Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College

The Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College was a publication started in 1848 by students in Columbia College. It was the forerunner of The Columbian, which is now the official yearbook of Columbia College and SEAS.

In 1848 the senior class published an Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College including a list of graduates, members of the societies on campus, and overall enrollment at the College. It was inspired by a similarly titled offering by Stephen R. Weeks, a janitor, proctor, and assistant librarian. Subsequent senior classes continued to publish the Catalogue while adding additional material each year until 1857, when the publication got carried away and published an extravagant edition in six (6!) colors. This so horrified the Trustees that they took over the publication of the Catalogue from thence forward. Publication of the Catalogue in more austere form continued until 1878 when its functions were split between the Handbook of Information and Annual Register of the Officers and Students of Columbia College. The Handbook eventually became the Columbia College Catalogue and then the Columbia University Catalogue.

These are not to be confused with the various Catalogue of Officers and Graduates, an irregularly printed volume which was a forerunner to the University Alumni Directory.

Old Student Publications from Google Books Archives

• Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College 1848
• Centennial Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College 1854

Old Administration Publications from Google books Archives

• Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College 1863-1864, 1864-1865, 1865-1866, 1866-1867, 1867-1868, 1868-1869, 1869-1870
• Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College 1866-1867
• Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College 1874-1875, 1875-1876, 1876-1877, 1877-1878; Annual Register of the Officers and Students of Columbia College 1878-1879, 1879-1880
• Annual Register of the Officers and Students of Columbia College 1883-1884, 1884-1885, 1885-1886, 1886-1887, 1887-1888, 1888-1889, 1889-1890
• Handbook of Information as to the Course of Instruction, etc., etc., in Columbia College and its Several Schools 1884
• Catalogue 1900-1901
• Catalogue 1902-1903
• Catalogue 1915-1916
• Catalogue 1917-1918
• Catalogue 1920-1921

Bibliography

• The Undergraduate Record Columbia College A Book of Statistical Information compiled by William S. Sloan (1881) pgs. 87-89, 96
• A History of Columbia University 1754-1904 (1904) pgs. 177-178
• "Undergraduate Publications at Columbia", Columbia University Quarterly, Vol. 2 No. 1, December 1899 pgs. 27-38

External links

CLIO entry 1 CLIO entry 2 CLIO entry 3 CLIO entry 4