Hi there,
I was wondering a few things about Alpha Delta Pi (started out as "The Adelphean Society") and Phi Mu (started out as "The Philomathean Society"), partly because I noticed several commonalities:
1) Both were founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia and within a very short time period of each other
(ADPi in 1851, Phi Mu in 1852)
2) Both have the lion as their mascot.
So, my question is....
did any members of The Adelphean Society "defect" and start up The Philomathean Society?
I was just wondering.....
ADPi's and Phi Mu's, if you have any interesting historical information from your New Member Education materials, I would be interested to hear it. Thanks!
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PS This is a bit of a stretch, but I can sort of see "common themes" in the their badges, too...(please disregard the very first one...it was stuck in the jpg):
