Guide to the Peucinian Society Records, 1805-1877, 2007-
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Peucinian Society: Records, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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On November 22, 1805, eight students met and formed the Philomathian Society. A few months later the name was changed to the Peucinian Society and took its motto: Pinos loquentes semper habemus (We always have the whispering pines). The Society formed a large library with books purchased from dues paid by inducted members. The Peucinian Society had an intense rivalry with the Athenaean Society. The rise of the Greek letter fraternities at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century spelled the end for the literary societies. After a period of relative dormancy, the surviving libraries of the Peucinian and Athenaean societies were merged in 1880. Following this, the Peucinian Society was considered officially defunct. The Peucinian Society had an annex scientific society, the Caluvian Society. In 2007, members of the class of 2010 re-established the Peucinian Society to debate and discuss political and philosophical issues.
This collection contains records of both the original Peucinian Society of Bowdoin College which dissolved in the 1880s and the Peucinian Society reconstituted in 2007. Files contain minutes of meetings, financial records, correspondence, lectures, addresses, articles, and the Society's constitution.
This series contains records of the Peucinian Society from its founding in 1805 until its dissolution in the 1880s.
Arranged chronologically.
The Peucinian Society Records, 1807-1819 (volume 15 folio) is very fragile, therefore a microfilm copy is available for patron use.
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Accounts of the Peucinian Library 1861-1862
Accounts of the Peucinian Library 1863
Annual Reports of the General Committee of the Peucinian Society 1817-1831
Constitution and By-Laws of the Peucinian Society n.d.
Peucinian Library Catalog volume 1
Peucinian Library Catalog volume 2
Peucinian Library Records 1865-1866
Peucinian Library Records 1871-1874
Peucinian Library Records 1874-1877
Peucinian Library Records 1867-?
Peucinian Society n.d., 1805-1828
Peucinian Society 1829-1854
Peucinian Society 1855-1871
Peucinian Society Catalogues 1838-1859
Peucinian Society Catalogue of Members 1807-1833
Peucinian Society Catalogue of Members 1818-1859 (Unbound) and Publications, 1808-1843
"The Connection between Religion and the Arts," delivered at the 40th anniversary of the Peucinian Society by William Whitney Rice (Class of 1846), March 1846. See William Whitney Rice Orations.
Peucinian Society Catalogue of Members 1833-[1845]
Peucinian Society Loan Records 1864-1865
Peucinian Society Records 1807-1819 (volume is very fragile; microfilm copy available for patron use)
Peucinian Society Records 1819-1831
Peucinian Society [records] 1831-1842
Peucinian Society [records] 1842-1859
Peucinian Society [records] 1859-1875
Peucinian Society Records of the General Society 1816-1879 (photocopy in Box 3)
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1819-1820
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1820-1821
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1821-1822
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1826-1830
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1838-?
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1840-1848
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1841-[1844]
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1844-[1846]
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1846
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book [1848-1849]
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1850-1851
Peucinian Society Treasurer's Book 1854-1862
Records of the Philomathian Society of Bowdoin College
Peucinian Society pin [25].
This series contains records dating from 2007 of the re-established Peucinian Society.
Arranged chronologically.
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Records, 2007-
Posters, 2009-