This series consists of correspondence, articles, and lists regarding the various activities of the Alumni Federation and other alumni groups. During the war, the Alumni News published articles in every issue on Columbia's war work. These issues included military supplements and the war commencement issue of 1917. This series also includes the letters from Horatio Krans of the Columbia Service Bureau in France providing updates on the war effort in Europe. There is brief information on the Alumni Committee on International Affairs and the Alumni Committee on Mobilization. The folder "Alumni War Association of Paris" contains mostly correspondence from Levering Tyson to others regarding the Association and its formation. In addition, the Alumni Federation was instrumental in creating lists for the war memorial and war records as shown in this series. The folder of "War Service Medals, Ribbons and Memorials" contains samples of ribbons the University considered using in developing war service medals and ribbons.
These records are mostly administrative correspondence regarding the day-to-day maintenance of the Columbia Service Bureau (CSB) as well as correspondence with individuals regarding membership and donations to the Bureau. Most of the correspondence is between Frank Diehl Fackenthal, Secretary of the University, and Horatio Krans, director of the CSB. There is considerable correspondence with Roger Pierce, Secretary of Harvard University, regarding the establishment of the various college bureaus in Paris. This series also includes information on the American University Union in Europe, of which the CSB was a part. About thirty American colleges founded the Union to "aid all American college men in any form of service abroad." (Quotation taken from circular on the Union in the Bureau's Nettleton correspondence)
These records include correspondence, some minutes and reports, and general information regarding the establishment of the hospital, supplies, and administrative issues. Most of the correspondence is with Dr. Francis Carter Wood (Professor of Cancer Research and member of the administrative board of the School of Dentistry) and Samuel Lambert (Dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons). The College of Physicians and Surgeons was instrumental in the creation of the hospital. See also the oversize folder "Collections Oversize-World War I Collection-Newspaper Clippings" for an illustrated article in The New York Times' Mid-week Pictorial, 1917.
Series IV includes correspondence, lists, meeting minutes, and bulletins related to the University's attempts to organize women for the war effort. The University created the Committee for Women's War Work on April 10, 1917, with Virginia Newcomb as an instrumental member. By the end of the 1916-1917 academic year, the Committee "furnished 790 women for volunteer work and 25 for salaried positions." (1917 Annual Report, p.5) The Committee sent out enrollment cards to gather names of women interested in participating in the war. With this information, the Committee looked to place women in both volunteer and salaried positions. The University also created specific courses to train women in areas necessary to the war effort. Also included in this series is a separate card file box (Box 7) with membership cards the Committee asked women to fill out. At the front of the box is a sample instruction card. The card file is incomplete and only contains cards for surnames from A to Col.
Series V consists of correspondence, enrollment cards, and general information on the various efforts by the University to train and instruct students for entry into the war. Included are folders on the Columbia Battalion as well as war-related courses and the war topography course syllabi . The folder "Columbia Battalion" contains mostly correspondence regarding preparation for the presentation of both the American flag and the Battalion flag to the Battalion on May 29, 1917. The folder also contains correspondence on the formation of the Battalion.
The War Records Committee is comprised largely of correspondence and lists regarding the service of Columbia faculty, staff, students, and alumni in the war effort.
Subseries VI.1: Departments and Schools, 1915-1920
Comprised of correspondence between the War Records Committee, Secretary's Office, and department and school heads regarding compilation of war service records of faculty and staff. A majority of the original folders had the names of professors on the outside of the folder. These lists of names have been photocopied and placed in the new folder. The folder "Civil Engineering, Department of" contains photographs of the Student Army Training Corps making a military map.
Box 9 Folder 7
Agriculture, Department of, 1918-1919
Box 9 Folder 8
Architecture, School of, 1918-1919
Box 9 Folder 9
Botany, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 10
Chemical Engineering, Department of, 1918-1919
Box 9 Folder 11
Chemistry, Department of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 12
Civil Engineering, Department of, 1918, undated, 1918, undated
Box 9 Folder 13
Classical Philology, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 14
Diseases of Children, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 15
Economics, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 16
Electrical Engineering, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 17
Engineer Drafting, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 18
English and Comparative Literature, Department of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 19
Extension Teaching, Department of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 20
Geology, Department of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 21
Germanic Languages, Department of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 22
History, Department of, 1920
Box 9 Folder 23
Indo-Iranian Languages, Department of, undated
Box 9 Folder 24
Journalism, School of, 1917-1918
Box 9 Folder 25
Law, School of, 1916-1919
Box 9 Folder 26
Mathematics, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 27
Mechanical Engineering, Department of, 1916-1919
Box 9 Folder 28
Metallurgy, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 29
Mineralogy, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 30
Music, Department of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 31
Neurology, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 32
Pharmacy, College of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 33
Philosophy, Department of, 1917-1918
Box 9 Folder 34
Physicians and Surgeons, College of, 1917-1919, undated, 1917-1919, undated
Box 9 Folder 35
Physics, Department of, 1918-1919, undated, 1918-1919, undated
Box 9 Folder 36
Political Science, Faculty of, 1915-1919, undated, 1915-1919, undated
Box 9 Folder 37
Psychology, Department of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 38
Romance Languages, Department of, 1917-1919
Box 9 Folder 39
Slavonic Languages, Department of, 1919
Box 9 Folder 40
Sociology, Department of, 1918
Box 10 Folder 1
Teachers College, 1917-1919
Box 10 Folder 2
Zoology, Department of, undated
Subseries VI.2: Fraternities, 1917-1920
Composed of correspondence between the War Records Committee and the various fraternities affiliated with Columbia regarding war service and memorial information for those who died while serving in the war. These records are arranged alphabetically by name of fraternity.
Box 10 Folder 3
Alpha Chi Rho, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 4
Alpha Delta Phi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 5
Alpha Phi Delta, 1920
Box 10 Folder 6
Alpha Sigma Phi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 7
Beta Theta Pi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 8
Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 9
Delta Phi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 10
Delta Psi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 11
Delta Tau Delta, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 12
Delta Upsilon, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 13
Kappa Nu, 1918-1920
Box 10 Folder 14
Phi Delta Theta, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 15
Phi Epsilon Pi, 1920
Box 10 Folder 16
Phi Gamma Delta, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 17
Phi Kappa Psi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 18
Phi Kappa Sigma, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 19
Phi Lamda Upsilon, 1920
Box 10 Folder 20
Phi Sigma Delta, 1920
Box 10 Folder 21
Phi Sigma Kappa, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 22
Pi Lamda Phi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 23
Psi Upsilon, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 24
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 25
Sigma Alpha Mu, 1920
Box 10 Folder 26
Sigma Chi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 27
Sigma Nu, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 28
Theta Delta Chi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 29
Theta Xi, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 30
Zeta Beta Tau, 1917-1920
Box 10 Folder 31
Zeta Psi, 1917-1920
Subseries VI.3: Alumni Classes, 1917-1920
Consists of correspondence regarding war service records between Ruth Woodbridge (Clerk of the War Records Committee) and members of particular alumni classes. Correspondence folders are followed by folders of class lists. Usually Woodbridge asked one person to proofread the information and then pass it along to the remaining members of the alumni class.
Applied Science, School of
Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 32
Class of 1881, 1917, 1881, 1917
Box 10 Folder 33
Class of 1903, 1920, 1903, 1920
Box 10 Folder 34
Class of 1904, 1920, 1904, 1920
Box 10 Folder 35
Class of 1908, 1920, 1908, 1920
Box 10 Folder 36
Class of 1910, 1920, 1910, 1920
Box 10 Folder 37
Lists--Classes of 1901-1917, 1920, 1901-1917, 1920
Box 10 Folder 38
Architecture, School of--Correspondence--Class of 1900, 1920, 1900, 1920
Columbia College
Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 39
Class of 1883, 1917-1918, 1883, 1917-1918
Box 10 Folder 40
Class of 1900, 1920, 1900, 1920
Box 10 Folder 41
Class of 1904, 1920, 1904, 1920
Box 10 Folder 42
Class of 1905, 1920, 1905, 1920
Box 10 Folder 43
Class of 1906, 1920, 1906, 1920
Box 10 Folder 44
Class of 1907, 1920, 1907, 1920
Box 10 Folder 45
Class of 1909, 1920, 1909, 1920
Box 10 Folder 46
Class of 1911, 1920, 1911, 1920
Box 10 Folder 47
Class of 1913, 1920, 1913, 1920
Box 10 Folder 48
Class of 1916, 1920, 1916, 1920
Box 10 Folder 49
Class of 1917, 1920, 1917, 1920
Box 10 Folder 50
Lists--Classes of 1901-1909, 1920, 1901-1909, 1920
Box 11 Folder 1
Lists--Classes of 1910-1919, 1920, 1910-1919, 1920
Box 11 Folder 2
Fine Arts--Lists--Classes of 1901-1919, 1920, 1901-1919, 1920
Law, School of
Correspondence
Box 11 Folder 3
Class of 1900, 1920, 1900, 1920
Box 11 Folder 4
Class of 1901, 1920, 1901, 1920
Box 11 Folder 5
Class of 1902, 1920, 1902, 1920
Box 11 Folder 6
Class of 1904, 1920, 1904, 1920
Box 11 Folder 7
Class of 1909, 1920, 1909, 1920
Box 11 Folder 8
Class of 1910, 1920, 1910, 1920
Box 11 Folder 9
Class of 1911, 1920, 1911, 1920
Box 11 Folder 10
Class of 1912, 1920, 1912, 1920
Box 11 Folder 11
Class of 1915, 1920, 1915, 1920
Box 11 Folder 12
Class of 1916, 1920, 1916, 1920
Box 11 Folder 13
Class of 1917, 1920, 1917, 1920
Box 11 Folder 14
Lists--Classes of 1903-1919, 1920, 1903-1919, 1920
Physicians and Surgeons, College of
Correspondence
Box 11 Folder 15
Class of 1889, 1920, 1889, 1920
Box 11 Folder 16
Class of 1890, 1920, 1890, 1920
Box 11 Folder 17
Class of 1891, 1920, 1891, 1920
Box 11 Folder 18
Class of 1893, 1920, 1893, 1920
Box 11 Folder 19
Class of 1895, 1920, 1895, 1920
Box 11 Folder 20
Class of 1898, 1920, 1898, 1920
Box 11 Folder 21
Class of 1899, 1920, 1899, 1920
Box 11 Folder 22
Class of 1902, 1920, 1902, 1920
Box 11 Folder 23
Class of 1903, 1920, 1903, 1920
Box 11 Folder 24
Class of 1906, 1920, 1906, 1920
Box 11 Folder 25
Class of 1907, 1920, 1907, 1920
Box 11 Folder 26
Class of 1912, 1920, 1912, 1920
Box 11 Folder 27
Class of 1913, 1920, 1913, 1920
Box 11 Folder 28
Class of 1914, 1920, 1914, 1920
Box 11 Folder 29
Class of 1915, 1920, 1915, 1920
Box 11 Folder 30
Class of 1917, 1920, 1917, 1920
Box 11 Folder 31
Lists--Classes of 1889-1910, 1920, 1889-1910, 1920
Subseries VI.4: General Correspondence, 1916-1921
Contains correspondence with the War Records Committee regarding individual war service of faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Some of this information overlaps with other correspondence in this series. Correspondence is filed alphabetically either by name or by subject. These records also include correspondence with the Adjutant General regarding lists of Columbia men and women who participated in the war effort. Under "Barnard College" is a list of "Alumnae Engaged in Overseas Work." Additional correspondence was found at a later date and thus the two alphabetical lists of A through Z are found here.
Box 12 Folder 1
A, 1918-1920
Box 12 Folder 2
B through Be, 1917-1920
Box 12 Folder 3
Bi through Bo, 1917-1920
Box 12 Folder 4
Br through Bu, 1917-1920
Box 12 Folder 5
Ca through Ci, 1917-1920
Box 12 Folder 6
Cl through Cra, 1917-1920
Box 12 Folder 7
Cre through Da, 1917-1920
Box 12 Folder 8
De through Do, 1917-1920
Box 12 Folder 9
Dr through Dw, 1917-1920
Box 13 Folder 1
Ea through Fl, 1917-1920
Box 13 Folder 2
Fo through Fu, 1917-1920
Box 13 Folder 3
Ga through Hal, 1917-1920
Box 13 Folder 4
Ham through Hu, 1917-1920
Box 13 Folder 5 to 7
I through L, 1917-1920, (3 Folders)
Box 13 Folder 8
Ma through Mc, 1917-1920
Box 13 Folder 9
Me through My, 1917-1920
Box 14 Folder 1
N through O, 1917-1920
Box 14 Folder 2
Pa through Pi, 1917-1920
Box 14 Folder 3
Pl through Q, 1917-1920
Box 14 Folder 4
R, 1917-1920
Box 14 Folder 5
Sa through Sl, 1917-1920
Box 14 Folder 6
Sm through Sy, 1917-1920
Box 14 Folder 7 to 9
T through Z, 1917-1920, (3 Folders)
Box 19 Folder 1 to 3
A through K, 1917-1921 (3 Folders), 1917-1921
Box 19 Folder 4 to 5
Krans, Horatio, 1918-1919, (2 Folders)
Box 19 Folder 6 to 7
L through P, 1916-1921, (2 Folders)
Box 19 Folder 8 to 9
R through X, 1916-1921, (2 Folders)
Subseries VI.5: War Casualties, 1917-1930
Consists of correspondence with family members of deceased faculty, staff, students, and alumni. The War Records Committee inquired about photographs and biographical sketches to publish in a war memorial. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the individual deceased. Original folders were labeled "Dead."
Box 19 Folder 10
Lists of Photographs of the Dead, 1919-1921
Box 19 Folder 11
Barry, Vincent, 1920
Box 19 Folder 12
Barry, William John, 1919-1920
Box 19 Folder 13
Bourquin, J., 1920, 1930, 1920, 1930
Box 19 Folder 14
Brand, Stanley Oliver, 1920
Box 19 Folder 15
Bruce, Parker, 1918-1920
Box 19 Folder 16
Caldwell, Eugene Wilson, 1918-1930
Box 19 Folder 17
Campbell, Ronald, 1919
Box 15 Folder 1
Dryfoos, Arthur D., 1918-1919
Box 15 Folder 2
Graziani, Attilio, 1919
Box 15 Folder 3
Gudebrod, Frederick C., 1918-1920
Box 15 Folder 4
Hays, John Elder, 1919-1920
Box 15 Folder 5
Hirshler, Jerome Jacob, 1918-1919
Box 15 Folder 6
Jubureck, Charles Cornelius, 1919, 1930, 1919, 1930
Box 15 Folder 7
Kalvio, George J., 1919-1920
Box 15 Folder 8
Kline, Louis A., 1918-1920
Box 15 Folder 9
Leonard, Howard George, 1918-1920
Box 15 Folder 10
Millward, James, 1920
Box 15 Folder 11
Peltier, Paul Desnoyers, 1920, 1930, 1920, 1930
Box 15 Folder 12
Pennewill, John M., 1921
Box 15 Folder 13
Pinkus, Irving J, 1918-1920, 1930, 1918-1920, 1930
Box 15 Folder 14
Ream, Ward Hall, 1920, 1930, 1920, 1930
Box 15 Folder 15
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1918-1919
Box 15 Folder 16
Sprague, Russell W., 1917, 1920, 1917, 1920
Box 15 Folder 17
Stein, Morris, 1918
Box 15 Folder 18
Stevens, 1919
Subseries VI.6: Topics, 1917-1923
Includes correspondence, articles, lists, and general information on topics such as department contact lists, pacifist replies to the personnel questionnaire, war service lists, and war service report cards. The folder "War Memorial-Specimen Papers" contains articles from the publication "Columbia University War Memorial." The drafts and articles are incomplete.
Box 15 Folder 19
Columbia Alumni and Students Who Have Died in Service, 1919, undated, 1919, undated
Box 15 Folder 20
Columbia Alumni and Students in Service Lists, 1918-1919
Box 15 Folder 21
Departmental Contact List, undated
Box 15 Folder 22
Doubtful Cases in War Deaths, undated
Box 15 Folder 23
Memorial Volume, 1920, undated, 1920, undated
Box 15 Folder 24
General, 1919-1920, undated, 1919-1920, undated
Box 15 Folder 25
Pacifist Replies to Personnel Questionnaire, 1917-1918
Box 15 Folder 26 to 27
War Memorial--Drafts of Articles and Specimen Papers, 1919-1923, undated, 1919-1923, undated, (2 Folders)
Box 15 Folder 28
War Service Lists--General, 1919-1920
Box 15 Folder 29
War Service Report Cards, 1920
This series contains material on various topics, groups, and organizations related to the war effort. Folder "Division of Intelligence and Publicity" contains a small amount of correspondence and some items such as press releases informing the Columbia community about various military programs. The folder of "General Assemblies" contains material on the General Assemblies held for the faculty and/or the university community to discuss current wartime issues. The folder also contains President Nicholas Murray Butler's, as well as other professor's, addresses to the General Assembly of the Faculty on May 7, 1918. The Ninth Coast Artillery Corps correspondence is mostly in relation to the formation of a New York Guard Columbia Unit, which was the result of efforts by the Columbia University Club. Information on the Citizen's Preparedness Parade and the May 10, 1916 meeting with speaker Major-General Leonard Wood is within the folder "Preparedness." See also the oversized folder "Collections Oversize-World War I Collection-Newspaper Clippings" for the Louvain Library Supplement of the Columbia Spectator from April 5, 1922.
Box 15 Folder 30
Certificates, 1918-1920
Box 15 Folder 31
Columbia House--Center for Americanization, 1919
Box 15 Folder 32
Columbia-Presbyterian Unit, 1917-1919
Box 15 Folder 33
Columbia University Post No. 400, American Legion, 1923-1927
Box 16 Folder 1
General Assemblies, 1915-1918
Box 16 Folder 2
Intelligence and Publicity, Division of, 1917, undated, 1917, undated
Box 16 Folder 3
Letter to the American Ambassador to Petrograd, 1917
Box 16 Folder 4
Liberty Loan, 1917-1918
Box 16 Folder 5
Louvain Library Reconstruction Campaign, 1914-1929
Box 16 Folder 6
New York State Military Census, 1917
Box 16 Folder 7
Ninth Coast Artillery Corps--Columbia Unit, 1918
Box 16 Folder 8
Preparedness, 1916
Service Lists
Box 16 Folder 9
Alumni Who Won Distinction in the War, 1920, undated, 1920, undated
Box 16 Folder 10
Committee on Mobilization--Men Who Served by 1916, 1916, 1916, 1916
Box 16 Folder 11
Company "I", undated
Box 16 Folder 12
General, undated
Box 16 Folder 13
Non-Columbia Rosters, 1915-1919
Box 16 Folder 14
School of Architecture, 1918
Box 16 Folder 15
University Farm Bureau, undated
Series VIII contains publications and newspaper clippings regarding the University's participation in the war effort. Also includes articles on related issues such as academic freedom (including the controversy over Professors Beard, Cattell and Dana), student protests to the war, the ban on speaker Count Ilya Tolstoy in February 1917, protests by pacifists, and articles on "draft evaders" (in particular Charles F. Phillips). See also full issues of the Columbia Spectator from March, 1917 in the oversize folder "Collections Oversize-World War I Collection-Newspaper Clippings." Columbia's War Work publication is housed in the oversize folder Collections Oversize-World War I Collection--General along with an anti-war poster and two military maps.