The first fraternity to be formally recognized by the university was Kappa Sigma, which established a chapter at UT in 1880. Not only did the faculty recognize its existence, but they also permitted the fraternity’s meetings to be held on campus. Some writers about the university have held that the favoritism shown Kappa Sigma might have been a result of the fraternity’s reported control of the Chi Delta Literary Society. In the early 1880s, the leaders of Kappa Sigma, including former statesman William G. McAdoo Jr., were all prominent officers of Chi Delta. McAdoo was editor of the Chi Delta magazine, the Crescent, when it ran a defense of fraternities indicating “some of the greatest statesmen, most distinguished scholars and professors, finest poets, finest physicians, most eminent lawyers and ministers, and best of men generally, are fraternity men.” The Philomathesian Literary Society, reportedly controlled by SAE in the 1880s, offered no criticism of fraternities in its magazine.