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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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68 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LOCAL FRATERNITIES Acanthus Founded 1911 1906 1911 1907 1908 1911 1912 Chi Beta Delta Omega Ilus Iris Pi Omicron Psi Delta Membership in these chapters varies in numbers from twenty-four to thirty-two. Any undergraduate in the University is eligible to membership in them, but he may not express a willingness or desire to join until he is asked. The selection of new members is usually made at the beginning of the year and largely from the incoming freshmen. During this period of "rushing/' as the practice is called, the various fraternities invite certain new students to their houses and in other ways pay them attentions in order that a mutual acquaintance may be formed in which both parties may determine the desirability of a union. Freshmen may be pledged at once, but may not be initiated until they have passed eleven hours of University work. Some points which fraternity members usually consider in prospective members are congenialty, appearance, previous reputation and standing, manners and accomplishments, probability of remaining in college four years, of becoming prominent in college activities, and of becoming a desirable alumnus of the chapter. Inquiry is usually made as to the social standing of a man's family and as to whether or not he is independent in a financial way, though every chapter has a number of members who are earning a part or all of their expenses. Prospect of good scholarship is universally welcomed, but, unfortunately, is often not insisted upon. Inasmuch tin fraternities arc (he leaders in the social life of the University! a clever social behavior is desirable in a pi pective member, but congenialty of a possible rough, bu< attractive "rt will often take the place 01 the other quality,
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