Editing Pi Lambda Phi (section)

==History==

Very little is known about the early foundings of the fraternity.<ref name="pilambdaphi.org">{{cite web |title=Pi Lam History |url=http://www.pilambdaphi.org/site/c.plKXL7MPIqG/b.3609919/k.A021/Pi_Lam_History.htm#FoundersPeriod |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327195047/http://www.pilambdaphi.org/site/c.plKXL7MPIqG/b.3609919/k.A021/Pi_Lam_History.htm#FoundersPeriod |archivedate=2008-03-27}}</ref> After groups of men were denied admission to other fraternities at [[Yale University]] because of their religious and racial backgrounds in 1895, Frederick Manfred Werner, Louis Samter Levy, and Henry Mark Fisher were determined to start something new. They decided to start the first fraternity that was "a fraternity in which all men were brothers, no matter what their religion; a fraternity in which ability, open-mindedness, farsightedness, and a progressive, forward-looking attitude would be recognized as the basic attributes."<ref name="pi-founders">{{cite web|url=http://www.pilambdaphi.org/history/plhistory_02_founders.php|title=The Founders' Period, History of the Fraternity}}</ref> Chapters at other universities started soon after. While non-sectarian, it was predominantly Jewish until the end of World War II.<ref name="Sanua">{{cite book
|last= Sanua
|first= Marianne Rachel
|title= Going Greek: Jewish college fraternities in the United States, 1895–1945
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1u0sPzMEwOUC
|format= [[Google Book Search]]
|access-date= May 19, 2009
|year= 2003
|publisher= [[Wayne State University Press]]
|location= [[Detroit]]
|isbn= 978-0-8143-2857-6
|oclc= 49799380
|pages= 49–50
|chapter= "Oh Yes, That Nonsectarian Jewish Fraternity": The Search for Identity 1895–1906
|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1u0sPzMEwOUC&pg=PA49
|lccn= 2002007160
}}
</ref> 
During its history, three national fraternities merged with Pi Lambda Phi: [[Phi Beta Delta (fraternity)|Phi Beta Delta]], [[Beta Sigma Tau]] and [[Beta Sigma Rho]].