History Īccording to Baird's, the Alpha chapter of the Fraternity of Delta Psi was founded at Columbia University in Januby John Hone Anthon, Sam. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, and Tom Wolfe. Anthony Hall have appeared in the works of F. In 1879, William Raimond Baird's American College Fraternities characterized the fraternity as having 'the reputation of being the most secret of all the college societies.' A modern writer says the fraternity is 'a cross between Skull and Bones and a Princeton eating club, with a large heaping of Society and more than a dash of Animal House.' Nearly all chapters of St. The fraternity is a non–religious, nonsectarian organization. Its first chapter was founded at Columbia University on January 17, 1847, the feast day of Saint Anthony the Great. Anthony Hall or the Fraternity of Delta Psi is an American fraternity and literary society.
From University of Pennsylvania Record, 1873