| Agogus | An officiant at initiations (Gr. “One whoaccompanies”) |
| Alpha Chapter | The chapter at Wesleyan |
| Alpha Club | The dining club of the Fraternity |
| Appointments | Schedule of members assigned to participatein literary exercises at regular meetings |
| AR | Alumni Record, published every ten yearsthrough 1980 |
| Beta Chapter | The chapter at OhioWesleyan (1848–60) |
| B.L.G. | Bare Legged Goddess, an informal organization of juniors and seniors dedicated to harassing sophomores, abolished in 1914. |
| B.O.D. | Board of Directors of the Socratic Literary Society consisting of resident Socrats charged with handling day-to-day matters and headed by a Chairman |
| Charter Gag | A preinitiation event that was as close to hazing as anything at Eclectic was in the 1950s (see chapter 13) |
| Choragus | Song leader (Gr. “Choral leader) |
| Delegation | Members of the same class within the Fraternity |
| Dicastes | An officiant at initiations (Gr. “Judge or juror”) |
| Eclectic | Name of the Fraternity in common parlance,also “Phi Nu Theta” |
| Eclectic Hall | Formal name of the meeting room |
| Eclectic Repository | Collected and bound volumes of writingsthat formed part of literary exercises |
| Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta | Formal name of the Fraternity |
| Elephant Room | Common name of the waiters’ dining room |
| Epistoleus | Corresponding secretary and equivalent ofthe president of the Society, elected in earlierdays for a term and in later days for a year(Gr. “Secretary”) |
| Gamma Chapter | The chapter at Dickinson (May–July 1852) |
| Goat Room | Eclectic Hall at 200 High Street in commonparlance from at least 1911 |
| Gr. | Greek (i.e., from the classical Greek) |
| Grammateus | Secretary responsible for taking minutes atmeetings and acting as parliamentarian(Gr. “Secretary or registrar”) |
| Guttering | The forceful expulsion of a member from thedining hall for some egregious violation ofdecorum (e.g., getting pinned). Carried out byfreshmen who would deposit the offender inthe gutter outside the House or naked in thefireplace (earlier days) or in a cold shower on the second floor (latter days—until 1960) |
| Kerux | An officiant at initiations (Gr. “Herald, crier,or messenger”) |
| Myontes | An officiant at initiations (Gr. “Mystic orcontemplator”) |
| n | Nongraduate, e.g., “A. B. Smith (1879n)” —in the class of 1879, but did not graduate with the class |
| Phi Nu Theta | Name of the Fraternity in common parlance,also “Eclectic” |
| Proedros | Presiding officer at regular meetings and in the dining hall, rotated among seniors on a weekly basis (Gr. “President or one who sits in the first place”) |
| Quadrennial | Public literary exercises conducted by fourfraternities in rotation at graduation time(mid–nineteenth century) |
| Quinquecennial | Successor to the Quadrennial literary exercises and so named because the rotation was among five fraternities; abolished in 1892 |
| SATC | Student Army Training Corps, an organization including nearly all able-bodiedundergraduates, formed in October 1918 to further the World War I effort |
| SLS | Socratic Literary Society, the graduate arm ofEclectic, formally chartered by the State ofConnecticut in 1870 |
| Socrats | Name of the Socratic Literary Society and/or its members in common parlance |
| Sub rosa | Dinner or other function conducted in silence(originally referred to something kept private or secret, but modified by use at Eclectic) |
| Thesaurophylax | Treasurer (Gr. “Guardian of the treasury”) |
| Thyronus | An officiant at initiations (Gr. “Doorkeeper”) |
