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Letter from Elmer B. Clark to Hanford M. Burr
No full textA two-page letter from Elmer B. Clark to Hanford M. Burr, date unknown. In this letter, Clark expresses the importance of Burr's words at a past event as they captured the spirit of Springfield College. He also writes his hopes of coming back to the college and meeting with Burr and others
Letter from Elmer B. Clark to Miss. Richardson (April 8, 1918)
No full textA letter from Elmer B. Clark to Miss. Richardson written on April 8, 1918. In the letter, Clark writes so that Miss. Richardson could have his new line of address
Letter from Isabel A. Richardson to Elmer B. Clark (April 10, 1918)
No full textA letter from Isabel A. Richardson to Elmer B. Clark written on April 10, 1918. In the letter, Richardson thanks Clark for his letter with his updated address. Richardson writes how there are 200 Springfield men in the service and how she hopes the war will end soon. Richardson also includes how she is sending a war work course poster. She concludes by saying that Dr. Seerley will be absent for the rest of the year
Anti-quack literature in early Stuart England
No full textPhDDuring the thirty years preceding the Civil War, learned physicians such as John
Cotta, James Hart, James Primerose and Edward Poeton produced a stream of works
attacking those who practised medicine without what they regarded as the proper
training and qualifications. Recent scholarship has tended to view these as exercises in
economic protectionism within the context of the ‘medical marketplace’. However,
increasing attention has latterly been drawn to the Calvinist religious preferences of
these authors, and how these are reflected in their arguments, the suggestion being
that these can be read as oblique critiques of contemporary church reform.
My argument is that professional and religious motivations were in fact
ultimately inseparable within these works. Their authors saw order and orthodoxy in
all fields - medical, social, political and ecclesiastical - as thoroughly intertwined, and
identified all threats to these as elements within a common tide of disorder. This is
clearest in their obsession with witchcraft, that epitome of rebellion, and with priest-physicians;
practitioners who tended to combine medical heterodoxy, anti-Calvinist
sympathies and a taste for the occult, and whose practices were innately offensive to
puritan social thought while carrying heavy Catholic overtones.
These works therefore reflected an intensely conservative worldview, but my
research suggests that they should not necessarily be taken as wholly characteristic of
early Stuart puritan attitudes. All of these authors can be associated with the moderate
wing of English Calvinism, and Cotta and Hart developed their arguments within the
context of the Jacobean diocese of Peterborough, where an entrenched godly elite was
confronted by an unusually rigourous conformist church court regime. They sought to
promote a particular vision of puritan orthodoxy against conformist heterodoxy; in
light of the events of the interregnum, it seems likely that this concealed more diverse
attitudes towards medical reform amongst the godly
"War Games" by Elmer Berry, O. L. Fritsch and G. B. Affleck
No full textThis pamphlet, titled "War Games", was written by Springfield College (then known as International YMCA College) professors Elmer Berry, Otto Loren Fritsch, and George Baird Affleck. The book includes games selected to train people in different squads during World War I. It has some handwritten notes on page 3 and a drawing on page 26.Elmer Berry graduated from Springfield College in 1902 and was an instructor in anatomy, gymnastics, and athletics before receiving a MPE degree there in 1908. Later, he was a professor of physical education and physiology at the college. He received EdM and EdD degrees at Harvard University and was the author of several articles on physical education. In 1927, he was called to the National YMCA, College of Physical Education in Saidapet, Madras, India, and served as acting principal for two years. He retired from the YMCA service in 1939 after thirty-four years of service. He was a physical education professor at the State College of Washington and the University of Oregon and was presented with the Tarbell Medallion in 1947 for service.
George Baird Affleck (1876-1958) spent his boyhood in the woods of Canada, where he became an enthusiastic trapper, camper, and naturalist. He attended Manitoba Provincial Normal School (g. 1895), University of Manitoba (g. 1897), and Springfield College (g. 1901), where he played on the lawn hockey team. He worked as the Assistant Secretary of the Winnipeg YMCA from 1898-1899 and as the Physical Director of the State Teachers College (Cedar Falls, Iowa) from 1901-1907. He spent the following two years as the Physical Director of the Central Department YMCA in Chicago. In 1908, Springfield College hired Affleck, and he remained here until his retirement in 1941. Affleck was professionally affiliated with the American Student Health Association, National Education Association, College Physical Directors’ Society, AAHPRER, American Social Hygiene Association, and American Camping Association of YMCA Secretaries. For thirty years, he compiled and edited the “Selected Bibliography in Physical Education.” He wrote articles for the Association Seminar, Physical Training Magazine, Pedagogical Seminar, Camping World, Journal of Health and Physical Education, Research Quarterly, and he co-authored the Classification for Physical Education Library. In 1944, Springfield College awarded him the Tarbell Medallion, which recognizes outstanding service
Letter from Alberta E. Moore to Laurence L. Doggett
No full textA four-page letter from Alberta E. Moore to Laurence L. Doggett, date unknown. In this letter, Moore tells Doggett the fate of her late husband, Elmer B. Clark
Lazy blue waltz.
No full textGift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Piano vocal [instrumentation]B flat major [key]Valse Andante [tempo]Waltz song [form/genre]Portrait of Elsie Clark; bird [illustration]Barbelle [engraver]Jack Mills Inc., New York [dealer stamp]Publisher's advertisement on front inside cover and back cover [note
Saga of the Whispering Hills - 006
No full textPhotograph - Cast members Graham Olson, Carl Olson, Orest Muzyka, Elmer Kennedy, Dennis MacNeil, Joe Ladouceur and Bill Wood. Saga of the Whispering Hills, presented by the Athabasca Players for the 75th Anniversary of Athabasca, Albert
Saga of the Whispering Hills - 086
No full textPhotograph - Cast members singing "Up the Amber Athabasca". Bob Garton, Elmer Kennedy, Orest Muzyka, Bill Wood, Dennis MacNeil and Reg Netterville. Saga of the Whispering Hills, presented by the Athabasca Players for the 75th Anniversary of Athabasca, Albert
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