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Originally posted by honeychile
I live fairly near Washington & Jefferson, and we were driving through campus the other night. For the life of me, I could not remember which two fraternities were founded there (let alone whether it was a college or a university!)! Any help there?

As queequek said, Phi Gamma Delta is one with the other being Phi Kappa Psi.

The "Jefferson Duo"

During the years proceeding the founding of fraternities at Jefferson College, Canonsbrug, PA, two literary societies existed at Jefferson. These were known as Franklin and Philo. Both were founded last in 1797 and heated oratorical contest typified the keen rivalry that existed between them. Phi Gamma Delta was founded in May of 1848 from the Franklin Society.

Four years after the founding of Phi Gamma Delta, an epidemic of typhoid fever struck the student body at Jefferson College and those who were not prostrated by the disease ministered to their comrades. The warm friendships formed among certain men in such trying times ripened into the sentiment which lead to the founding, in 1852, of Phi Kappa Psi, the only other fraternity existing today which had its origins at old Jefferson. These two-Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Kappa Psi- comprise the famed "Jefferson Duo." A third fraternity, Kappa Phi Lambda, also had its genesis at old Jefferson College, where it was established in 1862, spreading to nine other colleges. The fraternity became extinct in 1874.