[1] After the war, alumni and honorary members restarted the Euphradian Society on January 13, 1866.

[6] Alumnus Robert W. Shand served as its president until student officers were installed on March 31.

[6] However, the financial problems in the South after the war negatively impacted the society and it did not achieve its pre-war success.

[6] During the political unrest of the 1870s, the society went inactive and a group called the Lambda Delta Epsilon committee, consisting of four members and three honorary members, was given authority to act on behalf of the Eurphradian Society and were tasked with protecting the society's documents, to sell its furniture if necessary and, fearing the admission of free African American to the college, to "keep negros from becoming members".

Its badge was a six-pointed star, decorated with the Greek letters ΦΑΕ, the year 1806, and the motto "Amicitiae Sacrum".

[1][2] In addition to providing a meeting space, the society's hall held its library collection.

[1] One visitor to the space noted, "The hall was then newly furnished and equipped and presented a beautiful, attractive, brilliant, and imposing appearance.

The impression upon a boy from the backcountry upon beholding the gaudy and dazzling spectacle on being conducted into the hall was simply overwhelming.