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Great condition. 5 1/2" tall & 4" across the bottom. Theta Delta Chi (ΘΔΧ) is a social fraternity that was founded in 1847 at Union College, New York, United States. While nicknames differ from institution to institution, the most common nicknames for the fraternity are TDx, Thete, Theta Delt, Thumpers, & TDC. Theta Delta Chi brothers refer to their local organization as charges rather than using the common fraternity nomenclature of chapters. Origins & growth Theta Delta Chi, the eleventh oldest of the college fraternities, was founded in 1847 at Union College in Schenectady, NY by six members of the class of 1849: William G. Akin Abel Beach Theodore B. Brown Andrew H. Green William Hyslop Samuel F. Wile.[1] in the first Minute book of the Alpha charge, taken in 1848, the names Jesse D. Fonda & Theodore J. Fonda were listed alongside the other six founders. The Fonda brothers seemed to be under the impression that they were founders & the existence of this record led to the mistaken belief that Theta Delta Chi was founded in 1848. On July 14, 1914, Andrew Green wrote a letter clarifying that the fraternity was founded in 1847, & that the Fonda brothers, upon the realization that they were not founding members, lost interest & disassociated from the society. Despite this, many early fraternity records incorrectly show 1848 as the founding year. in 1849, Green & Akin along with Francis Martindale (the first initiate), organized the Beta charge (later renamed Beta Proteron) at Ballston Law School.[2] However, two years later the school itself moved & the new Charge was disbanded & the members put on Alpha's rolls. During the 1850s Theta Delta Chi spread rapidly, adding Charges at Vermont (1852), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1853), William & Mary (1853), Virginia (1857), Hobart (1857), Wesleyan (1857), Harvard (1856), Brown (1853), Bowdoin (1854), Kenyon (1854), Tufts (1856), Washington & Jefferson (1858), South Carolina (1859), & North Carolina (1856). Few of these remained active for long, although several were later revived. Kappa at Tufts, founded in 1856, presently enjoys the honor of being the oldest active Charge in continuous existence.[2] During the 1860s new Charges, at, among other institutions, Lafayette & Rochester (1867), Hamilton (1868), & Dartmouth (1869), continued to be chartered at a pace that kept slightly ahead of attrition caused by Charges going inactive. The Civil War, however, severely weakened most Charges as men left for military service; many of the earliest Charges went inactive during this period, & expansion in the South ceased for half a century.[2] Only after 1870 did Theta Delta Chi begin to acquire its present configuration. Westward expansion had traditionally been opposed by a large segment of the Fraternity, which worried that supervision & solidarity would suffer if Theta Delta Chi were to stray far from the East. The rise of the large state universities in the West, particularly in the Big Ten,
