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Various paginations, as given below. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled edges. Boards lightly rubbed and worn with some splitting to joints. Some occasional foxing, toning, soiling to text. About very good. A sammelband of twelve Yale-related catalogues, all published between 1838 and 1842, and likely compiled by Steuben Rexford, member of the Yale class of 1842. Included are copies of the Yale College catalogues listing officers and students for each of the four years that Rexford attended; catalogues for each of the campus literary societies - the Linonian Society, Brothers in Unity, the Calliopean Society, and Psi Upsilon - listing the names of members, past and present; as well as the published catalogues of three of the societies' libraries. Tipped in among the college catalogues is a single leaf on which is written in manuscript a poem, perhaps by Rexford, for what was likely the occasion of Yale Presentation Day (now Class Day). The titles of the pamphlets, in the order in which they appear, are as follows: 1) [Yale]: Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College, 1838-1839. [New Haven: B.L. Hamlen, 1838]. 35pp. SABIN 105753. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 59361. 2) [Yale]: Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College, 1839-1840. [New Haven]: B.L. Hamlen, [1839]. 35pp. SABIN 105753. 3) [Yale]: Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College, 1840-41. [New Haven]: B.L. Hamlen, [1840]. 35pp. SABIN 105753. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40-7162. 4) [Yale]: Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College, 1841-42. New Haven: B.L. Hamlen, 1841. 35pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 41-5655. 5) [Yale]: Catalogus Senatus Academici, et Eorum Qui Munera et Officia Academica Gesserunt, Quique Aliquovis Gradu Exornati Fuerunt, in Collegio Yalensi, Novi-Portus, in Republica Connecticutensi. Novi-Portus: B.L Hamlen, 1841. 127pp. SABIN 105782. 6) [Yale]: [A Catalogue of the Linonian Society, of Yale College, Founded September Twelfth, 1753]. New Haven: Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841]. [3]-83pp. Lacking titlepage. 7) [Yale]: A Catalogue of the Society of Brothers in Unity, Yale College, Founded 1768. New Haven: Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841. 92pp. SABIN 105860. 8) [Yale]: Catalogue of the Calliopean Society, Yale College. 1839. New Haven: B.L. Hamlen, 1839. 32pp. SABIN 105870. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 59362. 9) [Psi Upsilon Society, Yale]: Catalogue of Members, January 1842. New Haven: Hitchcock & Stafford, [1842]. 18pp. plus engraved plate. 10) [Yale]: Catalogue of the Library of the Linonian Society, Yale College. October, 1841. New Haven: Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841. [2],162pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 41-5656. SINGERMAN, AMERICAN LIBRARY CATALOGUES 155. 11) [Yale]: Catalogue of the Library Belonging to the Society of Brothers in Unity, Yale College, June, 1838. New Haven: Hitchcock & Stafford, 1838. [2],106pp. SABIN 105869. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 53767. SINGERMAN, AMERICAN LIBRARY CATALOGUES 135. 12) [Yale]: Catalogue of the Library of the Calliopean Society, Yale College, October, 1841. New Haven: Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841. 84pp. SINGERMAN, AMERICAN LIBRARY CATALOGUES 145. At the time these pamphlets were published, the presidency of Jeremiah Day was nearing an end. The longest serving president in Yale history, Day had steered Yale on a steady, consistent, and some would say conservative course. The official catalogues contained herein reveal a student body made up of some 400 undergraduates, plus roughly another 150 graduate students all bound for one of the three professions: the law, the ministry, or medicine. The catalogues describe a curriculum still dominated by the classics: Greek and Latin, rhetoric and oratory, natural and moral philosophy. At Yale, as at other American colleges at the time, piety continued to take priority over intellect: morning and evening chapel was compulsory as were Sunday worship services. Echoing the famous Yale Report of 1828, which effectively enshrined the classical curr. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM62576
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