Word: upsilon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rockefeller graduated from Lincoln with deficiencies in arithmetic and spelling, but with an urge to learn more about people. He decided Princeton, Yale and Harvard were undemocratic, bypassed them to attend smaller Dartmouth. At Hanover he directed a stirring attack on the fraternity system but eventually joined Psi Upsilon, wielded a fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made...
Regarding Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon and the depledged freshman, Sherman Wu [Nov. 12]: As an American and an N.U. graduate, I am outraged at the arrogance of Psi U and at the university for allowing such a disgrace to occur...
...Upsilon Fraternity has shamed its university and disgraced its country before the whole world...
White supremacy came, as it seems to come to many U.S. college fraternities, to Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon, which has no racial-discrimination provision in its charter. The victim: Sherman Wu, a freshman and son of Nationalist China's onetime (1949-53) Formosan Governor K. C. Wu (Grinnell '23). Young Sherman, a bright and ingratiating chap, had been pledged by Psi U, broken bread with his fraternity brothers, even had his picture taken with them. But nobody told Wu that eight of his fellow pledges, all equally desirable fellows, had turned thumbs down...
...hour of the day or night when plays are not being rehearsed, acted or written." Cataloguing the productions of that year here, Blake counted language plays by the French, German, Spanish and Chinese clubs; an Old English play by the English Club of Radcliffe; an Elizabethan drama by Upsilon, three uncredited productions of modern plays written by Harvard graduates, a group of readings and experimental productions at Radcliffe, in addition to the traditional Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta shows. With this background, Blake strongly denied the need for a Harvard Dramatic Society, the idea for which had been circulating...