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St. Anthony Hall, also known as Saint Anthony Hall and The Order of St. Anthony, is a national college literary society also known by the Greek name of Delta Psi (ΔΨ). The first, or 'Alpha' Chapter was founded at Columbia University on January 17, 1847, which is the feast day of St. Anthony, the group's patron saint and the patron saint of writers. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Students attend a lecture at a tertiary institution. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States and a member of the prestigious Ivy League. ... is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with a saint, and referring to the day as the saints day of that saint. ... Saint Anthony the Great (ca. ...

In 1879, Baird's Manual (see Wikisource [1]) characterized the organization as having "the reputation of being the most secret of all the college societies." References appear in several F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories, and the Order has a distinguished architectural inheritance. The organization is often referred to as "St. A's" or "the Hall." It has no official religious affiliation. See also List of St. Anthony Hall Members. // Bookplate from library of the Railroad Financier S.F. Barger, a founding Member. ...

General Information

In 1847, after the organization's 'Alpha' Chapter was founded on January 17 at Columbia University, a 'Beta' Chapter at NYU was also founded, but by 1853 had been 'united' with the Alpha[2]. By 1879, Columbia College's Record listed the NYU founders alongside its own Columbia students.[3] is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ...

The current undergraduate chapters of St. Anthony Hall, according to its website, are the following:

• Alpha: Columbia University, New York, NY
• Delta: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Epsilon: Trinity College, Hartford, CT
• Theta: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• Kappa: Brown University, Providence, RI
• Xi: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Phi: University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
• Sigma: Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Upsilon: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Tau: MIT, Cambridge, MA

At each university, the Order of St. Anthony maintains a chapter house colloquially referred to as "The Hall" or "St. A's", although at MIT, the society is known as "The Number Six Club" in reference to that chapter's original founding and residence at No. 6 Louisburg Square in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. The following is a list of MITs fraternities. ...

According to its national website, St. Anthony Hall originally began as a "fraternity dedicated to the love of education and the well-being of its members." Chapters were founded throughout the Northeast, and extended into the South during the mid-1800s. During the Civil War, formal contact ended between Northern and Southern chapters. The Order's history states that "many members wore their badges into battle, serving with distinction on both sides, and were often reunited in both pleasant and antagonistic situations throughout the war." Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...

• See the Baird's Manual excerpt below for a near-contemporary account of the disposition of the chapters following the Civil War.
• Archive photo of Civil War officer killed at Gettysburg, who signed his portrait "Yours in Delta Psi" [4]

Because their patron, Anthony of Egypt is often depicted with his Tau Cross, the symbol has been used to embellish the architecture of some St. A's chapter houses. St. Anthony also became a swineherd, hence Hall members sentimentally regard the pig, one of the Saint's 'attributes', as an informal mascot. However the fraternity has never had any religious affiliation; the inspiration provided by this ascetic saint (and his pig) is solely thematic. Saint Anthony the Great (ca. ... The Tau cross The Cross of Tau; also called the Tau Cross, St. ... An attribute is the following: Generally, an attribute is an abstraction characteristic of an entity In database management, an attribute is a property inherent in an entity or associated with that entity for database purposes. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... An emblem consists of a pictorial image, abstract or representational, that epitomizes a concept - often a concept of a moral truth or an allegory. ...

Membership

Chapters of St. Anthony Hall demonstrate a range of membership formats and reputations. Whether known on their campuses as social fraternities, clubs, secret societies, or by other models, many nonetheless publicly articulate a literary focus, in keeping with St. Anthony being patron saint of writers. The chapters exhibit diverse characteristics with regard to campus presence, secrecy, and exclusivity.

In 1971, because it was at Yale a 'final society (tapping members during their sophomore year) secret society, and could therefore tap underclassmen a year before the junior class "tap" that is customary for entry to the senior societies, St. A's became the earliest Yale society to accept women as members, after the college became co-ed in 1969. There are numerous collegiate secret societies at American and Canadian colleges and universities. ...

• The Yale chapter's action also accomplished, albeit not without friction, co-education as a permitted status within the national fraternity. Other St. A's chapters subsequently became co-ed at the following schools: Columbia University, Trinity College, Princeton University, Brown University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Three of the chapters—at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia and the University of Mississippi—remain all-male by choice and the organization accommodates these differences, listing both types on its national website.

Main article: List of St. Anthony Hall Members

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In popular culture

• The "St. Ray's" fraternity in Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons is purportedly modeled after the Delta Chapter —"St. A's"— at the University of Pennsylvania where Wolfe attended a fraternity cocktail party while conducting research for the book in 2001. [5]

• Lisa Birnbach, ed. The Official Preppy Handbook, Workman Publishing, 1980. "St. A’s appeals to the ‘cool element’ of Preppies at Yale; this means Preppies who don’t iron their shirts. It isn’t rowdy: parties there conform to the intellectual self-image Yalies hold dear."

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, in several short stories, refers to the Pump and Slipper, an annual party at the Yale Chapter:
  • "May Day" in "Tales of the Jazz Age" "A man with prominent teeth cut in. Edith inhaled a slight cloud of whiskey. She liked men to have had something to drink; they were so much more cheerful, and appreciative and complimentary--much easier to talk to. "My name's Dean, Philip Dean," he said cheerfully. "You don't remember me, I know, but you used to come up to New Haven with a fellow I roomed with senior year, Gordon Sterrett." Edith looked up quickly. "Yes, I went up with him twice--to the Pump and Slipper and the Junior prom."
  • "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" "Warren was nineteen and rather pitying with those of his friends who hadn't gone East to college. But, like most boys, he bragged tremendously about the girls of his city when he was away from it. There was Genevieve Ormonde, who regularly made the rounds of dances, house-parties, and football games at Princeton, Yale, Williams, and Cornell; there was black-eyed Roberta Dillon, who was quite as famous to her own generation as Hiram Johnson or Ty Cobb; and, of course, there was Marjorie Harvey, who besides having a fairylike face and a dazzling, bewildering tongue was already justly celebrated for having turned five cart-wheels in succession during the last pump-and-slipper dance at New Haven."
  • "A Short Trip Home", Saturday Evening Post, January 17, 1927. Joe Jelke and two other boys were along, and none of the three could manage to take their eyes off her, even to say hello to me. She had one of those exquisite rose skins frequent in our part of the country, and beautiful until the little veins begin to break at about forty; now, flushed with the cold, it was a riot of lovely delicate pinks like many carnations. She and Joe had reached some sort of reconciliation, or at least he was too far gone in love to remember last night; but I saw that though she laughed a lot she wasn't really paying any attention to him or any of them. She wanted them to go, so that there'd be a message from the kitchen, but I knew that the message wasn't coming--that she was safe. There was talk of the Pump and Slipper dance at New Haven and of the Princeton Prom, and then, in various moods, we four left and separated quickly outside. I walked home with a certain depression of spirit and lay for an hour in a hot bath thinking that vacation was all over for me now that she was gone; feeling, even more deeply than I had yesterday, that she was out of my life.

• 1923 M.I.T. campus newspaper reference to "Select Wittstein" providing music for the Pump and Slipper and the Yale Prom in New Haven. [6]

• Article purporting to describe the Columbia and Yale chapters, Yale Daily News. [7]

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St. Anthony Hall Chapter Houses

The majority of St. Anthony Hall chapters still own the Victorian and Gilded Age chapter houses its 19th Century socially prominent members commissioned from well-known architects. Today, St. A's is self-described as a literary society, and in accordance with the respective traditions of each college, is variously referred to on those campuses as a fraternity (or co-ed fraternity), a literary society, a secret society, or a private club. Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. ... The Breakers, a gilded-age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. ...

Hornbostel, circa 1899: Alpha Chapter, New York

Heins & LaFarge, 1894-1913, Sigma Chapter, without dormitory wing, New Haven

Heins & LaFarge, 1894-1913, with later-added dormitory, New Haven. Old York Hall (now Stoeckel Hall) also visible.

Haight, 1913-current, Sigma Chapter, New Haven

Renwick, 1879: Original Alpha Chapter House, Columbia University, when located in downtown NYC. (Now a restaurant/apartment bldg.)

Stone, Carpenter & Willson, 1895, Kappa Chapter, Brown University, Providence

Gage, 1902-1904: former St. Anthony Club, New York

Breuer, 1970, showing St. Anthony 'Tau Cross' motif, commissioned by St. A's member Henry P. Becton

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• • James Renwick, Jr., firm of. (Columbia University Chapter prior to 1899, still standing at 29 E. 28th Street, New York, "Old photographs show a high stoop arrangement with the figure of an owl on the peeked roof and a plaque with the Greek letters Delta Psi over the windowless chapter room. In 1879 The New York Tribune called it French Renaissance, but the stumpy pilasters and blocky detailing suggest the Neo-Grec style then near the end of its popularity." At the turn of the century, when the building became a club for graduate members of the fraternity and a new undergraduate house was built at 115th Street, a newspaper account described the 28th Street house as "a perfect Bijou of tasteful decoration." [8]) One of Renwick's proteges, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, was architect of the Wolf's Head tomb at Yale.

• Henry Hornbostel, William Palmer (a St. A's member), and Eric Fisher Wood, firm of Wood, Palmer and Hornbostel. (Columbia University Chapter since 1899, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals. Added in 1996 to National Register of Historic Places building #96000484 as "Delta Psi, Alpha Chapter" [9]) James Renwick, Jr. ... Château de Ferrières 1855 Mentmore Towers English Neo-Renaissance of the 1850s. ... Neo-Grec is a term usually used to refer to a particular manifestation of the Neoclassical style in the decorative arts, painting, and architecture of France, during the Second Empire of Napoleon III, lasting approximately between 1848 and 1865. ... Goodhue by Lee Lawrie, holding the Rockefeller Chapel, Chicago, Illinois Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869 _ April 23, 1924) was a renowned American architect celebrated for his work in neo-gothic design. ... Wolfs Head (W.H.S.), founded in 1883, is the third oldest secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. ... Henry Hornbostel (1867 - 1961) was an American architect. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ...

• Wilson Eyre, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania Chapter 1889-1908, Italianate Palazzo.) Cited as first fraternity house built on campus and pictured at [10]. Near the old Penn campus across the Schuylkill from the current site. Wilson Eyre (1858-1944) was an American architect who practiced in the Philadelphia area. ...

•Cope & Stewardson. (University of Pennsylvania Chapter after 1908, Late Gothic Revival, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, added in 2005 to National Register of Historic Places building - #05000064 as "St. Anthony Hall House" [11][12][13]) Image:Cope. ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin San Sebastian Church in Manila, Philippines made entirely of steel. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ...

• J.P. Fuller (Former chapter house of M.I.T. Chapter prior to 20th century, designed 1826; built 1834-37, Greek Revival, within historic Louisburg Square.) Cited and pictured at [14]. Personal residence of Catherine the Great Greek Revival was a style of classical architecture which became fashionable in Europe in the 18th century, and in the United Kingdom and United States in the early 19th century. ... Louisburg Square is a private square located in the Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston. ...

• J. Cleaveland Cady. (Trinity College Chapter, 1878) Commissioned by member Robert Habersham Coleman, the iron baron, rusticated Richardsonian Romanesque. J.C. Cady was also a Trinity Chapter St. Anthony Hall member. He erected several buildings at Yale (see Non-hall below). [15] At a cost of $40,000, it was considered at the time to be one of the most expensive fraternity chapter houses in America. Added in 1985 to the National Register of Historic Places, building #85001017 as "Saint Anthony Hall", the Epsilon Chapter house is the oldest of the Saint Anthony Hall fraternity buildings. The building has recently undergone extensive interior restorations. An exterior addition, in harmony with the original construction, has been added to comply with local building code requirements. J.C. Cady was also the architect of several prominent buildings in New York City, most notably the old Metropolitan Opera House and the south section of the American Museum of Natural History. [16] Pictured at [17] J(osiah) Cleaveland Cady (Providence, Rhode Island, 1837 - April 17, 1919) was a New York-based architect whose most familiar surviving building is the south range of the American Museum of Natural History on New Yorks Upper West Side. ... Robert Habersham Coleman (1860? - 1930) was an iron processing and railroad industrialist and owner of extensive farmland in Pennsylvania. ... Richardsonian Romanesque has both French and Spanish Romanesque characteristics, like the First Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan by architechs George D. Mason and Zachariah Rice in 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of American architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston in Massachusetts. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Metropolitan Opera is located at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

• Heins & LaFarge. Architects George Lewis Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge (the son of the stained glass artist John LaFarge). (Yale Chapter building from 1894-1913, no longer extant, but its ornamental iron gates re-used in the 1913 building, Richardsonian Romanesque.) Described in [18] and [19] and pictured at: [20] The New York-based architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge, composed of Philadelphia-born architect George Lewis Heins (1860–1907) and Christopher Grant LaFarge (1862–1938), who was the eldest son of the artist John LaFarge, famous especially for his stained glass panels, were responsible most notably for the original Romanesque... John La Farge, 1902 Angel of Help, 1886. ... Richardsonian Romanesque has both French and Spanish Romanesque characteristics, like the First Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan by architechs George D. Mason and Zachariah Rice in 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of American architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston in Massachusetts. ...

• Charles C. Haight (Yale Chapter, circa 1913, a commission of member Frederick William Vanderbilt to match the flanking donated dormitories (dated 1903-06) now part of Silliman College, neo-Gothic.) Described in [21] and pictured at [22] Charles Coolidge Haight (1841 – February 9, 1917) was a New York architect. ... [Hyde Park, NY] Frederick William Vanderbilt (February 2, 1856 – June 29, 1938) was a member of the financially and socially preeminent Vanderbilt family. ... Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University. ... Neo-gothic architecture is an American branch of the Gothic revival style that was imported from England in the 1830s. ...

• Harleston Parker Medal namesake J. Harleston Parker, founder with Douglas H. Thomas, Jr. and Arthur W. Rice, of firm Parker, Thomas & Rice. See " The Architecture of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia" By K. Edward Lay, UVA Press, ISBN 0813918855, p. 287" (University of Virginia, 1902, Colonial Revival or "Jeffersonian". First fraternity house built on campus. [23]) Pictured at: [24] The Harleston Parker Medal was established in 1921 by J. Harleston Parker to recognize “such architects as shall have, in the opinion of the Boston Society of Architects. ... The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style. ...

• Stanford White, firm of McKim, Mead, and White. (Former Williams College chapter), currently houses Center for Development Economics[25], 1886, "Old English-style".)[26] Stanford White (1853-1906) Washington Square Arch New York American on June 25, 1906 Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. ... From left to right: Will Mead, Charles McKim and Stan White McKim, Mead, and White was the premier architectural firm in the eastern United States at the turn of the twentieth century. ...

• S.E. Gage [27] (16 East 64th Street, New York, originally erected 1878-79 and redesigned by Gage between 1902-1904 in the Neo-Federal style for St. Anthony Hall.)[28] Until around 1990, it was the St. Anthony Club, a city club for St. A's members. Interior details described include limestone columns, a detailed, wrought-iron front door and gate, a limestone and marble entry foyer, and a bronze and wrought-iron main staircase. In addition, the townhouse boasted ornate moldings, high ceilings, skylights, oak Versailles parquet floors and six wood-burning fireplaces.[29] It is also included in a walking tour of 64th Street[30]. The five story twenty foot wide brownstone is on a historically distinguished residential street.[31][32] In the early 1970s, the Barnard College Club leased space in the St. Anthony Club. [33] Federal style can refer to: Federal style architecture Federal style furnishings See also: Georgian architecture, Adam style This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the building material and the dwelling. ... Barnard College, founded in 1889, is one of the four undergraduate divisions of Columbia University. ...

•Stone, Carpenter, and Willson, (Kappa Chapter, Brown University Chapter, 154 Hope Street, Providence, RI, erected 1895, Colonial Revival). Originally a private residence, then until 1969 owned by Bryant University as its administration building formerly named 'Taft House' for its first owners Robert W. and Alice Taft. Unfortunately, an extensive formal garden to its west was replaced with parking. Renamed King House in 1974 in honor of Lida Shaw King, former dean of Pembroke College.[34] Historic American Buildings Survey data at: [35] Stone, Carpenter and Willson named for Alfred E. Stone (1834 - 1908), Edmund R. Willson (1856-1906), and Charles E. Carpenter (1845 - 1923) (all dates from Society of Architectural Historians) was a Providence, Rhode Island architectural firm in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. ... The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style. ... Bryant University is a 4-year private university located in Smithfield, Rhode Island. ... Lida Shaw King (September 15, 1868, Boston-January 10, 1932, Providence) was an American classical scholar and college dean. ... Pembroke College was the womens college of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. ...

Related Non-Hall Campus Buildings:

• Additional Josiah Cleaveland Cady. A Trinity University St. A's Chapter member, Cady in 1873 built the Yale Sheffield Scientific School's first new building, North Sheffield Hall, on what had been the gardens of the Town-Sheffield mansion. This was followed by his Winchester Hall (1892) and Sheffield Chemical (1894-5). Of these, only the latter, Sheffield Chemical, is still standing, renovated and renamed Arthur K. Watson Hall. J(osiah) Cleaveland Cady (Providence, Rhode Island, 1837 - April 17, 1919) was a New York-based architect whose most familiar surviving building is the south range of the American Museum of Natural History on New Yorks Upper West Side. ... J(osiah) Cleaveland Cady (Providence, Rhode Island, 1837 - April 17, 1919) was a New York-based architect whose most familiar surviving building is the south range of the American Museum of Natural History on New Yorks Upper West Side. ... The Sheffield Scientific School was founded as Yale Scientific School in 1854 and renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield. ...

• Marcel Breuer. Subsequent to the merger of the 'Sheff' with Yale College, but within its original precincts, Yale St. A's Chapter member and benefactor Henry P. Becton (BS 1937), son of Becton Dickinson co-founder Maxwell Becton, donated the Becton Center (designed by Marcel Breuer), opened in 1970, replacing Winchester Hall and North Sheffield, mentioned above. Breuer cenceived the building "...as a wall that folded horizontally and vertically, with pipes and ducts located in the folds..." Located at 15 Prospect Street, the building's most distinctive feature is an arcade of monumental Tau Cross-shaped concrete columns "designed to invite pedestrians." It appears as a visual reference to the benefactor's society, whose emblem is the Tau Cross; the buildings are within each others' view along the axis formed by Prospect and College Streets. Described and pictured at: [36] and [37] Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer (May 21, 1902 Pécs, Hungary – July 1, 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential modernist. ... The Sheffield Scientific School was founded as Yale Scientific School in 1854 and renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield. ... BD (NYSE: BDX) — originally, Becton & Dickinson — is a leading global medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents. ... Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer (May 21, 1902 Pécs, Hungary – July 1, 1981 New York City), architect and furniture designer, was an influential modernist. ... The Tau cross The Cross of Tau; also called the Tau Cross, St. ...

• A late 19th/early 20th c. chapter house of the University of Mississippi's St. Anthony Hall Phi Chapter subsequently was an on-campus home of Nobel Laureate author William Faulkner, although Rowan Oak is better known for having been Faulkner's principal home. Referenced in University of Mississippi photographic archive: [38] William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. ... Rowan Oak is William Faulkners former home in Oxford, Mississippi. ...

Exclusions and Obsolete Chapters

The Delta Psi Fraternity at the University of Vermont was founded in 1850 by Professor John Ellsworth Goodrich [39] and was always unrelated[40]. It also is apparently only recently defunct.[41] The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, or simply The University of Vermont, is a public university located in Burlington, Vermont. ...

In 1879, Baird's Manual (see Wikisource, the free library of source texts.[42]), contained an extensive Delta Psi/St. Anthony Hall chapter list. Baird's characterized the organization, at that time, as having "the reputation of being the most secret of all the college societies." Chapters at the end of the 19th century were: Alpha, Columbia College, 1847. Beta, New York University, 1847 (died 1853). Gamma, Rutgers College, 1848 (died 1850). Delta, Burlington College, 1849; transferred to Delta, University of Pennsylvania, 1854. Epsilon, Trinity College (Connecticut), 1850. Eta, South Carolina College, 1850 (died 1861). Theta, Princeton College, 1851 (died 1863). Iota, Rochester University, 1851. Kappa, Brown University, 1852 (died 1853). Lambda, Williams College, 1853. Sigma, Randolph-Macon College, 1853 (died 1861). Xi, North Carolina University, 1851 (died 1863). Psi, Cumberland University, 1858 (died 1861). Phi, Mississippi University, 1855. Upsilon, University of Virginia, 1860. Sigma, Sheffield Scientific School (i.e. Yale), 1868. Theta, Washington-Lee University, 1869. Baird's 1999 edition amends the last listing for Washington and Lee as Beta (defunct).

The Xi Chapter was re-founded in 1926. The Kappa Chapter at Brown was re-founded in 1983, and the Theta Chapter at Princeton in 1986. The 1999 edition of Baird's appeared unaware of the re-founding of Theta, erroneously listing that as Theta's last year.

Baird's text also noted information regarding the effects of the Civil War, -- then just forty years past-- on the Order, and contemporary references to several of the fraternity chapter buildings that still exist today: "The Beta Chapter was declared extinct in 1853, and its members affiliated with the Alpha. The Gamma and Theta disbanded. The Alpha has a fine chapter house in East Twenty-eighth Street, New York City.[43] The Epsilon has one of the most expensive chapter houses in the country,[44] forty thousand dollars having been given for that purpose by one of the members. The Kappa Chapter is generally repudiated by the fraternity, but its official existence was recognized in the catalogue draft of 1876. The Southern Chapters were killed by the war, and only the Phi and Upsilon were revived at its close. The Lambda owns a chapter house[45], and the Iota and one or two others have building funds." (1879 text, from Wikisource.)

See also

• List of collegiate secret societies
• [46] Reference in 1873 volume "University Record (University of Pennsylvania), p. 13, 2nd column, under section "Secret Fraternities", eight unnamed members.
• Robbins, Alexandra. Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. Back Bay Books, 2003. ISBN 0-316-73561-2 o

There are numerous collegiate secret societies at American and Canadian colleges and universities. ...

External links

• St. Anthony Hall National Website