Eclectic Society (fraternity)

rdf:langString Eclectic Society (fraternity)

rdf:langString Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta

rdf:langString Wesleyan University of Middletown, CT

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rdf:langString August 2019

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rdf:langString Cooperative living

rdf:langString The Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta (ΦΝΘ) was originally a college fraternity at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and as such was one of the oldest fraternal collegiate organizations in the United States. In the 1970s the alumni and active members split; the building was sold to the university, and the Eclectic organization continued in the form of a co-ed cooperative living space, now sharing the building with Wesleyan's dance organization, Movement House. In recent years the organization has dropped use of its Greek letters. The Eclectic society of Phi Nu Theta was founded by: * Herman Merrills Johnson * Jonathan Coe * Joshua Newhall * Clark Titus Hinman * Chester Dormund Hubbard The five founders met by appointment on September 13, 1838 to elect and initiate themselves on that date. (Chandler Robbins was also elected that night but was initiated a week later.) The early Wesleyan societies adopted English names, and not Greek ones; but Eclectic quickly adopted a motto, the Greek initials of which are Phi Nu Theta, and the society operated under both names. The society has always claimed an 1837 foundation for itself, for reasons understood by the members, although no advocate of the society has refuted the accepted date of the founding meeting, which is held to have taken place in late 1838. Eclectic was Wesleyan's second fraternity, after the Mystical 7. In the 1850s a Beta chapter existed for ten years at Ohio Wesleyan University and a Gamma chapter enjoyed a month's existence at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, but both succumbed to the perturbations accompanying the Civil War or to anti-fraternity sentiment among faculty members. There were long discussions about a chapter at Genesee College which proved unfruitful. Thereafter, the only chapter was the Alpha chapter at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

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