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.
During this period of time, women's Greek-letter societies were also founded. There are three firsts among them. Alpha Delta Phi sorority is believed to be the first secret sisterhood for college women, being founded as the Adelphean Society, at Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Georgia in 1851.The word sorority came into usage later). However, Pi Beta Phi did not officially adopt a Greek-letter name until 1888. Kappa Alpha Theta, founded in 1870 at DePauw in Indiana, was the first Greek-letter society for women. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity was founded in the same year at Monmouth College, Illinois.