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Contains 22 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case materials

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 37
Scope and Contents The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1879 - 2000

"Greek Fraternity Issue", 1876 - 1881

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 37, File 1
Scope and Contents (Includes "The Purdue Case" article from the Lafayette Daily Journal, 1881.)
Dates: 1876 - 1881

The 7th Annual Report of Purdue University for the Year Ending June 30, 1881 and letter from William Hepburn, Purdue Librarian, to President Edward Elliott regarding the Purdue Fraternity Controversy, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 37, File 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1943

"The Fraternity Controversy at Purdue, Including Some Facts Not in the Records," typescript by H. A. Huston, 1943, and "When Fraternities Survived at Purdue," The Indianapolis Star Magazine, 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSP 37, File 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1976

Opinion of Judge D. P. Vinton, Circuit Court, The Anti-Fraternity Rule of Purdue University Declared Legal and Valid, circa 1880s

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 37, File 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: circa 1880s

"When Fraternities Survived at Purdue," The Indianapolis Star Magazine, 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSP 37, File 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1976

"In 1880s President White Fought the Fraternities-And Lost," Campus Copy, pp. 5-7 , March 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSP 37, File 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: March 1965

Article from a book on "The famous Purdue Caseā€¦", undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSP 37, File 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: undated

Clipping on Emerson E. White, Purdue Exponent, Sunday, April 22, 1928

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSP 37, File 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: April 22, 1928

Clipping on Emerson E. White, The Mid Century Debris, v. XXXVI, p. 126, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSP 37, File 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: undated

Power of the Purdue Authorities, opinion of the Supreme Court, 1882

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSP 37, File 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1882

"The Greek Fraternity Issue," copied from the Seventh Annual Report of Purdue University, by Emerson E. White, pp. 27-28 only , 1881

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSP 37, File 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1881

The 7th Annual Report of Purdue University for the Year Ending , June 30, 1881

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSP 37, File 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: June 30, 1881

Founders of Sigma Chi, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: MSP 37, File 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: undated

Sigma Chi Marks 125 Years, Journal and Courier, Sunday, June 11, 2000

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: MSP 37, File 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: June 11, 2000

Excerpt from A Century and Beyond: The History of Purdue University on Sigma Chi, pp. 108-109, 1988

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: MSP 37, File 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1988

Pledge Advice, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: MSP 37, File 15
Scope and Contents (Photocopied poem, no publication information available.)
Dates: undated

Excerpt on Sigma Chi from the Debris, pp. 116-117, 1895

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: MSP 37, File 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1895

Greek Fraternities and Purdue University, by Emerson White, from Indiana School Journal, v. 24, pp. 28-29, 1879

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: MSP 37, File 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1879

Booklet 1, The Greek Fraternity Issue, copied from the Seventh Annual Report of Purdue University, by Emerson E. White, pp. 27-76. , 1881

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 1
Identifier: MSP 37, Item 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1881

Booklet 2, The Greek Fraternity Issue, copied from the Ninth Annual Report of Purdue University, by Emerson E. White, pp. 29-56, 1883

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 2
Identifier: MSP 37, Item 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1883

Booklet 3, History of the Purdue Fraternity Case, includes Indiana Supreme Court report (1881); opinion of Judge P. Vinton, Circuit Court (undated), report to the Board of Trustees of Purdue, by Emerson E. White, on his retirement (1883) , 1881 - 1883

 Item — Box: 1, Item: 3
Identifier: MSP 37, Item 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Collection of Sigma Chi Fraternity Court Case Materials documents the court battle from the inception of President White's matriculation pledge, to the Supreme Court decision and beyond. This collection documents the legal dispute and is sometimes referred to as the Purdue case or Sigma Chi case.Types of materials include: newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, documented opinions of Circuit Court Judge P. Vinton and others, and other extraneous materials related to...
Dates: 1881 - 1883