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Title: Pi Lambda Phi Membership Directory 2007
Description: Chesapeake, VA: Harris Connect, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 1 2/4; xxxii, 680 pages; Hard cover has dark purple lettering on a purplish white spine. Boards are dark purple. Slight edge wear and rubbing. Book appears as if unused. Pages are crisp, clean and tight. Alphabetical index. Pages at rear with room to write contact info, ala a desk diary, which is blank. 'Very little is known about the early foundings of the fraternity. After groups of men were denied admission to 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." Chapters at other universities started soon after. While non-sectarian, it was predominantly Jewish until the end of World War II. During its history, three national fraternities merged with Pi Lambda Phi: Phi Beta Delta, Beta Sigma Tau and Beta Sigma Rho'.. Fine .

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