College literary societies
List of literary societies in the United States

College literary societies

Section Title: List of literary societies in the United States
Table Section Text: None

Founded	Ended	Society	College or University	Source and notes

1750	1787	F. H. C.	William & Mary

1750	1772	Crotonia Society	Yale

1753	Present	Linonian Society	Yale

1765	1928	American Whig Society	Princeton

1765	1928	Cliosophic Society	Princeton

1768	unknown	Brothers in Unity	Yale

1770	unknown	Institute of 1770	Harvard

1771	unknown	Pronouncing Society	Brown

1773	1781	P. D. A.	William & Mary

1776	1786	Athenian Society	Rutgers

1776	1787	Phi Beta Kappa Society	William & Mary

1776	1782	Polemical Society	Rutgers

1780	Present	Phi Beta Kappa Society	Yale

1781	Present	Phi Beta Kappa Society	Harvard

1783	Defunct	Social Friends Society	Dartmouth

1786	Present	Belles Lettres Society	Dickinson

1786	Defunct	United Fraternity	Dartmouth

1787	Present	Phi Beta Kappa Society	Dartmouth

1789	Present	Union-Philanthropic Society	Hampden-Sydney

1789	Present	Union Philosophical Society	Dickinson

1789	1795	Society for Progress in Letters	Columbia

1791	unknown	Porcellian Society	Harvard

1793	1890	Calliopean Society	Union

1794	1866	Philermenian Society	Brown

1795	Present	Dialectic Society	North Carolina

1795	Present	Philanthropic Society	North Carolina

1795	unknown	Philologian Society	Williams

1795	unknown	Philotechnian Society	Williams

1796	unknown	Adelphic Society	Union

1797	Present	Franklin Literary Society	Jefferson

1797	unknown	Philo Literary Society	Jefferson

1802	Present	Philolexian Society	Columbia

1802	1887	Athenaean Society	Bowdoin

1803	Present	Demosthenian Literary Society	Georgia

1803	unknown	Phi Sigma Nu Society	Vermont

1805	Present	Peucinian Society	Bowdoin

1806	unknown	Peithologian Society	Columbia

1806	Present	Clariosophic Society	South Carolina

1806	Present	Euphradian Society	South Carolina

1806	1866	United Brothers Society	Brown

1807	unknown	Philological Society	Pennsylvania

1809	unknown	Union Literary Society	Washington

1811	unknown	Hermean Society	Pennsylvania

1813	Present	Philomathean Society	Pennsylvania

1814	unknown	Washington Literary Society	Washington

1814	unknown	Phoenix Society	Hamilton

1814	unknown	Union Society	Hamilton

1817	Present	Phi Beta Kappa Society	Union

1819	Present	Calliopean Society	Yale

1819	1830	Patrick Henry Society	Virginia

1820	Present	Phi Kappa Literary Society	Georgia

1820	unknown	Henodelphisterian Society	Indiana

1821	unknown	Alexandrian Society	Amherst

1821	unknown	Athenian Society	Amherst

1822	Present	Enosinian Society	George Washington

1822	unknown	Franklin Debating Society	Randolph-Macon

1823	unknown	Ciceronian Society	George Washington

1824	1834	Franklin Society	Brown

1824	unknown	Athenaeum Society	Trinity

1824	unknown	Society for Inquiry	Colgate

1825	Present	Jefferson Society	Virginia

1825	Present	Phi Beta Kappa Society	Bowdoin

1825	1892	Philoclean Society	Rutgers

1825	unknown	Agatheridan Society	Nashville

1825	1891	Peithissophian Society	Rutgers

1825	1924	Erodelphian Literary Society	Miami University

1825	1928	Miami Union Literary Society	Miami University

1826	unknown	Franklin Society	William & Mary

1826	unknown	Philozetian Society	Western Reserve

1827	unknown	Literary Fraternity	Colby

1827	unknown	Parthenon Society	Trinity

1827	unknown	Philomathesian Society	Kenyon

1828	unknown	Nu Pi Kappa Society	Kenyon

1828	unknown	Philomathean Society	College of Charleston

1829	unknown	Beth-Hacma	Maryville

1829	unknown	Sophirodelphian Society	Maryville

1829	unknown	Transylvania Whig Society	Transylvania

1829	unknown	Union Philosophical Society	Transylvania

1829	unknown	Zelosophic Society	Pennsylvania

1830	Present	Phi Beta Kappa Society	Brown

1830	Present	Philodemic Society	Georgetown

1830	unknown	Athenian Society	Indiana

1830	unknown	Calliopean Society	Maine Wesleyan

1830	unknown	Philosophronian Society	Hanover

1830	unknown	Union Literary Society	Hanover

1831	Present	Washington Literary Society and Debating Union	Virginia

1831	1840	Adelphic Society	Western Reserve

1831	1933	Erosophic Society	Alabama

1831	unknown	Euphradian Society	College of Charleston

1831	1840	Franklin Society	Western Reserve

1831	unknown	Peithologian Society	Wesleyan

1831	unknown	Philomathean Society	Indiana

1831	unknown	Philorhetorian Society	Wesleyan

1832	1943	Philomathic Society	Alabama

1833	1840	Gamma Phi Society	Colgate

1833	1834	Franklin Polemic Society	Mercer

1833	Present	Washington Society	Randolph-Macon

1834	1943	Eucleian Society	New York

1834	1888	Philomathean Society	New York

1834	unknown	Beth-Hacma ve Berith	Maryville

1834	Defunct	Ciceronian Society	Mercer

1834	unknown	Ladies' Literary Society	Oberlin

1834	Defunct	Phi Delta Society	Mercer

1834	unknown	Philo-Franklin Society	Allegheny

1834	unknown	Philomathean Society	Wabash

1834	1840	Pi Delta Society	Colgate

1835	unknown	Allegheny Society	Allegheny

1835	unknown	Calliopean Society	Denison

1835	unknown	Diagnothian Society	Franklin & Marshall

1835	unknown	Erosophian Adelphoi Society	Colby

1835	unknown	Euphronean Society	Wabash

1835	Present	Euzelian Society	Wake Forest

1835	unknown	Philomathesian Society	Wake Forest

1835	unknown	Society for Religious Inquiry	Vermont

1836	unknown	Chi Delta Society	East Tennessee

1836	unknown	Philomathesian Society	East Tennessee

1836	unknown	Union Literary Society	Muskingum

1837	Present	Philanthropic Society	Davidson

1837	Present	Eumenean Society	Davidson

1837	Defunct	Phi Gamma Society	Emory

1837	unknown	Philosophian Society	McKendree

1838	unknown	Cliosophic Society	College of Charleston

1838	unknown	Platonian Society	Indiana Asbury

1839	~1932	Tau Theta Kappa Society	Georgetown College (KY)

1839	~1932	Ciceronian Society	Georgetown College (KY)

1839	unknown	Alpha Kappa Society	Marietta

1839	unknown	Dialectic Society	Oberlin

1839	Present	Euphemian Society	Erskine

1839	Defunct	Few Society	Emory

1839	unknown	Licivyronian Society	William & Mary

1839	(Defunct 1863)	Phi Delta Society	Oglethorpe

1839	unknown	Philological Society	Indiana Asbury

1839	unknown	Philomathesian Society	Oberlin

1839	unknown	Psi Gamma Society	Marietta

1839	Present	Thalian Society	Oglethorpe

1840	1880	Adelphian Society	Colgate

1840	1887	Aeonian Society	Colgate

1840	(Present)	Calliopean Society	Emory & Henry

1840	Present	Hermesian Society	Emory & Henry

1840	unknown	Phi Delta Society	Western Reserve

1840	unknown	Philalethian Society	Hanover

1840	unknown	Tau Chi Society	William & Mary

1841	unknown	Philopaedian Society	St. Xavier

1842	unknown	Adelphi Society	Howard

1842	unknown	Franklin Society	Howard

1842	Present	Philomathean Society	Erskine

1842	unknown	Phi Phi Alpha Society	Michigan

1843	unknown	Alpha Nu Society	Michigan

1843	unknown	Franklin Society	Denison

1843	Present	Sigma Pi Society	Illinois

1844	unknown	Clever Fellows Society	Albion

1844	unknown	Clever Girls Society	Albion

1845	unknown	Adelphi Society	Knox

1845	unknown	Atheniaedes Society	Albion

1845	Defunct	Calliopean Society	Citadel

1845	unknown	Eclectic Society	Albion

1851	Present	Excelsior Men's Society	Heidelberg

1845	unknown	Hermean Society	Geneva

1845	Present	Phi Alpha Society	Illinois

1845	unknown	Zetagathea Society	Ohio Wesleyan

1846	unknown	Alfreidian Lyceum Society	Alfred

1846	unknown	Philomathean Society	Muskingum

1846	unknown	Philosophian Society	Wittenberg

1847	unknown	Calliopean Society	Wabash

1847	unknown	Chrestomathean Society	Ohio Wesleyan

1847	unknown	Lyceum Society	Wabash

1847	Present	Polytechnic Literary Society	Citadel

1847	Present	St. Anthony Hall	Columbia

1848	1948	Chrestomathic Society	College of Charleston

1848	unknown	Philomatic Society	Spring Hill

1848	unknown	Tripartite Union	Lycoming

1849	unknown	Alethearian Society	Geneva

1849	unknown	Gnothautii Society	Knox

1849	1946	Hermaean Society	Mississippi

1849	1934	Phi Sigma Society	Mississippi

1849	unknown	Philo-Christomathean Society	Geneva

1849	Defunct	Platonian Society	McKendree

1850	unknown	Athenian Society	Wisconsin

1850	unknown	Belles Letters Society	Lycoming

1850	unknown	Ciceronian Society	Roanoke

1850	Defunct	Columbian Society	Carson-Newman

1850	1866	Delphic Society	Rochester

1850	unknown	Demosthenean Society	Roanoke

1850	unknown	Eupia Society	Bucknell

1850	unknown	Orophilian Lyceum Society	Alfred

1850	Defunct	Philomathean Society	Carson-Newman

1850	unknown	Philophrenian Society	Columbian

1850	unknown	Pithonian Society	Rochester

1850	unknown	Soverville Society	Ohio Female

1850	unknown	St. Aloysius Literary Society	University of Notre Dame

1850	unknown	Theta Alphea Society	Bucknell

1851	unknown	Addisonian Society	Kentucky Military

1851	unknown	Adelphean Society	Wesleyan

1851	unknown	Alleghenian Lyceum Society	Alfred

1851	unknown	Amphictyon Society	Lawrence

1851	unknown	Athenian Society	Ohio Wesleyan

1851	unknown	Belles Letters Society	MacMurray

1851	unknown	Clionian Society	Free Academy

1851	unknown	Philolexian Society	Kalamazoo

1851	unknown	Philomathean Society	Waynesburg

1851	unknown	Philophronean Society	Otterbein

1851	unknown	Sherwood Rhetorical Society	Kalamazoo

1851	unknown	St. Aloysius Philodemics Society	Notre Dame

1851	unknown	Students Philomathean Society	Hartsville

1851	unknown	Union Society	Waynesburg

1852	Present	Philomathean Society	Wesleyan

1852	unknown	Gamma Epsilon Society	Lycoming

1852	unknown	Ladies Literary Society	Milton

1852	unknown	Philaletha Society	Otterbein

1852	unknown	Philomathean Society	Hiram

1852	unknown	Philomathian Society	Mississippi

1852	unknown	Philomethean Society	Wesleyan

1852	unknown	Phrenocosmian Society	Free Academy

1853	unknown	Amphictyon Society	Cornell College

1853	unknown	Chrestomathian Society	Grinnell

1853	unknown	Clio Society	Capital

1853	unknown	Emma Willards Society	Waynesburg

1853	unknown	Hentz Society	La Grange

1853	unknown	Judson Society	La Grange

1853	unknown	Parthenian Society	Baltimore

1853	unknown	Periclesian Society	Franklin

1853	unknown	Phi Nu Society	MacMurray

1853	unknown	Phileans Society	Waynesburg

1853	unknown	Union Literary Society	Geneva

1853	unknown	Webster Society	Franklin

1854	unknown	Alethezethian Society	Antioch

1854	Present	Archanian Society	Univ. of the Pacific

1854	unknown	Aristotelian Society	Central

1854	unknown	Calhoun Society	Wofford

1854	1875	Delphic Society	Hiram

1854	unknown	Erodelphian Society	Burlington

1854	unknown	Hamline Society	Iowa Wesleyan

1854	unknown	Hesperian Society	Hiram

1854	unknown	Hesperian Society	Wisconsin

1854	unknown	Linnaen Society	Mount Union

1854	unknown	Phi Alpha Society	Central

1854	unknown	Philomathian Society	Bethel

1854	unknown	Washington Society	Bethel

1855	unknown	Alethean Society	Baldwin

1855	unknown	Calliope Academy	Spring Hill

1855	unknown	Crescent Society	Antioch

1855	unknown	Curious Society	Milwaukee

1855	unknown	Erosophian Society	Marshall

1855	unknown	Hyperion Society	Marshall

1855	unknown	Philalethean Society	Lawrence

1855	unknown	Philologian Society	Richmond

1855	unknown	Philopenthean Society	Geneva

1855	unknown	Philophrenian Society	George Washington

1855	unknown	Phoenix Society	Lawrence

1855	unknown	Star Society	Antioch

1856	Defunct	Beltionian Society	Wheaton

1856	unknown	Hinman Society	Northwestern

1856	unknown	Mathesian Society	Northwestern Christian

1856	unknown	Philadelphian Society	Monmouth

1856	unknown	Philalethic Society	Santa Clara

1856	unknown	Philomathean Society	Willamette

1856	unknown	Philoneikean Society	Moores Hill

1856	unknown	Phoenix Band Society	Earlham

1857	unknown	Alpha Kappa Phi Society	Hillsdale

1857	unknown	Amphictyon Society	Hillsdale

1857	unknown	Eurodelphian Society	Spring Hill

1857	unknown	Hesperian Society	Ohio Female

1857	unknown	Ionian Society	Earlham

1857	unknown	Ladies Literary Union	Hillsdale

1857	unknown	Literary Adelphi Society	Michigan

1857	unknown	Philomathean Society	Otterbein

1857	unknown	Phreno-Cosmian Society	Baldwin

1857	unknown	Pythonian Society	Northwestern Christian

1857	unknown	Sigournean Society	Moores Hill

1858	unknown	Adelphian Society	Cornell College

1858	unknown	Athena Society	Lawrence

1858	unknown	Excelsior Society	Albright

1858	unknown	Preston Society	Wofford

1858	unknown	Rhizomian Society	Univ. of the Pacific

1859	unknown	Alethean Society	Beloit

1859	unknown	Archaean Society	Beloit

1859	unknown	Belles Letters Society	Illinois Wesleyan

1859	1939	Belles Lettres Society	Southern University (Greensboro, Alabama)

1859	1939	Clariosophic Society	Southern University (Greensboro, Alabama)

1859	unknown	Delean Society	Beloit

1859	Present	German Verein (now the Alpha Omega Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity)	German Wallace

1859	unknown	Germanae Sodales Society	Hillsdale

1859	unknown	Literary Society	Maryland

1859	unknown	Neocosmian Society	Albright

1859	unknown	Philestorian Society	Santa Clara

1859	unknown	Ruthean Society	Iowa Wesleyan

1859	unknown	Sophronikopean Society	Missionary

1859	unknown	Star Society	Adrian

1859	unknown	Webster Society	Michigan

1860	unknown	Adelphian Society	Furman

1860	unknown	Adelphic Society	Northwestern

1860	unknown	Athenaeum Society	Chicago

1860	unknown	Erosophian Society	Lombard

1860	unknown	Eulexian Society	St. Stephen's

1860	unknown	Franklin Reading Society	Furman

1860	unknown	Philomathean Society	Milton

1860	unknown	Philosophian Society	Furman

1860	unknown	Reynolds Society	Stockwell

1860	Defunct	Philomathean Literary Society	Phi Kappa Sigma Male College

1861	unknown	Addisonian Society	Wayland

1861	unknown	Berean Society	Chicago

1861	unknown	Phi Alpha Pi Society	Olivet

1861	unknown	Tri Kappa Society	Chicago

1861	1933	Zetagathian Society	University of Iowa

1862	1933	Erodelphian Society	University of Iowa

1863	1933	Hesperian Society	University of Iowa

1864	1929	Irving Institute	University of Iowa

1865	unknown	De La Salle Club	Manhattan

1865	unknown	Erosophian Society	Baylor

1865	unknown	Irving Society	Andalusia, (Pa.)

1865	Present	Philalethean Society (now the Philaletheis Society)	Vassar

1866	unknown	Alka Society	Willamette

1866	unknown	Brown Debating Society	Stockwell

1866	unknown	Clionian Society	Almira

1866	unknown	Garnet Society	Lincoln

1866	unknown	Lincoln Association	Illinois Soldiers'

1866	unknown	Philomathean Society	Union Christian

1866	unknown	Robert E. V. Rice Society	Niagara

1866	unknown	Scientific Society	Wilberforce

1866	unknown	Semicentenary Society	Wilberforce

1866	unknown	St Joseph Society	St. Joseph College, New York

1866	unknown	Stonewall Society	Baylor

1866	unknown	Themian Society	Quincy

1867	unknown	Aristotelian Society	Harlem Springs

1867	unknown	Athenian Society	Tennessee Wesleyan

1867	unknown	Byronic Society	Harlem Springs

1867	unknown	Erosophian Society	Albion

1867	unknown	Eulexian Society	St. Augustine College, California

1867	unknown	Euterpean Society	Muhlenberg

1867	unknown	Neotrophian Society	Bethel

1867	unknown	Philokosmian Society	Lebanon Valley

1867	unknown	Philosophian Society	Lincoln

1867	unknown	Sophronian Society	Muhlenberg

1867	unknown	Zetalethean Society	Simpson

1868	unknown	Adelphene Society	Union Christian

1868	unknown	Alpha Delta Society	Hiram

1868	unknown	German Society	St. Xaviers

1868	1888	Irving Society	Cornell University

1868	unknown	Lehigh Junto	Lehigh

1868	unknown	Phi Delta Society	Berea

1868	unknown	Philocurian Society	Northwestern Christian

1868	unknown	Philomathean Society	Iowa State

1868	unknown	Philomathian Society	Illinois

1869	unknown	Athenaean Society	Kings College, Tennessee

1869	unknown	Basilian Society	Niagara

1869	Still active	Clionian Literary Society	McKendree

1869	unknown	Orthopatetic Society	Blackburn

1869	unknown	Philomathean Society	Tennessee Wesleyan

1869	unknown	Photozotean Society	Moore's hill

1869	unknown	Zenobian Society	Minnesota

1870	Defunct	Aristonian Society	Wheaton

1870	unknown	Atheneum Society	Willamette

1870	unknown	Bachelor Society	Iowa State

1870	1906	Baconian Society	Potsdam

1870	unknown	Castelian Society	Rockford

1870	unknown	Crescent Society	Iowa State

1870	unknown	Erodelphian Society	Highland

1870	unknown	Grinnell Institute	Grinnell

1870	unknown	Irving Society	Wooster

1870	unknown	Philologian Society	St Stephens

1870	unknown	Philotechnic Society	Louisiana State

1870	Present	Signet Society	Harvard

1870	unknown	Vesperian Society	Rockford

1870	unknown	Wayland Society	Brown

1871	unknown	Bettina Society	German Wallace

1871	unknown	Bonhommian Society	Highland

1871	unknown	Cliolian Society	Iowa State

1871	1889	Delphic Society	Geneseo

1871	unknown	Sodalian Society	Wilberforce

1872	unknown	Adelphic Society	Geneva

1872	Defunct	Excelsior Society	Wheaton

1873	Defunct	Clariosophic Literary Society	University of Arkansas

1873	Defunct	Alamo Society	Southwestern

1874	unknown	Ossoli Society	Northwestern

1875	Defunct	San Jacinto Society	Southwestern

1876	unknown	Eutaxian Society	Oregon

1876	unknown	Laurean Society	Oregon

1876	unknown	Stephen F. Austin Society	Texas A&M

1877	Present	Cleo of Alpha Chi	Trinity College

1879	unknown	Calliopean Society	Texas A&M

1879	Defunct	Arkansas Literary and Debating Society	Lyon College

1881	Defunct	Alethean Society	Southwestern

1883	Defunct	Philomathean Society	Lyon College

1884	unknown	L'Etoile	Lyon College

1885	Defunct	Clio Society	Southwestern

1886	Defunct	Garland Literary Society	University of Arkansas

1886	Defunct	Adelphian Circle	Ouachita Baptist University

1888	Defunct	Hermesian Literary Society	Ouachita Baptist University

1888	Defunct	Philomathean Literary Society	Ouachita Baptist University

1889	Present	Winthrop Literary Society	Winthrop

1891	Defunct	Gamma Sigma Literary Society	Henderson State University

1891	Defunct	Erosophic Society	Lyon College

1892	Defunct	Delta Sigma Society	Lyon College

1895	Defunct	Grady Literary Society	University of Arkansas

1895	1928	Philomathean Society	University of Iowa

1897	Present	Gamma Nu Society	Illinois

1898	1939	Eumenean Society (absorbed by the Clariosophic Society in when Southern University and Birmingham College merged to form Birmingham-Southern College in 1918)	Birmingham-Southern College

1898	1939	Robert E. Lee Society (absorbed by the Belles Lettres Society when Southern University and Birmingham College merged to form Birmingham-Southern College in 1918)	Birmingham-Southern College

1898	Defunct	Franklin Literary Society	Hendrix College

1899	Defunct	Harlan Literary Society	Hendrix College

1900	Defunct	Athenian Literary Society	Ouachita Baptist University

1900	1933	Octave Thanet	University of Iowa

1900	Defunct	Periclean Literary Society	University of Arkansas

1905	Defunct	Garland Literary Society	Henderson State University

1904	unknown	Sul Ross Literary Society	Texas A&M University

1906	Defunct	Lee Literary Society	University of Arkansas

1907	Defunct	Demosthenean Literary Society	University of Arkansas

1908	Defunct	Franklin Literary Society	University of Arkansas

1911	Present	Elizabethan Club	Yale

1911	Present	Gamma Delta Society	Illinois

1912	Defunct	Hesperian Society	Heidelberg

1912	Present	Philomathean Society	Univ. of the Pacific

1913	Present	Euglossian Society	Heidelberg

1913	Present	Philalethean Society	Heidelberg

1913	Present	Philalethean Society	Rutgers

1913	1928	Whitby	University of Iowa

1914	Defunct	Adelphian Society	Mountain Home College

1915	Defunct	Athenian Society	Mountain Home College

1915	Defunct	Hypatian Society	South Carolina

1916	1933	Athena	University of Iowa

1916	Present	Sigma Phi Epsilon Society	Illinois

1920	Present	Chi Beta Society	Illinois

1920	1934	Hamlin Garland	University of Iowa

1921	Present	Aptonalton Literary Society	Heidelberg University

1921	1950	Kappa Iota Literary Society	Alma College

1923	Defunct	Daedalian Literary Society	Indiana State Normal School

1924	Present	Euphrosynean Society	South Carolina

1926	1928	Delta Rho Society	Lyon College

1928	Present	American Whig-Cliosophic Society	Princeton

1929	Present	Pi Pi Rho Society	Illinois

1947	Present	Alpha Omega Delta Literary Society	Bob Jones University

1991	Present	Philomathean Society	Union

2015	Present	Franklin Society	Virginia

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The Euphradian Society at the University of South Carolina, was established in 1806.

final_sentence: The Euphradian Society at the University of South Carolina, was established in 1806.