Zeta Psi and Related Topics

The fraternity system in North America began at the College of William and Mary in 1755.

Fraternities and sororities

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Fraternities and sororities, also referred to as Greek-letter organizations (GLOs) or, collectively, as "Greek life" in North America and the Philippines, are social organizations at colleges and universities.

The Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter house at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Wesleyan College, a women's college in Macon, Georgia, was the birthplace of Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu sororities. Image circa 1877.

U.S. Air Force, Airmen, presumably members of Sigma Phi Epsilon, display that fraternity's flag in Iraq in 2009.

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity members with Georgia Air National Guard Col. Ato Crumbly at a protest in Atlanta, June 2020

The chapter house of Alpha Delta Phi at Cornell University

The Alpha Sigma Phi chapter house at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Members of Phi Kappa Sigma at Washington & Jefferson College in 1872

A dramatized depiction of a fraternity initiation ritual

Ronald Reagan was initiated into Tau Kappa Epsilon at Eureka College. George H.W. Bush joined Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale University.

A depiction of fraternity hazing from the early 20th century

Members of the Miami University chapter of Sigma Chi, including founders Benjamin Piatt Runkle and Daniel William Cooper plus an unidentified woman, pose for a photograph at a 1909 reunion.

In 1879, Zeta Psi established a chapter at the University of Toronto.

McGill University

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English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

James McGill, the original benefactor of McGill University.

The first Principal of McGill College, The Rt. Rev. Dr. George Mountain

Sir John William Dawson, Principal of McGill University, 1855–1893

The Arts Building, completed in 1843 and designed by John Ostell, is the oldest building on campus

McGill University and Mount Royal, 1906, Panoramic Photo Company

The Second University Company prior to their departure for France

Stained Glass Great War Memorial entrance to the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art

The recently renovated McTavish Street is a critical artery connecting the lower campus to the upper campus

Roddick Gates act as the main entrance to the downtown campus

Built in 1892, Old Chancellor Day Hall houses the Faculty of Law

A hockey game on campus in 1884, just seven years after McGill students wrote the then-new game's first rule book, with the Arts Building, Redpath Museum, and Morrice Hall (then the Presbyterian College) visible

Solin Hall, situated in Saint-Henri near Lionel-Groulx station, serves as an off-campus apartment-style dorm.

Macdonald Campus under construction in 1906

The newly built McGill University Health Centre at the Glen Site

Parc Rutherford at night. The Genome Building (left), Wong Building (middle), and McTavish Reservoir (right) are seen in the background.

The laboratory of Rutherford, early 20th century

Radon, discovered at McGill by physicist Ernest Rutherford

The Falcon, a statue outside of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, part of the McLennan–Redpath Library Complex

Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, also a library, sits adjacent to the old Strathcona Music Building

PhD candidates march at Commencement in McGill's distinctive scarlet regalia.

Opening of the Student Union building, 1906

McGill announces new name for men's varsity sports teams

3rd prime minister of Canada Sir John Abbott (BCL, 1847).

7th prime minister of Canada Sir Wilfrid Laurier (BCL, 1864).

Inventor of the game of basketball James Naismith (BA, 1887).

Co-inventor of the charge-coupled device and Nobel prize laureate in Physics Willard Boyle (BSc, 1947; MSc 1948; PhD 1950).

Emmy Award winner known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk in the Star Trek franchise William Shatner (BComm, 1952).

Balzan Prize winner, referred to as "the founder of neuropsychology" Brenda Milner (PhD, 1952)

Grammy Award winner and poet Leonard Cohen (BA, 1955).

6th President of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (PhD, 1965).

48th Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif (PhD, 1983).

Former astronaut and 29th governor general of Canada Julie Payette (BEng, 1986).

Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio (BEng, 1986; MSc, 1988; PhD, 1991).

The current and 23rd prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau (BA, 1994).

Former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières Joanne Liu (MDCM, 1991; IMHL, 2014).

The Greek system at McGill is made up of eleven fraternities and five sororities, including fraternities Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Lambda Phi, Kappa Alpha Society, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Pi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi and Zeta Psi, and sororities Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Rutgers University

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Public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

Old Queens, the oldest building at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, built between 1809 and 1825. Old Queens houses much of the Rutgers University administration.

Oil painting of Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist, Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), early benefactor and namesake of Rutgers University

Placed on the western end of Voorhees Mall, a bronze statue of William the Silent commemorates the university's Dutch heritage.

The Honors College at Rutgers–New Brunswick

New Jersey Hall on the New Brunswick College Avenue Campus was the home of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Biology and Chemistry faculty. It now houses the university's Department of Economics.

The Digital Studies Center and Johnson Park at Rutgers University-Camden

The Archibald S. Alexander Library is the main library at Rutgers University-New Brunswick

An art library on the College Avenue campus

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on Hamilton Street in New Brunswick

The Rutgers Quad Clock on College Avenue

Prof. Selman A. Waksman (B.Sc. 1915), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing 22 antibiotics—most notably Streptomycin—in his laboratory at Rutgers University

The Rutgers Tomato growing at a New Jersey greenhouse

The Voorhees Chapel is a notable landmark on the Douglass campus at Rutgers. Douglass was founded as an all-women's college in 1918, but now houses co-ed dormitories

330 Cooper student housing at the Camden campus

Demarest Hall dormitory on the New Brunswick campus

The Rutgers College football team in 1882

The Rutgers Men's Varsity Eight rowing on the Raritain River

SHI Stadium is home to Scarlet Knights football.

Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman received his B.A. from Rutgers in 1932.

James Gandolfini, star of HBO's The Sopranos received his B.A. from Rutgers-New Brunswick in 1983.

Senator Elizabeth Warren received her JD from Rutgers Law School at the Newark campus in 1976.

Shield used by the university for academic processions

Chapters of Zeta Psi and Delta Phi organized at Rutgers as early as 1845.

University of Toronto

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Public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

Charter granted by King George IV in 1827, establishing King's College.

A Sopwith Camel aircraft rests on the Front Campus lawn in 1918.

Soldiers' Tower, a memorial to alumni fallen in the World Wars, contains a 51-bell carillon.

The neoclassical Convocation Hall is characterized by its domed roof and Ionic-pillared rotunda.

Old Vic, the main building of Victoria College, typifies the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

The Sandford Fleming Building contains offices of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

The Munk School of Global Affairs encompasses programs and research institutes for international relations.

The Naylor Building contains offices for the university's Department of Medicine.

Robarts Library, a Brutalist structure, houses the university's main collection for humanities and social sciences.

The AeroVelo Atlas won the Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition in 2013.

The discovery of stem cells by McCulloch and Till is the basis for all modern stem cell research.

The Donnelly Centre is part of the Discovery District, one of the world's largest biotechnology research clusters.

The University of Toronto Rowing Club trains in Toronto Harbour for the 1924 Summer Olympics. The team won silver for Canada.

Generations of students have attended speeches, debates and concerts at Hart House.

Sunlight fills Knox College Chapel during a Christmas concert of the engineering faculty's Skule Choir.

21 Sussex Court holds office space for several student organizations, like The Varsity newspaper.

Teefy House, a residence hall of St. Michael's College, is home to female first-year undergraduate students.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history with over 21 years in office, BA, MA

Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Prime Minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957, BA

Paul Martin, 21st Canadian Prime Minister, LLB

John Kenneth Galbraith, noted economist and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, B.Sc.(Agr.)

John Charles Fields, mathematician and the founder of the prestigious Fields Medal

Harold Innis, professor of political economy, helped develop the staples thesis and the Toronto School of communication theory

Frederick Banting, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and the first person to use insulin on humans, MD

Roberta Bondar, CSA astronaut and the first Canadian female in space, PhD

Julie Payette, CSA astronaut and the 29th Governor General of Canada, MASc

Jennie Smillie Robertson, First female surgeon in Canada, MD

The University of Toronto is home to the first collegiate fraternity in Canada, Zeta Psi, whose Toronto chapter has been active since 1879.

University of Pennsylvania

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Private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Benjamin Franklin was the primary founder, benefactor, President of the board of trustees, and a trustee of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which merged with the University of the State of Pennsylvania to form the University of Pennsylvania in 1791 (Joseph Duplessis, c. 1785).

Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania

This statue of Benjamin Franklin, donated by Justus C. Strawbridge to the City of Philadelphia in 1899, now sits in front of College Hall.

Academy and College of Philadelphia (c. 1780), 4th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, proposed and started to be built in 1740 as home of a charity school (including Dormitory built 1762, sketch circa 1770), whose debts and inactive trusts were assumed in 1750 by a school that became the University of Pennsylvania and used for that purpose from 1751 to 1801.

1755 Charter creating the College of Philadelphia

House intended for the President of the United States from Birch's Views of Philadelphia (1800), home of the University of Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1829

Ticket to a lecture given by Penn Medical School Professor Benjamin Rush

Ninth Street Campus (above Chestnut Street) image of Medical Hall taken in 1872, just before Penn moved to West Philadelphia

Ninth Street Campus (above Chestnut Street) in stereographic image: Medical Hall (left) and College Hall (right), both built 1829–1830

View looking Southwest to "College Hall" and then Logan Hall from corner of 34th Street and Woodland Avenue to intersection of 36th Street, Woodland Avenue and Locust Street (with trolley tracks visible on Woodland Avenue) circa 1892

University of Pennsylvania campus map, West Philadelphia published in 1915 by Rand McNally

Illustration of University of Pennsylvania campus from a Brief Guide to Philadelphia (1918)

Penn's first purpose built dormitory, in the foreground to the right of the classroom building, was built in 1765

Psi Upsilon Fraternity a.k.a. The Castle

"The Upper Quad" (originally "The Triangle" or formally, "The Men's Dormitory"), taken from area near Brooks-Leidy portion (not visible in photo) of the Memorial Tower (dedicated in 1901 to the alumni who died in the Spanish-American War ) with the earliest buildings (including New York Alumni and Carruth) completed by 1895, now part of Fisher–Hassenfeld College House, facing to the left and buildings completed by 1906, now part of Ware College House, to the right of the tower.

Houston Hall, first college student union in United States

Franklin Institute's chief meteorologist, Dr. Jon Nese (left) and his production crew from WHYY-TV (right) pose in front of a portion of the original ENIAC computer, in the ENIAC museum on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.

1757 Seal of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

Franklin Field upon completion of 2nd tier in 1925.

Upper Quad Gate forming lower part of Memorial Tower (honoring the veterans of the Spanish American War)

View towards Center City Philadelphia over the University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District with Huntsman Hall in the foreground

Wistar Institute's 7-story steel and glass 2014 building located next to brick 1897 building, both on Penn's main historic campus on North side of Spruce Street between 36th and 37th streets

South Brook Farm (1st portion built in 1717 for Caleb Pusey), which University of Pennsylvania purchased in 1952 for its School of Veterinary Medicine (now known as New Bolton Center)

Fisher Fine Arts Library, also referred to as the Furness Library or simply the Fine Arts Library

1st floor Plan from 1891 for Penn's first stand alone library building as published in the Proceedings at the Opening of the University of Pennsylvania Library (1891)

Historic Interior of reading room of Penn's Fine Arts Library designed by Frank Furness

Simone Leigh creating (on February 26, 2019 in Philadelphia), a sculpture similar to her monumental 'Brick House' work.

June 2012 photo of the Covenant designed by artist Alexander Liberman and installed at Penn in 1975

March 2007 photo of Love created by Robert Indiana and installed in 1998 at Penn (as shown in photo, due South of Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity also known as 'Skulls')

Sculpture of Young Ben Franklin depicting Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia as a 17-year-old immigrant from Boston of Massachusetts Bay Colony

Sphinx of Ramses II at the great temple of Ptah in Memphis circa 1200 BC

Penn Museum's black granite statue of Goddess Sekhmet excavated in Thebes in Ramesseum 1405-1367 BCE (Late 18th Dynasty) Egypt

Institute of Contemporary Art (popularly known as the ICA) is located just South of the Graduate Towers (residence hall for graduate and professional students) at corner of 36th Street and Sansom Street

Hill College House (photo taken in October 2010), University of Pennsylvania dormitory, designed, in 1958 to (house and cloister only female students) and resemble a castle with a drawbridge and moat, by Eero Saarinen, FAIA (who also designed the St. Louis Arch, the former TWA Flight Center at New York City's Kennedy Airport, and Dulles Airport).

'The Quad', formerly known as The Men's Dormitory, in photo taken (looking West from 'Lower Quad' to 'Junior Balcony') on Ides of March in 2014

Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, built by George W. Childs Drexel as one of two mansions for his daughters

Smith Walk, view of Towne Building and Engineering Quad

Founded in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond, Pennsylvania Hospital is now part of University of Pennsylvania Health System and is the earliest established hospital in the United States, with the country's oldest surgical amphitheater.

Claudia Cohen Hall, formerly Logan Hall, home of the College of Arts and Sciences and former home of the Wharton School and originally, the medical school

ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, was born at Penn in 1946.

Julian Abele first African American graduate of University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States, to receive a law degree from Penn Law, and to practice law in Pennsylvania.

Alan L. Hart, MD, (on the right side of photo from EuroPride 2019 event) a Penn Med alumnus who was one of the first trans-men in United States to have a hysterectomy.

Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928) who was Penn provost from 1911 through 1920

Philomathean Society Graduation Diploma For Isaac Norton Jr., 1858.

the Philomathean Society Presidential library named after United States President and Penn Med alumnus William Henry Harrison

Penn Masala concert at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia

Maxfield Parrish's illustration of the winter 1895–1896 Mask and Wig program. Parrish also made mural and other art for Mask and Wig Clubhouse.

Mask and Wig Clubhouse (aka Welsh Coachhouse & Stable), 310 South Quince Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (stable built between 1843 and 1853, remodeled into clubhouse by Wilson Eyre Jr. 1894, altered by Eyre 1901), murals by Maxfield Parrish

1843 photo of University of Pennsylvania cricket team's first cricket ground, which was leased from the Union Club for regular periodic use by the Penn cricket team in 1846

George Patterson, president (in 1877) of University of Pennsylvania Cricket Team

Penn's eight-oared crew, 1901, first "foreign" crew to reach the final of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta

Joe Burk (Wharton class of 1934 and crew coach 1950–1969), named "world's greatest oarsman" in 1938

The 1878 Penn Rugby team (Note that there are 15 players (plus a coach in top hat), as rugby teams fielded sides of 15, and the elongated ellipsoidal rugby ball (i.e., a prolate spheroid), designed for lateraling to the side and back and kicking, as it was and is against the rules in rugby football to pass the ball forward).

John Heisman (Penn Law class of 1892) rugby football player, posing at Penn in 1891 holding elongated ellipsoidal rugby ball (using gestures very close to the now-famous "Heisman Pose" gestures where a player extends the arm out in a stiff arm motion, holds the ball close to their body, and, in action not shown by Heisman, lifts one knee up; gestures all legal under both rugby and, later, gridiron football codes) (from Oberlin College)

Lithograph of University of Pennsylvania Rugby player (notice the ellipsoidal shape of the prolate spheroid ball that makes forward passes difficult) created in 1907 by F. Earl Christy

USA Olympic rugby team playing French Olympic rugby team on May 18, 1924, in the final rugby game of 1924 Olympics where USA team, led by player coach and Penn alumnus, Alan Valentine, won the gold medal.

Franklin Field, home to football, field hockey, lacrosse and track and field

Chuck Bednarik (aka "Concrete Charlie") excelled as a center on offense and a linebacker on defense, was a three-time All-American, and was inducted to the College and Pro Halls of Fame.

Senior Mark Zoller cuts down part of net after Penn clinched Ivy League title and trip to NCAA Tournament with an 86–68 victory over Yale on March 2, 2007, at the Palestra

The winners of Men's Medley relay team that won Olympic gold medals at the 1908 London Olympics. Left to right, Nate Cartmell (University of Pennsylvania alumnus), John Taylor, (University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (class of 1908), first black athlete in America to win a gold medal, Mel Sheppard, and William Hamilton.

University of Pennsylvania Men's Track team that was the 1907 IC4A point winner: Left to right: Guy Haskins, R.C. Folwell, T.R. Moffitt, John Baxter Taylor, Jr. (the first black athlete in America to win a gold medal in the Olympics), Nathaniel Cartmell, and seated, J.D. Whitham

Alvin Kraenzlein (Penn Dental School class of 1900) four-time gold medal winner in track events at the 1900 Olympic Games

George Orton, MA (Penn's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences class of 1894), Ph.D. (Penn Graduate School class of 1896), who spoke 9 languages and won 17 U.S. National Track and Field titles, was the first disabled athlete to win an Olympic gold "medal" in 1900 Olympics in Paris.

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Francis Hopkinson, signed the Declaration of Independence and designed the first official American flag.

George Clymer, Founding Father; early advocate for complete independence from Britain

James Wilson, Founding Father; one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States

Benjamin Rush, Founding Father; surgeon general of the Continental Army

William Henry Harrison, 9th president of the United States

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States

Martha Hughes Cannon, first female state senator elected in the United States

Ed Rendell, 45th governor of Pennsylvania; 96th mayor of Philadelphia

Jon Huntsman Jr., politician, businessman, and diplomat

Arlen Specter, former U.S. senator, majored in international relations and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1951.

William Brennan Jr., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana, and previously first prime minister of Ghana

Drew Gilpin Faust, 28th president of Harvard University

Doc Holliday, famed gunslinger, attended the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery.

William Wrigley, Jr., founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company

Physician and poet William Carlos Williams graduated from Penn's School of Medicine

Ezra Pound, poet and critic; a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement

Noam Chomsky studied philosophy and linguistics at Penn, graduating with a BA in 1949, an MA in 1951 and a Ph.D. in 1955.

Warren Buffett, successful investor<ref>{{cite web|title=Ten great investors|url=http://www.incademy.com/courses/ten-great-investors/-warren-buffett/1/1040/10002|website=Incademy Investor Education|publisher=Harriman House Ltd.|access-date=November 20, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120201106/http://www.incademy.com/courses/ten-great-investors/-warren-buffett/1/1040/10002|archive-date=November 20, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Farrington |first=Robert |title=The top 10 investors of all time |url=http://thecollegeinvestor.com/972/the-top-10-investors-of-all-time/ |website=The College Investor |date=April 22, 2011 |access-date=November 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120150833/http://thecollegeinvestor.com/972/the-top-10-investors-of-all-time/ |archive-date=November 20, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

$Donald Arthur Norman, co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group,<ref name="FABBS-Norman">{{Cite web|url=https://fabbs.org/our_scientists/donald-norman-phd/|title=In Honor Of... Donald Norman |website=Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) |language=en|access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> an IDEO fellow, and researcher and advocate of user-centered design$

Elon Musk, a founder, CEO or both of all of: PayPal,<ref name="He Won't Back Down: Elon Musk">Preer, Robert (September 1, 2010). "He Won't Back Down: Elon Musk" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108055754/http://whartonmagazine.com/issues/fall-2010/he-wont-back-down/ |date=November 8, 2016}}, Wharton Magazine.</ref> Tesla,<ref name="knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu">"Entrepreneur Elon Musk: Why It's Important to Pinch Pennies on the Road to Riches" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714104730/http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/entrepreneur-elon-musk-why-its-important-to-pinch-pennies-on-the-road-to-riches/ |date=July 14, 2017}}, Knowledge@Wharton, May 27, 2009.</ref> SpaceX,<ref name="SpaceX Leadership: Elon Musk">SpaceX Leadership: Elon Musk {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140516101427/http://www.spacex.com/about/leadership |date=May 16, 2014}}, SpaceX, November 21, 2011.</ref> OpenAI, The Boring Company and Neuralink

Tory Burch, fashion designer and founder of Tory Burch LLC

John Legend, musician and recipient of Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

Stanley B. Prusiner, neurologist and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Christian B. Anfinsen, biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

I. M. Pei, Pritzker Prize-winning architect

1907 photo of University of Pennsylvania Cricket Team match against the Rugby School Cricket Team

Penn's Varsity 4 (in photo taken in 1913) with Strawberry Mansion Bridge in background

Nnamdi "Zik" Azikiwe, first President of Nigeria (October 1, 1963 – January 16, 1966)

Alassane Ouattara, President of Cote de Ivoire since 2010

Since Penn only had limited housing near campus and since students (especially the students at the medical school who) came from all over the country, the students elected to fend for themselves rather than live in housing owned by Penn trustees and good number chose housing by pledging and living in Penn's first fraternities (Delta Phi, Zeta Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, and Delta Psi).

Colby College

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Private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine.

The oldest known photograph of Colby, a daguerreotype taken in 1856 of the three central buildings on campus: South College, Recitation Hall, and North College

A map of the Old Colby Campus in Downtown Waterville, 1935

A special seal designed for the bicentennial celebration of the college in 2013

The Colby College Seal, c. 1899, reflecting the college's new name

The Colby College Seal, c. 1936, redesigned by William Addison Dwiggins

Pete Rouse, Acting White House Chief of Staff

Edward Gurney, U.S. Senator from Florida

Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian and political commentator

In 1845, the college's first Greek Society was formed, a chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, which was followed by chapters of Zeta Psi in 1850 and Delta Upsilon in 1852.

University of Chicago

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Private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

An early convocation ceremony at the University of Chicago.

Some of the University of Chicago team that worked on the production of the world's first human-caused self-sustaining nuclear reaction, including Enrico Fermi in the front row and Leó Szilárd in the second.

View of university building from the Harper Quadrangle.

Many older buildings of the University of Chicago employ Collegiate Gothic architecture like that of the University of Oxford. For example, Chicago's Mitchell Tower (left) was modeled after Oxford's Magdalen Tower (right).

The University of Chicago Main Quadrangles, looking north.

Harper Memorial Library was dedicated in 1912 and its architecture takes inspiration from various colleges in England.

Eckhart Hall houses the university's math department.

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, a private day school run by the university.

Aerial view of Fermilab, a science research laboratory co-managed by the University of Chicago.

University of Chicago building during fall.

Saieh Hall for Economics, housing the Department of Economics and the Becker Friedman Institute.

The university's Reynolds Club, the student center.

Max Palevsky Residential Commons, a dormitory completed in 2001 designed by postmodernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.

Qwazy Quad Rally, Scav Hunt 2005, item #38.

Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1947.

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Milton Friedman in 2004.

The archway between Bond Chapel and Swift Hall, home of the university's Divinity School

Snell-Hitchcock, an undergraduate dormitory constructed in the early 20th century, is part of the Main Quadrangles.

Rockefeller Chapel, constructed in 1928, was designed by Bertram Goodhue in the neo-Gothic style.

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The Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, opened in 2003 and designed by Cesar Pelli, houses the volleyball, wrestling, swimming, and basketball teams.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://athletics.uchicago.edu/facilities/ratner-overview.htm|title=Overview|publisher=The University of Chicago|access-date=October 10, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080616150245/http://athletics.uchicago.edu/facilities/ratner-overview.htm |archive-date = June 16, 2008}}</ref>

There are 13 fraternities at the university: Alpha Delta Phi (Chicago chapter), Alpha Epsilon Pi (Lambda chapter), Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Delta Delta), Delta Upsilon (Chicago chapter), Lambda Phi Epsilon (Psi chapter), Phi Delta Theta (IL Beta chapter), Phi Gamma Delta (Chi Upsilon chapter), Phi Iota Alpha (Chicago Colony chapter), Psi Upsilon (Omega chapter), Sigma Chi (Omicron Omicron chapter), Pi Kappa Alpha (Iota Xi chapter) and Zeta Psi (Omega Alpha chapter).

New York University

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Private research university in New York City.

Albert Gallatin (1761–1849) by Gilbert Stuart

The University Heights campus, now home to Bronx Community College

Washington Square Park, with its gateway arch, is surrounded largely by NYU buildings and plays an integral role in the university's campus life.

Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology on the Brooklyn campus

Washington Square Village, home to NYU faculty and graduate students

A bus system transports students to and from the far ends of campus.

Jack Dorsey, American billionaire and internet entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Twitter and Square, Inc.; CAS (dropped out)

Robert Muller III, American public official; lead director of the Special Counsel investigation, author of the Mueller Report, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; GSAS '67

Alan Greenspan, American economist and public official; former long-time Chairman of the Federal Reserve; Stern '48, '50, '77

Carol Bellamy, American politician; former executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF); Law '68

Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwanese politician; Former President of the Republic of China; Law '76

Jonas Salk, American biologist; creator of the polio vaccine; founder of the Salk Institute; Medicine '39

Martin Scorsese, American filmmaker, director and actor; AFI Life Achievement Award winner, 20-time Academy Award winner, 23-time BAFTA winner, 11-time Golden Globes winner; CAS '64, Steinhardt '68

Spike Lee, American filmmaker, director and producer; two-time Academy Award winner; two-time Emmy Award winner; Tisch '83

Ang Lee OBS, Taiwanese film director; three-time Academy Award winner; two-time Golden Lion winner; Tisch '83

Alan Menken, American composer, songwriter, and record producer; one of only sixteen people to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony; Steinhart '71

Suzanne Collins, American television writer and author; Author of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy; Tisch '89

Alec Baldwin, American actor, writer, comedian and philanthropist; three-time Emmy Award winner; three-time Golden Globe winner; Tisch '94

Lady Gaga, American singer, songwriter, and actress; nine-time Grammy Award winner; thirteen-time MTV Video Music Award winner; Tisch (dropped out)

Angelina Jolie, American actress and humanitarian; three-time Golden Globe Award winner; Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Tisch (non-degree seeking)

Mahershala Ali, American actor; two-time Academy Award winner; Golden Globe Award winner; three-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner; Tisch '00

Woody Allen, American director, actor and comedian; four-time Academy Award winner; nine-time BAFTA Award winner; Tisch (dropped out)

Adam Sandler, American actor, director and comedian; five-time MTV Movie & TV Award winner; eight-time People's Choice Award winner; Tisch '88

Donald Glover, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and singer; two-time Golden Globe Award winner; five-time Grammy Award winner; Tisch '06

Anne Hathaway, American actress; Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winner; Gallatin (dropped out)

Tom Ford, American fashion designer and filmmaker; former creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent; CAS (dropped out)

Delta Phi Epsilon, Zeta Psi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Tau Delta Phi, Alpha Kappa Psi and Delta Sigma Pi were founded at NYU.

William Comstock

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American politician as the 33rd Governor of the U.S. state of Michigan.

Born in 1877 in Alpena, Michigan, he attended the University of Michigan, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, graduating in 1899.

Frederick Fisher (soldier)

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Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

While at McGill he joined Zeta Psi Fraternity.

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William Comstock

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