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Box 1

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Contains 104 Results:

Financial matters; Latin experience; new rooming arrangements, 1905-09-28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 62
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-09-28

Using judgment in financial matters; prospects of history course; news of family activities for the day; description of friend’s land; news of acquaintances; local school activities, 1905-10-02

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 63
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-10-02

News of acquaintances and family; concern about flag rush; financial matters, 1905-10-06

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 64
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-10-06

Encloses newspaper clipping from the Cincinnati Post about flag rush at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; description of day’s activities; request for information about him smoking, 1905-10-09

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 65
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-10-09

Encloses newspaper clippings from the Dayton Daily News about 600 University of Wisconsin students being ducked in Lake Mendota and President Roosevelt conferring with football authorities regarding changes in rules; thanks him for his admission [about smoking] and the assurance he gave about his future intentions; thoughts about flag rush, 1905-10-14

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 66
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-10-14

Encloses newspaper editorial from the Cincinnati Post about Andrew Carnegie and the fact that college training may unfit a man for business; news of family; business difficulties; news of acquaintances being hazed in Columbus, 1905-10-17

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 67
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-10-17

Plans to go to Columbus; news of acquaintances; encloses letter from Mrs. Ballinger with news of family and acquaintances, 1905-10-23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 68
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-10-23

News of family and acquaintances; plans to go to Greenville; how this news shows “that many people, through willfulness, recklessness, bad judgment, ignorance &c. bring upon themselves unhappiness, sorrow, and sometimes even premature death”; thoughts about marriage and how the physically imperfect and the constitutionally diseased ought to be taught in youth that it is to their interest and happiness to remain unmarried; importance of subjecting natural tastes, desires and passions to judgment, 1905-10-27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 69
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-10-27

Glad to hear he is feeling well, about the educational value of the trip, and the interest he seems to take in that feature of it; request for more information about mineral springs; news of family and acquaintances, 1905-07-15

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 56
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-15

Finding some Ballingers in Kentucky; arranging to see those Barboursville people to get ancestry details; interest in mineral springs, 1905-07-21

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 57
Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection begins with letters that John Ballinger wrote to his son, Horace, while Horace was a student at Miami University. Letters sent early in Horace's freshman year discuss expenses associated with attending school and advice to Horace not to join a fraternity or participate in flag rush so that he can concentrate on his studies. After Horace requests that his father send him several books from home, his father suggests in a letter written October 4, 1904 that "there must be some...
Dates: 1905-07-21