understanding the lore

The magic of lore lies in its fundamental purpose for identity. DiPhi's history can easily fall into American history-at-large or even the global cycle. Our lore, meanwhile, remains a personal and multifunctional tapestry for the DiPhi collective to share. Every perfect knot, loose thread, and shifting color illuminates this tapestry. If our organization could hold a spot amongst the cultural bubbles of this world, we might address this lore as "folklore," though much of what you will find on this website strains well beyond the fictive imagination. Real people grace our lore, and real people will pass it down. 

For all semantic purposes, lore here would refer to that embryonic genus of knowledge, hidden deep within the Societies' folds. It need not necessarily be the esoteric–though one might know a good many who would find arousal and pride in arcanae scientiae–but rather that history that stretches well beyond what comes as a requisite for the general acquisition of DiPhi traditions. 

In toto lore is an obscure familiarity. As uncanny as it may seem to the lonesome wanderer, it nonetheless beckons toward all hearts, both aching and sober. 

The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies maintain two significant virtues in comparison to the vast genus of American Collegiate Literary Societies. First, we hold a rare and privileged title of being one of the oldest of our kind–1795, baby. Second, despite those briny tides of time and unrest, we have keen access to our two-century-long history. The Societies, for all their wantonness and uncouth tendencies, are rendered most unique by these two facts; particularly, if one might implore, the latter. 

Rare is it for one to come across a collective of college students who share an affinity for history.