Alpha Delt is a fluid, dynamic institution. While we retain the same core principles that our founding brothers held 150 years ago, the house moves in the direction its members take it.

In the words of our founder, Samuel Eells:

[Alpha Delta Phi] must be built on a more comprehensive scale than other societies in regard to its intellectual proportions; providing for every variety of taste and talent, and embracing every department of literature and science....it must be national and universal in its adaptations, so as not merely to cultivate a taste for literature or furnish the mind with knowledge; but with a true philosophical spirit, looking to develop [the] whole being -- moral, social and intellectual.

We try very hard to live up to these words. Each year, Alpha Delt sponsors a number of literary series, with the purpose of developing the moral, social and intellectual beings of ourselves, and the members of the Wesleyan community. These include: Assembly Series, Music Series, Film Series, Poetry and Lit Series, Coffeehouse Series, and most recently, Science Series.