Centre College scrapbooks, 1826-1969.

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Centre College scrapbooks, 1826-1969.

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These scrapbooks contain newsclippings and photographs concerning Centre College and the Kentucky College for Women in Danville, Kentucky. The majority of the materials are about athletics at both institutions but obituaries and articles on Centre alumni (1 v.; 1880-1900) are also included.

46 v.

Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky Guide Project Office

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Kentucky College for Women (Danville, Ky.)

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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...