I can't imagine that I had never seen this thread before. As it happens I was a member of two fraternities the first being at a Quaker college and was a "local" having no ties off-campus. The second was a national Greek organization with a looong history.
I have been amused at the highly opinionated views of some posters here who have stated that certain and varied practices NEVER happened. That may have been true in their time and location but to say it was true everywhere and through all time is totally wrong. The time frame of which I'm writing was in the early 1940's.
Most of the "stunts" were in good humor as I think you'll see. Here are a few which I personally experienced. At the Quaker school we had to go through an initiation. A couple of the required performances were as follows: Two pledges are taken to the showers (no water running)and being stripped of their shorts are positioned facing each other. They are then blindfolded and told to start pissing. The actives in charge then start pumping warm water onto the legs and feet of the pledges and many of them, thinking the other guy IS pissing on them start to reciprocate. This next one was hilarious (to watch). The pledge was made to stand on the edge of a tabletop. He was then handed a solid brick with a heavy cord tied around it that tailed off to a loop. The candidate was then blindfolded after which a loop (NOT the one mentioned above) was slipped over his penis and tightened and he was instructed to drop the brick. It took a long time to get guys to drop the brick and some never did.
At State College in the Greek fraternity the pledges were subjected to so-called midnight raids. The active members would invade the sleeping dorm with lots of noise, get the pledges up and herd them down to the parlor on 1st floor. If there was a roaring fire in the fireplace we knew what we were in for. FIRE DRILL!!! Wearing nothing but shorts we had to crawl up the stairs to the 3rd floor where a nasty concoction of aftershave, talcum powder, mouthwash and who knows what else waited in the lavatory sinks. We had to get a mouthful and crawl headfirst DOWN the stairs, cross to the fireplace and empty our mouths onto the fire with the fruitless hope that we could put it out. Of course, Active members were stationed all along our route to encourge us - - with paddles made from barrrel staves.
Another one that they surprised us with one night was the "elephant walk which began with all the pledges doffing their shorts. Then we were formed into a circle and were instructed to suck on our left thumb. This done we were then told to reach behind and lay hold on that man's dick as we started marching around with the pledge master counting cadence. We kept going faster and faster until he shouted, "CHANGE HANDS"
A fellow pledge and I were out one night working on a pint of bourbon and when we finally went to the frat house, I parked my car in the back. We sat there talking (what DO drunks talk about?) and after a lapse he asked me if I had ever felt a REAL man's cock. I said I wasn't sure but that I might have. He took my hand and laid it in his crotch and there was this good sized erection. He wanted my opinion and I said that it would be easier if I could see it first. He undid his pants and slid them down to show off a banana that curved up to his belly, was fairly thick and long. I agreed with him then that he definitely was a man. As I had expected he asked if I would like his judgment of my wiener and since I had a stony hard on I could see no reason to not. I unzipped and pulled my pants down to release old stony (who was young stony then) and I laid his hand on it. He first felt the thickness and then worked his way up and down the shaft and finally said something like, "You sonuvabitch!! How big is that fucking thing? Pun intended." I told him what my measurments were and he cursed me again for being more than two inches longer than he and fatter too. We continued to fondle and even turned the lights on momentarily for a better look. That was all - no JO or anything.
Above stairs in our frat, nudity going to and from the bathrooms and showers was more the rule than the exception so it wasn't long before my new friend and I were singled out as the biggest cocks in the house. In fact, the last time they held an elephant walk I was removed from the lineup for being too MUCH like an elephant.
The "biggest in the house" title reminds me that I wrote a post several years ago to the effect that until I found LPSG I had thought that I must have the largest package in the world since to that point I had never seen one in the flesh that exceeeded it. I still have not had a "live" sighting but I AM convinced that there are bigger ones - and many of them. But from the last years in elementary school (we had a show and tell club where one other kid and I were the only ones who could "shoot the juice"), junior high gym class, high school gym and swimming (nude), college (fraternity), and Service both as an enlisted man and officer, I was never challenged by anyone claiming to have more than I did. Where have all those biggies been hiding? I have seen a lot of sixes, some six plus, a few sevens, one seven and a half and one eight and one quarter. The really big ones I probably passed on the street and was never aware that they were there.
Gramps