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The Sigma Chi house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, c. 1905. Sigma Chi was founded in 1855 by Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis Lockwood, Isaac M. Jordan, Daniel William Cooper, Franklin Howard Scobey, and James Parks Caldwell as the result of a disagreement over who would be elected Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society of Miami University in Ohio.
Phi Mu (ΦΜ) is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. The fraternity was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia as the Philomathean Society on January 4, 1852 , and was announced publicly on March 4 of the same year.
Sigma Tau Phi: ΣΤΦ: 1918 – 1947: University of Pennsylvania: National 0 Merged [q] [r] Tau Delta Mu: ΤΔΜ: 1920 –19xx ? City University of New York: National 0 Inactive [6] [s] Tau Delta Phi: ΤΔΦ: June 10, 1910: New York City, New York: NIC: National 5 Active [1] [t] Tau Epsilon Phi: ΤΕΦ: October 10, 1910: Columbia University ...
This is the list of chapters and colonies of Phi Mu, a National Panhellenic Conference sorority, in order of formation. In some cases a naming convention appears to utilize a first letter indicative of a state or region, thus many Pennsylvania chapter designations begin with "Phi"; however there are some exceptions to this rule where a name was derived from a predecessor local.
Tau is usually considered as the symbol of Franciscan orders due to St. Francis' love for it, symbol of the redemption and of the Cross. Almost all Franciscan churches have painted a tau with two crossing arms, both with stigmata , the one of Jesus and the other of Francis; members of the Secular Franciscan Order usually wear a wooden τ in a ...
Sigma Nu chapter house in Eugene, Oregon, 1906 University of Colorado chapter house, 2002 Stanford University chapter house University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter house. The fraternity was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlvaine Riley shortly after Hopkins witnessed what he considered a hazing ritual by upperclassmen at the Virginia Military Institute.
In November 2015, eight NPC members (Alpha Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Mu, Alpha Gamma Delta, Sigma Delta Tau, Delta Phi Epsilon, Delta Gamma, and Gamma Phi Beta) broke ranks from the NPC to withdraw their support for the Safe Campus Act, a controversial bill that would have required campus sexual assault victims to report to police and submit to ...
The two letters tau and rho can be found separately (not in ligature) as symbols already on early Christian ossuaries. [6] Tertullian (Contra Marcionem 3.22) explains the Tau as a symbol of salvation by identification with the sign which in Ezekiel 9:4 was marked on the forehead of the saved ones. [3]