Eli Banana

Eli Banana

The Eli Banana Ribbon Society is the oldest secret society at the University of Virginia. Founded in 1878citation
url=http://aands.virginia.edu/x7561.xml
title=Looking back at years of Elis, Ravens
journal=A&S Online
date=January 2004
last=Jacob
first=Katie
accessdate=2008-01-27] as a way to encourage the fraternities to engage more directly in the life of the University, the aim of the society was to bring its members to leadership in the University community and to "create an association of congenial spirits among the students." cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ns0zAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=%22eli+banana&source=web&ots=1okn1bWjwn&sig=hO9HCOBlV-FWerMXJmgYK5NlnbY
title=History of the University of Virginia
volume=IV
pages=97-99, 338
last=Bruce
first=Philip Alexander
authorlink=Philip Alexander Bruce
date=1921
publisher=Macmillan
location=New York
accessdate=2008-01-27]

While initially successful in dominating various student organizations, including the Jefferson Society, the Football Board, and the social scene, the organization took on a more lax tone over the succeeding years and became most famous for its "bacchanalian" Easter parades with which the elections of new members were marked. The early period of the society was ultimately marked with its censure by the faculty in 1894, when the faculty demanded that the members sever their ties with the organization in writing and pledge not to rejoin, or forfeit their diplomas. While the group was later reconstituted on direct appeal to the Board of Visitors,cite news
last = Special to the Post
title = Eli Banana Restored: Famous Society of the University of Virginia
work = Washington Post
pages = 3
date = 1897-06-15
accessdate = 2008-01-27] it never reclaimed the hold it had over the University's student life; as it waned, several other student societies, including T.I.L.K.A. and the Zeta Society (later the Z Society), took a more prominent role in University life.

Eli Banana has remained active since its reconstitution in 1897, most recently establishing the Eli Banana Fund, which has donated to various restoration and new building projects around the University since its inception in 2003.cite web
url=http://elibanana.org/_wsn/page2.html
title=Eli Banana Fund
accessdate=2008-03-31]

Notable members of the society included University mathematics professor William "Reddy" Echolscite web
url=http://www.math.virginia.edu/MathHistory/echols.htm
title=William Holding Echols (1859-1934)
accessdate=2008-03-20] and University Rector and Board of Visitors member Armistead C. Gordon.

External links

* [http://elibanana.org/ The Mystic Order of Eli Banana]

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