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Georgetown University, 1890s

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Diary of Junior Division of Georgetown College, 1888-1900

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000143-DS
Scope and Contents Apparently kept by one of the Prefects, this contains brief, daily notes on campus happenings. Reference is made to recreational activities (particularly sports and plays), examinations, weather, etc. Daily schedule noted in entries for 09/13/1889 and 09/18/1892. All Saints' Day festivities, including bobbing for apples, described in entry for 11/01/1891. Marriage of John Agar in Boys Chapel noted in entry for 02/18/1892. Equipment in gymnasium listed in entry of 02/26/1892. Mardi...
Dates: 1888-1900 (with some gaps)

Old North Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-820331
Scope and Contents Contains material found in a wall on the fourth floor of Old North during renovations in 1982. Includes student papers (some in Greek and Latin, some damaged) from 1893-1894 by Francis Joseph Leonard, Mateo Guillen, Charles Bernard Burke, James Christopher O'Connor, James Raymond Stafford, James Coale Sappington, William James Lant, Michael Francis O'Connor, Charles Woodbury Gorman, John Andrew Fogarty, Eugene Ryan, Joseph Harris Lindsley, William Joseph O'Leary, Salvador Guillen, Nuva...
Dates: 1887-1918