[6] Ties with Harvard were severed in 1984 as a consequence of the Title IX provision of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, which would have required the club to admit female members.
[7][6] In May 2016, Harvard announced a new sanctions policy that targeted members of single-gender social organizations, effective as of August 2017.
[8][9] The policy prohibited members of single-gender societies and Greek letter organizations from receiving certain scholarships or from serving as an athletic team captain or in campus leadership positions.
[8] The two clubs agreed to separate in August 2020 after Harvard dropped its sanctions policy in response to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
In 1885, the fraternity's nickname, The Gashouse, was chosen by the founders Ward Thoron, Herbert Lyman, and Boylston Beal.
[16] The Delphic Club House is a contributing property to the Harvard Square Historic District.
The club recruits members through a series of invited dinners and formal dances in a process known as "Punching".
Stories of The Gas House are recounted by several authors, including Delphic alum Charles Macomb Flandrau in his books Harvard Episodes (1897) and Diary of A Freshman (1901).
[18] In Harvard Episodes, Flandrau depicts the multi-generational aspects of the club in describing an old graduate, "If they didn't actually know him, they knew of him.
Even this crust is sweet to the returned graduate whose age is just far enough removed from either end of life's measure to make it intrinsically unimportant.