Cornell and National

The Ann Arbor Assembly approves sweeping changes in national government. Ernst J.C. Fischer O-34 ’10 is elected the second Grand High Alpha.

At the Fifth General Assembly, at Epsilon Zeta at the University of Pennsylvania, the leadership of the fraternity splits. Warren Cole demands a strong central government; Jack Mason and others disagree sharply. Over the next few years, the disagreement will turn to division, and personal animosity will lead to the expulsion of Warren A. Cole from the very fraternity he founded.

Omicron hosts the Fourth General Assembly, Lambda Chi Alpha national legislative convention, which it takes as a high honor, at the 614 Stewart Avenue house in Ithaca.

The Second General Assembly— the first with representatives from zetas other than Alpha— meets at M.I.T. and adopts the modern Ritual, coat of arms, and meaning of Lambda Chi Alpha developed by Jack Mason.

Lambda Chi Alpha becomes a national when its second chapter, Gamma Zeta, is installed by Cole at Massachusetts Agricultural College (now U Mass-Amherst) with 8 members. By mid-October Lewis Drury, Louis Webster, and Cole complete the design of our fraternity's first coat of arms, the Gamma Plate.

George Desdunes, a sophomore and brother of ΣΑΕ, dies after night of drinking, prompting major changes in the regulation of fraternity and sorority life at Cornell.

The name “Lambda Chi Alpha” is written and recorded for first time in Alpha Zeta minutes.

By tradition, Warren A. Cole, Percival C. Morse, and Clyde K. Nichols discussed reorganizing the Cosmopolitan Law Club of Boston University into a Greek letter society. Realizing that effort to be futile, they purportedly found a club called "Loyal Collegiate Associates," which becomes Alpha Zeta at Boston.