The Innocents Society also involved itself in activities to better the University and community. The University of Nebraska campus was quite small in the early 1900s, and the Innocents were responsible for coordinating several campus events. They conducted the Freshmen Convocation at the beginning of each year to introduce new students to the ideas and conceptions about student life and initiate them into the Cornhusker traditions. Beginning in 1909, they supervised an annual Olympics between the sophomores and freshmen. They sponsored the Junior-Senior prom each year, and attendance at the Innocents pre-party dinner was a highly regarded social honor. Around 1930, the Innocents created a Homecoming decoration contest for fraternities and sororities, and for many years judged and selected the winners.

The Innocents Society also administered one of the oldest traditions at the University, the distribution of freshman beanies (caps). The beanies were originally green, were changed to red in 1932, and bore the year of graduation for the incoming class on them. Beanies were worn until Homecoming Day, at which time an annual tug-of-war took place between the freshmen and upperclassmen. If the freshmen won, which they traditionally did, they were allowed to discard their caps.

Innocents also helped to found a Student Council at UNL, the predecessor to today’s ASUN. In 1938 they devised an extracurricular activity point system for men, which assigned each office or activity a specific point value. Men were prohibited on carrying more than a certain amount. New activities embraced by the Innocents include helping out with New Student week, sponsoring the annual Frosh Hop, and interviewing candidates for the title of Nebraska sweetheart. During the 1940s the Innocents began to wear identical jackets one day each week. The jackets had the Innocents emblem over the pocket and served to increase the visibility of the organization. This tradition was carried on until the early 1960s. The Innocents also began to award Scholarship-Activities trophies each year to three fraternities that displayed the greatest achievements in these areas. They supervised student elections and Homecoming Queen elections. They took part in a Speakers Bureau with Mortar Board which allowed them to speak across Nebraska to civic organizations, providing a student perspective on the University. In 1963 they helped out with the first Masters Week. They continued to give the Homecoming display awards, sell freshmen beanies, select the all-male yell squad, and usher at football games.