16 Facts About Delta Upsilon

Delta Upsilon was founded in 1834, when thirty freshman, sophomore, and junior students at Williams College met in the Freshman Recitation Room at the West College building to form what was then called "the Social Fraternity".

In 1879, Delta Upsilon formally disavowed its policy of anti-secrecy, instead adopting a program of what it described as "non-secrecy".

In 1898, Delta Upsilon joined the recent trend of fraternity expansion into Canada by chartering a chapter at McGill University in Montreal.

Delta Upsilon was recognized for his work leading the NIC with the NIC Gold Medal in 1959.

In denying an appeal for restoration of the chapter, Delta Upsilon headquarters explained that they had "been working in coordination with university staff" but had been unable to reach a solution by which the chapter could continue at MIT.

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The initiation was significant as it was the first time in more than a century that Delta Upsilon established a chapter at a school where no previous fraternities and sororities existed.

In 1854 the University of Vermont chapter, which was named Delta Upsilon Psi, severed its connections with the Anti-Secret Confederation.

In 2014, ten years after the collapse of Delta Psi, Delta Upsilon entered the Burlington campus for the first time since its split with Delta Psi, chartering a colony.

Delta Upsilon sued its rebellious chapter whose leaders included toy heir F A O Schwarz Jr.

In 1996 Kappa Delta Upsilon was banned from campus for 5 years due to the circumstances surrounding a fire in its basement.

Current Delta Upsilon badge was submitted to the fraternity's 1858 convention by a "badge committee", chaired by Edward Gardner.

The arms of the Delta Upsilon each have a word of the Fraternity motto engraved on them in Greek letters, the left arm ???a?a, the right arm ?p?????.

The hat band was initially only sold through the head office in 1922 Delta Upsilon began licensing a small number of hatter shops, primarily in Manhattan and New England, to produce and sell the puggaree for $1 if the customer first displayed their badge to the clerk as a mark of identification.

Delta Upsilon is currently organized into 68 active chapters, of which four are in Canada and the remainder in the United States.

Delta Upsilon Quarterly began publication in 1882 as the fraternity's official magazine.

Delta Upsilon member Linus Pauling is a member of a small group of individuals who have been awarded more than one Nobel Prize.