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1 Brief 1 (1887-1888)

handle is hein.journals/briephid1 and id is 1 raw text is: THE BRIEF. aeu.tn< 11er. VOL. . OCTOBER, 1887. No. i. EDITED AND PUBLISHED FIVE TIMES A YF.AR BY WM. RAIMOND BAIRD, 243 BROADWAY, - NFw YORK CITY, N. Y. SALUTATORY. The Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi was founded nearly twenty years ago, at the Michigan Law School, with the avowed aim of establish- ing among the students of that institution.a select society modelled after the college fraternity, which should bring together the brightest spirits of each class and enable them to develop the social side of student life more fully than would be otherwise possible. The idea was successfully carried out, and for ten years a prosperous organi- zation was maintained at Ann Arbor without establishing branches elsewhere. A Chapter was then placed at the law school in Chicago, Ill., and a second one at the law school belonging to the Illinois Wesleyan University. The Chicago Chapter seemed to lack vitality, and in a few years died from indifference, to be revived afterward under happier auspices. In 1881,a Chapter was established at the Columbia Law School, and at a convention of the Chapters held the next year the government of the fraternity was completely reorgan- ized, and a new constitution was adopted. This constitution pro- vided'for an executive council of three, who should carry on the work of the fraternity in the interim between the conventions, and under it a majority of the existing Chapters have been formed. It outlines a system of government only and leaves to each Chapter the complete direction of its own affairs. Since the formation of

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