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her one is tapped with a
a gallon of freezing water,
on the coldest spring
the University's honor so-
provide amusement for the
rs and pride for those who
tiated.
ents are chosen generally
basis of leadership, schol-
and service. Ranging from
aly established Greek let-
eties to local organizations,'

honoraries are found in many of
the University's schools and col-
leges and extracurricular activi-
ties.
Circle, Mortarboard, Senior So-
ciety, Scroll and Wyvern honor
outstanding women. Prominent
Michigan men are selected for
m e m b e rsh i p in Michigamua,
Druids, Vulcans, T r i a n g 1 e s,
Sphinx, Scabbard and Blade, and
Hectorians.

Michigamua .
Superior leadership in activi-
ties and athletics characterize
junior men who are tapped for
Michigamua, founded in 1902.
Initiates are coated with brick
dust to tint their skins and are
dressed like Indians. They are
then harnessed to a hawser for
the traditional Rope Day duck-
walk to the top of the Union.
The tribal initiation ceremony
is staged around the sacred Tap-
pan Oak near the General Li-
brary. All new members are then
given Indian names along with
their own.
Prospective members must with-
stand hours of exercise and cold
water baths before they are con-
sidered worthy to "speak-um In-
dian talk and speak-um wisely.
Speak-um slowly and think-um
what say-um."
Druids . .
Founded in 1910, Druids tap
junior . men enrolled in all the
undergraduate units of the Uni-
versity . except the engineering
college. Initiates are recognized
for outstanding leadership in ac-
tivities and varsity athletics.
New members are dressed to
resemble young trees. Their ini-
tiation ceremony, characterized
by the watering of the young
"saplings," transforms them until
they grow into mighty trees.
Joyce Kilmer's poem, "Trees" is
recited during the ceremony. New
members all have names that
typify their personalities. .,Old
members, staunch and mighty
oaks, are regally attired in robes
and hoods for the initiataion.
Vulcans . .
Mighty Vulcan, holding court
on Mt. Aetna, yearly calls into his
society campus leaders and out-
standing athletes who are juniors
in the engineering college.
Since its inception in 1904, Vul-
cans has initiated its members by
greasing their bodies a gleaming
black and having them carry
flaming torches which light the
symbolic anvil near the Engineer-
ing Arch.
Members all assume mythologi-
cal names with their own.
Triangles . . .
Junior athletes and leaders in
the engineering school are eligible
for membership in Triangles. Ini-
tiates "sail" across the Diag on a
roller skate, wearing a white
dunce cap.
Part of the soapy initiation
ceremony includes scrubbing the
floor of the "sacred" Engineering
Arch.

} -Daily-Peter Anderson
PEACE PIPE-Members of the tribe of Michigamua arrange themselves in a solemn line before the sacred Tappan Oak, where they smok6 the pipe of peace and sing the
Indian chant prior to initiating the chosen palefaces into the band. The initiates, huddled around the tree, must pass many tests and prove their courage and loyalty in
many ways before they can call themselves Fighting Braves, and receive their Indian names.

TRIANGLES-To prove themselves before entering the sacred so-
ciety, initiates of the junior engineering honorary propel them-
selves on one roller skate to the seal on the Diag, which they must
wash with reverential care before being judged worthy.

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