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Kenneth C. M. Sills, Administrative Records, 1889-1969, n.d.
47.25 linear feet.
Catalog Number: 1.2.8
Series List:
- Reports of the President, 1891-1952
39 volumes.
- Addresses, 1918-1952, n.d. 7 linear
feet.
- Subject Files, 1917-1954, n.d. [A Commitee
on V...] 4 linear feet
- Subject Files, 1917-1954, n.d. [Committee
on W...-Report of the Major...] 4 linear feet
- Subject Files, 1917-1954, n.d. [Marine
Corps-Zabriske.] 4 linear feet
- Honorary
Degrees, 1917-1952 2 linear feet.
- Sesquicentennial Fund, 1947-1953
1.75 linear feet.
- Correspondence Files, 1917-1952
14 linear feet.
- Printed Ephemera, 1906-1954
.5 linear feet.
- Personal - General, 1919-1969, n.d.
1.25 linear feet.
- Academic Lecture Notes, 1901-1952, n.d.
1 linear foot.
- Undergraduate, 1899-1901, n.d. .75
linear feet.
- Personal - Financial, 1906-1954
.5 linear feet.
- Diaries, 1889-1953 1 linear
foot.
- World War II Correspondence, 1940-1946,
Abernathy-Brooks .5 linear feet.
- World War II Correspondence, 1940-1946,
Brown-Flint 1 linear foot.
- World War II Correspondence, 1940-1946,
Flint-Leydon 1 linear foot.
- World War II Correspondence, 1940-1946,
Lifshitz-Schenk 1.5 linear feet.
- World War II Correspondence, 1940-1946,
Schlosberg-Z 1 linear foot.
- World War I Correspondence, 1917-1919,
.5 linear feet.
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Agency History /
Biographical Note:
Kenneth Charles Morton Sills (1879-1954) was Bowdoin's eighth president.
A graduate in the class of 1901, he served first as Dean of the
College (1910-1917) under William DeWitt Hyde.
Following Hyde's death in 1917, he served as acting president until
1918 when he assumed the presidency. His tenure in office is the
longest in Bowdoin's history, 35 years. A number of important issues and
events characterized his presidency. He served through three wars and the
Great Depression, took steps to maintain Bowdoin as a small liberal arts
college, fought for and achieved institutional control over athletics,
ended the B.S. degree distinction and closed the Medical
School of Maine, while strengthening other areas of the curriculum and
the faculty.
Scope and Content:
Files of President Kenneth C.M. Sills include general office correspondence
and specific correspondence relating to the closing of the Medical
School of Maine, the conferring of honorary degrees, athletics,
fraternities, the Institute of Modern Literature, the establishment
of the Kent Island Station, the Tallman Foundation and the Committee
on the Limitation of Numbers.
Cite as: Kenneth C.M. Sills, Administrative Records. George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions: None.
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