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54 the professors and students left Madison and went to Rochester, where they established the University of Rochester. A majority of the new chapter located at the new seat of learning under the name of the Empire chapter, which was changed to Rochester in 1870.

The Alabama chapter was killed by anti-fraternity laws in 1857. Under the advice of its graduate members a chapter was founded at Cumberland University in 1857, where it was killed by the war. The Williams chapter has a fine memorial library, the gift of one of its members. The Manhattan chapter was established at what was then called the New York Free Academy. For many years it maintained a summer camp at Lake George called "Camp Manhattan." It became inactive in 1913, The Middletown chapter was formed from two societies at Wesleyan, one called the Betrian, organized in 1849, and another called the Lebanian, organized in 1854.

The Union chapter was derived from a local society called the "Fraternal Society," founded in 1833, and the Phi Kappa chapter from a similar society at Trinity, whose name it bears, The younger chapters were formed mainly from local societies organized for the expressed purpose of obtaining charters.The Wisconsin chapter was a local called ΦΡΒ, California ΦΣΔ and Illinois ΠΘ.

While there are strictly speaking, no alumni chapters, yet the alumni have formed graduate associations at Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Albany, Buffalo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington and elsewhere. At New York City they maintain a club, composed exclusively of