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The Arts & Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) was established in 1890 as the all-male Arts Society. The Arts Society was created by a group of students and took its current name in 1967 when the Arts Society merged with the all female Levana Society. The Levana Society was founded in 1888, at a time when women were not given the same rights as male students.

While its name has changed over the years, the fundamental purpose has remained consistent. We seek to enhance the educational experience of Arts & Science students in and out of the classroom and to represent and advocate on behalf of the student body to the faculty and administration.

The Society is governed by an elected President & Vice President, who are responsible to the student body through the legislation of ASUS Assembly. The President & Vice President hire a council of 5 commissioners and 1 officer who oversee a diverse range of committees.

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This Association for Queen's women graduates was founded at the turn of the twentieth century to serve the University, and especially to help female students. Now disbanded, Alumnae Association's main accomplishment, during its 90-year history, was to found, and help fund, the University's women's residences, which it largely ran until the early 1970's. Residences for women were initially housed in rented buildings near campus. Finally, after a huge fundraising crusade involving alumnae from across Canada, and dozens of bridge parties, teas, and rummage sales, they moved to a permanent home in Ban Righ Hall. Completed in 1925, Ban Righ was planned, organized, and mostly funded by the Alumnae Association.

In exchange for its contribution, the Association fought for, and won, from the University's Board of Trustees, a role in the management of the residence, and Association volunteers sat on the Ban Righ Board and continued to have a direct role in running (and funding) the growing number of women's residences until the early 1970s, when the University took over the management of the residences and the Ban Righ Board became an advisory body only. The Association also insisted that any surpluses from the running of Ban Righ be put to other purposes involving women's residences. The Board of Trustees agreed, partly because many of its members doubted there would be a surplus. By the end of the era of alumnae management, however, a large surplus had accumulated, and part of this money was used to launch and maintain the Ban Righ Foundation for Continuing Education (now the Ban Righ Centre) in 1974. After 1986 the Alumnae Association did not exclusively represent female Queen's graduates: they also belonged to the general alumni association, which started in 1926 and included both men and women. The Alumnae Association ceased to exist in 1990, and was replaced by a Committee on Women's Affairs within the Alumni Association.

The Aesculapian Society was organized by the medical students of Queen's University in 1872. All students registered in the School of Medicine become active members of the Society, which includes as honorary members all graduates in Medicine and members of the School of Medicine at Queen's University. The Society is dedicated to the promotion of the general interests of the Medical Faculty and controls matters affecting medical students in their relationships one to another, to other student organizations at Queen's University and elsewhere, and to the Faculty of Medicine, Senate, and other governing bodies of Queen's University. Control of the Society is vested in an Executive which is elected annually by closed ballot of all active members. The Executive Committee are responsible the Year Executives, Formal Committee, Variety Night Committee, the Aesculapian Society, H.G.Kelly Lectureship Committee, Building Fund Committee, Athletic Committee, Orientation Committee, the Aesculapian Trust Fund, and other elected or appointed committees of medical students.

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The Queen's University calendars contain general information about the University; listings and details of courses on offer in each year; requirements for degrees; lists of faculty and students, as well as lists of graduates and academic prize recipients; and a variety of other information that can vary from year to year in each publication. There have been a variety of calendars over the years, sometimes encompassing the whole University and sometimes separated out into schools.

In 1910 the Faculty of Applied Science of Queen's University formed the Militia Unit of the 5th Field Company Canadian Engineers, with something over ninety percent of the students in the Faculty as members of the company. The officers were Macphail, Malcolm, Ellis along with a number of students, including Edward Baker (later Colonel Baker of Canadian National Institute of the Blind).
The members of the company trained every Thursday at the Kingston Armouries undertaking engineer drill and spent two weeks in the spring at Barriefiel Military Camp.
On declaration of war in 1914 the Fifth Field Company was given the task of turning previously unimproved ground at Valcartier, Quebec, into a camp capable of mobilizing 30,000 men. In all 170 Queen’s men worked at Valcartier on a variety of jobs that included road repair, surveys for tent sites, and installation of a water supply system.
When other Companies of Engineers arrived at Valcartier, the Fifth was split into overseas and home sections. Fifty members of the Queen’s Company signed up to be sent abroad with the First Canadian Contingent for service with No. 2 Company of Engineers. The home service of the Fifth Field Company remained at Valcartier until October 1914, at which point members returned to Kingston and began recruiting for the second overseas contingent. Many of these returning members formed half of the 6th Company Engineers. Along with others from Ottawa and Montreal, the Kingston recruits made up the nucleus of the three field corps of engineers that formed the 2nd Canadian Expeditionary Force. All of the men trained in Ottawa before being sent overseas in the spring of 1915.
All of the Queen’s men serving in this Company maintained an awareness of their university affiliation throughout the period in their active enlistment. Although the special cohesion and camaraderie evident during the early days in training camp was gradually changed by the experiences of war into more of a general company spirit, there remained a strong bond between the original Kingston members of the Company.