Other Historic Collegiate Literary Societies
- The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
- The American Whig-Cliosophic Society of Princeton University
- The Philomates Association-Associazione Filomati of Italy
- The Philodemic Society of Georgetown University
- The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society of the University of Virginia
- The Union-Philanthropic (Literary) Society of Hampden-Sydney College
- The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The Demosthenian Literary Society of The University of Georgia in Athens
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