{"id":315,"date":"2020-10-27T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/humansofua\/?p=315"},"modified":"2020-11-05T20:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:22:41","slug":"a-sisterhood-of-the-akron-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/humansofua\/2020\/10\/27\/a-sisterhood-of-the-akron-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sisterhood of Akron Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Kaylie Yaceczko<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On an average Saturday morning in 1872, the men of The University of Akron\u2019s Greely literary society\u2014named after Horace Greely, the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune<\/em>\u2014were discussing their literary endeavors and the society. What they didn\u2019t know was Susie Chamberlain<\/a> and other women were listening from around the corner. Upset to have been excluded from the conversation, these women decided then and there to form their own society, exclusive to the female students at UA. In fact, Chamberlain made it a point to have their society organized before the boys, and even the University\u2019s president was on their side and encouraging them to \u201cbe sure and don\u2019t let the boys get ahead of you.\u201d Thus, the Cary Literary Society<\/a> was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After finding a room to call their own and spending hours upon hours painting and establishing their roles, the women of the Cary Society were ready to make their mark on the University. The 1870\u20131920 collection Fifty Years of Buchtel<\/em><\/a> <\/em>notes that the society\u2019s public debut was with the Greeley Society to host a \u201cUnion Entertainment and Reception\u201d at the end of the University\u2019s fall term, and it happened to be the first public event hosted by college students in Akron. The society hosted several events, such as the dedication of Cary Hall and short literary programs, receiving praise from The Daily Argus <\/em>and The Buchtelite<\/em>. As you can imagine, the Cary Society had a prominent role on campus, while the Greeley Society silently drifted into a distant memory.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As the society grew, a divide began to form between women in the college versus the few preparatory students. Eventually, this quiet split became two separate groups, the Alice division and the Phoebe division, after the namesakes of the society and the women depicted in illustrations representing the society as shown. The Alice division focused on women within the college and would meet at two o\u2019clock in the afternoon for those who were unable to attend later meetings, and the Phoebe division met in the evenings. In 1883, the Alice division chose to merge with the Bryant Society to form a society exclusively for college students known as the Buchtel Union Literary Society, but the Phoebe\u2019s chose to remain true to their roots. They dropped the name to simply the Cary and allowed preparatory students, giving it the description \u201ca preparatory society for young ladies\u201d in the yearbooks from The University of Akron Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kaylie Yaceczko On an average Saturday morning in 1872, the men of The University of Akron\u2019s Greely literary society\u2014named after Horace Greely, the founder and editor of the New-York<\/p>\n

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