The Papers of Harland Nelson, 1960-1994 | Luther College Archives

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Scope and Contents of the Materials

Collection Historical Note

Biographical Note

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Teaching Files

Box 1: Lectures, 1969-1991

Folder 1: Paideia Lecture Notes 1, 1987

Folder 2: Paideia Lecture Notes 2, 1989-1990

Folder 3: Paideia Lecture Notes F88, 1988

Folder 4: Paideia Lectures S89, 1989

Folder 5: Paideia Lectures S90, 1990

Folder 6: Paideia Lectures S91, 1991

Folder 7: Paideia Pedagogy, 1989

Folder 8: Paideia Handouts/Prints, n.d.

Folder 9: NEH Paideia Project, 1983

Folder 10: English 40 Notes S83, 1983

Folder 11: English 40 Dev. Writing Skills F83, 1983

Folder 12: English 40 Notes Summer 84, 1984

Folder 13: English 40 Notes F84, 1984

Folder 14: English 40A Notes F86, 1986

Folder 15: English 31 Fall 75-76, 1975-1976

Folder 16: English 31 Mod. Fics. S87, 1987

Folder 17: English 31 Notes S88, 1988

Folder 18: English 31 Notes S89, 1989

Folder 19: Bellow Story, n.d.

Folder 20: English 31 Paper Prompts, Writing Comments, Tests, 1969-1972

Folder 21: English 31 Notes J90, 1990

Folder 22: English 31 Notes F90, 1990

Folder 23: English 31 Notes F91, 1991

Folder 24: Notes January, 1991

Folder 25: English 31 Relevant Newspaper Clippings, 1987-1989

Folder 26: English 31 Mid-Term, Tests, and Paper Topics, 1969-1972

Folder 27: English 31 Study Questions, Paper Topics, 1976-1982

Folder 28: English 31 Notes F91, 1991

Box 2: Misc. Files, 1960-1998

Folder 1: Clayborough, 1981-1998

Folder 2: Board of Regents, 1981-1991

Folder 3: Journal of Faculty Opinion, 1982-1983

Folder 4: Ebert; Why I Love Black and White, n.d.

Folder 5: Einsentein's Analytic Theory

Folder 6: The Nuremburg Trilogy

Folder 7: The Man Who Would Be King, n.d.

Folder 8: Leni Riefensthal, 1993

Folder 9: Edwin S. Porter and the Great Train Robbery

Folder 10: The Riech Chancellor

Folder 11: American Confetti

Folder 12: An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge

Folder 13: Bierce Chickamauga

Folder 14: The African Queen

Folder 15: Jewish Writing in U.S.

Folder 16: Bellow "Some Notes on Recent American Fiction"

Folder 17: Photocopied Articles, n.d.

Folder 18: Meaning of Swift's "Description of a City Shower", 1960

Folder 19: "Do Re Mi" Woody Guthrie

Folder 20: RAJ Intoduction

Folder 21: Modern Fiction

Folder 22: Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown

Folder 23: How the Poor Die

Folder 24: Paris Review Fall, 1966

Folder 25: Carrers Conference Fall, 1989

Folder 26: Letter to English Majors, 1993

Folder 27: Careers Conference

Folder 28: Careers Conference Communication, 1987

Folder 29: Fall Careers, 1991

Folder 30: Careers Conference, 1986

Folder 31: Final Examinations, 1960

Folder 32: Fall Careers, 1990

Folder 33: Fall Careers Conference, 1988

Folder 34: Prospective Participants, 1991-1992

Folder 35: J-Term, 1987

Folder 36: Corresponding Expenses

Folder 37: CLEP Correspondence, 1987

Folder 38: J-Term Syllabi, 1987

Folder 39: J-Term Study Question, 1987

Folder 40: J-Term AM Roll, 1987

Folder 41: J-Term Paideia 2 50A-F,F,F Lectures, 1987

Folder 42: J-Term Paideia 2 50A-F,F,F (DISC), 1987

Folder 43: China Course Notes and Bibliography, 1980

Folder 44: CORE Lectures etc.

Folder 45: J-Term Paideia Arrangements, 1992

Folder 46: Ag./Hung. Bibliography

Folder 47: J-Term Paideia Notes, 1992

Folder 48: Paideia 50B Test Prep, 1992

Folder 49: Sustainable Agriculture

Folder 50: Organic Farming in the Corn Belt

Folder 51: J-Term, 1992

Folder 52: Dickens Studies Annual

Folder 53: Publications Correspondence

Box 3: J-Term London Theatre, 1982-1989

Folder 1: J-Term, 1989

Folder 2: UMALE Manual

Folder 3: J-Term Itenerary, 1989

Folder 4: UMALE

Folder 5: Theatre Programs

Folder 6: UMALE J82, 1982

Folder 7: UMALE Correspondence

Folder 8: UMALE, 1986

Box 4: Course Materials: English 66, 68, 1977-1989

Folder 1: Victorian Bibliography, 1987

Folder 2: The Crystal and the Men of 1851

Folder 3: Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work

Folder 4: Evangelical Conscience

Folder 5: The Descent of Man

Folder 6: Utopia Around the Corner

Folder 7: Romanticisim as a Modern Tradition

Folder 8: The England of Charles Dickens

Folder 9: History of England

Folder 10: Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Folder 11: Contrasts

Folder 12: Of The Real Nature of Greatness of Style

Folder 13: The Great Exhibition

Folder 14: Homes and Habits

Folder 15: On Coleridge and Bentham

Folder 16: Work and Wages

Folder 17: English 66 Fall Notes, 1991

Folder 18: English 66 Fall Notes, 1989

Folder 19: Victorian (Misc.), 1971

Folder 20: Victorian: Preparation, 1967-1983

Folder 21: English 66 Fall Notes, 1985

Folder 22: London-Pictorial Map, 1871

Folder 23: Photocopy Masters and Handouts-Victorian Literature

Folder 24: English 66 Fall Prep, 1985

Folder 25: English 66 Fall Notes, 1987

Folder 26: English 66 Victorian Literature, 1983

Folder 27: English 66 Notes, 1981

Folder 28: English 66 Notes, 1981

Folder 29: Victorian Literature Notes, 1979

Folder 30: English 66 Fall Notes, 1977

Folder 31: English 67 Spring Notes, 1980

Folder 32: English 67 Spring Notes, 1989

Folder 33: English 67 Spring Notes, 1987

Box 5: Class Notes, 1972-1990

Folder 1: English 85 Dickens' Prophetic Novels Spring, 1990

Folder 2: Spring Seminar Notes, 1986

Folder 3: Dickens J-Term, 1976

Folder 4: Dickens' Women, Spring, 1975

Folder 5: J-Term Dickens, 1975

Folder 6: J-Term, Dark Satanic Mill, 1972

Folder 7: J-Term, Orwell, 1984

Box 6: Agriculture Notes/Slides, 1979

Item 1: Slides and Notes-Rural People/Community, 1979

Item 2: Agriculture and World Hunger-"Acreage Control" through "Farm Economicals"

Item 3: Agriculture and World Hunger-"Farm Exports" through "Price Supports"

Item 4: Agriculture and World Hunger-"Resource Problems" through "Tillage Methods"

Item 5: Clippings-Misc., Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Arms, Transportation, Arms

Box 7: Paideia, 1992, 1994

Box 1: Paideia I-27, Fall, HSN, 1994

Item 1: Paideia I Reader, 1994

Box 2: Paideia 50B, January (Sust. Ag.), 1992

Box 8: Class Notes, 1974-1994

Folder 1: Interim: The Thirties January Notes, 1974

Folder 2: Film: Planning Materials, 1977-1984

Folder 3: Film Misc.

Folder 4: English 42 Fall Notes, 1994

Folder 5: English 42 New Viewing Notes I, 1994

Folder 6: English 42 New Viewing Notes II, 1994

Folder 7: English 42 Tests/Exams/Quizes

Box 9: Class Notes, 1986-1994

Folder 1: English 42 Notes, 1994

Folder 2: English 42 Notes, 1990

Folder 3: English 42 Notes, 1988

Folder 4: English 42 Notes, 1986

Folder 5: English 40 Notes, 1991

Folder 6: English 40 PREP

Folder 7: Paideia Lectures, 1989

Folder 8: Paideia I Materials, 1988

Folder 9: Paideia I Notes, 1993

Box 10: Kellogg Consortium, 1992

Originally Accession 2017-062.

Folder 1: Kellogg Foundation Papers

Folder 2: Lois Phillips Hudson Program

Folder 3: Paideia 2 50B Correspondence, 1992

Series 2: College Service

Box 1: Academic Affairs Committee, 1966-1990

Folder 1: President Farwell Conference, 1966

Folder 2: President Farwell (Communications to Faculty), 1963-1973

Folder 3: DSA and Honorary Degrees, 1987-1989

Folder 4: Fall 1988 Salary Report, 1988

Folder 5: Task Force on Salaries, 1988

Folder 6: Luther College Salary History, 1973

Folder 7: Salaries, n.d.

Folder 8: Faculty Hiring-90s, 1988

Folder 9: Regents Academic Affairs Committee, 1979-1988

Folder 10: Public Relations (1967): Proposals for New Magazine, 1967

Folder 11: Growth, 1988

Folder 12: Department Review, 1987

Folder 13: Humanities and Fine Arts Department Meetings, 1989-1990

Folder 14: Communications to Faculty (1 of 5), 1989-1990

Folder 15: Communications to Faculty (2 of 5), 1987-1988

Folder 16: Communications to Faculty (3 of 5), 1986-1987

Folder 17: Communications to Faculty (4 of 5), 1985-1986

Folder 18: Communications to Faculty (5 of 5), 1982-1984

Folder 19: Academic Affairs, 1987-1988

Folder 20: BS Proposal HSN's Working File for Academic Affairs, 1986-1987

Box 2: Misc. Luther College Papers, 1975-1988

Item 1: Luther College Student Handouts, 1985

Folder 1: Committee Long Range Planning Records

Item 2: Luther College Guest Artist Series, 1977

Item 3: J-Term, 1975

Item 4: Report on the ALC Workshop on the Church College

Item 5: Kaleidoscope, 1975-1976

Folder 2: Faculty Minutes

Folder 3: Faculty Council, 1979-1988

Folder 4: Humanities Division, 1982-1988

Folder 5: Faculty Minutes

Folder 6: Faculty Minutes

Folder 7: Faculty Minutes

Folder 8: Newspaper Clippings

Folder 9: Board of Regents

Box 3: Academic Affairs: Bachelor's of Science Proposal, 1986-1987

Originally Accession 2017-072.

Folder 1: Bachelor of Science Documents, 1986-1987

Folder 2: Academic Affairs (1 of 2), 1986-1987

Folder 3: Academic Affairs (2 of 2), 1986-1987

Series 3: SCAN Institute

Box 1: Scandinavian Institute, 1967-1974

Folder 1: Scandinavian Institute, n.d.

Folder 2: Scandinavian Institute, Back Files and Course Notes, n.d.

Folder 3: Scandinavian Institue 67-Course, 1967

Item 1: Voyageur 1969 Issue, 1969

Item 2: Summary Report on the Institue, 1969

Folder 4: Scandinavian Institute '68 Notes and Materials towards AM English Course, 1968

Folder 5: Scandinavian Institute, 1969

Folder 6: Scandinavian Institute, 1970

Folder 7: Scandinavian Institute, 1972

Folder 8: Scandinavian Institute Final, 1974

Box 2: SCAN Institute, 1976-1993

Folder 1: Scandinavian Institute, 1976

Folder 2: Scandinavian Institute, 1977

Folder 3: Scandinavian Institute, 1980

Folder 4: Scandinavian Institute, 1981

Folder 5: Scandinavian Institute, 1982

Folder 6: Scandinavian Institute, 1983

Folder 7: Scandinavian Institute, 1987-1990

Folder 8: Scandinavian Institute (Cinema), 1989

Folder 9: Scandinavian Institute, 1991

Folder 10: Scandinavian Institute, 1992

Folder 11: Scandinavian Institute, 1993

Folder 12: Scandinavian Institute Pix

Folder 13: Handouts

Folder 14: American Lit. Overview

Folder 15: Scandinavian Institute Transparancies

Folder 16: Scandinavian Institue Masters

Folder 17: London Theatre J89 Planning

Series 4: Professional Files

Box 1: Dickens, 1963-1968

Folder 1: Editorial and Publications Correspondence, 1966-1974

Folder 2: Conrad Paper Correspondence and Edits

Folder 3: The Style of Sir. Walter Scott's Novels Research Proposal, n.d.

Folder 4: Dickens Plots Dittios, n.d.

Folder 5: Film Reviews in Print, n.d.

Folder 6: Eden and Golgotha, 1963

Folder 7: Dickens Mayhew

Folder 8: Norway Publications, n.d.

Folder 9: Fulbright Professorship, 1967

Folder 10: Bergen Institute, 1967

Folder 11: Book Lists

Folder 12: English Institute

Folder 13: Recomendations

Folder 14: Course Notes S68, 1968

Folder 15: Course Notes F67, 1967

Folder 16: Course Notes S68, 1968

Folder 17: Course Notes F67, 1967

Folder 18: Fulbright Correspondence, Official Report, Bibliography

Box 2: Abroad Papers, 1972-1973

Folder 1: Fulbright Correspondence-Austria

Folder 2: Fulbright Professorship-Austria, 1972-1973

Folder 3: Fulbright Austria Notes

Folder 4: Norway Trip Correspondence

Folder 5: Undergraduate Lecture Course Notes

Folder 6: Graduate Seminar Notes

Folder 7: Lunsbruck Seminar Notes

Folder 8: Lunsbruck Seminar Notes

Box 3: Misc. Personal Papers, 1964-1982

Folder 1: Job Offers, 1964-1987

Folder 2: Committee-Admissions Policy, 1981-1982

Folder 3: USEF in Norway

Folder 4: Midwest Victorian Studies Association

Folder 5: NCTE

Folder 6: Midwest MLA

Folder 7: Victorian Poetry-The Lotus Eaters

Folder 8: Victorian Stuff

Series 5: Personal Files

Box 1: Misc. Files, Fundraising, and Letters to Politicians, n.d.

Folder 1: Letter to Congressman Draft

Folder 2: Military-Industrial Complex

Folder 3: DoD and International Relations

Folder 4: DoD:Budget

Folder 5: DoD: ABM, MRV

Folder 6: The War: DoD and other propoganda

Folder 7: The War: Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

Folder 8: The War: Life in Vietnam

Folder 9: The War: Ecological Devastation

Folder 10: The War: Effect on American Soldiers

Folder 11: The War: Legislative Attempts to Limit it or Close it Down

Folder 12: Congress: Senators and Congressmen positions

Folder 13: The War: Public Opinion About

Folder 14: PEACE

Folder 15: Boston Globe Article

Item 1: Future of the Strategic Arms Race

Folder 16: Anti-Bomb Shelter

Folder 17: Letters to Senators and President

Folder 18: Defence Dept.; Vietnam; ABM Correspondence

Folder 19: Senator Hughes

Folder 20: Congressman Culver

Folder 21: Letters to Nixon

Folder 22: Vietnam-Pressure to limit Criticism, Pro-War fever

Folder 23: Politics

Folder 24: Vietnam-Scope of the Operations

Folder 25: Vietnam King Speech

Folder 26: Letters on Vietnam

Folder 27: Prophesies, Confidant Statements, Reassuring News Stories

Folder 28: Sane Report: How to Talk Back to Your TV

Folder 29: Public Opinion

Folder 30: Vanguard

Folder 31: Second Century

Folder 32: Fund for Luther

Folder 33: Fund for Luther II

Folder 34: Development

Folder 35: Mini-Campaign

Item 2: Paideia Reader, 1993

Item 3: Paideia Reader, 1992

Folder 36: AAS F92, 1992

Folder 37: Library-Holdings and Annual Report

Folder 38: Library-Correspondence

Folder 39: Misc. Political and Public Affairs Correspondence

Folder 40: Campus Unrest

Folder 41: Pollution

Folder 42: Academic Affairs

Folder 43: North Central Accreditation

Box 2: Misc. Personal Papers, 1981-1990

Folder 1: Personal

Folder 2: Paideia I Letter

Folder 3: Computing/Word Processing

Folder 4: Grants Newsletter, 1990

Folder 5: FAC DEV News

Folder 6: Reading and Writing

Folder 7: English Department Papers

Folder 8: Misc. Lectures

Folder 9: Admissions English Department Lectures

Folder 10: Admissions: January '81 Project, 1981

Folder 11: Old Dope Sheets

Folder 12: Reading Lists

Folder 13: Contemporary American Literature-Bibliography

Folder 14: Poetry (Modern)-Bibliography

Folder 15: Bibliographies

Folder 16: AAUP-Luther

Folder 17: AAUP-Luther College Chapter

Folder 18: Harland Nelson Sabbatical

Box 3: Misc. Personal Papers, 1964-1993

Folder 1: Soil Erosion, 1982

Folder 2: Organic, Conservation, 1982-1984

Folder 3: Letters to Congressmen, 1982

Folder 4: Personal, 1964-1994

Folder 5: Notes on Writing, 1977

Folder 6: Chapel Talk

Folder 7: CHIPS and Correspondence, 1977

Folder 8: Film Series

Folder 9: Condom Machine Proposal, 1991

Folder 10: Department, 1987-1993

Folder 11: HUM DIV, 1990

Folder 12: Faculty, 1990

Folder 13: FAC CNCL, 1988

Box 4: Misc. Personal Papers, 1965-1988

Folder 1: Admissons WKND

Folder 2: Registrations and Fees

Folder 3: Workshop Letters and Materials

Folder 4: Workshop Letters and Materials

Folder 5: Workshop Mailers

Folder 6: Workshop Original Writings

Folder 7: CTE Conference, 1969

Folder 8: NDEA Institute Proposals, 1965

Item 1: Teacher Evaluation Program Self-Evaluation, 1966

Folder 9: England July 1-8

Folder 10: United Way

Folder 11: Victoria's Jubilee, 1987

Folder 12: Oikos

Folder 13: Journalism

Folder 14: FLAT-F

Folder 15: English 40 Notes, 1988

Box 5: Agriculture Printed Materials, 1982-1987

Folder 1: Newspapers

Folder 2: Consortium on Agriculture and the World Hunger Seminar, July 11-12, 1983

Folder 3: Consortium on Agriculture and the World Hunger Symposium, Fall 1982

Folder 4: AG-Clippings, 1986

Folder 5: AG-Clippings, 1987

Folder 6: Newspapers Clippings

Folder 7: Farm Economics (Various Statistical Stories)