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Sibley left an endowment, now totaling over $250,000, for the continuation of his work. After a lapse of many years, Clifford K. Shipton '26, Custodian of the University Archives, has continued where Sibley left...
Very often in the early 18th century, Shipton reports, Episcopalian alumni went to England for ordination. The details about their stays in England are found in the records of the Bishop of London...
...Shipton disagrees strongly with common opinion that University graduates of that early era were mostly headed for the ministry. "Harvard was not a theological seminary in the 17th and 18th centures," he maintains. Based on his research, he asserts that graduates from the very beginning have gone into a great many different occupations and professions...
...addition to his regular work, Shiptoin has undertaken several special assignments. The late President Lowell expressed the opinion in the early '30's that more boys went to college during hard times because they had nothing else to do. Shipton looked into the subject, making a study of comparative college enrollments during normal times, booms, and depressions. His research disproved the theory that Lowell had suggested...
Although this is just one phase of the work being done to record fully the history of the University, it usually attracts quite a bit of attention every time a new volume in the series appears. Shipton has covered quite a few years in his books, but there are still many years of work to go before the biographies approach the modern period of the University...