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This collection consists of pages from a scrapbook belonging to Butler University student Elanor A. Taylor. The pages include newspaper clippings about the opening of the new Butler campus in its current Fairview location. The collection specifically highlights Jordan Hall and Hinkle Fieldhouse, known then as Butler Fieldhouse or the Fieldhouse, on the new Fairview Campus. It also includes short articles about Eleanor A. Taylor.

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This collection contains nine bluebooks, which are small notebooks used for taking written tests. The majority are for her American Literature class; there are also two from her Ethics class. The bluebooks are undated. However, Elsie Felt graduated from Butler University in 1917 and it is presumed they date from sometime between 1914 and 1917.

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The collection contains material from Ernest Paul Fink’s time as a Butler student from 1924 to 1926. It includes examination books (also known as Blue Books) from his archaeology class; a pocket notebook that he used as a journal for June and July 1924; five negatives of photographs of him; and a composition notebook with various newspaper articles glued into it with notes that Fink took about each. In the second folder is his 1926 diploma from Butler University.

Scope and Contents Eva Young Wiles wrote the story of her life in multiple installments. She attended Butler University and then went on to lead a life of service as a teacher and principal in Indianapolis. Within the collection, she writes about her travels around the world to several different countries. There is also an extensive list of service clubs she was a member of, as well as other organizations she took part in. The collection holds letters written by Eva Young Wiles during different time periods...

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Small quantity of printed ephamera including a commencement invitation for the graduation of Florence Smock from Butler College in 1913, a pamphlet telling information on Monument Circle, also known as Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in downtown Indianapolis, and a pamphlet on religion and commandments by God.

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This collection contains the diploma of Helen F. Brandon, who graduated from Butler University in 1935 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

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This collection consists of a Butler University Bachelor of Science degree awarded to Herbert Bohn in 1946. It also contains a Purdue University and Butler University Schools of Pharmacy certificate of participation in a continuing education program on cancer and chemotherapy earned by Bohn in 1974.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence between professors Irving Fine of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana and Robert W. Smith of Alma College in Alma, Michigan. They met in 1984 while Smith was on sabbatical in Indianapolis and maintained a correspondence for many years. Fine was a professor of Spanish and Smith a professor of Speech Communication. Fine was Jewish and Smith was Christian, and they discuss ideas of theology based on their religion and backgrounds. They also...

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File contains the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity initiation certificate from 1935 and the B.S. Diploma of Jack C. Miller.

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Letter written by Jean Leveque, Assistant Treasurer for Butler University, to Gerald Carrier, Executive Secretary of the Jordan Foundation, regarding Butler’s vacating of the Odeon Building in downtown Indianapolis.