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RG
008
Oregon Agricultural College. Board of
Regents.
Board of Regents Records
1886-1929
5 cubic ft.
The paper records are housed in 2 cubic foot boxes, 5
12x17 oversize boxes, one legal document case, and an oversize
cabinet.
7 microfilm
reels.
The Board of Regents Records document the
administration, facilities, and curriculum of the Oregon Agricultural College
and include correspondence, minutes, financial records, and
contracts.
Materials in English.
Historical Note:
The Board of Regents was created by the Oregon Legislative Assembly
through legislation passed in February 1885. It replaced the College's Board of
Trustees, which had reported to the Columbia Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. The Board of Regents consisted of nine members
appointed by, and which reported to, the Governor of Oregon. The Board's
ex-officio members included the Governor, Secretary of State, the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Master of the State Grange. Board
officers included a president, secretary and treasurer, and were appointed to
two-year terms of office. The Board's by-laws were later amended to include a
vice-president. In 1929, the OAC Board of Regents was replaced by the Oregon
State Board of Higher Education, which was created to oversee all of Oregon's
public higher education institutions.
Several Board members figured prominently in OSU's history. Wallis Nash
served from 1886-1898, much of that time as the Board Secretary. James K.
Weatherford, an 1872 graduate of the college, was a Board member for 43 years,
1886-1929. He was Board President from 1901-1929. John T. Apperson served from
1886-1917, and was President from 1895-1901. B. F. Irvine served from
1898-1929, the last 28 years as Board Treasurer. He also served on the Oregon
State Board of Higher Education from 1929-1937. E. E. Wilson graduated from the
college in 1889 and served two terms on the Board -- 1906-1915 and 1924-1929.
He also served on the Memorial Union Board of Governors from 1925-1961. Walter
M. Pierce served as a Board member from 1903-1927, the last four years in an
ex-officio capacity as Governor of Oregon. Clara H. Waldo, the first woman
appointed to the Board, served from 1905-1919.
Series I consists of general correspondence sent and received by the
Board between 1887 and 1918. Series II contains the minutes of the Board's
meetings from 1886-1929. Series III consists of Board Committee records. Of
note are correspondence and minutes of the Executive Committee from 1886-1910.
Other records in this series date from 1899-1907 and pertain to committees such
as the Buildings and Grounds, the Station, and the Finance Committees.
Series IV consists of reports to the Bureau of Education of the U.S.
Dept. of Interior from 1896-1907. Series V includes general reports made
between 1892 and 1929, such as reports of the Board to the governor. Series VI
consists of resolutions proposed by the Board between 1899 and 1904. Series VII
contains financial reports of the College and Experiment Station made between
1891 and 1908, and other miscellaneous financial records from 1888-1917. Series
VIII consists of staff salary schedules for 1896 and 1900. Series IX includes
budgetary information for 1916 and 1917.
Series X consists of contracts. Many of these are insurance policies,
which are arranged by date of expiration. Other contracts were for specific
services to the college, such as providing firewood, or for the construction of
particular buildings. Series XI is list of the candidates for the presidency of
the college in 1892 and includes an analysis of recommendations. Series XII
consists of the Board's by-laws, and includes ones adopted in 1888 as well as
published copies from 1889 and 1910. Series XIII includes drafts of narrative
information used in compiling the college's catalogs between 1888 and 1891.
Series XIV includes information on furniture and equipment purchased by the
college in the 1890s and a 1926 description of a property lot close to
campus.
Most of the records are in both paper and microfilm format. Series XI
through XIV are in paper form only.
The records consists of fourteen series: I. Correspondence; II. Minutes;
III. Committees; IV. Reports to Bureau of Education, U.S. Department of
Interior; V. Reports; VI. Resolutions; VII. Financial Records; VIII. Salary
Schedules; IX. Budgets; X. Contracts; XI. List of Candidates for Presidency of
State Agricultural College of Oregon; XII. By-laws; XIII. Catalogue Data; XIV.
Miscellaneous Records.
Board of Regents Records (RG 8), Oregon State University Archives,
Corvallis, Oregon.
The Board of Trustees Records (RG 33) document the administration of
Oregon Agricultural College prior to the establishment of the Board of Regents.
The President's Office Records (RG 13) and the E. E. Wilson Papers include
materials pertaining to the Board of Regents. College catalogs, published
annually, listed the members and officers of the Board of Regents. The
Memorabilia Collection includes biographical information on several Board
members. By-laws of the Board of Regents are also available in the Publications
Collection (PUB 1-10b).
Nash,
Wallis.
Weatherford, James K.
Apperson, John T., 1834-1917.
Wilson, E. E. (Eddy Elbridge), 1869-1961.
Pierce,
Walter Marcus, 1861-1954.
Irvine, B. F.
Oregon
Agricultural College.
Oregon
Agricultural College--Faculty.
Oregon
Agricultural College--Administration.
Oregon
Agricultural College--Buildings.
Universities and
colleges--Oregon--Corvallis--Administration.
Universities and
colleges--Curricula--Oregon--Corvallis.
Universities and
colleges--Oregon--Corvallis--Faculty.
Universities and
colleges--Oregon--Corvallis--Finance.
College
presidents--Oregon--Corvallis.
College
buildings--Oregon--Corvallis.
Oregon
Colleges and
Universities
Correspondence
1887-1918
1
1
7
Correspondence
received
1888-1906 and undated
23 folders
1
1
7
Correspondence received and
sent
1907-1908 & 1910
5 folders
Includes copies of letters sent by E.E. Wilson, Board
Secretary
2
1
Correspondence received and
sent
1910-1911
includes letters sent by Wilson
2
1
Correspondence with college
business office
1917-1918
Note: see narrative inventory of correspondence received,
1887-1918, that follows this series/subseries inventory
2
1
Correspondence sent, loose
letterpress pages
1892-1898
Letterpress Books
1888-1900
Correspondence sent.
3
2
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. I
1888-1890
3
2
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. II
1890-1891
3
2
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. III (to page
187)
1891-1892
3
3
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. III (from page
188)
1891-1892
4
3
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. IV
1892-1895
4
3
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. V
1897
4
3
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. VI (to page
236)
1898
4
4
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. VI (from page
237)
1898
5
4
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. VII
1899-1900
Series II
Minutes
1886-1929
Journals
6
5
apx 12x17 in.
1886-1889
In volume with executive committee minutes; see series
III below.
5
4-5
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. I
1889-1908
7
5
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. II
1908-1915
7
5
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. III
1915-1929
Also includes minutes of the joint body of regents of
Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Oregon, June-November
1927.
2
Drafts
1893-1899 & undated
3 folders
2
Unbound copies
1906-1910, 1915-1916, 1922-1929
3 folders
1922-1929 minutes also include minutes for Building, Board
and Executive Committee meetings.
Series III
Committees
1886-1917
6
5
apx 12x17 in.
Executive Committee -
Correspondence
1888-1890, 1901, 1904-1906
6
5
apx 12x17 in.
Executive Committee -
Minutes
6
5
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. I
1886-1890
Also includes Board minutes, 1886-1889.
6
5
apx 12x17 in.
Vol. II
1890-1910
6
apx 12x17 in.
Drafts and typescript
copies
1892-1908
Not filmed.
2
5
Committee on Literacy and
Library
1899 & 1917
2
5
Printing and Advertising
Committee
1899 & 1902-1903
2
5
Athletics
Committee
1900 & 1904
2
5
Buildings and Grounds
Committee
1891, 1893, 1899 & 1901-1907
2
5
Special Committee on
Appliances for Household Science Dept.
1903
2
5
Station Committee
1900-1901 & 1904
2
5
Committee on Construction of
Mechanical Hall
1889 & 1898
2
5
Committee on Agriculture and
Chemistry
1899
2
5
Finance Committee
ca. 1899-1907
2
5
Statistics
1899
2
5
Series IV
Reports to Bureau of Education,
U.S. Dept. of Interior
1896-1907
Series V
Reports
1892-1929
2
5
President of the College to
the Board of Regents
June 27, 1892
2
5
President of the Board of
Regents to the Governor
June 30, 1892
Departmental
reports
1901
2
5
Cauthorn Hall
Manager
2
5
Bacteriology
Department
2
5
Agriculture
Division
2
5
Chemical
Department
2
5
Entomology & Plant
Diseases Department
2
5
Vegetable
Gardening
2
5
Botany & Horticulture
Department
2
5
Experiment
Station
ca. 1901
2
5
Treasurer of the Board of
Regents
1901
2
5
President of the Board of
Regents to the Governor
1901
2
5
Eastern Oregon Experiment
Station
1902
2
5
President of the Board of
Regents
1907/08
2
5
President of the College to
the Board of Regents
1929
2
5
Series VI
Resolutions
1899-1907 & undated
Series VII
Financial Records
1888-1917
2
6
Reports, College and
Experiment Station
1891-1906
*
Expenditure lists, Eastern
Oregon Experiment Station
1901-1904
2
6
Monthly financial statements
of College
January 1906-May 1908
2
6
Reports of Experiment Station
to USDA
1895/96-1907/08
4 folders
2
6
Miscellaneous invoices,
vendor statements and other financial records
1888-1917
2
6
Series VIII
Salary Schedules
1896
& 1900
1896 is paper only
2
6
Series IX
Budgets
1916-1918
Series X
Contracts
1889-1907
2
6
1889-1898
1889 & 1893-1894 paper only.
8
1899-1907
4 folders
6
apx 12x17 in.
Series XI
List of Candidates for Presidency
of State Agricultural College of Oregon. With Particulars, and with Analysis of
Recommendations
March 1892
Series XII
By-laws
1888-ca. 1910
8
Draft adopted June 21, 1888
(microprint copy)
June 21, 1888
Original is located in Executive Committee Minutes journal
Vol. 1 (page 8 in box 7/1/4/i)
8
Published copies
1889
Also includes rules and regulations governing the College
and Experiment Station and acts of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, ca.
1910
8
Series XIII
Catalogue Data
1888-ca. 1891
Series XIV
Miscellaneous Items
ca. 1890-1926
8
*
Advertisements and pictorial
samples of furniture, ovens, water towers, and fire extinguishers
1890s-1904
8
Steam boiler certificates of
inspection
August 30, 1899
8
Flyer advertising Oregon
State Normal School (now Western Oregon State College)
ca. 1890
8
Description of Covell
property
1926
1887
Recommendations
Construction of building
1888
Bids for construction of building, classroom chairs and heating
Applications
Purchase of uniforms
1889
Recommendations concerning Wallis Nash's cooperation
Lists of material needed for the Dept. of Zoology and Entomolog
Care of campus grounds
Overcrowding of school buildings
Problems of feeding students
Payment of salary to Margaret C. Snell
Applications
Military supplies
Appointment of A. R. Shipley by the Governor to the Board
Securing seeds of all pine trees in Oregon
Payment of students for labor
W. N. Hull asking that his course of study be enlarged
1890
Problems concerning distilling of alcohol experiment in Dept. of Zoology and Entomology
Corvallis College bill
Recommendations and applications
Budget problems with E. R. Lake, Professor of Botany and Horticulture
Changes in number of faculty
Building improvements
Work in progress, Chemical Department
Laboratory hours
Summer term
Station work and experiments
B. L. Arnold's notes re: Professor Irish's work load not sufficient
Report showing average amount of work done by each professor, 1889- 1890, estimated in hours or lessons of fifty minutes each
Tabulated statement of students in department
Geographical breakdown of student enrollment
Dismissal of faculty
Establishment of signal stations
Horticultural Society exhibit at Portland
Rumor of political attack on College by delegates of Linn County
Defense of the Board made by W. Ladd to Wallis Nash
Discussions of attorneys to represent the Board
1891
Work and expenditures in Zoological Laboratory
Discussion of Willamette Grange meeting dealing with the action of the Board and the College
Resignation of William A. Lampkin
Purchase of creamery equipment
College bill passes
Delivery of fire wood to the College
Complaint from F. L. Washburn, entomologist, stating the Board was not spending money for books of scientific nature
Regulations of the Students' Hall
Habit of smoking has increased and should be prohibited on campus
Students should be made to live on campus unless they have written permission from parents or College President
Piano purchased with federal money; federal government questions authority to purchase it
Appointment of R. W. Davenport to the Board
Proposed changes in Mechanical Course suggested to the President by G. A. Covell
Appropriations to the Mechanical Department
Applications
Dismissal of E. R. Lake, Botanist
Recommendation of G. W. Shaw for chair of Chemistry
Building construction; change in the front of the Experiment Station building
Lighting of new and old student halls
Description of curriculum of Household Economy and Hygiene
Representation of the Entomology Department at the World's Fair
Military personnel
Location of the Chemistry Department
Faculty requests policy on doing outside work
Petition from students against Professor P. H. Irish
1892
Candidates for position of military commander for College Building problems
Death of President Arnold
Students complaint of lack of heat in Cauthorn Hall
Applications and selection of candidates for Presidency
Outline of workload in various departments of Experiment Station
Memorial service for President Arnold
Geographical listing of students
Botanical exhibit at Chicago World's Fair (1893)
Margaret Snell complains of low salary
Preparatory students complain of not receiving individual attention in classrooom work
Congratulations to Board on selection of John M. Bloss as new College President; Bloss accepts position of College President
Agreement to supply firewood
Building plans for darkroom
Repairs and general financial affairs
1893
Payments on heating contract with voucher
Inquiries on budget by G. W. Shaw
Purchase, payment, and reasons for boxing a lathe
Fees in case of Liggett, et. al. vs. Ladd, et. al.
Chemistry breakage bill
Prices for vegetables
Answer to order for lumber
Fourth quarter budget of Experiment Station
Query about employment
Introduction of insurance agent; insurance placement
Query from draftsman
Establishment of U.S. Meteorological Station at Corvallis and refusal by chief of Weather Bureau
Sale of a furnace
Deficit of living halls
Acknowledgements of appointments to faculty
Selection of J. M. Applewhite as Board Treasurer
Improvement Fund arrangements
Governor to meet with building committee
Return of A. R. Shipley's bond to widow
1894
University claim against Shipley estate
Application for employment as matron
Sending of annual report
Copy of surety bond for Treasurer; election of J. K. Weatherford as Treasurer
Letters of application
Appointment of J. M. Osburn to Board
Letters from faculty member querying lack of salary increase
1895
Financial affairs
Applications and accepting of teaching positions
Acceptance of geological specimen through donation
Purchase of supplies, tools and arm chairs
1896
Query about salary and duties of purchasing agent
Appointment of Samuel Hughes to the Board
Letters of acceptance
Exhibit for Oregon Industrial Exhibition
Purchase of piano
1897
Correction of annual report concerning disbursement of funds
1898
Bids on engine house, mechanical hall, dormitory, and gymnasium and armory
Bid on cordwood
Correction of annual financial report
Reasons for resignation of entomologist and recommendation for successor
Management of Experiment Station
Contract agreement for construction of new Mechanical Hall
1899
Construction of Mechanical Hall; failure to comply with construction contract
Report of the President of the Board of Regents for year ending June 30, 1899
Applications
Construction of a water plant on campus
E. F. Pernot letters praising his training in the diseases of animals
1900
G. W. Shaw's misuse of railroad transportation and his resignation
Applications
W. M. Hilleary stating cooperation between College and Oregon State Grange
List of graduates
Sewers inspected
Estimate of costs for proposed greenhouses
Petition by the faculty to have Board induce E. C. Hayward to reconsider his resignation
1901
Division of Morrill and Hatch funds
Message from Governor Thomas G. Jones of Alabama
Veto of bill for the distribution of the Hatch Fund
Proposed establishment of an Experiment Station near Union, Oregon Applications
Building plans, heating specifications for Gymnasium and Armory
Repairs to Administration Building
Plans for introduction of nature study in the public schools
Grange forms farmer reading circles
Ventilation of blacksmith shop
1902
Purchase of land for the College
Needs of the Military Department
Farmers' Institutes
Resignation of T. M. Gatch from directorship of Experiment Station
Appropriation for the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
Petition from eight literary societies for permanent meeting rooms
Construction of a new building in regard to needs of Chemistry Dept.
Payment on contract for Agricultural Hall; dedication of Agricultural Hall
New construction, repairs and water supply
Buildings accepted at Union; right-of-way for the OR;N railroad to Union
Beet bulletin that will mean "greater progress in plant breeding"
1903
Resignation of J. B. Patterson
Construction at Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
Alleged campaign against the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
1904
College Barometer
seeks appropriations to continue publishing
Authorization to Mr. Gammee to become general superintendent of the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station; problems at the Station
College printing department selling material on the open market; charge of unjust competition
Resignation of Mary E. Avery
1905
Applications
Hatch funds for the College
Alleged reports that the Board is contemplating closing the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station because appropriation made by the Legislature is being held up by a referendum
1906
Various problems and reports about the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
Transfer of Mining Department to blacksmith shop because of desire to have related subjects under same roof
Construction problems and proposed changes in the women's building (Waldo Hall)
Value of rifles loaned to College
Retirement of President Gatch
Need to provide adequate space for increasing classes in Geology and related subjects
Inadequacies in the building for the Pharmacy Department
Horticulture experiments at Experiment Station
Dealing with contracts for new science building
Financial affairs
Mechanical Hall
Petition from faculty requesting increase in salaries
1907
Bids for construction on Mechanical Arts Building
Report for 1906/07
William Jasper Kerr accepts position as College President; letter stating that Mr. Kerr, a Mormon, had two wives and was of unscrupulous moral character; Kerr's arrival; support for Kerr
Cost of living letter from Thomas M. Gatch
Establishment of Experiment Station at Umatilla Irrigation Project; meeting with Kerr at station to inspect it
Sewers for Waldo Hall; readying the hall for students; inspection of hall; reports of leaks and insufficiencies; payment for hall
Cattle barns
Requests from new students
Shipment of exhibits to State Fair
Payment of architect's fee and of contractor
Inquiries from parents
Vocal teacher's resignation
September transmittal of accounts from Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
Bond for cattle stables and heating of Mechanical Arts Building
Appreciation of editorial treatment in the Portland Journal of a hazing incident
Robert Withycombe's six month leave of absence from Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
Lease for part of Eastern Oregon Station farm
Plans for electrical plant
1908
Intercollegiate games in Portland
Advisement of meetings
Settlement for rifles and other military equipment destroyed in 1898 Mechanical Hall fire
Arrival of damaged electrical equipment
Overcharge on shipments to State Fair; State Fair, general
Robert Withycombe's extended leave of absence in eastern U.S. and subsequent problems at Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
Establishment of Poultry Dept. and suggestion to Swift & Co. to establish poultry operation close to Corvallis
Request for pictures of campus from Anne Shannon Monroe
Withycombe's plan for year's work at Eastern Oregon Experiment Station
Payment to widow of deceased staff member's salary
Development of alumni work; proposal to mail alumni all college bulletins and publications
Contract with Willamette Valley Light ; Power
Proposed science building
Answers to persons who wrote letters to the editor of the Oregonian
Space for OAC exhibit at Alaska-Yukon exposition
Request for Experiment Station and summer school on coast
1910
Description of campus lands and tracts together with prices paid and 1910 evaluation
Faculty salaries
Board meeting notices
Railroad side track to heating plant
Rowdyism at University of Oregon-OAC game and Oregonian accounts of same
Confidential note on decrease in enrollment
Bill for photographs
Possibility of OAC being given silver trowel used in laying cornerstone for Administration Building and State Capitol
1917
Notice of settlement from Treasury Department
Improper functioning of new furnace because of inferior coal
1918
Purchase of mileage books and regulations for use
Payment due for electrical work on new library
New secretary
Adjustments in funds
Financial affairs
Return of rolltop desk to College
Listing of College in Hendricks' Commercial Register
Transmittal of moneys from Treasury Department
Advisement of J. K. Weatherford not to pay bills on building contracts too soon
Appreciation from mayor of Corvallis for offering services of nurse