Edited sentence: Stevens full treatment of the issue in 1907.The best analysis of the origin of college fraternities and the origins of the ceremonies is still Albert C.With the earlier societies, the letters were the initial letters of some Greek phrase, however by the turn of the last century, societies selected mottoes that were simply two or three disconnected terms, usually virtues, without taking the trouble to coin an actual phrase, and many times because of conflicts with prior organizations, a new society often found they had to change their name