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Originally Posted by oldu
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.
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I just returned from our Valentine's Day luncheon with the actives at BW and the Alumni Chapter. I asked our 95 year old charter member about the literary societies and this was the information she gave me.
Alpha Gamma Delta began as 2 literary societies: The Philomanthians and The Cleonians (not sure of the spelling on it). She said they joined together and became a local sorority, Alpha Kappa Sigma before becoming Alpha Gamma Delta in 1940.
Her eyesight might be failing, but her memory is sharp. She told me in detail about all of the other chapter installations she did back in the 1940s.
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