Delta Sigma Phi
In the final months of the nineteenth century, a group of young men had begun meeting between classes at the City College of New York. Many had been friends before coming to school and wished to continue their friendship in the formal structure of a fraternity, however, these students were a mixed group of Christians and Jews, and there were no fraternal orders at the time that would have granted membership to all the young men. Instead of conceding defeat, these intrepid friends set out to begin their own organization, one that would honor “the principles of friendship and brotherhood among college men, without respect to race or creed,” and on December 10, 1899 they founded Delta Sigma Phi (Delta Sig).
