Exclusions and Obsolete Chapters
The Delta Psi Fraternity at the University of Vermont was founded in 1850 by Professor John Ellsworth Goodrich and was always unrelated It also is apparently only recently defunct.
In 1879, Baird's Manual (see Wikisource, the free library of source texts.), contained an extensive Delta Psi/St. Anthony Hall chapter list. Baird's characterized the organization, at that time, as having "the reputation of being the most secret of all the college societies."
Chapters at the end of the 19th century were: Alpha, Columbia College, 1847. Beta, New York University, 1847 (closed 1853). Gamma, Rutgers College, 1848 (closed 1850). Delta, Burlington College, 1849; transferred to Delta, University of Pennsylvania, 1854. Epsilon, Trinity College (Connecticut), 1850. Eta, South Carolina College, 1850 (closed 1861). Theta, Princeton College, 1851 (closed 1863). Iota, University of Rochester, 1851 (closed 1895). Kappa, Brown University, 1852 (closed 1853). Lambda, Williams College, 1853 (closed 1969). Sigma, Randolph-Macon College, 1853 (closed 1861). Xi, North Carolina University, 1851 (closed 1863). Psi, Cumberland University, 1858 (closed 1861). Phi, University of Mississippi, 1855. Upsilon, University of Virginia, 1860. Sigma, Sheffield Scientific School (i.e. Yale), 1868. Theta, Washington-Lee University, 1869.
Baird's 1999 edition amends the last listing for Washington and Lee as Beta (defunct).
The Xi Chapter was re-founded in 1926, as was the Phi Chapter, which had become extinct in 1912. The Kappa Chapter at Brown University was re-founded in 1983, the Theta Chapter was re-founded at Princeton University in 1986, and the Iota Chapter was re-founded at the University of Rochester in 2010.
The 1999 edition of Baird's appeared unaware of the re-founding of Theta, erroneously listing that as Theta's last year.
Baird's text also noted information regarding the effects of the Civil War, – then just forty years past—on the Order, and contemporary references to several of the fraternity chapter buildings that still exist today: "The Beta Chapter was declared extinct in 1853, and its members affiliated with the Alpha. The Gamma and Theta disbanded. The Alpha has a fine chapter house in East Twenty-eighth Street, New York City. The Epsilon has one of the most expensive chapter houses in the country, $40,000 having been given for that purpose by one of the members. The Kappa Chapter is generally repudiated by the fraternity, but its official existence was recognized in the catalogue draft of 1876. The Southern Chapters were closed by the war, and only the Phi and Upsilon were revived at its close. The Lambda owns a chapter house, and the Iota and one or two others have building funds." (1879 text, from Wikisource.)
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