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Fred M. Bailey graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1920.
Fred M. Bailey Scrapbook (RG 62.0053), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
This collection contains a scrapbook created by Fred M. Bailey while he was a student at Washington and Lee University. There are photographs, clippings, and ephemera throughout the scrapbook. The ephemera includes ticket stubs and event programs and broadsides. The newsclippings primarily pertain to athlethics. The first several pages of the scrapbook provided Bailey the opportunity to list some of his favorite things and describe events he attended and his impressions of them as well as tidbits regarding some of his W&L professors. It also provided space for Bailey to write one sentence a day regarding something he did or something that happened between September 1916-August 1917.
Subjects of the scrapbook include university students and faculty, campus buildings, Lexington, Alpha Tau Omega, pushball, the Student Army Training Corps, athletics such as baseball, football, basketball, and track and including schedules, clubs and social functions, report cards, dance card books, White Friar Ribbon Society, Fancy Dress, Bal Masque, and postcards from different states, W&L, VMI, and Lexington.