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Guide to the William North Rice Papers,
1861 - 1955 (bulk 1861 - 1928)
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Guide to the William North Rice Papers,
1861 - 1955 (bulk 1861-1928)
Special Collections & Archives
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT, USA
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Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University
Rice, William North, 1845-1928.
William North Rice Papers, 1861 - 1955 (bulk 1861 - 1928)
1000-123
Material in English
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William North Rice (1845-1928) was a graduate and long-time faculty member and administrator at Wesleyan University. As a student, he was a member of Phi Nu Theta. He was known as a scientist, minister, and educational expert.
The William North Rice Papers contain diaries, correspondence, account books, teaching materials, writings, lectures, and sermons related to Rice's interests in Wesleyan University, science, religion, and education in general. Specific topics include coeducation at Wesleyan University, campus politics and activities, and issues related to students, faculty, and trustees. Rice's interests in geology, botany, mineralogy, crystallography, and zoology are represented, as is his interest in the relationship between science and religion.
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Copyright for Official University records is held by Wesleyan University; all other 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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[Identification of item], William North Rice Papers, Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Donated by William Abbott Rice in December 1960.
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Biographical Note
Born in 1845, William North Rice, of Springfield, Massachusetts, entered Wesleyan University in August 1861 at the age of fifteen. He graduated in 1865 as the valedictorian of his class, and went on to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University to receive the first Ph.D. awarded in the United States in geology in 1867. After further study in Europe, he returned to Wesleyan to teach natural science courses, a very new field in the existing academic world of Greek and Latin literature and mathematics.
He served as Professor of Geology and Natural History, 1868-1884; G.I. Seney Professor of Geology, 1884-1918; G.I. Seney Professor of Geology Emeritus, 1918-1928; and as acting president of the university, 1907, 1908-1909, and 1918. He died 13 November 1928, after a 67-year association with Wesleyan.
Rice was distinguished not only for his knowledge of geological formations throughout the mountains of Connecticut and Massachusetts, but also for his many publications and sermons as a Methodist minister.
In addition, Rice was a prolific writer. Along with several books, he wrote dozens of sermons and lectures which were published in newspapers and journals. He was a frequent contributor to
Zion's Herald, a religious publication of the Boston Wesleyan Assocation, as well as to other religious and secular newspapers. His writings often dealt with the conflict many people experienced, in the first half-century after the publictaion of Darwin's Origin of the Species, between new scientific thought and Biblical tradition. Other lectures and sermons were strictly theological in nature.
Collection Overview
The William North Rice Papers contain diaries, correspondence, account books, teaching materials, writings, lectures, and sermons related to Rice's interests in Wesleyan University, science, religion, and education in general. The Diaries and Correspondence series includes personal diaries and account books kept by William North Rice during his time as a Wesleyan University student, and correspondence from family members, friends, colleagues, and fellow alumni from throughout his life. The subject of many of the diary entries and letters is Wesleyan University, and these writings contain information about academics, social life, campus groups, co-education, trustee maters, campus politics, selection of presidents, alumni affairs, coeducation, student discipline, and faculty recruitment.
The Teaching and Education series includes record books, lecture notes, examination questions, and tributes and memorials. The record books record student grades for the courses taught by Rice. His lecture notes cover subjects including botany, geology, mineralogy and crystallography, zoology and science and religion. The examination questions include those used by Rice in his own teaching, as well as entrance examination questions for Wesleyan University and other New England colleges and universities. The tributes and memorials to Rice, as well as obituaries, offer information about Rice's teaching and scholarly career. Also included in this series is a hand-drawn sketch of Rice made by Mrs. Calvin Sears Harrington.
The Publications, Addresses, and Sermons series contains materials created by Rice on the topics of Wesleyan University, education, geology and science, and religion. An index of sermons and publications can be found at the beginning of the series.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
Rice, William North, 1845-1928.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) --Administration.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) --Alumni and alumnae.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) --Students.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) --Faculty.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) --Greek letter societies.
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) --History.
Religion and science.
Christianity.
Geology.
Mineralogy.
Crystallography.
Diaries.
Botany.
Zoology.
Coeducation --United States.
Education, Higher.
Related Material
Related material can be found in the Special Collections & Archives Vertical Files and in other archival collections. Please contact Special Collections & Archives for more information.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1. Diaries and Correspondence, 1861-1927
The Diaries and Correspondence series includes personal diaries and account books kept by William North Rice during his time as a Wesleyan University student, and correspondence from family members, friends, colleagues, and fellow alumni from throughout his life.
Diaries date from Rice's years as a student at Wesleyan, and include information about academics, social life, campus groups, and other Wesleyan-related observations. Some transcripts, made by Rice's grandson, are available in this collection as well. The "Letters Home from Wesleyan" were mainly written to Rice's father, William Rice, who served on the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. Some of these letters also include paragraphs separately addressed to other family members. Other letters were specifically addressed to other family members. Other correspondence addresses the issue of coeducation at Wesleyan during its first phase of admitting female students. There is also congratulatory correspondence regarding Rice's 50th anniversary of graduation from Wesleyan and his 80th birthday. Rice also corresponded frequently with his son about Wesleyan topics.
The final part of this series consists of letters arranged by the last name of the correspondent. Most of these writers were Wesleyan alumni, and most only wrote one or two letters. Topics include opinions on trustee matters, campus politics, selection of presidents, alumni affairs, coeducation, student discipline, and faculty recruitment.
1Diary, January 1861-January 1863
2Diary, January 1864-February 1865
11Diary, 1865
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Account book, August 1861-December 1862
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Account book, January 1864-July 1867
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Letters home from Wesleyan, 23 August-29 December 1861
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Letters home from Wesleyan, 5 January-28 May 1862
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Letters home from Wesleyan, 2 June-28 December 1862
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Letters home from Wesleyan, 4 January-30 May 1863
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Letters home from Wesleyan, 9 June-19 December 1863
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Letters home from Wesleyan, 4 January-25 June 1864
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Letters home from Wesleyan, 6 July-31 December 1864
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Letters home from Wesleyan, 21 January-13 July 1865
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Letters from WNR to various persons, 1862-1925
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Letters to WNR from his father, 1868-1897
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Letters to WNR from relatives, 1870-1918
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Elizabeth W. C. Rice letters, 1882, 1905
1882 letter contains news and anecdotes about members of the Wesleyan community in 1882, male and female, old and young.
This file was transferred from Special Collections & Archives Vertical Files in 2006.
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Correspondence regarding co-education, 1909
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Correspondence regarding co-education and other Wesleyan topics, 1868-1910
This folder of letters was separated from the rest of the William North Rice collection until 2006. Researchers using the collection prior to 2006 would not have seen these letters.
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Letters to WNR on 50th anniversary of graduation from Wesleyan, 1915
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Letters to WNR on his 80th birthday, 1925
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Letters to son E. L. Rice, 1896-1927
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Transcripts of diaries and letters, 1861-1862
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Transcripts of diaries and letters, 1862-1863
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Transcripts of diaries and letters, 1864
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Transcripts of diaries and letters, 1864-1865
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Transcripts of writings on Phi Nu Theta
Correspondence to WNR
These letters contain important information and opinions on trustee matters, campus politics, selection of presidents, alumni affairs, coeducation, student discipline, and faculty recruitment. Most of the correspondents were Wesleyan alumni, and almost all wrote fewer than ten letters. Most wrote only one or two. The correspondents who wrote ten or more letters are: W. O. Atwater, J. Beech, J. Cunnings, L. Magee, J. Mudge, F. M. North, S. H. Olin, H. L. Osborn, and B. P. Raymond.
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Abbott, J. E., 1872
Albro, A. B., 1905
Anderson, W. H., 1888
Allison, D., 1873
Andrews, E. G., 1869, 1897-1903
Armstrong, A. C., 1904-1911
Atwater, C. W., 1922
Atwater, W. O., 1872-1891, undated
Bacheller, A. L., undated
Bagnall, W. R., 1891
Bailey, M. A., 1920
Barnhart, J. H., 1893-1895
Beattys, F. D., 1909
Beattys, H. H., 1894
Beattys, F. D., 1891
Beech, J., 1902-1927, undated
Berry, W. F., 1888-1904
Bisbee, R. E., 1881-1904
Bowdish, W. W., 1869
Brodhead, G., undated
Brundage, W. M., 1890
Buckley, J. M., 1897
Burke, J. C., 1883-1884
Burnes, H. E., 1894
Burnett, W. A., 1865-1866
Chadbourne, G. S., 1886
Chanter, W. G., 1919
Chase, A. F., 1881-1883
Chase, John L., 1894
Chattaway, S. M., 1881
Clark, J. C., 1886
Clarke, F. W., 1870
Coffin, S. V., 1889
Conklin, E. G., 1922
Cooper, R. W., 1909
Cramer, N. L., 1875
Crawford, J., 1915
Crawford, M. B., 1877-1888
Crittenden, A. R., 1903
Crowell, L., 1884-1889
Crowell, S. F., 1912
Cunnings, J., 1840
Curtice, S. O., 1897
Dallinger, L., 1886
Davenport, F. M., 1897-1915
Davis, C. E., 1882, 1903
Davis, C. H., 1905-1909
Davis, H. L., 1904
Davis, W. B., 1909
Dennis, A. P., 1897
Develin, J. A., undated
Dickinson, J., 1879
Downey, D., 1903-1916
Dutcher, G. M., 1922
Eckfeldt, T. H., 1886
Edgerton, F. D., 1890
Eggleston, A. C., 1876
Eustis, J. E., 1876
Farrand, Max, 1904
Faulkner, J. A., 1897
Faulks, J. B., 1889-1902
Fearon, R. N., 1869
Fisk, H. F., 1865-1873
Foss, C. D., 1878-1907
Foye, W. G., 1925
Furber, D. B., 1877-1884
Garrison, S., 1895
Gilbert, L., 1884
Gill, B., 1890, 1904
Gilman, B. A., 1882, 1902
Godard, G. S., 1910
Goode, G. B., 1872-1896, undated
Gordy, J. P., 1886-1903
Gowdy, J., 1897
Graham, J. C., 1893-1907
Graves, A. S., 1865
Guss, R. W., 1903
Haley, J. F., 1878
Hall, G. A., 1873
Hall, Mary, 1890
Harriman, D. G., 1874
Harriman, H. I., 1920
Harris, A. W., 1910
Haven, E. O., 1872
Haven, G., 1874
Hewitt, J. W., 1908
Hoagland, M. L., 1866, 1899
Hibbard, R. G., 1876
Hotchkiss, A., 1892
Howland, C. P., 1890
Hoyt, F. S., 1879-1890
Hubbard, C. D., 1874-1888
Hubbard, W. P., 1870-1908
Hunt, A. S., 1887-1894
Hutchison, H. C., 1891
Hyde, A. B. 1872-1882
Ingraham, H. C. M., 1874-1909
James, W. J., 1891-1898
Johnston, A. K., 1869-1880
Johnston, J., 1876
Johnston, Mrs. J., 1866
Johnston, M. M., 1874
Johnston, W. A., 1903
Judd, O., 1871-1883
Judkin, C. O., undated
Kelley, W. V., 1903-1927
Kent, S. W., 1874
Knapp, M. A., 1886-1905
Kynett, A. G., 1879
Landon, T. H., 1885-1902
Larkin, G. R., 1923
Leavenworth, C., 1900
Lindsay, T. B., 1876
Lippit, C., 1864
Littlefield, C., 1914
Loper, S. W., 1890-1898
Loveland, A. E., 1897
Lyon, Asa, 1876
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MacMullen, W., 1897
Magee, L., 1885
Mains, G. P., 1878-1904
Mallalieu, W. F., 1870, 1903
Mann, A., 1895
Mansfield, John H., 1869
Mansfield, Joseph H., undated
Manship, W. S., 1911
Marcy, C. D., 1915
Marcy, O., 1866
Marsh, T. P., 1879
McConaughy, J. L., 1927
McCormick, C. W., 1891-1892
Merrill, E. T., 1886-1891
Millard, C. W., 1903
Monroe, H. K., 1903-1907
Morse, J. L., 1879
Mudge, J., 1870-1915
Munson, J. O., 1885
Neumann, G. B., 1923-1925
Newhall, F. N., 1881, undated
Newton, C. L., 1927
Newton, H. G., 1903
Newton, L., undated
Newton, W. M., 1916
Nicols, H., 1894
Nicolson, F., 1910
Niles, W., 1870
North, C. J., 1882-1898
North, C. R., 1872
North, E., 1914
North, F. M., 1872
Norton, L. L., 1900
Olin, S. H., 1871-1925, undated
Opdyke, L. A., 1890-1904
Osborn, H. L., 1879-1915
Osborne, W. F., 1876-1882
Parker, F. H., 1898,1914
Parker, R. C., 1908
Pease, C., 1899
Peck, E. J., undated
Pettee, J., undated
Phillips, W., 1865
Pickard, H., 1889
Platt, S. H., undated
Plimpton, G. L., 1899-1900
Pullman, J., 1877-1899, undated
Raymond, B. P., 1888-1909
Rand, J. C., 1870-1881, undated
Reynolds, F., 1874
Reynolds, G. G., 1906-1927
Rice, W. M., 1889-1903
Rich, H. L., 1890
Richard, E. M., 1904
Richard, W. A., 1903
Richards, T., 1917
Roe, A. S., 1876
Rosa, E. B., 1887-1890
Round, G. C., 1900, 1915
Rust, R. S., 1883
Sanborn, J. E., 1887
Sanford, A. B., 1884
Sanford, E. B., 1869-1926
Scofield, W. E., 1909-1910
Scudder, M. L., 1874
Shanklin, W. A., 1908-1912
Sharpe, B. F., 1887
Shonk, G. W., 1899
Shute, W. G., 1914
Sleeper, J., undated
Smiley, C. W., 1882
Smith, A. L., 1923
Smith, E. M., undated
Smith, F. H., 1907
Smith, O., 1888
Smith, S. K., 1885, 1903
Smith, W. B., 1910
Smith, W. W., 1890
Starkes, H. A., 1894
Steele, D., 1882-1911
Steele, G., 1886
Stiles, S. M., 1897
Strout, E. C., 1914
Sutherland, A. E., 1918
Sutton, H. C., 1904
Taft, M. L., 1883
Taylor, S. N., 1921
Thorndike, E. L., 1913, undated
Tillett, W. F., 1908
Tilton, J. L., 1894, 1907
Tinkler, C. P., 1889
Trafton, G. H., 1903
Underhill, A. S., 1898-1903
Upham, F. B., 1899-1903
VanBenschoten, J. C., 1884-1885
Van Dusen, W. W., 1891
Van Vleck, E. B, 1911, 1925
Van Vleck, J. M., 1877-1912
Waldo, C. A., 1890
Warren, H. W., 1879
Warren, H. M., 1880
Warren, W. F., 1915
Welch, H., 1897-1925, undated
Westgate, G. L., 1870-1880, undated
Westgate, L. G., 1893-1907, undated
Whedon, D. A., 1874-1879, undated
Whedon, D. D., 1866-1877
Whedon, J. S., 1869, undated
White, H. S., 1905
White, L., 1895
Whitney, D. D., 1886
Whitney, H. C., 1885
Williams, H. C., 1886
Wing, J. E., 1915
Wood, T. B., 1891-1908
Woods, W. C., undated
Wood, J. R., 1877
Woodruff, W. E., 1887-1888
Yager, G., 1911
Yard, J. M., 1927
Series 2. Teaching and Education, 1869-1928
The Teaching and Education series includes record books, lecture notes, examination questions, and tributes and memorials. The record books document student grades for the courses taught by Rice. His lecture notes cover subjects including botony, geology, mineralogy and crystallography, zoology, and science and religion. The examination questions include those used by Rice in his own teaching, as well as entrance examination questions for Wesleyan University and other New England colleges and universities. The tributes and memorials to Rice, as well as obituaries, offer information about Rice's teaching and scholarly career. Also included in this series is a hand-drawn sketch of Rice made by Mrs. Calvin Sears Harrington.
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Class record books, 1869-1918
These 7 folders contain 32 class record books.
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Class record books, 1869-1918
This folder contains 4 class record books.
Lecture notes, 1879-1918
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Botany, 1879-1882 and undated
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Classification of minerals, undated
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Crystallography, 1887-1893 and undated
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Crystallography and Optical Mineralogy, 1884-1885 and undated
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Descriptive Mineralogy, 1885-1899 and undated
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Geology, 1881-1899
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Geology, 1899-1918
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Geology - Bibliographical references
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Historical Geology, 1894
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Optical Mineralogy, 1887-1894
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Physiology, 1881-1884
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Science and Religion, 1896-1898
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Vertebrata, undated
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Zoology, 1880-1885 and undated
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Miscellaneous lecture and laboratory notes
Examination Questions
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1873-1888
Yearly entrance examinations and prize examinations for the New England colleges, 1866-1894
These are entrance examinations for various New England Colleges: Harvard, Tufts, Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Boston University, University of the State of New York, Cornell, and Wesleyan; there are also various examinations for special prizes (Phi Beta Kappa, etc.).
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Entrance and prize examinations, 1866-1894
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Entrance and prize examinations, 1866-1894
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Request by students for address, 1873
This file was transferred from Special Collections & Archives Vertical Files in 2006.
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Election to Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1871
This file was transferred from Special Collections & Archives Vertical Files in 2006.
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Testimonials, Obituaries, and Memorial Resolutions, 1924-1928
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Sketch of William North Rice by Mrs. Calvin Sears Harrington, undated
Series 3. Publications, Addresses, and Sermons, 1867-1955 (bulk 1867-1927)
The Publications, Addresses, and Sermons series contains materials created by Rice. An index of sermons and publications can be found at the beginning of the series. Following the index, Rice's writings are divided into the following topics: Wesleyan University, Education, Geology and Science, and Religion. The religion section includes sermons as well as other writings on the topic of religion. Within each topic, writings are arranged chronologically.
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Index of sermons and publications
Wesleyan University
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Personal History of the Class of 1865, Wesleyan University, July 1865-July 1867, 27 pages, William N. Rice, Editor, Brooklyn, 1867
Inauguration of President Cyrus D. Foss, including address by William N. Rice, Hartford Daily Times, 27 October 1875
Wesleyan University,Scribner's Monthly, Vol. XII, No. 5, September 1876
In Memoriam: Prof. John Johnston,College Argus, 8 December 1879
Wesleyan University,Daily Christian Advocate, 12 May 1896
Chapter LXVII: Wesleyan University, in The New England States, circa 1897
Draft of paper on co-education, later revised for pamphlet titled Papers on the Relation of Wesleyan University to the Higher Education of Women, 1899
Papers on the Relation of Wesleyan University to the Higher Education of Women, 1900
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The Wesley Bicentennial,North American Review, Vol. 176, No. 6, June 1903
The Curriculum of Wesleyan University,Wesleyan Literary Monthly, June 1905
The History and Work of Wesleyan University, address by William N. Rice, from Celebration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Wesleyan University, 1907
The History and Work of Wesleyan University, an Address delivered by Professor William North Rice, Ph. D., LL.D., at Middletown, Conn., Sunday June 17, 1906, in Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the University, Part I, Christian Advocate, Vol. LXXXI, No. 27, 5 July 1906
The History and Work of Wesleyan University, an Address delivered by Professor William North Rice, Ph. D., LL.D., at Middletown, Conn., Sunday June 17, 1906, in Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the University, Part II, Christian Advocate, Vol. LXXXI, No. 28, 12 July 1906
History and Work of Wesleyan University,Zion's Herald, 4 July 1906
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News clippings regarding coeducation at Wesleyan, baccalaureate address, installation of President Shanklin, 1908-1910
Sentence conferring degree of Doctor of laws on Frank B. Weeks, June 1909
The Van Vleck Observatory: dedication booklet, Address at the Ground-Breaking, and prayer at the dedication, June 1914
Address of Professor Rice, President Raymond's Memorial Service,Wesleyan Literary Monthly, vol. 24, March 1916
Through Darkness to Dawn,Cardinal, Spring 1955
The History of Wesleyan University, Lecture VIII, Course in Fundamentals of Student Life, 28 September 1917
Address on Woodrow Wilson,Wesleyan University Alumnus, May 1924
Historical Sketch of Wesleyan University, 1926
Our Half Century, Middletown Scientific Association adddress, 8 March 1927
Education
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Shall I Go to College?, undated
Claims of the Educational Institutions of Methodism,Proceedings of the Methodist Convention of the State of Connecticut, 1869
The Educational Work of Methodism,Baltimore Centennial Daily, 18 December 1884
Natural Science as a Branch of Education,College Argus, 1 February 1886
Science Teaching in the Schools,American Naturalist, September-October 1888
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Plea for more adequate preparation in the secondary schools for the study of natural science in the colleges, New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Addresses and Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting, 1889
Science-Teaching in the Schools, an address delivered before the American Society of Naturalists, 1889
Report of the Committee of the American Society of Naturalists on Science Teaching in the Schools, 1890
Speech on Natural Science as a Requirement for Admission to College, The New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools: Addresses and Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting, 1891
The High School and its Relation to Other Educational Institutions,Special Report of the Board of Education of the Middletown City School District, 1896
Report of the dedicatory exercises at the opening of the new high school of the Middletown City School District, 26 March 1896
Education in Middletown, speech listed on the agenda of the Celebration of the Two-Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Middletown, Connecticut, 10-11 October 1900
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Wesleyan University, Meeting of the Connecticut Association of Classical and High School Teachers, 16 February 1901
The Proper Scope of Geological Teaching in the High School and Academy, a paper read at the meeting of the National Educational Association at Boston, MA, July 1903
The Sciences speech, Connecticut Association of Classical and High School Teachers, 1904
The Pastoral Opportunity of the College Professor,Christian Student, Vol. VI, No. 1, February 1905
State Universities and the Church,Christian Student, Vol. VI, No. 4, November 1905
A Danger Arising from the Popularization of the College, Science, Vol. XXXIX, No. 749, 5 March 1909
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The College Course,Christian Student, Vol. XI, No. 1, February 1910
The Call to Teach,Christian Education, Vol. V, No. 9, June 1922
Science Teaching in the Schools,American Naturalist, September-October 1888
Newspaper articles, 1898-1910 and undated
Geology and Science
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Introduction to Natural Science, course outline, undated
Geological Notes of the Senior Excursion, College Argus, 24 November 1869
On the Effects of Certain Poisons on Mollusks, fromProceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Portland Meeting, August 1873
The Geology of Middlesex County, from History of Middlesex County, 1884
The Geology of Bermuda, from Bulletin No. 25, U.S. National Museum, 1884
On the Trap and Sandstone in the Gorge of the Farmington River at Tariffville, Conn., American Journal of Science, Vol. XXXII, December 1886
Discovery of Rutile in North Guilford, Observer, January 1890
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The Degree of Probability of Scientific Beliefs, New Englander and Yale Review, January 1891
Twenty-Five Years of Scientific Progress, Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. L, January 1893
Remarks on the Petrographic Excursion, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, vol. 8, 1896
Review of The Principles of Museum Administration by G. Brown Goode, in Science, 22 May 1896
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section E, Geology and Geography, Science, 18 September 1896
Geology and Mineralogy, The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, the History of its First Half-Century, 1897
Glacial Period, Popular Science, March 1899
Scientific Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Science, Vol. X, No. 261, 29 December 1899
Scientific Thought in the Nineteenth Century, an address delivered at the centennial anniversary of the Academy, Transactions of the Academy, 1903
The Proper Scope of Geological Teaching in the High School and Academy, Proceedings of the National Education Association, 1903
The Physical Geography and Geology of Connecticut, Report of Connecticut Board of Agriculture, 1903
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Convocation Week, Science, Vol. XIX, No. 483, 1 April 1904
On the Use of the Words Synclinorium and Anticlinorium, Science, Vol. XXIII, 23 February 1906
The Contributions of America to Geology, Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. XXXI, April-May 1911
Dana, the Man, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. 24, 1912
James Dwight Dana, Yale Alumni Weekly, 3 January 1913
Yakutat Bay, Wesleyan Liberary Monthly, February 1914
Peat in Connecticut, Guide to Nature, Vol. XIV, No. 4, September 1921
The New Geology, Methodist Review, July-August 1924
Religion and Theology
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Sermons, circa 1880-1900
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Sermons, circa 1880-1900
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Can a Good Catholic be a Darwinian? proof with corrections, undated
Address in Installation Services of Reverend John L. R. Trask as Pastor of Memorial Church, 1888
A Symposium Upon the Advisability of a Normal Department in Theological Seminaries, by W. N. Rice et al, The Old and New Testament Student, Vol. XI, No. 2, August 1890
The Credibility of the Resurrection of Jesus, Methodist Review, March-April 1895
Paleontology and Evolution (November 10) and The Credibility of Miracle (November 17) in University Extension Lectures, 1898-1899
Recent Phases of Thought in Apologetics, Methodist Review, January-February 1899
The Return to Faith, Wesleyan Argus, 4 April 1900
The YMCA and the Churches, Middletown Men, pamphlet of YMCA of Middletown, May 1904
Baccalaureate Sermon, Wesleyan Argus, 7 July 1909
Professor Rice Reviews Epoch Marking Book, (Origin and History of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, by Elias B. Sanford), The Wesleyan Alumnus, July 1917
Several articles in Minutes of the New York East Annual Conference, April 1919
Through Doubt to Faith,Wesleyan University Alumnus, May 1923
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Religious newspaper articles, 1867-1925
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Religious certificates, 1864-1872
This file was transferred from Special Collections & Archives Vertical Files in 2006.
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Miscellaneous clippings
Includes articles on temperence, politics, and obituaries