page_title: Dartmouth College Greek organizations
section_title: Theta Delta Chi (ΘΔΧ)
hierarchical_section_title: Dartmouth College Greek organizations / Fraternities / Theta Delta Chi (ΘΔΧ)
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Theta Delta Chi at the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
context_page_description: Dartmouth College is host to many Greek organizations, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life. In 2005, the school stated that 1,785 students were members of a fraternity, sorority, or coeducational Greek house, comprising about 43 percent of all students, or about 60 percent of the eligible student body. Greek organizations at Dartmouth provide both social and residential opportunities for students, and are the only single-sex residential option on campus. Greek organizations at Dartmouth do not provide dining options, as regular meals service has been banned in Greek houses since 1909.
  Social fraternities at Dartmouth College grew out of a tradition of student literary societies that began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first social fraternities were founded in 1842 and rapidly expanded to include the active participation of over half of the student body. Fraternities at Dartmouth built dedicated residence and meeting halls in the early 1900s and in the 1920s, and then struggled to survive the lean years of the 1930s.
context_section_description: Theta Delta Chi ("Theta Delt, TDX") was founded at Dartmouth College in 1869 as the Omicron Deuteron chapter of the national fraternity, and was the eighth fraternity founded at Dartmouth.  Theta Delta Chi was the scene of a famous murder in June, 1920.  Henry Maroney, class of 1920, was shot to death in his room at Theta Delta Chi by Robert Meads, class of 1919.  Meads was reportedly the central figure in a large-scale bootlegging operation at the college during the early years of Prohibition.  An already intoxicated Maroney reportedly stole a quart of Canadian whisky from Meads.  Later that same night, Meads found Maroney in his room at the fraternity and shot him through the heart.  Meads was convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter and given a sentence of 15 to 20 years hard labor.  The sensational murder is reportedly the source of the nickname given to the Theta Delta Chi residence: the "Boom Boom Lodge".  Theta Delta Chi has several distinguished alumni, including Robert Frost, who attended Dartmouth for a time in 1892.
caption: Theta Delta Chi, 2007
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