1930-1950
The growth and the changes of the literary societies.
By the 1930s, the role of the literary societies began to shift away from academics and towards exclusive clubs for the Houston elite that threw more parties than pursued academics. By the 1940s, the societies became purely social and exclusive, more akin to the sororities at other universities, exemplified by the 1944 Univeristy-wide rush rules. At the behest of Dean Hugh Scott Cameron, a fourth literary society, Sarah Lane Literary Society, formed in 1947 to create more inclusivity.