Collection Scope and Content Note

Includes materials relating to Scheetz' student days, including lecture notes, diplomas, and Cornell Class of 1916 correspondence and reunion and fundraising material; papers from his work as a Cornell trustee and presidential councillor concerning student housing, Cornell United Religious Work, information concerning the Faculty Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the Charles J. Quillman, Jr. Fellowship (1952-1964), Cornell Club of New York, Marquis Foundation, Society for the Humanities, Glee Club, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the Aeronautical Laboratory, Cornell University Survey of Administrative Management (Volumes 1-5), student affairs, and minutes and other materials of the University Council and Trustees. Also, photographs; prints; four world maps prepared for King Louis XV of France (1740, 1741); a portrait of General Henry Dearborn, a Revolutionary War patriot; two Sevres vases (gifts to General Dearborn from Louis Philippe); information concerning the Xth International Congress on the History of Science (1962); Theta Delta Chi correspondence; postcards; Scheetz' biographical data; and World War I officer training information.