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Student Life: Literary Organizations Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 19-003-004-000

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

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.

Related Materials

See the records of the Ladies' Literary Society (Aelioian, L.L.S.), RG 19/3/4/1.

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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