This collection documents the student experience at Boston College through materials collected and created by its alumni. Materials include autograph books, correspondence, course notebooks, drawings, ephemera, interviews, medals, needlepoint, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, speeches, student papers, photographs, and poems. Of particular note are academic achievement award medals from the 1860s to the 1910s, given by Boston College for top overall performance in class, as well as top performance in a given field of study. Also included are works written by or about alumni after graduating from Boston College. Small, individual donations of alumni papers are grouped here for ease of discovery because they document a shared experience.