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50-452: Lawrence Gilman was the son of Arthur Coit Gilman and Bessie (Lawrence) Gilman , and the grandnephew of educator Daniel Coit Gilman . Lawrence Gilman studied art at Collins Street Classical School in Hartford, Connecticut under William M. Chase . He also taught himself music in theory and practice on several instruments, including organ and piano . From 1896 to 1898, he worked for

100-461: A collection of addresses entitled University Problems (1898), and The Launching of a University (1906). Gilman married twice. His first wife was Mary Van Winker Ketcham, daughter of Tredwell Ketcham of New York City . They married on December 4, 1861, and had two daughters: Alice, who married Everett Wheeler; and Elisabeth Gilman , who became a social activist and was a candidate for mayor of Baltimore, and for governor and senator of Maryland, on

150-567: A descendant of Edward Gilman, one of the first settlers of Exeter, New Hampshire, of Thomas Dudley , Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the founders of Harvard College , and of Thomas Adgate, one of the founders of Norwich in 1659. Daniel Coit Gilman graduated from Yale College in 1852 with a degree in geography. At Yale, he was a classmate of Andrew Dickson White , who would later serve as first president of Cornell University . The two were members of

200-494: A different location on campus - into a house designed by John Russell Pope - but the original chapter house, designed and built by William Henry Miller , still stands. The original chapter house at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was built in 1924 and 1925 for the fraternity. This three-story Tudor Revival style chapter house was designed by architect Ralph W. Varney, an Alpha Delta Phi brother. The building

250-533: A new society of limited membership based on "the loftiest of intellectual and moral ideals." On October 29, 1832, Eells gathered four other members, two from the Phoenix and two from the Philopeuthian, to a meeting in his room. The other men were Lorenzo Latham , John Curtiss Underwood , Oliver Andrew Morse and Henry Lemuel Storrs. At that meeting, Eells wrote the constitution and he and Latham designed

300-500: A year studying university organization and selecting an outstanding staff of teachers and scholars. His formal inauguration, on 22 February 1876, has become Hopkins' Commemoration Day, the day on which many university presidents have chosen to be installed in office. Among the legendary educators he assembled to teach at Johns Hopkins were classicist Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve , mathematician James Joseph Sylvester , historian Herbert Baxter Adams and chemist Ira Remsen . In 1876, Gilman

350-601: Is a retronym used now to distinguish the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity from the gender-inclusive Alpha Delta Phi Society (discussed below). In general parlance, the Fraternity refers to itself simply as the "Alpha Delta Phi"; the Society uses either the "Alpha Delta Phi Society" or "The Society". The Brunonian ( Brown University ) chapter first initiated women into its local membership in November 1973, and this

400-930: Is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity . Alpha Delta Phi was originally founded as a literary society by Samuel Eells in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York . Its more than 50,000 alumni include former presidents and senators of the United States , and justices of the Supreme Court . The mission of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is to provide a comprehensive and positive personal growth experience for all undergraduate and alumni brothers: social, ethical, leadership, scholastic, community service, and literary. When Samuel Eells arrived on campus at Hamilton College , he found two existing literary societies ,

450-716: Is a charter member of the North American Interfraternity Conference (formerly known as the National Interfraternity Conference; NIC). A Brother of Alpha Delta Phi, Hamilton W. Mabie (Williams College, class of 1867), was the first President of the NIC. The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is today still a member of the NIC; the Alpha Delta Phi Society, a gender-inclusive offshoot of the Fraternity,

500-470: Is an oblong slab with rounded corners, displaying on a shield of black enamel a white Crescent bearing the letters Alpha Delta Phi. Above the Crescent is a green Star with a gold center, and below is the date 1832 in gold. On the back is engraved a Monument with crossed Sword and Spear. In addition, the member's initials and surname, chapter, and year of graduation appear on the back of the badge. The Badge

550-554: Is at the convention; others are held at various chapter houses in the fall, winter, and spring. The governors elect the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. The president, with board approval, may appoint an assistant treasurer and committee chairmen, who may or may not be governors. An undergraduate Assistant Secretary is elected by the undergraduate delegates of the convention. The Board of Governors appoints Regional Directors to coordinate activities of interest to nearby chapters and alumni organizations. The Fraternity

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600-405: Is only to be worn with suit and tie attire. The Badge is properly worn over the heart with the horns of the Crescent pointing over the right shoulder. The Crest, which is the coat of arms, consists of the shield or escutcheon divided vertically into equal parts of green and white. It is bordered in black and studded with pearls. There is a small gold line between the center part of the shield and

650-717: Is the oldest building of the College of Chemistry and a National Historic Chemical Landmark. Named for Gilman as well is Gilman Street in Berkeley. Gilman Drive, which passes through the University of California, San Diego campus in La Jolla, CA is also named for Gilman. The Daniel Coit Gilman Summer House , in Maine, was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1965. Gilman High School in Northeast Harbor, Maine ,

700-713: The Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University, Gilman Hall, is named in his honor. In 1897, he helped found a preparatory school called 'The Country School for Boys' on the Johns Hopkins campus. Upon relocation in 1910, it was renamed in his honor and today, the Gilman School continues to be regarded among the nation's elite private boys' schools. On the University of California, Berkeley campus, Gilman Hall , also named in his honor,

750-959: The New York Herald , then from 1901 to 1913 as a music critic for Harper's Weekly , where he advanced to the position of managing editor. From 1915 to 1923, he worked as a critic in multiple arts for the North American Review , and for the Herald Tribune from 1923 until his death. On August 1, 1904, he married Elizabeth Wright Walter , with whom he had one child, "Betty" Elizabeth Lawrence Gilman in 1905. Gilman earned later notoriety for his scathing negative reviews of compositions that later became known as classics. He described George Gershwin 's Rhapsody in Blue , for example, as trite, feeble, conventional, vapid, fussy, futile, lifeless, stale, derivative and inexpressive. He

800-667: The Skull and Bones secret society, and traveled to Europe together after graduation and remained lifelong friends. Gilman was also a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Gilman would later co-found the Russell Trust Association , the foundation behind Skull and Bones . After serving as attaché of the United States legation at St. Petersburg, Russia from 1853 to 1855, he returned to Yale and

850-667: The Socialist Party of America ticket. Mary Ketcham Gilman died in 1869, and Daniel Coit Gilman married his second wife, Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey, daughter of John M. Woolsey of Cleveland , and niece of Yale president Theodore Dwight Woolsey , in 1877. Daniel Gilman's brother Edward Whiting Gilman was married to Julia Silliman, daughter of Yale University professor and chemist Benjamin Silliman . Daniel Coit Gilman died in Norwich, Connecticut. The original academic building on

900-412: The 1832 Foundation is to solicit financial resources, provide faithful stewardship, and engage in high-quality ethical practices in support of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and leadership development. The foundation aims to leave a legacy that builds leaders of good character and well-balanced men. The Foundation is a self-governing, tax-exempt corporation founded August 1961, under Section 501 (c) (3) of

950-533: The Board of Governors and the Chapters. Between the business and leadership training sessions, Conventions are characterized by considerable socializing. Brothers from all over the continent get acquainted, swap stories and songs, and raise a glass in the spirit of brotherhood. Whether as a voting delegate or as an observer, all brothers are encouraged to attend a Convention at some time. The convention also elects

1000-469: The Board of Governors. There are eleven Alumni Governors, elected for three-year terms, and a Student Governor elected annually. The terms of the Alumni Governors are staggered to provide continuity. There are other restrictions on who may be elected to ensure that no region or chapter may dominate the Board. The Board of Governors generally holds four regular meetings each year. One of these

1050-557: The Charity Organization of Baltimore , and in 1897 he served on the commission to draft a new charter for Baltimore . From 1896 to 1897, he was a member of the commission to settle the boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana . Gilman served as a trustee of the John F. Slater and Peabody education funds and as a member of John D. Rockefeller's General Education Board . In this capacity, he became active in

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1100-623: The Fraternity. The convention is composed of one delegate elected from each undergraduate chapter and alumni organization, each delegate being entitled to one vote. Each August, the convention is hosted at a different location and presided over by an Honorary Chairman, both of which are chosen by the Board of Governors. The convention hears annual reports from the Governors, approves the International's budget, decides constitutional questions, and has appellate jurisdiction over decisions of

1150-477: The Internal Revenue Code. It accepts deductible donations from Alpha Delts and others and makes grants and loans to chapters, individuals, and institutions of higher learning. The grants are intended to promote intellectual interest or achievement with qualified educational and literary programs. The Foundation has its own Board of Directors and functions independently of but in communication with

1200-411: The Phoenix and the Philopeuthian, the latter of which he reluctantly joined. Eells quickly became disenchanted with both societies' unscrupulous recruiting tactics and dispassionately small sizes and considered creating his own society which would disavow what he described as jealous and angry competition between the two. Eells proposed to select members from both the Phoenix and the Philopeuthian and found

1250-429: The Society's license to use the name "Alpha Delta Phi Society." It also removed most of the limitations on where either organization could have chapters. The Society as a national organization is gender-inclusive, and the Society continues to espouse "home rule" for its chapters, allowing them to determine their own membership rules. As of today, every Society chapter has been a gender-inclusive organization since at least

1300-705: The Society's use of the name "Alpha Delta Phi". On August 12, 2017, at the Fraternity's 185th Annual Convention held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Fraternity and the Society entered into a new agreement that replaced the Fraternity-Society Agreement of 1992. The new agreement maintained the original rights of the two independent and legally separate organizations to license and share the Greek letters alpha, delta, and phi, and other intellectual property. The new agreement removed all restrictions on

1350-403: The border which has no particular significance except as a line of partition. On the shield in honor point are three Greek letters, horizontally aligned, alpha, delta, and phi in gold. Above the shield is an esquires helmet in profile facing left with the visor closed. Behind the shield is a Sword and Spear, both pointing upwards and both crossed saltirewise. Flanking the shield and issuing from

1400-515: The fraternity (the Brunonian, Columbia , Middletown ( Wesleyan University ), Stanford and Bowdoin chapters) and to allow those chapters wishing to be gender-inclusive to create their organization, which resulted in the legal formation of two separate organizations, the all-male Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and the Alpha Delta Phi Society, the latter of which granted each of its chapters "home rule" permission to determine its gender make-up. Under

1450-584: The fraternity had 33 active chapters and 2 colonies. Its regional alumni organization, the Midwest Association of Alpha Delta Phi, is more than 125 years old. Alpha Delta Phi chapter at Hamilton College is the third oldest continuously operating chapter in the North American Fraternity System and the second oldest Alpha chapter. At Yale University , it was mostly brothers of Alpha Delta Phi who were invited to join

1500-548: The fraternity's emblem and symbols. Later in the year, other members were added. Alpha Delta Phi was the first fraternity to establish a chapter west of the Appalachian Mountains when it formed a chapter at Miami University in 1832. This chapter preceded the formation of three national fraternities at Miami University known as the Miami Triad in the years that followed. The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity

1550-554: The national organization and formed an independent one, Alpha Delta. The University of Michigan 's Peninsular chapter was founded on August 5, 1846, and is the oldest continuous Greek-letter fraternity on the campus. Authorized on June 12, 1846, by the President of the Alpha Delta Phi, William Henry Goodrich (Yale 1843), seven members were the first of the chapter to be initiated as brothers. In 1847, however, faculty at

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1600-642: The papers include Gilman's correspondence with leading figures of the day, including Charles W. Eliot , Sidney Lanier , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Henry James , James Russell Lowell , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , William McKinley , Basil Gildersleeve , Theodore Roosevelt , Woodrow Wilson , George Bancroft , Alexander Graham Bell , Thomas Huxley , Andrew Carnegie , Horace Greeley , Helen Keller , Louis Pasteur , Henry Ward Beecher , William Osler , W.E.B. Du Bois , Booker T Washington and others. Alpha Delta Phi Alpha Delta Phi ( ΑΔΦ ; commonly known as Alpha Delt , AD , ADPhi , A-Delt , or ADP )

1650-849: The promotion of education in the southern United States . He was president of the National Civil Service Reform League (1901–1907) and the American Oriental Society (1893–1906), vice president of the Archaeological Institute of America , and executive officer of the Maryland Geological Survey. He retired from Johns Hopkins in 1901, but accepted the presidency (1902–1904) of the newly founded Carnegie Institution of Washington. His books include biographies of James Monroe (1883) and James Dwight Dana ,

1700-608: The recruiting sergeant for the Norton Cadets, a group of Yale graduates and faculty who drilled on the New Haven Green under the oversight of Yale professor William Augustus Norton . In 1863, he was appointed professor of geography at the Sheffield Scientific School , and became secretary and librarian as well in 1866. Having been passed over for the presidency of Yale, for which post Gilman

1750-505: The scroll is the date 1832. The Brothers-in-Arms statue is a unique memorial to the 2,300 men of the fraternity, of Canada and the United States, who served in World War I, and especially for the 93 Brothers who made the supreme sacrifice. The pledge pin is a shield divided vertically with the left half-colored green and the right half-colored white. Rules regarding the wearing of the pledge pin are established by each chapter. In 2024,

1800-513: The scroll on either side are two gold sprays of laurel leaved in gold. Beneath the escutcheon is a motto ribbon bearing the Latin phrase "Manus Multae Cor Unum", meaning "many hands, one heart". The whole escutcheon is radiant, meaning rays emanate from the top between the Spearpoint and Sword and base. There is a nimbus of very fine stars around the outer perimeter of the lower nimbus. Beneath

1850-532: The terms of this agreement, the Fraternity and the Society would be completely separate and independent legal entities, with separate governing bodies. The two organizations were not part of the same entity and did not share membership, except for male members of the Society who joined before 1992. Both groups would be licensees who share the Greek letters and intellectual property such as history and songs. The agreement put limitations on both organizations as to where they could have chapters, and there were limitations on

1900-591: The university began barring class admission and expelling students who were members of secret societies. The conflict ended in 1852 when the chapter gained full recognition from the university, though its membership was reduced to three. " In 1877, the Cornell University chapter's alumni group built its first house for the undergraduates, which has been described as the "first house in America built solely for fraternity use." The chapter has since moved to

1950-444: The university's top-ranked senior society Skull and Bones . Students at Harvard formed a chapter of Alpha Delta Phi but disaffiliated to form the independent final club, the A.D. Alpha Delta Phi's Dartmouth College chapter was the inspiration for National Lampoon's Animal House . The movie was co-written by Chris Miller and Doug Kenney. The chapter was affiliated with Alpha Delta Phi from 1846 until 1969, when it broke away from

2000-499: Was "the encouragement of research and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell." In 1884, Gilman was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society . Gilman was also active in founding Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1889 and Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1893. He founded and was for many years president of

2050-521: Was active in planning and raising funds for the founding of Sheffield Scientific School . Gilman contemplated going into the ministry, and even took out a license to preach, but later settled on a career in education. From 1856 to 1865, Gilman served as librarian of Yale College , and was also concerned with improving the New Haven public school system. When the Civil War broke out, Gilman became

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2100-551: Was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1990. The house was demolished in 2018. The University of Michigan chapter house, known as Stone House, was the first fraternity house built on the campus. It was erected in 1883 and continued to house the brothers of the Alpha Delta Phi until the current house was constructed on the same site in 1910. The fraternity has 1,521 active members and 53,344 total initiated members as of 2024. The mission of

2150-459: Was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association , which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S." Born in Norwich, Connecticut , the son of Eliza (Coit) and mill owner William Charles Gilman,

2200-483: Was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College , and subsequently served as the second president of the University of California, Berkeley , as the first president of Johns Hopkins University , and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution . Eponymous halls at both Berkeley and Hopkins pay tribute to his service. He

2250-598: Was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society . Gilman's primary interest was in fostering advanced instruction and research, and as president he developed the first American graduate university in the German tradition. The aim of the modern research university, said Gilman, was to "extend, even by minute accretions, the realm of knowledge" At his inaugural address at Hopkins, Gilman asked: "What are we aiming at?" The answer, he said,

2300-550: Was followed by a proposal at the 1974 national convention to either allow individual chapters to admit women or to do so fraternity-wide. This debate was often contentious, with most chapters opposed, and some members lobbying for full admission of women, but a larger number wanting to ban women altogether or grant them some form of associate membership. In 1992, at the Fraternity's 160th Annual Convention held in Brainerd, Minnesota , an agreement allowed five chapters to withdraw from

2350-550: Was named for Daniel Coit Gilman, who was active in local educational affairs, but it was later rebuilt and christened Mount Desert High School . He was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership in 1895. The Papers of Daniel Coit Gilman were donated to Johns Hopkins University by Gilman's daughter Elisabeth, and are open on an unrestricted basis to the public at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Hopkins. Aside from many photographs of Gilman and his contemporaries,

2400-560: Was not able to maintain membership in the NIC as a result of its decision to admit non-male-identifying members. Alpha Delta Phi is both a social fraternity and a literary society. As part of this focus, the Alpha Delta Phi Foundation (formerly the Samuel Eells Literary and Educational Foundation) makes educational grants and sponsors annual literary competitions, which award cash prizes. The Badge

2450-412: Was said to have been the favorite of the younger faculty, he resigned these posts in 1872 to become the third president of the newly organized University of California, Berkeley . His work there was hampered by the state legislature , and in 1875 Gilman accepted the offer to establish and become first president of Johns Hopkins University . Before being formally installed as president in 1876, he spent

2500-487: Was similarly dismissive of Gershwin's later Porgy and Bess . Gilman wrote several books: He also wrote musical works: This biographical article related to opera is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article related to music journalism in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Daniel Coit Gilman Daniel Coit "D. C." Gilman ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ l m ən / ; July 6, 1831 – October 13, 1908)

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