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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...
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...
...began at Harvard in the 1880's. In 1881 the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions. 1844 saw the start of the first College club seriously devoted to productions of English drama: the Harvard chapter of Delta Upsilon which produced Elizabethan comedies through the 1930's. In 1889 the first of a number of Harvard Shakespeare Clubs gave Julius Caesar in Sanders Theater before "a large and representative audience...
...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...
These fraternities reporting flags missing were Phi Delia Theta, Reta Theta Pi Delta Upsilon, Zeta Psi Theta Delta chi and Phi Gamma Delia...