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34-412: On Christmas Eve in 1824, an association was formed to promote the circulation of correct opinions on Religion, Morals, and Education & excluding Sectarian Theology and Party Politics. It was the duty of each member to publish at least once a month in any convenient way some article designed to answer the above object. When at length it disbanded, its religious feature was absorbed and perpetuated by what

68-675: A chapter at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania . The second Chi Phi Fraternity was founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on August 21, 1858, by five undergraduate students. The Chi Phi Fraternity of the South was also the second exclusively southern Fraternity established before the Civil War and was very successful in planting six chapters before the outbreak of hostilities and nine afterward, but before

102-724: A counselor, benefactor and organizer of the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church and the Second Presbyterian Church, which became known as "Doctor Maclean's Church". Maclean also was involved with the state's prisons. As a member of the New Jersey Prison Association, he conducted weekly services at the state penitentiary in Trenton . After retiring from the university, Maclean's friends bought him

136-516: A house, where he lived during the remainder of his life. In 1877, he wrote a two-volume history of the university entitled History of the College of New Jersey: From Its Origin in 1746 to the Commencement of 1854 . He served as honorary president of the university's Alumni Association and attended an alumni commencement meeting in 1886, just six weeks before his death. Maclean was honored with

170-510: A two-volume history of the university. He served as the honorary president of the university's Alumni Association until his death. Maclean Jr. was born in Princeton, New Jersey , as the son of John Maclean Sr., the first professor of chemistry at the College of New Jersey. He attended the College of New Jersey and graduated in 1816 as the youngest member of his class. He then spent the next two years earning his Doctor of Divinity degree from

204-683: Is known now as the 'Philadelphian Society' organized in February 1825, and said to be an offspring of the Nassau Hall Tract Society. The old Chi Phi constitution was discovered in 1854 by some undergraduates who emphasized the social and disregarding the religious purpose reorganized the society into the modern Greek letter fraternity of the same initials. The majority of the religious societies founded in Princeton were less general in their scope but more efficient in their work than

238-499: Is most grateful to me." As president, Maclean witnessed the start of baseball at Princeton, heard the first rendition of the university alma mater , Old Nassau , and voted to make orange among the university's official colors. In 1828, Maclean gave an address, advocating for a public education system in New Jersey . He drew up a plan for a state normal school , local boards of education , and nonsectarian public schools. On

272-693: The Princeton Theological Seminary . Afterwards, he went back to the university and began as a tutor in Greek . He became a full professor of mathematics at age 23. In 1824, he helped to create the Chi Phi Society, a semi-religious, semi-literary organization, which ceased activity the following year when it merged with the Philadelphian Society. In the late 1820s, Maclean devised a plan to enlarge and improve

306-593: The University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens , was a member of Chi Phi fraternity and the Phi Kappa Literary Society , and graduated in 1870 with a B.A. degree. In 1889, he became a UGA trustee and served on that board until his death. After graduating college, Harris taught school for two years, studied law, and gained admittance to the state bar. He moved to Macon, Georgia in 1873. He joined with future UGA chancellor Walter Barnard Hill to form

340-543: The 1854 founders; however, they were later discovered and published in the book "Princeton" by V.L. Collins in 1914. The Chi Phi Fraternity founded by Maclean was also short-lived. The group existed sub rosa only until 1859 when it was abandoned completely. However, before the Princeton chapter died off, it was able to successfully establish a second chapter at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1854. The chapter at Franklin and Marshall in turn planted

374-624: The States of Louisiana and South Carolina, chartered the Theta chapter of the Southern Order at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. This chapter is thought to be the first international and only European chapter of an American college fraternity. Except for a brief period in 1911, three Chi Phis ( Joseph Mackey Brown , John Marshall Slaton , and Nathaniel E. Harris ) held

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408-576: The University of Richmond in 1901. This group went on to found the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. During the subsequent 53-year period, Sigma Phi Epsilon chartered over 140 chapters, while Chi Phi only chartered fourteen. A man named Jerry Reid, who returned to college in a new major at the age of 68 and subsequently pledged Chi Phi, is possibly the oldest new member ever thus far to join a college fraternity. The Chi Phi chapter at Cornell

442-789: The end of the Civil War, on March 27, 1874, the North and South orders officially formed a united organization known as the Chi Phi Fraternity. At the meeting, three members from each order adopted a constitution and by-laws and established a date for the first convention, which was held in Washington, DC on July 23, 1874. In June 1867, due to the disruption of the American Civil War , a group of Southern students led by Peter Mitchell Wilson, A-A '69, and other students from

476-418: The faculty, in hopes of reversing the declining enrollment which had beleaguered the university over the last few years, to the point that university president James Carnahan considered shutting down the institution. Maclean's plan was accepted by the university's trustees in 1829, and he was subsequently named vice president. During his 25 years at that position, Maclean brought in a number of noted scholars to

510-477: The financial support of alumni and beneficiaries to contribute funds for rebuilding. He operated the college on a limited budget for five years and gave up part of his own salary to help rebuild the hall. The university lost a number of students who joined the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Maclean kept the faculty together and managed a complete educational program for the students still attending

544-433: The institution, such as Joseph Henry , Arnold Henry Guyot , John Torrey , Stephen Alexander and Albert B. Dod. Maclean also shifted his professorship from mathematics to ancient languages until 1854, when he succeeded James Carnahan as the tenth president of the university. During his 14-year tenure as president, Maclean led the university through some difficult times. In 1855, after Nassau Hall burned down, he sought

578-627: The last ballot to give that city a majority. Harris was named the president of the school's Board of Trustees, and he served in that position the rest of his life. Elected to the Georgia Senate from 1894 to 1895, Harris then served as judge of the Superior Court of the Macon Circuit from 1912 until his resignation in 1915 to successfully run for Governor of Georgia . He was sworn in on June 26, 1915, and served until 1917 being

612-710: The last governor of Georgia born outside the state of Georgia. During his tenure, Harris was noted for signing Prohibition into state law. He returned to his Macon law practice after his gubernatorial term and served as Pension Commissioner of Georgia from 1924 to 1925 in addition to being president of the Electoral College of Georgia. Harris was a first cousin of Alfred Alexander Taylor and Robert Love Taylor , both of whom were United States Congressmen from, and Governors of, Tennessee. Harris died at his summer home in Hampton, Tennessee on September 21, 1929 and

646-560: The law firm of Hill and Harris. From 1874 to 1882, he also served as the Macon city attorney. Harris married Fannie Burke of Macon in 1873. He later married Hattie Gibson Jobe of Elizabethton, Tennessee in 1899. He had seven children with his first wife, including General Walter A. Harris . The founding of the Georgia School of Technology I regard as the most important event, of a public nature, that occurred in my life. Harris

680-542: The merger with the Northern Order. All but the UNC chapter suspended operations as a result of the Civil War. The founders of the Southern Order were: On November 14, 1860, the third independent fraternity to be named Chi Phi was founded at Hobart College, Geneva by twelve men who took the initiatory oath and received a badge. The twelve men later became known throughout Chi Phi as the "Twelve Apostles". The fraternity

714-582: The naming of university's Maclean House, which has served as the office of the Alumni Council since 1968. Nathaniel E. Harris Nathaniel Edwin Harris (January 21, 1846 – September 21, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician, and the 61st Governor of Georgia . Harris was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee on January 21, 1846, to Edna (née Haynes) and Alexander Nelson Harris. His father

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748-521: The office of governor in the State of Georgia from 1909 to 1917. Brown was vehemently opposed to Slaton's pardon of Leo Frank in 1915 and since he died in 1932, Brown has been implicated as a conspirator in Frank's lynching. Chi Phi's conservative expansion philosophy that only the old, well-established schools were suitable for a chapter led to the denial of a petition for a charter by a group of students at

782-487: The old Chi Phi. The founders of the Chi Phi Society were: Records of the original Chi Phi Society were discovered in 1854 by John Maclean, Jr. of the class of 1858. Maclean found the records in his uncle's (also named John Maclean, Jr. ) paperwork, who happened to be president of the college at that time. Maclean joined with students Charles Smith DeGraw and Gustavus W. Mayer to form a new Chi Phi Fraternity that

816-491: The son of the first professor of chemistry at the College of New Jersey, grew up in Princeton, New Jersey . He attended the College and later Princeton Theological Seminary . At age 23, he became full professor of mathematics at the university. Six years later, he became university vice president. He was responsible for bringing a number of renown scholars and academics to the college. During this time, he also left mathematics and became professor of ancient languages . Maclean

850-405: The subject of religion and public education, Maclean stated: There should be in no case the least interference with the rights of conscience, and no scholar should be required to attend to any lesson relating to morals or religion, to which his parents may be opposed. The state legislature soon afterwards adopted his public education plan. Maclean also took interest in local churches. He served as

884-532: The treasurer, Oliver S. Porter from Newnan, Georgia , Edward R. Hodgson Sr. from Athens, and Judge Columbus Heard from Greene County, Georgia . Meeting in Atlanta on October 19, 1886, the committee took 23 separate ballots amongst themselves before selecting Atlanta for the school's location over Macon, Milledgeville, Athens and Penfield . Harris, Hodgson and Inman voted for their cities of residence on every ballot with Porter and Heard voting for Atlanta on

918-410: The university. During the war Maclean, as voted by the board of trustees, conveyed an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to President Abraham Lincoln . Lincoln accepted, and wrote to Maclean that "[t]he assurance conveyed by this high compliment that the course of the government which I represent has received the approval of a body of gentlemen of such character and intelligence in this time of public trial

952-665: Was a physician and Methodist minister. He moved to Georgia during the American Civil War to escape Union troops. At the age of sixteen, he joined the infantry of the Confederate States Army and served until the end of the American Civil War eventually becoming an officer in the 16th Virginia Cavalry Regiment . After the war, he returned to his family's home in Tennessee ; however, they soon moved to Bartow County, Georgia . In 1867, Harris attended

986-552: Was approved by the Georgia General Assembly on October 13, 1885, after failing to pass through the legislature in 1883 and again in 1884. Harris received public support in this matter from Henry W. Grady and John Fletcher Hanson . The bill called for Governor Henry Dickerson McDaniel to appoint a five-member commission to select the location of the new school and organize it. Harris was named to that group as chairman alongside Samuel N. Inman from Atlanta as

1020-408: Was based on some records of the original society but also with many characteristics that differed from the original society. While the Chi Phi Fraternity of today was founded in 1854, the members place great emphasis on the 1824 date because of many aspects that were carried over from the original records discovered in 1854. The names of the founders of the original society of 1824 were not even known to

1054-562: Was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1882 as a representative of Bibb County and was reelected through 1885. His campaign platform when running was the establishment of a technological college. As a state representative in 1882, Harris introduced the bill to establish the Georgia Institute of Technology (originally called the Georgia School of Technology until assuming its current name in 1948). That bill

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1088-606: Was officially known as the "Secret Order of Chi Phi" and the first chapter would be called the Upsilon chapter . The Secret Order of Chi Phi at Hobart planted four additional chapters, and then in 1865, negotiations began regarding a merger with the Princeton Order. Negotiations were completed on May 29, 1867, and chapters from both groups united as the Northern Order. The founders of the Secret Order were: Following

1122-423: Was one of the chief architects of the state's public education system. His plan for a state normal school , local boards of education and nonsectarian public schools was adopted by the state legislature . He became president of the College of New Jersey in 1854. He led the university through the 1855 burning of Nassau Hall and the American Civil War . After retiring from his post after 14 years in office, he wrote

1156-404: Was suspended after an individual reported an incident of being drugged and sexually assaulted by multiple assailants on October 25, 2024. John Maclean, Jr. John Maclean Jr. , D.D. (March 3, 1800 – August 10, 1886) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator who served as the tenth President of Princeton University , then known as the College of New Jersey. Maclean,

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