Series 8: General Correspondence, 65 folders

This series includes folders which were from the Office of the President generally without reference to a specific President and those folders which included the papers of multiple Presidents of Drexel. A large section of this series is those folders which were marked “miscellaneous”. These often included a page or two on a specific topic and this had been combined with a few other unrelated items. This series varies greatly but generally includes correspondence, reports, pamphlets, brochures, and minutes.

There is extensive material on cooperative education under Godfrey and Matheson. This includes Reports-Miscellaeous, Godfrey and Matheson, 1913-c.1928, correspondence on arrangement of academic courses-1913 from Arthur J. Rowland-multipage with Rowland’s suggestion for reorganization of Drexel from 10/1913-“Communication on Proposed Plan of Educational Re-Organization”, student enrollment tables from 1913, “The Drexel Institute 100 Hour Cooperative Industrial Reconstructional Courses” by Hollis Godfrey, and other addresses and reports possibly by Godfrey without titles, Address to the Graduating Class in Engineering at The Drexel Institute on May 28, 1924, “How to Make the Most of an Engineering Education”-author?, Final Report of the Administrative Board to the Board of Trustees of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry”.

There is material on faculty from multiple tenures. These include correspondence, finances, cooperative education, research of Drexel staff and class schedules. There are items on the dismissals of faculty, salaries, and departmental issues.

Drexel did not have a nursing program but Drexel hosted classes along with the University of Pennsylvania, for an outside program. There are pamphlets, lists of hospitals which the students worked at in Philadelphia from 1922-1927, background history of the organization, and a frequent correspondent was Mabel F. Huntly-Director of the School for the Teaching of Preliminary Courses in Nursing Education.