Student Life

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The students at Pacific University and Tualatin Academy, which was one of the earliest institutions of higher education in Oregon, created many literary magazines in the 1850's and 1860's. This collection contains many examples of such handwritten serial publications authored and edited by these students.

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The Intercollegiate Knights, a national fraternal society originally known as the "Badger Knights" until 1948, was a service organization on the Pacific campus only available to Freshman and Sophomore boys. This collection includes the Intercollegiate Knight scrapbook from the years of 1957 to 1965 as well as the pamphlets for two dances hosted by the Intercollegiate Knights and the Boxerettes.

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Kappa Delta, later known as Alpha Kappa Delta, has been a sorority at Pacific University since 1904. This collection includes three ledger books with meeting minutes and attendance lists involving the sorority from the years of 1947-1965, and a scrapbook that their members created in the late 1960s.

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The Luau collection includes promotional posters issued for the annual Pacific University Luau, photo albums of the Lu'au events over the years made by those in the Hawaii Club, Luau programs, a slide show script for the backdrop of Luau, loose photographs and VHS tapes of the Lu'au events.

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May Day, a festival in honor of spring, was held annually on the Pacific University campus from 1914-1966. This collection includes a variety of related printed and handwritten materials, including pageant reports, scripts, proclamations, programs, invitations and news clippings.

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Pacific University, founded in 1849, has advertised itself through promotional publications since the late 1800s. This collection includes viewbooks, pamphlets, fliers, brochures, postcards, calendars and other material that the university issued in order to attract new students, aid fundraising efforts, and advertise its activities.

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Pacific University dates to 1848 in Forest Grove, Oregon. This collection documents its corporate memory and includes materials pertaining to administrative, curricular, and student activities, including minutes, correspondence, brochures, catalogs, reports, newsletters, photographs, and related items.

Scope and Contents This collection includes five issues of "The Would Be" (1898), one issue of "Wise and Otherwise" (1898?), one issue of "The Battleaxe" (1900) and one issue beginning with the line, "These do not stand for bees in your bonnet" (circa 1900). These illustrated satirical newspapers were produced by Pacific University students between 1898-1900, probably using a mimeograph machine. They feature stories about the students' social life, debate contests and politics. Several of the newspapers note:...

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This collection includes publications promoting summer session and night classes at Pacific University. The bulk of the material is related to summer sessions from 1923, 1945-1995; one folder is related to night classes in the "Evening Division," 1982-1983.