Box 1
Container
Contains 104 Results:
Letter from [Guy Potter] Benton offering to assist him; being careful about taking medicine and looking at label before he takes anything from a bottle, 1904-09-19
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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:
Other: 1904-09-19
Sending money; how he came out in physics, what he did about it, and whether it affected his classification; study of mathematics and English; letter from Dr. Benton about his roommate; glad to hear he is being treated with respect; news of Homer, Mary and George; would like to receive a letter from him about his work, 1904-09-24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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:
1904-09-24
Recitations; school costing more money than he wanted it to take; thoughts about leaving fraternity out that year; staying out of flag rush; advice about same; will be sending books; visiting as an objection from rooming in dormitory, 1904-09-30
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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:
1904-09-30
Expects to ship boxes the next day; what books and other items for his room that were enclosed; Homer’s grades; thoughts about different word to have used in his letter; encloses bill of lading from the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company for three boxes; suggests investigating the library and using it to advantage; boys not interfering with his work, 1904-10-04
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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:
1904-10-04
Suggestions for telling him when he needs money and how he would like him to pay for things; concern about unruly boys and whether they disturb or annoy him; offer from friend to take anything he might need to Oxford; request for information about the gymnasium; taking advantage of attending lectures, 1904-10-07
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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:
1904-10-07
How much the family appreciates his letters; caution about his spelling and letting careless habits “mar an otherwise excellent manuscript;” appreciating the advantages of a college course and the value of seeing “distinguished visitors”; glad for detailed account of rush and that it is over; how physical contests antagonize the purpose of college training; glad he will be attending series of sermons to young men; trying to do everything he can to better his mental, moral and physical nature; Homer’s 100 on geometry test; sending four literature volumes , 1904-10-12
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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:
1904-10-12
Upcoming operation; sending money; financial matters; taking lecture course; whether he would rather teach or go to school; whether he could find time to make up physics in the laboratory and stay out the next year to teach, saving expense of a summer term; sorry to hear he was in the annual shirt tail parade , 1904-10-16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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:
1904-10-16
Injury to arm; how college authorities dealt with hazers; coming home if his power of resistance to vice weakens; expects better things of “Old Miami” in building a noble character on the foundation laid at home; glad he is getting along well in work; sacrifices to have him there; coming home at Thanksgiving , 1904-11-01
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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:
1904-11-01
News of family and friends; reading Post account of laying cornerstone of Hepburn Hall; making the most of the experience; account of Horace’s walk in the country; train schedule for coming home for Thanksgiving, 1904-11-08
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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:
1904-11-08
Convention for nomination of ticket for Board of Education in the Webster District; news of acquaintances, 1904-11-12
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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:
1904-11-12