Scope and Contents This collection contains a mix of personal and professional materials. Personal material includes biographical information about Charles Cory and his wife, Julia Hagerty Cory. Charles Cory’s professional files contain correspondence focused on a variety of subjects, such as: the collection of information about ISTC students who served during World War I; salary information; the dispute between Cory and Louis Begeman, concerning the latter’s belief that Cory was unfit to serve as Registrar;...

Scope and Contents

This small collection consists of subject files created primarily by Registrar Charles Seldon Cory and then maintained and developed to a lesser extent by Registrar Marshall R. Beard.  Most of the material is from the 1920s and 1930s, but there is some material from the time periods both prior to and following those decades.  This collection offers a good look at the problems that registrars of that era faced in interpreting and evaluating academic credit and student academic standing.