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Originally posted by KSig RC:
- also, Kappa Sigma does date historically to 1400, but the american founding was in 1869, placing it with the other "2nd wave" fraternities around this time, later than the others.
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I have heard this story with the origin of KS in the 1400 quite a few times now - but hey, just because you carry a possibly similar name doesn't really mean that that is the founding time of the fraternity (which you don't claim). You would need continuous documents to prove the direct line of connection.... should be kind of hard.
All the European fraternities see their roots in fraternity-like structures (called "bursarii") at Bologna, Prague and Paris universities but none claims to be a direct successor of them, which would be pretty bold.
I would just like to add something here for everybody interested in general fraternity history 101
- I recieved a nice e-mail clarifying things quite a bit and to share it with you:
Kappa Sigma is, if I got that right, sort of an American revival of a secret medieval society in Bologna with the same name and more (I wasn't told what, of course).
[This message has been edited by matthewg (edited March 14, 2001).]