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Fred Hill Speech

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Identifier: DC0041s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Hill's Inaugural Address as president of the Philanthropic Society in 1888.

Dates: 1888
Found in: Manuscript Collections

George Laurens Petrie Speech

 Collection
Identifier: DC0072s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a debate speech, "Which contributes more to a man's happiness, Wealth or Literary Attainments," given in 1856.

Dates: 1856
Found in: Manuscript Collections

George Washington Finley Harper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0188s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence and school work. The letters are from family and friends in Lenoir, North Carolina to Harper while he was a student at Davidson College. The school work includes 2 essays and 2 grade reports. There is also a typescript of Harper's diary for 1855-1856 in his Alumni file. It was copied from records in the manuscript collections at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Dates: 1855 - 1856
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Gilmer Brenizer Speech

 Collection
Identifier: DC0011s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Brenizer's Inaugural Address as president of the Philanthropic Society in 1882.

Dates: 1882
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Gordon Clift Horton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC020
Scope and Contents The collection is organized in the following series: 1) Biographical; 2) Correspondence; 3) Manuscripts; 4) Sketches; 5) Photographs; 6) Printed Material; 7) Memorabilia; 8) Estate; 9) Oversize. The collection contains little biographical information. There are certificates from Gordon's confirmation and from his involvement in the Kappa Alpha fraternity. For more information, see his alumni file (1942). There is correspondence with his mother while he was a student at Davidson College,...
Dates: 1935 - 1977
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Harlee Morrison Speech

 Collection
Identifier: DC0104s
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Morrison's salutatory address for the Davidson College Commencement of 1916.

Dates: 1916
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Harris Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0039s
Scope and Contents The collection consists of two sets of documents. The documents related to Ervin Harris include his copy of the 1870 Davidson College catalogue and five handwritten speeches for the Philanthropic Society. The speeches are "Is War a Greater Evil than Intemperance?" (Novembe 24, 1871), his inaugural address as president of Philanthropic Society (December 2, 1871), "The Spirit of Discovery" (November 17, 1871), and "Life" (March 9, 1872) The final speech "Truth and My Country", dated June 27,...
Dates: 1870 - 1885
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Hay Watson Smith Speeches

 Collection
Identifier: DC0082s
Scope and Contents

This collection consists Smith's Respondent Address delivered June 19, 1889 and his Inaugural Address as president of the Philanthropic Society in December of 1889.

Dates: 1889
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Henry Alexander Chambers Reminiscences

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Identifier: DC0141s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter written to Miss Cornelia Shaw, librarian of Davidson College. The letter gives some family history and describes college life and the faculty in the 1860s. For the typescript of "The Chambers Family of Iredell County" by Henry Chambers, see the Farmville file in Chalmer Davidson's Plantation files (DC058).

Dates: 1917
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Henry Elias Fries Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0029s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of manuscript copies of 4 letters and photocopies of 22 letters written by Fries (1874-1876) and speeches given to the Philanthropic Society as vice-president and president in 1877. The letters discuss college life and Davidson faculty. The location of the original letters for the photocopies in unknown.

Dates: 1874 - 1877
Found in: Manuscript Collections

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Civil War 10
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Women 3
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Athletics - Golf 2
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Lacy, Drury, 1802-1884 2
Martin, William Joseph, 1868-1943 2
North Carolina Collegiate Press Association 2
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Sentelle, Mark Edgar (1894) 2
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Azusa (California) 1
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Batte, James Herbert (1935) 1
Biochemistry 1
Brown, Aubrey Neblett, Jr. (1929) 1
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Cooper, William Jones (1923) 1
Cornelius, NC 1
Currie, Archibald 1
Davidson (NC) 1
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Names
Shaw, Cornelia Rebekah 3
Athletics - Baseball 2
Chambers, Maxwell 2
Abbot, W. W. (William Wright), 1922- (Class of 1943) 1
Alexander, Charles Carroll, 1832-1866. (Class of 1853) 1
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Alexander, John McCoy, 1828-1846 (Class of 1847) 1
Alexander, Thomas H. (Class of 1843) 1
Allison, Thomas Johnston, 1849-1919 (Class of 1871) 1
Arbuckle, Howard 1
Archibald Campbell McIntyre (Class of 1925) 1
Arnold, John David, 1869-1895 (Class of 1894) 1
Arrowood, Robert Sylvanus, 1854-1917 (Class of 1877) 1
Athletics - Basketball 1
Bailey, William S. 1
Baker, William Hoge, 1868-1932 (Class of 1888) 1
Bannerman, A. W. (Class of 1857) 1
Barnes, Frank Arthur (Class of 1895) 1
Bean, Eugene Holmes, 1874-1933 (Class of 1897) 1
Belk, James Thomas Ketchen, 1825-1878 (Class of 1847) 1
Bell, Vereen McNeill, 1911-1944 (Class of 1932) 1
Blue, Larkin McLaurin, 1860-1939 (Class of 1886) 1
Bogle, Alexander M., 1822-1880 (Class of 1843) 1
Boston, Louis Edgar, d. 1901 (Class of 1892) 1
Brady, Archibald, 1852-1916. (Class of 1882) 1
Brenizer, Gilmer, 1864- (Class of 1882) 1
Brown, Aubrey Neblett (Class of 1929) 1
Brown, James Stephen, 1866-1958. (Class of 1889) 1
Brown, Peter Marshall, 1859-1913. (Class of 1880) 1
Buckner, Albert Gallatin, 1850-1941. (Class of 1879) 1
Burgess, Thomas Peterson, 1860-1942. (Class of 1883) 1
Burke, Henry Theodore, 1830-1894. (Class of 1850) 1
Burton, Samuel Smith, 1853-1880. (Class of 1873) 1
Burwell, Dandridge Spottswood, 1847-1929 (1865) 1
Bynum, William Preston, 1820-1909 (1842) 1
Cade, William A. (Class of 1937) 1
Caldwell, Walter Pharr, 1823-1888. (Class of 1841) 1
Campbell, William Henry Ruffner, 1889-1960. (Class of 1910) 1
Cannon, John Chambers Rankin, 1833-1908. (Class of 1852) 1
Carson, James Holmes. (Class of 1916) 1
Carter, William Franklin (1876) 1
Cassell, J. Erisman 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chambers, Henry Alexander, 1841- (1864) 1
Chambers, Joseph Lenoir, 1854- (Class of 1873) 1
Chambers, Pinckney Brown, 1821-1905 (1840) 1
Charlotte Engraving Company 1
Clark, John McMillan, 1858- (Class of 1886) 1
Cobb, Paul Whitlock (1950) 1
Cool Springs Academy (Croft, NC) 1
Cooper, William James (Class of 1923) 1
Cozart, William Hubbard, 1860-1901. (Class of 1879) 1
Crawford, James Pinckney, 1835-1861 (1856) 1
Cromartie, Robert Samuel, 1869-1965. (Class of 1895) 1
D Club 1
Davidson, Robert A., 1842-1865 (1863) 1
Dick, Leslie Gilliam, 1857-1912 (1878) 1
Doar, Harriet 1
Doub-Kerr, William C., 1894-1960 (1915) 1
Douglass, Charles Mobley, 1846-1872. (Class of 1872) 1
Eagleton, Davis Foute, 1861-1916. (Class of 1884) 1
English, Thomas Reese, 1859-1915. (Class of 1872) 1
Ervin, A.M. 1
Fairley, David, 1831-1912 (1856) 1
Faison, John Miller, 1862-1915. (Class of 1883) 1
Fleming, John Alexander, 1836-1864 (1859) 1
Fleming, William Scott (Class of 1878) 1
Flora MacDonald College (Red Springs, NC) 1
Forsyth, William Kenneth, 1866-1901. (Class of 1893) 1
Fries, Henry Elias, 1857-1949. (Class of 1878) 1
Gaddy, Risden Bennett, 1838-1899 (1859) 1
Gaither, Ephraim Lash, 1850-1943. (Class of 1873) 1
Gamble, William Arnette, 1894-1973. (Class of 1923) 1
Gibson, James Hampton, 1828-1887. (Class of 1854) 1
Gilmer, Charles Stewart, 1864-1926. (Class of 1886) 1
Gilmer, John Adams, 1857-1912. (Class of 1880) 1
Goldberg, William Victor, 1871-1910. (Class of 1889) 1
Goodman, James William Milton, 1867- (Class of 1894) 1
Goodman, Walter Alexander, 1869- (Class of 1897) 1
Graham, John B. (Class of 1938) 1
Greenlee, J. Harvey 1
Greenlee, James Logan, 1840-1862 (1863) 1
Grey, William Richard, 1858-1944 (1884) 1
Griffin, H. Bruner 1
Hale, Edward Benton 1898-1970 (1920) 1
Hall, Franklin Price, 1860-1939. (Class of 1887) 1
Hamilton, E. H. (Evelyn Harrison), 1895-1990. (Class of 1917) 1
Hamilton, Thomas H., 1809-1874 (1840) 1
Harper, George Washington Finley, 1834-1921 (1859) 1
Harrell, Frank Pierce, 1852-1883. (Class of 1877) 1
Harris Family 1
Harrison, Francis Parks. (Class of 1934) 1
Harvey, William Leslie 1
Hayes, Robert E., 1934-1965. (Class of 1955) 1
Henderson, William Bain, 1861-1902. (Class of 1885) 1
Hill, Fred, -1890 (Class of 1889) 1
Hodgin, Charles Edward, 1869-1955. (Class of 1894) 1
Hoffman, E. J. (Ernest Jenkins), 1879-1965. (Class of 1900) 1
Hoffman, Laban Miles, 1846- (1869) 1
Holshouser, James E. (Class of 1956) 1
Hood, Frazer 1
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