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==History==
[[File:Delta Tau Delta Founders House front.jpg|thumb|left|250px|House where Delta Tau Delta was founded]]Delta Tau Delta Fraternity was founded in 1858, though some early documents reference the founding in 1861, at [[Bethany College (West Virginia)|Bethany College]] in [[Bethany, West Virginia|Bethany, Virginia]] (now West Virginia).<ref>{{cite web|title=History - Delta Tau Delta|url=http://www.delts.org/history/|publisher=Delta Tau Delta|access-date=31 March 2014}}</ref> The social life on campus at that time centered around the Neotrophian Society, a literary society.
According to Jacob S. Lowe, in late 1858 a group of students met in Lowe's room in the Dowdell boarding house (now call the Bethany House) to discuss means to regain control of the Neotrophian Society and return control to the students at large. The underlying controversy was that the Neotrophian Society, in the opinion of the eight men who formed Delta Tau Delta, awarded a literary prize after a rigged vote.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pitt.edu/~delts/about.html |title=University of Pittsburgh Delta Tau Delta website |access-date=2009-05-18 |archive-date=2008-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515163208/http://www.pitt.edu/~delts/about.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> A constitution, name, badge, ritual, and motto were devised, and Delta Tau Delta was born.<ref>[http://www.albion.edu/delts/history.asp Albion College Delta Tau Delta website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202075720/http://albion.edu/delts/history.asp |date=2009-02-02 }}</ref>
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