 Surviving examples include the Philodemic Society at Georgetown University, Union-Philanthropic Society at Hampden-Sydney College, the Philolexian Society at Columbia University, the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union and Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at The University of Virginia and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society at Princeton University.The Philoclean Society of Rutgers College was founded 8 December 1825 under the auspices of William Craig Brownlee, a professor of Greek and Roman languages.The rival Peithessophian Society had been started just weeks earlier, enlisting the entire senior class as charter members.