Box 202

Correspondence, meeting proceedings, and reports relating to the Provincial Committee on Studies, which was formed as a response to the 25th General Congregation of 1906. Includes circulars from Father Provincial Joseph F. Hanselman and recommendations from subject-based subcommittees.

Correspondence, reports, and pamphlets regarding the revision of the 1910 schedule of studies. Includes syllabi for English literature and composition, biology, classical and modern languages, mathematics, and history. as well as some letters from Father Provincial Joseph H. Rockwell.

Correspondence to Georgetown Rector Father Joseph Havens Richards from Father Provincial Thomas J. Campbell and Father Socius Joseph M. Jurge regarding Novice Horace Sprague. Also includes correspondence from Father Socius Thomas J. Gannon.

Correspondence to Georgetown Rectors (Fathers John D. Whitney, Joseph J. Himmel, Alphonsus J. Donlon, and John B. Creedon) from Father Provincials Edward I. Purbick, Joseph F. Hanselman, Anthony J. Maas, and Joseph H. Rockwell. Also includes some correspondence from Father Socius Thomas J. Gannon and information on the Maryland-New York Province Sodality Congress for 1913.

Predominantly correspondence between Father Provincials Edward C. Phillips and Joseph A. Murphy; Father Socius Anthony J. Bleicher; and Georgetown Rectors Father W. Coleman Nevils and Father Arthur A. O'Leary. Some 1937 correspondence is from Father Edmund A. Walsh's time as Acting President of the university.

Materials compiled on the separation of New England from the Maryland-New York Province at the request of Visitor Norbert de Boynes. Includes correspondence as well as reports on lines of division, reasons "for" or "against" the partition, and financial considerations.

Bound results of annual examinations of scholastics on philosophy and theology. Provides candidate name, time and place of exam, examiners, and examiners' judgements. Includes those from outside the Province who took exams within it, typically at Woodstock. Also contains an index of names.

Correspondence from Fathers Jacob B. Matthews, Junius A. McGehee, and Charles J. Hennessy regarding Sacred Heart Church in La Plata, Maryland. Includes financial information on the "new rectory account," 1925.

Correspondence from Father Jerome Daugherty to Father Edward Devitt.

Correspondence to Father Edward Devitt from Fathers George Quin, Thomas McLaughlin, Mark Smith, and others to assist in the preparation of a Maryland-New York Province history for the centenary of the restoration of the Society.

Correspondence surrounding the visitation of Father Norbert de Boynes, including a synopsis of his exhortation made at Keyser Island (1920); a copy of his farewell address at the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York City (1921); and a memorial of his visit (1922).

Minutes of a meeting between the Deans of Woodstock College and Georgetown regarding the arrangements for registration of Woodstock Third Year Philisophers at the latter.

Correspondence from Father Provincial Edward Purbick to Father Edward Devitt regarding the location of historical Jesuit documents, including reports by Special Visitor Peter Kenney, S.J.

Correspondence predominantly with Father Provincial James P. Sweeney on the graduate studies of Jesuits within the Maryland-New York Province. Includes information on the cases of individual students.