Box 2
Container
Contains 80 Results:
Advice about Horace’s difficulties with examinations, and a professor; business activities , 1907-04-05
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 43
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:
1907-04-05
News of family and acquaintances; trip to Indianapolis, 1907-04-19
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 44
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:
1907-04-19
Progress on house; business activities; news of family, 1907-04-26
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 45
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:
1907-04-26
Report of special examination in history and impressing professor; thoughts about professor’s criticisms; property matters; news of family, 1907-05-03
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 46
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:
1907-05-03
George suffering from measles; progress in getting a house, 1907-05-06
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 47
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:
1907-05-06
Editorship of the Miami Student and presidency of class; progress on house; family news, 1907-05-10
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 48
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:
1907-05-10
News of acquaintances; progress on house; what Horace might do that summer; what is the matter with Oxford activities; expense of his calling cards; opinions about depression in the affairs of the world, 1907-05-17
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 49
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:
1907-05-17
Day’s activities; financial matters; encloses notes written on the train and during waiting time at Piqua to keep his mind employed and shorten the time for waiting, 1907-05-21
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 50
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:
1907-05-21
Association dues; day’s activities; getting paying work on the repair track, 1907-05-25
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 51
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:
1907-05-25
Business activities; architect’s progress; news of family and acquaintances; submitting an entry to the Prize Story contest in “The Circle”, 1907-05-31
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 52
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:
1907-05-31