Fleet Elmer Hover Student University (1 results)

Titlepage, 2 pages illustrated introductory doublesheet designed by [Elvina, 1891-1939, Ohio, USA?] Wharton Clay (c. 1915); 8 pages 'Friends' (with 6 entries on p. 1*), a total of 14 sheets to fill for 'Comparative Athletic Record', 'Calendar'; 'School Functions'; 'Clubs and Societies'; 'Memorable trips'; 'Entertainment, Lectures, Plays'; 'My Favorites'; 'Professors i have met' (all empty). - 29 cardboard-sheets, with hundreds of ephemera tipped-on to both sides, illustrating the intensive study-, sport- and cultural-activities of van Fleet; with schedules, and proofs; letters in envelopes, programs, photographs, even cloth-pieces with numbers he was given for track-racing, Phi Delta Phi membership, a cinema program of 1915 for 'Joan the Woman' by Lassky, a photograph of Woodrow Wilson during car-ride in Cinc. and invitation with rules for dinner with the President, detailed documentation of his run for Oxford Rhodes Scholarship which he became the first ever to be awarded in Virginia; all kinds of official documents of the University regarding his study and around, newspaper articles mentioning him for various achievements, all kind of namecards, many musical and theatre programs, small newspaper-article and entrance ticket to Sarah Bernards Farewell Tour, photopraphs of the Campus, membership-cards and fee-invoices, many sport activity proofs, programs for graduation exercises, pins, etc. pp.; few empty sheets. - White-leather-string-bound dark-rose- colour cloth College Memory Book with the University's gilt 'coat-of-arm' at frontpanel; oblong-Folio (ca. 31,5 x 42,5 x 6,5 cm; ca. 5 kg.!). *** [Endgültig ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF / Ultimately fading SPRING-SALE: um fast 50% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Montag 06.05.2024, 24 Uhr (PRICE REDUCTION of almost 50% until Monday, May 6th 2024); ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 1.650,-] --- IMPRESSIVE EARLY 20th CENTURY AMERICAN COLLEGE SCRAP-BOOK, LARGESIZE CLOTH- AND STRINGBOUND ORIGINAL; CONTAINING ALL WORTH COLLECTING one can imagine for the University-period of a dilligent ambitious young man whose life yet ended short afterwards during service for the U.S. Army in Europe in the last days of World War I. - A chronologic list of content is in progress and will be complemented once in a while in this description in order of the 29 filled sheets: 1.re.) Freshman-Cartoon, Bird's-View of the Univ. of VA, Invoice for Session 1913-1914, YMCA membership fee-receipt; 1.vs.) Schedule of lectures 1913-14, Announcement of Adviser Professor for 1st year. 'Prof. R. St. Webb', folded doublesheet 'University Songs', namecard 'Mr. Carleton Sanders Penn', orange application card for 'Washington Literary Society'(not filled). / 2.re.) Sept. '17 1913: Letter with Envelope ''to urge you to attend the initial meeting for this session of St. Paul's Chapther of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew . . .''(folded letter signed by [female] Secretary M. S Dimmock), another meeting invitation card by Dimmock, another mostly printed one reg. 'Election of Officers', picture of the church, another card, St. Paul's Memory Church University of Virginia 'LENT 1914'-Schedule; 'Annual Visit of the Rt. Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd, D.D .'-program-sheet; 2.vs.) 5 detailed Univ.-Course Announcements tipped upon each other, folded doublesheet 'Third Organ Recital . Mr. Oscar Franklin Comstock . Dean D.C. Chapter, Washington', folded doublesheet 'Sixth Organ Recital . Edgar Priest, . Organist and Master . of Washington Cathedral, folded doublesheet 'Phi Delta Phi Fraternity . Symposium in One Chortle and Four Mirages.', small folded doublesheet 'North Carolina [vs.] Johns Hopkins at University of Virginia: Triangular Debates 1914 . on >Resolved, That the political interests of the Unites States demand the abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine<'; YMCA Univ. of Virginia Membership Card, Silk-strip Vote call for 'Academic Election .'. / 3.re.) Christmas letter 1913 with Envelope, Western Union Telegram w.E. by 'Uncle Jim', 1914', personal pencilletter, folded, ms. christmas card by James S. McLemore, filled formcard 'Allowance of Week-Absence', signed by the Dean, Businesscard of 'Hattendorf Kern Co. - Hats and Furnishings, Shirts. - Memphis Tenn.', printed Invitation card with env. 'The Ladies Auxiliary of the Y.M.C.A. - . at Madison Hall', Admittance 'as an unclassified Student' of Harvard College July 6 1914, Ticket No. B 'Kennie's Charlottesville and University of Virginia Transfer'; 3.vs.) 4 1914 lesson-sheets tipped upon each other: 2x chemistry (1 receipt of buying laboratory stuff), 1 of School of Latin, 1 for Math., folded typed Letter by the Dean announcing the Latin-Exam., ms. letter in envelope asking him to thank his mother for tomatoes, namecard of 'Chas. Kinney / representing leader printing co., Covington, Tenn.', Cartoon strip 'Back to the Rotunda, June 13-17, 1914'. / 4.re.) Folded library fee invoice, 'Schedule of Hours' for B.A. degree, Ticket 'Dep. of Superintendence, . . . Complimentary Concert by the Cinc. Musical Assoc. and the Cinc. Symphony Orchestra Assoc.', red membership card with string 'Member Musicaln Association Univ. of Virginia', small ms. namecard Elmer van Fleet, Program 'First Concert . Musical Assoc. of the Univ. of Cincinnati' Nov. 25, 1914 (Violin, Dance, Song), Program 'Annual Concert Mus. Ass. . Mandoline Club, Girls' and Men's Glee Clubs'; 4.vs.) 5 larger detailed Newspaper theater-play and musical announcements early 1915 tipped upon each other: Henry Miller in 'Daddy Long-Legs' by Jean Webster, 'The Story of the Rosary' by Walter Howard (Comstock & Gest, Manager Arthur Miller), Revue Concert Program New York Hippodrome 'Gilbert & Sullivan H. M. S. Pinaforte - .', Guy Bates Post in 'Omar the Tentmaker' based on Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyat' by Richard Walton Tully, 8-page program Cinc. Mus. Festival Ass. and Cinc. Symphony Orchetra 'A Choral Concert - Music Hall Feb. 25, 1915' advertising a master class concert by Miss Florence Hinkle, America's foremost l.