Omicron Zeta is installed in October 10-12 at 614 Stewart Avenue. Claude Ellsworth Mitchell '12 becomes O-1 of 45 charter members. Writes correspondent Murray Lincoln, Mass. in the inaugural issue of the national magazine:

On October eleventh and twelfth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, occurred the installation of Omicron Zeta chapter of LCA under the most favorable auspices. Immediately following the "Crew Celebration" which took place on the Library Slope, but a stone's throw from the house, Brother Warren A. Cole gave the alumni who were present, the oath and ritual of LCA. On the following day the entire bunch of forty-five attended the Cornell-Carlisle football game at Percy Field That night immediately after the banquet, Brother Cole, with the aid of brothers from Amherst, Penn. State, and M.I.T. initiated and gave the ritual to four pledges in the most impressive manner, at the same time initiating us into the mysteries of LCA. It was in the wee hours of Sunday morning before his work was completed….

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