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Stewart Lillard assembled this collection of University of Tennessee memorabilia dating from the early 1910s to 1929. It includes a 1918 commencement invitation and program, a 1911-1912 student directory, a 1929 program for the Tau Beta Phi Installation Banquet, and a copy of Press Bulletin No. 9, Liming Soils.

The first section of this collection houses the excuses that students submitted to explain their absence from either class or chapel. Some claimed the standard excuse of illness, while others were considerably more creative. The second section houses correspondence documenting the Maude Powell Student Aid Fund and the Student Aid Committee.

This collection is composed primarily of newspaper articles (taken mainly from the Daily Beacon and the Knoxville News-Sentinel) documenting student organizations, publications, fraternities and sororities, and Senior Gift. The Senior Gift is further documented with several pamphlets. Additionally, the collection houses information showing student participation in and service to the community.

This collection houses the minutes of the Student Council of the Honor System dating from January 19, 1917 to February 27, 1918.

This collection contains items related to the Summer School of the South, run by the University of Tennessee from 1902 to 1918. The collection is divided into five series: Summer School of the South Materials; Correspondence; Business and Administrative Materials; Lecturer and Entertainer Materials; and Oversize Materials.

These three papers were presented at the Symposium on Technology, Society and the Common Good: The Energy Question held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on October 29-30, 1979.

This collection contains material documenting the formation and activities of the University’s Task Force on Blacks, which was created to monitor the condition of and provide policy recommendations for black students, faculty, and staff. The collection contains a wide variety of material, including summaries of interviews with various administrators, reports from colleges and departments, student responses to questionnaires, and other materials.

This magazine contains profiles of University of Tennessee professors recognized for excellence in teaching and research.

This collection consists of two registers showing visitors to the University of Tennessee Exhibit at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, Tennessee. The registers cover June 1 to October 30, 1897 and include the name and hometown of each guest.

The University of Tennessee's Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity (Epsilon-Omicron Chapter) published this edition of the Tennessee Echo on March 15, 1943. It discusses war bonds, intramurals, class pledges, banquets, and fraternity members joining the Army. The paper originally belonged to Warren Wilson of Atlanta, Georgia.

This collection houses general correspondence from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to the University of Tennessee dating from 1976 to July of 1984.

This collection contains two issues of the Tennessee Legacies newsletter, a publication encouraging planned giving to the University of Tennessee. The Spring issue describes a new charitable IRA rollover law and gives a profile of Bob and Etta Davis of Chattanooga, and the Summer issue includes information about a gift made to the campus radio station WUOT.

This collection houses lists of winners, programs, speeches, press releases, questionnaires, contest rules, committee reports, and correspondence documenting Tennessee Press Association contests held between 1970 and 1982.

This collection includes two copies of the Tennessee Volunteers Basketball Schedule for 1945-46. This schedule includes a group photograph of the team, a photograph of the head coach John Mauer, a schedule of games, a color advertisement for Coca-Cola, a blank scoresheet, and a guide to referee's signals.

This collection houses photographs of the interiors and exteriors of ten buildings on Terrace Avenue that the University of Tennessee purchased and subsequently destroyed.

This collection houses a 1989 plan for a Textile Development Center.

This collection consists of a master's thesis for the University of Minnesota entitled The Development of Royal Taxation in England and France in the Twelfth Century by Harold Swenson Fink.

In this manuscript, Boyd Childress describes the University of Tennessee's Library in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

This collection consists of a seventeen-page typed document on the history of the Epsilon Eta chapter of Sigma Nu at the University of Tennessee.

This collection houses the manuscript of a work describing the history of graduate education at the University of Tennessee from 1821 to 1988 written by Diana Lopez and published in 1990. This document contains the editorial marks of Milton Klein, University Historian and Professor of History.