Harvard student materials and memorabilia, 1907-1918 and undated

This series consists of a limited amount of material pertaining to Alton Miller's student activities and life at Harvard College from 1907 to 1918. Class notebooks and graded homework exercises for mathematics in this series include experiments, formulas, and equations that document Miller's academic work as a Harvard undergraduate. A placard advertising Miller's tutoring services in Greek, Latin, geometry, and algebra (ca. 1908) illustrates Miller's early teaching activities as an undergraduate; a letter from Charles H. Haskins, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, concerns Miller's admission to graduate school (1910); and a chemistry text book probably used in Miller's studies entitled, National Note-Book Sheets for Laboratory Work in Chemistry (1909), exemplifies the kinds of mathematical instruction Miller received as an undergraduate at Harvard. A small personal leather notebook that contains calling cards, eyeglass prescriptions, a railroad pass, and several pieces of Harvard ephemera including a Harvard University Base Ball Association season ticket (1910), Randall Hall Association membership cards (1909-1911), a Harvard Athletic Association membership ticket (1909-1910), and a gym locker ticket provides an overview of Miller's day-to-day and social activities. The leather notebook also includes a Harvard Coop "Reference List" (1907-1908) which contains a directory of local Cambridge businesses, fire alarm telegraph locations, and memorandum pages with Miller's handwritten notes regarding his laboratory and class schedule. This series also contains two of Miller's writings, Systems of Pencils of Lines in Ordinary Space (Miller's PhD dissertation reprinted in the American Journal of Mathematics in 1918) and Miller's master's thesis, Problems of Bertrand, Darboux, and others on the Determination of the Most General Laws of Force, under which the Orbit of a Particle shall have Certain Prescribed Properties (1913). In addition, this series contains several pieces of Harvard ephemera such as commencement ceremony programs (1916); a Harvard banner; a lithographed notebook cover inscribed with the title "Harvard" and a picture of a football game and the Harvard Yard gate; and a Harvard watch fob on a black ribbon with an image of the Harvard Veritas logo. This series also includes a photograph of Alton Miller as a new graduate of Harvard (1911).