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In 1921, Dr. Benson was elected the first president of the Women’s Athletic Association of University of Toronto and was involved from the beginning in the campaign to build an athletic building for women. Among the records relating to this activity are correspondence, notes, financial statements and blueprints of proposed buildings. Also included in this series are correspondence, minutes and reports relating to her work as Chair of the Foreign Committee of the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) focusing primarily on an international survey on leadership (1930-1932). Other documents include two undated and unsigned manuscripts of stories, a collection of cards acquired during a trip to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and a scrapbook of pressed flowers with identification collected by Clara Benson ca 1890’s.

Sheet music

Series contains sheet music created and/or accumulated by Kathleen Parlow.

Manuscripts and Publications

W. H. Fraser's principal writing was of textbooks on French and German grammar, co-authored by John Squair and William Henry Van der Smissen. They were used for two generations in Ontario schools and had wide acceptance elsewhere. They went through many editions, being published in Canada by Copp Clark, in the United States by D. C. Heath of Boston, and in the United Kingdom by George Harrap in London. On his own, Fraser wrote, in 1887, Un Philosophe sous les toits, Journal d'un Homme Hereux, par Emile Souvestre, and, later, a slim volume of Italian Exercises. Associated with the last is a scrapbook, mounted pages cut from a French grammar text with annotations in Italian.

Addresses

The addresses in this series are largely public talks, some of which were written on cards, that were delivered in conjunction with lantern slide shows that were highly popular at the turn of the century. The subjects are art, architecture, literature and history, the locales largely Italian, with a few nods to Spain. The single non-Romance address is on German proverbs. The talks on Michelangelo and Raphael were much in demand. They were delivered as part of the University's popular Saturday Lecture Series and, along with others, at numerous locales across southern Ontario. Student organizations, especially the Modern Languages Club, were also frequent venues.

There is also [box 005, folder 01] a selection of cards with press clippings of quotations, current events and amusing anecdotes that were collected for use, in part, in his university lectures and in public talks. Only a few of them are dated; those that are range from 1905 to 1911. Most are written in English, but some are in Italian, Spanish, and French.

Personal ephemera

This series contains a range of W.E. Gallie’s personal ephemera. Files include banquet invitations and programs, copies of high school examination forms, certificates, travel souvenirs, invitations to lectures, newspaper clippings and a large scrapbook. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, dinner programs, and an invitation to Gallie’s wedding. Some of the files in this series, notably the newspaper clippings and scrapbook, may have been collected by Gallie’s wife and children.

Education

This series contains certificates and diplomas, correspondence, course and lab notes, term papers and memorabilia documenting aspects of Davidson Black’s education, running from the Wellesley School through Harbord Collegiate and the Faculties of Medicine and Arts at the University of Toronto. There is also a file on Davidson’s summer project in 1907 to earn money for his Bachelor of Arts program, prospecting in the Temagami Forest Reserve.

Linguistics

This series contains alphabetically arranged correspondence files relating to various topics, organizations and individuals on the discipline of linguistics. Also included in this series are files in chronological order in three categories: American linguistics, British (and European) linguistics and Canadian linguistics. Files in this latter category are the most voluminous, containing correspondence with Prof. Chambers from his earliest days at the University of Toronto. Correspondence with American linguists include David Rood, University of Colorado, Robert I. Binnick, University of Kansas, William Labov, Virginia McDavid, Richard Spears, John Baugh among others. British and European correspondents include, among others, Paul Salmon, University Reading, David Britain, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), Edgar Schneider, Universitat Regensburg and Beat Glauser, Heidelberg. Correspondence with Canadian linguists include colleagues both inside and outside the University of Toronto, and include linguists such as C. Douglas Ellis of McGill University, Harrold Paddock, Memorial University, H.R. Wilson, University of Western Ontario, William Cowan, Carleton University and Gary Prideaux, University of Alberta.

Further records relating to Prof. Chambers’ work in the field of linguistics can be found in file B2019-0038/001(01), which includes some correspondence and ephemera relating to speaking engagements and conferences. Many of the press clippings in files B2019-0038/001(07)-(09) quote Prof. Chambers on the subject of linguistics, demonstrating his role as a regular commentator on this subject, particularly in relation to Canadian English. Similarly, two sound recordings relate to his contributions to the CBC Radio program And Sometimes Y, which explored the cultural and social context of language; another to a talk on language, sex and gender given in Vienna in 2006.

[Piano pedagogy volumes]

Series consists of two volumes (listed below) used by Edith McConica when she was learning, and later teaching, piano. Both volumes are annotated by Edith and her children.

  1. Czerny, Carl. Praktische Fingerübingen für Piano Solo, op. 802, Heft I. Offenbach am Main: Johann André, [1850].
  2. Bilbro, Mathilde. First melody lessons for piano. London, Oakville: The Frederick Harris Co., [193-?].

Administration

Consists of annual meetings and reports, meeting minutes, charter and bylaws, legal files, shares and finances, land and title records, transportation and maintenance records, committee records, and indexes and subject files.

Concert programs

Series consists of programs and other ephemera collected by Carl Morey, predominantly from performances that he attended in Canada, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. Some programs also include ticket stubs, newspaper clippings, annotations by Morey, or program notes written by Morey. Several early programs are autographed by the performers.

Province of Ontario - Statutes

Consists of 3 files:

Notes re Government Statutes, n.d.
Notes: from (1897) Revised Statute of Ontario Cap. 298 [for (1901) 1 Edw. VIII

Cap. 41 (Ont.) An Act Respecting the University of Toronto and University College, 1897-1901

Notes: from Revised Statute of Ontario Cap. 299 [see above] 1897

Correspondence

Consists of 3 files

  1. Thomas Hodgins to Sir William Mulock, April 9, 1897
  2. John George Hodgins to Sir W.R. Meredith, 1900
  3. Letters between Rev. T.C. Street Macklem and J.W. Flavelle, March, 1906

University of Toronto

This series contains predominantly records documenting her academic activities at the University of Toronto. There is correspondence, reports, notes and plans documenting Benson's efforts, along with others, to have a women's athletic building built. The documentation dates from the 1920s through to the 1940s. There is also correspondence and notes relating to other aspects of physical education for women including a proposed affiliation with the Margaret Eaton School as well as a plan for an Ontario College of Physical Education for Women. Finally there is correspondence with colleagues and publication houses relating to the acquisition of off prints of articles as well as a few brochures on events she attended at the University.
Three items were added to this series from B2018-0019: a scrapbook mainly documenting Benson’s career, a Macleans issue from April 1915 describing the graduates of the School of Household Science and a 6oth Anniversary Program for the Faculty of House Hold Science, 1960.
An original wax seal from the University of Toronto can be found in B2022-0021.

Concert programmes

Series contains concert programmes dated from 1939-1958. Programmes reflect performances from Kathleen Parlow as well as the performances of the South Mountain String Quartet, Parlow String Quartet, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Trio, and many of other performers. Concert programmes are from a variety of locations worldwide including the United States, England, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and many other locations. Programmes are in black and white and colour. Some programmes have gold gilt edges as well as other visually interesting features.

Correspondence

This series contains correspondence from 1898-1950. Baillie was a professor of Marine Biology at the UofT. The correspondence in this series is mainly with family and friends while Baillie was stations in England during WWI, but also contains pre-war correspondence from Baillie to his parents, written while he was assigned to a marine biological station at St. Andrews, New Brunswick. There is also correspondence between Baillie and his son, while his son served overseas in WWII.

Family and personal papers

Series consists of materials pertaining the Greta Kraus' family and her personal life. Items include the Meldungsbuch for Margarethe Müller (Greta's mother) from the University of Vienna (1898-1902); a Fink family tree and family history, compiled (in German) by Dr. Hermann Mark, 1996 (Greta Kraus' maternal grandmother was Amalie Fink); the order of service for Erwin G. Dentay's funeral (husband, d. September 29, 1973); draft articles by her brother Dr. Walther Kraus (in German); the funeral notice for Dr. Walther Kraus; Greta Kraus' travel diary (1941, 1945); and her passports. Series also includes handwritten testimonials (Zeugnis) of Miss. Anderson (1912, 1914), a student of Mrs. Mackenzie-Wood, from Dr. [Jean] Paul Ertel, music critic for the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger.

Stott Scrapbook

This series contains a scrapbook of geometric drawings that belonged to Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940) who originally termed the word “polytope” to describe a four dimensional convex solid. Stott was the third daughter of mathematician George Boole and a colleague of Coxeter. The two met in 1930 and worked on various problems together early in Coxeter’s career. Stott died in 1940.

Notes

This series consists of notes taken for research purposes, addresses, and lectures that are not clearly identified with a particular project or event. They were compiled from about 1932 to 1991, with an number of accompanying, heavily annotated, articles that date from 1900.

They begin with eight "philosophical notebooks" compiled in the 1940s and the 1950s that cover topics from naturalism and Kant to the philosophy of biology. The remaining files document issues and individuals that were of continuing interest to Professor Goudge, along with topics that are more narrowly focused. Charles Peirce is especially well documented and Kant is also prominent. Over the years, Goudge assembled material on other philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Ludwig von Bertalanffy,

C. L. Lewis, Lloyd Morgan, Karl Popper, and A. N. Whitehead. Many of these individuals were to appear as biographical entries in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967).

The majority of the files, however, document one of Professor Goudge's principal interests, Darwin and evolution and a part of the ongoing debate on the philosophy of biology. A selection of file titles demonstrates the wide ranging nature of the debate: "aspects of explanation", "causality", "evolutionary theory and ethics", and the "controversy over sociobiology".

Material that Professor Goudge wrote or assembled as a unit at a particular time was periodically broken up and redistributed to files he created for projects of the moment. For example, beginning about 1938 he wrote extensively about various aspects of philosophy for use in his lectures and research. Over the years, these notes became scattered throughout the several dozen files that form this series. The only material that has been removed to other series are clearly identified drafts of lectures, addresses, and articles.

University federation

Consists of 3 files

  1. Report to the Senate on the Federation with Trinity University: Appendices A, B & C, 1901

  2. Draft: Article of Agreement for Federation between Trinity University and the University of Toronto TSS, 1903

  3. Report of the Commission on Federation, Appendices A, B & C, 1903

Other records

Consists of various records, including student work, a portrait of Louis Cazamian, and various academic work. See file listing for more details.

Administrative and teaching files

This series begins with a file containing Professor Barbeau’s curriculum vitae. It is followed by a single file on courses he taught at the University of Western Ontario (1964-1966). The remaining files document his activities in the Department of Mathematics at
the University of Toronto. There are a few general files, followed by a report of the Committee on the Structure of the Governance of the Department (1973), and files on selected staff, the Fields Institute and the Fields Medal. This section concludes with two
boxes of index cards listing students registered in the Mathematics and Physics program between 1903 and 1966, along with cards on interested Commerce and Finance students, physics students, and students who received the Samuel Beatty Fund Scholarship
between 1953 and 1959. One use made of these cards was to compile statistics on the number of students registered in the Mathematics and Physics (M&P) program.

The main part of the series contains material relating to courses Professor Barbeau taught at the University of Toronto, beginning in 1969. It ends with files on a number of publications and organizations at the University of Toronto. For most courses of the courses in this series, Professor Barbeau inserted a memo providing the background and context of each. The material for each course ranges from memoranda, notes and reports, reading lists, and supplementary notes to problem sets, analysis, tests and examinations. Included is the occasional term paper. Until the 1980s, Professor Barbeau developed detailed mimeographed material for his courses; he then switched to typewriters and eventually to computers. Some files, such as those for courses 129, 133Y, and 1030F, contain manuals, drafts of papers, and supplementary notes. Course 439 has drafts of chapters for a work by Barbeau on ‘functional analysis,’ the topic of his doctoral thesis.

Professor Barbeau taught both at the undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Toronto, and also did a lot of outreach work with high school students and working professionals. His taught his first course at the University of Toronto in 1960-1961,
while taking his Master’s degree: calculus to pre-medical students. Later he taught the history of mathematical analysis, a course on chaos and dynamical systems, and a research course of Pell’s equation (the last not represented in this series). He also
developed a general course in mathematics for students in other disciplines, particularly engineering students (see, for example, MEC 362F and MAT 2432/335) and a course in mathematics for intending elementary students. At the graduate level, besides courses in functional analysis and Fourier series, he helped develop a course on problem solving for a Master of Science in Teaching program.

Professor Barbeau’s interest in introducing high school students to mathematics is well documented in this series. Beginning in 1970 and for a quarter century thereafter, he ran a number of courses for high school students. The first, in the summer of 1970 and 1971, was the John Honour Special Seminar in mathematics, while the longest running program, from 1985-1995, was a correspondence course in polynomials, initially for high school students in Metropolitan Toronto. It was soon extended across Canada. In the 1980s he also ran a quantum mechanics seminar (1986), a recreational mathematics and combinatorics course (1987-1988), and he also encouraged high school students to compete in the American High School Mathematics Examination competition.

Another area of outreach was working professionals who needed to upgrade their knowledge. There are two examples in this series, a mathematics seminar for secondary school teachers (1964, 1965) and”Operation alert for engineers”. Each fall between 1972 and 1975, the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering offered an engineering update program in seven three-hour sessions, initially for about 40 working engineers from General Electric and later engineers from General Motors in Oshawa.

Professor Barbeau taught one of the sessions in each semester, on linear algebra and linear analysis.

This series ends with files on a number of publications and organizations at the University of Toronto. “Mathematical Mayhem” was a mathematical journal for gifted high school students and undergraduate students created by students at the University of
Toronto. In 1979, Professor Barbeau conceived of the idea of an essay contest in mathematics open to high school students, named in honour of Samuel Beatty, former Dean of Arts and head of the Department of Mathematics, which ran until 1982. The
quality of the submissions was sufficiently high that the trustees of the Samuel Beatty Fund published two volumes of the best essays.

Promotional materials and memorabilia

Series consists of a promotional booklet and poster, which feature the same photograph and include excerpts of newspaper reviews of his performances. Series also includes his wooden conductor's baton.

Manuscripts and publications

This series contains correspondence, notes, research material and manuscripts, and reviews relating to Professor Luckyj's publications. The titles are: Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine (1956); Canadian Slavonic Papers, which he edited; Molodomuzets (1968); Between Gogol and Shevchenko (1971); an article comparing Ivan Nechui-Levits'kyi and Margaret Atwood (1978), Selected Letters of Panteleimon Kulish (1988); and the correspondence of Ostap Lutsky, Professor Luckyj's father.

Correspondence

This series contains a mixture of both personal and professional correspondence belonging to W.E. Gallie. Notable collections within this series include letters written to and from Colonel J.A. MacFarlane, Consulting Surgeon, Canadian Army Overseas, correspondence with Dr. W.G. Bigelow, and correspondence with well-known American Surgeon Dr. Rudolph Matas. The files in this series are arranged chronologically.

Musical compositions

Series consists of compositions and arrangements by Gena Branscombe, including published sheet music with inscriptions from the composer and manuscript copies of scores and parts.

Memoranda

Consists of 3 files

  1. Memorandum re North Rosedale Annexation. n.d.
  2. Memorandum on the revision of salaries for the Staff of the University & University College, TSS & printed copy, 1905
  3. Memorandum from James Loudon re the separate costs of administering the University of Toronto TSS, ca. 1906
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