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Male Students Drinking and Spending Time with Carlisle Women
May 12, 1915

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards a newspaper article about behavior of the school's male students with alcohol and local women to Oscar Lipps and asks for his response. 

In his reply Lipps disputes some of the article's specific charges but says in general it is accurate. He also describes how difficult it has been…

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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and a Request to Wait
May 12-14, 1915

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Lipps that they will consider supplying the funds once the fiscal year is over.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Enrollment by LeRoy Spencer
May 14 - 29, 1915

These materials include a request by LeRoy Spencer to take a course in chemical engineering at Carlisle. As Carlisle did not offer work in chemistry and chemical engineering, he was sent the Arrow with a course catalog.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Discipline Inspection Report of H. B. Peairs for May 1915
May 20-29, 1915

These materials include a report and correspondence regarding H. B. Peairs' investigation of discipline at the Carlisle Indian School in May, 1915. The report notes numerous improvements that were made and should be pursued. Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps addresses the report's recommendations.

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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Original of Discipline Inspection Report of H. B. Peairs for May 1915
May 20, 1915

These materials include a report by H. B. Peairs on the discipline among boys at the Carlisle Indian School. The report discusses changes enacted by Oscar Hiram Lipps, who was promoted from Supervisor in Charge to Superintendent during this discipline investigation.

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Reports
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Discipline of Harvey Concho
May 21, 1915 - July 3, 1915

These materials contain correspondence regarding the disciplining of Harvey Concho for altering checks.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Requests to Approve Spending $25 in favor of F. C. Bigelow
May 24, 1915 - July 12, 1915

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests to expend $25 under authority No. 66968. Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke approves Lipps' request. 

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Enrollment by Roy Robinson
May 27 - June 8, 1915

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Roy Robinson to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt explains why it is not "practicable" for Robinson to attend Carlisle.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Praise for a Letter Written by Pascal Sherman
June 5 - 9, 1915

These materials include correspondence regarding a letter written by Pascal Sherman, who was being sent to St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington by Carlisle Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Permission to Increase Expenditure for Water in the Fourth Quarter of 1915
June 8, 1915 - June 19, 1915

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests to increase is his authority to purchase water for the fourth quarter of 1915 from $700 to $996.34. E. B. Meritt grants Lipps the authority.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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General Electric Company Apprenticeship Arrangement
June 17-24, 1915

This document contains correspondence concerning an arrangement with the General Electric Company to take four apprentices from Carlisle to work in the electrical department. 

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Letters/Correspondence
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Hiring of Football Coach Victor M. Kelley and a Controversy between him and Coach Welch
July 2, 1915 - December 4, 1915

Newly-hired Carlisle Indian School Football Coach Victor M. Kelley writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells regarding what his goals for the team should be and asks if he would like to travel from Arizona to California to have a meeting. Sells informs Kelley that he is coming to California and would like to see him. 

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Letters/Correspondence
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Ineligible Students at Carlisle Following New Guidelines
July 17, 1915 - July 22, 1916

These materials include correspondence and federal financial aid documents regarding a list of students who were not eligible for enrollment at Carlisle under new enrollment guidelines regarding the availability of schools at home agencies. Upon further investigation, certain students were allowed to remain at Carlisle.

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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Reenroll Lucy Lane
August 8, 1915

Former student Lucy Lane writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and asks to re-enroll at Carlisle in the fall of 1915.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Enrollment by Michael Wilkie
August 13 - 20, 1915

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Michael Wilkie to enroll at Carlisle in order to attend the Millersville State Normal School and to have his transportation paid by the Government.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Enroll Louis Palin
August 13 - 20, 1915

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Louis Palin at Carlisle in order to qualify for the course of work offered by the Ford Motor Company.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Enrollment for Sadie Whirlwind Horse
August 17 - 24, 1915

These materials include a request to enroll Sadie Whirlwind Horse at Carlisle and to waive Section 12 in order to provide her transportation and schooling.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Release Alice Logan
August 18, 1915 - September 9, 1915

These materials include a request to release Alice Logan from the Carlisle School. This request was denied due to her being healthy at the time of the request.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Enroll Henry J. Flood at Dickinson College or Preparatory School
August 19 - October 2, 1915

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Henry J. Flood at Carlisle in order for Flood to attend Conway Hall or Dickinson College.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Enrollment of Enos Wilson at Mercersburg Academy
August 31 - September 3, 1915

These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Enos Wilson as an outing student at Carlisle in order to attend Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities
August 31, 1915

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how funds requested from July 2 were spent.

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Financial Documents
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Correspondence About a Calendar Created by A. H. Nash
September 8-13, 1915

This material includes correspondence between Carlisle graduate A. H. Nash and Commissioner Cato Sells. Nash and The American Art Works had created a daily-date calendar which he sent to the largest Indian Schools, including Carlisle.

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Letters/Correspondence
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Request for Funds to Pay Irregular Student Labor
September 8, 1915

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $500 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1916" account to pay students for irregular labor on the school farms and gardens.

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Financial Documents
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Request to Pay a Local Dentist to Work on Student Body
September 8, 1915

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $200 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1916" account to pay for students' dental work. 

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Request to Re-Enroll Amos Sackatook
September 13 - 23, 1915

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to re-enroll Amos Sackatook at the Carlisle Indian School in order to take up a form of industrial training. The application was approved on the condition that Sackatook pay for his transportation to the school.

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Letters/Correspondence
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