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...years before our Natural History Society was started by members of the classes of '37 and '38, there was founded at Williams College a secret society, Phi Beta Theta, which soon changed its title and became as the Williams Lyceum of Natural History, a society for the study of natural science. It is the oldest college scientific society in America and will be represented in the course of lectures the Harvard Society is giving by Dr. Samuel F. Clarke, professor of biology at Williams, the lecturer of to-night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/9/1887 | See Source »

...board have invited a number of the 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 4/1/1887 | See Source »

...members of Theta Delta Phi, to which fraternity Edward F Dillon of Dartmouth College, a victim of the railroad accident, belonged, and delegations from his class and the college at large, attended Dillon's funeral at Springfield, Vt., yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/9/1887 | See Source »

...chapter of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity is being established in Brown University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/18/1885 | See Source »

...club, the Holmes Club of the Law School, seems to have perished; at least it does not appear with the other clubs of its kind. The Theta Delta Chi has taken a policy exactly opposite to that of last year, for it announces only the members of the Society instead of only the officers. The societies for study and investigation in general, show marked progress by their increased list of membership. The Dining Association in particular, which may be regarded as an investigating society sui generis, has increased in numbers. The 740 of last year has become 753, the maximum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Index for 1885-86. | 11/30/1885 | See Source »

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