Student Life: Literary Organizations Records, 1839-
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Acme Literary Society [2001/94]
Box 1
Constitution and Bylaws, n.d.
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 & Bylaws, 1874-1908
Oberlin Review Article, 1893, & Society Pamphlet, 1910
Programs - Miscellaneous, 1871-1901
Roll Book, 1869 (1v)
Special Quarterly Programs, 1880-93
Ladies’ Literary Society (Aelioian, L.L.S.)
22 Boxes
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, 1907-08, 1910 (3f)
Oberlin Oratorical Contest, 1874-1904
Orations and Essays, 1886-1900, n.d. [2001/94] (2f)
Box 3
Orations and Essays, 1886, 1889-94, 1907 (2f)
Orations and Essays, 1888-1906 (span date) (9v)
Phi Delta Society
Box 1
Constitutions, Bylaws, Members Registers 1855-65, 1862-1912 (2f)
Inventory of Possessions, 1920
Miscellaneous - Songs & Certificate, n.d.
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, n.d.
Anniversary Programs, 1846-78
Article of Agreement between Oberlin College Trustees & Young Men’s
Lyceum, 1850
Constitution & By-Laws, 1857-1911
History, 1907, 1910, 1914
Miscellaneous, 1864, 1980, n.d.
Phi Kappa Pi, Phi Delta, & Alpha Zeta Union Exhibitions, 1862-84
Programs & Song Sheets (span date)
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, 1863-70 (1v)
Constitutions & By-laws, 1870-82 (1v)
History, 1884-92 (1v)
Box 4
Programs, 1839-1928
Questionnaire, n.d.
Special Quarterly Programs, 1878-93
Cash Book, 1925-29 (1v)
Minutes, 1924-1925 (1v)
Minutes, 1919 (1v)
Sigma Gamma
Box 1
Alumnae Lists & Letters to Alumnae, 1914-39 (span)
Cash Book, 1927-46 (1v)
Constitution and By-Laws, 1923, n.d.
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, 1902-14, n.d.
See also Ladies Literary Society, Subgroup IV
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Box 1 (cont.)
Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1913-18
Tau Kappa Epsilon Member Register, 1913-18
Tau Kappa Epsilon Member Register and Minutes, 1913-19
Tau Kappa Epsilon Constitution & By-laws, 1913-19
Union Literary Society
Box 1
Union Society Constitution & Bylaws, Minutes, 1841-55 (2v)
Union Literary Society, Anniversary and Annual Programs, Constitution and
Bylaws, Lecture Program and Ticket, 1845-1915 (span)
1916-17
Goodrich Room Case 2, Drawer 1
Oversize programs, 1879-80
See also Phi Delta Literary Association (Miscellaneous)
Union Literary Association / Union Library Association
Box 1
Union Library Association, 1903-23
See also OC Library Records RG 16
Union Literary Association Register of Visitors, c.1896-1905 (1v)
Box 2
Lecture Course Announcements, 1889-1924 (3f)
Box 3
Lecture Course Announcements (cont.)
Constitution & Bylaws, 1875-1914
Miscellaneous
Box 1
As I Am, 2019
Cadmean & Acme Union Annuals, 1886-1901
Cadmean - Programs, Constitution & Bylaws, 1882-96
Cadmean - Recording Secretary's Book, 1904/05 (1v)
Community of Writers, 2001
Debate - Argument Scripts, 1911, n.d., ca. 1907
Debate - Miscellaneous, 1897-1926
Delta Sigma Rho, 1926-69
Drivel Magazine, 2009
Exhibition, 1855-99 (2f)
Fearless and Loathing, 2015
Forensic Union, 1929-93 (4f)
See also RG 9/11, Communications Department
Golden Fleece, 1869, 1872-73
Free Poetry Exchange, 1998 - See 19/3/6, Activist/Political
History Design Lab: On Second Thought, 2022
Inter-Society Debate, 1904-16 (span)
Box 2
Monthly Rhetorical Contest, 1863-87, (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 & Beth Ann Aloph, 1877, 1893
Sigma Rho No, 1881-83
Theological Society - See RG 11, Graduate School of Theology
Two Groves Literary Magazine, 2019
Writer’s Bloc, c. 1987-88
Writers in Residence, Oberlin, 2019
Miscellaneous, 1860, 1913, 1920-21, n.d.