St. Anthony Hall
| St. Anthony Hall, The Fraternity of Delta Psi | |
|---|---|
| ΔΨ | |
| Founded | January 17, 1847 Columbia University |
| Type | Literary and Social |
| Scope | National |
| Colors | Azure Blue and Old Gold |
| Publication | The Review |
| Chapters | 11 |
| Members | 400+ collegiate 30,000+ lifetime |
| Symbols | Cross of Tau, Skull and Crossbones, Sword, Key, Eye of Providence |
| Headquarters |
P. O. Box 4633 Chapel Hill, North Carolina United States |
| Homepage | St. Anthony Hall National Website |
St. Anthony Hall is an American fraternity and literary society. Its 11 active chapters go by different names on different campuses, including Saint Anthony Hall, The Order of St. Anthony, the Fraternity of Delta Psi (ΔΨ), St. A's, the Hall and the Number Six Club. Its first chapter (Alpha) was founded at Columbia University on January 17, 1847, the feast day of St. Anthony. As of 2016, nearly all chapters of St. Anthony Hall have gone co-ed, only three (University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and Ole Miss) remain all-male. At both the University of North Carolina (1967) and Ole Miss, St. Anthony Hall was the first campus fraternity to admit African American members.
In 1879, Baird's Manual characterized the fraternity as having "the reputation of being the most secret of all the college societies." References to St. Anthony Hall have appeared the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, and Tom Wolfe.
In 1847, after the fraternity's Alpha chapter was founded at Columbia University, a Beta chapter at New York University was formed; in 1853, the two had united. By 1879, Columbia College's Record listed the NYU founders alongside its own students. The currently chartered chapters of St. Anthony Hall are:
Many of St. Anthony Hall's chapter houses are referred to colloquially as "The Hall" or "St. A's", although at MIT, the society is known as "The Number Six Club" in reference to that chapter's original residence at No. 6 Louisburg Square in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. According to its national website, St. Anthony Hall originally began in 1847 as a "fraternity dedicated to the love of education and the well-being of its members." Chapters were then founded throughout the Northeast, and extended into the South during the mid-19th century. During the Civil War, however, formal contact ended between Northern and Southern chapters, though contact was restored between remaining and refounded chapters after the War. The fraternity's history states that "many members wore their badges into battle, serving with distinction on both sides, and were often reunited in both pleasant and antagonistic situations throughout the war".
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