The Raven Society is an honor society at the University of Virginia, founded in 1904 by University student William McCully James, and named in honor of the famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, who attended UVa in 1826.
The Raven Society is a respected institution at the University of Virginia, founded in 1904 by a student named William McCully James, and takes its name from the iconic poem by Edgar Allan Poe, who studied at UVa many years earlier.