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Student Initiative and the Origins of the High School Extracurriculum: Chicago, 1880–1915

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Thomas W. Gutowski
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Students at Hyde Park High School set up the Theta chapter of Gamma Sigma fraternity in May 1896. Within two years they had a “small but comfortable” chapter house near the school on Kimbark Avenue; within three they were publishing a monthly journal, The Index. By 1908, when the fraternity's thirty-ninth annual convention was held in Chicago, the Theta chapter was involved in a four-year-old legal battle with the Chicago Board of Education, which was trying to get fraternities and sororities out of the high schools.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , Spring 1988 , pp. 49 - 72
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Copyright © 1988 by the History of Education Society 

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