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Fosdick, Harry Emerson

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1878 - 1969

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates: 1936-1937

National Council Against Conscription Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-052
Abstract The National Council Against Conscription had its first official meeting on December 13, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Nation Council Against Conscription worked to defeat various legislative measures which promoted universal military training and peacetime conscription, by lobbying Congress, public speaking, publishing detailed analyses of proposed legislation, corresponding with magazine and newspaper editors about their coverage of Universal Military Training, and producing...
Dates: 1944-1960

Speer Family papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-M72
Abstract The Speer Family papers represent four generations of that family, with the bulk of material attributed to the last two generations, especially Robert Elliott Speer and his wife and three of his five children: Emma Bailey, Elliott, Margaret Bailey, and William Speer. The family was active in the Presbyterian Church, serving that institution in a variety of different capacities. The children, in addition to their religious roles, held prominent positions in academic administration. The...
Dates: 1802 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1943
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

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Beijing (China) 1
Bergen County (N.J.) 1
Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 1
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China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 1
Chinese Students 1
College teachers -- China -- Correspondence 1
Concentration camps 1
Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Education 1
Education -- United States 1
Education, Higher 1
Huntingdon County (Pa.) 1
Iran 1
Journalism 1
Lakeville (Conn.) 1
Law 1
Missionaries 1
Missionaries -- China 1
Missionaries -- China -- Correspondence 1
Missions, American 1
Missions, American -- China 1
Murder -- Massachusetts 1
Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Northfield (Mass.) 1
Northfield Schools 1
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Politics and Government -- 1865-1950 1
Phillips Academy 1
Preparatory schools -- United States 1
Princeton (N.J.) 1
Private schools -- Pennsylvania 1
Repatriation -- United States 1
School management and organization -- United States 1
Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 1
Undergraduates -- United States 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877 1
United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources 1
Universities and colleges -- China 1
Women -- Education -- China 1
Women -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women college students -- China 1
Women in charitable work 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Men's Christian Associations 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
correspondence 1
diaries 1
speeches (documents) 1
yearbooks 1
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