As a curious foreigner, the culture of fraternity/sorority houses is all very alien to me, but the use of the Greek alphabet seems almost universal.
Is there an origin story for this?
Do the particular letters chosen mean anything?
How does a house pick what “its” title will be, and do they have to claim it so that no other house uses it? Or is it one of these “lost to time” things?
Thanks!
[Chose “other” but i guess it’s sort of sociology!]
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The first frat was the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the College of William and Mary in 1776. They took the letters from their motto: “Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης”, meaning “the love of learning is the guide of life.”
After that, organizations just did it to sound cool like those PBK guys.
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