Rhetoricians have further elaborated on the definition of metaphor by separating and naming the two key elements. There are a few different sets of names for these two parts: they can be called the âtenorâ and the âvehicleâ, the âgroundâ and the âfigureâ, or the âtargetâ and the âsourceâ.
Over 3 of the last 5 years, including last year, we won the Cathedral Award, given to the best overall fraternity at the University of Pittsburgh. Our chapter has received the Peterson Significant Chapter Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a Sigma Chi chapter, 4 times in our history. The City of Pittsburgh even declared October 1, 2000 Sigma Chi Day. Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855, by seven undergraduate men at Miami University. They felt that the principles of fraternity were crucial to the overall college experience, but were dissatisfied with the unbalance of loyalties and ideals within the fraternities which existed at their university.
Theta Chi Fraternity (Î¸Ï) is an international college fraternity. It was founded on April 10, 1856 at Norwich University in Norwich, Vermont, and is a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference.Theta Chi has initiated more than 180,000 members and currently has over 8,000 undergraduate members across North America.he Fraternity's colors are military red and white. Its flower is the red carnation. The national alumni publication is The Rattle, named for the rattlesnake that appears on the Fraternity's coat of arms and badge. It has become a Theta Chi tradition to celebrate Founders Day on April 10, usually as an alumni gathering.