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Gillespie, William Irwin (Canada) Ph.D. 1964

 File — Container: 17, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

Series 10, the records of former students, is restricted under the provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and is divided into six subseries. The first consists of the admissions cards of the Department from 1969 to 1975, which contain information about undergraduate work, Graduate Record Examination scores, letters of recommendation and remarks of members of the department regarding the candidate. These files are arranged chronologically by academic year and, within files, alphabetically. The admissions cards in this series are only for those students who were not admitted or were admitted but did not attend Hopkins. The admissions cards for those students who did matriculate are often in their individual student folders. The second subseries consists of the individual files of those students who received only the Master of Arts Degree. They range in date from 1909-1982, but are concentrated in the 1940s and onward. Generally, the files contain records involving admissions, course and progress of study, financial aid, recommendations for employment, samples of student work, and grant and fellowship applications and recommendations. The third subseries contains the records of students who did not receive degrees, arranged in the same manner as those who received the M.A.; this subseries contains the same types of materials as the previous subseries, spanning the years 1912-1981. The fourth subseries contains records of students who received the Master's degree. Though these documents are identical in nature to those found in subseries 2, they have not been interfiled for logistical reasons. The fifth subseries, pertaining to those students who did complete the Ph.D., contains the same types of records as the previous two groups. Here, however, the documentation and correspondence concerning the final Oral examination and the conferring of the Doctoral degree have also been included. The sixth subseries contains the records and transcripts (ranging in date from 1975 to 1991) of students who were candidates for the Ph.D. at Hopkins but were terminated before completion of their studies, either for financial, academic or personal reasons. Files in series 10 extend from the 1890s to the early 1990's.

Dates

  • Creation: 1896-1981

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Administrative records in series 5 are restricted for twenty-five years from their date of creation. Education records in series 9 and 10, as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, as well as employment records in series 8, are also restricted.

Extent

From the Record Group: 29.82 Cubic Feet (12 record center cartons, 37 letter size document boxes, 4 letter half-size document boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Record Group: English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

Contact:
The Sheridan Libraries
Special Collections
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Baltimore MD 21218 USA