Centre College miscellaneous speeches and addresses, 1850-1980.

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Centre College miscellaneous speeches and addresses, 1850-1980.

These are speeches made primarily by alumni of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Copies of addresses from the presidents' files are also included.

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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...