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Biographical, 1938-1989

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The Biographical series contains biographical and autobiographical sketches and curricula vitae, bibliographies of Lewis's work, photographs, awards and membership materials, and papers related to Lewis winning the Nobel Prize in Economics. The series also includes a comic book depicting the story of Lewis's life, his passport and will, and other scholars' analyses of his work.
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The Correspondence series is composed of correspondence to and from Lewis over the course of his career. The series includes discussions between Lewis and other scholars about economic issues and recent publications, Lewis's correspondence as an officer of the American Economic Association and as an editor for publications, and correspondence between Lewis and his publishers. The series also contains congratulations and invitations from colleagues, letters from former students of Lewis seeking career advice and describing their work, and correspondence related to Lewis's work at the University of the West Indies, with the West Indies Federation, and while serving as an economic consultant in Ghana.
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Country Files, 1892-1989

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The Country Files series documents Lewis's work as an economic advisor, as well as his involvement with Caribbean economic policies and politics. The majority of the papers are related to his work in the Caribbean and Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast). The Caribbean papers focus on the formation and dissolution of the West Indies Federation and the East Caribbean Federation, and also include reports on the economies, education systems, and social conditions of several of the islands. The Ghana papers contain reports by Lewis to the government of Ghana and his later publications on the country concerning the country's economic development plans and the implications of the Volta River project. The series also includes a small number of documents about Guyana (formerly British Guiana) and Nigeria.
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Organization Affiliations, 1946-1988

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The Organization Affiliations series includes documents from a variety of organizations in which Lewis was active, often as a member of the board or advising committee, as well as material collected by Lewis about organizations. The documents include meeting minutes, correspondence, and papers about the organizations. Many of the organizations are focused on economic issues, while others are concerned with social conditions, education, and the humanities. The organizations include the American Economic Association (Lewis was a member of the executive committee), the Caribbean Development Bank (Lewis was the first president), the United Nations, and the World Bank General Advisory Panel (Lewis was the chair).
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The University Career series contains papers from several universities where Lewis either taught or was an administrator. The majority of the papers document his career as Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and as a professor at Princeton University. The University of the West Indies materials include a variety of papers related to governing the university, including meeting minutes and the text for speeches by Lewis. The Princeton University papers are largely composed of Lewis's lecture notes. The series also includes a small number of documents from the Jamaica School of Music, the London School of Economics, the University of Guyana, and the University of Manchester.
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Writings, 1936-1989

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The Writings series contains articles, lecture notes, notes, and statistics. The writings are largely concerned with economic development but also cover a wide variety of subjects, including economic systems and history, economic issues faced by minorities, and international economics, as well as education, industries and land use, pricing, and unemployment.
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Photographs taken by Henry J. Powsner, Class of 1950, while he was a student at Princeton. In three envelopes labeled "Princetonianum" (campus views, including squirrel, and chapel interiors); "In the dorm"; and "About Princeton and band." The latter include dining hall interiors, a student suspended by pulley in a lecture hall, sunbathers, the football stadium, and band members at Richardson Auditorium, along with night exteriors of campus rowdiness.
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This series contains the records of the Governing Council and other central officers of the society. The Governing Council, usually referred to as the GoCo, is made up of the elected central officers and the heads of the various subsidiaries. It is the body responsible for coordinating the activities of the entire society and running the day to day activities including setting the annual budget. The GoCo has varied in size from 8 members to approximately 25 depending upon the number of subsidiaries which the society had at the time. The central officers are responsible for activities that involve the society as a whole rather than a single subsidiary, such as initiations and the annual banquet.
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The Board of Trustees is made up of University faculty, staff, and Whig-Clio alumni, appointed to three year terms by the President of the University. They are responsible for supervising the undergraduate officers, making long-term policy decisions, negotiating with the University administration when conflicts arise, and overseeing the society's endowment. The documents in this series deal with the initial organization of the board in 1940 and 1941 and the problems which had to be overcome in order to merge Whig and Clio. The series also includes the trustees' minutes and correspondence, and their annual reports to the president of the university. The series also includes reports to the board of trustees made by the undergraduate officers.
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Whig-Clio's Speakers Program brings prominent figures in politics, international affairs, and literature to the Princeton campus in order to address the Society. This is one of the major activities open to all members of the society. The Speakers Program has often worked very closely with the International Relations Council, one of Whig-Clio's subsidiaries, in attracting speakers to speak about foreign affairs, and sometimes it is difficult to determine whether a particular speaker was invited by both groups or one or the other. At different times the Speakers Program has been the responsibility of the Secretary of the Society or that of a separate Director of Program.
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Series 4: Debate Panel, 1930-2012

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The Debate Panel is Princeton University's intercollegiate debating team. The series contains the Panel's correspondence dealing with its competitions against teams from other American colleges and universities as well as activity reports and internal administrative material. Activity reports collect the results and social activities of the panel at all of the tournaments the members attended during a particular academic year; after 1968 these activity reports are called Style Reports. For material dealing with intercollegiate debating at Princeton before 1928, see the Cliosophic Society Records (AC# 016) Series XI: Joint Documents with Whig; Debating Committee, Boxes 85-87. The Guide to North American Platform Debate, published by the Debate Panel in the 1960s and 1970s to help popularize the current [1993] impromptu style of intercollegiate debating can be found in Series VII - Publications.
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The Woodrow Wilson Honorary Debate Panel (commonly abbreviated WWHDP) named after the 28th President of the United States, who was the Speaker of the American Whig Society while an undergraduate at Princeton, was founded in 1940 in order to recognize exceptional prowess in debate among undergraduates in Whig-Clio. Originally membership to this society was determined solely by election of the current members while its activities consisted mostly of an annual banquet in their honor. At some point which the documents do not make clear, this changed, and WWHDP took over responsibility for running the various prize debates and contests sponsored by Whig-Clio and membership is now gained by winning a prize in one of these contests.