Alpha Tau Omega, Kappa Alpha and Pi Kappa Alpha were the only fraternities on campus. In 1914, UF did not yet have a college song.
Nothing sounds so good to the girl back home as a real lively college song.
During its early years, UF's yearbook was named The Seminole , and was regarded by students as an important and much-anticipated symbol of the end of the year. Although most women officially were not admitted to UF until 1947, they could attend UF's Teachers College during summer sessions. The Florida Alligator began printing during summer school sessions in 1915. In 1916, women like Virginia Myers, who served as an assistant editor, and Faith Duncan, who worked as the paper's circulation manager, were some of the newspaper's first female leaders. Right and wrong Editorials in the student newspaper reflected the issues of the day but also expressed how society felt men should act and what they should believe.