Wilfred Harold Munro was a professor of history at Brown University. He was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, on August 20, 1849. He attended Mowry and Goff's English and Classical School and graduated from Brown in 1870. After college, Munro taught at De Veaux College in Niagara Falls, was associate principal of St. Mark's School in Salt Lake City in 1871, spent some time in Central and South America, was principal of the Academic Institute in Le Roy, New York, from 1875 to 1879, and returned to De Veaux College as president from 1881 to 1889. He resumed his study of history at Freiburg and Heidelburg in 1890 and 1891, and in 1891 began his teaching career at Brown as associate professor of history. His title was changed to professor of European history in 1899. He was appointed the first director of University Extension in 1890. He retired from teaching in 1911. He died on August 9, 1934 in Providence.
Description of hoods adopted for use of graduates of Brown University.
Notice of his election as a councilor of the American Institute of Civics. Signed by John F. Covington, registrar.
Will not attend alumni dinner; disapproval of last year's dinner.
Explains the Financial Union system at Yale.
Account of meeting was published in the Sun asks why he was not given permission to publish.
Thanks him for efforts on his behalf.
Written from Ann Arbor, giving prices of tickets to the ball games.
Declines invitation to Phi Beta Kappa banquet.
Will attend meeting of Association in New England; suggests topic for speech.
Declining invitation.
Declining invitation to Phi Beta Kappa dinner.
Writes of his work for Transylvania and the aid given him by Miss Carolina Richmond.
Will bring colleague, Prof. Anson D. Morse, to meeting in Providence.
Regrets he cannot attend meeting of Phi Beta Kappa on January 18.
Unable to attend Phi Beta Kappa banquet.
Thanks him for compliment concerning his paper.
Declining invitation.
Corrects letter of March 3. Conveys message to alumni contributors that Dr. and Mrs. Robinson are pleased by an act which has "largely relieved them of the anxiety about the future which they felt daily pressing more and more heavily upon them."