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On the cold night of January 10, 1899, five students at Illinois Wesleyan University in the small Midwestern town of Bloomington had just returned from the Christmas holidays when Mr. Joseph L. Settles went to the room occupied by Mr. James C. McNutt and Mr. Clarence A. Mayer to discuss the organization of a new society on campus. Joined immediately by Mr. Owen I. Truitt and Mr. C. Roy Atkinson these five students created the first set of regulations for the nights of classic lore, a society whose avowed purpose was "to aid college men in mental, moral, and social development."