Philomathean Society records, 1832-1888.

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Philomathean Society records, 1832-1888.

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This small and incomplete collection of Philomathean Society records consists of minutes (1832-36, 1851-64 only), membership lists, constitutions and by-laws, resolutions, invitations and programs for meetings, and memorabilia mainly from the years 1832 through the late 1860s. Official records are included in bound volumes of manuscript documents. There is a resolution protesting the projected closing of the University's Academic Department in 1881. An invitation to honorary membership for Martin Van Buren dated 1841, which President Van Buren accepted, is found in Box 2, folder 6. A letter of gift dated 1940 accompanies the badges in Box 2, folder 8, and gives biographical data about their owner, George R. Howe (ex 1868). There is also a pin belonging to John Taylor Johnston.

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Johnson, John Taylor.

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Howe, George Rowland, 1847-1917

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