Gamma Phi Society was a college literary society founded prior to 1833 at the Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution (now Colgate University) in Hamilton, New York.
[1] Gamma Phi was one of the first student societies at the college and marked the start of Greek life on campus.
[4][2] In 1840, the faculty intervened to dissolve Gamma Phi and Pi Delta due to the active competition for membership between the two literary societies.
[3][6][7] William James Milne, a member of the Delphic Society, established a second Delphic Society at Geneseo Normal School (now State University of New York at Geneseo) in October 1871.
[3][6][7] The Geneseo society formed the statewide, and later national, Delphic Fraternity or Gamma Sigma Tau in 1871.