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 Phi Sigma Kappa is a
fraternity devoted to three cardinal principles:
the promotion of Brotherhood, the stimulation of Scholarship, and the
development of Character. It was founded on March 15, 1873 by Jabez
William Clay, Frederick George Campbell, Joseph Franklin Barrett, Xenos
Young Clark, William Penn Brooks, and Henry Hague at Massachusetts
Agricultural College in Amherst (now the University of Massachusetts.)
Phi Sigma Kappa merged with Phi Sigma Epsilon in 1985 in what was the
largest merger in the fraternal world. Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst-now the University of Massachusetts-is the setting for the founding of Phi Sigma Kappa. Among its other students in the early 1870s it had attracted six men of varied backgrounds, ages, abilities and goals in life, who saw the need for a new and different kind of society on campus. These, the Founders, banded together in their sophomore year (1873) to form a "society to promote morality, learning and social culture."  The
six founders were typically active college students, members of
literary and academic societies and athletic groups, editors of campus
publications. Hague and Brooks even ran the college store. On March 15,
1873, they met in secret. Brooks had already prepared a constitution
and symbolism, and Hague had designed a ritual. The first meeting
seemed destined to succeed, for the individuals all had done their work
well. The ritual has been changed only six times since, and never
drastically. The symbolism and esoteric structure have never been
altered. Clay was elected president of the group-which for its first
five years had no name. Its cryptic characters could not be pronounced,
either, though Brooks recalled that outsiders referred to them as "T,
double T, T upside-down." Excerpt of information
as presented by Wikipedia
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