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Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities
Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities Author:Baird Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The important fraternities are those which are located in the undergraduate literary or scientific departments of the colleges and universities, and it is to thi... more »s field that we have designedly confined our efforts. The Women's Fraternities The first of the women's Greek-letter fraternities was K A 0, founded at DePauw University in 1870. The same year K K r was founded at Monmouth, Ill. A r originated at Oxford, Miss., in 1872, and A at Syracuse at nearly the same time, r B followed A 4 at Syracuse in 1874, and A A A was organized at Boston in 1888. The I. C. Sorosis, quite similar to the Greek-letter societies in purpose, but not confined at first in its membership to college students, was founded at Monmouth College in 1867. It changed its name in 1888 to n B , and now admits only college students to its ranks. A X Q, at first a professional organization among students of music, X Q originating at Arkansas University, and a number of other societies of more recent origin constitute a complete system among the undergraduate women students. Some of the societies for women call themselves fraternities and some sororities. Both terms are used in this work. The foregoing outline will show how widespread the system is. It has become the prominent factor in the social life of American students, and as such is attracting At Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga., there originated in 1851 a women's society called Adelphean. and the next year a similar society called Philomathean. In June. 1004. the second of these changed its name to M and a year later the older society changed its name to A A (since altered to A A II). These two societies bave since claimed to antedate all the other women's Greek letter fraternities, a claim obviously unfounded. the attention of publi...« less