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Pi Upsilon Rho

Pi Upsilon Rho

American homeopathy fraternity (defunct)

Pi Upsilon Rho (ΠΥΡ) was a United States-based professional fraternity for homeopathy students established at Hahnemann Medical College in 1876 under the name Ustion. It changed its name to Pi Upsilon Rho in 1909.[1][2]

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By 1920 it had five active chapters.[2] It has been credited as one of the United States' oldest medical fraternities.[3] The fraternity's governing body, the Supreme Corpus, would meet annually at the convention of the American Institute of Homeopathy.[2][4]

Symbols and traditions

  • The badge of the society is in the form of a diamond lozenge, with the Greek letters Π, Υ and Ρ across the middle. Above this are three torches and below this are two crossed bones. An image of the badge is at the center of the Fraternity's crest.
  • The quarterly periodical of the fraternity was the Torch.
  • Chapters were named "Vertebrae", and were designated by Latin numerals.

Officers were named thusly:

  • Encephalon (President)
  • Medulla Oblongata (Vice-president)
  • Calamus Scriptorius (Secretary)
  • Optic Thalamus (Treasurer)
  • Torcular Herophili (Inductor)

Chapters

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References

  1. [1]
    "Pi Upsilon Rho". Banta's Greek Exchange. 12 (4): 376. October 1924.
  2. [2]
    Baird, William Raimond (1920). Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. James T. Brown. p. 532.
  3. [3]
    Becker, Barbara (25 April 2020). "How a skeleton became part of our family". Salon. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  4. [4]
    "Pennsylvania". Journal of the American Institute of Homœopathy. 3: 661–662. 1910.
  5. [5]
    Merged with the Michigan chapter.
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