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Cornell Debate Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-4-485

Scope and content

Correspondence, records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and printed matter from the files of the Association; most of the correspondence is from the 1940s and 1950s; includes minutes of Association meetings, 1947-1953; quite a complete file on New York State Intercollegiate Legislative Assembly; some correspondence and much printed matter on the Delta Sigma Rho Golden Jubilee Congress, April, 1956; several files on intercollegiate and intra-campus debates.

Scope and content

Also, printed posters announcing upcoming debates, 1938-[ca. 1940], including one intramural debate and two intercollegiate debates, University of Southern California vs. Cornell and Colgate vs. Cornell.

Dates

  • 1930-1956.

Creator

Extent

2.5 cubic feet. (2.5 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Related Archival Materials

See also Cornell Debate Association records, #37-6-1094..

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Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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