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The Sigma Chi house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, c. 1905. Sigma Chi was founded in 1855 by Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis Lockwood, Isaac M. Jordan, Daniel William Cooper, Franklin Howard Scobey, and James Parks Caldwell as the result of a disagreement over who would be elected Poet in the Erodelphian Literary Society of Miami University in Ohio.
Eusebius then continues to describe the Labarum, [5] the military standard used by Constantine in his later wars against Licinius, showing the Chi-Rho sign. The accounts by Lactantius and Eusebius, though not entirely consistent, have been connected to the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (312 AD), merging into a popular notion of Constantine ...
Members of fraternities and sororities address members of the same organization as "brother" (in the case of fraternities) or "sister" (in the case of sororities). The names of almost all fraternities and sororities consist of a sequence of two or three Greek letters, for instance, Delta Delta Delta, Sigma Chi, Chi Omega, or Psi Upsilon.
Chrismon Chi-Rho symbol with Alpha and Omega on a 4th-century sarcophagus (Vatican Museums) A Christogram (Latin: Monogramma Christi) [a] is a monogram or combination of letters that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ, traditionally used as a religious symbol within the Christian Church. One of the oldest Christograms is the Chi ...
Chi or X is often used to abbreviate the name Christ, as in the holiday Christmas . When fused within a single typeface with the Greek letter rho , it is called the Chi Rho and used to represent the person of Jesus Christ.
In 1933, Sigma Chi erected and dedicated a Founders' Memorial Monument in the San Francisco National Cemetery where Bell is buried. [ 13 ] [ 2 ] [ 14 ] Bell is the namesake of the Thomas Cowan Bell Scholastic Foundation, located in San Jose, California , which awards college scholarships to both members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and students ...
The national organization cited accountability issues among members as the reason for the suspension. Sigma Chi is the third fraternity to be kicked off KU’s campus in 2022.
The crests of many collegiate fraternities and sororities feature the fasces, including those of Chi Phi, Alpha Phi Delta, Sigma Alpha Mu, Phi Beta Sigma, and Psi Upsilon; The academic seal of American University Washington College of Law prominently features a fasces; The symbol of the National Party (Uruguay) (Partido Nacional) includes a fasces