The Society of Thoth was founded in 1926 by members of the
Ubyssey student paper at the University of British Columbia as an "honorary journalistic society" devoted to "increasing the gaiety of nations, by the development of wit and humor."[1]
Members later acknowledged "that the journalistic objects of this society" were "second to its other aims; namely to the assisting in the development of University spirit."
The club first gained notoriety on campus for its 'Royal Egyptian' pantomime at UBC's annual Homecoming Night.
Point Grey campus in secret.[3] Member and UBC classics professor Malcolm McGregor has claimed that club members were the "first habitues of what is now Wreck Beach."[4]
