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Correct me if i'm mistaken, but I believe that no groups had pledge periods back then. I know that one of our brothers was initiated i think exactly one week after accepting the invitatation.
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I cited in haste. According to Out of the Heart (the P.E.O. Centennial History):
"The college girls of chapter AJ carried many of their problems with them. Most urgent was that of pledging new girls. The I.C. Sorosis, then known by its Greek letters Pi Beta Phi, and the two fraternities on campus, Beta Theta Pi and Phi Gamma Delta, could pledge prospective members as soon as they arrived on campus.
"P.E.O. required presentation of a name at one regular meeting and voting at the next before a girl could be asked to join. Permission to initiate had to be obtained from the chapter in her hometown if one existed there. With such restrictions campus P.E.O.'s were not even in competition with other groups.
"At the meeting of Grand Chapter in Mount Pleasant [IA] in October, 1889, Chapter AJ asked for a pledge ceremony and the right to use it. Those requests were granted."
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