Editing Delta Upsilon (section)

===Abandoning "anti-secrecy"===
In 1879, Delta Upsilon formally disavowed its policy of anti-secrecy, instead adopting a program of what it described as "non-secrecy".<ref name="six" /> According to Delta Upsilon, the reason for this change was because it had been absolutely victorious in its battle against secrecy, "the character of the secret societies so altered, that hostility toward them decreased".<ref name="cornerstone" />

This explanation has been more skeptically received by some, with one period observer caustically noting that Delta Upsilon "reveals very little more of what it does than the latter [secret fraternities]".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Cyclopædia of Fraternities|last=Stevens|first=Albert|date=1907|publisher=E.B. Treat and Co.|page=331}}</ref> Others commented that chapter meetings were closed to all but initiated members and the fraternity was now practicing selective pledging and initiation, in contrast to its earliest days at Williams. Therefore, it was proffered, the description of the fraternity as a "private" society rather than a "non-secret" one might be more accurate.<ref>{{cite news |last=Porter |first=J.A. |date=February 1889 |title=College Fraternities |newspaper=[[The Century Magazine]] }}</ref> ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', meanwhile, poetically attributed the official change of position as due to "the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they".<ref>{{cite news |date=6 February 1884 |title=Secret Societies in Colleges |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1884/2/6/secret-societies-in-colleges-the-formal/ |newspaper=[[The Harvard Crimson]] |access-date=16 December 2014 }}</ref> Writing in 2013, Benjamin Wurgraft of the [[New School for Social Research]] commented that Delta Upsilon's changes made it "nothing more than another fraternity—a rival for pledges rather than a force for unity".<ref>{{cite book |last=Wurgraft |first=Benjamin |date=2013 |title=Jews at Williams: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Class at a New England Liberal Arts College |publisher=[[Williams College]] |page=68 |isbn=978-1611684353 }}</ref>
[[File:Charles Evans Hughes in National Portrait Gallery IMG 4575.JPG|thumb|[[Chief Justice of the United States]] Charles Evans Hughes served as president of Delta Upsilon and oversaw its incorporation.]]