Howard was a graduate of Monmouth College and member of Phi Gamma Delta, referred to as Fiji.

Howard instead turned his efforts toward founding a fraternity devoted purely to students of the legal profession.

During World War II, when law school admissions enrollments virtually ceased, all of the Inns remained active on a restricted basis.

The first international unit of the fraternity was the Weldon Inn, chartered in 1925 at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

[1] The first unit in Germany, the Roman Herzog Inn, was chartered in 2006 at the Bucerius Law School, in Hamburg.