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Draft of a course catalog for the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, a naturopathic college founded in 1956 in Portland, Oregon. The draft includes handwritten edits.

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Records of the Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE), including records relating to the Oregon Literature Series project and issues of the council's semi-annual publication, Oregon English Journal. The council, founded in 1913, is an organization of English and literature educators. It has published Oregon English Journal since 1979, and it led the Oregon Literature Series, a project to produce a six-volume anthology of Oregon literature published by Oregon State University Press.

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Oregon Institute of Technology was a junior college operated under the auspices of the Portland YMCA. Collection consists of minute books with minutes, curriculum, finances, and related matters.

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The Pacific Northwest Labor College was originally sponsored by the Portland Labor Temple and offered night courses and continuing education for labor union members until its closure in 1984. Records include correspondence, reports, minutes, lists of officers, by-laws, surveys, proposals, news releases, bibliographies, memoranda, curriculum materials, and financial grant materials.

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Two versions of a typescript thesis by C. G. Springer, written for the University of Oregon School of Education in partial fulfillment of a master of arts degree. A longer bound version of the thesis, 83 pages, is titled "A History of Philomath College" and dated July 20, 1929. Also included is an unbound condensed version titled "Philomath College, 1865-1930." Both versions have handwritten notes and corrections.

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Digitized audio recording of an oral history interview with Laurence Pratt conducted on December 15, 1981. Pratt discusses his career teaching English at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and as a high school teacher in Portland, Oregon, as well as his work as an author and poet.

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Twenty-eight black and white photographs of Amanda Wood Reed; Simeon Gannett Reed; the interior of the Reed house in Portland, Oregon; the Reed College campus; and Reed students.

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John G. Schroeder (1886-) was a student at the Oregon Agricultural College (later Oregon State University) and editor of the college yearbook, Barometer. He later became a Portland lawyer. Collection consists of correspondence, 1905-1916, regarding his activities at the college and editing of the "Barometer"; debate notes, 1908, regarding labor unions; and miscellaneous ephemera.

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Collection includes minutes and other documents of the Presidential Search Committee of Southern Oregon State College, 1968, including resumes of committee members and notes on the nominees, including Edith Green.

Abstract The Velde Committee, or Committee on Un-American Activities, met in Portland, Oregon, in June 1954 to investigate the political affiliations of three Reed College professors, who refused to answer questions put to them by the committee. Collection consists of documents gathered by Donald Sterling Jr., who covered the hearings for the Oregon Journal newspaper. Among the materials in the collection are an open letter by Reed College Professor Stanley Moore; the prepared text of a speech to be...