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Education, Higher -- Oregon -- History -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Lawrence T. Harris correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35025042867966]
Identifier: A 273
Abstract

Lawrence Thomas Harris (1873-1960) served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1901-1903) and as a justice in the Oregon Supreme Court (1914-1924). The collection (1915-1918; 1923-1927) contains personal and political correspondence files and testimony from the Taxpayers Equalization League, a group that supported the Zorn-McPherson bill to consolidate higher education in Oregon.

Dates: 1915-1918, 1923-1927
Found in: University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives / Lawrence T. Harris correspondence

Register-Guard records on higher education consolidation

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Bx 006
Abstract

The bid to consolidate higher education in Oregon began with the the Zorn-MacPherson School Moving Bill of 1932. The collection (1932-1934) contains research files, and a scrapbook of the Register Guard Eugene newspaper regarding arguments and statistics surrounding the consolidation attempt.

Dates: 1932-1933
Found in: University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives / Register-Guard records on higher education consolidation

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