 The Pi chapter of the national fraternity Pi Lambda Phi was established at Dartmouth College in 1924 . The membership of the Dartmouth chapter was predominantly Jewish . About half of the college 's fraternities at the time had national constitutions that explicitly forbade membership to Jews , and for many of the other chapters , it was an informal policy to exclude membership to Jewish students . The national constitution of Pi Lambda Phi expressly accepted members of all religions . Pi Lambda Phi was not initially accepted by the Dartmouth Greek community , and efforts in 1924 and 1925 to gain formal admission into the Interfraternity Council failed . The fraternity was finally recognized in the spring of 1927 . The fraternity 's first residence , purchased in 1924 , was a building on South Street originally occupied by a Roman Catholic church . The fraternity would reside there until 1961 , when it moved to a house north of Webster Avenue on Occom Ridge . The chapter dissolved in 1971 . 
