Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is a collegiate literary society, one of the oldest student groups at the university, and one of the oldest continuously-existing collegiate lite
Philomathean Society graduation diploma for Isaac Norton Jr., 1858.
Philomathean Society meeting room, circa 1913.
Philomathean meeting room
College literary societies in American higher education are a particular kind of social organization, distinct from literary societies generally, and they were often the precursors of college fraterni
Philomathean Society
…Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is a collegiate literary society, one of the oldest student groups at the university, and one of the oldest continuously-existing collegiate literary societies in the United States…
Demosthenian Hall at the University of Georgia, built in 1824
Members of the Miami University Erodelphian Literary Society, 1906
Members of the Miami University Adelphic Association, 1913
Members of the Arlington Training School's Jolly Junior Literary Society, c. 1913-1916