Page:BairdsmanualofAmericancollegefrate8.pdf/27

Rh placed the Beta chapter of New York at Hamilton College. This move probably resulted one year later in the foundation of ΑΔΦ at that college. in November, 1833, ΨΥ was founded at Union, and ΚΑ established a chapter at Williams, being followed one year later at the same place by ΣΦ. Here they found a new rival in the shape of an anti-secret society called the Social Fraternity, and which has since united with other similar organizations to form ΔΥ. In 1837 the Mystical Seven fraternity, not Greek in name but similar otherwise, originated at Wesleyan. ΑΔΦ's second chapter was established at Miami in 1835, and in 1839 the first fraternity organized west of the AlleghaniesAlleghenies [sic], ΒΘΠ, was founded there. A fifth Union society, ΧΨ, was formed in 1841. This same year, the first fraternity chapter in the South was placed at Emory College, in Georgia, by the Mystical Seven, and the second one by the same fraternity in 1844, at Franklin College, no the University of Georgia; but this extension in the South does not seem to have been the immediate cause of the foundation of any new societies, unless the origin of the now defunct Rainbow Society be traced to this as a cause. ΑΔΦ placed a chapter at Yale in 1836 and ΨΥ planted a rival chapter there in 1839, and soon became firmly established.

ΔΚΕ was founded at Yale in 1844, and immediately placed branch chapters in other colleges. In 1847, the first New York City fraternity, ΖΨ, was founded at the University of the City of New York, and the same year ΔΨ originated simultaneously at the same university and Columbia College, while Union College witnessed the