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Walter Theodore Brown fonds
Walter Theodore Brown fondsFonds number2111 Name of CreatorBrown, Walter Theodore Dates of Material [1903?]-1954 TitleWalter Theodore Brown fonds Source of title properTitle based on the contents of the fonds. Extent48 cm of textual records Administrative HistoryWalter Theodore Brown graduated from Victoria College in 1908 (M.A.) and received a Ph.D degree from Harvard University in 1912. From 1913 to 1928, he taught in Ethics at Victoria College, before serving as head of the Department of Religion at Yale University, 1928-1932. He returned to Victoria to assume the role as Principal in1932, and then in 1933 he assumed the duties of President during 1933-1934 and 1939-1940, when E. W. Wallace was on leave for health reasons. In 1941 Brown was formally appointed President, but continued to act also as Principal of Victoria College until 1944. From 1941 to 1949 he served as President of Victoria University, but was forced to retire due to poor health. He died in 1954. Scope and ContentFonds consists of the following series: correspondence, 1912-1949; addresses, articles and other records, [1903?]-1945; personal material, 1912-1954.
SeriesNote(s)Immediate Source of AcquisitionRecords in accession 1987.092V were a gift of Brown's son Howard M. Brown Finding AidsPhotographs are described in the photograph database: http://archival-photos.vicu.utoronto.ca/ General NotesSee also Principal's Office Fonds (Fonds 2063 - series 1, subseries 1 - Correspondence files of Principal Brown); President's Office Fonds (Fonds 2021 - series 1, subseries 4 - General correspondence of Walter T Brown and subseries 5 - General correspondence of Walter T Brown and Harold Bennett) CategoryAdministrators / Faculty personal papers |
