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Descriptive Summary

Historical Note

Collection Overview

Restrictions

Online Catalog Headings

Administrative Information

Detailed Description of the Collection

Wesleyan Addresses

Guide to the Wesleyan Addresses to Freshmen Collection, 1980 - 1989


Descriptive Summary

Repository Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University
Creator Wesleyan University.
Title Wesleyan Addresses to Freshmen Collection,
Dates 1980 - 1989
Linear Feet 0.2
Archival Boxes 1
Abstract During the 1980s, a Wesleyan faculty member was asked to deliver an address to the incoming freshman class each year. These addesses contained advice and wisdom about the students' upcoming lives at Wesleyan University. These addresses were transcribed and printed by Wesleyan.
These addresses were made to incoming students at the beginning of the academic year throughout the 1980s.
Call Number 2006-36
Location For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Special Collections & Archives staff.
Language of Material Material in English

Historical Note

During the 1980s, a Wesleyan faculty member was asked to deliver an address to the incoming freshman class each year. These addesses contained advice and wisdom about the students' upcoming lives at Wesleyan University. These addresses were transcribed and printed by Wesleyan.

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Collection Overview

These addresses were made to incoming students at the beginning of the academic year throughout the 1980s.

Collection Arrangement

Items are arranged chronologically.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Allewell, Norma.
Arnold, Herbert A.
Butler, Jeffrey.
Hanson, Earl D.
Hawkins, Sherman.
Kiefer, Barry I.
Konstan, David.
Rosenbaum, R. A. (Robert A.)
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) --Faculty.
Winston, Krishna.
Wood, Robert Coldwell, 1923-

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Wesleyan Addresses to Freshmen Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Given by Karl Scheibe, June 2006.

Processing Information

Processed by Valerie Gillispie, June 2006

Encoded by Valerie Gillispie, June 2006

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Wesleyan Addresses
Box Folder
1 1 "The Liberal Education" by David Konstan, 28 August 1980
Folder
2 "Liberal Education" by Sherman Hawkins, 27 August 1981
Folder
3 "Another Vicious Versus" by Robert A. Rosenbaum, 26 August 1982
Folder
4 "Course Credits=Education: Making that Formula Work" by Earl D. Hanson, 26 August 1983
Folder
5 "Liberal Learning, Radical Criticism and Moral Responsibility; or Adam: the First Liberal Learner" by Herbert A. Arnold, 30 August 1984
Folder
6 "The Freedom of Necessity" by Norma Allewell, 29 August 1985
Folder
7 "Politics: the Core Curriculum" by Robert Wood, 28 August 1986
Folder
8 "The Evolution of a Liberal Education" by Barry Kiefer, 3 September 1987
Folder
9 "The "Who, Me?" Question and a College Education" by Jeffrey Butler, 1 September 1988
Folder
10 "Do Worry, But Be Happy!" by Krishna Winston, 31 August 1989