Early Centre official documents - legal papers, 1818-1969.

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Early Centre official documents - legal papers, 1818-1969.

This is a collection of legal papers and documents which relate to the history and growth of Centre College. Included are copies of the constitution and bylaws of college, and charters, contracts, agreements, indentures, deeds, surveys, stock transfers, and wills.

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Centre College (Danville, Ky.)

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The literary societies at Centre College began with the formation in 1828 of the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society, named in honor of the College's first President, Rev. Jeremiah Chamberlain. The Society apparently died out around 1927, but then was revived around 1939 for only two years.The Deinologian Literary Society was founded in 1835 by students who were dismayed with the Chamberlain Society, and continued in existence until about 1940. The Athenaean Literary Society was an of...