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Berea College

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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Francis S. Hutchins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract Francis Stephenson Hutchins (b. 1902), a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., 1923) and Yale University (M.A., 1933). Having worked in China as an undergraduate, Hutchins returned to China as an instructor in 1925 as part of the Yale-in-China Association's educational mission. Forced to leave China in 1939 during the Japanese invasion, Hutchins was appointed president of Berea College to succeed his father—William J. Hutchins.  Hutchins served as...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979

Lincoln Institute collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.29
Abstract The Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended the institute to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905 - 2023

Office of the Vice President for Finance

 Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.19
Abstract

Records of the Berea College Office of the Vice President of Finance

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-

William Goodell Frost Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.03
Abstract Frost, a native of LeRoy, New York, was an 1876 graduate of Oberlin College and taught Greek at him alma materfrom 1876 through 1892. Having refused the presidency of Berea College in 1889, Frost reconsidered theappointment after the resignation of William B. Stewart.  Frost was inaugurated in 1892 and served as presidentuntil 1920. Frost is credited with being chiefly responsible for the significant growth of Berea College during thisperiod. His term saw enrollment rise from 350 in 1912 to...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1860-1894

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Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 2
Berea (Ky.) 2
Day Law (Kentucky). 2
Education, higher -- Administration 2
African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 1