This sub-series contains articles concerning Eating Clubs in general that appeared in the Daily Princetonian, The Princeton Alumni Weekly, The Star Ledger, and various other newspapers and magazines from 1907 to 1993. They cover such events as Bicker problems, club closings, the Sally Frank Civil Rights case, and a number of articles on the existence of drinking problems in the clubs.

Arranged chronologically.

3 boxes

This sub-series consists of newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with individual clubs containing clippings from The Daily Princetonian, The Star Ledger, and the Princeton Alumni Weekly. They cover such events as club elections, inter-club athletics, and social problems from 1896 to 1992.

Arranged alphabetically by club.

1 box

This sub-series contains material from 1898 to 1990, including Eating Club Directories, Regulations for Bicker Week, an extensive collection of Sophomore Guides to Eating Clubs, Student Publications and reprints about clubs, a report on the Quad Plan controversy of 1910, and various club studies and surveys.

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

2 boxes

This sub-series is a collection of printed materials. Menus, invitations, and reports make up the majority of the printed materials found under each individual club from 1888 to 1983.

Arranged alphabetically by club.

3 boxes

No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.

Many of the eating clubs, from the short-lived Arch Club to Tower Club, had membership rosters printed and bound. Ivy Club's collection of membership rosters is the most extensive. Many of the membership rosters include constitutions and by-laws along with short club histories.

9 boxes

No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.

This sub-series consists of the histories of individual Eating Clubs dating from 1879 to 1991. Colonial Club and Ivy Club both have histories that span one-hundred-year periods. Other club histories include Tiger Inn, Cannon Club, and Tower Inn.

2 boxes

This sub-series contains two boxes of material received from the Colonial Club in 2015. It contains correspondence related to undergraduate, graduate and associate membership, methods of admitting sophomores, correspondence related to buildings, operations, and fundraising, administrative and financial documents, and the minutes from club meetings, annual meetings, and Board of Governors meetings. The material reflects the history and operations of the club, both social and financial. It includes lists of undergraduates eligible for election to upperclass clubs, insights into club leadership, personal and general correspondence with members, documents showing income and expenses, changes in rules, by-laws, and the club constitution, and interactions with the Prospect Foundation and Graduate Inter-Club Council, among others. Subjects discussed in both meeting minutes and correspondence are additions to, furnishing and decorations of the club building, fees for membership and board, wedding gifts for members, holiday gifts for staff, bicker procedures, the cooperative buying plan of the 1920s, colors, hatbands and memorabilia, and so on.

Box 49 contains two bound notebooks of meeting minutes from 1903-1911 and 1920-1924. The rest of this material was received both loose and in three-ring binders. The material has been removed from its binders and kept in the order in which it was arranged. One binder included the Board of Governors meeting minutes for the years 1935-1939. One binder contained material from the years 1970 to 1973. There were three binders from the 1990s and early 2000s. One binder (with tabs, which have been retained) contained administrative information between 1992 and 1995, another contained administrative information mainly between 1995 and 1996, and a third contained material from between 1995 and 2002.

One 1938 property blueprint from this accrual was placed in Series 5: Blueprints, and two volumes, for 1905-1906 and 1909-1910, have been added to Series 3: Printed Material, Subseries E. Membership Rosters.

2 boxes