Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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0 0 Ag6tfl0lfl Stay at our house, Bill? Glad to have you. Come in, come in. No obligation, you know. Typical rush week conversation has started, in a period full of convention- alities yet abounding with its little memorable and humor- ous incidents. Anyone who has gone through rush week knows there is nothing like it. The unending bridge, ping- pong, and touch football, the name cards and evening entertainments, the great activity, the countless smokes, the busy coke machines, the actives sleeping all night on the living room floor, and above all the continuous talk: at the dinner table, on the floor in the living room, beside a victrola, and in the informal bull session. Rush week doesn't change very much. This year the weather was cooler, and free cokes weren't allowed. Some of the rules were different. But there are always the actives shaking hands with the countless rushees, playing genial host to them at the dinner table and in the card room, sizing them up, talking to them about fraternities, breaking dates with other houses for them, discussing each pros- pective pledge at the chapter meetings, and taking time out at night to renew old acquaintances on the South and West campuses. Rush week begins the new school year with one of the most important iobs the fraternity has to do. The week of lunch and dinner dates, the daily chapter meetings, the second invitation, the bid, and the final pressure session in one of the rooms with three or four actives is climaxed on Sunday night by the pledging ceremony when the pledge meets largely for the first time those men with whom he will share the responsibilities of the fraternity. Rush week significantly starts oft the new year. me... AU,-V eg I o 9lo,s 'rd Ru, GU: h 'ov ee Fells son bvllin9 wf,,7 l 0 iff W 3, Q-juxw Xlifgj Qxi2i fi X l T 0: 'i .. Q XI X T ' XP fx Q ffl! Q we X . v cf X' Tl ,Q 'V 032058 x X0 MQ 1 3 l

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Cacia -st .M Fourth Row-Bisbee, Woods, Hoelck, O'Leary, Ullman, Holtzman, Ryan, Ohlson, Jansen, Levan Third Row-Chapman, Cleland, Miller, Coleman, Schafer, Boyes, Clemons, Southworth, Present Second Row-Meyer, Kittredge, Neill, Numon, Hall, Willis, Holz, Simonson, Heinemann First Row-Nagel, Phalen, Peacock, Hill, Kroner, Peterson, White, Wones '7f?!i4'S7t7g'jf2,U:ol--liYi.w'Zl3i 'l7 fffifff'l5'4R'EQ'A'3 777' 5iiUWJ5 ' ' '79 fi'- V , - 'QWYLYQMWJWT '41fj'l'5f-QKZ'.lF'4 ' 315:47 ,l to . r-rv . '.1i.li, 4.,i5,,JI Ev N' ,. qw .arp .:qk ,5 - .1 ffl., , , ss. N The Acacians boast the newest fraternity house on campus. Grounding itself in the theory that good fellowship is more than a mere collegiate goodtime, Acacia, based on Masonry, has earnestly tried to live up to its pledge: To pre- pare themselves as educated men to take a more active part in the affairs of the community in which they may reside. These fellows are an active bunch, taking part in a variety of campus activities. Leon Meyer is past president of the Inter- fraternity Council, and George Heineman is that organization's vice-president. George Jensen took over the presidency of Student Congress, while Carl Simonson, Jim White, and Bob Kittredge have pushed out in their field of interests. Re- membering that after all we are here for an education, the Acacians cemented the idea by hitting the books hard enough to knock them into a third place stand- ing in the scholastic rating of the fraternities on the Northwestern campus. As a matter of fact, over a period of fifteen years, Acacia has held the highest schol- astic average of N.U. fraternities. Studying is okay-but social life is a vital necessity, quoth the Acacians. The house is noted for its tea dances and certainly formals, tea-dinners, and house parties are a highlight on the social calendar. The history of Acacia, and particularly that of the Northwestern chapter, is unusual and interesting. The twenty-five chapters--located throughout the country-are only in universities. The fraternity was founded at the University of Michigan in 1897. The chapter at Northwestern was founded first on the Chicago campus in 1910. Ten years later it was moved out to Evanston. Since 1933 Acacia has abandoned its Masonic requirements for membership, but has retained the basic ideals of fellowship of the Masonic order and the Acacians are able to take their place in the com- munity in which they live. 14