Collection of Yale College Ephemera from the Personal Collection of George C. Ripley

Yale College; George Coit Ripley

New Haven, Conn. : Yale Literary Society, 1859

[George C. Ripley, Yale class of 1862, (1839-1909)] Sammelband of Yale pamphlets and ephemera. Worn, poor leather binding. Split at p. 2 and binding poor. Water damaged. Scattered spotting throughout. 

Includes: "The Yale Literary Magazine: Conducted by the Students of Yale College, Volume Twenty-Fourth, 1859." 436 p. A group of illustrated plates of Yale fraternal societies (Brothers in Unity, Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones).  Also include "Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College 1858-59." 52 p.  The Yale Banner (2nd ed), 1858. 52 p. "The Laws of Yale College" 1858, 28 p. "Poem by Lyman D. Brewster and the Valedictory Oration by Adolphe Bailey, Pronounced before the Senior Class in Yale College," 1855. Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Fraternity, Class of 1859, 51 p. Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College, 1857-58. 36 p. Ephemera from freshman George L. Ripley of Yale, admission to a fraternal Yale organization.  "Burial of Euclid by the Class of '61." Yale, 1858.  Wooden spoon exhibition.  Yale College Presentation of the Class of 1859. Fifty Nine Presentation Songs June 15, 1859. '62 Pow-wow of the Class of '62. Yale, 1859.  A collection of contemporary newspaper articles mounted on Yale student performances.  "Order of Exercises at the Commencement on the One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth Anniversary of Yale College, 1859." Includes additional related ephemera. 

The owner George C. Ripley was an American lawyer and Civil War veteran.  After graduation Ripley served in the Union army as an officer in the Fourteenth Connecticut.  He served as an aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General O.S. Ferry.