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Did anyone else read the Betsy-Tacy series of books by Maud Hart Lovelace (I think) when you were kids? They are about girls in a small town in Minnesota at the turn of the century. Anyway, the series follows them all the way through high school, and in the sophomore year book ("Betsy in Spite of Herself"), Betsy, Tacy, and their friends form a high school sorority called Okto Delta. It's a pretty interesting treatment; the members have fun, but they end up being viewed as exclusive and snobbish by the rest of the school, and they eventually disband.
A theme that runs through all four high school books is that the high school is divided into two (coed) literary societies, the Zetamathians and Philomathians. Everyone belongs to one or the other, and the societies compete intramurally in athletics, debating, etc. Anyone know about such societies in real life?
I miss those books. They were really well done, particularly the earlier ones.
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