Fraternitas Estica

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Colors blue-green-white Founded 9 May 1907		Phone +372 740 9484 Color blue-green-white
Scope Estonia Sweden Canada Australia Address Vanemuise 54, 50410 Tartu, Estonia Motto Teos õiglane ja vahvas, ustav sulle, Eesti rahvas! Similar Kaunase puiestee, St John's Church, Päevakes Kalda, Korp! Sakala Vilistlask, University Café

Fraternitas Estica is an all-male academic corporation at the University of Tartu, Estonia. It was founded in 1907.

History

1900. In August vil! dr. Aleksander Paldrok makes a proposal at Estonian Students' Society's general assembly to propose the Estonian Students' Society for becoming a corporation. This idea did not get the necessary support

1904. Twelve members of the Estonian Students' Society request to establish a separate corporation

1906. A plea for creating a new corporation is presented to the rector of Tartu University

9 May 1907 (26 April according to Julian calendar). Fraternitas Estica appears first time in colours to the public. This is officially considered the establishing date.

1912. Eleven active members are expelled, who then established corporation Ugala.

1918. Fraternitas Estica members volunteer in corpore to fight in the Estonian War of Independence.

1932. A plot of land with a house is acquired at Aia street 54, in Tartu (nowadays Vanemuise 54).

1988. Three students form the faculty of journalism, Vallo Nuust, Margus Sanglepp and Jaan Murumets, decide to reestablish korp! Fraternitas Estica.

March of 1989. Tartu University confirms the founding charter.

1996. The Tartu branch of the Eesti Televisioon (Estonian Television) returns the historic convent house after long negotiations.

2007. The Tallinn Chapter is formally reestablished.

Objectives and ideological grounds

To consolidate the members of Fraternitas Estica into a single fraternal family through a spiritual bond for life, which would never perish due to personal difficulties or other circumstances

To deepen mutual fraternal interaction, mutual support and sincere helpfulness in all situations

To educate our members into persons with high moral and ethical values, who prefer honesty and straightfowardness to anything else

To stimulate our members's intellectual activities by creating an organisational unity for satisfing those needs

To assist and aid in creating preconditions for obtaining higher education for Estonians in general and especially for our members in pursuit of higher education

To deepen and preserve national mentality thus preferring intelligence to power, freedom to peace and content to form

To raise our members to citizens who love, respect and want to progress the Estonian land and nation, Estonian culture and language

To progress and preserve the Estonian like and minded type of intellectual, the Estonian way of life, family and home

korp! Fraternitas Estica does not get involved in party politics

To work together with other organisations, both academic and non-academic, to achieve overlapping objectives

References

Fraternitas Estica Wikipedia

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History

Objectives and ideological grounds

References