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Speeches

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 94 Collections and/or Records:

Oscar Clute papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.5
Scope and Content

The Oscar Clute papers consist primarily of correspondence (1889-1893) during Clute's presidency at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Also included are several articles on education and M.A.C., and information about the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The period of Clute's presidency was characterized by student unrest, political crises, and faculty turnover.

Dates: 1889 - 1893
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Parmalee family collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00529
Scope and Content

The collection consists of a ledger of farm records which contains a register of students from Michigan State University who visited the farm with their class in the years 1922-1928 and some memoirs which are not dated. Also included are numerous newspaper and magazine articles which describe Parmalee and his farm.

Dates: 1900 - 1930
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Paul A. Miller papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.172
Scope and Contents

The papers contain the speech “The Commonwealth of Extension Education” given by Paul Miller in 1958 at the Annual Conference of Cooperative Extension and Continuing Education.

Dates: 1958
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.116.1
Scope and Content The collection contains materials that the Quello Center collected about James H. Quello’s career as an FCC commissioner and acting chairman (1974-1999). Materials includes copies of speeches, statements, news articles, reports and a small amount of correspondence. An index provides an itemized list of the documents up to 2005. Of particular interest are Quello’s correspondence, statements, and speeches related to children’s programming, the fining of Howard Stern, and personal...
Dates: 1974 - 2017
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Richard O. Niehoff papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.110
Scope and Contents The collection documents Niehoff’s work in the field of personnel and staff training in large national and international programs. The collection has papers from his experiences with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the United Nations, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Michigan State University. The collection also contains three significant manuscripts by Niehoff: a biography of Floyd Reeves, a biography of John Hannah, and an autobiography. With the exception of the autobiography,...
Dates: 1934 - 1984
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Robert Clark Kedzie papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.109
Scope and Contents The papers of Robert Clark Kedzie consist primarily of materials relating to his position at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) as a professor of chemistry from 1863 to his death in 1902. They include scrapbooks, lecture notes, correspondence, awards, and biographical material. The three scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, the first pertaining to the Samuel Johnson case in 1889, the second concerning the removal of M.A.C. President Lewis G. Gorton in 1895,...
Dates: 1851, 1863-1905, circa 1955, 1961
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Robert L. Green papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.20
Scope and Contents This collection consists of publications Green authored while a faculty member at Michigan State University. These items center, for the most part, on minority students in college, their admission and various programs utilized by them. There is also a report on his trip to the Middle East and East Africa. Also included is a speech, "The University and Society," centering around the unrest in higher education during the 1970s and what was to be done about it at a land grant university like...
Dates: 1970 - 1974
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Rollin Harold Baker papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.111
Scope and Contents

The collection contains diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, course notes, photographs, autobiographical information, both personal and professional, of Rollin H. Baker, Museum Director and Professor in the Department of Zoology and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University.

Dates: 1936 - 1991
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Ruth Burton collection

 Collection
Identifier: c-00203
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a reprint of 1902 speeches by Senator Tillman, Democrat from South Carolina, and Senator McComas, Republican from Maryland, debating black suffrage and constitutional liberty in the Philippines. The collection also includes an undated local ballot.

Dates: 1902
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Sadayoshi Omoto papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.344
Scope and Content The Sadayoshi Omoto papers contain material related to his career and personal life. Omoto's professional material include teaching material such as syllabi, lecture notes and exams. Also included are memos, correspondence and committee files relating to the Michigan State University Art Department. There is also material related to Omoto's research and publications on Worthington Whittredge, Queen Anne-style architecture in Ohio, architectural surveys of Michigan, and Japanese American...
Dates: 1894, 1942-2013, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections