6/15/2023 0 Comments The secret society the leagueYet again, Gardiner finds himself on a journey across the world to uncover the ancient secrets of the world’s most powerful men. It had some very fine fellows in it, but many of them were hard cases and were always the foremost in the college rows.Īll these societies have beautiful badges of gold, and when a new member is initiated and puts on one of these badges he is said to have “swung out.” Their expenses are very heavy, and their dues must be large.With his recent best-selling books and hundreds of articles, as well as radio and TV appearances, Philip Gardiner has started a crusade for uncovering the truth, and nothing could be more indicative of that search than his latest foray into the dark and often sinister world of secret societies. It was fast declining, and finally gave up the ghost. Most of its members belonged to the Zelo. The Phi Kappa Sigma has now no chapter here, it having died out about the beginning of the war. They are very noisy in their room, much to the disgust of the Young Mens’ Christian Association which has its rooms in the second story of the same building. It has a very large chapter, and has the fast set of college. The Delta Psi had its rooms in Chestnut St., above 10th, North side. It is very exclusive, and is confined to the “upper ten” of the college. It is a very numerous and powerful society throughout the United States and the chapter here is very aristocratic and rich. The Delta Phi has its rooms in Chestnut St. They seem to be very wealthy, and in our class had the two highest honors. In order to obtain control of the Philomathean Society, most of them joined it and worked its ruin. They have a powerful chapter, but their members are almost all “babyish” in their character. The Zeta Psi Fraternity have for a long time had their rooms at 10th and Chestnut, S.E. They have got the upper hand of the literary societies but since the Zelo has formed this League, and the rooms are open at College every day, much of their thunder is stolen. They all vote for their own men, and often unite to prevent non-secret society men from succeeding in obtaining any office. There is no doubt but that these societies rule the college in all class elections. Still they have some advantages, and serve to inculcate social feeling among their members but I do not like the splitting up of classes into little cliques. They are in many cases very prejudicial to the standing of the student in college and are condemned by the faculty. Besides being the cause of much waste of time they are very detrimental to the morals of their members, as there generally is a great deal of dissipation connected with them. They have rooms in Chestnut Street, for which they pay high rents, and where they spend much time. In some colleges they may have a literary character, but in this city they are merely social clubs. They have chapters in many colleges and their organization is similar to that of the Free Masons. These societies are known by Greek Letters, which stand for some word unknown to any but the initiated. There were four “Greek Letter” or “secret societies” at the college when I entered. This, the earliest description of fraternities at the University of Pennsylvania, is excerpted from the diary of George D.
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