Originally Posted by oldu (Post 1761662)

Literary societies predate fraternities and sororities as the first student organizations at many of our oldest institutions. While they were literary in purpose, they also provided the only social outlets on campus. As fraternities were introduced, these societies began to diminish and today there are few to be found. In some cases these literary societies evolved into Greek chapters. Here are a few I have found. Can any of you add chapters of your organization that began as literary societies?

Baldwin Wallace: 1855 Alethian Literary Society ultimately became Alpha Gamma Delta; 1870 Philomanthean split and became chapters of Alpha Phi and Alpha Xi Delta; 1848 Philozetian became Alpha Tau Omega; 1859 German became Phi Kappa Tau; 1868 Schiller became Lambda Chi Alpha; & 1883 Goethe became Alpha Sigma Phi.