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Alpha Zeta Literary Society

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Alpha Zeta Literary Society Records

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Identifier: RG 07-7.03
Abstract For twenty-five years, Phi Delta Literary Society maintained an elite reputation as Berea College’s only literary society. However, when in the fall of 1894 “the society became unwieldy and torn by internal dissension,” twenty young men held separate meetings to form a new society. A committee drew up a constitution “which differed from the constitution of Phi Delta chiefly in that it allowed Academy men to be admitted to the privileges of full membership” and the first official Alpha Zeta...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894-1943