St. Anthony Hall

St. Anthony Hall
(Fraternity of Delta Psi)
St. Anthony Hall ; (Fraternity of Delta Psi)
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	From University of Pennsylvania Record, 1873
Founded	January 17, 1847; Columbia University
Type	Literary and Social
Affiliation	NIC (former)
Scope	National (United States)
Member badge	St. Anthony's cross
Colors	Azure blue ; Old gold
Patron saint	Anthony the Great
Publication	The Review
Philanthropy	St. Anthony Educational Foundation, Inc.
Chapters	11
Members	400+ collegiate; 30,000+ lifetime
Nickname	48; The Hall; The Number Six Club; The Order of St. Anthony; St. Anthony Club; St. A's; The Tea Company
Headquarters	1417 Shelby Street; Indianapolis, Indiana 46203; United States
Website	www.stanthonyhall.org

St. Anthony Hall or the Fraternity of Delta Psi is an American fraternity and literary society. Its first chapter was founded at Columbia University on January 17, 1847, the feast day of Saint Anthony the Great. The fraternity is a non–religious, nonsectarian organization. In 1879, William Raimond Baird's American College Fraternities characterized the fraternity as having "the reputation of being the most secret of all the college societies." A modern writer says the fraternity is "a cross between Skull and Bones and a Princeton eating club, with a large heaping of Society and more than a dash of Animal House." Nearly all chapters of St. Anthony Hall are coed.

References to St. Anthony Hall have appeared in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, and Tom Wolfe.

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