Wood collected newspaper clippings, papers, and publications for his research, professional needs, and as mementos. These materials are found in the Subject File series, which maintains Wood's original organization of alphabetically by subject. The Insurance file contains correspondence relating to insurance plans available to Michigan State Normal College staff. Material relating to the Michigan State Normal College debate team may also be found in the Argumentation, Debate, and Programs-Debate files. Papers from speech classes that Wood taught, as well as transcripts of speeches Wood wrote, may be found in the Pedagogical Problems file. The Child Psychology file contains a sampling of Gladys Huntington Bevans' You and Your Children column and Doris Blake's advice column published in the Chicago Herald Tribune betweem 1927 and 1932. Material relating to World War I may be found in the War file. Materials from the Occasional Addresses and Programs subseries are further divided by events.