Class of 1876-1894, 1876 - 1894

File — Box: T-03

Identifier: T:023

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to alumni, awards, Alumni Association, authors, Alumni Club, deaths, dinners, Alumni Fund, publications, travel, Circle Club, reunions held on campus, Shankweiler Society, Class of 1876-1991, and information about individual alumni.

Includes constitution and by-laws, event programs, photos, speeches, personal letters, newspaper clippings, mailer envelopes, ballots, tickets, brochures, magazine articles, newsletters, fliers, commencement invitations, poems, report card, and surveys.

Dates

1876 - 1894

Creator

Muhlenberg College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with only a few very limited restrictions; access by appointment.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (The bulk of the printed material (previously the vertical files) is contained in flip-top document cases. Textiles, memorabilia, and other realia is stored in appropriate lidded boxes.)

Additional Description

1886 50th Anniversary dinner program; tuition receipt 1881; student report card 1876; 1885 satirical "Black Sheet" includes poems, writing

Invitation to Commencement Exercises 6/14/1891 mentions Presidents Reception, Livy Cremation 1894, Junior Oratorical Contest

Invitation to Commencement Week, 6/19-23/1892 includes activities and class roll

(2) Banquet menus for Class of 1892, 2/11/1890 at Hotel Allen, Oscar Bernheim, Toastmaster

Program for Concert by University of Pennsylvania for the benefit of the Senior Class, Muhlenberg College 3/3/1892; Alma Mater music and lyrics Re-arrangement by Edward H. Kistler Class of 1895

Program for "Cremation of Titus Livius", Class of 1892, Music Hall, Allentown, 6/25/1889, includes summary of plot

Invitation to "Cremation of Titus Livy, Class of 1894, at Music Hall, 6/16/1891