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University of Louisvill( Pi Kappa Phi entered the State of Kentucky for the first time on 'Saturday, April 16, when it installed Beta Gamma Chapter at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. The initiation and installation r:eremonies which were led by Sam Browder, Archon of Alpha Sigma Chapter, University of Tennessee, took place at Beta Gamma's chapter house, 2216 Confederate Place, Louisville. National President Howard D. Leake presented the charter to the Louisville group at the post-installation banquet held in the Leather Room of the Seelbach Hotel, Louisville. In speaking to them President Leake said, "Gentlemen, we know what we are here for and we hope that none of you lose sight of it. Know where you are going and then plow a straight furrow. "Fraternity life is a game and the way to stay is to measure up and play the rules. A fraternity is a group of men working together with initiative and stimulative actions to create a sound unit . A good fraternity makes mistakes and discards them. It keeps the good things and passes them on to other fraternities to make better men." In speaking of Pi Kappa Phi, President Leake said, "Two wars have not stopped it, a depression did not stop it, and nothing can stop it - that, in the essence is Pi Kappa Phi." Beta Gamma is an outgrowth of the local fraternity, Tau Alpha Rho. In his acceptance speech, Beta Gamma's first archon, James O'Neal, assured President Leake, "Tau Alpha Rho died tonight, but its spirit lives on in Pi Kappa Phi." W. Bernard Jones, Jr., Executive Secretary, then made a short inspirational talk. Dean Morton Walker, welcomed the young group to the Louisville campus and spoke briefly of its work 2
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History of the University of Louisville The J e f f e r s o n Seminary was established in 1798 when Kentucky was a very young state. It then became Louisville Collegiate Institution, then Louisville College, and finally was chartered as the University of Louisville in 1837, the oldest municipal university in the country. The following ten schools comprise the University of Louisville: the Col-
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lege of Arts and Sciences, founded !ng 路 1 798; the School of Medicine, fou!l' Is to er in 1833; the School of Law, foUll' fron ed in 1846 ; the Graduate Scb~ lota founded in 1856; Louisville Mull1 era] ipal College for Negroes, founded lllur 1876; the School of Dentistry, fouPand ed in 1887; Speed Scientific ScbOi G founded in 1924; the Division ing Continued on Page 15) Ot THE STAR AND LA ~