthen the scientific curriculum. During the early months of 1932, Compton brought a proposed new administrative organization before the Corporation and the Executive Committee for discussion. The plan (see below) proposed the creation of a vice presidency, three academic schools (Engineering, Science, Architecture) administered by deans, and two divisions (Humanities, Industrial Cooperation and Research). The positions of registrar, bursar, director of admissions, librarian, dean of undergraduate students, and dean of the graduate school were retained and the incumbents reported directly to the president and vice president. A new body, Administrative Council, was to coordinate the administration of the Institute. This body consisted of the president, the vice president, the deans, the bursar, and the chairman of the faculty. The plan was adopted by the Corporation in March 1932.

Three administrative levels were implied in the plan: president, vice president, deans and administrative officers. However, all administrative officers reported directly to the president. Vice President Vannevar Bush served largely as an advisor to the president and as chief administrative officer in his absence. Bush had an office in the presidential suite where he could confer daily with Compton. They shared files and secretarial staff.

The third administrative level was that of the deans. As Compton saw them:

The deans of the professional schools are responsible under the President for the maintenance of strong faculties in their respective departments, for the preparation and administration of budgets, and for the programs of instruction and research. The Dean of the Graduate School is responsible for administering the regulations in regard to admission and handling of graduate students, for the general policies regarding examinations and requirements for degrees and for the administration of fellowships. It is naturally desirable that all the Deans should cooperate in the development of improved educational policies.2

The 1932 administrative reorganization was a success. By 1937, Compton was able to describe the new status quo:

In the last analysis, it is of course the Corporation which as a body and through its Executive Committee administers the affairs of the Institute. Under it with successively less responsibility and with more specialized activity, function the President, the Vice President, the Deans, the Heads of Departments, and special officers. Practically speaking, the administration of the curriculum is in the hands of the Faculty, although the Corporation authorizes new degrees, appoints professors, and could take a more active part in controlling the educational activities if it felt this to be wise and necessary.3

During the 1932 reorganization, the president also appointed the first assistant to the president, Carroll Louis Wilson. Wilson remembered his duties as:

...serving as General Administrative Assistant to the President and working with Dr. Compton on a number of outside activities including the Science Advisory Board, 1933-1935...the Engineers Council for Professional Development...Patent Policy Committee of the National Research Council, etc.4

In addition to these duties, Wilson gathered information for Compton and Bush in preparation for numerous speeches, MIT memoranda, and policy decisions.

Wilson was the first of many administrative assistants and executive assistants to the president. As the responsibilities of the office increased, so did the number of assistants and their responsibilities. In 1939 James Rhyne Killian joined the presidential staff as executive assistant to the president, bringing Jane McMasters with him from the Technology Review to serve as his secretary. During the 1940s Thomas Creamer, Malcolm Kispert, and Robert Kimball joined the staff. Kispert was responsible for compiling statistics for the annual reports of the president and served as secretary to the Executive Committee among other responsibilities. Kimball's duties included overseeing the daily operation of the president's office. In 1940 Killian worked on devising overhead rates for government contracts. He also analyzed staff flow and salary issues with the help of Creamer who remarked in 1943:

It is interesting in reviewing this period to see how many activities which are now carried on in other offices at the Institute were first started under Mr. Killian's direction in the President's Office and as they grew were passed on for other administrative officers to carry on.5

When Vannevar Bush left the vice presidency in 1938, Killian assumed many vice presidential duties, responsibilities acknowledged with his appointment as executive vice president in 1943.

Through Compton's recommendation, many of his assistants secured positions of influence in government, industry, and academe after leaving the president's office. Associations formed there often lasted a lifetime, for Compton corresponded frequently with his former assistants, sat on government and professional association committees and boards with many of them, and called upon their support for MIT after their active connection with the Institute was severed. Many of these individuals began their education or careers at MIT, left for other positions, and returned as faculty or members of the Corporation. This network of contacts served MIT especially well when the Second World War began. At that time many of Compton's former MIT associates were in Washington or serving as officers of national scientific organizations. Through them, Compton was well informed about science and engineering in the United States.

Mobilization for war began at MIT more than a year before the declaration. Military training was mandated for all fit male students. Army, Navy, and National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) war research contracts totalled nearly $4 million during academic year 1940-1941.6 Many MIT officers and faculty spent part of their time advising the U.S. government on military matters. The president's office was one of the first offices affected by these changes--it felt a manpower shortage long before the draft was instituted. Vannevar Bush left the vice presidency to join the Carnegie Institution; Carroll Wilson joined him there a year later. Allen Horton left to work for Standard Oil of California.

When war was declared, the responsibilities and commitments of the Institute grew at a staggering rate, compounding its manpower shortage. Successful war research programs created a demand for MIT advisors. Advisors formerly associated with the Institute encouraged the use of MIT as a research center. President Compton joined numerous war boards and committees which took him away from the Institute frequently. As a result, many of the responsibilities and burdens of the presidency fell to James Killian even before he was officially appointed executive vice president.

Compton described Killian's responsibilities best in a letter to Killian's draft board dated 8 June 1942:

Since the active program of national preparedness began about two years ago, I have been devoting at least three-fourths of my time to government business in connection with the work of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. This has thrown on Mr. Killian a much greater share of the executive responsibilities of this institution...[A]mong Mr. Killian's administrative duties at MIT, a considerable amount of his attention is even now being devoted to the war in connection with the administration of war contracts for research, or for the training of personnel...[Mr. Killian is] thoroughly acquainted with our administrative problems, with the personnel, with the details of our budget, and with our problems of public relations and contracts with government and business concerns.7

After the war, the student body grew and research contracts continued to come to MIT. Thus, the administration expanded rather than shrinking to its pre-war size. In 1949, the new senior administrative post of provost was created. Said the president,

The Provost is an academic officer who shares with the President and the Deans the administrative direction of the Institute's program. His primary concern is the administration and coordination of educational and research activities which do not fall within the jurisdiction of any single school.8

The provost was also made ex officio vice-chair of Academic Council.

In the fall of 1948 Compton was called to Washington to serve as chairman of the Research and Development Board, an agency established to oversee military scientific research efforts in the postwar period. He resigned as president of the Institute. Killian was named president-designate by the Corporation in September, the date to be specified later. Early in October the Corporation voted to make the transfer effective 15 October, with Compton becoming chairman of the Corporation.

As Killian's presidency began, he was quick to express his own administrative style. He increased the responsibilities and authority of the senior administrative officers and chose to follow their work closely rather than having the work performed directly through the office of the president. This decision was dictated partially by the different responsibilities of the MIT presidency during the post-war period. The president of MIT was now a national figure, expected to serve as a spokesman for the scientific and engineering community, to serve on the committees and boards that represented that community, and to hold himself available for government service. The president also was expected to participate in MIT fund raising campaigns and to encourage actively cooperative efforts between industry and MIT.

The decentralization of administration activated by response to the growth of the Institute during the post-war period accelerated during the 1950s. In 1951, two positions were expanded: vice president and provost, and vice president and treasurer. Three years later a vice president for industrial and governmental relations was appointed to assume responsibilities for sponsored research initially assigned to the vice president and provost. In 1956, the Corporation appointed Julius A. Stratton as chancellor. The chancellor

...administers the Institute's academic program...with all academic officers coming under his jurisdiction. [He] serves as deputy to the President...serves as the general executive officer for all Institute affairs and, in the absence of the President, is authorized to have all the powers and perform all the duties and functions of the President. [He] also serves as a member of Executive Committee.9

There were a number of other administrative appointments made during the period. In 1950, the president established the new post of secretary of the Institute, "an officer who will assist the Secretary of the Corporation and have responsibility for our fund raising, public relations and the development of our Alumni Educational Council."10 Many of these responsibilities had been undertaken previously by Robert M. Kimball as administrative assistant to the president. In 1952 Malcolm Kispert was promoted from administrative assistant to the president to executive assistant to the president. E. Francis Bowditch was named special advisor to the president in 1956 "to carry through to realization the proposals of the Committee"11 on Student Housing. In the fall of that same year, James G. Kelso became executive assistant to the president and secretary of the Executive Committee.

In 1953, the president noted that

...academic deans have assumed more complete responsibility for their schools and have used this increased autonomy effectively to promote the special characteristics and objectives of the departmental groupings they administer.12

Such decentralization increased the influence and responsibilities of coordinating groups, such as Administrative Council, the Budget and Personnel Committee, Faculty Council and coordinating bodies formed by Institute Schools. Killian summarized the philosophy and goals of decentralization in 1957:

Over the past five years, the Institute has studied the need for a reallocation, regrouping and redefinition of executive responsibilities in several important areas. Among our specific objectives has been the achievement of a centralized responsibility for personnel policies and all non-academic employees. A second goal has been to clarify and simplify the administration of sponsored research. A third and overall objective has been to provide the best administrative support for the Institute's educational and research activities.13

In November 1957 President Killian was named Special Assistant for Science and Technology to President Eisenhower. From that date to 31 December 1958, Julius A. Stratton, MIT's chancellor, took on the additional role of acting president of the Institute. On 1 January 1959 Stratton became the eleventh president of MIT.

MIT Office of the President List of Personnel, 1930-1959

Bowditch, Ebenezer Francis

Special Advisor to the President, 1956-1958

Briber, Robert M.

Administrative Assistant to the President, 1955-1959

Bush, Vannevar

Vice President and Dean, School of Engineering, 1932-1936

Coleman, Alice

Unknown - 1950

Compton, Karl Taylor

President, 1930-1948

Creamer, Thomas Fishback

Administrative Assistant to the President, 1940-1943

Edwardson, Claire Perham

Administrative Assistant, 1930-1966

Ford, Horace Sayford

Special Advisor to the President, 1952-1953

Hatch, Marjorie Arlene

Senior Secretary, 1949-1951; Executive Secretary, 1951-1952

Horton, Allen W.

Assistant to the President, 1936-1939

Irish, Priscilla Ann

Secretary to Mr. Kispert, 1952-1955

Kelso, James Gerald

Executive Assistant to the President, 1956-1959

Killian, James Rhyne

Executive Assistant to the President, 1939-1943; Executive Vice President, 1943-1945; Vice President, 1945-1948; President, 1948-1959

Kimball, Robert M.

Administrative Assistant to the President, 1943-1948

Kispert, Malcolm G.

Administrative Assistant, 1946-1951; Executive Assistant, 1951-1956

Loomis, Henry

Assistant to the President, 1947-1950

McCormack, James

Special Advisor to the President, 1955-1956

McMasters, Jane

Secretary, 1939 - ca. 1950

Milne, Walter Ling

Administrative Assistant to the President, 1958-1959

Mulligan, Patricia Ann

Secretary, 1950-1953

Pigott, Elizabeth

Secretary, 1950-1956; Administrative Assistant, 1956-1959

Randall, Nancy

Repshis, Edith Frances Nina

Senior Secretary to the Vice President, 1955-1959

Richardson, Alice Cavins

Senior Secretary to the Vice President, 1959

Ripley, Phyllis

(worked with Anne Stanton in the 1950s)

Stanton, Anne Elizabeth Lahey

Secretary, 1930-1950; Executive Secretary, 1951-1959

Stratton, Julius Adams

Provost, 1949-1951; Vice President and Provost, 1951-1956; Chancellor, 1956-1957; Chancellor and Acting President, 1957-1958; President, 1959-

Wilson, Carroll Louis

Assistant to the President, 1932-1937.

Reorganization Chart

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Notes for this section:1. "By-Laws of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Cambridge: MIT, 1934.(Back to Text)2. Report of the President, 1931-1932. Cambridge: MIT, 1932, p. 13.(Back to Text)3. Report of the President, 1936-1937. Cambridge: MIT, 1937, p. 22.(Back to Text)4. "Memorandum re. the experience of Carroll L. Wilson," 1950. In Carroll Louis Wilson Papers, MIT, Institute Archives and Special Collections.(Back to Text)5. Thomas F. Creamer memorandum, October 22, 1943, p. 6. In Records of the MIT Office of the President, 1930-1959, filed under Creamer.(Back to Text)6. Report of the President, 1940-1941. Cambridge: MIT, p. 10.(Back to Text)7. In Records of the MIT Office of the President, 1930-1959, under Killian.(Back to Text)8. Report of the President, 1948-1949. Cambridge: MIT, 1949, p. 21.(Back to Text)9. Report of the President, 1956. Cambridge: MIT, 1956, p. 17.(Back to Text)10. Report of the President, 1950-1951. Cambridge: MIT, 1951, p. 25.(Back to Text)11. Op. cit., p. 19.(Back to Text)12. Report of the President, 1956. Cambridge: MIT, 1956, p. 25.(Back to Text)13. Report of the President, 1957. Cambridge: MIT, 1957, p. 35.(Back to Text)

Scope and Contents of Collection

The collection consists of 84 cubic feet of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, reports, research data, and notes.

Research Strengths

The collection includes material that documents MIT administrative history, scientific research (during World War II), postwar research, science policy, and the life of Karl Taylor Compton, MIT's ninth president.

MIT Administrative History

The use of this collection is essential to an understanding of the administrative history of the Institute from 1930 to 1958. The files include items that reflect critical administrative decisions and administrative routines as well as administrative reorganizations. The 1932 reorganization is described in folders on Administrative Council and in the correspondence with the newly-appointed vice president, deans, and members of the Executive Committee. The 1956 reorganization is described in two folders filed under Organization of the MIT Administration. The evolution of new policies is reflected in memoranda exchanged by top administrators, filed under Academic Council, Administrative Council, Faculty Committees, Faculty Council, Overhead-Government research, Patent Policy, Salary Review Committee, Space, Staff Administrative Committee, Student-Faculty Curriculum Committee, and elsewhere.

A major shift in the educational direction of the Institute was made during the immediate post-war period. A great deal of attention was given to defining the professional responsibilities and rewards of faculty. Several surveys were conducted, including one on space to determine future needs, one on faculty salaries, and one on education, carried out by a faculty committee. Information on these surveys can be found in the collection under Faculty Salary Survey, Committee on Education Survey, Space: Post-World War II readjustment, Malcolm Kispert (author of the salary survey), and Warren K. Lewis (chairman of the Committee on Educational Survey).

The Report of the Committee on Educational Survey issued in 1949, known popularly as the Lewis Report, was the most important ingredient in a general reform of curriculum which followed the war. There are six folders on the survey. Another ingredient was a new program called the Combined Plan of Study, occasionally referred to as the three-two plan. The Combined Plan allowed undergraduate students from several liberal arts colleges to attend MIT for two years and receive a combined B.A. and S.B. degree. There are seven folders of material on this plan.

Curriculum revision of particular schools, departments, and programs is described under the names of deans, department chairmen, and program coordinators. Material describing the creation of new departments, programs, administrative offices, laboratories, and centers can be found under names of administrators, sponsors, and/or donors. Material on the School of Management can be found in correspondence between the president and Alfred P. Sloan, benefactor of the school, as well as in folders titled Sloan School. MIT's involvement in curriculum reform outside the Institute is reflected in the Physical Science Study Committee folders.

Administrative routines are reflected in the files on Administrative Council, the MIT faculty, space allocation, commencement, tuition, alumni activities, and Honorary Secretaries. There are files on the swimming pool and on individual buildings such as Senior House, Kresge Auditorium/Chapel, and the Navy and Army Building that document their planning and use.

Gifts, Bequests, Fund Raising

The collection also documents MIT's fund raising activities. The files contain information about bequests, class gifts, foundations, grants, the President's Special Fund, the Westinghouse Professorship, and various other sources of support such as the Bemis Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Chemical Foundation, the Richard Chichester duPont Memorial, the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Solar Energy Research Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan and the Sloan Foundation, Henry A. Wise Wood, and others. Funding for the Laboratory for Nuclear Engineering was obtained by writing to oil companies, and these letters are filed under Nuclear Science. A total of two linear feet of material concerns fund raising and gifts.

Depression, 1930s

The Records of the Office of the President (AC 4) reflect the major issues of a period. During the 1930s a great deal of information was collected on the depression and the MIT response to the financial crisis. Student anti-war activities as well as the activity of campus fascist and socialist organizations during the 1930s are well documented. Also, there are folders relevant to this subject under Compulsory Military Training. The files contain numerous items concerning the opposition of educators, and of Compton himself, to the Teacher's Oath required by the United States and Massachusetts legislatures. Correspondence includes a number of letters from and/or to European educators, scientists, and others pressured to leave Europe, who came to the United States in 1938 and 1939. Many of these refugees were offered, or sought, faculty appointments at MIT.

War-Related Research

The war years are well represented in the files. [John Ely Burchard's Q.E.D.: M.I.T. in World War II (New York: John Wiley, 1948) provides background on the period.]

During the war, MIT received $117 million in defense contracts from the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). This office was directed by Vannevar Bush, former vice president of the Institute. Other MIT defense sponsors included the U.S. Army, the Navy, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and numerous smaller governmental agencies. MIT placed a very high priority on its defense work, and thus voluminous records documenting defense research, training, and administration are found in the collection. Some information on the radar research laboratory (Radiation Laboratory) is found under National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) and under the name of its director, Lee A. Dubridge. Relevant papers are filed under a number of different headings. Information on overall administration of defense contracts is generally found under Nathaniel Sage, principal investigators of large projects, and in National Defense, Industrial Relations, Division of Industrial Cooperation, and Overhead. Information on particular projects is generally filed under the name of the principal investigator or project director. Official records of the Radiation Laboratory are held by the National Archives and Records Administration (Northeast Region), Waltham, Massachusetts.

Defense research at the Institute also is documented under Army-Navy Programs (23 folders) and the Radar School (11 folders). There are numerous files on work conducted by MIT for the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, the Army Specialized Training Program, and on important war research in meteorology. There are 32 folders on Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC programs. Since the Institute had to expand rapidly to accommodate its defense contracts, files on buildings, space, and surplus property also provide information on defense work.

Information reflecting the politics and alliances of the period generally is arranged by correspondent. Correspondence with the following men documents defense research at MIT and the overall defense research strategy of the government: H. H. Arnold, Harold Bowen, Edward Bowles, John Burchard, Vannevar Bush, Arthur Compton, Wilson Compton, James Conant, Bradley Dewey, C. Stark Draper, Lee A. DuBridge, Julius Furer, Leslie Groves, George Harrison, Ernst Hauser, Jerome Hunsaker, John Loofbourow, Alfred Loomis, Nicholas Milas, Edward Moreland, Delbert Rhind, Franklin Roosevelt, Nathaniel Sage, Harry Truman, Alden Waitt, and Alan Waterman. Material filed under the Army Specialized Training Program, the American Council on Education, and the Division of Industrial Cooperation adds to the documentation of war research.

The files include voluminous records detailing the administration of war research at MIT. The files swell with letters of transmission for contracts, financial reports on individual contracts, staff and material requisitions, lists of classified documents, and other routine administrative records. An excellent list of foreign visitors can be compiled from such routine records.

Scientific Research

The expansion of research projects and facilities at MIT began long before the war with the appointment of Karl Taylor Compton as president. He felt "the necessity of greater emphasis upon fundamental sciences"14 at MIT, and believed that he was chosen president so that he could assist the Institute in the development of a strong research program.15 One of the earliest and best documented research efforts during the Compton administration was the development of the high voltage electrostatic generator by Robert J. Van de Graaff. Twenty-seven folders under the inventor's name describe this work. These are augmented by folders which describe the first public display of the generator at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. The correspondence of John C. Slater documents the negotiations that eventually lured Slater to MIT as part of the Institute's plan for strengthening the sciences, particularly the physics department. Slater was instrumental in securing men who were distinguished in the field of theoretical and experimental physics in the 1930s, and he planned the postwar Department of Physics as well. He made the undergraduate course of study in physics at MIT in the 1930s more rigorous and reorganized graduate courses to give students more freedom for research. Three folders of Slater's correspondence in AC 4 contain photocopies of original documents from the Slater Collection at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Other research programs documented in the collection include projects on housing (Bemis Foundation), solar energy, biological engineering, cellulose chemistry, meteorology, public health, aeronautics, physics, nuclear engineering, fog flying, and radar. The collection includes several folders on Round Hill, an estate left to the Institute by E. H. R. Green as a home for research in aeronautics and microwave technology. The Whirlwind computer project is documented by several files. The collection includes correspondence with Francis Bitter discussing his early research in magnetic fields and with Robley Evans discussing his proposed research activities.

Two linear feet of materials concern developments at MIT and elsewhere in nuclear engineering and atomic research. This includes folders on Crossroads, the code name for the Bikini nuclear weapons tests of 1946. Compton was an observer at these tests. Ten folders of material concern guided missile research, and there are folders on the Gas Turbine Laboratory, the Hydrodynamics Laboratory, the Acoustics Laboratory, and the Metals Processing and Machine Tools Laboratory.

Postwar Period

The collection reflects clearly the tensions of the postwar period. Soviet science, technology, and nuclear capability increasingly became a concern of both the scientific and political communities. Three MIT professors were examined in the course of the investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Special Commission to Study and Investigate Communism and Subversive Activities and Related Matters in the Commonwealth and other investigative bodies. MIT's response to the investigations is reflected in a small amount of material, some of which is restricted.

Educational, Professional, and Scientific Societies

World War II, the development of nuclear arms, and the political tensions of the postwar world focused a great deal of attention upon the scientific community. Educational, scientific, and professional societies became better known to the general public. Although public recognition of MIT's role in the societies increased during the 1950s, MIT was active in them the previous twenty years. Throughout the period, both Presidents Compton and Killian were active in the Association of American Universities and the Land Grant College Association. Killian was chairman of the Tax Committee of the AAU during the early 1950s; the committee is well represented in the collection. Both men were interested in Engineering Experiment Stations, established by the Land Grant College Association under the Green Bill. The collection includes about one linear foot of AAU materials and eight folders of Land Grant College Association material. Ten folders represent the work of the American Institute of Physics, reflecting Compton's commitment to the AIP, especially during the 1930s.

President's Science Advisory Committee

In 1935 Compton was appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board by President Roosevelt. One folder in the collection represents his work on the Board. Killian was involved in planning the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC). He became chairman of the PSAC in 1957 and the first Scientific Advisor to the President. The collection includes one linear foot of PSAC material.

PSAC was only one of a number of boards, organizations and committees on which Killian served following the Second World War. The collection includes material on the following organizations: Brookhaven National Laboratory (20 folders), Nutrition Foundation (13 folders), Air University (6 folders), Research Corporation (18 folders), Army Scientific Advisory Panel (11 folders), the Educational Policies Commission (3 folders), the White House Conference on Education (15 folders), the American Council of Education (23 folders), the American Society for Engineering Education (9 folders), the Committee of New England of the National Planning Association (1 folder), the New England Council (7 folders), and the Lowell Institute Broadcasting Council (7 folders).

K. T. Compton and J. R. Killian Personal Papers

Compton wrote some of his personal correspondence at his office, so the collection contains some family correspondence. The collection also includes Compton's speeches and drafts of his writings, as well as letters of congratulation, tributes, short biographies, and correspondence about the Compton portrait. Very little personal material concerning Killian can be found in this collection. Researchers are directed to the James Rhyne Killian Papers (MC 423) and the Karl Taylor Compton Papers (MC 416) in the Institute Archives.

Although most of the material in this collection is dated between 1930 and 1958, the collection does include earlier and later material. This early material was drawn from the Records of the Office of the President, 1897-1930 (AC 13) by the President's staff when pertinent to an issue under consideration at a later date, and was then refiled in the new presidential file (AC 4).

Notes for this section:14. "Inauguration of Dr. Compton," Technology Review 32 (July 1930), p. 438.(Back to Text)15. Annual Report of the President, 1934-1935. Cambridge: MIT, 1935, p. 29.(Back to Text)

Access to Collection

In accordance with MIT policy, there are restrictions on access to portions of this collection. Researchers may request permission to use restricted materials. Consult the Institute Archives for further information.

Boxes 243-244 are restricted for 75 years.

Restrictions on Use of Collection

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Institute Archivist.

Provenance and Acquisition Information

The records of the MIT Office of the President, 1930-1959, were transferred to the Institute Archives in 1978 by James Rhyne Killian.

When Karl Taylor Compton and his secretary, Anne Lahey, arrived at the president's office in July 1930, they found at least two sets of records. One was a presidential file containing papers from 1897 to 1930. During 1930 some of Compton's presidential papers seem to have been added to this file. The 1897-1930 presidential file is now in the Institute Archives (MIT. Office of the President. Records, 1897-1930, henceforth referred to as AC 13). A second file in the president's office contained information on faculty and administrative staff and was maintained by Claire Edwardson. This file later became the nucleus of the Office of Academic Staff Records. Anne Lahey chose to establish new files for the Compton administration. Elizabeth Pigott succeeded Lahey in 1952.

The new presidential files were maintained through the presidencies of Karl Taylor Compton and James Rhyne Killian from 1930 to 1959. They contained some records from AC 13 (pre-1930) which included information of on-going interest to Dr. Compton. When Julius Stratton was named acting president of MIT in November 1957, it was decided that Stratton's routine presidential correspondence would be filed into the Compton-Killian files. Items relating to substantive issues for which Stratton had continuing responsibilities as president were filed into Stratton's own presidential files. Thus, although most of the material in AC 4 is dated before November 1957, there is a substantial amount of routine correspondence for 1958 that was generated by Stratton. When Stratton became president on 1 January 1959, the Compton-Killian files were closed.

The Records of the MIT Office of the President, 1930-1958, were transferred to the Institute Archives by James Killian in 1978. They were processed in 1981 by Deborah Cozort (Day), who retained the original order of the records in two series. Series one consisted of correspondence files organized alphabetically in divisions of one or more years. Series two contained an alphabetical subject file.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Deborah A. Cozort in June 1981. It was reprocessed from 1989-1992.

Over the years it became clear that the collection was difficult to use because of the chronological divisions of series one and because information on the same subjects could be found in both series. The staff decided to reorganize the collection into one alphabetical series without chronological divisions. Beginning in 1989, this work was carried out by Elizabeth Andrews, Lois Beattie, Paul Heffernan, Anna Koch, Kathleen Marquis, Jeffrey Mifflin, Mark Vargas, and Donna Webber. The folder list in the finding aid was rewritten to include the names of all primary correspondents in each folder so that no separate index was necessary. Reprocessing was completed in January 1992.

Supporting Collections Description

The Records of the Office of the President, 1930-1959 (AC 4), are complemented by the Records of the Office of the President, 1897-1930 (AC 13). Since these two files were together physically in the president's office during the 1930s, researchers interested in topics during that decade should consult both files. Researchers using AC 4 may also wish to consult the James Rhyne Killian Papers (MC 423), the Margaret Compton Papers (MC 351), the Karl Taylor Compton Papers (MC 416), the published works of these individuals, and Institute publications in the Archives collection of MIT publications.

Additional records documenting the work of the Office of the President include the minutes of the Corporation (AC 278) and Executive Committee (AC 272), Records of the Office of the Vice President, 1932-1938 (AC 333), the Carroll Louis Wilson Papers (MC 29) which include some early material on his years as assistant to the president, and the Records of the Office of the Vice President for Industrial and Government Relations, 1958-1965 (AC 35). Records of the first deans of schools provide details of the administrative reorganization of 1932. Records of the faculty (AC 1) provide documentation of policy decisions and curriculum revisions encouraged by the administration.

In addition to materials available at the Institute Archives, a number of collections in other repositories may be of interest to the researcher. The records of the U.S. Special Committee to Study the Rubber Situation, 1943, are available at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (NUCMC MS 65-77). Karl Taylor Compton was a member of this committee. The Records of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and those of the National Defense Research Committee are housed at the National Archives. Records of the Radiation Laboratory (since they are government records) are held at the National Archives and Records Administration (Northeast Region) in Waltham, Massachusetts. Records of the U.S. Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, 1957-1961 (NUCMC 71-1705) are available for use at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. (James Rhyne Killian was the first Special Assistant.) The Eisenhower Library also houses the Records of the U.S. President's Commission on National Goals, 1959-1961 (NUCMC MS 76-1885), of which Killian was a member. The papers of many of Compton's and Killian's associates and colleagues during the war years are housed in the Library of Congress and in the National Archives.

Container List

Box 1	Folder 1	A. C. Lawrence Leather Co., 1947

	Folder 2	Aalto, Alvar, 1940-1949

	Folder 3	Aaron -to- Abrams
		Aaron, William, Jr.
		Abbot, Charles G.
		Abbot, John M.
		Abbot Academy
		Abbott, George A.
		Abbott, Harold
		Abbott, Russell W.
		Abbott, William Lamont
		Abbott Laboratories
		Abeel, Neilson
		Abelman, Max
		Aberdeen Proving Ground
		Aborn, P. N.
		Abrahams, David J.
		Abrams, Allen
		Abrams, Frank

Box 1	Folder 4	Academic Council, 1949-1951

	Folder 5	Academic Council, 1952 - July 1954

	Folder 6	Academic Council, August 1954 - June 1955

	Folder 7	Academic Council, July 1955 - 1956

	Folder 8	Academic Council, 1957-1958

	Folder 9	Academic Council, (policies and goals), 1955-1956

	Folder 10	Academic freedom, 1949

	Folder 11	Academic posts, 1949-1951

	Folder 12	Academic posts, 1953-1955

	Folder 13	Academic posts, 1956-1958

Box 2	Folder 1	Academy -to- Acoustics congress
		Academy of Arts and Sciences, John W. M. Bunker
		Academy of Arts and Sciences (international)
		Acceleration
		Accelerator project
		ACF Industries
		Ackerman, Carl W.
		Ackerman, Donald E.
		Ackerman, P.
		Acoustical Materials Association
		Acoustical Society of America
		Acoustics
		Acoustics congress

Box 2	Folder 2	Acoustics Laboratory, 1945-1954

	Folder 3	Acoustics Laboratory, program review, 1951

	Folder 4	Activities -to- Adair
		Activities Budget Board
		Activities Council Conference
		Activities Development Board
		Acushnet Process Company
		Adair, Frank B.

Box 2	Folder 5	Adams, A. -to- Adams, V.
		Adams, Arthur S.
		Adams, Charles E.
		Adams, Charles F., Jr.
		Adams, Charles Francis
		Adams, Comfort A.
		Adams, Douglas P.
		Adams, E. P.
		Adams, E. S.
		Adams, F. Dennette
		Adams, Frederick J.
		Adams, Frederick W.
		Adams, James P.
		Adams, Jess E.
		Adams, Leason
		Adams, M. W.
		Adams, Porter
		Adams, Raymond D.
		Adams, Roger
		Adams, Viers

Box 2	Folder 6	Adamson -to- Administrative assistants
		Adamson, J. T.
		Addicks, Allen D.
		Addison-Wesley
		Adell, James K. R.
		Adelman, M. A.
		Adjutant General
		Adkins, A. W.
		Adkins, David C.
		Adkins, John N.
		Administration conference
		Administrative assistants

Box 2	Folder 7	Administrative Council, 1940-1957

	Folder 8	Administrative officers -to- Admiral
		Administrative officers - rating sheet
		Administrative plans
		Admiral Corporation

Box 2	Folder 9	Admissions, 1932-1949

	Folder 10	Admissions, January 1950 - January 1956

	Folder 11	Admissions, October 1956 - 1958

Box 3	Folder 1	Admissions budget, 1947

	Folder 2	Admissions correspondence, 1952-1953

	Folder 3	Admissions correspondence, 1954-1956

	Folder 4	Admissions correspondence, 1957-1958

	Folder 5	Admissions office, 1951-1954

	Folder 6	Admissions office, 1955-1956

	Folder 7	Admissions publicity, 1947-1956

	Folder 8	Admissions report, 1957

	Folder 9	Adult -to- Advanced
		Adult education conference
		Advanced Placement Program
		Advanced Study, School for

Box 3	Folder 10	Advances -to- Aeronautical Association
		Advances for government research contracts
		Advertising Club of Boston
		Advisor to foreign students
		Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange, U.S.
		Advisory Committee on Higher Education
		Advisory Committees
		Aelion, Marc L.
		Aero-Elastic Research Laboratory
		Aerojet Engineering Corporation
		Aerojet-General Corporation
		Aeromedical Center
		Aeronautical Association of Boston

Box 4	Folder 1	Aeronautical Engineering, Department of, 1931-1957

	Folder 2	Aeronautical Research -to- Agrawal
		Aeronautical Research Foundation
		Aeronautical sciences
		Aeronautical Sciences, Center for Advanced Study in
		Aeronautics, Bureau of
		Aeronautics, College of
		Aerothermopresser
		Aerovox Corporation
		Aetna Casualty and Surety Company
		Affleck, Benjamin F.
		Agar, G. E.
		Agassiz, Alexander
		Agassiz, G. R.
		Agatho, Brother
		Age distribution, MIT staff
		Agnew, P. G.
		Agnew, Robert J.
		Agnew, Sarah O.
		Agrawal, P. C.

Box 4	Folder 3	Agricultural -to- Air defense project
		Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
		Agricultural contract
		Agriculture, U.S. Department of
		Ahearn, Catherine
		Ahlberg, Henry
		Ahmad, M.
		Ahrendt, William R.
		Ahrens, Louis H.
		Aiken, C. C.
		Aiken, Mildred G.
		Air Affairs
		Air Conditioning Bureau of Boston
		Air Conditioning Training Corporation
		Air Corps
		Air defense project

Box 4	Folder 4	Air defense: response to James R. Killian's comments in the Atlantic and on "Town Meeting," articles, 1953-1954

	Folder 5	Air defense: response to James R. Killian's comments in the Atlantic and on "Town Meeting," correspondence, 1953-1954

	Folder 6	Air Education -to- Air Force Air Materiel
		Air Education, Inc.
		Air Force, U.S.
		Air Force Academy
		Air Force Advisory Committee on ROTC
		Air Force Air Materiel Command

Box 4	Folder 7	Air Force: Air Research and Development Command, 1955-1958

	Folder 8	Air Force Association -to- Air Force: Partridge
		Air Force Association
		Air Force award to MIT
		Air Force Ballistic Missile Division
		Air Force: Barker, John DeF.
		Air Force: Cambridge Air Reserve Center
		Air Force: Cambridge Research Center
		Air Force: Carmichael, Jack C.
		Air Force Communications Laboratory
		Air Force, Department of the (U.S. Department of Defense)
		Air Force Exceptional Service Award
		Air Force Institute of Technology
		Air Force inventory
		Air Force League
		Air Force liaison officer
		Air Force Office of Scientific Research
		Air Force officers, U.S. Army
		Air Force Operational Test Center
		Air Force: Partridge, E. E.
		Air Force recruiting

Box 4	Folder 9	Air Force student -to- Air Policy
		Air Force student officers
		Air Force: Stever, H. Guyford
		Air Forces
		Air Policy Commission

Box 4	Folder 10	Air Power League, 1944-1947

	Folder 11	Air scouting -to- Air transportation
		Air scouting
		Air Technical Service Command
		Air transportation
		Air transportation conference
		Air transportation professorship

Box 4	Folder 12	Air University, 1951-1952

Box 5	Folder 1	Air University, Board of Visitors, meeting, 1952

	Folder 2	Air University, Board of Visitors, reports, 1952

	Folder 3	Air University, correspondence, 1946-1950, A - F

	Folder 4	Air University, correspondence, 1946-1950, H - Z

	Folder 5	Air Youth -to- Alcoholism
		Air Youth of America
		Airborne Instruments Laboratory
		Aircraft industry
		Aircraft-Marine Products Inc.
		Akers, Frank
		Akin, Spencer B.
		Aksoy, A. M.
		Alabama, State of
		Alabama Power Company
		Alabama Research Institute
		Albers, Homer
		Alberto, Alvaro
		Albertson, Walter
		Albjerg, Victor L.
		Albrecht, E. M.
		Albright, Marjorie J.
		Alco Products, Inc.
		Alcoa Foundation
		Alcoholism, Boston Committee on

Box 5	Folder 6	Alden -to- Aldred, John
		Alden, P. M.
		Alder, T. W.
		Alderman, Bissell
		Aldred, F. W.
		Aldred, John E.

Box 5	Folder 7	Aldred Lectures (series), 1930-1935

	Folder 8	Aldrich, H. -to- Aldrich, W.
		Aldrich, Harriet
		Aldrich, Henry
		Aldrich, Winthrop

Box 5	Folder 9	Alexander -to- Alfaro
		Alexander, Archibald S.
		Alexander, C. C.
		Alexander, Colin H.
		Alexander, Douglas
		Alexander, Gordon
		Alexander, James
		Alexander, James W.
		Alexander, P. P.
		Alexander, Sidney
		Alexander, William
		Alexander Hamilton Bicentennial
		Alexander-Katz, E.
		Alfaro, Haraclio

Box 5	Folder 10	Alger -to- Allegheny
		Alger, Philip L.
		Algonquin Club
		Alhopuro, Matti
		Ali, Hakim
		All American Aviation, Inc.
		Allbright, Manley F.
		Allegheny Airlines
		Allegheny College
		Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation

Box 6	Folder 1	Allen, C. -to- Allen, W.
		Allen, C. Francis
		Allen, Charles
		Allen, Clarence E.
		Allen, E. G.
		Allen, Frank G.
		Allen, George E.
		Allen, George V.
		Allen, Gordon C.
		Allen, Henry Butler
		Allen, I. A.
		Allen, Jack
		Allen, Lawrence
		Allen, Mildred
		Allen, Philip
		Allen, Tommy
		Allen, W. Fay
		Allen, William B.
		Allen, Wilmar M.

Box 6	Folder 2	Allied -to- Altwicker
		Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation
		Allied Relief Fund
		Allied Research Associates, Inc.
		Allis, William P.
		Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
		Allison, Clarence B.
		Allman, William B.
		Allyn, H. Gregory
		Allyn and Bacon, Inc.
		Alma Mater
		Alper, Noah D.
		Alpert, Myer
		Alpha Chi Sigma
		Alpha Epsilon Pi
		Alpha Tau Omega
		Alsifilm
		Alter, Chester A.
		Alter, Irving
		Althouse, A. K.
		Altwicker, Hubert

Box 6	Folder 3	Aluminium -to- Aluminum
		Aluminium Limited
		Aluminum Company of America
		Aluminum Company of Canada

Box 6	Folder 4	Alumni Association, 1947-1953

	Folder 5	Alumni Association, 1954-1957

	Folder 6	Alumni awards, 1950-1957

	Folder 7	Alumni clubs: MIT Tech Clubs, Akron - California

	Folder 8	Alumni clubs: MIT Tech Clubs, Chicago

	Folder 9	Alumni clubs: MIT Tech Clubs, Cincinnati - New Jersey

	Folder 10	Alumni clubs: MIT Tech Clubs, New York

Box 7	Folder 1	Alumni clubs: MIT Tech Clubs, Oklahoma - Worcester

	Folder 2	Alumni Council, 1950-1952

	Folder 3	Alumni Council, 1953-1956

	Folder 4	Alumni Council, 1957-1958

	Folder 5	Alumni Day, 1949-1951

	Folder 6	Alumni Day, 1952-1957

	Folder 7	Alumni Educational Council, 1951

	Folder 8	Alumni Fund, 1940-1952

	Folder 9	Alumni Fund, 1953 - May 1955

Box 8	Folder 1	Alumni Fund, June 1955 - 1958

	Folder 2	Alumni Fund reports, 1940-1955

	Folder 3	Alumni in educational institutions, 1955-1957

	Folder 4	Alumni letter, 1931-1958

	Folder 5	Alumni Officers -to- Alumni president
		Alumni Officers Conference
		Alumni placement
		Alumni president and corporation

Box 8	Folder 6	Alumni records -to- Alumni survey
		Alumni records
		Alumni regional conferences
		Alumni Register
		Alumni reunion
		Alumni statistics
		Alumni survey

Box 8	Folder 7	Alvarez -to- American Association for Public
		Alvarez, Louis W.
		Alves, Marcio de Mello Franco
		Alvord, Margaret
		Amaldi, Eduardo
		Amann, Rudolph
		Amat, M. Miguel
		Amdur, I.
		Amerada Petroleum Corporation
		American Academy in Rome
		American Academy of Arts and Sciences
		American Academy of Physical Medicine
		American Academy of Political and Social Science
		American Airlines, Inc.
		American Arbitration Association
		American Association for Adult Education
		American Association for Public Information

Box 8	Folder 8	American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1953-1955

	Folder 9	American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1956-1957

	Folder 10	American Association for the Advancement of Science, MIT exhibit, 1934-1936

	Folder 11	American Association for United -to- American Association of Textile
		American Association for United Nations
		American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
		American Association of Petroleum Geologists
		American Association of Physics Teachers
		American Association of School Administrators
		American Association of Scientific Workers
		American Association of Teachers of Spanish
		American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists

Box 9	Folder 1	American Association of University Professors, 1949-1958

	Folder 2	American Association of University Women -to- American Can
		American Association of University Women
		American Banker
		American Bankers Association
		American Baptist Student Aid Fund
		American Bible Society
		American Book Publishers Council
		American Bosch Arma Corp.
		American Brake Shoe
		American Business
		American Can Company

Box 9	Folder 3	American Cancer Society, 1946-1949

	Folder 4	American Cancer Society, 1950-1953

	Folder 5	American Cancer Society, 1954-1958

	Folder 6	American Chain -to- American Chamber
		American Chain & Cable Company, Inc.
		American Chamber of Commerce Executive Luncheon
		American Chamber of Commerce Executives

Box 9	Folder 7	American Chemical Society, 1939-1953

	Folder 8	American Chicle -to- American Civil
		American Chicle Company
		American Citizenship Foundation
		American Civil Liberties Union

Box 9	Folder 9	American College -to- American Council of Learned
		American College Council for Summer Study Abroad
		American College Fund
		American College Health Association
		American College of Surgeons
		American College Public Relations Association
		American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual
		Freedom
		American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, Inc.
		American Committee for the Independence of Armenia
		American Committee on United Europe
		American Committee to Save Anti-Fascist Refugees
		American Concrete Institute
		American Conference for Racial and National Unity
		American Council for Emigrés in the Professions, Inc.
		American Council Institute of Pacific Relations
		American Council of Learned Societies

Box 9	Folder 10	American Council on Education, 1940-1947

Box 10	Folder 1	American Council on Education, 1948-1956

	Folder 2	American Council on Education, 1957-1958

	Folder 3	American Council on Education, Committee on Institutional Research Policy, January - August 1952

	Folder 4	American Council on Education, Committee on Institutional Research Policy, September - December 1952

	Folder 5	American Council on Education, Committee on Institutional Research Policy, January - March 1953

	Folder 6	American Council on Education, Committee on Institutional Research Policy, April - December 1953

	Folder 7	American Council on Education, Committee on Institutional Research Policy, January - May 1954

	Folder 8	American Council on Education, Committee on Institutional Research Policy, June 1954 - May 1955

	Folder 9	American Council on Education, Committee on Institutional Research Policy, draft of final report, July 1954

	Folder 10	American Council on Education, Committee on Sponsored Research, 1956 - March 1957

	Folder 11	American Council on Education, Committee on Sponsored Research, April 1957

	Folder 12	American Council on Education, Committee on Sponsored Research, May - September 1957

Box 11	Folder 1	American Council on Education, Committee on Sponsored Research, October 1957-1959

	Folder 2	American Council on Education, Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Reporting, 1950-1955

	Folder 3	American Council on Education, National Citizens' Commission for Higher Education, 1953

	Folder 4	American Council on Education, Problems and Policies Committee, 1953 - April 1954

	Folder 5	American Council on Education, Problems and Policies Committee, May 1954 - April 1955

	Folder 6	American Council on Education, Problems and Policies Committee, May 1955 - December 1955

	Folder 7	American Council on Education, Problems and Policies Committee, January - September 1956

	Folder 8	American Council on Education, Problems and Policies Committee, October - January 1957

	Folder 9	American Council on Education, Problems and Policies Committee, February - June 1957

	Folder 10	American Council on Education, Problems and Policies Committee, July 1957 - January 1959

	Folder 11	American Cyanimid -to- American Friends
		American Cyanimid Company
		American Design Award
		American Economic Association
		American Economic Foundation
		American Educator Encyclopaedia
		American Engineer
		American Engineering Council
		American-European Friendship Association, Inc.
		American Federation of Investors
		American Federation of Labor
		American Federation of Teachers
		American Field Service
		American Fire Fighters
		American Forestry Association
		American Forum of Democracy
		American Foundation for the Blind
		American Foundryman's Association
		American Foundrymen's Society
		American Friends Service Committee

Box 11	Folder 12	American Gas -to- American Hospital
		American Gas and Electric Service Corporation
		American Gas Co.
		American Geological Institute
		American Geophysical Union
		American Heart Association
		American Heritage Foundation
		American Historical Association
		American Hospital Association

Box 12	Folder 1	American Institute -to- American Institute of Electrical
		American Institute
		American Institute of Architects
		American Institute of Consulting Engineers
		American Institute of Electrical Engineers

Box 12	Folder 2	American Institute of Geonomy -to- American Institute of Pacific
		American Institute of Geonomy and Natural Resources
		American Institute of Management
		American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
		American Institute of Pacific Relations

Box 12	Folder 3	American Institute of Physics, n.d.

	Folder 4	American Institute of Physics, 1931 - March 1932

	Folder 5	American Institute of Physics, April - December 1932

	Folder 6	American Institute of Physics, 1933-1934

	Folder 7	American Institute of Physics, 1934-1955

	Folder 8	American Institute of Physics, Henry A. Barton, March - May 1932

	Folder 9	American Institute of Physics, Henry A. Barton, June - December 1932

Box 13	Folder 1	American Institute of Physics, Henry A. Barton, 1933

	Folder 2	American Institute of Physics, Henry A. Barton, 1934-1935

	Folder 3	American Institute of Physics, B - O, 1932-1935

	Folder 4	American Institute of Physics, P - W, 1932-1935

	Folder 5	American Legion, 1940-1954

	Folder 6	American Library -to- American Management
		American Library Association
		American Library in Paris, Inc.
		American Machine & Foundry Company
		American Magazine
		American Management Association

Box 13	Folder 7	American Maritime -to- American Music
		American Maritime Council
		American Mathematical Society
		American Meat Institute
		American Medical Association
		American Medical Association, Journal of
		American Men of Science
		American Mercury
		American Metal Company
		American Meteorological Society
		American Military Engineers, Society of
		American Mining Congress
		American Mothers' Neutrality League
		American Museum of Natural History
		American Music Conference

Box 13	Folder 8	American Oil -to- American Peoples
		American Oil Company
		American Oncologic Hospital
		American Optical Society
		American Optometric Association
		American Ordnance Association
		American Orthopsychiatric Association
		American Overseas Aid, Inc.
		American Palestine Committee
		American Paper and Pulp Association
		American Patriots against Foreign Wars
		American Peoples Encyclopedia

Box 13	Folder 9	American Petroleum Institute, 1941-1956
		American Pharmaceutical -to- American Social
		American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association
		American Potash and Chemical Corporation
		American Protestant Hospital Association
		American Provident Society
		American Psychological Association
		American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation
		American Railway Association
		American Refractories Institute
		American Relief for India
		American Research and Development Corporation
		American-Scandinavian Foundation
		American School and University
		American School of Classical Studies at Athens
		American School Publishing Corporation
		American Science Teachers Association
		American Smelting and Refining Company
		American Social Hygiene Association

Box 13	Folder 10	American Philosophical Society, 1938-1958

	Folder 11	American Society for Engineering Education, 1946-1951

Box 14	Folder 1	American Society for Engineering Education, 1952

	Folder 2	American Society for Engineering Education, 1953-1954

	Folder 3	American Society for Engineering Education, 1955-1957

	Folder 4	American Society for Engineering Education, Manpower Report, 1946 - May 1947

	Folder 5	American Society for Engineering Education, Manpower Report, June 1947 - 1948

	Folder 6	American Society for Engineering Education, Manpower Report, correspondence, A - L, 1946-1948

	Folder 7	American Society for Engineering Education, Manpower Report, correspondence, O - Y, 1946-1947

Box 15	Folder 1	American Society for Engineering Education, salary studies, 1947-1949

	Folder 2	American Society for Metals -to- American Society of Clinical
		American Society for Metals
		American Society for Psychical Research
		American Society for Quality Control
		American Society for Testing Materials
		American Society of Civil Engineers
		American Society of Clinical Pathologists

Box 15	Folder 3	American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1939-1956

	Folder 4	American Society of Tool -to- American Society of Training
		American Society of Tool Engineers
		American Society of Training Directors

Box 15	Folder 5	American-Soviet Friendship, National Council of, 1942-1946

	Folder 6	American Standards -to- American-Swiss
		American Standards Association
		American Steel and Wire
		American Steel Foundries
		American Student Health Association
		American-Swiss Foundation

Box 15	Folder 7	American Technion Society, 1949-1957

	Folder 8	American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T), 1930-1934

	Folder 9	American Tobacco Company, 1950

	Folder 10	American Union -to- American Viscose
		American Union of Scientific Workers
		American Universities and Colleges
		American Universities Field Staff
		American University
		American University at Cairo
		American University of Beirut
		American Veterans Committee
		American Viscose Corporation

Box 15	Folder 11	American Warehousemen's -to- American Zinc
		American Warehousemen's Asociation
		American Watch Manufacturers Association, Inc.
		American Water Works Association
		American Welding Society
		American Youth for a Free World
		American Youth Hostels
		American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co.

Box 15	Folder 12	Americans -to- Amtorg
		Americans, Committee of
		Ames, Michael
		Ames, Oakes
		Ames Aeronautical Laboratory
		Amherst College
		Amorim do Valle, Edmundo J.
		Amory, Copley
		Amos Lodge, B'nai B'rith
		AMP Incorporated
		Amster, Herbert S.
		Amster, Sidney N.
		Amstutz, Arnold E.
		Amtorg Trading Corporation

Box 15	Folder 13	Anable -to- Anderson, William
		Anable, Anthony
		Anaconda Copper Company
		Anastassiadis, Themistocles
		Anatolia College
		Anchors
		Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
		Anderson, Arthur
		Anderson, Arthur R.
		Anderson, D. F.
		Anderson, F. H.
		Anderson, Herbert W.
		Anderson, J. A.
		Anderson, John W.
		Anderson, Julian T.
		Anderson, K. Brooke
		Anderson, L. Dewey
		Anderson, Lawrence B.
		Anderson, Roger G.
		Anderson, W. E.
		Anderson, Walter S.
		Anderson, William T., Jr.

Box 15	Folder 14	Anderson and Beckwith, 1944-1956

	Folder 15	Anderson (Larz) Collection, 1949

	Folder 16	Andover Conference, 1952-1957

	Folder 17	Andover Newton -to- Anslow
		Andover Newton Theological School
		Andrade, E. N. daC.
		Andrew, G. M.
		Andrew, J. M. V.
		Andrews, Charles T.
		Andrews, Henry N.
		Andrews, John H.
		Anesthesia
		Angehr, Jessie C.
		Angell, James R.
		Anglo-American Association
		Anglo-American-Hellenic Bureau of Education
		Angulo, Conney, Marsh & Ouchterloney
		Annapolis, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
		Annie Wright Seminary
		Annual salary plan
		Anonymous gifts
		Anshen, Ruth N.
		Anslow, Gladys A.

Box 16	Folder 1	Anthoensen -to- Antonoff
		Anthoensen, Fred
		Antioch College
		Anti-Poll-Tax Committee
		Anti-war conference
		Antonio, A. L.
		Antonoff, George

Box 16	Folder 2	Appel -to- Applied mathematics
		Appel, Mrs. Bernard
		Appel, Parke D.
		Appelton, Edward V.
		Application fees
		Applications, Duncan Bruce, Jr.
		Applied mathematics

Box 16	Folder 3	Applied Mathematics, Committee on, 1941-1947

	Folder 4	Applied mathematics symposium -to- Architectural
		Applied mathematics symposium
		Applied Mathematics, Special School for
		Applied Radiation Corporation
		Appointment notice
		Arabian Oil Company
		Arbegast, John H.
		Arbitration Association
		Arbuckle, Bob
		Archaeological Institute of America
		Archambault, Bennett
		Archambault, Joseph
		Archibald, Raymond C.
		Architectural Forum
		Architectural engineering

Box 16	Folder 5	Architecture building, 1936-1937

	Folder 6	Architecture building, 1938

	Folder 7	Architecture, Department of, 1943-1953

	Folder 8	Architecture, School of, 1944-1957

	Folder 9	Architecture, School of, curriculum, 1942-1945

	Folder 10	Archives -to- Ariyoshi
		Archives
		Arctic Institute
		Arctops Project
		Arellano, Robert R.
		Arensberg, Conrad M.
		Argentina
		Argentine fellowships
		Argentine students
		Argentinian naval officers
		Arguelles, Carlos
		Arguimbau, Lawrence Baker
		Ariyoshi, Hiroshi

Box 16	Folder 11	Arkell -to- Armour
		Arkell, Bartlett
		Arkell, W. C.
		Armchairs
		Armco Steel Corporation
		Armed Forces Chemical Association
		Armed Forces Day
		Armed Forces Institute
		Armed Forces Master Records
		Armed Forces News Service
		Armed Services Educational Conference
		Armed Services Re-employment
		Armigo, Modeste
		Arminan, James Perez de
		Armistead, Fontaine
		Armony
		Armour, George
		Armour, Norman
		Armour and Company

Box 17	Folder 1	Arms -to- Armstrong
		Arms, John Taylor
		Armsby, Henry H.
		Armstrong, Devere
		Armstrong, Edwin H.
		Armstrong, Floyd E.
		Armstrong, George S.
		Armstrong, Harry G.
		Armstrong, Howard, Jr.
		Armstrong Cork Company
		Armstrong Project

Box 17	Folder 2	Army -to- Army Engineer
		Army Advanced Study Group
		Army Air Forces
		Army Air Forces Board
		Army Air Forces Engineering School
		Army Air Forces maps
		Army and Navy Officers
		Army and Navy Officers, graduate training of
		Army and Navy students
		Army Chemical Corps School
		Army clearances
		Army contract
		Army, Department of (U.S. Department of Defense)
		Army Emergency Relief, First Nighter Program
		Army Engineer and Development
		Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratories
		Army Engineer student officers

Box 17	Folder 3	Army Enlisted Reserve Corps, 1942-1943

	Folder 4	Army Information -to- Army medical
		Army Information School
		Army Intelligence
		Army Map Service
		Army Mathematics Center
		Army medical research

Box 17	Folder 5	Army-Navy contracts, February 1943

	Folder 6	Army-Navy contracts, March 1943-1944

	Folder 7	Army-Navy, post-war research, planning, April - May 1944

	Folder 8	Army-Navy, post-war research, planning, June 1-19, 1944

	Folder 9	Army-Navy, post-war research, planning, July 1944

	Folder 10	Army-Navy, post-war research, planning, August - September 1944

Box 18	Folder 1	Army-Navy, post-war research, planning, Tuve survey, July 1944

	Folder 2	Army-Navy programs, A - E

	Folder 3	Army-Navy programs, F - L

	Folder 4	Army-Navy programs, M - W

	Folder 5	Army-Navy programs, memoranda, January - April 1943

	Folder 6	Army-Navy programs, memoranda, May - June 1943

	Folder 7	Army-Navy programs, memoranda, July 1943

	Folder 8	Army-Navy programs, memoranda, August 1943 - 1945

Box 19	Folder 1	Army-Navy programs, department -to- Army: Quartermaster
		Army-Navy programs, department expenses
		Army-Navy Staff College
		Army-Navy training
		Army officers
		Army Ordnance
		Army Ordnance Association
		Army personnel research
		Army postgraduate courses in basic sciences
		Army: Quartermaster Board
		Army: Quartermaster Training Command

Box 19	Folder 2	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, 1951-1952

	Folder 3	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, 1953

	Folder 4	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, January - April 1954

	Folder 5	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, May - July 1954

	Folder 6	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, August - September 1954

	Folder 7	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, October - December 1954

	Folder 8	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, December 1954 - April 1955

	Folder 9	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, May - September 1955

Box 20	Folder 1	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, October 1955

	Folder 2	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, November 1955 - April 1960

	Folder 3	Army Scientific Advisory Panel, Director of Research and Development suggestions, 1955

	Folder 4	Army Service -to- Army Signal
		Army Service Forces
		Army Signal Association

Box 20	Folder 5	Army Special Services, 1942-1943

	Folder 6	Army Specialized Training Program, 1943

	Folder 7	Army Specialized Training Program, 1944-1946

	Folder 8	Army War -to- Arvedon
		Army War College
		Arneson, Arne
		Arnett, Keeton
		Arnett, Trevor
		Arnold, Arthur D.
		Arnold, Dwight
		Arnold, H. H.
		Arnold, Henry F.
		Arnold, John E.
		Arnold, Julean
		Arnold, Kenneth J.
		Arnold, Robert
		Arnold, Stuart
		Arnold, W. H.
		Arnold, Weld
		Aro, Inc.
		Aronson, Mark
		Aronson, Solomon
		Art collection
		Art festival
		Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation
		Arthritis Research Foundation
		Arthur, J. M.
		Arthur D. Little lecture
		Artola, Lus A.
		Artura, Carmine
		Arvedon, William

Box 20	Folder 9	Asarco -to- Associated General
		Asarco Foundation
		Asbestos Textile Institute
		Asbestos Tile Institute
		Asbury, W. C.
		Ash, Edward A.
		Ashbridge, Whitney
		Ashdown, Avery
		Asher, Louis E.
		Ashley, Clifford
		Ashley, D. C.
		Ashley, George H.
		Ashley, Holt
		Ashtabula Hide and Leather Company
		Ashworth, H.
		Ashworth, Robert A.
		Ashworth Brothers, Inc.
		Asia Foundation
		Assessing Officers, National Association of
		Assessor, A. J.
		Assheton, Mabel Hammer
		Assistant professors
		Assistants (research and teaching)
		Assistantships
		Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies
		Associated General Contractors of America, Inc.

Box 20	Folder 10	Associated Industries -to- Association for Higher
		Associated Industries of Alabama
		Associated Industries of Massachusetts
		Associated Press
		Associated Research Councils
		Associated Teachers' Agency
		Associated Tutors, Inc.
		Associated Universities of the British Commonwealth
		Associates group
		Association for Higher Education

Box 21	Folder 1	Association of American Colleges, 1930-1958

	Folder 2	Association of American Medical Colleges, 1953-1957

	Folder 3	Association of American Universities, 1934-1939

	Folder 4	Association of American Universities, January - May 1940

	Folder 5	Association of American Universities, June - December 1940

	Folder 6	Association of American Universities, 1941-1945

	Folder 7	Association of American Universities, 1948 - March 1949

	Folder 8	Association of American Universities, April 1949 - October 1950

	Folder 9	Association of American Universities, November 1950 - April 1951

	Folder 10	Association of American Universities, May - December 1951

	Folder 11	Association of American Universities, 1952-1953

Box 22	Folder 1	Association of American Universities, 1954

	Folder 2	Association of American Universities, 1955-1956

	Folder 3	Association of American Universities, 1957

	Folder 4	Association of American Universities, 1958

	Folder 5	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, 1949

	Folder 6	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, January - February 1950

	Folder 7	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, April - May 1950

	Folder 8	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, June - August 1950

	Folder 9	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, September 1950 - 1951

	Folder 10	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, 1952

Box 23	Folder 1	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, 1953-1954

	Folder 2	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, government documents, 1949

	Folder 3	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, hearings before Committee on Ways and Means on Tax Revision, 1950

	Folder 4	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, James R. Killian testimony on tax bill before the Senate Finance Committee, 1950

	Folder 5	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, newspaper and magazine clippings, 1949-1950

	Folder 6	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, notes, addresses, and reports, n.d.

	Folder 7	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, notes, addresses, and reports, 1947-1950

	Folder 8	Association of American Universities, Committee on Financial Support and Taxation, reports, 1950

	Folder 9	Association of American Universities, Committee on Outside Activities of Faculty Members, 1954

	Folder 10	Association of American Universities, statement on "The Rights and Responsibilities of Universities and Faculties," 1953

	Folder 11	Association of College Admissions -to- Association of College Unions
		Association of College Admissions Counselors
		Association of College Unions

Box 23	Folder 12	Association of Colleges in New England, 1955-1957

	Folder 13	Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, 1949-1950

	Folder 14	Association of New -to- Association of University
		Association of New England Colleges for Conference on Athletics
		Association of Research Libraries
		Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development
		Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England
		Association of the Bar of the City of New York
		Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth
		Association of University Evening Colleges

Box 23	Folder 15	Association of Urban Universities, 1940-1958

	Folder 16	Astengo -to- Atherton
		Astengo, Giovanni
		Aston, Vincent
		Astronomical Society, American
		Athens College, Greece
		Atherton, J. W.

Box 23	Folder 17	Athletic Administrative Board, 1947-1955

Box 24	Folder 1	Athletic Administrative Board, 1956-1957

	Folder 2	Athletic Administrative Board, architectural plans, 1955

	Folder 3	Athletic Administrative Board, minutes, 1953-1958

	Folder 4	Athletic Administrative Board, reports, 1954-1958

	Folder 5	Athletics, 1940-1949

	Folder 6	Athletics, 1950-1955

	Folder 7	Athletics, 1956

	Folder 8	Athletics, 1957-1958

	Folder 9	Atkins -to- Atkinson, Henry
		Atkins, Richard A.
		Atkinson, Bernice
		Atkinson, Edward R.
		Atkinson, Edward W.
		Atkinson, Henry A.

Box 24	Folder 10	Atkinson, John B., 1943-1952

	Folder 11	Atkinson, Ralph -to- Atomic Age
		Atkinson, Ralph B.
		Atkinson, William
		Atlantic & Pacific
		Atlantic Brick & Tile Co.
		Atlantic Commission Company, Inc.
		Atlantic Monthly
		Atlantic Refining Co.
		Atlas, Sid
		Atomic Age World Cooperative

Box 24	Folder 12	Atomic energy, 1945-1955

Box 25	Folder 1	Atomic Energy Commission, U.S., A - W, 1945-1950

	Folder 2	Atomic Energy Commission, U.S., 1953-1956

	Folder 3	Atomic Energy Commission, U.S., 1956-1957

	Folder 4	Atomic Energy Conference -to- Atomic Energy Exposition
		Atomic Energy Conference
		Atomic Energy Exposition

Box 25	Folder 5	Atomic Industrial -to- Atomic Plants
		Atomic Industrial Defense Conference
		Atomic Industrial Forum
		Atomic Instrument Company
		Atomic Plants Commission

Box 25	Folder 6	Atoms for Peace, July - September 1955

	Folder 7	Atoms for Peace, October - December 1955

	Folder 8	Atoms for Peace, 1956 - March 1957

	Folder 9	Atoms for Peace, April 1957 - 1958

Box 26	Folder 1	Atoms for Peace, presentation of award to Niels Bohr, October 1957

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	Folder 2	Atoms for Peace, reports, 1955-1956