DAVIDSON COLLEGE MAGAZINE [cover and caption title]. Oct. 1907 - May 1908. [8 issues]

[Davidson, N.C.:] Philanthropic and Eumenean Societies of Davidson, North Carolina, 1907 -1908. Continuously paginated: 540 pages, plus four plates in one issue and several pages of advertisements at the end of each number. Original printed wraps with each rear wrap bearing a college directory on the verso and information on the college and the magazine on the recto. Nos. 1-7 measure approx. 23 x 15 cm; no. 8 measures 24 x 15.5 cm. Wraps show creasing and chipping to the wrap edges, some marginal browning, a chip to one spine with loss of the date, several tears (including a long, closed tear to the front wrap of one issue), and some moderate foxing and soiling. The final number has heavy stains to the rear wrap. Interiors are generally in nice condition with only a few minor spots of foxing and with the first issue showing light crinkling to the lower third of the leaves. A good set overall. A few penciled names appear on the wraps, including J.B. Shearer (probably John Bunyan Shearer, a former Davidson College president) and J.S. Harris (a Davidson grocer by this name advertised in several of the issues). FIRST EDITIONS. The complete run of this collegiate magazine for the 1907-1908 school year. The contents include historical articles, poems, short fiction, essays, campus news, notes on the Y.M.C.A., athletic notices, alumni news, editorials, reports of the Philanthropic and Eumenean Societies, etc. The first number has several articles on the Jamestown Exposition of 1907. A few articles discuss Southern agriculture and commerce, including cotton mills, oil in Texas, and the fruits of North Carolina. The ads were placed by businesses in Davidson, Concord, and Charlotte and by various colleges and universities in the Southeast. The illustrated issue was the Nov. 1907, "Foot-ball Number,” which reproduces photographs of the team. Davidson College was founded in 1837 by the Presbyterian Church. Although women were permitted to take classes beginning in the 1860s, the school did not grant women degrees and become fully co-educational until 1972. Individual issues of the magazine are uncommon and longer runs such as this are scarce in the trade. OCLC finds five institutions with holdings of the magazine (Davidson, Union Presbyterian Seminary, UNC, Duke, and Brown), however, neither Duke nor Brown has any issues from this volume and UNC appears to be lacking the Jan. 1908 issue. Thornton 3148.