![]() ![]() The society was known to its members as the Eulogian Club: eulogia is Greek for “a blessing” and is applied in ecclesiastical usage to the object blessed. They seem to have made a deliberate attempt at diversity the eight included the only two members of the Class of 1833 from the Western states (Ohio and Illinois), and also two of the class’s seven members hailing from Southern states. ![]() They invited eight classmates to join them. (Alphonso, his son William Howard noted in a speech given at Yale in 1909, had been so determined on a quality college education that he “walked from Vermont to Amherst College, Mass, and then he heard there was a larger college at New Haven, and he walked there.”) Russell, Taft, and their four cofounders were all Phi Beta Kappa. He was joined as a founder by Alphonso Taft, future father of US president William Howard Taft, Class of 1878. The conception seems to have been that of the 1833 valedictorian, class orator, and secretary of Phi Beta Kappa, William Huntington Russell. It was a single forbidding, windowless block in Egypto-Doric style. “Tomb” was the name it attracted when it was built in 1856, and a tomb is what it resembled, even more so than in its current remodeled state. But the oldest fraternity house still standing is the Skull and Bones tomb in New Haven, on High Street near the corner of Chapel. The first fraternity house built in the United States was a log cabin erected in 1855 by Delta Kappa Epsilon at Kenyon College in Ohio. In nineteenth-century America, college fraternities were called “secret societies,” and they met in windowless buildings constructed for the purpose. View full image The New Haven Museum The Skull and Bones tomb as it appeared in its original configuration, with just one rectangular, windowless block. J.Library of Congress The Skull and Bones building, the oldest US fraternity house still standing, is shown here in the early twentieth century, with the entrance and right-hand block that were added in 1903. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United Statesĭigital image copyright 2007, University of Utah. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s, 800 pixels in width, 15 to 1 compression rate. Originals scanned at 400ppi on an Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner. July 2019Ĭollege yearbooks University of Utah-Periodicals The yearbooks are presented as they were originally created and have not been edited or censored-to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices and biases never existed. Insensitive and offensive portrayals of race and gender were wrong at the time these publications were originally printed, and they are wrong today. In some cases, these publications contain insensitive and offensive language and imagery that does not represent the views or values of the University of Utah. These documents contain facts and milestones about the history of the University of Utah. The University of Utah has made former and current yearbooks from various campus entities available in print and via its digital library archive. Request archival file or update item information Title ![]()
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