Records of Adelphoi Theologia and The Society for Religious Improvement
Contributors: Society for Religious Improvement (Harvard University)
Series: Collections of the Harvard University Archives; Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Colonial North American Project at Harvard University
Published: 1785
Language: eng
Subjects: Religious education; Societies; Students; Religion; College students; Religious life; Religious disputations; Books and reading; Society for Religious Improvement (Harvard University); Adelphoi Theologia (Harvard University); Harvard University
Other titles: Records of ΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ,; Records of The Society for Religious Improvement,
Description: The Records of Adelphoi Theologia and The Society for Religious Improvement document the history and activities of this religious society. Journals (minutes) kept by the society document their weekly meetings and form the largest part of this collection. Other materials in the collection include catalogs of the society's library, constitutions, laws, and lists of members, and a small amount of correspondence.
Notes: Title supplied by cataloguer.

According to notes made in several volumes, records were donated September 6, 1858.

These records are open for research.

The society often expressed its name in Greek characters: ΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ.

See also College Papers by George Moore (Harvard University Archives call number HUC 8832.356) for two speeches delivered before the society in 1832 and 1833.

Adelphoi Theologia was founded as a secret society on November 10, 1785, by six members of the Harvard College Class of 1786. The society met weekly on Sunday evenings for religious exercises and discussion of a proposed religious question. As of November 4, 1835, the group changed its name to The Society for Religious Improvement, and began publicizing its meetings. The last members were from the Class of 1847, and the last official meeting was held on June 23, 1847.

Detailed inventory available electronically: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua05008