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Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ also "Beta") is a North American social fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The fraternity currently consists of 113 active chapters and 21 colonies in the United States and Canada. More than 200,000 members have been initiated worldwide and there are currently around 9,000 undergraduate members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home Page )〕 Beta Theta Pi is the oldest of the three fraternities that formed the Miami Triad along with Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi. ==History== Students at Miami University at the time of Beta's founding had previously formed two rival literary societies: The Erodelphian and Union Literary Society. A student of the school, John Reily Knox began to gather members of both the Erodelphian and Union Literary Societies with the goal of creating a new fraternity. In a letter that he wrote four years after the founding of the Alpha chapter, Knox said that other fraternities being formed possessed "many objectionable features which rendered them liable to be used as engines of evil as well as instruments of good." Beta Theta Pi was founded at 9:00 pm on Thursday, August 8, 1839 by eight students at Miami University. The group held its first regular meeting in the Hall of the Union Literary Society, an upper room of the campus building known as Old Main. The eight founders, in the order their names appear in the minutes, were: * John Reily Knox, ''1839'' * Samuel Taylor Marshall, ''1840'' * David Linton, ''1839'' * James George Smith, ''1840'' * Charles Henry Hardin, ''1841'' * John Holt Duncan, ''1840'' * Michael Clarkson Ryan, ''1839'' * Thomas Boston Gordon, ''1840'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beta Theta Pi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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