Scope and Content Note
The papers of Ralph Cooper Hutchison (1898-1966) span the years 1920-1966, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1957-1966. The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, sermons, speeches and writings, and other material relating to Hutchison's work as director of Studies in Higher Education, president of Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, and chancellor of Abadan Institute of Technology in Iran. The papers are organized into eleven series: Diaries and Notebook ; General Correspondence ; Special Correspondence ; Bound Correspondence ; Financial Records ; Proposals, Minutes, and Reports ; Speech and Article File ; Studies in Higher Education: Published Studies ; College Publications ; Scrapbooks and Photographs ; and Miscellany .