![]() ![]() The faculty’s opposition recently took the form of an edict that no teacher or instructor at the college should enter the hall of a sorority of which she is a member. According to the report:Ĭollege authorities are violently opposed to sororities. The August 1912 Adelphean told of the resignation on the organization’s Historian, Newell Mason, a Wesleyan faculty member. Wesleyan’s website mentions concerns in the early 1900s about “the impact the sororities were having on the student body.” The early 1900s was when the two societies took on Greek letters and it would seem that the faculty was against this move. The final interment will take place this commencement with the passing of the nineteen seventeen sisters.” What happen between 1904 when Phi Mu took on Greek letters and 1917 when the Veterropt, Wesleyan’s yearbook, noted “sororities are dead” at the college? They “passed away very suddenly in the spring of nineteen fourteen, and for three long years they have been lying in state in their respective halls. It was followed by a chapter of Delta Delta Delta in 1913. That year a chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha was installed on the campus. It took on Greek letters in 1904 and became a member of NPC in 1911. Phi Mu was founded as the Philomathean Society in 1852. It took on Greek letters in 1905 and joined what it today the National Panhellenic Conference in 1909. Yet by 1918, neither organization had an active chapter at the college.Īlpha Delta Pi was founded as the Adelphean Society in 1851. The 1918-19 catalogue of Wesleyan College states “No student under any circumstances will be allowed to join a sorority or other secret society.” Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, was the founding home of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Mu.
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