Episode 2 of 2
Rediscovery and Reorganization
- When
- 1854
- Where
- Princeton University
- Part of
- Chi Phi founded at Princeton
In 1854, undergraduates discovered the old constitution and reorganized the society into a social fraternity, disregarding its original religious purpose.
John Maclean Jr. and other undergraduates discovered the records of the original 1824 society. They emphasized the social aspects and disregarded the religious purpose, reorganizing the group into the modern Greek letter fraternity. The names of the 1824 founders were unknown to these 1854 founders.
Sources
- Chi Phi Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-02
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