SPECTATOR'S FORERUNNERS A Sketch of the Undergraduate Publications Prior to Spectator I It is interesting to note that the de-l-elopment of undergraduate journal.sm [at Columbia has corresponded in a marked degree to the growth and broadening Df the student life. Every great wave hat altered the character of Columbia life ie&ns to have stimulated at the same ime interest in literature and journalism, ind to have led to the publication of ipme paper which expressed the feelings )f the times. Roughly sp;a. ing, the development of the undergraduate interests j nay be divided into three stages: First, :he period of rivalry between the Philoexian and Peithologian societies, which gave birth to the "Philolexian Observer" and "Academic Recreations"; second, the period following the introduction of fraternities in 1836, when their rivalries roused the students to a broader and more…

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Named in The Annals of the Philolexian Society (1912) at the referenced leaf.

Named in Cardozo, History of the Philolexian Society (1902) at the referenced leaf.

Named in Cardozo, History of the Philolexian Society (1902) at the referenced leaf.

Named in Maxwell, Catalogue of Columbia Graduates (1916) at the referenced leaf.

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