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Three Jewish students, upset at any idea of religious discrimination, would found the non-sectarian (no discrimination against race, religion, or color) Pi Lambda Phi at Yale University in 1895. On the other end of the spectrum, fourteen students would form the Z.B.T. Society (later Zeta Beta Tau ) in 1898 which was only open to Jewish students.
Open to men and women. There were 2,500 members in the late 1890s. The order claimed to be non-sectarian and its ritual "teaches strength in union, justice to all, and protection through fraternity." Paid death benefits from $500 to $1,000 and weekly sick benefits from $2.50 to $20. [383] It had probably disbanded by 1923. [384]
Delta Theta Tau (ΔΘΤ) is a North American service sorority that is community based and non-collegiate. It was founded on October 16, 1903, in Muncie, Indiana. Delta Theta Tau was the first non-sectarian sorority. [1] [2] Its members are only required to "believe in a higher power."
Scandinavian Fraternity of America - Founded in 1915 as the consolidation of three other groups including the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America, which had been founded in 1894. Membership began to decline in the 1980s, dropping from 37 lodges in 1983 to 28 in 1985.
It was founded as the first nonsectarian fraternity, "a fraternity in which all men were brothers, no matter what their religion; a fraternity in which ability, open-mindedness, farsightedness, and a progressive, forward-looking attitude would be recognized as the basic attributes."
This page deals with the development of a coordinated system of college fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada. These organizations coordinate their activities among themselves, through inter-organizational groups, like the National Interfraternity Conference, and at many colleges and universities through university administrative staff assigned to coordinate activities.
Zeta Beta Tau (ΖΒΤ) is a Greek-letter social fraternity based in North America. It was founded on December 29, 1898. Originally a Zionist youth society, its purpose changed from the Zionism of the fraternity's early years when, in 1954, the fraternity became non-sectarian and open to non-Jewish members, changing its membership policy to include "All Men of Good Character" regardless of ...
In 1954, the membership of the fraternity reached 11,132. [4] Phi Epsilon Pi was the first fraternity to appropriate funds for activities outside of its own organization, with the creation of an endowment of $10,000 in 1925 to fund scholarships at the National Agricultural College in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The interest from this fund paid ...