Correspondence

Scope and Contents: Bolton Forrest Herbert wrote this letter as a freshman at Tufts College. He was a member of the Glee Club, and in this letter he recounts student hazing and a speech given at Tufts by Booker T. Washington on the "Negro question". The Glee Club performed at the Washington event. Content Warning This letter contains description of student hazing which references being forced to remove clothes and blindfolding, among other things. For more...

Overview: This collection contains the papers of Tufts University psychology professor Zella Luria and includes correspondence, teaching and research materials, and records of a study Luria conducted in the 1960s and 1970s on Jackson College students’ attitudes toward work over time. Subjects include sex, gender, and psychology. Materials date from 1933-2010, with the bulk of materials dating from 1960-1999.