After the class election, there were meetings held in Myron Mckee Crandall's apartment as well as in Monroe Marsh Sweetland's law office.

Over the summer of 1890, many of the details of the organization were worked out by Myron Mckee Crandall, who had stayed in Ithaca until after school opened.

In regard to the adoption of the constitution, Albert Sullard Barnes wrote the following in his 1907 Quarterly article: "As I recall it, after refreshing my recollection from the original minutes now in my possession, on the evening of October 13, 1890, six students in the Law School, Brothers John M. Gorham, Thomas J. Sullivan, F.K.

The minutes from that meeting state, "Charter granted to Cornell Chapter," indicating from the beginning the intent to start a national fraternity.

The change in policy led to the loss of chapters in New York Law, West Virginia, Northwestern and Washington University in St.

[3] During World War I, a majority of the members of the active chapters dropped their college courses and enlisted in the armed forces.

Ratified in 1922, the amendment made Delta Chi a general fraternity, no longer requiring its members to be law students at their respective universities and colleges.

In February 2021, Virginia Commonwealth University's chapter was suspended after freshman Adam Oakes died of alcohol poisoning after an off-campus fraternity party.