Items in this collection do not circulate and may be used in-house only.
Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). Requests to publish should be arranged with the University of Minnesota Archives.
William Watts Folwell papers, University Archives, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Donated to University Archives by the Folwell family and the Minnesota Historical Society. The collection is supplemented by one reel of microfilm of originals retained by the Minnesota Historical Society.
The collection has been arranged into the following series:
The collection was originally organized by file size, with repeating folder numbers. To avoid confusion, folder numbers have since been removed.
The collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, personal materials, speeches, and writings of William Watts Folwell. Incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically by name and chronologically under the name. Correspondents include 19 University of Minnesota Regents, 5 Minnesota Governors, 31 early presidents of U.S. colleges and universities, and many educators of national prominence including legislators and prominent state officials. Outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically. All of these letters contain biographical information.
Speeches and addresses are filed by subject or by significant events with which they are association such as dedications and unveilings. Since much of Folwell’s writing is not in manuscript form, all written material including manuscripts were arranged under the heading of Writings. Personal materials cover Folwell's early education at Hobart and his time in the Civil War. Professional materials include correspondence with the University Board of Regents, and early schematics of the University and University buildings.
William Watts Folwell, B.A. (1857), M.A. (1960) Hobart College, NY;
LL.D. Racine College (1870), Hobart College (1878). Author of
William Watts Folwell was born in Seneca County, NY on February 14, 1833. He attended Hobart College, NY, where he received his undergraduate degree in 1857 and M.A. in 1860. He was awarded LL.D.s from Racine College (1870) and Hobart (1878). After four years of teaching at Hobart, Folwell became interested in comparative philology and enrolled at the University of Berlin in 1861 for further education in the area.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, he returned to the United States to serve in the 50th New York regiment of Volunteers where he rose to the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers (1862-1865). After the Civil War, he went into a business partnership as one of the managers of a cooperative milling business in Ohio. During this period of his career, he studied economics and politics, subjects that become his areas of teaching.
In 1869 he accepted a teaching position at Kenyon College, Ohio. Later in the same year he accepted the presidency of the of the University of Minnesota, the first person to hold this position. In his inaugural address Folwell stated that the state should support the University, advocating free public high schools with curricula to prepare students for entrance to the University of Minnesota. Because of his influence on education in the state of Minnesota, Folwell was able to close the University's preparatory school in 1869, and espoused the creation of junior colleges. He supported a building program for the University and urged the creation of a geological and natural history survey (1872).
Folwell supported agricultural education and, in 1882, the agricultural extension service was established to meet the educational needs of Minnesota’s farmers. He promoted the academic study of education that preserved the University of Minnesota’s status as Minnesota’s land grant college. Folwell also served on a number of civic commissions and committees. In 1876 he was commissioner of the Centennial Exhibition, served as president of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (1882-1892), member and president of the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners, and president of the Minnesota Historical Society (1924-1927).
After resigning the presidency of the University of Minnesota in 1883,
he continued as chair of the political science department where he remained
until his retirement in 1907. After his retirement, the University honored him
by naming a new building Folwell Hall. In addition to his role as president and
professor of political science, Folwell served as University Librarian from
1869-1903. He is also know for his four volume
Folwell family papers
Board of Regents records
Office of the President records
Folwell, William Watts,
A collection of papers of the Folwell family (1769-1933) are held by the Minnesota Historical Society.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the collection.
State Agricultural College, Lansing, MI, regarding salaries.
University of Wisconsin President, congratulations regarding successful legislative appropriation.
Regent, legislator, journalist; regarding student fees; regarding football field as memorial to Cyrus Northrop.
University of Michigan, regarding E.V. Robinson as a political scientist.
Division of Horticulture, regarding fruit breeding farm at Zumbro Heights and request to name apple after Folwell.
Political Science, congratulations on honor to Folwell.
History Department, Dartmouth College, NH, regarding death of Gabriel Campbell and Campbell's papers.
Political Science, regarding plan for President's Lawn, inscriptions to be placed on trees to honor presidents.
President of University of Michigan, regarding salaries.
Critic,
Regent, regarding gift to library, request for interview.
Minneapolis Commissioner of Health, regarding contamination of University Spring.
Congratulations regarding Regents' action naming Folwell President Emeritus.
U.S. Surveyor General, regarding land grants.
Minnesota State Public Library Commission, regarding use of Library of Congress catalog cards in the U of M library.
Minnesota Committee for Relief of German Children, regarding endorsing campaign report.
Department of Mathematics, regarding banquet for Dean H. Downey.
Department of Physiology and Hennepin County Public Health Association, regarding Mayo Foundation, banquet for H. Downy, C.N. Hewitt on his being offered Chair of Hygiene and Surgery.
Faculty, U of M and Swarthmore College, personal letters.
Regarding economics.
Attorney, regarding Indianapolis plan for currency reform.
Attorney, regarding his MA degrees.
Requesting support of legislation.
Minnesota Secretary of State and later General Manager of the Philharmonic Association of Minneapolis, regarding items paid for festival.
Founder of Kentucky University, regarding land grants.
Attorney, regarding his book,
State Board of Health and Vital Statistics, regarding polluted spring water.
State Board of Charities and Corrections, resignation from Board of Regents.
Yale University, regarding microscopes and building ventilation, regarding chemist for U of M and Minnesota Geological Survey.
Regent, regarding possible faculty appointees.
Owatonna Schools, regarding state high school system serving as prepatories for the U of M and the U of M vs. St. Olaf and Carlton Colleges, Northfield, MN.
Minnesota Historical Society, regarding MHS executive council meeting, regarding amendments to MHS charter and by-laws, regarding papers of Gabriel Campbell.
Architect, regarding plans for Drill Hall, regarding plans for Library (Burton Hall).
Department of Agronomy, regarding bronze tablet in memory of W.S. Chowen, regarding memorial service for W.S. Chowen, regarding early history of the School of Agriculture, regarding memorial services for J.D. Scofield.
Minnesota Superintendent of Public Instruction and Regent ex-officio, regarding high school-U of M relations, regarding Donnelly's bill on text books and high school-university relations, regarding school legislation, regarding new departments at the U of M, regarding university class attendance.
President of the University of Minnesota, regarding cooperative plan of caring for grounds of fraternities and sororities, regarding cottage for nursing students, regarding conferring title of President Emeritus on Folwell, regarding Folwell's counsel to alumni.
Early faculty member, regarding salary raise and salary claim.
President, Southern California section of the U of M Alumni
Association; regarding telegram of congratulation regarding Folwell's
Minnesota State Auditor, regarding 1875 deed of conveyance to H. Beard, regarding supreme court decision on royalty tax from iron mines.
Regent, regarding Folwell's appointment as President of the University.
Hennepin County Pioneer's Association, regarding Uriah Thomas.
Smith College, regarding political science notes on consumption.
Department of Mathematics and Civil Engineering, regarding L.G. Powers and history of State Labor Bureau.
Massachusetts Agricultural College, regarding obtaining more land through grants.
Landscape Architect, regarding campus landscape and design.
President of University of Minnesota, regarding Folwell's talks on agricultural education, rural electrification and E.A. Stewart's alleged relation to power trust, regarding circular "Agriculture in Minnesota."
Regarding lighting University buildings.
Syracuse University, regarding study of civic and social problems, thanks for booklet on current problems.
Minneapolis Public Library, reaction to New York shelf lists and proposed change in library methods.
Librarian, regarding closing library.
Minneapolis Board of Trade, regarding William H. Low prize for debate or essay.
Civil Engineer, Brainerd, MN, regarding Andrew Cass.
St. Paul Water Department, appreciation of bridge builder poem.
Managing Editor,
Surgeon, congratulates Folwell on being named President Emeritus, account of 1873 storm.
College of Medicine, regarding organization of Medical Department as examining body only.
President, Sentinel Publishing Co. (Fairmont, MN), later legislator and Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, regarding football.
Regarding her husband, Gerhard Dietrichson, Frankforter-Dietrichson case.
Regarding welcome dinner for Coffman.
Department of Chemistry, regarding C.F. Sidener, regarding water filters.
Alumnus, reminiscences about study days, Gabriel Campbell and J.E. Moore as teacher, mentions Lang, N.H. Winchell, J. Walker, and J. Brooks.
Dean, College of Science, Literature and the Arts, regarding head of History Department.
Dean, Minnesota Hospital College, regarding lengthened term for medical student.
Columbia Law School, regarding Law Department, plea for professional training.
President of Harvard, regarding military drill, regarding higher education, regarding requirements for BA.
American Economic Association, John Hopkins University, regarding endowments of graduate school of economics and politics at U of M, regarding Lubin Prizes, regarding William A. Schaper.
Alumnus, appreciation of U of M and information regarding University of Christiana.
Minnesota State Senator, regarding salaries.
University of Chicago, regarding Junior College work.
Alumnus, reminiscences regarding moving books to the new library (Burton Hall).
Cornell University, regarding librarian.
Alumnus, purchasing missionary books for the library.
Congressman, regarding documents for the library, regarding appointment abroad for Folwell.
Regarding G. Campbell's call on the way to Europe and purchasing Colonel Robertson's library, regarding book order.
College of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics, invitation to Alumni Day, forestry report, request for report on Forestry Department from beginnings, regarding beginnings of forestry schools.
Physician, corresponding secretary of the national W.C.T.U., regarding temperance lecture at University of Minnesota.
Alumnus, requirements for degree in civil engineering, plans for gymnasium.
Baptist clergyman, regarding Baptist educational work.
U.S. Senator of Montana and former U of M Regent, regarding legislation affecting the University of Minnesota.
Regent, recollections regarding Northrop's appointment to president.
Alumnus, President of the University of Chicago, regarding Chicago paper misrepresentation of Folwell's speech; appreciation and iron ore mining.
Regarding extension course in economics and political science.
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, regarding U of M eligibility for receiving portion of Mrs. Frasch's estate.
Northwestern University, head of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, acceptance of appointment at U of M, suggests BA course in social sciences, request for resignation from Vincent and reply.
Regarding beginnings of School of Agriculture, improvement of dairy stock.
President of Illinois Industrial University, former President of Kalamazoo College, regarding salaries.
Alumna, regarding Folwell's decision not to sit for memorial bronze.
Department of Geology, regarding rock specimens and exchanges with high schools.
Department of Surgery, chair of physiology and medical hygiene at the University of Minnesota.
Harvard University, regarding Callender as prospective faculty member.
Department of History, regarding books and inquiry on church membership, regarding books and Ambrose Bierce's story about the Civil War.
Regent, regarding plan of organization of University, qualifications for chairmanship of the Department of Agriculture, requests written reports on condition and progress of all faculty members, regarding upcoming meetings of the Regents.
Alumnus, student appreciation and reminiscences.
Regarding School of Agriculture library.
University of Cincinnati, regarding himself and his work.
Stanford Club of Minnesota, requests that Folwell act as President of the University Hoover Club.
Minnesota State Board of Health, regarding sanitary inspections and "homeopathic elephant" at U of M, regarding U of M establishing first chair of Public Health in U.S. besides the University of Pennsylvania, regarding legislative actions, request for definition of status as a faculty member, request that proposed changes in his department be put in writing.
President of University of Missouri, regarding his commencement address.
Department of Agricultural Economics, regarding status of agricultural cooperation in Minnesota in respect to dairy industry.
Hobart College, offer to award Folwell an honorary LL.D. degree.
Minneapolis Public Library, regarding Putnam's resignation as head of the Minneapolis Public Library and asking Folwell's opinion of himself as a successor.
Forestry Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, regarding
his book,
Regarding Senator Morrill and possibility of working for further endowments.
University of California, Berkeley, requesting a copy of University addresses and appreciation of the "Minnesota Plan."
Regarding Dr. Bullock of Cornell.
General Alumni Association, report on legislation, regarding continuous existence of the U of M from 1851, deliberate destruction of Board of Regents minutes, Mayo Foundation.
Regarding possibility of Folwell's leading an extension course.
Dean, College of Science, Literature and the Arts, regarding publication of Folwell's addresses.
Dean of Yale University.
President of University of Chicago, regarding write-up on University; reminiscences of his classes at the University of Minnesota.
Michigan State Agricultural College, suggestions for chemistry building at University of Minnesota.
Invitation to reception for Crown Prince Gustav Adolph and Princess Louise of Sweden.
University of North Dakota, regarding McVey or Gray as president of SUND, appreciation of economic addresses.
Minnesota Superintendent in Public Instruction, ex-officio Regent, offering cooperation in study of education system of Minnesota, suggests changes for president's report, temperance lecture to be given by Sperry of Carlton College, lecture series by Folwell.
College of Agriculture, regarding leaving the University, letter to D.D. Mayne attached dealing with first at College of Agriculture noting that there were no student applications at beginning, description of the first agricultural building.
Department of Rhetoric, source material regarding Professor Haecker.
Mayor of Minneapolis, Winter Sports Play Days.
Medical School, regarding sidewalk from Medical Building to laboratory.
Editor,
Military Science and Tactics, comments of Folwell's article on military drill at colleges.
Agricultural Experiment Station and former Regent, regarding unavailability of pure bred dairy cattle at the University of Minnesota.
Alumna, expresses appreciation and makes reference to Professor Peckham.
State University of Iowa, regarding debating league.
Criticizes supposed "attack on Christian men."
Inquiry regarding market for portraits in Minneapolis.
Department of English Language and Literature, Chancellor for University of Nebraska and President of Iowa State University, personal letter regarding accident studies, reminiscences of his coming to the University of Minnesota, choice of Northrop as president.
Department of Botany, regarding early experiences with the Board of Control while at the University of Minnesota.
U.S. Senator, regarding assignment of an army officer as instructor of military tactics.
Department of Economics, regarding accepting faculty position and plans for work, regarding William A. Schaper.
Governor of Minnesota, regarding hiring of Mrs. W.J. Smith, Mrs. J.A. Bowman's efforts to obtain portraits of Carver, Nicollet, and other historic characters.
Chancellor, University of Kansas, regarding salaries.
Acting President and Dean of Liberal Arts at University of Southern California, regarding political science text-book.
Regent, regarding rule of renewable head ships of departments rather than permanent appointments, establishment of the emergency hospital at Rochester.
Regent, regarding statutes and reasons why they were not recorded.
Department of Psychology, Secretary of Phi Beta Kappa, regarding request for help in getting French ambassador, Jusserand, as Phi Beta Kappa speaker.
University of Chicago Settlement, request for support of legislation regarding women and child workers.
Department of Surgery, Personal news.
Military Science, regarding pamphlets on outlawing war.
Requesting advice regarding sending daughter to University of Minnesota due to concerns regarding supposed socialist tendencies.
President of Indiana State University and former President of University of Chicago, regarding salaries.
Alumnus, Vassar, personal letter regarding salaries.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Regent ex-officio, myth regarding prison for Stillwater, capital for St. Paul, and University for Minneapolis; Neill's part in drafting original act creating a University of Minnesota.
Congressman, later Governor of Minnesota and U.S. Senator, to Governor Marshall regarding his interest in the University of Minnesota, his report on bill to amend anti-trust law, regarding Board of Regents matters.
President of the University of Minnesota, regarding W.J. Bryan prize, cut in pay for librarians, suggestions for committee meetings, conferences with architect on library (Burton Hall), request for Folwell to take Dean Pattee's classes during his illness, contributions for Pillsbury monument.
Landscape architect, regarding dormitories and other University buildings.
Princeton University, copy of letter regarding preceptorial system at Princeton.
President of Ohio State University, regarding salaries.
Department of Law, regarding post-graduate classes.
President of the Hoover Club of Minneapolis, thanks for help in Herbert Hoover campaign for U.S. President.
Superintendent of St. Cloud Public Schools, regarding University extension classes.
Department of Law, Yale University, regarding study of law at Cambridge.
Wyman, Partridge and Co., Minneapolis, regarding serious consideration of Mayo Foundation.
Department of Chemistry and Physics, regarding early days of the Department of Agriculture.
Assistant to the University of Minnesota President, regarding Bainbridge Colby's invitation to speak at convocation.
President of First State Normal School (Winona), opposes legislation to instill high school departments in the normal schools, Rev. Burt's building up Carlton College at sacrifice of University of Minnesota ("manipulation by Bury as superintendent") under Governor J.S. Pillsbury, importance of keeping University nonsectarian, approval of chair of pedagogics, regarding University as leading educational force in the state.
President of the State University of Iowa, regarding salaries.
Registrar, regarding opening convocations.
Graduate School, regarding $500 for research assistant.
Department of Engineering, regarding laboratory needs, summer professional work and student employment.
Governor of Minnesota, Regent, regarding hiring of Ms. W.S. Smith including letter from Smith.
Regarding teaching economic value of good roads.
College of Agriculture, reporting that 30 student will attend College of Agriculture, outlines course.
Acting Superintendent of Nurses, regarding poor housing for nurses.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, regarding retiring allowance granted to Folwell.
Alumnus, appreciation of Folwell, copy of book he wrote.
Superintendent of Faribault Schools, approval of
English, University of Chicago, regarding O.W. Firkins' doctoral dissertation.
High School principal, Rock Island, IL, later Professor of Economics, requesting recommendation for principalship in St. Paul, refusal of superintendency of St. Paul schools.
Alumnus, opinion regarding statutory continuity of the University.
Regarding regiment of University of Minnesota for Spanish-American War, request to join regiment if formed.
Alumna, reminiscences on opening of University in 1867 when she was a student.
Alumnus, regarding new library (Burton Hall).
Department of Rhetoric, application for position, thanks for birthday letter, expression of appreciation of Folwell's speech.
Acknowledging note on death of William Savidge.
University of Oklahoma, regarding William Schaper as possible President of University of Oklahoma.
Department of Political Science, regarding receiving his doctorate, position at the University and information regarding his thesis and teaching experience, going abroad before coming to University, regarding advancement of professorship.
Department of German, regarding Folwell's election as honorary member of Campus Club.
Forestry, regarding beginnings of the School of Forestry, growth, and prominent alumni.
Department of Public Property, State of Minnesota, requests history of 3 small brass cannons of State Capitol grounds.
President of the National Canners Association (Chillicothe, OH), regarding Folwell's opinion on economics.
Political Science, regarding examination given and message from President Northrop.
Editor of
National Education Association, regarding time element in education.
Consulting Engineer, regarding incandescent lamps for main reading room of library promotion of F.W. Springer, Electrical Engineering, early night class in Mechanical Engineering.
Governor of Minnesota and Army General, regarding refusal of War Department to assign military officer to University because terms of law require military instruction, report of committee on faculty and course of study, appointment to Board of Visitors to West Point in case a member is allotted to Minnesota, next meeting of Regents and resignation of Professor Campbell, regarding letter of Secretary of War to Senator McMillan, requests appointment of 1st Lt. John A. Lundeen as Professor of Military Science and Tactics.
Regarding the University of Minnesota in 1858 when A.H. Barber was the only instructor.
Minneapolis Board of Health, regarding vaccination in schools, requests that Board of regents require it of University students.
Regent and later Professor of Sociology, regarding pay for work done, courses planned, registers dissatisfaction with amount of class work and hours when class is scheduled, suggestions for post-graduate work in sociology, regarding Professor Nachtrieb and anthropological museum.
Regent, thank you for suggestions.
Regent, regarding Mayo affiliation.
Alumnus, regarding events during WWI while he was in diplomatic service.
Book importer, regarding book orders for library.
Regarding teaching art education.
Harvard University, regarding qualifications of G.S. Callander.
Associate Editor
Minneapolis attorney, reminiscences of Minnesota politics read
at memorial for James A. Petersen with the suggestion that they might furnish
historical data for Folwell's
Regent, regarding value of a set of books.
University of Chicago, regarding O.W. Firkin's dissertation.
Superintendent of Minneapolis Schools and Regent, regarding Sibley's possible retirement from Board of Regents.
University of Chicago, regarding program of courses, new library at the University.
Columbia University, regarding scheme of studies in College of Science, Literature and the Arts, University governance, function of the Board of Regents, advice regarding College of Agriculture and building plans, powers of University President.
Regarding Minnesota Railway rate cases.
Regarding procedure for establishing a trigonometrical station in a state.
Regarding replacing Eli L. Huggins, military officer on University staff, orders relieving Huggins, laws on loans of arms to colleges, standards of military instruction.
Pastor (Glencoe, MN), regarding continuation study and idea for organization for alumni.
Secretary and Librarian of the Minnesota Historical Society,
regarding course on Minnesota history at University in a series of lectures
that he would be willing to deliver, publication of Folwell's
Minneapolis attorney, regarding cooperation between School of Fine Arts and the University of Minnesota.
University of Chicago and President of University of Minnesota, appreciation of Folwell's addresses, admiration of his "insight and foresight," bibliography of Folwell's writings, coming visit of Swedish minister - Folwell invited to speak, convocation on Northrop's 80th birthday, junior college concept includes Vincent's letter to F.M. Murphy stating his views.
University Librarian, regarding papers of O.C. Merriman, regarding naming of Folwell Club, regarding materials for University Archives.
U.S. Bureau of Education, regarding possibility of coming to the University, serious condition of oak trees and recommended treatment, locust species and invasions.
Principal of the University of Minnesota Preparatory School, notes that the matter of electing Folwell to University staff is pending, statement that Folwell will be elected to professorship, Folwell appointed to chair of Mathematics, state of affairs at the University and attitudes of Regents.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, regarding Morrill Act of 1862.
City College of New York, requesting Folwell's opinion of educational problem.
Regarding "original" lines regarding Herbert Hoover.
Agricultural College (Ames, Iowa), regarding salaries.
Registrar, regarding first use of terms, "junior and senior college.".
Alumnus, regarding nonattendance at commencement, irritation regarding action of alumni.
Yale University, regarding organization plan, faculty regent status, standards for degrees, mention of national figures such as Horace Greely and Jefferson Davis, regarding diploma format.
Editor of the
President of Cornell University, inquiry if Folwell could take his place during a 2 year absence, regarding secularization of university education.
Biographer of Maria Sanford.
Architect, requests interview to discuss library needs.
Department of German and English, offers resignation.
Secretary and librarian of the Minnesota Historical Society, regarding loss of documents in fire and replacement efforts.
Oregon Agriculturist, reminiscences of first graduating class of 1873.
Asks for opinion on new colleges in Arts College.
Regent, regarding salaries of W. Schaper, Folwell, and F.L. McVey.
Registrar and administrative organizer of Cornell College, regarding faculty vacancies and appointments, suggests place for Folwell on Cornell faculty, salaries for professors and living costs.
Minnesota State Geologist, regarding geological survey of
state, A.E. Dolbear as applicant for position as Professor of Chemistry, asks
permission to engage man to draw up information on building stones of
Minnesota, regarding value of museum to state and his discouragement at
opposition, skit in
Minneapolis Department of Public Parks, regarding West River Parkway along the Mississippi River, honoring Eloise Butler by naming oak for her, other suggestions in view of Folwell's knowledge of Minnesota.
Regarding phonetic spelling.
Regarding death of Caroline Rollit Wood, Class of 1879.
Regarding her father's illness.
States his plans to buy Minnehaha Falls and erect "scientific museum" etc., offers chance to buy specimens.
Department of Agriculture, regarding historical facts about the University and 25th anniversary of School of Agriculture.
Pharmacy, appreciation of night law class he attended.
Attorney, regarding claims of O.C. Gregg for work done at the University.
Secretary of the Chicago Society of University Extension, requests information on extension at University of Minnesota .
Regarding Morrill Act of 1862 and the beginning of the College and School of Agriculture, including a manuscript by C.P. Bull.
Paper listing miscellaneous milestones in the history of the Board. Leaflet regarding the University and high schools (1872). Important resolutions (April 10, 1873) regarding general plan for buildings, scheme of offices and new offices, departments of instruction and consolidations of departments. Memo to the Board regarding endowment and revenue, grounds and farm, buildings, equipment, work plans. Letter from James B. Alexander (December 9, 1878). Petition requesting that the Board retain teachers during times of retrenchment (January 28, 1879). Folwell's plea for moving the campus to a new site (December 22, 1881). Abolishing student fee (June 29, 1882). Regarding length of school year. Regarding necessary increase in personnel (June 26, 1882). Regarding library plans (July-August 1882). Rules regarding payment of bills (August 10, 1882). Resolution regarding Henry H. Sibley on his death (1891). Regarding chair of pedagogy (February 11, 1902).
Includes sketch of Drill Hall (undated); sketch of Agricultural Building (August 1873); information regarding Old Main, Folwell Hall.
Restored to the University the rights it had under the territorial legislature, including the power of governance of the University to the Board of Regents.
Handwritten examples of possible University diploma.
Includes an act to provide and maintain a sunset home for senior citizens; a bill to appropriate money to encourage high school and academic education; a bill for the encouragement of higher education, a bill for the appropriation to the University of Minnesota.
Non-University; Citizens Association of St. Paul, Political Science Club.
Includes auditors, purchase of supplies, terms of office of officers of instruction, an act creating judicial department at the University of Minnesota, powers of president and relation of the University of Minnesota to state geologist (1872). Recommendations regarding heads of departments (1877).
Regarding dismissal of Professor William A. Schaper from the University of Minnesota.
Includes faculty recommendations.
Bryan Prize, Examinations, Night Law.
Among significant items are: a comparison of the states as to square miles, population trends, etc.; notes for talk to graduate (circa 1876); statistics regarding the number of instructors, students, number in preparatory department (1868-1884); a tentative plan for partial protection against death, disability and old age for staff members (circa 1898); printing of catalog and almanac; incidental expenditures.
Folwell was influential in raising high school standards in Minnesota.
Early sketches.
Fragment regarding building at Drill hall; statement of policy
in selecting officers to man the University; recollections of Charles R. Chute
regarding the opening of the university in 1867; notes used by Folwell in
writing the chapter on the University for volume 4 of
Includes Folwell's version of the Gospel according to St. Luke.
Lecture notes of a course in the Science of the State given to Graduate Students in Law.
Dedication of Redwing Collegiate Institution; memorial tablet for Zebulon Montgomery Pike; cornerstone, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; short address at unveiling base relief of Bradstreet.
Formation of the U.S. Constitution (1887); the Grand Convention (1897) address at ovation of George A. Brackett in response to the toast, "The Pioneer" (1910).
July 4, 1860; Memorial Day at grave of General Morgan; Lincoln's birthday; Memorial Day 1918 delivered to University cadets.
Journalism as a profession (1874); Hermean Society question and answer period (1886); culture-what and how (1906); lure of the city (1909); alumni banquet (1924).
Speeches regarding Maria Sanford, short address at funeral of N.H. WINCHELL, short congratulatory address on the 80th birthday of Cyrus Northrop, report of address to the Daughters of the American Revolution regarding Henry Hastings Sibley.
"The University and Public Instruction" (undated); "Civil Education in the University;" reply to derogatory article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press (undated); response to toast to western colleges; argument for the establishment of a separate college of social and political sciences at the University of Minnesota (circa 1902); address at President LeRoy Burton's inauguration (1918).
To the University of Minnesota president; to Minnesota State Medical Society (1886); 10th annual session of the Minnesota Education Association (1886); to Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (1888).
"The Ethics of Business," "Trusts," "The Single Tax," "Socialism True and False," "The New Economics." Also includes handwritten version of "The Ethics of Business."
Brains built Minneapolis, Speech to Librarians, Organization of Education, Notes on Rent, Notes on Taxation.
Unveiling of the Fjelde Statue, Bradstreet Tablet, Statue of John H. Stevens; Funerals of Dr. J.H. Tuttle, Mrs. Mathilde Shillock, Prof. N.H. Winchell, Major General L.A. Grant; Reception of the Hjelm-Hanson Plaque.
"Inaugural Address" (1869), "The Minnesota Plan" (1875), "The Secularization of Education" (1881), "The Civic Education" (1884).
Some of the clippings were originally organized as a scrapbook.
Contains mainly rough notes in Folwell's hand reflecting his special interest in the subject.
Legislative action and clippings concerning public health matters, a paper by Folwell, a note to Charles Hewitt regarding public health laws, memos regarding Hewitt and papers found in his scrapbook.