This bound journal contains the records of the Calliepian Society at the Bloomsburg Literary Institute and State Normal School (now Bloomsburg University) in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania from September 18, 1875 to June 7, 1879. The minutes document the society of women's weekly business and social meetings that included suppers, festivals, and literary entertainments such as farces, charades, and plays. The organizations debated a new topic every week, which included the American Civil War, traffic in liquor, General Ulysses S. Grant, tobacco use, teachers' compensation, compulsory education, women and "the learned professions," foreign immigrants, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, extermination of "Amerindians," and many others. The minutes also detail the society's communications with the Institute's President, Dr. T.L. Griswold, faculty members, and the campus adversary-- the Philologian Society.