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=== Founding === Lambda Chi Alpha was founded by [[Warren A. Cole]], a law student at [[Boston University School of Law]] in [[Boston]]. There are two different accounts of the fraternity's founding.<ref name="lcafounding">{{citation|url=https://www.lambdachi.org/aboutlca-2/history-2/|title=Our Founding|publisher=Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity}}</ref> The official story told by Cole and Albert Cross is that on {{dts|1909|11|02}}, Cole, Percival C. Morse, and Clyde K. Nichols reorganized the Cosmopolitan Law Club, a society of Boston University law students into the Loyal Collegiate Associates, which was renamed Lambda Chi Alpha in 1912.<ref name="founders">{{citation|url=https://www.lambdachi.cc/lambda-chi-alpha-history-in-the-making-founding-the-fraternity/|title=Our Story: A History of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity|first=Michael J|last=Raymond|year=2017 }}</ref> All were close friends and had been members of Alpha Mu Chi, a [[College-preparatory school|prep school]] fraternity. The Greek letter name is thought to have been used from the beginning but is not recorded in the ''Alpha Zeta'' minutes until April 27, 1910.<ref name="lcafounding" /> A second account of the founding, based on interviews with contemporaries, is that Cole and others did belong to a loose group known as the Tombs or Cosmopolitan Club but this was not related to Lambda Chi Alpha's founding. Instead, according to the alternative account, Cole shared an apartment with James C. McDonald and Charles W. Proctor, who later joined [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]]. Cole then established his own fraternity with Ralph S. Miles, Harold W. Bridge, and Percival C. Morse on {{dts|1911|11|23}}. The group issued a charter for itself that was backdated to November 15.<ref name="lcafounding" /> Cole approached many local groups at colleges and universities throughout the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] seeking others willing to join his new fraternity. He corresponded with or visited 117 institutions by 1912, when a group at [[University of Massachusetts Amherst|Massachusetts Agricultural College]] accepted a charter to become ''Gamma Zeta''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lambdachi.org/fraternity/history/tfolca.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928134454/http://lambdachi.org/fraternity/history/tfolca.asp|url-status=dead|title=Lambda Chi Alpha History Timeline: The Founding of Lambda Chi Alpha|archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref> The first General Assembly, establishing a structure for the national fraternity, was held in Boston on April 13, 1912. The fraternity held its second general assembly in Boston on {{dts|1913|03|22}} in which the fraternity adopted its secret motto, ritual insignia including its badge and coat of arms, and the basic organizational structure. Lambda Chi Alpha virtually replaced the fraternity Cole had established outside of its name.<ref name="foundersday">{{citation|url=https://www.lambdachi.cc/happy-founders-day/|title=Happy Founders Day|first=Kyle|last=Jones|work=Cross & Crescent|date=March 2007}}</ref> The 14th General Assembly, in 1931, recognized March 22 as Lambda Chi Alpha Day in recognition of these achievements. In 1942, the board of directors renamed it Founder's Day. {{dts|1909|11|02}} is also still recognized, so Lambda Chi Alpha celebrates two Founders Days annually.<ref name="foundersday" /> In the years that followed, a divide opened between Cole and a group of young alumni led by Mason, Ernst J.C. Fischer of Lambda Chi's [[Cornell University]] chapter in [[Ithaca, New York]], and Samuel Dyer of the [[University of Maine]] chapter in [[Orono, Maine]]. Dyer was supported by Albert Cross at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] chapter in [[Philadelphia]] and Louis Robbins of the [[Brown University]] chapter in [[Providence, Rhode Island]].<ref name="foundersday" /> In 1920, Cole was ousted and Fischer was elected national president. In 1927, Fischer became international president when ''Epsilon-Epsilon Zeta'' at the [[University of Toronto]] in [[Toronto]] was chartered.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lambdachi.org/fraternity/history/milestones.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101131037/http://www.lambdachi.org/fraternity/history/milestones.asp|url-status=dead|title=Lambda Chi Alpha History Timeline|archive-date=January 1, 2008}}</ref>
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