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Early Student Organizations
- When
- 1848-1849
- Where
- University of Mississippi
Literary societies and the first Southern fraternity were established shortly after the first students arrived.
The Hermaean Society and Phi Sigma Society were established in 1849. The Rainbow Fraternity, founded in 1848, was the first fraternity in the South. Under the university's emphasis on rhetoric, student-organized public orations on the first Monday of every month were popular.
Sources
- University of Mississippi Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-02
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