Collection: Delta Chi
Delta Chi was founded at Cornell University on October 13th, 1890. Since 1929, Delta Chi has recognized the following 11 Cornell Law students as founders: Albert Sullard Barnes, Myron McKee Crandall, John Milton Gorham, Peter Schermerhorn Johnson, Edward Richard O’Malley, Owen Lincoln Potter, Alphonse Derwin Stillman, Thomas A. J. Sullivan, Monroe Marsh Sweetland, Thomas David Watkins, Frederick Moore Whitney.
Delta Chi did not become a single member fraternity until 1909 when membership in the Fraternity precluded membership in any other college social fraternity. After WWI, many Delta Chi chapters began to stretch recruiting restrictions by initiating men with no intention of studying law, contrary to the fraternity’s roots in legal scholarship.
