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Evening College records

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Identifier: UR-04-002
Overview The Drexel Evening College was founded in 1891, as the Department of Lectures and Evening Classes within the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, and held its first classes in 1892. A program of study geared towards working adults, it offered courses in drawing, decorative painting, modeling, woodcarving, stained glass, mathematics, bookkeeping, stenography and typewriting, chemistry, physics, shop work in wood and iron, cookery, dressmaking, millinery, physical culture,...
Dates: 1921 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1988

Microcomputing Program records

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Identifier: UR-03-006
Overview This collection contains materials that document the early developments of Drexel's implementation of the microcomputer program. The program was important because Drexel became the nation's first university to require all undergraduates to have personal access to a microcomputer for use in all of their coursework. The materials span 1977-1985, with the bulk of the materials from 1983-1985. A large portion of the collection consists of working papers published by individuals involved with the...
Dates: 1977-1985; Majority of material found within 1983 - 1985