Lambda Chi Alpha was founded by Warren A. Cole, while a student at Boston University, on November 9, 1909; with the expressed objective purpose of bringing about the association together of college students of good moral character in the various collegiate institutions within the United States and Canada; to foster a high Christian standard of life and ideals, to promote honorable friendship, to cultivate intellectual excellence, to secure for members the greatest advantages in college life, to establish brotherly love, mutual aid, close personal connection between alumni, undergraduates and college, and to bind them together for mutual pleasure and interest in college as well as after life by testing each with courage, self-control, obedience, democracy and courtesy toward all with whom the may come in contact.
At the time, if you as a group wanted to start or had a group started, it was very hard to affiliate with a National Fraternity. It sometimes took 5 years as there was at the time very little expansion! Union and Miami Triad were considered some of the Old Line Fratgernitys.
LXA was kind of a uniqe thing starting from scratch and flying on a wing and a prayer, or as is sometimes said very loosely run!
As the old line Fraternitys were not into expansion, there was an open door for new Fraternitys!
In 1939 TKN which was set up to go to smaller schools merged with LXA, it is still the largest merger in Greek Dom!
There had been talks with TKE and another National but they both fell through! Sorry ZEKE you could have been a Brother LXA! Or vice versa!
I started my Local after being Booted out of a Fraternity that was a local when I joined and went to a well known Natrional.
I feel very much like Brother Warren Cole as for what I did!
I admire anyone who starts a Local Organization as I know what goes into it!
Sit back and think of what these people did in an age where it was hard to get around and to communicate!
That was tough!
Today, it is not impossable to start a group, but even harder to start a group and expand in this time of life with all of the things going on!
Hats Off To One And All!
