The Harlan Literary Society was a student organization at the Central Collegiate Institute (now Hendrix College) in Altus, Arkansas.
The Haland Literary was founded in 1889 at the Central Collegiate Institute in Altus, Arkansas.
The school was renamed Hendrix College on June 10, 1889, and it relocated in 1890 to Conway, Arkansas.
[2] The rivalry meant that male students identified as either a Harlan or a Franklin, reflecting a larger trend of competition among college literary societies during this period.
These two societies engaged in literary and oratory competitions with each other, but together, they published the Hendrix College Mirror, a monthly newspaper that started circulation in 1890.