This collection consists mainly of
reprints of professional publications by Walter Crosby Eells. Some professional
correspondence and a scrapbook are also included.
Funding for encoding this finding
aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Biographical Note
Walter Crosby Eells was born near Union, Mason County, Washington on
March 6, 1886. Eells attended Whitman College, which was founded by his
grandfather, Cushing Eells. There he received a Bachelor of Arts,
magna cum laude, in Mathematics and Greek (1908)
and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the
Pioneer. In 1911, Eells received a Master
of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Chicago. Between 1911 and 1914,
he held teaching posts at Whitworth College, the United States Naval Academy,
and Harvard University Engineering Camp. Eells returned to Whitman College in
1916 as Professor in Applied Mathematics (1916-1926) and Education and
Educational Statistics (1926-1927). W. C. Eells served as secretary of the
Whitman College Alumni Association and editor of the
Whitman Alumnus from 1916-1927.
Eells received a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University in 1927
and served as Professor of Education at Stanford from 1927-1938. He was active
in American higher education throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He served as the
Executive Secretary of the American Association of Junior Colleges and the
Secretary of the American Association of Research Colleges. He was also the
coordinator of the Evaluation of Secondary Schools;
General Report on the Methods, Activities, and Results by the
Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards, published in 1939.
In the 1945, Eells became Chief of the Foreign Education Division of
the Veteran's Administration. In 1947, he moved to the War Department to serve
as Advisor on Higher Education in the Civil Information and Education Section
at General Headquarters for the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. Eells
and other, members of the Civil Information and Education Section worked in
Japan through 1951 to establish the post-war Japanese higher education system.
Of particular interest to Eells was the suppression of Communist influences and
sentiment in Japanese Universities.
Walter Crosby Eells died in Washington, D.C. on December 15, 1962.
Content Description
The collection consists of 36 bound volumes, including several
monographs. It contains both the published and unpublished works of W. C. Eells
as reprints, Scrapbook material and vertical file material that has been
arranged and bound in chronological order. Also contained are clippings
referring to W. C. Eells. The collection was bound prior to August 2004.
W. C. Eells was a prolific writer, frequently publishing on
mathematics, education, higher education, women in education, and education in
Japan and Communist countries in the wake of World War II.
Items of special interest in the collection include: the
correspondence of the American Association of Research Colleges from 1942-1945
(v. 14); correspondence, photographs and survey results created during the
formation the Evaluation of Secondary Schools by
the Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards (v. 16-18); the personal
journal and photographs of W. C. Eells (v. 13); and Eells's Scrapbook and
correspondence documenting his work in post-war Japan (v. 20)
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
Collection is open for research.
Restrictions on Use :
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with Title 17
U.S.C. Copyright not transferred to Whitman College.
Preferred Citation :
Walter Crosby Eells Papers, Whitman College and Northwest Archives.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
By bound volume.
Acquisition Information :
Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives prior to August
2004.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Box
1
Volume 1: Research and other journal
articles
1899-1928
1
Volume 2: Research and other journal
articles
1929-1930
1
Volume 3: Research and other journal
articles
1931-1932
2
Volume 4: Research and other journal
articles
1933-1934
2
Volume 5: Research and other journal
articles
1935-1936
3
Volume 6: Research and other journal
articles
1937-1938
3
Volume 7: Research and other journal
articles
1939-1941
4
Volume 8: Research and other journal
articles
1942-1944
4
Volume 9: Research and other journal
articles
1945-1952
5
Volume 10: Research and other journal
articles
1953-1956
5
Volume 11: Research and other journal
articles
1957-1960
5
Volume 12: Research and other journal
articles
1961-1963
6
Volume 13: Walter Crosby Eells: March 6, 1961
(personal journal and scrapbook)
1890-1961
6
Volume 14: Wartime letters (1942-1945) from
the American Association of Research Colleges
1942-1945
6
Volume 15: Bradford
Junior College Survey
1938
6
Volume 16: College
Teachers and College Teaching
1957-1962
6
Volume 17: Research College Teachers and College Teaching,Supplement
1957-1962
6
Volume 18: College
Teachers and College Teaching,2nd
Supplements
1957-1962
7
Volume 19: Approved educational institutions
in foreign countries from the Veterans' Administration by W.C. Eells Chief of
Foreign Education Division Veterans' Administration,
1947
January 27
7
Volume 20: Communism in Education in Japan,
scrapbooks and correspondence from W. C. Eells as Advisor on Higher Education,
CIE, GHQ, SCAP, Tokyo Japan
1949
January-1950 August
8
Volume 21: Education in
the New Japan, volume 1 Tokyo, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander
for the Allied Powers, Civil Information and Education Section, Education
Division (Walter Crosby Eells mentioned on page 9, v. 1)
1948
8
Volume 22: Education in
the New Japan, volume 2 Tokyo, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander
for the Allied Powers, Civil Information and Education Section, Education
Division
1948
8
Volume 23: Educational progress in Japan,
General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Civil
Information and Education Section, Education Division
1951
8
Volume 24: Salary and
Cost Study of Fresno Schools, Fresno, Calif., Fresno City Council of
Education and 1932 scrapbook
1932
9
Volume 25: Surveys of
American Higher Education, New York city, Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching
1937
9
Volume 26: Supplementary research and material
for writing of Surveys of American Higher Education
I. Individual surveys II. Miscellaneous
1937
10
Volume 27: Evaluation of
Secondary Schools; General Report on the Methods, Activities, and Results of
the Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards, Cooperative Study
of Secondary School Standards, preface and coordinator W. C. Eells, Kenneth
Walter Eells statistician
1939
10
Volume 28: Evaluation of secondary schools for
Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards: Supplementary materials : I.
Development of the evaluative criteria, Early
July
1935-1940
10
Volume 29: Evaluation of secondary schools:
Supplementary materials: II. Development of the evaluative criteria,
Late
1938-1940
11
Volume 30: Evaluation of secondary schools:
Supplementary materials: III. Reports and records
1937-1939
11
Volume 31: Evaluation of secondary schools:
Supplementary materials: IV. Letters and Forms
1936-1939
11
Volume 32: Evaluation of secondary schools:
Supplementary materials: V. Development of the Manual
1938-1940
12
Volume 33: Evaluation of secondary schools:
Supplementary materials: VI. Committee agenda
1935-1939
12
Volume 34: Evaluation of Secondary schools:
Supplementary Reprints, published by Cooperative Study of Secondary School
Standards
1939
12
Volume 35: Educational temperatures, by
Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards
1940
12
Volume 36: Religions in
Japan, Tokyo, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied
Powers, Civil Information and Education Sect., Religions and Cultural Resources
Division
1948
Subjects
Personal Names :
Eells,
Walter Crosby, 1886-1962--Archives
Eells,
Walter Crosby, 1886-1962--Essays
Corporate Names :
American
Association of Research Colleges Cooperative Study of Secondary School
Standards United States. War Dept.
