 Sigma Alpha Epsilon ( " SAE " ) at Dartmouth College was founded in 1903 as a local fraternity named Chi Tau Kappa . In 1908 , the fraternity sought to associate itself with a national fraternity and was granted a charter from Sigma Alpha Epsilon to become the New Hampshire Alpha chapter . With funding support from the national organization , the fraternity acquired a house on School Street that had previously been the residence of a College professor . By 1916 , the fraternity had moved to a wood house on College Street north of the Green . The fraternity would replace the structure entirely with a new brick residence built between 1928 and 1931 , one of the final fraternity building projects started on campus before the Great Depression . Sigma Alpha Epsilon members are encouraged by their national organization to emulate the tenets of The True Gentleman , a statement written by John Walter Wayland . Notable alumni of the chapter include the United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson , Jr . , class of 1968 , and benefactor to Dartmouth College Barry MacLean , class of 1960 . Sigma Alpha Epsilon was derecognized by Dartmouth College on Feb. 4 , 2016 . 
