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...present senior class to unite with them in reviving Chi Delta Theta, an ancient literary society which led an active existence during the second quarter of this century. It was originally designed to include those in each senior class who had attained literary eminence, but when the society became defunct, about the year 1845, its badge and traditions were handed down to the successive boards of editors of the "Lit." It is hoped that its reorganization, upon its ancient basis, may go far towards reviving the literary spirit at this University, the lack of which has, of late years, been...
Three months later, in May of the same year, the "Advocate" made its first appearance in the college arena. It was founded by the old editors of the defunct "Collegian," with the co-operation of two or three others. Its struggle for existence was at first a hard one, but it gradually grew in popularity and is now on a firm basis...
Students living in Weld were astonished at receiving yesterday, the last number of the defunct Harvard Register...
...societies which draw their membership principally to the Eastern States. The first of the Greek letter organizations, the venerable Phi Beta Kappa, was established at William and May, Dec. 5, 1776. There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct, as is now the college itself. Twenty-two chapters now exist, being, in the order of the establishmen, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Union, Bowdoin, Brown, Trinity, Weslyan, Adelbert, Vermont, Amherst, University City of New York, Kenyon, Williams, College City of New York, Middlebury, Coumbia, Rutgers, Hamilton, Hobart, Madison, Cornell. Long before...
...beginning of the present academic year the Harvard Natural History Society was in an almost defunct condition. There had been for many years a lack of interest in the society and its work, and the few spasmodic attempts at revival, which from time to time had taken place, had come to naught...