Box 1
Container
Contains 104 Results:
News from home; seeing the interior of a mine; financial matters; coming home soon, 1905-07-25
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 58
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:
1905-07-25
What it is like to write a letter on a typewriter; visiting Barboursville people; Ballinger family history details, 1905-07-28
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 59
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:
1905-07-28
How things are at school, 1905-09-20
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 60
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:
1905-09-20
Description of day’s activities; news of family and acquaintances; advice about staying away from temptation; thoughts about hazing, 1905-09-25
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 61
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:
1905-09-25
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