These collections were selected from the records of the Trustees and President's Office and reflect the activities and expectations of those responsible for administering the college. They include advertisements, examples of faculty inaugural addresses, a report from the College Physician, a report from the Trustees to the Presbyteries supporting the college, Presbytery minutes, treasurer's records and tuition and scholarship receipts.

Except for the inaugural addresses, these records were created in the course of the daily work of the college. The addresses were intended not only for the students but were published and distributed to add to the prestige of the college. Daniel Harvey Hill's address on discipline received national attention and was considered a standard on the subject.

Presbytery Minutes
Davidson College was founded by the Presbytery of Concord. The minutes of the Presbytery contain the earliest references to the college, spanning from March 1835 to October 1843. Excerpts of the minutes relating to Davidson College have been made available for this project through the permission of the Salem Presbytery, the current copyright holder of the minutes, and through the Presbyterian Historical Society in Montreat, NC, holders of the original documents. Permission to use these materials must be obtained from Salem Presbytery.

Inaugural Addresses
Inaugural addresses from President Robert Hall Morrison (1838), Professor Patrick Sparrow (1838), Professor Elijah Rockwell (1851),and Professor Daniel Harvey Hill (1855).

Tuition Receipt, 1839

Professorship Endowment Pledges, 1845

Treasurer's Report, 1850

Scholarship Receipts, 1851-53

Advertisement, 1867
Entitled "To the Friends of Education in the South," this is an advertisement for Davidson College from 1867, authored by the president, the Reverend George Wilson McPhail.

Report to the Presbyteries, 1881
This is an annual report to the local Presbyteries that supported Davidson College from 1881. It reported the financial and academic status of the school.

Physician's Report, 1886-87
Dr. Paul B. Baningen's report on the health of the student body during the 1886-87 academic year.