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Papers of Harrison Williams, Jr

Diary of Harrison Williams, Jr. of Leesburg, Va., entitled, "My Last Three Months at Virginia," kept while a fourth year student at the University of Virginia. Topics include: drinking, Margueritte's, prohibition, student life, studies and examinations, the Yellow Journal and professors. Topics of interest mentioned briefly include speeches by Walter Lipman, Claude Bowers and Count Keyserling, the burial of Gaetano Lanzo, voting for Al Smith in a straw ballot, professors investing in stock market, Eli Banana parade, Engineering School elections, Harry Clemons's reorganization of the Library, road trips, Zeta Psi fraternity (including a brief mention of alumnus Hugh Cumming), the lowly status of the Dept. of Education which was made up of "women and other objectionables," and an incident in which President Newcomb carried the body of his future wife's mother down the street from her boarding house to St. Paul's There are anecdotes about his good friend Donald MacDonald as well as E.A. Alderman, Ivey F. Lewis, Arthur Macconochie, John L. Manahan, John Lloyd Newcomb, James Page, Mary Proffitt, B.F.D. Runk, William M. Thornton, Bruce Williams.

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