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Speeches Delivered at the University of Virginia, Accession #30/9/5.071, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
In [1938?] Lester J. Cappon sent out a circular letter seeking copies of every address given at the University or by University professors for files in the Virginia Room. Many of the speeches in this collection appear to have been given in response to Cappon's plea.
The collection contains lectures in a theology series, 1936 -1940, by Mortimer Adler, Norman P. Cohen, James M. Egan, O.P., Frank A. Geldard, Lewis M. Hammond, D. Clark Hyde, L. F. Kinney, William H. Laird, S. Vernon McCasland, Marcus B. Mallett, A. T. Mollegen, Howard Newman (notes only), J. Winfree Smith, William Kyle Smith, Carroll Mason Sparrow, Joseph Strause (notes only), and William S. Weedon. Sparrow's essay on "The measure of measurement" was later published in "Voyages and Cargoes. "
The collection also contains lectures in a great authors series by A.D. Fraser, W.A. Montgomery and Frederic T. Wood.
Speeches on University of Virginia topics include the honor system by Virginius Dabney; Paul B. Barringer by Roy Flannegan; a debate before the Jefferson Society by Robert W. Hoel; the 8th Evacuation Hospital by H.E. Jordan; a comparison of the University in 1896 and 1924 by James M. Page; the "gay nineties" at Virginia by Lewis C. Williams.
Other speakers include Sir Harold Bellman, A. D. Fraser, Garrard Glenn, James Hart, W. Edwin Hemphill, A. A. Hill, C[linton?] N[ewton?] Howard, William H. Laird, Ivey F. Lewis, John C. Metcalf, Julius M. Parmlee, Charles Pergler, Homer Richey, Joseph K. Roberts,Karl R. Wallace, Sumner Welles, Jennings C. Wise, Frederick T. Wood, David M. Wright.
Miscellaneous items include a catalog of prints by Oscar Gieberich on exhibit, 1939.