Sentence examples for literary societies from inspiring English sources

In the years after the union of the two colleges, these four literary societies merged with the Franklin Literary Society, which survives today.

Two other literary societies were founded at Washington College, the Union Literary Society in 1809 and the Washington Literary Society in 1814.

The history of literary societies at Washington & Jefferson College dates back to the 1797, when the Franklin Literary Society and the Philo Literary Society were founded at Canonsburg Academy.

The state barred literati from using the academies and literary societies for explicitly political activities.

Members of the black middle class established literary societies to encourage reading and creative writing.

A hospital, municipal gardens, zoo, sports stadium, and several literary societies are in the city.

Two of the nation's oldest continuous literary societies, Belles Lettres (founded 1786) and Union Philosophical (1789), were founded at Dickinson.

Stone founded the Academy of American Poets in 1962, in addition to founding several other literary societies.

Philolexian is one of many literary societies that flourished at the nation's early colonial colleges.

Between each of his major chapters, Lynch intersperses additional essays, reflecting on, say, alphabetical order, plagiarism or literary societies.

Jewish community centres originated in the Jewish young men's literary societies that were formed in U.S. cities in the 1840s.