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Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.). Peithologian Society

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Wesleyan University Philorhetorian and Peithologian Society records

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-397
Abstract Both the Philorhetorian Society (originally named Philorhetorian Lyceum), and the Peithologian Society (originally named Adelphian), were founded in 1831. Both met weekly in the evening and both cultivated extensive libraries. Almost all Wesleyan students belonged to one society or the other, but by the late 1860s these were being supplanted by Greek societies on campus. This collection consists of printed and manuscript records of members and library holdings, accounts, reports, minutes...
Dates: 1831-1869