Student Life: Literary Organizations Records
Scope and Contents
Student Life: Literary Organizations Records contains files of many of Oberlin College's literary societies, including: Acme Literary Society, Alpha Zeta Literary Society, Oratorical Association, Phi Delta Society, Phi Kappa Pi, Sigma Gamma, Phi Alpha Phi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Union Literary Society, and other miscellaneous records. The files related to Ladies' Literary Society are found in RG 19/003/004/001, described separately.
Dates
- Creation: 1839-2021, undated
- Other: Date acquired: 04/16/1974
Creator
- Oberlin College Literary Organizations (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted.
Extent
21.35 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This record group holds the records of various Oberlin College literary organizations.
Arrangement
INVENTORY
Acme Literary Society [2001/94]
Box 1
Constitution and Bylaws, undated
Constitution and Bylaws, Amendments, Member Registers, 1898-1905 (1v)
Recording Secretary's Book, 1898-1908 (2v)
(See also Cadmean - Miscellaneous)
Alpha Zeta Literary Society
Box 1
Constitution, Bylaws, and History, 1869, (1v)
Constitution and Bylaws, 1874-1908
Oberlin Review Article, 1893, and Society Pamphlet, 1910
Programs - Miscellaneous, 1871-1901
Roll Book, 1869 (1v)
Special Quarterly Programs, 1880-1893
Ladies’ Literary Society (Aelioian, L.L.S.)
See separate finding guide for RG 19/3/4/1.
Oratorical Association
Box 1
Financial Records, 1894-98 (5f)
Treasurer’s Account Book, 1875-1898 (1v)
Box 2
Original Scripts, 1907-1908, 1910 (3f)
Oberlin Oratorical Contest, 1874-1904
Orations and Essays, 1886-1900, undated [2001/94] (2f)
Box 3
Orations and Essays, 1886, 1889-1894, 1907 (2f)
Orations and Essays, 1888-1906 (span date) (9v)
Phi Delta Society
Box 1
Constitutions, Bylaws, Members Registers 1855-1865, 1862-1912 (2f)
Inventory of Possessions, 1920
Miscellaneous - Songs and Certificate, undated
Programs, 1855-1917 (3f)
Roll Books, 1877-81, 1915, 1916/17
History of Phi Delta, 1875-76, 1893
Bound Materials Loose on Shelves
Phi Delta Yearly History, 1882-83 -- 1916-1917
Minutes of Meetings, 1860-1917 (6v)
Corresponding Secretary’s Records 1904-17
Treasurer’s Record, 1855-1878
Constitution, Bylaws, Minutes, 1839-1917 (2v)
Phi Kappa Pi
Box 1
Alumnae Lists, 1923, undated
Anniversary Programs, 1846-1878
Article of Agreement between Oberlin College Trustees and Young Men’s Lyceum, 1850
Constitution and By-Laws, 1857-1911
History, 1907, 1910, 1914
Miscellaneous, 1864, 1980, undated
Phi Kappa Pi, Phi Delta, and Alpha Zeta Union Exhibitions, 1862-1884
Programs and Song Sheets
Box 2
Constitution, Minutes of Meetings, 1839-49 (2v)
Roll of Members, 1892-1913
Treasurer’s Book, 1890-1913
Meeting minutes, 1849-1913 (7v)
Box 3
Constitution and By-laws, 1863-1870 (1v)
Constitutions and By-laws, 1870-1882 (1v)
History, 1884-1892 (1v)
Box 4
Programs, 1839-1928
Questionnaire, undated
Special Quarterly Programs, 1878-1893
Cash Book, 1925-29 (1v)
Minutes, 1924-1925 (1v)
Minutes, 1919 (1v)
Sigma Gamma
Box 1
Alumnae Lists and Letters to Alumnae, 1914-1939 (span)
Cash Book, 1927-1946 (1v)
Constitution and By-Laws, 1923, undated
History, 1925
Miscellaneous, 1912-33 (span)
Printing Plate - Invitation to Annual Love Fest - Monday June 19
Recording Secretary's Book, 1914-38 (4v)
Phi Alpha Phi
Box 1
Minutes, 1923-24 (1v)
Miscellaneous, 1902-1914, undated
See also Ladies Literary Society, Subgroup IV
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Box 1 (cont.)
Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1913-1918
Tau Kappa Epsilon Member Register, 1913-1918
Tau Kappa Epsilon Member Register and Minutes, 1913-1919
Tau Kappa Epsilon Constitution and By-laws, 1913-1919
Union Literary Society
Box 1
Union Society Constitution and Bylaws, Minutes, 1841-1855 (2v)
Union Literary Society, Anniversary and Annual Programs, Constitution and Bylaws, Lecture Program and Ticket, 1845-1915 (span)
1916-1917
Goodrich Room Case 2, Drawer 1
Oversize Programs, 1879-1880
See also Phi Delta Literary Association (Miscellaneous)
Union Literary Association / Union Library Association
Box 1
Union Library Association, 1903-1923
See also OC Library Records RG 16
Union Literary Association Register of Visitors, ca.1896-1905 (1v)
Box 2
Lecture Course Announcements, 1889-1924 (3f)
Box 3
Lecture Course Announcements (cont.)
Constitution and Bylaws, 1875-1914
Miscellaneous
Box 1
As I Am, 2019
Cadmean and Acme Union Annuals, 1886-1901
Cadmean - Programs, Constitution and Bylaws, 1882-1896
Cadmean - Recording Secretary's Book, 1904/05 (1v)
Community of Writers, 2001
Debate - Argument Scripts, 1911, undated, ca. 1907
Debate - Miscellaneous, 1897-1926
Delta Sigma Rho, 1926-1969
Drivel Magazine, 2009
Exhibition, 1855-1899 (2f)
Fearless and Loathing, 2015
Forensic Union, 1929-93 (4f)
See also RG 9/11, Communications Department
Golden Fleece, 1869, 1872-1873
Free Poetry Exchange, 1998 - See 19/3/6, Activist/Political
History Design Lab: On Second Thought, 2022
Inter-Society Debate, 1904-1916 (span)
Box 2
Monthly Rhetorical Contest, 1863-1887, (3f)
Oberlin College Speech and Debate Team, 2023
Oberlin Community of Writers, 2000
Olde English, 2002
O-Slam!, 2011
Philo Dialectic Society, 1870
Rat Review: A Culinary Arts Magazine, 2023
Samekh Aleph and Beth Ann Aloph, 1877, 1893
Sigma Rho No, 1881-1883
Theological Society - See RG 11, Graduate School of Theology
Two Groves Literary Magazine, 2019
Writer’s Bloc, ca. 1987-1988
Writers in Residence, Oberlin, 2019
Miscellaneous, 1860, 1913, 1920-1921, undated
Accruals and Additions
Accession Nos: 234, 1978/43, 1981/23, 1989/203, 1997/029, 1997/148, 2001/048, 2001/094.
- Title
- Student Life: Literary Organizations Records
- Author
- William E. Bigglestone, Kennneth M. Grossi, Tara L. Ikenouye
- Date
- 10/01/1981
- Description rules
- Rules for Archival Description
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Oberlin College Archives Repository
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Oberlin OH 44074-1532 US
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archive@oberlin.edu