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According to Rutgers, the literary societies allowed students to develop "the skills of rhetoric and statesmanship that helped more fully utilize the classical education being taught in college classrooms. Rhetorical skills were honed through the writing of essays, orations before the society, and participation in debates. The societies also sought to increase their members exposure to literature by establishing private libraries that were often more diverse than that of the college."[1] In 1832 the society's library is recorded as holding 771 books, mostly literature (384 volumes), compared to the college's 1,290 titles which were largely theological texts.[1] An 1876 survey by the U.S. Bureau of Education reported that Rutgers held 6,814 volumes in its college library and 3,800 in libraries of the Peithessophian Society and Philoclean Society.[2][3]{{rp|p.2}}[4] The society first met in Old Queens, the oldest building on campus, but later moved to Alexander Johnston Hall, and later in 1848 to Van Nest Hall (built 1845) which it shared with Philoclean.[1] On July 20, 1830, former U.S. Attorney General William Wirt delivered an address before Peithessophian and its rival Philoclean which foreshadowed the coming American Civil War.[1][5][6][7] The address was popular in the nineteenth century and published also in France and Germany.[1] Membership declined after the Civil War and the latter half of the nineteenth century and the society ceased to meet in 1897.[1] It was revived in the 1920s but then once again died out amidst the social turbulence associated with the Depression and World War II.[1] In the late 1990s, having rediscovered the central role played by Peithessophian and Philoclean in the intellectual life of the college for more than three-quarters of a century, a small group of students began spontaneously to meet informally for regular debate and discussion. In 2008, Peithessophian would be formally reinstituted, with a membership of ten members and a revival of the original 19th-century induction ceremony held each May in Kirkpatrick Chapel. Among its induction speakers have been Yan Lipovetsky, first president of the reinstituted Society, and Professor William C. Dowling, its faculty advisor.[8] Among the current objectives of the Peithessophian board of officers is a permanent allotment of college space, equivalent to its Van Nest library and meeting rooms in the nineteenth century, to the Society. See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives. RG 48/A1/01: Inventory to the Records of the Peithessophian Society of Rutgers College, 1825-1927. Retrieved December 27, 2013. 2. ^Demarest, William Henry Steele (Rev.). "History of the Library" in Journal of the Rutgers University Library, Volume 1, No. 1 (1937) 1-. 3. ^Perrone, Fernanda. "Voorhees Hall: Rutgers' First Modern Library" in Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, Volume 61 (2005), 1-27. 4. ^Perrone cites Holley, Edward G. “Academic Libraries in 1876,” in Johnson, Richard D. (editor). Libraries for Teaching, Libraries for Research: Essays for a Century (Chicago: American Library Association, 1977), 6–7. 5. ^Wirt, William. An Address, Delivered July 20, 1830, Before the Peithessophian and Philoclean Socieites of Rutgers College by Hon. William Wirt, Delivered and Published at the request of the Peithessophian Society, (4th edition New Brunswick, New Jersey: A. Ackerman, 1852). 6. ^Demarest, William Henry Steele. History of Rutgers College: 1776-1924. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers College, 1924), 291. 7. ^McCormick, Richard P. Rutgers: a Bicentennial History. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1966), 48. 8. ^Dowling, William C. Peithessophian Society {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228054409/http://www.peithessophian.org/# |date=December 28, 2013 }}. Retrieved December 27, 2013. External links
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