[2] The Society traditionally meets on alternate Thursday evenings for public debates.

Each meeting is lit by candlelight and attendees wear their individual National Dress or black tie.

[3] Meetings consist of “the prosecution of literary and philosophical composition, criticism, and debate".

[4] Apart from its younger cousin, the Cambridge Union, the Diagnostics Society of Edinburgh is the only student society to have been granted an official coat of arms.

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