DU Quarterly: Volume 127, No. 2

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DU celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a banquet that is attended by Fraternity Founder William Bross, Williams 1838. Bross is one of two Founders born on November 4th, the day of the Founding.

The Delta Upsilon Quarterly begins publication. To date, the magazine is the oldest continuously published Greek letter fraternity magazine in the world.

The Klondike Gold Rush occurs in the Yukon Territory of Canada.

Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States upon the death of President William McKinley. The Delta Upsilon Fraternity’s Board of Directors is formally established.

The first production Model T Ford is built at the Ford plant in Detroit, Michigan.

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The SpanishAmerican War is fought.

Delta Upsilon establishes a Fraternity Headquarters in New York City, the same year as the Brooklyn Bridge is completed.

Coca Cola is invented in Columbus, Georgia.

DU becomes an international fraternity with the chartering of the McGill Chapter in Montreal, Quebec.

More than 3,000 people are killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Baseball's first World Series is played between Boston and Pittsburgh. The Wright Brothers conduct their first successful aircraft flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The Statue of Liberty is officially dedicated in New York Harbor.

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The Fraternity is officially incorporated under the laws of New York.


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