Delta Upsilon Fraternity. University of Michigan Chapter.

Delta Upsilon was established as a non-secret fraternal organization with an academic orientation. Prominent in the early literature of the society was the motto, "Scholarship must be first for the conscientious student." The University of Michigan chapter of Delta Upsilon was founded in 1876.

In the absence of a corporate facility, fraternal business was originally conducted in a hall above Schuh's Hardware Store on Main Street. The activities of Delta Upsilon during the first quarter century of its incarnation on the University of Michigan campus were predominantly literary and theatrical. The annual commemoration of the chapter's founding, falling on Shakespeare's birthday, was commemorated by the production of a Shakespearian drama. Delta Upsilon was also instrumental in securing the dissolution of the "Palladium", a consortium of secret fraternal organizations that had monopolized student positions of influence at the University of Michigan.

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