| THE DELTA UPSILON FRATERNITY AND THE TUFTS CHAPTER.
THE Delta Upsilon was founded at Williams College
Nov. 4, 1834. Its aim has been to secure the union of
college men of kindred tastes for the promotion of social,
intellectual, and moral culture on an open basis. Its aims
may differ little perhaps from those apparently professed by
the secret college fraternities, but it is in its conduct toward
outsiders that its position is unique.
The Delta Upsilon fraternity is an open non-secret organization. By these words " open and non-secret" is not meant
that the proceedings of its meetings are to be published in the
college papers or that its meetings are open to all, with or
without invitation. It means however that the fraternity constitution is open to all who care to read it, that no man joins
the fraternity knowing nothing of what the final pledge is, and
that the pledge puts on the initiate no obligation to keep from
any one information regarding the chapter or fraternity that
he may wish to impart.
Chapters have been established in nearly all the colleges of
the United States, and after sixty-one years of vigorous life
Delta Upsilon has at present twenty-nine chapters.
The Tufts chapter was established Dec. 4, 1886. The
founding of the chapter grew out of the general dissatisfaction
among the more influential non-society men with the political
and social condition of the college; and from a well-grounded
fear that a second-rate secret society would be established
and make the situation worse. Communication was opened
with the Harvard chapter of Delta Upsilon, and on June 15,
1886, a petition for a charter signed by thirteen men was forwarded to the Executive Council of the Fraternity. On the
advice of the Harvard chapter the Tufts men sent delegates
to the general convention held at New York, Nov. 1886. At
this convention a charter was granted to the Tufts men. The
initiation ceremonies took place at the Quincy House, December 4, 1886. The Charter Members were Wilson Q. Fairbanks, Henry W. Hayes, Frank O. Melcher, Alva C. Snow,
Clemente Valdes, True W. White, from the class of '87; Lewis
D. Coburn, Clarance A. Crooks, Frank W. Durkee, Chas. H.
Murdock, George F. Murdock, Frederick H. Swift, from the
clsss of '88; William B. Eddy, Clarence F. French, John S.
Lamson, Burdett H. Loomis, Herbert O. Maxham, from the
class of '89; and Frederick T. Nelson, from the class of '90.
Although but nine years old Delta Upsilon holds its own
among the older institutions of its kind at the college. In
the summer of '94 a spacious chapter house was built on
Sawyer Avenue. This house contains, in addition to seven
suites for studies and chambers, parlors, dining-room and
kitchen, billiard and bath rooms.
| Undergraduates.
CLASS OF 1896.
EDWARD W. FICKETT,
JOSEPH CONGDON,
LESLIE L. PERRY,
CLIFFORD F. HALL.
CLASS OF 1897.
ALFRED W. WHEELER,
FRANK W. PUTNAM,
WALTER S. WYMAN,
ROBERT H. FENTON,
ERNEST J. HEWITT,
JOHN B. W. DAY,
CHARLES B. GRAVES,
HARRY A. LANE,
WILSON T. HOWE.
CLASS OF 1898.
FRANK LINCOLN PEIRCE,
HAROLD E. SWEET,
JOHN E. ARNOLD,
GUY C. HOWARD,
ARTHUR G. SMITH,
JAMES P. RUSSELL,
ERNEST S. RICHARDSON,
ROY T. WELLS,
ORSO R. CLAYTON,
CHARLES E. NOYES.
CLASS OF 1899.
CHARLES M. ANDREWS,
WILLIAM W. CHAPMAN,
ERNEST S. DOANE,
WILLIAM H. FORSTER,
GEORGE F. FORSTER,
ALBERT B. HOLMES.
