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College students -- Social life and customs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Colgate Commons Club records, A1301

 Collection
Identifier: A1301
Scope and Contents

This collection contains information about the Colgate Commons Club's meetings and programs.

Dates: 1927 - 1960

Homer L. Dodge papers, A1144

 Collection
Identifier: A1144
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of mostly programs, tickets, pamphlets, and other ephemera from Homer L. Dodge's time as a student at Colgate University. Also included are photographs and correspondence from his student years, reunion material, alumni newsletters, and a small amount of material relating to Ebenezer Dodge. One folder contains clippings and photographs documenting Homer L. Dodge's personal and professional life after Colgate.

Dates: 1847-1983

Fortnight of Active Arts records, A1044

 Collection
Identifier: A1044
Scope and Contents

The Fortnight of Active Arts was a student run festival held March 2-16, 1968. It brought a wide range of avant garde artists to campus and included music, dance, theater, painting, sculpture and writing. This collection contains magazines and clippings from the festival as well as material documenting its establishment and production.

Dates: 1967-1968, 2006-2007; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1968

Founders' Day Convocation records, A1164

 Collection
Identifier: A1164
Scope and Contents

This collection contains programs, photographs, speeches, and newspaper clippings regarding Colgate University Founders' Day celebrations from 1944-2014.

Dates: 1944 - 2014

Joel H. Greene notebooks, A1073

 Collection
Identifier: A1073
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two notebooks. The first contains notes written to Joel Greene from friends and acquaintances in Hamilton. The second contains short essays on theological topics.

Dates: 1830s

Colgate University Junior Exhibition program collection, A1206

 Collection
Identifier: A1206
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of pamphlets and programs, including false satirical programs, from Colgate University's Junior Exhibition. It also includes a few early programs from joint public meetings and anniversary celebrations of the Aeonian and Adelphian Societies.

Dates: 1843-1884

LGBTQ Initiatives Office records, A1097

 Collection
Identifier: A1097
Scope and Contents

The LGBTQ Initiatives Office records consists of several folders of event posters, fliers, and programs from the late 1990s to the early 2010s. Also included are a smaller number of clippings, administrative documents, and certificates.

Dates: 1983 - 2013

Colgate University Student Oratorical and Essay Contests collection, A1014

 Collection
Identifier: A1014
Scope and Contents

This collection contains finalists and prize-winning pieces from student speech and essay contests at Colgate University from the mid nineteenth to mid twentieth century. The speeches and essays address some of the more important and contested issues of their respective eras.

Dates: 1867-1971

Lucien M. Osborn lectures, A1074

 Collection
Identifier: A1074
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one notebook containing handwritten lectures of Lucien M. Osborn, as well as programs for various campus events from 1878.

Dates: circa 1878

Colgate University photograph collection, A0999

 Collection
Identifier: A0999
Scope and Contents

The Colgate University photograph collection documents student life, academics, faculty, alumni, athletics, special events, and the physical campus at Colgate University over the past 150 years. Most of the photographs are black and white, although some color images are also included. For the vast majority of images, the photographers and the source of the photographs are unidentified.

Dates: 1855 - 2000s

The Register of Weekly Events, A1192

 Collection
Identifier: A1192
Scope and Contents

The Register of Weekly Events provided a daily listing of events for the Colgate communty, including students, faculty, staff, and community members. Events listed included club meetings, muscial and dramatic performances, athletic events, lectures, off-campus trips, conferences, and religious services.

Dates: 1947 - 1977

Colgate University scrapbook collection, A1138

 Collection
Identifier: A1138
Scope and Contents

The materials in the collection are scrapbooks created by students of Colgate University and other persons with connections to the University or Hamilton.

Dates: 1839-1983, undated

Howard Williams collection on student life at Colgate University, A1347

 Collection
Identifier: A1347
Scope and Contents The Howard Williams collection on student life at Colgate University contains miscellaneous clippings, programs, fliers, charters and correspondence relating to student life at Colgate. Topics covered include fraternities, Colgate's rivalry with Syracuse, dormitory life, fall and winter parties, cane rush, and general information on student organizations. The collection appears to have been at least partially assembled by former Colgate University Archivist Howard Williams. It is not a...
Dates: 1850 - 1980