Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of Clarence Judson's letters to his family, written during his years at Michigan Agricultural College. The letters describe his classes, activities, and financial situation, his experiences as a teacher during school breaks, the class strike of 1886, and a visit to the Capitol in Lansing. The collection also includes an autobiography, family history materials, genealogical charts, school records, diaries from 1888 to 1902, and a notebook Judson kept while...

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The Thomas Andrews collection contains photographs related to Michigan State University. The images include students on a beach with a keg drinking and smoking. Other images include women students looking out of windows of a building, the inside of a stationoray or bookstore, students walking on the sidewalks of campus, students in a laboratory, the cover of the 1958 yearbook, and contact sheets of aerial views of campus.

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William Purdy Peters papers consist of a nine page paper entitled "Opening Closed Doors," which describes Michigan State University from about 1926 to 1928, when Peters was a student. The paper discusses classes (physical education, English, and animal husbandry), Reserve Officer Training Corp, professors, students, student activities (including hazing and class rush), and the city of East Lansing.