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Let me give you all the Cliff Notes version because I know I don't like to read long things cut and pasted from a website.
Five young men started a local fraternity called The Knights of Classic Lore. Phi Delta Theta had been inactive at this time at Illinois Wesleyan and at the suggestion of some Phi Delt Alums, tried to seek affiliation with Phi Delta Theta. They adopted the name TKE to make themselves more attractive to Phi Delt's national council. Supposedly one of the petitions came within one vote of being accepted, but ultimately the five men decided to stop petitioning PDT and instead build their own fraternity. They wanted a brotherhood where men were judged not by wealth, rank, or honor but by inner character. On January 10th, 1899 Tau Kappa Epsilon was born at Illinois Wesleyan.
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