Chapter XXVII. MIAMI WESTERN UNION

   The Miami University Archives contain an accumulation of press clippings, reports from the President's office, and of working papers of the planning team on The Western College of Miami University. The formal report of that committee was published as a special issue of the in-house periodical MIAMIAN, vol. 2, no. 9, Nov. 12, 1973. A detailed review of the first ten years of the Shriver administration at Miami University, written by Phillip R. Shriver, was published as a preface to the customary Annual Report of the President, in September 1975. After summarizing a current self-study of the university, this 35-page account culminates in reporting the visit of an evaluation team of the North Central Association of Colleges. The resulting evaluation was the highest possible accreditation for the longest possible period. "The Western Idea," an attractive informal brochure containing viewpoints of the Western faculty members and highlighting the campus community, the individualized major, and Senior projects, is Miami University Official Publication Series 78, No. 8, January 1980. A colleague's memories of Joseph M. Bachelor are recorded in The MIAMIAN, Nov. 8, 1979. Other Bachelor references appear in the MIAMI ALUMNUS October 1979 and January 1980. The letter from "thirty years after his death" is quoted in the MIAMI ALUMNUS October 1979, p. 3. The student diary of Abner Jones, 1854-58, is in the Special Collections of the King Library. A file of the OXFORD CRITERION, 1933-35, is in the King Library Special Collections.