College Literary Societies

[Sen's Revenge]

Originally Posted by Delphic

College literary societies are the precursor organizations to most fraternity and sororities with more then 100 years of history. I am a member of the Delphic Fraternity, originally the Delphic Society, a college literary society founded in 1871 at the Geneseo State Normal School in upstate New York.

I was curious to know what other fraternity members on Greek Chat are member of fraternities or sororities that can trace their history to a college literary society?

Thanks in advance for your feedback and historical fraternity/sorority knowledge.

Technically speaking, Alpha Phi Alpha began as (what we call) a social study club, then a society, then fraternity. We rarely call it a literary society, but that's pretty much what it was.