Kappa Dates

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1909

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Warren A. Cole and two other law students found Alpha Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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1910

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First ritualistic initiation is conducted.

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1912

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Lambda Chi Alpha becomes a national fraternity with the installation of the University of Massachusetts, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, Brown University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapters.

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1913

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The Second General Assembly proclaimed the ideals of Lambda Chi Alpha by adopting the Fraternity's secret mottos and approving revisions to the Initiation Ritual, coat of arms, and badge. The date of the General Assembly, March 22, 1913, and its achievements are celebrated annually as Founders' Day.

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1914

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Lambda Chi Alpha's first magazine, the Purple, Green, and Gold, is published.
The present Initiation Ritual is adopted by the Third General Assembly.
Lambda Chi Alpha joins the National Interfraternity Conference.

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1915

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Zeta Zephyr is the first chapter publication, published by Zeta Zeta at Penn State.

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1916

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First inter-chapter meeting (now Leadership Conclave) is held in Indianapolis.

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1917

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Twenty-five hundred Lambda Chi (90 percent of the membership) are in military service during World War I.

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1920

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The central office opened at Kingston, Pennsylvania, and moved to Indianapolis in December, becoming the first fraternity or sorority to locate its central office in Indianapolis.

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1924

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Delegates from 11 local societies convened at Springfield, Missouri, and formed Theta Kappa Nu. The first full-time salaried traveling secretary, J. Fred Speer, is employed to devote full time to chapter visitation. Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity becomes incorporated.

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1926

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The first edition of The Paedagogus, the official manual of fraternity education, is published.

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1927

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Lambda Chi Alpha becomes an international fraternity with the installation of Epsilon-Epsilon at the University of Toronto.