The Alabama Chapter was established at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, in 1850, by members of the Senior class, and remained eight years an active and flourishing Chapter of the Fraternity, doing its appointed work, although at a distance from the other chapters and removed from immediate and frequent contact with them. In 1858 the faculty of the University prohibited secret societies, and the Chapter suspended its active functions. The graduate members of the Chapter met immediately after this occurrence at Shelby Springs, Alabama, and organized a graduate association; but the war, in which so large a portion of the members of the Chapter served under Confederate colors, early brought the annual reunions to a close. As the buildings, records and library of the University were burned during the war, sources of information as to college honors won by the Chapter are cut off.