George Bosworth Churchill Papers, 1883-1925
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Churchill Papers
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Churchill, George Bosworth, 1866-1925
Biographical History for: Churchill Papers
Biographical Note George Bosworth Churchill was born on October 24, 1866, in Worcester, Mass., the son of Ezra and Myra J. Bosworth Churchill. He prepared for college at Worcester High School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst in 1889. After college he spent three years teaching at Worcester High School. He then went to the William Penn Charter School for two years as master of oral and written expression. During 1893 and 1894, he attended graduate school at University of Pennsylvania, before studying for three years in Germany. There he received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Berlin. Returning to America, he was the assistant editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine until 1898, when he was appointed associate professor of English and public speaking at Amherst College. In 1903, he became associate professor of English literature. In 1905, he was promoted to professor of English literature, a position he held until the time of his death. He died on July 1, 1925, of heart failure, in Amherst, Mass. Besides his professional duties, he was a noted author. He wrote the Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin University Plays of England in the Time of Elizabeth in collaboration with Prof. Wolfgang Keller in 1898, and Richard III Up to Shakespeare in 1900. He edited two of William Wycherley's plays, "The Country Wife," and "The Plain Dealer," in 1923, and Shakespeare's "Richard III" in 1912. He had a political career as well. In 1917, he was elected State Senator of his district, and was re-elected in 1918 and 1919. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention those same years. For eight years, he chaired the Amherst Republican Town Committee. For more than twenty years, he moderated Amherst town meetings.
Scope and Contents of the Collection Correspondence, Lectures, Class Materials, Manuscripts, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photographs authored by or featuring Churchill. The bulk of the collection is made up of professional documents: lectures, undergraduate papers, class materials and manuscripts written by Churchill. A number of speeches and articles relating to his substantial political career are also included. The collection contains some correspondence between Churchill and his wife and between Churchill and acquaintances, mostly between 1891 and 1894.
Churchill, George Bosworth, 1866-1925.
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Amherst College--Faculty.
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Amherst College. Dept. of English.
Amherst College. Class of 1889. Churchill.
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series
Series 1: Correspondence
Letters to Churchill, A-L 1891-1894
Letters to Churchill, M-Z 1891-1894
Letters from Churchill
Letters to Mrs. Churchill
Letters from Mrs. Churchill (2)
Series 2: Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous programs, pamphlets
Newspaper clippings about Churchill
Photographs (mostly of Churchill)
Series 3: Lectures
"Public Speaking Work in Secondary Schools," Connecticut State Teachers Association 1902
Speech before New England Jewelers Assoc. 1916
"Americanism and the Public School," Massachusetts State Normal School 1920
"The Greek Drama. Tragedy." Springfield Teachers Club 1904
Lecture on "Richard III" 1901
"The Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck," Thursday Club of Holyoke 1902
"Ways and Means of Securing Correct Pronunciation, Enunciation, and Effectiveness in Utternace," Massachusetts Superintendent's Association 1902
"Are American Colleges Radical or Merely Progressive?"
"Public Speaking in the High School," Amherst Institute 1901
"Athletics in Amherst," Speech after dinner
Armistice Day 1919
South Hadley Thanksgiving Day Community Service 1918
Democratic Scholarship
"Shakespeare as a Critic of Politics" 1919
What is Americanism," "The Revolution and Today
"What Do We Mean When We Call Macbeth a Tragedy?" Williston Seminary 1914
"The Tragedies of Shakespeare," Springfield Teachers Club 1903
The Teaching of Twentieth Century Literature
"A Nation of Shopkeepers," Boston Jewelers' Club 1916
"The Land of the Ouaniche"
"Education and Patriotism"
"The Plays of Henrik Ibsen," Springfield Teachers Club 1904
"Stephen Phillips," Springfield Teachers Club 1904
Beowulf," Lecture in series, "Familiar Talks in Friendly Parlors 1900
"Address on Japanese Question," Northampton YMCA 1925
"Imagination and Religion," Winter Park 1924
"Scholarship and the Common Mind," 1st and 2nd drafts
"Alfred the Great," Amherst Institute at Holyoke High School 1901
"On the Meaning of Honor"
"Edgar Allan Poe," Massachusetts Agricultural College 1909
"After the War: Problems in Education from the Viewpoint of the Commonwealth"
Armistice Day, 1919 1919
"Is the College Making Good?"
Untitled Speeches
Miscellaneous notes and fragments of speeches
Series 4: Class Materials
Duplicate study sheets on Virgil's Aeneid
Duplicate study sheets on Organization of Roman Senate
Duplicate study sheets on Richard III
Notes on Public Speaking course
Notes and paper (clippings) on the Drama
Readings on English poets - notes for course
Notes for English I and Shakespeare course
Examination papers in Old English class
Lesson papers on King Lear
Examination papers and exercises in Logic and Richard III
Notes on the work of Maurice Maeterlinck
Imagination as Expression," "Rise of Romanticism
Lectures on oratory; notes of lectures on the preparation of debates, on brief-drawing, and on evidence
Notes on "The Growth of the Sacred Drama"
Notes for lectures on drama
Notes for lectures on the serious drama; notes on French tragedy
Notes on prose fiction, course given to juniors and seniors 1905-6
The Drama. Introductory lectures. Course for Juniors 1903-4
Notes on prose authors
Notes on drama: "Medieval Romance," "What is a Play?"
Series 5: Manuscripts
"The Relation of Dryden's State of Innocence to Milton's Paradise Lost and Wycherley's Plain Dealer : An Inquiry into Dates." 3 copies
"The Rise of the English Comedy"
Introduction and notes on Richard III
"Shakespeare in America." In German, 2 copies
"The Rise of the English Drama"
"The Life of William Shakespeare"
Notes, manuscript, and proof sheets of Richard III up to Shakespeare
"Miramichi Days: Dry-fly vs. Wet-fly." 2 copies
6 short papers on Wycherley
"New England Sectionalism"
"Origen: A Synopsis of his Life and Views"
Series 6: Undergraduate papers (and other miscellaneous papers)
"Roman Satire"
"Plato's Symposium"
"Our Beautiful Shelley"
"Catullus and Burns"
"Faust: Its Character and Lessons"
"Chapman's The Widow's Tears "
"A Brief Comparison of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra with Dryden's All for Love "
"Etymological work for the Sophomore Latin Prize - by 'Marlborough,'" 1887
"Work submitted for the Bertram Latin Scholarship," 1889
Miscellaneous papers written as a student at Worcester High School
Is the Iliad a Sun-, Cloud-, Storm-myth? A Review of the 'Solar Theory' and its Application to The Iliad
Notes on Shakespeare in America
Master's Thesis: "The Beginnings of English Literary Criticism"
Miscellaneous short papers
Series 7: Miscellaneous short papers
"Modern German Dramatists" by Max Meyerfield
Comparison of Webster and Tourneur
Notes on John Donne - from the thesis of Dr. Brumbaugh
Notes on English Literature, Winter Term, 1888
The development of the Roman Constitution
Political and Constitutional Theory
Notes on Virgil
The Metres of Barnabe Googe
An Examination of the Versification in Julius Caesar, III, 1:225-275, and in the Tempest I, 2: 1-50
Notes on English Poetry
The Lyric in Shakespeare's plays
Notes on some English poets
Miscellaneous notes
Miscellaneous fragments of notes
Class grade book - 1923-1924
Two notebooks, 1895-96 - Beowulf and Chaucer notes; English Literature notes
Series 8: Pamphlets (unbound)
" Richard III up to Shakespeare" in Palaestra , vol. X, Untersuchungen und Texte aus der Deutschen und Englischen Philogie, Alois Brandl und Erich Schmidt, Berlin, 1900
Mention of G. B. Churchill p. 785 The Phi Beta Kappa Key , Vol. 5, No. 12, May 1925
Verzeichniss der Vorlesungen, welche auf der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat zu Berlin im Winter-Semester vom 16 October 1896 bis 15 Marz 1897 gehalten werden
The Penn Charter Review, 1910. Page 17
Booch review by Churchll of Shakespeare's Holinshed: The Chronicle of and Historical Plays Compared , by H. G. Boswell-Stone. In Archiv für das Studium der Neuren Sprachen und Litteraturen
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gessellschaft . Reprints from; containing book reviews by Churchill. 1909 (3 copies), 1911 (3 copies)
Poem, "Serenade," by Churchill in Amherst Literary Monthly, No. 9, 1889
"The Attitude of the Massachusetts Legislature Towards Standards for Degree Giving Institutions." in Education , Vol. 40, no. 7, March 1920
"The State's Responsibility for Reconstruction in Education," in Education , vol. 39, No. 10, June 1919
Address of the Hon. George B. Churchill of Amherst opposing the initiative and referendum
"Shakespeare in America," an address delivered at the annual meeting of the German Shakespeare Society, in Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesselschaft , 1906
"Public Speaking Work in the Secondary School" in The School Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, April, 1903, University of Chicago Press
"The Relation of Dryden's 'State of Innocence' to Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and Wycherley's 'Plain Dealer,' An Inquiry into Dates," Reprinted from Modern Philology , Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1906, 2 copies
"A Nation of Shopkeepers," in The Keystone Weekly , Vol. 41, No. 22, January 18, 1916
Address before the New England Manufacturing Jewelers and Silversmiths Association in The Manufacturing Jewelers , Vol. 58, No. 12
"The True Tragedy of Richard III " (in German) Inaugural Dissertation, Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitat zu Berlin
Series 9: Notebooks and Diaries
Undergraduate notes - Amherst College - Three books [ca. 1885-1889]
European trip diary 1888
Lake Edward trip diary 1911
Garden journal 1900
Ornithological notebook 1882-1885
Account book 1883-1886
Series 10: Political Career
Political publicity on Churchill - editorial and testimonials
Notes for speeches
Fragments of speeches
Initiative and referendum amendment - printed matter and speeches on
Four typed articles on Churchill's political views from the Springfield Republican 1924
Memorial Day Address, Amherst 1925
Three campaign speeches 1916
Campaign speech 1919
Speech: "Duty of a Representative"
Speech on Judicial System
Speech on Child Labor Amendment
Speech: "The Attitude of the Massachusetts Legislature Towards Standards for Degree-Giving Institutions" (two copies) 1919
Speech on voting for the 18th Amendment
Two speeches in praise of the Republican Party
Speech introducing speakers at an Amherst Republican rally, Springfield, Mass.
Churchill-Graves Campaign Speech, Northamtpton, Mass. 1924
Speech on Churchill's view on the problems of Springfield, Mass.