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• catalog abstract "This collection contains handwritten reminiscences of Rosalie Magruder's experiences working in the War Records Office and the Students Records Office at Harvard University from 1920 to 1949. The first page is typewritten, and outlines her duties in the early part of her career in the Harvard Students Records Office working under Delmar Leighton, Assistant Dean in Charge of Records. Magruder recounts her decision to change careers from teaching to office administrative work in 1920, and the tasks that that her career in the Students Records Office involved including compiling student registration cards, processing student grades, and fulfilling transcript requests. Magruder also details how technology was changing their day-to-day work, including how Reginald Phelps, "did much towards working up the use of IBM machines in keeping the academic records of students," and how the outbreak of World War II impacted her work in the Students Records Office. She also extensively describes her interactions with Harvard administrators including Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell, several Assistant Deans in Charge of Records who served during her tenure in the Harvard Students Records Office; faculty members, and students. Aside from her professional activities, Magruder also briefly details her experiences living in Cambridge with her brother, Harvard Law School Professor Calvert Magruder.".
• catalog contributor b756421.
• catalog date "1958".
• catalog description "Magruder, Rosalie Stuart, 1884-1971. Rosalie Stuart Magruder reminiscences of working at Harvard University, 1958. HUG 4555.5, Harvard University Archives.".
• catalog description "Rosalie Stuart Magruder (1884-1971), executive secretary in the Harvard Students Records Office from 1921 to 1949, was born on March 9, 1884 in Annapolis, Maryland. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1904 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin and French, and taught at several secondary schools in Philadelphia and Annapolis from 1904 to 1915. Magruder came to Boston in 1915 when she was named Associate Principal and Teacher of Latin and Mathematics at Miss Chamberlayne's School; she later served as Acting Principal of the institution from 1919 to 1920. Growing tired of teaching, Magruder enrolled in a typewriting school in the summer of 1920, and shortly thereafter started working in the War Records Office at Harvard in 1920. In 1921 she became executive secretary in the Harvard University Students Records Office, a position she held until 1949. Magruder died in Cambridge, Mass. on February 22, 1971.".
• catalog description "This collection contains handwritten reminiscences of Rosalie Magruder's experiences working in the War Records Office and the Students Records Office at Harvard University from 1920 to 1949. The first page is typewritten, and outlines her duties in the early part of her career in the Harvard Students Records Office working under Delmar Leighton, Assistant Dean in Charge of Records. Magruder recounts her decision to change careers from teaching to office administrative work in 1920, and the tasks that that her career in the Students Records Office involved including compiling student registration cards, processing student grades, and fulfilling transcript requests. Magruder also details how technology was changing their day-to-day work, including how Reginald Phelps, "did much towards working up the use of IBM machines in keeping the academic records of students," and how the outbreak of World War II impacted her work in the Students Records Office. She also extensively describes her interactions with Harvard administrators including Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell, several Assistant Deans in Charge of Records who served during her tenure in the Harvard Students Records Office; faculty members, and students. Aside from her professional activities, Magruder also briefly details her experiences living in Cambridge with her brother, Harvard Law School Professor Calvert Magruder.".
• catalog extent ".03 cubic feet (1 pamphlet binder)".
• catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. Personal archives. hua".
• catalog issued "1958".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog spatial "Massachusetts Cambridge".
• catalog subject "Harvard College (1780- ). Assistant Dean in Charge of Records.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University Administration History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University Employees.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Office of the Registrar.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University. War Records Office.".
• catalog subject "Leighton, Delmar, 1897-1966.".
• catalog subject "Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943.".
• catalog subject "Magruder, Calvert, 1893-1968.".
• catalog subject "Magruder, Rosalie Stuart, 1884-1971.".
• catalog subject "Office practice Massachusetts Cambridge History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Phelps, Reginald H. (Reginald Henry)".
• catalog subject "Secretaries Massachusetts Cambridge History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Universities and colleges Employees.".
• catalog subject "Women employees.".
• catalog title "Rosalie Stuart Magruder reminiscences of working at Harvard University, 1958.".
• catalog type "Reminiscences. aat".