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    <title>Henry S. Pritchett papers, 1876-1967 (bulk 1900-1939)</title>
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    <namePart>Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1857-1939</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, travel diaries, autobiographical material, Pritchett's book entitled What is Religion? (1906), and other papers relating to Pritchett's career in science and education.  Documents his activities with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Massachusetts Charles River Basin Commission, Santa Barbara Relief Fund Committee, formation of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, and the Franklin Fund.  Subjects include education, medical education, racial matters, political affairs, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson.  Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Samuel Bowles, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Gates Dawes, Charles William Eliot, Samuel S. Hall, Herbert Hoover, Walter A. Jessup, Frederick P. Keppel, William S. Learned, Gladys Noon, Margaret Rabitte, Alfred Zantzinger Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Elihu Root, Jr., W.B. Storey, William H. Taft, Booker T. Washington, Woodrow Wilson, and Owen Wister.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Astronomer, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</note>
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      <namePart>Adams, Charles Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1915</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bowles, Samuel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1878</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Butler, Nicholas Murray</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1947</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Carnegie, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1919</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Dawes, Charles Gates</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1951</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eliot, Charles William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1926</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Hall, Samuel S</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoover, Herbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1964</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jessup, Walter A. (Walter Albert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1944</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1943</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Learned, William S. (William Setchel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1950</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Rabitte, Margaret</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reed, Alfred Zantzinger</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1875-1949</namePart>
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      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
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      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Root, Elihu</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1937</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Root, Elihu</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1967</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Storey, W. B. (William B.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taft, William H. (William Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1930</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Washington, Booker T</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1915</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1924</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Wister, Owen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1938</namePart>
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      <namePart>Massachusetts.</namePart>
      <namePart>Charles River Basin Commission.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Bureau of Standards.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.</namePart>
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    <topic>Astronomy</topic>
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    <topic>Disaster relief</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
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    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <geographic>Santa Barbara</geographic>
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    <topic>Education</topic>
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    <topic>Education</topic>
    <topic>Societies, etc</topic>
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    <topic>Endowments</topic>
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    <topic>Medicine</topic>
    <topic>Study and teaching</topic>
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    <topic>Religious literature</topic>
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    <geographic>Massachusetts</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1901-1953</temporal>
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