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Feburary 5th, 2007

 

Purpose of Delta Sigma Pi


Delta Sigma Pi is a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business
in universities; to encourage scholarship, social activity and the association of
students for their mutual advancement by research and practice; to promote closer
affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce, and to further
a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial
welfare of the community.


History of Delta Sigma Pi


It was not a single spectacular event that brought about the creation of Delta Sigma Pi over 90 years ago, but the association of five students at New York University who, coincidentally, used a common path to their homes following classes. These four men were motivated by the same forces that have caused others to organize fraternities, namely, common goals and the desire to pursue these goals together. 

Plans were made by these five men in the Spring and Summer of 1907 to form a social club composed of students in the school of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University, which at that time conducted classes in the evening. Regular sessions of this nucleus were held at one of the ice cream parlors in Central Park, which concession was operated by the father of one of the five men.