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crl-10106	Herrick, Mary D.	Early Literary Societies and Their Libraries in Colby College, 1824-78	1944-11-30	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3696	169	63	With the advent of the Greek letter societies, interest in the purely literary so- cieties gradually declined until they ceased to maintain debates and became merely lend- ing libraries. He finds that a vast amount of pure and unmitigated trash in the fields of medieval and renaissance studies is pur- chased by institutional libraries in America and that a great deal of the best and most enduring is not acquired.	cache/crl-10106.pdf	txt/crl-10106.txt