Photo of the Adelphic house OLIVET, Mich.— In the middle of the Civil War, a group of students at Olivet College came together to build something united, a brotherhood rooted in literature, loyalty, and inclusion. Founded on December 15, 1862, it began as a society called the “Clever Fellows,” but in 1865 it was changed to Adelphic. “Adelphic Alpha Pi alumni in Detroit put up the money and hired an architect to design our house. Actives stayed over the summer of 1889 to
