Follow Up to Circular Letter (January 6, 1891)

Item Information

Title:
Follow Up to Circular Letter (January 6, 1891)
Description:
Written on January 6, 1891 by Oliver Cromwell Morse, this document is a follow up to the circular letter he wrote on July 31, 1890. While the initial letter explained the reasons behind the school's division in the summer of 1890, this letter clarifies that donors must specify for which school their contributions are meant. In 1890 the YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, split off of The School For Christian Workers. The YMCA Training School had been one of two departments in the school. The letter briefly describes what percentage of the students attend which school and how much money each school has invested in the property, as a means for helping the reader, if undecided, choose where he should send his donations.
Creator:
Morse, Richard Cary, 1841-1926
Date:
January 6, 1891
Format:
Documents
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Series:
Rare Books Collection
Subjects:
School for Christian Workers (Springfield, Mass.)
Springfield College
Springfield College--Faculty
International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)
Morse, Oliver C.
Fund raising
Correspondence
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Link to Item:
https://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/2630
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Notes:
Oliver Cromwell Morse, son of Louisa (Davis) Morse and Richard Gary Morse, was born in New York City on September 18, 1847 and died in 1922. Born into a successful family--his grandfather (Rev. Dr. Jedediah Morse) was the first American geographer, his uncle, (Professor S. F. B. Morse) invented the electric telegraph, and his other uncle (Sidney E. Morse) and father jointly founded the New York Observer—he was prepared at a young age for Yale at Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. In college he won prizes in Declamation and Debate, was a member of the Junior Promenade Committee, and rowed on the Varuna gig crew. After graduation he spent the summer in Germany before attending Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In the following years he studied in Europe and Palestine, chiefly at Universities of Berlin and Leipsic, and at the Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1876 he became the General Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. of Schenectady, N.Y., and in 1878 he accepted a similar position in Washington, D.C. In 1881, he took a secretary position for the YMCA in Cleveland, Ohio, where he stayed until April, 1884. During 1885, he assisted Rev. Dr. F. F. Elimvood in editing the Foreign Missionary, published by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and became the acting pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Watertown, New York. In 1886, Morse became the Assistant State Secretary of the New York Associations. He resigned from this position in the summer of 1887 to become the Corresponding Secretary of the School for Christian Workers in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1890, when the schools split, he became the Secretary and instructor for both schools, at the end of which he devoted himself entirely to the International Y.M.C.A. Training School. After eleven years, he left the institution to become the Vice President of Rollins College (Winter Park, Florida).
Document is fragile.
Identifier:
scrapbook-1889-91-follow-up-to-circular-letter