| Notes: | Educator. A.B., Yale University, 1921; LL.B, 1925. Secretary, Yale University, 1923-1927; lecturer, Yale Law School, 1925-27; acting dean of Yale Law School, 1927-28; professor of law, 1927-1929; dean Yale Law School, 1928-1929. President, University of Chicago, 1929-1945; chancellor, 1945-1951. Associate director, Ford Foundation, 1951-54. Chairman, board of editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1947-1974. President, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1954-1974. Established Committee to Frame a World Constitution, 1945. Chairman, Commission on the Freedom of the Press. Died, 1977.
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| Summary: | Contains personal ephemera, correspondence, subject files, articles and speeches, clippings, books, reports, minutes, programs, certificates, medals, academic regalia, photographs, cassette tapes, reel-to-reel tapes, and one 33 1/3 record. Correspondents include Mortimer Adler, James Angell, William Benton, William O. Douglas, Werner Jaeger, Archibald MacLeish, John U. Nef Jr., Lessing Rosenwald, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Subjects relate to education, freedom of the press, academic freedom, world government, democracy, and the University of Chicago.
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