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10 largely in the direction of the organization of societies bearing Greek names among students in the departments of law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, etc., attached to educational institutions wherein the general fraternities have secured a foothold. This class of societies has developed greatly within the past few years, and they are securing a firm foothold in some professions.

Within the past decade also many so-called honorary societies have made their appearance, these being societies with Greek names inviting members on a basis of excellence in scholarship or professional attainment.

Another development of the Greek-letter idea has been among the students of preparatory schools and academies. It is not the purpose of this work to describe such societies in detail.

The important fraternities are those which are located in the undergraduate literary or scientific departments of the colleges and universities, and it is to this field that we have designedly confined our efforts.

The first of the women's Greek-letter fraternities was ΚΑΘ, founded at DePauw University in 1870. The same year ΚΚΓ was founded at Monmouth, Ill. ΔΓ originated at Oxford, Miss., in 1872, and ΑΦ at Syracuse at nearly the same time. ΓΦΒ followed ΑΦ at Syracuse