The Varlet chapter 5 questions with
correct answers
List the four events that associate Robert E Lee to Kappa Alpha Order (Events 1 and 2) - ANS
✔✔1. Serving as president of Washington College 2. 1915 Convention in Richmond VA, 3 early
members of Alpha testified of Lee's influence over KA students at Washington College
List the four events that associate Robert E Lee to Kappa Alpha Order (Events 3 and 4) - ANS
✔✔3. Former knight commander John Temple Graves first designated Lee as our "spiritual
founder" during a toast at the 1923 convention in Washington DC.
4. 1929 Convention in Louisville KY, January 19 was adopted as the official date for Convivium
What was Lee's primary mission after the war ended? - ANS ✔✔Training young men to rebuild
the Union.
List at least five attributes possessed by Lee that made him the "Knight of America" - ANS
✔✔sincerety, moral strength, dignity, humbleness, courtesy
What was Robert E Lee's one rule he had for his students? - ANS ✔✔"We have but one rule
here and that is that every student must be a gentleman."
What two events does Convivium commemorate? - ANS ✔✔Lee's birth and the birth of the
Order
Was Robert E. Lee a KA? - ANS ✔✔No
correct answers
List the four events that associate Robert E Lee to Kappa Alpha Order (Events 1 and 2) - ANS
✔✔1. Serving as president of Washington College 2. 1915 Convention in Richmond VA, 3 early
members of Alpha testified of Lee's influence over KA students at Washington College
List the four events that associate Robert E Lee to Kappa Alpha Order (Events 3 and 4) - ANS
✔✔3. Former knight commander John Temple Graves first designated Lee as our "spiritual
founder" during a toast at the 1923 convention in Washington DC.
4. 1929 Convention in Louisville KY, January 19 was adopted as the official date for Convivium
What was Lee's primary mission after the war ended? - ANS ✔✔Training young men to rebuild
the Union.
List at least five attributes possessed by Lee that made him the "Knight of America" - ANS
✔✔sincerety, moral strength, dignity, humbleness, courtesy
What was Robert E Lee's one rule he had for his students? - ANS ✔✔"We have but one rule
here and that is that every student must be a gentleman."
What two events does Convivium commemorate? - ANS ✔✔Lee's birth and the birth of the
Order
Was Robert E. Lee a KA? - ANS ✔✔No
