The University Courant, also known as the Western University Courant and the Courant, was published from 1887 to 1910. It was the successor to the College Journal and the Pennsylvania Western and was produced by the university’s Irving Literary Society. New issues were published at the rate of about one per month during the school year. The Courant contained poems, articles, and essays written by students, as well as by professors and administrators, and also reported on university and local events. A number of its editors and writers went on to have careers in literature and journalism, including Robert L. Vann, who was to become one of the founding editors of the Pittsburgh Courier, among the nation’s top black newspapers by the 1930s.
“Documenting Pitt,” the University of Pittsburgh on-line archive, provides access to the The College Journal (published between 1869 and 1880), the Pennsylvania Western (published between 1882 and 1887) and the Courant (published between 1888 and 1910).