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Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Alpha Chapter
Howard University
Over 100 years ago, on November 17, 1911, three ambitious Howard undergraduates met in the office of their faculty advisor Dr.Ernest Everett Just to form a new fraternity. On that rainy Friday night, Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper, and Frank Coleman gave birth to the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in Howard University's Science Hall—now named Thirkield Hall. The motto, "Friendship is essential to the soul," and cardinal principles Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance, and Uplift were adopted. Less than a month later on December 15, 1911, the students and eleven of their friends of like attainment and similar ideals were brought into the fraternity's first chapter, Alpha Chapter, affectionately known as "The Mother Pearl."