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The top award in Pi Kappa Alpha is named for Robert Adger Smythe, an initiate of Lambda Chapter at The Citadel in the late 1800s. Lambda was killed by anti-fraternity faculty after only a few months of existence, and only initiated 13 men altogether, but one of them was Smythe, a man who served as the fraternity's leader and inspiration for half a century.

Parsons College comes to mind as a school with great Greek system. they seemed to fall overnight; never did know what happened.

Some Northeastern private schools did away with fraternities because of far left political agendas. Outside the Northeast, it's hard to find schools that tried to get rid of Greeks.

Armstrong State in Georgia had a horrible collapse brought on by a disastrous edict of the state legislature and lost all their national affiliates. A few are now trickling back after 20 years or so.
Some younger readers don't know about the horrible "junior college experiment" in the 1970s were legitimate national fraternities intalled chapters at junior colleges because they thought that was the wave of the future. It wasn't - and there was a lot of controversey over it at the time - and now there are junior colleges all over the place littered with dead systems of legitimate nationals.
Around 1969 I think, Davidson College in North Carolina made an infamous imposition on their strong fraternity system. Far left faculty and administrators imposed what they called "self-selection" on the fraternities. Fraternities were told that rushees would be able to select them, instead of the other way around. And anyone who didn't like it would be required to leave their university housing and go sub rosa. Unfortunately, my own national decided to capitulate and stayed in their house as a self-selection chapter. Even though 90% of Davidson students were in traditional fraternities, radical left administrators destroyed the system to be replaced with a series of "eating clubs". There are some fraternities still at Davidson, in one form or another.
Yale University deliberately worked through local city rdinances to impoe crippling property taxes on college fraternities. The succeeded in driving them all out of their houses except for the DKE's (W. and his father both DKEs here) who had a chapter endowment large enough to absorb the punishment.