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Series II: Finances

Scope and Contents note

Records concerning University finances consist of registrar's reports, fiscal statements, department budgets, faculty pensions, and student tuition costs, dormitory rentals and scholarships. Income from gifts and grants indicate the contributions and endowments made during the period, including support from the General Education Board, a Rockefeller-sponsored institution. The Gould family records contain extensive correspondence with Helen Miller Gould, daughter of Jay Gould, concerning scholarships, contributions, and construction at University Heights, made possible through the generous benefaction of the Gould family.

University Finances

University Finances, ca. 1892-1893, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Registrar's Reports, 1898-1900, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fiscal Statements, 1891-1908, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

College and department expenditures, including salaries, 1892-1910, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence with Bursar, Frank A. Fall, 1907-1910, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Faculty pensions; Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching, 1905-1910, inclusive

Box: 12, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Students

Tuition (loans and fees), 1893-1910, inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dormitory rentals, admission and scholarships, 1896, 1901, Undated, inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1897-1910, inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

John Hall Memorial Scholarship, 1898-1899, inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ottendorfer Memorial Scholarship, 1900, inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Geneva Printing Company Scholarship, 1904, inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gifts and Grants

Printed appeals, 1889-1895, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Printed Appeals, 1893, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Russell Sage, 1898, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jacob Schiff, 1898, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

John D. Rockefeller (General Education Board), 1898-1907, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General, 1901, 1902, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Andrew H. Green, heirs of, 1903, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subscription Drive; miscellaneous correspondence; lists; Lyman Abbott, 1904, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

James Stokes, 1904, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1906-1908, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Description of University for promotional purposes; educational side; business side, Undated

Box: 14, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proposed Foundation for American Education, Undated

Box: 14, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Endowments and Trusts

Endowed professorships, trust funds for special objects; Consolidated Endowment Fund; Sandham Gift, 1896-1907, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jay Gould, 1892-1893, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Frank Jay Gould, 1896-1899, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Helen Miller Gould, 1892-1897, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Helen Miller Gould, 1898-1899, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Helen Miller Gould, 1900-1903, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Helen Miller Gould, 1904-1905, 1907/1909 Undated, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gould Scholarships, 1899, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gould Scholarships, 1902-1904, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial statements re gifts of Helen Gould, 1900-1904, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miscellaneous bills, 1891-1895, 1900-1901, inclusive

Box: 15, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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