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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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FRATERNITIES 129 Trustees. That body, retaining the hostility to fraternities acquired under Gregory, directed him to stamp out the bodies, and as soon as possible he called the members before him and informed them of the ban. The badges disappeared, but in a few weeks he learned that a committee was present from an Indiana college organizing one of the chapters petitioned for. No less than four fraternities, it transpired, were in being or about to come into being. The faculty accordingly passed a rule that after the new year no student might receive a class card till he had deposited with the Regent his pledge that he would join no college secret society so long as he was a student; and that no student might receive honorable dismissal or a diploma until he had deposited a statement that he had not been a member of any such society since the date of his pledge. This step followed a Princeton precedent, and was quite legal. Those already members of the societies were permitted to retain membership provided they were not active. Yet Sigma Chi managed to live, for its charter was held by resident alumni who retained the semblance of an organization through the troublous years that followed. There had been in existence for some time at the University a mysterious body called the* "Ten Tautological Tautogs," originally a burlesque on secret societies. Its motto, "Bono ostrea in sono ventre" (sic), indicated its gluttonous proclivities, and its personnel was an absolute secret. It happened at the opening of school in 1882 that the only returning Tautogs were Sigma Chis. The chance was too good to be missed; the Tautological body was made a vehicle for keeping Sigma Chi vicariously alive in eollege||and after leaving college the postgraduate degree of Sigma
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