Excerpt from Chi Phi Year Book The Omicron Chapter was established twenty years ago by the initiation of the following members of the classes of 1879 and 1880 in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University: Eugene B. Wilson, John Howard Cromwell, Geo. F. H. Bartlett, Chas. F. Dodd, E. Y. Foote, Jonathan Godfrey, Fred. A. Jones, Arthur Dodge, A. D. Lewis and Joseph B. Bissell. The Chapter owes its origin to the energy of John Howard Cromwell, Eugene B. Wilson and Fred. A. Jones, all of '79 Shef with the help and at the suggestion, of Lewis V. Snyder, of Rutgers, class of 1878. These four natives of New Jersey deter mined that the time was ripe for the establishment of a Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity at Yale. In the Spring of 1877 these, with others, petitioned for the grant of such chapter. It was over this petition that Xi and Delta took opposite sides, and in the somewhat vigorous struggle which followed, the talent from the college on the Raritan won and the Omicron Chapter was born. We were initiated in the evening of September 11th, 1877, in a hall specially obtained for that purpose, on Chapel Street, near State. This hall was retained by our lodge long enough to initiate several other members of '79 and '80, and two members of '78, and two specials were taken in later. The visiting initiating brothers were presided over by a then member, who has since become as false to his fraternity as he has been to his friends, to his college, to another fraternity which he has dishonored by joining, and to the profession which he disgraces by be longing to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.