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Originally posted by CutiePie2000
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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well let's see... i don't know alot about the philomathean society, but, this is what i do know
it was started by a roommate of one of our founders of adpi, i'm not sure of what kind of relationship they had, but she was never involved with adpi.
while our first badge were satin ribbands of azure blue and white with adelphean society and "we live for each other" written on them, when coming up with a design for our more familiar badge, the philomathean founders were also trying to come up with a badge at the same time, and the founders of each org ended up consulting the same professor. the prof suggested, "make one a diamond and one a square" which is how each was influenced with our diamonds and phi mu's quatrefoils...
as for the lions i know that alphie (our lion mascot) wasn't adopted until later on so that wasn't something they had in common from the very beginning, although i guess both orgs had lions in their coat of arms from the beginning, but i don't think that is uncommon since lions are fairly common in a heraldic coat of arms and expressed an aspect of each org...
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