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152 AMERICAN COLLEGE FRATERNITIES.

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engraved a book, upon which was perched a golden raven,

and below the

letters

"$9W"

It

was abolished by the

faculty in 1875.

DELTA BETA The second sophomore

society

XI.

founded on the ruins of

Alpha Sigma Phi, and claiming to be its legitimate successor. It was supported by D. K. E., and was abolished at the same time as its rival. Its badge was the same as that of

its

predecessor, with the substitution of the letters

"J//~" for "AXP."

KAPPA SIGMA THETA. The

first

Yale sophomore

society, organized in

It existed prosperously for nearly twenty years, class difficulty

tioned.

put an end to

its

Kappa Delta

menAmherst, and ab-

career at the time

It established a chapter at

sorbed the

1838.

when a

Phi, a local society at Wesleyan

the latter became a chapter of Psi Upsilon, and the former is now defunct. The society badge was a rectangle, upon which were engraved a head of Minerva and the letters

"K2B."

KAPPA DELTA

A

PHI.

society, founded at Wesleyan became a chapter of Kappa Sigma Theta in

sophomore-freshman

in 1838.

It

1841, and afterwards was merged into Psi U., as above stated.

EPSILON

A sophomore

GAMMA

SIGMA.

society at the University of California,

styling itself the

founded in 1876.

Alpha Chapter of the

State.

It

was