Collection Overview
Title: William Gordon Ross Papers
Predominant Dates:1940-1990
ID: RG 09/9.40
Creator: Ross, William Gordon -- 1900-
Extent: 3.0 MS boxes
Languages: English [eng]
Abstract
William Ross Gordon began teaching at Berea in 1931 as a teacher in the Foundation-Junior High School. In 1932 he was promoted to the college department where he spent the next 36 years teaching philosophy and religion. Born in 1900 in South Carolina, Ross served in the United States Army from 1918 until 1922. He later secured his bachelor's degree from Drury College and in 1930 received his Bachelor of Divinity from the Union Seminary in New York. His Ph.D. in philosophy was granted by Columbia University in 1942.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
These are the papers of W. Gordon Ross. The materials include correspondence, photographs, biographical information, manuscripts, copies of publications, and addresses and speeches he gave during his time at Berea College.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions:
Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Use Restrictions:
There are no restrictions on the collection other than federal copyright regulations.
Preferred Citation:
[Date/Title of Document/Folder Number], RG 9/9.40: William Gordon Ross Papers, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Berea, Ky
Processing Information:
Fully processed, and finding guide created, May 2017.
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1
- Folder 1: W. Gordon Ross Biographical Material
- Folder 2: Photographs
- Folder 3: Correspondence 1971-86
- Folder 4: Newspaper Clippings
- Folder 5: Addresses and Essays 1
- Item 1: Pins and Opinions, 5/31/1964
- Speech Given At Nurses Pinning
- Item 2: Unknown Essay
- Item 3: Some Connotational Variations in Hebrew
- Item 4: The Word in the Words
- June 9 Morning Service
- Item 5: Viewpoint of the Moral Philosophers: Annotated outline
- Item 6: A Teenager in 1914
- Graduation Address
- Item 7: Teaching: Science, Art or Business, Jan.18-19, 1952
- NABI meeting
- Item 8: The Greeks, Oct. 30, 1954
- Conference of Foreign Language Teaches
- Folder 6: Addresses and Essays 2
- Item 1: One Way to Relate Biblical Theology and Social Ethics
- Item 2: God is a Fog
- Item 3: What do They Think?, Dec. 13, 1947
- Article in student newspaper: Wallpaper
- Item 4: Higher World
- Item 5: Philosophy of the Person
- Item 6: Myth
- Folder 7: Addresses and Essays 3
- Item 1: Spiritual Issues, 1944
- Item 2: A Problem
- Item 3: The Captain: Retelling of a Friend's Story
- Item 4: God In History, 1948
- Item 5: Three of the R's
- Scholarship Recognition Day Program
- Item 6: Teaching the Bible (Religion in Life)
- Folder 8: Addresses and Essays 4
- Item 1: Nick's Dagger
- Item 2: Children's Toys
- Item 3: The Cat and the Monkey
- Folder 9: Addresses and Essays 5
- Item 1: Concerning Christian Ethics
- Item 2: Concept of Fear in Biblical and Patriotic Thought
- Folder 10: Addresses and Essays 6
- Item 1: Personal Report Concerning Religious Emphasis Week, Feb. 23, 1963
- Item 2: The Lies of Job, Summer 1945
- Lecture at Pacific School of Religion
- Item 3: The Lies of Job, Summer 1945
- Lecture at Pacific School of Religion
- Folder 11: Addresses and Essays 7
- Item 1: The Power's in Opposition to Christ's Lordship, November 21-22, 1963
- Interseminary Movement Fall Conference, Asbury Theological Seminary
- Item 2: From Shotwell to Shute, NABI 4-1-63
- Item 3: Report to Faculty Teaching Seminar, Mar-63
- Item 4: Religion and Psychology
- Folder 12: Addresses and Essays 8
- Item 1: Person. Personal. Personality., 1/1/1970
- Albright College
- Item 2: Speech to Student Assembly
- Item 3: Religion and Psychology, Dec. 31, 1963
- NABI
- Folder 13: Addresses and Essays 9
- Item 1: Moral and Spiritual Values in Education
- Education 490 Eastern Kentucky State University, Summer 1953 Report to the President
- Item 2: Fate's Fondness for Irony, Nov. 4, 1971
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Item 3: Hume and the Scandal of Induction, Nov. 9. 1968
- Kentucky Philosophical Association
- Item 4: Thesauros in Crackable Pottery, 10/13/1967
- Annual Meeting of the Central Kentucky Psychological Association
- Folder 14: Addresses and Essays 10
- Item 1: Private Translation of Romans
- Item 2: Private Translation for use Sunday Evening, Feb. 6, 1966
- Item 3: A Study
- Item 4: Jeremiah 20:7-9 (Since Cornill)
- Item 5: Zophar Counsels (or What's Wrong With This Picture?)
- Item 6: Thesaurus in Crackable Pottery, 10/13/1967
- Annual Meeting of the Central Kentucky Psychological Association
- Item 7: Why Should Animal's Suffer?, 1/25/1939
- Bible 211
- Folder 15: Addresses and Essays 11
- Item 1: Thank God for Outdoors
- Item 2: Hume and The Scandal of Induction, Nov. 9. 1968
- Kentucky Philosophical Association
- Item 3: The Power's In Opposition to Christ's Lordship, November 21-22, 1963
- Interseminary Movement Fall Conference, Asbury Theological Seminary
- Item 4: The Problem and Problems of the Church Related School
- Folder 16: Addresses and Essays 12
- Item 1: Christian Opportunity: Essay With Research, Session 1938
- Union Theological Seminary Summer
- Folder 17: Addresses and Essays 13
- Item 1: Symposium Speech: Conference of Science, Philosophy, and Religion
- Item 2: Teaching Seminars, 1963
- Item 3: A Love-Hate "Dialectic"
- Item 4: Reconsidering Kafka's Trial
- Item 5: Who Speaks What
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 1 - 2
- Folder 2: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 3
- Folder 3: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 3
- Folder 4: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 4
- Folder 5: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 5 - 9
- Folder 6: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 10 - 11
- Folder 7: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 12 - 13
- Folder 8: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 14 - 15
- Folder 9: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Ch. 16 - 17
- Folder 10: Manuscript: Companion of Eternity Miscellaneous Pages
- Folder 11: Manuscript: The Yoke of Freedom
- Folder 12: Manuscript: Elaborators and Simplifiers
- Folder 13: Manuscript: Human Nature and Utility
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Galley: Companion of Eternity
- Folder 2: Other Writings
- Folder 3: Manuscript: Untitled Manuscript
- Folder 4: Manuscript: Untitled Manuscript Continued
- Folder 5: Manuscript: Temptation
- Folder 6: Poems by Ross
- Folder 7: Published Articles and Other