Sigma Chi was founded in 1855 when seven young men by the names of Benjamin Piatt Runkle, Thomas Cowan Bell, William Lewis Lockwood, Isaac M. Jordan, Daniel William Cooper, Franklin Howard Scobey and James Parks Caldwell wanted something better in a fraternity during their collegiate experience, and from that recognition, a dream was born- the fraternity of Sigma Chi. One, and the main, aim and object of Sigma Chi has been, and is to develop and train broad-minded men who can recognize the wholeness of things and who are not bound down to a contracted, eight-by-ten notion of exclusiveness. There is an absolute necessity for such men.