Inventory of
the William Henry Glasson Papers,
1891 - 1946 and
undated
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Descriptive Summary
Title
William
Henry Glasson Papers,
1891 - 1946 and undated.
Creator
Glasson, William
Henry, 1874-1946.
Extent
4.7 Linear Feet,
3000
Items
Repository
University Archives, Duke
University
Abstract
William Henry Glasson (1874-1946) was
Professor of Political Economy and Social Science at
Trinity College and Duke University from 1902-1940, and
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from
1926-1938. Glasson was instrumental in the growth of the
Department of Economics and the Graduate School. Glasson
specialized in U.S. pension systems. He was secretary of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society for the South Atlantic district;
editor of the South Atlantic Quarterly; and a member of the
Durham Board of Education. Collection includes personal and
professional correspondence, manuscripts, research notes,
scrapbooks, diaries, account books, postcards, and
photographs pertaining to Glasson's family, career, and
interests. Major subjects found in the collection are the
growth of the Department of Economics and the Graduate
School, Trinity's efforts to obtain a Phi Beta Kappa
chapter, and Duke University's contract with the Teachers
Insurance and Annuity Association of America.
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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No restrictions.
Use Restrictions
Copyright for Official University records is
held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by
the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], William Henry Glasson
Papers, University Archives, Duke University.
Provenance
The William Henry Glasson Papers was received by
the University Archives as a gift in 1954 (A48-1942) and in
1955 (A48-2022).
Processing Information
Processed by Linda Daniel
Completed October 10, 2003
Encoded by Linda Daniel, October 6, 2003
Updated by Sherrie Bowser, January, 2007
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
William Henry Glasson was born in Troy, NY. on
July 26, 1874. He received his Ph.B. from Cornell
University in 1896 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University
in 1900. Glasson was head of the Dept. of History and
Civics at the George School (Newton, Pa.) from 1899-1902.
He came to Trinity College in 1902. During this tenure at
Trinity and Duke University, Glasson was instrumental in
the development of the Dept. of Economics and the Graduate
School. He was Professor of Political Economy and Social
Science from 1902-1940; appointed in charge of the
establishment of the retirement annuity plan for the
faculty and administration; the head of the department of
economics and business administration; chairman of the
faculty committee on graduate instruction; and Dean of the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1926-1938.
Glasson was secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society for the
South Atlantic district; editor of the
South Atlantic
Quarterly from 1905-1909; and a member of the
Durham Board of Education.
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Collection Overview
Collection includes personal and professional
correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, scrapbooks,
diaries, diplomas, baptismal certificate, account books, postcards, and photographs
pertaining to Glasson's family, career, and interests.
Major subjects found in the collection are the growth of
the Department of Economics and the Graduate School,
Trinity's efforts to obtain a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, and
Duke University's contract with the Teachers Insurance and
Annuity Association of America. Correspondence includes a
letter to William P. Few (February 22, 1934) signed by 24
faculty members praising Duke's record on academic freedom,
reports directed to University administrators, and copies
of family genealogical material. A significant
correspondent is H. Clay Evans, the U.S. Commissioner of
Pensions. In 1934, Glasson and Dean Wannamaker were among a
group of academics who travelled to Germany on a Carl
Schurz Tour to see the effects of Hitler's rise to power.
The scrapbooks include maps, clippings, postcards, notes,
and an itinerary from this trip. Glasson's manuscripts
include recollections of Trinity and Duke, a variety of
writings and lectures on money and banking, pension
systems, and Durham's charter of incorporation. There are
10 diaries (1898-1944), 3 family account books (1900-1937)
including one that details Glasson's daughters' expenses
while students at Duke, and scrapbooks of clippings,
photographs of Glasson as a young man, poems, and
photographs of Cornell University.
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Subject Headings
These and related materials may be accessed under
the following subject headings in the Duke University
Libraries online catalog.
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Evans, Henry Clay,
1843-1921.
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Glasson, William
Henry, 1874-1946.
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Wannamaker,
William Hane, b. 1873.
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Duke University--Faculty.
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Duke University.
Graduate School.
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Duke University--History.
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Phi Beta Kappa.
North Carolina Beta (Trinity College)
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Teachers Insurance
and Annuity Association.
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Trinity College
(Durham, N.C.)
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Academic
freedom.
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Economics--History.
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Pensions--United
States.
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Universities and
colleges--Faculty--Retirement--United States.
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Germany--Description and travel.
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Diaries.
- Diplomas.
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Photographs.
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Scrapbooks.
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Carlos Sforza Papers, 1933-1941.
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University.
Department of Economics Records.
University Archives, Duke University.
Graduate School Records.
University Archives, Duke University.
Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of North Carolina
Chapter, Records.
University Archives, Duke University.
Portrait of William Henry Glasson.
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
Correspondence
1891-1945
Correspondence centers around Glasson's
involvement in the Dept. of Economics and the Graduate
School at Trinity College and Duke University, and his
interest in pension systems. Correspondence includes a
letter to William P. Few (February 22, 1934) signed by 24
faculty members praising Duke's record on academic freedom,
reports directed to University administrators, and copies
of family genealogical material. A significant
correspondent is H. Clay Evans, the U.S. Commissioner of
Pensions.
Box 1
Folder 1
1891-1906
Folder 2
1907-1912
Folder 3
1913-1915
Folder 4
1916-1919
Folder 5
1920-1925
Folder 6
1926-1936
Folder 7
1937-1945
Writings
1893-1946
Writings include class notebooks kept while
Glasson was a student, manuscripts, lecture notes, diaries,
account books, and personal reflections captured in poems
and prose. Included are recollections of Trinity and Duke,
a variety of writings and lectures on money and banking,
pension systems, and Durham's charter of incorporation.
There are 10 diaries (1898-1944), 3 family account books
(1900-1937) including one that details Glasson's daughters'
expenses while students at Duke, copies of poems, and
letters to the editor written to local newspapers.
Class Notebooks,
1893-1897
Folder 8
Notes on lectures on economics
taken at Cornell University,
1893
Folder 9
Notes on the lectures given by
Professor Cheyney on English economic and social history,
1897
Folder 10
Notes on the lectures given by
Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman on the science of finance
and the history of political economy,
1899-1900
Box 2
Folder 11
Publication:
"The South's Care for
Her Veterans,"
The American Review of
Reviews,
July,
1907
Manuscripts
[1914]-[1938] and
undated
Folder 12
"Commission Government in American
Cities,"
[1914]
Folder 13
"Price Inflation: Its
Beneficiaries and Its Victims,"
[1919]
Folder 14
"The Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences,"
[1927]
Folder 15
"The Average Man's Savings,"
1930
Folder 16
"The Modern University and Its
Functions,"
Dec. 11,
1931
Folder 17
"Civil War Pensions: A
Retrospective,"
Jan. 1,
1937
Folder 18
"Memoirs of Duke University and
Trinity College,"
1938.
Includes correspondence.
Folder 19
"History of the Department of
Economics and business Administration,"
ca.
1938
Folder 20
"Economic Effects of the World
War," undated
Folder 21
"The European War's Economic
Effects Upon the U.S.," undated
Folder 22
"Military Pensions and Soldiers'
Insurance in the U.S.," undated
Folder 23
"Optional City Charter and
Municipal Finance Laws in N.C.," undated
Folder 24
"Recent Progress in Municipal
Government," undated
Folder 25
"The South's Pension and Relief
Provisions for the Soldiers of the Confederacy," undated
Folder 26
"William Preston Few," undated
Lecture Notes,
1938-1940 and
undated
Folder 27-29
Lecture notes for Economics 203,
[Money and Banking],
1938-1940.
Box 3
Folder 30
"Military Pensions in American
Public Finance and Politics," undated
Five lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins
University.
Folder 31
Notes and research materials,
undated
Diaries
1898-1944
Folder 32
1898
Folder 33
1900-1902
Folder 34
1935
Folder 35
1936
Box 4
Folder 36
1937
Folder 37
1938
Folder 38
1939
Folder 39
1940
Folder 40
1941
Folder 41
1942
Box 5
Folder 42
1944
Account Books
1900-1937
Folder 43
Accounts kept at the George
School, Bucks County, Pa.,
1900-1901
Folder 44
Record book of stocks owned by
William H. Glasson and Mary P. Glasson,
1907-1945
Folder 45
College expenses for Lucy P.
Glasson and Mary E. Glasson,
1922-1933
Poems and Prose
[1914]-1945 and
undated
Folder 46
Small book of poems and prose,
1944-1945
Folder 47
Six poems, undated
Subject Files,
1911-1938 and
undated
Folder 48
Phi Beta Kappa,
1911-1929
Folder 49
Trinity College finances,
[1912]-1920
Folder 50
Pensions,
1916-1935
Folder 51
Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association of America,
1918-1925
Folder 52
Minutes of the meeting of the
Commission on University Organization,
Jan. 26,
1925
Folder 53
Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences,
1925-1938
Folder 54
Carl Shurz tour of American
professors and students to Germany,
July-Aug.1934
Folder 55
South Atlantic
Quarterly, undated
Box 6
Graphics,
1900-[1934] and
undated
Folder 56-57
Photographs of family and friends,
undated
Folder 58
Travel photographs taken in Florida,
Colorado, and Venezuela and Italy, undated
Folder 59
Photographs of Cornell University
and Ithaca, NY,
[ca.1900]
Folder 60
[Postcards collected on Carl Schurz
tour in Germany],
[1934]
Folder 61
Still life,
1900
Clippings,
1897-1946
Folder 62
1897-1946
Folder 63
1899-1946
Folder 64
Trinity and Duke,
1920-1939
Souvenirs,
1897-1929
Folder 65
Programs, placecards, and
invitations,
1892-1929
Folder 66
Trinity College,
1903-1926.
Includes commencement and graduation
exercises, and a copy of Alexander Hamilton's
Report on
Manufactures presented to Dr. Glasson by John
Franklin Crowell.
Oversize Materials
Included are drafts and copies of the city of
Durham's charter and act to incorporate, Glasson's diplomas, and scrapbooks
kept while Glasson was on the 1934 Carl Schurz Tour to see
the effects of Hitler's rise to power. The scrapbooks
include maps, clippings, postcards, notes, and an itinerary
from this trip.
Oversize
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Folder 67
Proposed charter and act to
incorporate the city of Durham,
1915-1921
Scrapbooks
Folder 68
1896-1939
Folder 69
[ca.1900]-1941
Oversize Container
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Diplomas and Baptismal certificate, 1874-1939
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Boyd, William
Kenneth.
"The Installation of the
Beta Chapter of North Carolina at Trinity College."
In
The Phi Beta Kappa Key:
The Official Publication of the United Chapters of Phi Beta
Kappa.
Vol. 4, no. 4, p. 211-226.
Somerville, N.J:
Unionist-Gazette Association,
1920
Glasson, William
Henry.
History of Military
Pension Legislation in the United
States.,
New York:
Columbia University Press,
1900
