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UA 13/012 Duncan McArthur Collection, 1969-2002

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Contents List

Series I: Personal Files, 1976-2002

Series I contains files on various subjects that were not numerous enough to warrant their own individual series. The two folders on The Horse cover separate instances in which Furman officials found the April Fool’s day issues of The Paladin student newspaper offensive and moved to defund the printing of the issue in the future years. Professor McArthur was active in defending the publication of The Horse and its use of satire. These files also include references to Stacy Schorr (1999 editor of The Horse) Harry Shucker, David Shi, Jim Edwards, and Douglas MacDonald. 

Folder three concerns the speech of Furman English Professor Alfred Reid given during a celebration of the university’s 150th anniversary. The speech contains Reid’s handwritten notes, as well as references to Herbert Gezork and Marshall Frady. 

Folder three contains materials relating to the Schaefer B. Kendrick Daily Cup. At the time of Professor Kendrick’s retirement, after forty-three years of teaching, Furman faculty funded an endowment for” The Schaefer B. Kendrick Emeritus Monday Through Friday Daily Cup,” that is, a free daily cup of coffee for the said Kendrick, to entice him to return frequently to the Faculty Lounge, where he could again regale his erstwhile colleagues with his tall tales. Kendrick’s imperfect adherence to the Citation’s stipulations about attendance required issuing a number of subpoenas, which he, a lawyer, took seriously. The Citation was written by Bill Rogers; the subpoenas, by Duncan McArthur. 

Box 1:

Folder:

  1. Defunding and Defending The Horse, 1999
  2. Defunding and Defending The Horse, 2001-2002
  3. Al Reid’s Speech, Founder’s Day, January 14, 1976
  4. Schaefer B. Kendrick Daily Cup

Series II: Montague Village Living-Learning Center Files, 1980-1987

Series II contains documents about the planning of Montague Village as a Living-Learning Center in 1980-81. It also contains rosters of residents, committee lists, memoranda, correspondence, notes for talks, meeting notes, newsletters, calendars of events, and other documents from the first six years of the Living-Learning Center. 

Box 2:

Folder:

  1. Planning, 1980-1981
  2. 1981-1982
  3. 1982-1983
  4. 1983-1984
  5. 1984-1985
  6. 1985-1986
  7. 1986-1987

Series III: Foreign Study: The Peculiar Treatment of the English Department for Many Years (files from 1975-1994)

Series III of Duncan McArthur’s files contains papers dealing with the Foreign Study (Study Away) Fall Term in England Program and problems with the program as perceived by English Department faculty. The files chronicle efforts, beginning in 1976, to allow all qualified English professors to take part in the program, to address the governance of the program, and to improve the program. Issues addressed include conflicts of interest, the peculiar treatment of the English Department as compared to other departments involved in foreign study, inequitable treatment of faculty, and the principles of faculty control of academic courses and of departmental control of the staffing of their courses. Materials pertaining to the following individuals and committees are included in this collection: Frank Bonner (Provost), John Crabtree (Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, English Professor), Stanley Crowe, Jim Edwards, Phil Elliott, Ed Jones, Duncan McArthur, Willard Pate (Director of the Fall Term in England Program and Chair of the Foreign-Study Committee, 1975-1988), Bill Rogers, Foreign Study Committee, and Special Faculty Committee to Study the Fall Term in England Program (1987-1988). 

Box 3:

Folder :

  1. Early appeals to Provost Frank Bonner to allow participation by English Department faculty other than John Crabtree and Willard Pate
  2. Responses by Dean Crabtree
  3. Conflict of Interest
  4. Bill Roger’s Proposal and the issue of Departmental control of staffing and approval of course content
  5. Efforts to establish a Special Faculty Committee to Study the Fall Term in England Program
  6. Statement of Duncan McArthur to the Special Committee
  7. Report of the Special Faculty Committee to Study the Fall Term in England Program (1988)
  8. Suggestions for English Department procedures in selecting its faculty for the Fall Term in England (1994)
  9. Policies and Procedures File 112.6: Foreign Study Program, various versions
  10. Brief Descriptions of 13 F.U. Fall Term in England Programs, 3 Application forms, 2 Guide booklets

Series IV: Intercollegiate Athletics: Costs, Philosophy, Studies and Recommendations, 1969-1993

Series IV of this collection contains materials related to Duncan McArthur’s time on three University committees that produced studies and recommendations about intercollegiate athletics, also materials on his participation in a panel on athletic scholarships. Most of the folders are associated with the University Athletics Committee (1974-1976). These include official committee materials as well as unofficial supplementary materials used by the committee in their study and report (1975). Also included are responses to the committee’s recommendations by Furman students, by the Furman Faculty, and by the University Trustees (1976). Another folder contains materials associated with the Athletics Section of the 1976 Institutional Self Study, its recommendations, and responses to these recommendations by the University Trustees. Another folder includes the 1987 Institutional Self Study’s section on Intercollegiate Athletics, with recommendations. Another folder contains materials from Dr. McArthur’s participation in a panel discussion on Athletic Scholarships (1993). Key topics covered in this collection include the philosophy of athletics, President Gordon Blackwell and his relationship with the Faculty, the Trustee Committee on Athletics, the American Council on Education (ACE) Study of the results of colleges discontinuing football, the University Athletics Committee’s recommendation to discontinue football at Furman, a controversy over accounting for costs of intercollegiate athletic teams, and Furman’s allocation of resources (1975-1984). 

Box 4:

Folder:

  1. Faculty Referendum on Athletic Scholarships & Southern Conference Membership, December 1969
  2. University Athletics Committee, 1974-1979: Minutes and Correspondence
  3. University Athletics Committee Report on Athletics (1975): Drafts, Comments, Revisions, Recommendations
  4. University Athletics Committee Report on Athletics (1975), Also Responses of Trustees and of Faculty (re Adopting Policy on Athletics and Discontinuing Football)
  5. 1974 William & Mary Report on Athletics: re possibility of no longer giving Athletic scholarships
  6. 1974 American Council on Education (ACE) Report on Intercollegiate Athletics
  7. 1974 American Council on Education (ACE) Report on Intercollegiate Athletics: Appendices B,C,F,H
  8. 1974 ACE Report: Appendix I - The Experience of Senior Colleges that have Discontinued Football, Felix Springer, March 7 1974
  9. Paladin Coverage of Football Controversy, 1975-76
  10. More Football Scholarships: President Blackwell & Vice President for Development Kendrick clash with student leaders over disclosing news, February 1976
  11. 1976 Self-Study: Student Development Services: Athletics Section & Trustees’ Response
  12. Should Furman Have Athletic Scholarships? Panel Discussion, 1/19/93
  13. Furman Resource Allocation Profiles, by program and department, 1975-1984
  14. Institutional Self-Study 1987, section 5.5.2.9: Intercollegiate Athletics, with recommendations