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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
CLIO HALL and WHIG HALL, the homes of two of the oldest collegiate literary societies in America, are the work of A. Page Brown. Identical in design, they are the epitome of the Greek Revival style - white marble reproductions of Grecian temples with Ionic hexastyle porticoes. Both were built as replacements in 1893. Originally the Cliosophic Society was known as the Well-Meaning Society, and what is now the Whig Society was the Plain Dealing Society. In the buildings are lecture rooms, libraries and recreation rooms for members.
A CANNON, sunk into the ground between the two buildings, was the object of a famous quarrel (the "Cannon War") with Rutgers University students in 1875 (see NEW BRUNSWICK).
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