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Sigma Pi (ΣΠ) is one of the four male literary societies of Illinois College. It is the oldest literary society at Illinois College and one of the oldest literary societies in the United States, having been founded on Saturday, June 24, 1843. Sigma Pi resides in the oldest college building in Illinois, Beecher Hall. William Jennings Bryan, a three time presidential nominee, is one of its most distinguished members. ==Origin== "To Samuel willard and Henry Wing, the idea first occurred of founding a society which would live while their Alma Mater sat in proud eminence.Accordingly, on Saturday June,24th,1843,the first regular meeting of the Sigma PI society was held in room 32,old college building."〔Ensley Moore, Historical of the Sigma Pi Society of Illinois College (Jacksonville,1871)p.1.〕 Thus was born the first permanent literary society at Illinois college. Sigma Pi was nameless until Barbour Lewis suggested the appropriateness of keeping "union and Progress" and Samuel Willard selected the corresponding Greek Words,Sustasis kai Prokape along with Henry wing's suggestion that Sigma Pi adopt the Hebrew sentence from the history of Creation,in Genesis "let there be light". The fourteen founders of Sigma Pi are: *Samuel Willard *Thomas K. Beecher *Charles H. Tillson *William E. Catlin *William Ireland *Newton Bateman *Henry Wing *Henry M. Lyons *Barbour Lewis *George W. Harlan *William C. Goudy *John B. Shaw *Joseph L. Thayer (Died August 25, 1843) *John Tillson 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「Sigma Pi (literary society)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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