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Rh faculty be permitted to inspect its constitution and records, the chapter offered to and did admit to membership the president of the college, averting the opposition of the college authorities.

The Brunonian chapter was suspended in 1838 on account of the prejudice against initiating lower classmen. It was revived in 1851. The Harvard chapter was established on a literary basis, its earliest members being the editors of the college monthly. It ceased to exist in 1865 on account of the existing opposition to the secret societies and was succeeded by the "A. D. Club." The chapter was revived in 1879 and again withdrawn in 1907 at the instance of its own members, who found it difficult to fulfill their obligations to the fraternity and at the same time conform to the customs of the Club system at Harvard. The members formed the "Fly Club."

The charter of the Geneva chapter was withdrawn in 1876, at its own request, on account of the decline in the number of eligible students in attendance at that time. The Hudson chapter, founded by Samuel Eells and named after the town in which the university was formerly located, was the first one established at Western Reserve. The Dartmouth chapter sprang from a local society called ΤΔΘ, which originated in 1842. The Peninsular chapter was the third chapter organized at Ann Arbor, and passed through all the vicissitudes of the conflict between the faculty and the students, known as the "fraternity war." The chapter at Rochester was originally at Colgate (then Madison) University where it existed, however, less than a year. Soon after its establishment a large number of