Congratulations on your decision to enroll at University of Toronto. I hope your college years will be some of the most memorable time of your life. Your success however largely depends upon how you choose to live your life at U of T. Delta Upsilon fraternity is there to help you have the best time of your life in university, make lifelong friends and increase your chance of establishing a successful career.
Delta Upsilon is a men’s Greek letter fraternity dedicated to developing its members to the fullest potential both personally as well as academically. By seeking out the best incoming candidates for membership, our fraternity carries out a tradition that has continued uninterrupted for 171 years since 1834 at Williams College.
There are many other fraternities in the U of T campus, and the question you might ask is what makes Delta Upsilon different from others? Most fraternities you will see have secrets such as secret handshakes and secret rituals. There are no secrets with Delta Upsilon. No secret rituals. No secret oaths. We're proud of what DU stands for. And proud to be the world's only international fraternity committed to sharing our ideals, symbols, and rituals openly.
Have you seen Animal House (1978), Old School (2003), or other TV shows/movies that depict the life in a fraternity? In these media interpretations of fraternities, pledges are often humiliated or harassed in front of brothers during their pledgeship. Hazing is not a part of Delta Upsilon’s program at all. We make no attempt to make new and potential members feel uncomfortable. We love to have fun, but not at the expense of others.
Delta Upsilon, an international men's fraternity founded in 1834, is committed to building better men through four founding principles that challenge our members to expect nothing less than excellence from themselves and others. Delta Upsilon’s four founding principles are: The Promotion of Friendship, The Development of Character, The Diffusion of Liberal Culture and The Advancement of Justice. Delta Upsilon has more than 85 chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada. More than 110,000 men have been initiated into our brotherhood since our founding in 1834. Our members include men from all walks of life and each has been admitted solely on the basis of merit, nothing more, and nothing less.
Delta Upsilon's prominence comes in the achievements of DU alumni. To name a few, and at great risk of deleting men with tremendous records, some notable DUs were:
James A. Garfield: Williams 1856, second fraternity man to become President of the United States
Charles Evans Hughes, Colgate and Brown 1881, Governor of New York, U. S. Vice President,
Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court
Charles G. Dawes, Marietta 1884, Vice President of the United States and Ambassador to Great Britain
Fenton W. Booth, DePauw 1892, dean of Harvard Law
J. Arthur Clark, Toronto '06, president of Canadian Bar Association
William A. Mather, McGill '08, president of Canadian Pacific Railroad
Albert W. Hughes, Colgate '11, president of J. C. Penney
Joseph P. Kennedy, Harvard '12, ambassador to Great Britain and father of two Senators and a
President (J.F.K.)
James B. Conant, Harvard '14, president of Harvard
Lester Pearson, Toronto '19, Prime Minister of Canada and president of the United Nations General
Assembly
William E. Robinson, New York '23, chairman of Coca-Cola Company
Charles F. White, Bucknell '25, president of M&M Candy Company
Hedley Donovan, Minnesota '34, editor TIME Magazine
Charles L. Brown, Virginia '43, chairman, AT&T
Dr. J. Robert Cade, Florida '45, inventor of Gatorade
Col. Frederick R. Hauck, Tufts ' 62, NASA astronaut
Gerald T. Aaron, Wichita '63, president, Pizza Hut
Michael D. Eisner, Denison '64, chairman and CEO of Disney
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