College literary societies
College literary societies in American higher education were a distinctive kind of social organization, distinct from literary societies generally, and they were often the precursors of college fraternities and sororities.
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Fraternities and sororities
Fraternities and sororities, also referred to as Greek-letter organizations (GLOs) or, collectively, as "Greek life" in North America and the Philippines, are social organizations at colleges and universities.
Fraternities and sororities, also referred to as Greek-letter organizations (GLOs) or, collectively, as "Greek life" in North America and the Philippines, are social organizations at colleges and universities.
Fraternities represented the intersection between dining clubs, literary societies and secret initiatory orders such as Freemasonry.
Philolexian Society
One of the oldest college literary and debate societies in the United States, and the oldest student group at Columbia.
One of the oldest college literary and debate societies in the United States, and the oldest student group at Columbia.
Philolexian is one of many literary societies that flourished at the nation's early colonial colleges.
Phi Kappa Literary Society
The Phi Kappa Literary Society is a college literary society, located at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and is one of the few active literary societies left in America.
Kappa Alpha Society
The progenitor of the modern fraternity system in North America.
The progenitor of the modern fraternity system in North America.
The organization represents the middle link between secret societies, literary societies, and Greek-letter organizations like Phi Beta Kappa.
Dartmouth College Greek organizations
Host to many Greek organizations, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life.
Host to many Greek organizations, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life.
Social fraternities at Dartmouth College grew out of a tradition of student literary societies that began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Euphradian Society
The Euphradian Society, also known as ΦΑΕ (Phi Alpha Epsilon), a local society is a literary society founded in 1806 at the University of South Carolina, then known as South Carolina College.
Demosthenian Literary Society
The Demosthenian Literary Society is a literary society focused on extemporaneous debate at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
Clariosophic Society
The Clariosophic Society, also known as ΜΣΦ (Mu Sigma Phi), is a literary society founded in 1806 at the University of South Carolina, then known as South Carolina College, as a result of the splitting in two of the Philomathic Society, which had been formed within weeks of the opening of the college in 1805 and included virtually all students.
University of Georgia
Public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia.
Public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia.
The university has two of the oldest literary societies in the English-Speaking world focused on extemporaneous debate, the Demosthenian Literary Society and the Phi Kappa Literary Society.
Huntington University (United States)
Private Christian university in Huntington, Indiana.
Private Christian university in Huntington, Indiana.
Among the first student publications and organizations were the Central Literary Data (later The Huntingtonian), the Philomathean Literary Society, the Zetalethean Literary Society, and the Debating Club, as well as student singing clubs and athletic teams for both sexes.