Volume 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Social fraternities have existed on American college and university campuses since the eighteenth century. The first Greek letter society was organized on the Northwestern campus in 1859, just four years after the first students arrived on campus. That early chapter of Phi Delta Theta disappeared with the coming of the Civil War, but with the organization of chapters of Phi Kappa Psi in 1864, Sigma Chi in 1869, Phi Kappa Sigma in 1872, and Beta Theta Pi in 1873, fraternities became an...