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Title: Keep You Hands Off These Columns
Description: Review of the MU Alumni Association as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. Includes a timeline.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri's Journalist Factory
Description: Article about the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia and its similarity to a "factory" producing journalists for newspapers and other media around the nation, with photos and descriptions of its operations and notable people, including Walter Williams, dean of the school.
Date: 1911-09-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Elmer Ellis
Description: View of Dr. Elmer Ellis, President of the University of Missouri at Columbia standing by SCBA Secretary N. Emerson Paton. Dr. Ellis spoke at the April 21, 1964 weekly luncheon on the topic "Higher Education in Missouri".
Date: 1964-04-21
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Oldest Rivalry West of the Mississippi
Description: Article about "the oldest collegiate football rivalry west of the Mississippi," between the Universities of Missouri and Kansas, celebrating the rivalry's centennial, starting in 1891 with Missouri leading the series 47-43-9, with photos and illustrations.
Date: 1991
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
Description: Photo and caption for the Beta Theta Phi fraternity house on the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia, built in 1915 and designed by "Roth & Study, St. Louis, Architects."
Date: 1928
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
Description: Photo of "Lefevre Hall of Botany a the University of Missouri, Columbia, Boone County, [b]uilt in 1918, James P. Jamieson, St. Louis, [a]rchitect."
Date: 1928
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
Description: Photo of the first building at the University of Missouri at Columbia in Boone County, erected in 1840-1841 and burned in 1892 but with the "six stone columns. ..left standing on the campus as a reminder of the early days."
Date: 1928
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri's Contribution to American Architecture
Description: Photo of the "Memorial Tower, University of Missouri, at Columbia, Boone County, [b]uilt in 1927, Jamieson & Spearl, St. Louis, [a]rchitects (The clock and chimes for this tower are being made in Belgium)."
Date: 1928
Object Type: Book

Title: Forsee To Take Top U. M. Job
Description: Former Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee is to be the new University of Missouri system president. Since Forsee does not have a background in higher education, it appears that the curators are looking for experience in business operations. He did graduate in 1972 from the University of Missouri-Rolla and has spent more than 35 years in the telecommunications industry. "His severance package [at Sprint], including stock options, was valued at nearly $54 million. His annual compensation before his forced resignation was $14.8 million."
Date: 2007-12-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Serving the University of Missouri: A Memoir of Campus and System Administration
Description: James Olson relates his expericences as chancellor of the University of Missouri at Kansas City or UMKC in his memoir. He came to Kansas City in 1968 and stayed until 1976. He was president of the Missouri University system from 1976 until his retirement in 1984.
Date: 1993
Object Type: Book

Title: Storming and Defending the Color Barrier At the University of Missouri School of Journalism: the Lucile Bluford Case
Description: A 20 page typewritten paper with footnotes written by Diane E. Loupe, graduate student at the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. It was originally written for a graduate journalism history course. Lucile Bluford, an African American, attempted to enroll at the School of Journalism in the late 1930s.
Date: 1989
Object Type: Manuscript

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