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THE
DELTA UPSILON
QUARTERLY.
VOL. IV.
LiKola *lCnQ&fJKri.
NEW YORK.
1886.
THE DELTA
THE NEW YORK
P^BUC LIBRARY-
744508A
ASTOR, LENOX AND I
IJPStfeO^fo^ UARTERLY,
t< 1034 L r
VOLUME IV.
A Day-Dream Hbnry E. Fraser, Harvard^ *66, 149
Alumni of Delta U.... Robert J. Eidlitz, Cornell, '85, 52, 126, iSq, 271
Among the Exchanges Alexander D. Noyes, Amherst, '83, 48
A Rose Lyman S. Linson, New York, '76. 24
A Vermont Experience N. S. Kenison^ Harvard, '86, 88
By T9E Kennebec William C. Sheppard, Colby, '89, 142
BpOKS AND Magazines Edward M. Bassett, Amherst, '84, 73, 143, 203
Carmen XXXI. of Catullus George A. Ruddle, Lehigh, '86, iii
Chapter News... Frederick M. Crossett, New York, '84, 29, 112, 171, 230
Concerning Vacations Charles L. White, Brown, '87, 210
Deer Brook Albert W. Ferris, New York, '78 87
Delta U. News Items.. F. M. Crossett, New York, '84, 25, 103, 168, 224
Delta U. Statistical Table for the Academic Year 1885-86 226
Directory 2, 78, 148, 203
Editorial 222
Greek Letter Gossip. ..Alexander D. Noyes, Amherst, '83, 45, 123, 185
In Memoriam 39, 183
Ivy Ode Elmore DeWitt, Rutgers, '86, 209
La Chanson De Roland Norman M. Isham, Brown^ '86, 7
Letters from Chapters:
WiLUAMS, Hamilton, Rochester, Middleburv, Rutgers, Brown, ii
Amherst, Adelbert, Brown, Madison, Marietta, Syracuse,
M1CHIGA17 90
Union, Brown, Madison, Cornell, Syracuse, Lafayette, Lehigh, 154
Amherst, Brown. New York, Michigan, Lafayette, Columbia. 214
Liberal Education and the Classics. .Britton Havens, Rutgers, '82, 79
Man the Spirit Henry E. Fraser, Harvard, 'h6, 188
Memory : A Dream Henry E. Fraser, Harvard, '86, 84
New Initiates 68
Positive and Negative Albert W. Ferris, New York, '78, 6
President Lincoln L. C. Lockwood. Williams, '37, 85
RoMANZA Edward B. Haskell, Marietta, '87, 122
Shadows Charles H. Pridgeon. Lafayette, '86, 170
Song.. Henry E. Eraser, Harvard, 86, 38
Souvenir Edward T. Parsons, Rochester, '86, loa
The Legend of Mackinac Fred C. Hicks, Michigan, '86, 15
The Real Meaning of Non-Secrecy.. A. L. Benedict, Michigan, '87, 205
The Uncremated Algebra Edward M. Bassett, Amherst, '84, 3
To A Cloud Henry E. Eraser, Harvard, '86, j22i
To Marion Starr J. Murphy, Amherst, '81, 10
To '86 William P. Merrill, Rutgers, '87, 167
Triolet Newton A. Wells, Syracuse, '77, 44
Wintxe Henry E. Y%asba, Harvard, *^, 38
THE
Delta Upsilon Quarterly.
Vol. IV. FEBRUARY, 1886. No. I.
THE UNCREMATED ALGEBRA.
The crematory was ready, the fire was hot, and yet the cremation
was postponed sine die, I was then a Sophomore, and with the rest of
my class considered that we had been ill used by the Freshmen.
Why ? Well, in the first place, because without our knowledge they
had bought and brought to college the usual coffin in which to cremate
algebra three or four weeks before the time, and kept us sitting up
nights watching for its appearance on the hill where the college build-
ings were situated; for to destroy the Freshman coffin, or at least to try
to smash it on its way to the college, was a right that Sophomores had
exercised from a time '' whereof the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary." They had caused us to chase boards and boxes — imag>
inary coffins — around the village at all hours of day and night, and all
the time the real coffin was on the hill, hidden under an upper class*
man's bed. When we learned this, a few days before the cremation
was to occur, we were righteously mad, and, as a class, we determined
to stop the ceremony. By saying " stop," I mean we determined to
snatch the coffin and unbumed algebra from the fire, for, you see, with-
out coffin or cadaver the Freshmen could hardly hope to carry the cre-
mation to a successfiil conclusion. Perhaps you think it would be an
easy thing to accomplish the aforesaid theft, but we knew by traditions
of the college, and by our own experience the year before when we
were Freshmen, that the chances were about ninety-nine in a hundred
that the coffin and algebra would be turned into smoke and ashes sev-
4 THE UNCREMATED ALGEBRA.
eral seconds before a Sophomore could get near enough to the fire to
warm his hands. Gunpowder, oil-cans half filled with kerosene, and
other awe-inspiring defences, were likely to make the neighborhood of
the fire a place carefully to be avoided. Then, too, the coffin would
be lowered into a pit in the pyre with a foot or two of blazing wood
between it and the predatory Sophomore. Moreover it was against the
rules of the row for a Sophomore to come within thirty feet of the pyre
until the coffin was placed upon, or rather within it, and the wood
ignited. For the whole ceremony, as I have before intimated, was
governed by traditional rules which the upper classmen would rigidly
enforce. In addition to the obstacles I have mentioned, there was
another, namely, — a very healthy Freshman class who would form a
cordon around the fire, and granting that we could whip fifty Freshmen
in two minutes, still half that time would suffice for the complete in-
cineration of the algebra. For a decade of years the Freshmen had
burned both algebra and coffin, and the Sophomores had not obtained
a vestige.
Plainly we would have to try new tactics, and therefore about a
week before the cremation was to happen a dozen " good men and
true ** gathered at my room, and we " conspired" During the next
week, as a result of our meeting, two of the twelve borrowed ten or
fifteen hop-poles fi-om a neighboring hop yard ; four or five others
borrowed the heaviest ladder that could be found in the village ; — all
which were sequestered till the evening of the burning. As I am relating
the whole truth in this story, I must say that we forgot to return the
hop-poles, but we were more conscientious with the ladder, for the
owner afterward came up with a wagon, and we let him take it away.
An old carpet was bought from the janitor, and a blacksmith in a town
a few miles distant made us two strong hooks with handles about three
feet long. The use of these divers articles will soon appear.
J. and I were light and athletic, better at running and jumping
than at holding down sturdy Freshmen. We appeared on the next day
after our consultation, J. with a limp and his eye bandaged, — I with
my arm in a sling, informing inquirers that we had been hurt in a row
on the day before, as indeed we had, but not seriously. We were all
in a chronic state of wounds during those weeks, and could at any
time say we were hurt without lying. So the Freshmen and the upper-
classmen understood that J. and I would keep out of the algebra
burning. The night of the cremation came, and after the preliminary
THE UNCREMATED ALGEBRA. 5
•exercises were held in the college chapel, the Freshmen pallbearers
•carried the coffin, containing the algebra and a large quantity of oil-
saturated shavings, to the funeral pyre. Both classes were ready, the
Freshmen immediately surrounding the fire, the Sophomores in a body
a few feet away, the men with the hop-poles standing in the front rank.
Upperclassmen and visitors stood in a crowd at one side, J. and I
among them, each bandaged, with one of the iron hooks down his trou-
-ser leg ; the coffin was lowered into the pyre, the whole was flooded
with kerosene, hghted, and in an instant the whole mass was aflame.
Our men with the poles started for the fire, and the Freshmen, deeming
it our chief mode of attack, made for them, so that each man with a
pole was monopolizing two or three Freshmen. Hearing a noise in
the opposite quarter, the Freshmen that are not busy see a ladder with
twenty Sophomores attached emerging firom the darkness, and headed
like a battering-ram for the fire. They thither fly, and immediately
thirty Freshman are engaged in preventing that ladder's coming any
nearer to the fire, and are hopelessly entangled among the Sophomores
and ladder-rungs. Sophomores who are not otherwise engaged take
•charge of all stray Freshmen. Thus, in about a quarter of a minute,
the field is clear. By this time, J. and I have our bandages untied;
we sally out fix>m the crowd and attack the pyre with our hooks.
Quickly we pick away the piled up sticks, — we can see the coffin, — ^J.'s
hook catches it, but in trying to puU it out, breaks. I hook mine in
the coffin head and succeed in pulling the coffin out ; the head-board
unloosens and gives way, — ^but I get a new hold and start on the run
through the darkness, dragging the burning coffin behind, toward
where we had stationed two men with a damp carpet and some buckets
•of water. Before I could reach them a tall Freshman sprung on me
and twined his arms and legs around me. I could not carry both
•coffin and Freshman, so I gave up the former. J. ran with it toward
the carpet and the fire was put out at once. In the darkness the
Freshmen could not tell the whereabouts of the coffin, audit was taken
without fiirther molestation to our headquarters. But no algebra was
Tin it. This I ascertained while I was running ; accordingly, as soon as
the tall Freshman released me, I went back to the fire. Freshmen
were standing around, still thinking that coffin and algebra were in the
midst of the pyre, and in the last stages of annihilation. They had
Ikept away the poles and the ladders, and therefore thought that all
iwas well. I quietly went to the end of the pyre where the head*board
6 POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE.
had come off the coffin when I pulled it out. I found the head-boarcf
and under it the algebra. It burst into flame as I picked it up, but I
quickly smothered it under my overcoat and left the scene of the cre-
mation. The algebra and coffin were ours. The coffin we cut into*
pieces and divided them among the class, as trophies. The algebra we
buried many years ago, in our class box when we were graduated, and
probably long ere this the slow fires of nature have consumed it as*
thoroughly as the Freshmen intended to do.
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE.
" Whither now with thy camera, sirrah," said I,
To my amateur photograph friend trudging by
With his tripod, his safety-box, plates extra dry.
And his finger- tips stained with a permanent dy(
Pyrogallic solution and chloride of Gold —
'* Is it beast, is it forest, a house, or some sky
That you're after to-day, if I may be so bold ? "
" Tis the fairest of women," said he, with a sigh ;
At my earnest request she consented to sit.
And the coveted photograph soon will be mine.
I know that to-day the light is scarce fit,
But you know we make hay without any sunshine.*"
Irresistibly sweet was she, fair as a rose.
As he dived under cover and focused the screen :
Such grace and such life, such a natural pose,
Were never before through a Dallmeyer seen.
Smitten deep with her charms, he decides to propose,.
With eloquent gesture and head draped in black :
But, alas ! For she haughtily changes her pose.
Says " No ! " very firmly, and then turns her back.
Crestfallen, both he and his outfit collapse.
As she fades from his sight and his fondest hopes die.
Very mournful, he gathers together his traps.
And then tries to sneak past without catching my eye,.
" Hallo ! what success ? Did you take her ? " I cry,
" Well, I got a strong negative," is his reply.
Albert W. Ferris, M.D.,
New York, '78.
LA CHANSON DE ROLAND.
LA CHANSON DE ROLAND.
There is in the western PTienees a defile which the woild has neYcr
forgotten — RoncevaL Heie, on the 15th of August, 778, while
Chariemagne was retaining from an expedition into Spain, his rear-
guard, under Roland, prefect of the marches of Biittany, was attacked
and cut off as he entered the pass, by a horde of Gascons. The gCH--
geous web of romance which has been woven around this tragedy has
made the tales of Chariemagne and his Paladins as fiunous as those of
Arthur and the heroes of the Table Round.
We, in these days oi criticism, take nothing at second hand; we
se^ the original in everything. We prefer die Greek ordeis~so
called — to any Roman or Italian imitations, and we have raised from
the dead, the old Roman pronunciation oi Latin to satisfy our exact — or
exacting taste. AU lovers of the Middle Age, then, owe a dd>t of
gratitude to M. L^nce Rabillon for the masteriy translation which he
has just given us of the " Song of Roland," * for he a£R>rds us a view
of a very early form of the worid-feunous legend, and puts before us
the rude, simple, yet eloquent Norman version of the story, free from
the Italian touches of Puld and Ariosto.
We propose to look a little into this ^>ecimen of Mediaeval litera-
ture. It is a great production. The wandering Norman minstrd
speaks with a simplicity almost Homeric, and his love of a mQ€e gives
to his battle scenes a fierce reality.
Juroldus, as the poem calls the minstrd, is, like all men of the
Northern races, a hero-worshiper over whom Cariyle would rqoice.
In his verse Chariemagne, Roland, Olivier, and Archbishop Tnrpin
loom gigantic, while the story, as he tdls it, gives full scope to their
prowess, with sublime indifference to history, probability, or even pos-
sibility. Yet, with all its exaggeration, it gives a true picture of the
thoughts of his race in the eleventh century; above all its blood and
pitiless slau^ter it breathes an exultation in the triumph of whatever
the poet holds to be the rig^t, and a fine sense of devotion to sover-
eign and leader.
"TheFrendisaj: ' Cursed be tfaoie who fly the fidd !
Ready to die, not one shafl fiul 700 hcie.' "
• La Cliaiisoii de Rofamd. Hcory Holt & Co., N. Y. tSSs-
S LA CHANSON DE ROLAND.
These words are uttered as the rear-guard is overtaken by the Sara,
•cens in the pass of Ronceval. Roland and all the other Paladins are
there with twenty thousand knights. He has been given the rear-guard,
3S well he knows, by the treachery of Gandelon, who with the pagan
Xing Marsile has plotted his destruction. The Saracen, true to his
part of the vile compact, is advancing with his vast horde. Olivier
lu-ges Roland to sound his horn that Carle may return, but the cham-
pion refuses. Turpin, the shaven Archbishop, preaches a short sermon
to the knights, assuring them that those who fall will
" places find in Paradise ! "
And
" Giving for penance his command to strike."
So Roland, our poet's ideal of knighthood, leads his French against
the swarm of pagans, and then comes what is, verily,
" A battle fierce and wonderful ! "
How the recital of these scenes must have stirred all those, from
lord to jester, who were gathered in the grim, fire-lit hall where the
Jongleur first tried his new production ! We can believe that he did
his words fiill justice, for his enthusiasm bums throughout the whole
account of the m£16e, an account Homeric in its simplicity, sharp-ring-
ing as the shields under the lance-strokes, exciting as the whirl of the
.battle itself.
The twelve Peers do fearful execution. The heathen fall in heaps
and windrows. No carpet-knight is Roland :
« He splits in two the nazal, helm, nose, month.
And teeth, the body and nailed armor, then
Hews through the golden sella, to the silver flaps ;
With a still deeper stroke the courser's back
Is gashed 1 *'
Beside loyalty to chief and sovereign, the poem brings out another
moble trait, the comradeship of the twelve Peers, the strong bonds
which hold them to each other, the manly sorrow as one after another
£oes down before the pagans. Olivier at last falls too, but not before
he has avenged himself, while his dear fiiend Roland mourns
" as never mortal mourned before."
Now none are left of all the host save Roland, Gaultier, and the
terrible Archbishop. Knowing that Carle will avenge them, for
Roland has sounded his horn, they turn to the enemy.
LA CHANSON DE ROLAND. 9
" wlio dHmi^ Qoe tboosand foot
Aad fortj tlioasaiid boncmcn mosterii^ jct
Dare not mp^pmmdtk !"
Gaultier is down. The mighty priest, pierced by four ^>ears» falls
to the ground. Stop ! he is up ! He seeks Roland:
" Unoonqiiered jet am I !"
Rushing into the fig^t he strikes " one thousand ^blows or more! "^
Roland joins him, saying :
" together we
Wfl] share our good will ; I leave jon not
For anght of human mold."
At last the pagans flee, but the unconquerable priest is lying on
the ground. Roland, himself but little better off, brings the bodies of
the other Peers and places them before the prelate, who gives them hi&
last benediction :
** Tnipin, Carle's knight, is dead, who all his life,
With donghty Uows and sermons emdite.
Ne'er ceased to fight the pagans. May the Lord
Grant him His holy blessing erennore !"
Roland himself goes an arblast-flight toward Spain and there, sink-
ing down, offers his right-hand glove to God.
" Roland is dead : God has his sonl in heaven."
One other passage we must cull — a bit of pathos, simple, direct,,
and touching. As the grief-stricken Carle returns from avenging the
slaughter, the Lady Aude, Olivier's sister, asks him where is Roland,
her betrothed.
** Sore-pained, heart-broken, Carle, with weeping eyes.
Tears his white beard : ' Ah ! sister well beloved,
Thon asketh me of one who is no more.' "
He will give her his son Loewis for a husband. The helpless girl
replies:
" * May God, His saints. His angels, all forfend
That, if Roland Uves not, I still shall live.'
Her color fades, she fells prone at the feet
Of Charlemagne— dead.
• • •
** The King in hope 'tis bnt a swoon, with tears
And pity taking both her hands, uplifts
Her form ; the head upon the shonlder sinks.
• • •
'* Beside a shrine gently she was entombed
With highest honors by the Kingfs command."
lO TO MARION.
This is the only occasion on which " Aude, the beautiful " meets us.
The chanson has no room for a tale of love. Chivalr}' had not ad-
vanced in 1096 to the romances of the following centuries, where we
£nd the adoration of the Saviour and of the knight's lady exalted side
by side. " Dieu et ma Dame " is not the motto of our poet. He has
not come under the influence of the Proven9al troubadours of the
twelfth century, and his reverence for woman has not been turned into
the ideal love, the JaU^ the inspiration to all good, of which the south-
em minstrel sang. Again, his religion, as we gather from the feeling
he puts into the Archbishop's breast, is merely a sort of blind faith in
Paradise for the Christian, in Hell for the pagan, in the duty of fight-
ing all pagans as the foes of Christ. He is a child of the North, with
all the ruggedness of his race, with all its love of fighting for fight-
ing's sake. The softer elements which chivalry afterward gained firom
the South he cannot give. But he can give what is, in our opinion,
better than ideal love or romantic religious feeling — ^his loyalty to his
lord, his sense of honor, his rock-like courage, which stands forth in
the Archbishop's '' Unconquered yet am I " ; his fierce determination
to die on the field or drive his foe from it, his manly tenderness, shown
at the death of the Paladins, and in the simple pathos of that death of
Aude, which alone is worth a whole romance about Iseult or Guinevere.
Norman M. Isham, Brown^ ^%^.
TO MARION.
E'er since I saw thy deep blue eyes.
My sweet faced, fair haired Marion,
My heart no longer quiet lies,
But ceases not to carry on.
Oh ! would I had what I have spent
To raise the ancient Harry on,
For I would woo thee for my bride
Had I the cash to marry on.
Starr J. Murphy,
Amherst^ '8x.
CHAPTER LETTERS — ^WILIJAMSl II
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS.
Delta Upsilon House,
Williams College, WQliamstown, Mass.
Dear Brothers:
With hearts overflowing with enthusiasm and hope Williams once
more greets her sister chapters. When we last wrote every one had
been infused with the spirit of the Rochester Convention ; but now,
quite a time afterwards, devotion and loyalty to the principles of
Delta Upsilon are with us just as strong as ever. The time for fear
with us, we hope, has passed. We have been '^ bom again " and sur-
vive with new strength and vigor. As a matter of fact we can say that
no rival society out-generaled us this year in campaigning. We had
a number of skirmishes, and that was all. The enemy was obliged to
yield.
Among other societies our reputation is fully established. No
other fiatemity in college pretends to surpass us, as flu: as ability and
moral worth is concerned. Others, however, are richer in this world's
goods, and some have strong, fixed elements, and we do not envy such
their reputation.
Perhaps it is not out of place to say that we have many fiiends in
college among the neutrals, who make up about one-half of each class.
Elections are not, however, carried by society cliques, as formerly,
when Delta U was the great antagonist of all secret organizations. But
we cannot help feeling proud to hear our Society praised on all sides
by the neutrals, who are a great power in college to-day.
We believe also that there is general good feeling among all society
men in college, and so it may be pardonable if we stop talking about
ourselves and give a short r6sum^, i la gossipe^ of our neighbors in
Williams.
Our nearest neighbors are the Chi Psi, who live in a house of modest
proportions. They are fine feUows, of a very quiet and retired dispo-
sition, which has been a characteristic of the society for some time.
They are at present rather weak in numbers, several of their men hav-
12 CHAPTER LETTERS — WILLIAMS.
ing left college. Close by there is the new stone mansion of the Delta
Psi Society, which they will soon occupy.
The location is fine, and will undoubtedly satisfy the pride they feel
in themselves as a society. Near by them is the Kappa Alpha Lodge^
which is occupied by the richest and toniest society in college. They
have little or nothing to do with men outside their chapter. The
Delta Kappa Epsilon, near by, have some excellent individual mem-
bers, which cannot be said of the entire chapter, which numbers about
twenty men. They were said not long ago to hold a monopoly in the
college baseball team and its management ; but their athletic star is
gradually setting, and will be quite obscure after the Seniors graduate.
The Zeta Psi House is only a few steps west of the Kappa Alpha.
They have a strong delegation from '87. Out of a total of about sixteen,,
one-half are Juniors, and the story goes that they would like still more
from that class. It is not necessary to speak in detail about the Sigma
Phi. They live, to be sure, in a most magnificent $50,000 mansion.
Still, they are here about the same class of fellows as they have always
been, and as we understand they are in some other colleges. The
Alpha Delta Phi have a good central location. They live in a house
constructed of stone, with a piazza of monstrous size in front, with sharp
ends. They are a society of established reputation, and undoubtedly
remember, with just pride, the Garfield boys as their recent membersr
as we cherish the memory of their father, who was an earnest and ac-
tive Delta U.
The question of importance to us just now is how to make the
winter evenings pleasant and profitable to the whole chapter. There
are various ways of accomplishing this. Word charades, acted by two
divisions alternately, is a pleasant way of passing the evenings. We have
thus far made very little attempt at society dramatics, which, we believe^
will prove a success. One fellow is organizing a minstrel company^
which we know will furnish great amusement. We have had one
spread thus far this term, and we believe they help full more than any-
thing else to draw fellows closer together.
Quite agreeing with our brothers from Harvard that when Saturday
night arrives, after a week of mental labor, one feels like spending the
evening in social enjoyment rather than in library work, we wish all
the chapters continued success and prosperity, with " Vive la Delta U."
Fraternally,
Rush W. Kimball, '87.
CHAPTER LETTERS — ^HAMILTON. 1 3
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y.
Dkar Brothers :
It is with pleasure that the Hamilton Chapter again sends greeting
to ber sister chapters.
We have about our usual quota of men, numbering at present
twenty — five Seniors, six Juniors, five Sophomores, and four Freshmen.
It is our aim, generally, to have about five men firom each class. The
present Freshman class numbers fotty-eight men — nearly as large as
the average dass, but perhaps not quite up to the standard in quality.
Thus it made a little difficulty in selecting our usual delegation.
The six other fraternities represented in the college seem to have
met with the same difficulty, as their number of Freshmen is smaller
than customary.
Out of seven Greek-letter societies, five have chapter-houses.
Theta Delta Chi and Delta UpsQon are the only ones not having
houses at present Of course this makes it a little more difficult in
getting desirable men and in competing with fraternities that are set-
tled in elegant homes. Notwithstanding this hindrance, our competi-
tion with the other fraternities in securing men is successful, and we
undoubtedly wield a strong influence in college politics, and are second
to none in scholarship. Since Delta Upsilon has held her own so well
under present circumstances, we are confident that with the aid of a
beautiful new chapter-house our leadership will not be questioned.
For the last few years the erection of a chapter-house has been
our main aim. We have talked about it, dreamed about it, and built
air-castles over it; but the reality has not yet made its appearance.
We have spent all our spare time writing polite letters to our alumni
telling them how we are following them in their own footsteps and
closing with a gentle little " bid " for a subscription. Slowly but surely,
the money has been coming in, until, at the last meeting of the
trustees, it was decided to commence work as soon as possible. The
news was received with great gladness among the active members of
the chapter. The plans are now nearly completed. A contract for a
part of the construction is made, and work will be begun as soon as
the frost is out of the ground.
Before long we hope to see a little palace, with the monogram of
Delta Upsilon over the door, situated about half way up College Hill,
14 CHAPTER LETTERS — ROCHESTER.
looking both up and down the Oriskany Valley, and more beautiful, by
far, than the surrounding houses.
Our meetings are held every Wednesday evening. We endeavor,
constantly, to make them as interesting as possible, by holding for two
consecutive weeks our regular literary work, and for the third week
some scheme or programme is arranged by the committee elected for
that purpose. This obviates any possibility of monotony, and, at the
same time, makes the meetings quite attractive. This same mode is
carried on throughout the term.
One of the greatest benefits which can be derived from a fraternity
is the advantage of visiting different colleges and of becoming ac-
quainted with a large number of college men from various parts of the
country. Yet, as a Fraternity, we do not make as much use of this op-
portunity as we should. Our own chapter, we believe, is in fault as
much, or perhaps more, than some others. We feel that the benefit is
as great as any one thing, for this reason : When the delegates come
back fi*om any chapter or from a Convention, they are full of enthusi-
asm and inspire all the members of the chapter with the same spirit
You all have felt it. This very enthusiasm is what strengthens and
binds the Fraternity together. Now, if we would only exert ourselves
more in this direction, that same enthusiastic spirit would be continu-
ally growing within us. Let us all try, especially those chapters which
are near together, and firequently visit each other. The Hamilton
Chapter always has a cordial welcome for any brother who may favor
us with a visit, heartily invites such calls, and gladly welcomes
brothers of any chapter who may favor us with a visit.
Fraternally,
Harry P. Woley, '87.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y.
Dear Brothers:
The effects of the Convention are abiding. We have not yet ceased
to think of it, to talk of it, feel it. The inspiration and zeal which it
gave us are constantly increasing. It made a very pleasant feeling for
us in the city, and in the best circles too. The good the Convention
brought to us and left with us cannot be estimated.
Since that time there has been no great or striking event in our
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chapter's history. We continue to hold beyond dispute the first rank
in scholarship. One of our professors, and a member of a rival fr ater-
nity too, dropped the remark recently that Delta U. was head and
shoulders above everything else in coUege.
Our meetings during the last term have been unavoidably irregular,
but with the new year we began again to meet regularly on Monday
evening of each week, and to pursue the even tenor of our way. Our
meetings are literary in character to a considerable degree, but still we
do not forget that man is a social being, that college boys are the con-
centrated essence ot men, and consequently require sociability, lliis
element we introduce most happily by a long intermission after the
more solid portions of the programme have been given. The pro-
grammes are made out four weeks in advance and include orations,,
addresses, and essays from the upper classmen^ declamations from the
Sophomore and Freshman classes. Debate, paper, and special meeting
night follow each other in regular succession. The special meeting is
left free for any exercise that may be pleasant and instructive. Music,
readings, etc., make the time pleasant We often have a little '' treat,'^
which helps wonderfully to make things bright and lively. Brother
French, Amherst ^ '84, called on us lately and made the evening quite
enjoyable with his stories of Amherst college life.
A very large proportion of our students join the various chapters, so
that nearly all the desirable men are much sought after upon their
entrance. Yet we are not greatly troubled in securing as many and
such men as we want. Our constant aim is to know our men thorough-
ly before we admit them.
None of the chapters here possess homes of their own. The rela-
tions between the different chapters are for the most part amicable, and
while the other societies have a hankering after the emoluments gained
by political position, there is a growing spirit which demands justice
for all.
The status of the other fraternities represented is much better than one
would naturally suppose, in consideration of the fact that so large a pro-
portion of the students, are society men. Alpha Delta Phi has an excel-
lent chapter, many of her men taking high rank both in college and
the society of the city. Psi Upsilon is numerically strong at present.
They do not struggle strenuously after the prize of learning, yet they
are by no means to be despised ; socially they take a good position.
Delta Kappa Epsilon has some good men. They are not especially
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eminent, and have the same characteristics here as elsewhere. Delta
Psi has improved greatly within the last two years. They do not num-
ber very many, but are healthy and growing. Chi Psi, established two
years ago, is still weak. There was not room here for another society,
and hence it will be somewhat surprising, if success should crown her
efforts to get free from her swaddling clothes. There is also an inde-
pendent organization which does fair work
Athletics is an unmeaning term to our students. Dormitories are
wanting, and the peculiar spirit which they foster by intimate associa-
tions is also lacking to a certain extent. The absence of such a spirit,
together with the fact that our men are scattered throughout the city,
makes it difficult not only to arouse the right sort of interest in athletics
but almost impossible to get training and practice enough to be even
ordinary. The whole matter of athletic and other college enterprises
is under the supervision of the Students* Association^ composed of the
whole body of students.
The Freshman supper was one of the events of last term. The
Sophomores discovered the whole matter, and laid deep schemes to
outwit the Freshmen, but did not succeed. Later in the evening there
was an encounter in the streets, which brought the police, and some of
the boys were escorted toward the station-house, but finally begged off.
Considerable clothing was destroyed, but in the end the Freshmen ate
their bread and milk, scoring thereby a great triumph.
The University is in a prosperous condition. A new chemical labora-
tory, complete in all its appointments, is in process of erection. It is
built by Mr. M. F. Reynolds, of this city, as a memorial of his brother.
When completed this will make the chemical department, under Dr.
Lattimore, very thorough and complete. The elective system does
not prevail at all. Dr. Anderson believes in the orthodox way of educat-
ing young men. He is mighty, and will prevail — here at least. The
government of the [institution is essentially self-government, although
we have no student senate. There is little trouble in this respect, for
few penalties are incurred.
The Alumni Chapter of Delta U. and the individual interest and
sympathy of alumni are of inestimable help to us. We feel peculiarly
blessed in Delta Upsilon, and so long as we have breath left we don't
mean to let rest the echo of " she's all right.*'
Fraternally,
H. A. Manchester,
CHAPTER LETTERS — ^MIDDLEBL RY
Delta Upsilox Hai-u
MiDDLEBCitY College, Middlebury, Vt.
Dear Brothers:
Middlebuiy sends a hearty greeting to the sister chapt»s and to the
Fraternity at large.
Middlebury College opened its doois last fall to a class a little larger
than usual, composed of good mea» for the vaost pan. Ddta U.
pledged three of them, one of whom is leading the class* and another
stands second.
Our chapter is now in its thirtieth year. Our rivals are Chi Psi, in
its forty-second year, and Delta Kappa Epsilon in its thirty-second.
The record for the last twenty-nine years has been a grand one for Delta
U., and especially for the last fifteen years. For proof of this, look at
this table giving the award of prizes and honors in Middlebury College
since our chapter was founded.
TotaL AT A K E X t Xeot.
Valedictory
Salutatory
Phi Beta Kappa
Waldo (Scholarship)..
Literary "
Parker (Declamation).
Merrill
Ware Medal (Oratory)
Philosophical
Botanical
Greek
Total
Cash Value $17,900
$4,700 $3,850 $1,700
This shows conclusively that Delta U. here is what she ought to
be. Nor is this a record which we are content to let rest upon its
present merits, but, as each year passes, it increases the difference in
ratio between us and our competitors. This year we have five, and
possibly six, of twelve honor men. As all honors and prizes are
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awarded at Commencemeut, we cannot tell what we shall obtain for
this year.
In college we are respected by all; in the town some sneer at the
principle of non-secresy, but those admit that Delta U. is a strong
Fraternity.
Numerically we are stronger than for two years, having now ten
men. Delta Kappa Epsilon has eleven active members this term,
with two more away at present; Chi Psi has eight.
There is one thing which we would like to suggest to the Fraternity,
namely, the appointment of a Visiting Committee, whose duty it shall
be to visit every chapter once a year or oftener, and thoroughly ex-
amine its condition.
If some well-known member, as Brothers Crossett, Bassett, Eidlitz,
or some one else who is well posted on fraternity affairs, in general
and particular, would pay a visit to the chapters, it would do them a
great deal of good. Ideas, customs, etc., of chapters widely separated
would thus be gathered in a manner no other way possible, and the
good points of each could then be placed before all.
Fraternally yours,
Henry L. Bailey, '86.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.
Dear Brothers :
" Our past is inspiriting, our present prosperous, the outlook for the
future encouraging."
* Tis just twelve months since a letter from the Rutgers chapter
appeared in the Quarterly, and during those twelve months the
chapter has been steadily marching on, with its pristine vigor, whilom
glory, and original marching orders unchanged.
Some who fought in the ranks have left, but new recruits have
taken their places, and to-day the chapter numbers twenty-two active,
earnest, enthusiastic members, all of whom are looking forward to
having a great re-union in the fall of 1888, said re-union to be held,
not upon the " Banks of the Potomac," but upon the " Banks of the
Old Raritan."
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Do not think, however, because of the use of so many martial
expressions in the above, that we are better acquainted with the prin-
ciples and phraseology of war, than we are with those of peace. The
best of good feeling and absolute harmony reigns in our midst, and the
daily intercourse that we have with one another is making us so frater-
nal in our feelings that sometimes we are tempted to wonder at the
power which binds us so closely together. During the eaily years of
the chapter's history there was much friction generated between the
respective Greek-letter fraternities of the college, but with the passing
years, because of the very nature of their composition, each society has
taken its proper place in the scale, and now all efiforts to change its
relative position are futile. Society types are so distinctly marked, their
tendencies and characteristics so strongly developed, that with us at
Rutgers we can predict, almost to a certainty, the society a man will
join, if he has the opportunity, presupposing, of course, some knowledge
of the man's character.
Therefore we get the men we want and are willing to see the men
who naturally would join other societies join them. We don't try to
make emulsions.
Our literary exercises are of incalculable benefit to us, the more so
since the college literary societies are on the decline. The presence
of so large a number of alumni in the city, who frequently drop in on
us in the midst of our work and lend a cheering word, is of great value
to us in more ways than one. One brother, soon to be a legal lumi-
nary, has graced our meetings with his presence and presided over our
efforts to imitate the workings of a court of justice. Others are always
on hand when the inner man is to be refreshed and strengthened.
Others enter the rooms when " solitude reigns," and the only tangible
evidence of their having been in our midst is a hitherto unknown
and unseen work of art, such as a bit of furniture or an addition
to the library. The chapter is cherishing the hope that in the
immediate future the many alumni resident members of the Frater-
nity will organize, and thus the chapter profit by their concerted action
and combined support.
More and more the social element is being cultivated among us.
The daily and weekly papers, the ivory keys of the piano, and the
ivory balls of the table, the pleasant rooms, warm in winter and cool
in summer, all induce the men to gather daily in the chapter hall, the
more readily since almost all of us are denizens, and compelled to
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endure the privations of city boarding houses, our proud old college
not yet possessing dormitories. But if the social element is growing it
must not be thought that it is at the expense of the mental. We still
continue to take more than our proportionate share of the prizes.
Scholarship is a qualification which we demand of our brothers.
Athletics being on the ebb-tide in Rutgers just at present, we cannot
boast of the record of former years, but nevertheless have no cause to
relinquish our claims to being a chapter which possesses brawn as
well as brain. When the tide turns we expect, as usual, to come in on
the crest of the waves.
The last Convention honored our chapter by electing as Treasurer
of the Fraternity one of our most active brothers and one who, as
Treasurer of the chapter for some time, has shown his fitness for the
position to which he was chosen. Our delegates brought home to us
the joyful news that (D. V.) we as a chapter would have the pleasure
of entertaining the Fifty-third Annual Convention of Delta U»
Already a committee has been appointed to prepare the way for a
grand celebration.
Not only mentally, physically, and socially are we strong, but also-
numerically. Three Seniors, five Juniors, nine Sophomores, and five
Freshmen mean something to what President Oilman, of Johns Hop-
kins University, calls " a statistical fiend." Such a one might revel for
a longer time than we care to, in the possibilities which twenty-two
individuals could accomplish in reaching a desired end.
Our record is an open one and easily read. We go in and out, con-
scientiously trying to do our duty, and the approval which comes to us
from within and without assures us that, so long as we live up to the
principles which guide and have guided our Fraternity into its present
prominent place among college fi-atemities, we cannot err. Located so
near to New York, we had hoped that the past year would have brought
more Delta U.'s from other chapters to visit us. We trust the next one
will.
Our sincerest well wishes to our twenty-one sister chapters.
Fraternally,
Oeorge p. Morris, '88.
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Delta Upsilon Hall,
Brown University, Providence, R. I.
Dear Brothers:
Brown greets you all with hearty fraternal good-will, and wishes
you unbounded prosperity.
It is always interesting to us to hear from our sister chapters, especially
in regard to their work and their methods, and their peculiar ** manners
and customs." Through the chapter letters of the Quarterly, the
Eastern colleges get glimpses of their Western neighbors, as well as of
those nearer home, and may gather hints which will help them to the
variety and the progress which are always so desirable in the literary
work of a chapter. We would like to have the other chapters write
particularly of their home life. The little details which may seem ta
them too familiar to need record.may be, and often are, strikingly differ-
ent from our own, and are always valuable.
Brown University had a lofty aim when in 1770 it settled in Provi-
dence Plantations. It took possession of the crest of a hill some
two hundred feet high which runs north and south on the eastern
side of the city. Its campus, shaped like a rectangle with a smaller
rectangle added to the middle of one side, or like a very squat letter
T, contains some fifteen acres. The western or larger rectangle is
divided north and south by a line of college buildings, Hope College,
Manning Hall (the chapel), University, Slater, and Rhode Island, into
the elm-studded front campus, and the middle campus, with few trees,,
but many tennis-courts in the summer, and much water on its con-
crete walks when the snow melts in the winter. The smaller rectan-
gle, sloping gradually eastward behind Sayles Memorial Hall, is
caUed the back campus, and is mostly celebrated as the place where
the ball nine is victorious — once in a great while.
North of the front campus, and separated from it by one of the finest
streets in the city, stands the brick library building, most excellent in
plan and apppointments. The library contains sixty-three thousand
volumes, and the students are allowed free access to the books.
The curriculum at Brown is very good. The elective system has
been gaining ground in the last few years, and has now pushed its way
into the first half of the Sophomore year in a form which is more than
nominal. The marking system still exists, though the Phi Beta Kappa ap-
pointments last vear were not announced according to rank as heretofore,.
22 CHAPTER LETTERS — BROWN.
and the old system of Commencement honors has been banished. It is
not quite clear, however, what is to take the place of the old manner of
graduation.
Our faculty is a strong one. Of course it contains several Delta U.
alumni. The President, Dr. Robinson, is an honorary member of our
chapter. The Professor of History and Political Economy, the Rev.
Elisha B. Andrews, LL.D-, '70, is one of our strongest supporters. He
is very popular in college, especially with his own classes. He is
making his name known, too, in outside economic circles. Professor
Winslow Upton, who holds the chair of Astronomy, is a highly trained
specialist in that department, and his electives, like those of Professor
Andrews, are taken by goodly numbers. William S. Liscomb, who has
just been made Instructor in Modem Languages, is a most agreeable
gentleman, and an accomplished and profound scholar.
The object which the founders of the University, of course, had in
mind, and for which the University and Faculty alike exist— I mean the
Brown chapter of Delta U.— isin most excellent condition, blessed with
a fine prospect, and a noble Freshman delegation. Our men are, as they
have always been, unsurpassed in the college for character and ability.
The interest in our meetings is good, and we mean to keep it so by
having our meetings interesting. Nothing is easier than to vary the
programmes by the judicious appointment of a Shakespeare reading by
the whole chapter, a recitation by a few members, a comic newspaper
or a story, in addition to the regular debate. Sometimes the story is
^continued, one brother writing the first part, and another following at
the next meeting, with the conclusion. It might be a pleasant experi-
ment, though we have never tried it, to have a regular novel, one
chapter a week, running through a term, perhaps. Such work is excel-
lent practice, even if it is not suited to every man's talent, for the style
of a story and that of an essay ought to be two different things.
Essays are often made a part of our programme. On one occasion
a question was given out, and four brothers, instead of standing up and
knocking one another down in the good old-fashioned debate, stated
their thoughts on the matter calmly and rationally in essays of a sober
and decent style. At our last meeting two essays were read arguing
for and against the proposition, ** Poetry finds its highest development
in the interpretation of Nature."
The " five minutes* talk" has been a more or less prominent feature of
our meetings. We would suggest to the other chapters what an instru-
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ment it may become in good hands. For instance, a brother who is
''•on" for such a performance can find in the Irish Question, or the
Land Question, as treated in the English reviews, or in the growth of
nationalities in the Balkan Peninsula, or the condition of the European
powers, as discussed in the Revue des Deux Mondes^ a vast amount of
information, some of which he might convey very pleasantly to his
•chapter in the five allotted minutes.
One great reason for the success of the Brown Chapter is the hearty
and continued support which it receives from the Alumni Association,
which has its headquarters here, and meets in our hall three times dur-
ing the college year.
The association was formed some years ago for the express purpose
of sustaining the active chapter. It includes nearly all our city alumni,
and welcomes alumni from any chapter. Professor Andrews, of Brown^
is its President for this year. The meetings are very pleasant, always
beginning with an hour of social chat, which, after the reading of
the paper appointed for the evening, is renewed, so that the real ad-
journment is much later than the formal.
The last meeting, held January 8, was especially enjoyable. The
attendance was unfortunately too small, but a pleasant hour was spent
in renewing old acquaintances and making new ones. The first num-
ber on the programme, after President Andrews had called us to order,
-was a piano solo by Brother Hamilton, of '88. The brother is the
ablest musician of his age in the city, and his playing was keenly ap-
preciated by the chapter, who inwardly and outwardly congratulated
themselves that he is a faithful Delta U. Brother Town, '8 1 , sang a solo
— with an encore — to an accompaniment by Brother Hamilton on the
ipiano, and by Mr. Town, brother of the singer, on the violin.
After a brilliant violin solo by Mr. Town, Professor Andrews rose
and said :
" Some years ago, in a distant city, I had the pleasure of lunching
urith a noted professor of astronomy. He spoke to me of a young
man who was studying with him ; • You will hear from that young man
some day,' said he. That young man is with us this evening and the
prophecy is to be fiilfilled in your hearing. *'
He then introduced Professor Winslow Upton, '75, who read a most
graphic and interesting description of his visit to the shrine of the old
goddess Pal6, the volcano of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii.
At the close of Professor Upton's paper, which was only too short,
24 A ROSE.
Brother Town sang another solo, bringing pleasant music into contrast
with the Dante-like adventure we seemed to have passed through.
President Andrews then declared the meeting adjourned. But it was
somewhat later when the last group put out the lights in the hall — the
Sophomores whose duty it is, had, if we remember rightly, gone home —
and departed to think over the pleasure of the evening and the value
of an Alumni Association.
And, in closing this letter, Brown's good will to her sister chapters —
it is deep and true — can express itself no better than in the wish that
they may have as good an Alumni Association as she has.
Yours Fraternally,
Norman M. Isham..
A ROSE.
It was a rose
That she gave me,
Fragrant as the breath of mom,
A deep red rose ;
Yes! thorns I see.
Such has true love ever borne.
Ah, she was fair !
Nor ray of light,
From glorious sunset thrown
On golden hair.
Could be more bright ;
She even the stars outshone.
Then, such a thought
Flashed through my mind,
That fled the darksome shades ;
For bliss it brought,
And peace did find
A place *mid Love's sweet glades.
Lyman Sewell Linson,
New Yorkj '76.
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DELTA U. NEWS ITEMS.
The Cleveland, O., Alumni Association held their annual reunion,
February 8, 1885.
The Colhy Chapter is to be congratulated upon the appointment
of the Hon. Bartlett Tripp, '61, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Dakota. James S. Bishop, Michigan^ '79, writes that '^ Bart-
lett Tripp is without a peer among the talented men of a great terri-
tory."
The New England Delta Upsilon Club hold their third annual re-
union at the Quincy House, Boston, Mass., on February 22, x886.
A large attendance is expected. Several New York Delta U's are
going to be present. George F. Bean, 40 State Street, Boston, Mass.,
is the Secretary of the Club.
If the members of the Fraternity who wish the Convention Annual
—containing the chapter reports, records, poem, oration, etc., of each
year's Convention sent to them, will send their names and addresses to
the Secretary of the Executive Council, 83 Cedar St., New York, they
will be put " on the list " and supplied with a copy of the issue of each
year.
The New York Alumni Association will hold their fifth annual re-
union in New York City on March 12. An excellent programme has
been arranged, and the committee hope to see as happy a gathering
and repeat the successes of the last reunion. Invitations, dinner cards,
and other information can be obtained from the Secretary, Frederick
M. Crossett, 83 Cedar St., New York.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE CORNELL CHAPTER OF
DELTA UPSILON.
Whereas^ It has steadfastly been the decision of the Cornell Chap-
ter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, that none of its members should
belong to any secret college organization, and
26 NEWS ITEMS — CORNELL BANQUET.
Wh^eas, The constitution of the said Delta Upsilon Fraternity in*
Article 11., section 3, expressly forbids such double memberships, and
Whereas, When it was positively ascertained in October, 1885,
that Edward Leroy Smith, '87, was a member of the college secret
class organization, or society, known as Theta Nu Epsilon, the CornelF
Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity requested him to uncondi-
tionally sever his connection with the said secret organization, which
said Edward Leroy Smith promised to do and, in proof of his assumed
sincerity, gave the Cornell Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity a
certified copy of his resignation from Theta Nu Epsilon, and
Whereas, Now, on February 8, 1886, it is well known that said
Edward Leroy Smith is still a member of the said Theta Nu Epsilon
society, in direct violation both of the principles of the Delta Upsilon
Fraternity, and of his promise as a truthful and honorable man, there-
fore be it
Resolved, That we, the Cornell Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fra-
ternity, in meeting assembled, do hereby summarily dismiss and expel
the said Edward Leroy Smith from membership in our chapter and
Fraternity, and further be it
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be served upon the said
Edward Leroy Smith, and also that copies be sent to the other chap-
ters of our Fraternity, and published in the Quarterly.
Frank W. Shepard, President.
John W. Battin, Secretary.
Delta Upsilon Chapter Hall,
Ithaca, N. Y., February 8, 1886.
THE CORNELL BANQUET.
On the thirteenth of February the Cornell Chapter spent an en-
joyable evening, the event being the celebration of Brother AUyn A.
Packard's birthday. Such a celebration is rather unusual with us at
Cornell, but there rose a spontaneous desire to show in some way our
appreciation of Brother Packard's merits, and we decided to present
him with some token of affection, and follow it with a spread in the
chapter hall. After the literary exercises of the evening, a part of
which was an " Autobiography," by Brother Packard, Brother Shep-
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aid, in behalf of the chapter, presented him with a handsome volume
entitled, " Pictorical Architecture in the British Isles."
Then began one of those pleasurable occasions which come only to
a college student — ^the spread. With the aid of our indispensable
^ Fred " a long table was soon improvised, which was heaped with an
endless variety of edibles and at the call of our Toastmaster took
our places about the board and the feast began.
The chapter had just been through a little siege, and it was perhaps
the feeling that it had been once more successful in upholding the
principles of our beloved Fraternity which united us more strongly and
made us feel that we had just cause for rejoicing. Never before were
the Fraternity songs sung with such feeling, and such perfect harmony
pervaded our circle.
After the spread, toasts were in order, and the selection of these and
the songs, showed how well fitted our Toastmaster, Brother Barnes,.
was for his position.
The toasts themselves were brimful of wit and humor, and, though
few had been prepared beforehand, all were interesting.
The following is a list of the toasts, the titles of most of them in>
some way being humorous thrusts of the Toastmaster at the respon-
dents.
Brother Packard at the age of 24, - Frank W. Shepard, '86
Birthday Poetry. - - - Professor Wm. R. Dudley, '74
Song, " Naught of Sadness."
Birthdays of Seniors, ... Charles H. Hull, '86
Bums on " Birthdays," - - James £. Russell, '87
The Junior Ball and Its Features, - Albert R. Warner, '87
Song, " Nellie was a Lady."
Our Freshman at Sage. - - Leonard C. Crouch, '89
Song, " If you ask a Sag^ maid."
The door-bell at Sage, - - - Robert J. Eidlitz, '85
Autobiography as sA^ is wrote, - - George J. Tansey, '8S
The " Choral Union," - - - Fred W. Hebard, '87
Song, " The Glendeberg."
The Reveries of a Bachelor^ - Hon. Jared T. Newman, '7^
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Fourth Floor of Cascadilla, - - John W. Battin, '88
The Art of Dancing, - - George M. Marshall, '87
Rise and Fall of the Moustache, - - Charles W. Horr, Jr., '87
Song, " My Moustache is growing."
Birthdays in China, - - - Wythe Denby, '88
Myself and Hiram Sibley, - - George C. Shepard, '89
Song, " Alma Mater."
When the last toast had been given and the last song sung, it was
quite late, and the cheer invented and heard so often on the shores of
Lake George, the cheer without which no gathering of Delta Upsilons
could disperse, was given. And when that died away, we bid one
another good-night, thankful for the peace and harmony which reigned
among us.
THE CLEVELAND ALUMNI BANQUET.
The Cleveland Alumni Association of Delta Upsilon gave its
Second Annual Banquet at the Stillman House, on Monday evening,
February 8th, with the members of the Adelbert Chapter present as
invited guests. About twenty-five members of the Fraternity were
present. The banquet was served in the Stillmans' finest style, and
was enjoyed thoroughly by alL
After the inner man had been satisfied, the Toastmaster, Professor
Newton B. Hobart, in his usual happy manner called for the toasts of
the evening, which were responded to in the true Delta U. style.
Progress in Delta U., - - Charles B. Parker, M.D., Rochester^ '74
Our Principles, - - - - Henry J. Herrick, M.D., WUliams^ '58
The Fraternity, - - - - Henry M. Ladd, D.D., Middlebury^ '7a
Adelbert Chapter, Calvin A. Judson, Adelbert^ ^Z^
Alma Mater, - - - - Professor Newton B. Hobart, AcUlbert^ '78
The Future, Norton T. Horr, Cornell^ '82
Dr. Ladd's speech was a masterly effort, setting forth in clearest
light Delta U.'s great work and aims. The singing of the under-
graduates added much to the enjoyment, the hall ringing with Delta
CHAPTER NEWS — HAMILTON, AMHERST. 29
U. songs and the cheer. How such meetings warm our hearts, and stir
up our loyalty ; what pleasant memories of college and fraternity life
they call up !
At the close of the banquet a short business meeting was held, and
officers for the ensuing year elected. President, Charles B. Parker,
M.D. ; Vice-President, the Rev. Henry M. Ladd, D.D. ; Secretary,
Harley F. Roberts; Treasurer, Norton T. Horr; Executive Committee,
Ledyard M. Bailey and Norton T. Horr.
Great credit is due to Brother George C. Ford for the complete
success of the second banquet.
Harley F. Roberts,
Adelbert, '84.
CHAPTER NEWS.
HAMILTON.
Charles S. Van Auken, '86, passed the holidays in travelling through
the West.
Philip N. Moore, '86, again makes his appearance after a vacation
of one term.
Frederick W. Griffith, '86, has one class a day at Kirkland Hall,
Clinton, N. Y. He has accepted the position of instructor in classics
in the same institution for next year.
Frank H. Robson, '87, stood second in the prize examination in
Greek.
Carl W. Scovel, '88, stood first in his class last year.
Fred B. Waite, '88, tied for second place in his class last year.
Eddy R. Whitney, '89, has been elected Class Treasurer.
Hiram H. Bice, '89, will be obliged to remain out of college, at
least most of the term, on account of his eyes.
Edward C. Morris, '89, is at present teaching school on College
HUl.
AMHERST.
The new literary magazine which is to be published by the class of
'87 has SIX editors, two of whom, Walter P. White and Frederick P.
Johnson are Delta U's.
J. Mack H. Frederick is Delta U's representative on the Senior
Social Union Debate.
30 CHAPTER NEWS — AMHERST.
The Amherst Chapter would like to see a general movement on the
part of her sister chapters to revive the Camping Association. Several
members of the chapter have expressed their willingness to be present
if a party can be got together. Lake George seems to be the first
choice of the fellows ; but they could, perhaps, agree on some more
central point.
Two of our enthusiastic scientific men, " Hal " Wilder and " Fred "
Peck, '86, have shown their enterprise in the cause of science by fitting
up as a laboratory a room in the basement of our House. In this
quiet corner they diligently seek to explain those organisms in the
lower forms which, by " heredity, environment, accidental variation,
and natural selection," have developed into the higher forms. The
chapter has granted the use of the room to those interested in science,
and they expect to start a society cabinet.
The AmAerstCh&ptGT entered the new year with a good list of new
(and renewed) resolutions, which we confidentiy expect to be realized
before January i, '87. The delegation of *86 has resolved that they
will not wait to count their money by the millions before sending a
check to the treasurer, a resolution to which we would invite the atten-
tion of past as well as future delegations. The lower delegations have
silendy determined that Delta U. shall not lack in anything which makes
a society strong — a resolve we are certain they can carry out.
The special meetings which we spoke of in our last letter have
proved a source of quite a number of jolly times. On the first Tuesday
night of the term, each delegation had to present something which
was entirely original. Freshman presented three rounds between rep-
resentatives from Chicago and Pittsburg. The rest of the delegation in-
corporated itself into a general information bureau, and handled the
questions, asked by the happy recipients of information from such a
worthy source, with a skill which augurs well for their future.
The Sophomores gave the best part of the programme, unless we
except the Senior musicale. In elaborate costumes, and with a liberal
amount of burned cork to hide their blushes, they related many " chest-
nuts *' and sang many glees. The Junior delegation reproduced a class-
room scene, which can only be appreciated by Amherst men.
The grand musicale by the Senior orchestra brought forth round
after round of applause, and the musicians had at length to make their bow.
The entertainment, while not productive of literary ability, was one
jthat we can write down in the long series of " happy hours in Delta U."
CHAPTER NEWS — ADELBERT, RUTGERS, BROWN. 3 1
ADELBERT.
A Delta U. appears again this year as College Orator, namely,
John N. Weld, who is also president of the Phi Delta Literary So-
ciety.
Evdn H. Hopkins, '89, is the champion tennis player of the col-
lege.
George T. Snyder, '88, a brother of the first honor man of the
class of '86 at Harvard, is the best bicyclist in college as well as one
of the best in the city.
Calvin A. Judson, '86, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Two of the editors of '87 's Reserve are Delta U's.
Our chapter has four good, solid men pledged for the next Fresh-
man class.
The annual banquet of the Resident Chapter of Delta U. in this
city is to be given at theStillman on the evening of February 8, 1886.
Forty are expected to be present. Death alone will prevent any mem-
ber of this chapter from being present.
RUTGERS.
Daniel T. Kilpatrick, '86, is now engaged in mercantile pursuits,
being with the Goodyear Rubber Company, in their Broadway office,
New York City.
Henry M. Voorhees, *86, has returned from Texas and is studying
iaw with his father, J. N. Voorhees, Flemington, N. J.
Frank J. Sagendorph, '87, officiates as Vice-President and Assist-
ant Librarian of the Peithosophian Society. Asa Wynkoop, '87, has
just retired firom the President's chair in the same society.
Elias W. Thompson, ^Z%^ has been compelled to temporarily leave
college.
William Armitage Beardslee, ^2iZ^ the last initiate into the chapter,
ts a son of the Rev. J. W. Beardslee, of the Class of '60, and came to
Rutgers firom Hope College, Michigan.
John T. DeWitt, '89, is a son of the Rev. Richard DeWitt, of the
Class of '60, and a brother of Elmore DeWitt, Rutgers, ^Zd,
BROWN.
Clarence H. Manchester, '86, has been chosen Class Poet, and
Wilbur B. Parshley, '86, is First Speaker at the Tree, for Class Day
32 CHAPTER NEWS — BROWN, MARIETTA.
June nth. Brother Parshley is also Editor-in-Chief of the Brunonian^
the bi-weekly college paper.
Charles A. Denfield is President of Eighty-nine.
The history of Eighty-seven's Sophomore year was written by
Walter C. Bronson, '87. It is one of the wittiest ever delivered, and
created great enthusiasm in the class.
Beniah L. Whitman, '87, has charge of a parish in Wanskuck, near
Providence, preaches every Sunday, and stands at the head of his
class.
Our chapter sent Wilbur B. Parshley *86, who will be remembered
as our Convention delegate, and Frank S. Dietrich, '87, as delegates to
visit the Harvard Chapter.
The brothers spoke very highly of the reception with which they
met from our Harvard brethren, and of their pleasant stay with them.
An evening was agreeably passed in listening to sparkling wit in a
paper on the " Marking System," and to serious forecast as to the
future which awaits the Senior fledgeling as he leaves Alma Mater's
nest. Refreshments were not forgotten and, after several speeches,
social chat flowed freely till the meeting closed.
Brother Edward E. Atkinson, Brown, '79, was present and spoke.
MARIETTA.
Charles S. Mitchell, *86, is leader of the college choir and also of
the college quartette, organized last term. By the way, a member of
the quartette, who belongs to the local secret society which is our bit-
terest rival, lately spoke thus of the Delta U. Song- Book in the
writer's hearing : " It is incomparably the finest collection of col-
ege songs that I ever saw put together anywhere or in any shape."
Such words from such lips mean considerable.
Rufus C. Dawes and Charles S. Mitchell, '86, and Frederick E.
Corner, '87, were on the editorial board of the College Olio, Marietta's
monthly publication, for the first half of this collegiate year.
William A. Shedd, '87, has been elected delegate to the State Con-
vention of Y. M. C. A., which is to gather at Oberlm, February 11,
1886.
The preliminary oratorical contest, held for the purpose of deciding
who shall represent the college as orator at the contest, February 18,
took place on Thursday evening, January 21. Of the five speakers,
our were Delta U's, as follows : William A. Shedd, Edward B. Has-
CHAPTER NEWS — MARIETTA. 33
kell, William B. Addy, Robert M. Labaxee. Haskdl was awarded fiist
place, the second being a tie between Labaree and a Phi Gamma
Delta. The subject of the first oration was ** Fresh-Manliness " ; that
of the second, ''Christ and Mahomet" In accordance with this result
Haskell will act as Marietta's orator in the State Contest (hdd at Den-
nison Univeisity), and Labarre as her delegate to the business meeting
of the Oratorical Association, connected with the contest
After thirty years of faithful service. President I. W. Andrews has
resigned his position, made burdensome by advancing years. The task
of finding " just the man " for his successor was a grave and difficult
one, but it has finally been accomplished, and the result is most satis-
factory and gratifying to all fiiends of the institution. The new Presi-
dent, who entered upon his duties at the beginning of this year, is
General John Eaton, LL.D., U. S. Educational Commissioner. Of
Dr. Eaton's eminent fitness for the position nothing need here be said,
as it will be acknowledged at once by all ^miliar with educational
matters.
Amid the prosperity of the college in general. Delta U. has noth-
ing discouraging to report. In certain lines we have lately made
marked progress. Quiedy and unpretentiously, new literary features
have been brought in, supplementing and, in cases, improving on the
work of the regular literary societies. Our Christmas banquet was
enlivened by instrumental music, humorous declamations, the acting
of a little farce, etc., in addition to the several happy toasts. This
term a permanent committee on entertainments has been appointed.
The plan is to have one a month. These will be varied in character.
At one time the entertainment will be something light, as a mock
trial, for example — simply for the amusement of the Chapter. At an-
other time it will be a literary and theatrical exhibition. Again it may
take the form of a social reception. This will be constantly drawing
the boys' thoughts to the Chapter, and will also keep it before the
minds of the college public — two very good results.
As to the standing of our men, their college positions, and the hon-
ors they have secured — are they not written in the department of the
chronicles of " Delta U. News Items " on another page ?
With four men already pledged in the Senior preparatory class, we
have no fears as to the future.
34 CHAPTER NEWS — SYRACUSE.
SYRACUSE.
William A. Wilson, 'S6, has been elected Orator of the Senior
class.
George W. Kennedy, '87, was out of college last term on account
of the illness and death of his brother.
Lincoln E. Rowley, '88, sings with the college glee club.
Frank G. Bannister, *S6, was out of college during a part of last
term attending to matters relating to the estate of his father, recently
deceased.
Josiah H. Lynch, '87, and John S. Bovingdon, are two of the five
editors of the Onondagatiy the Junior class publication.
C. S. Robertson, '87, has been at home in Galway, N. Y., for sev-
eral weeks, with a sprained ankle.
Anson D. Mills, '87, was compelled to leave college last term on
account of poor health.
Arthur Bridgman Clark, '88, of East Onondaga, was initiated
January 29.
Brothers Cassidy, Cossum, Rowe, Jeffers, and McKay of Madi-
son, Griffith, Robson and Van Auken, of the Hamilton Chapter, have
called on us at different times recently.
A prosperous nation has least of what is called history, and in a
similar way we have but little to say of ourselves, but we take this
opportunity afforded by our excellent medium to send greetings to all
our sister chapters, and especially to the babies.
We have nothing to complain of, either in regard to our condition
or our prospects. We are strong and still growing. We now number
23 : 3 Seniors, 6 Juniors, and 7 in each lower class. We are repre-
sented in all leading college organizations. We control the Uni-
versity Herald^ which has a circulation about twice that of the
Syracusean^ conducted, till recently, by a combination of four fraterni-
ties. Of the five editors of our annual Junior class publication, the
Onondagan, we have two, one being business manager.
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Kappa Psi are not represented on
the editorial board this year, but the Onondagan will be issued as
usual.
During the year brothers from various chapters have visited
us, and we take this opportunity of inviting all to come and come
again.
CHAPTER NEWS — MICHIGAN. 35
MICHIGAN.
Last month the older members of the chapter " set it up*' to the
boys in fine style. A well-appointed table, the presence of some of
the alumni — the Acuity being represented among them — and toasts,
followed by a general good time, made one evening and part of the
next morning pass pleasantly.
In scholarship we hold, as usual, a good place. A post-graduate of
'85 holds a prominent place in athletics, a Senior is on the editorial
staff of the Argonaut^ and we also have an editor on the OracU^ our
Sophomore annual.
A double quartette is being formed to make a more thorough study
of the Song-book, and to develop what musical talent we may possess
in other directions, as well.
Before vacation the literary department and the professional schools
had a pronouncing contest, the reverse of a spelling match. The last
man, appropriately enough, was floored on the word Jinis, Last meet-
ing the Sophomores and Freshmen amused the upper classmen with a
little pronouncing combat of their own. We can recommend this to
any chapter that wants to have a jolly meeting, and at the same time a
profitable one.
It was discovered during the annual meeting of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science, held at Ann Arbor last
August, that there were quite a number of Delta U's in attendance.
Those gentlemen who hailed from Michigan resolved to have an in-
formal spread and invite the representatives of other chapters to be
their guests upon that occasion. A hasty canvass revealed the presence
of the Hon. William Bross, Williams, '38; Prof. Simon H. Gage, Cor^
«^//,'77, of Cornell University ; Prof. Edward G. Nichols, Cornell, 'i^^
of Kansas University, and Prof. La Roy F. Griffin, Bra7vn,%6, in the
city, besides the following representatives of Michigan: Arthur W.
Burnett, *8o; William A. Locy, '81; Howard Ayres, Charles W.
Belser, and Alfred W. Huycke, '83 ; Elmer E. Beach, Charles W.
Carman, William G. Clark, and Winthrop B. Chamberlain, '84 ;
Horace G. Prettyman, '85 ; and Charles W. Dodge and Nathan D.
Corbin, '86. All these gentlemen, with the exception of Prof. Griffin,
and one or two of the Michigan delegation, who were unavoidably ab-
sent, gathered in the parlors of the State Street caterer Saturday
evening, August 29, and passed a few hours very pleasantly together.
36 CHAPTER NEWS — HARVARD.
HARVARD.
We recently had a rousing time on the occasion of a visit by Brothers
Parshley and Dietrich, of Brown. Mr. Edward Atkinson, Brawn^ '79,
an enthusiastic Delta U., was also with us. What with a spread, mu-
sic, speeches, stories, essays, singing and laughter, the evening proved
one of the pleasantest in our recollection. About midnight a grisly
proctor pushed his breast in at the door, and suggested that the mid-
year examinations were not far away, and that it was getting late, inti-
mating, I suppose, that he was still, at that unreasonable hour, burning
the Palladian ail. But as we were little inclined toendour merrymaking
so early as 11.59 we waited until " to-morrow" was well out of the
cradle, and then, after chanting a dirge to the shade of the proctor, we
reluctantly said good-night. Brown^s visit will long be pleasantly re-
membered by us.
Why should a proctor have any authority to disturb us it may be
asked. We have no hall of our own at present. We meet in one
another's rooms, and as these are all in the college buildings we are
forced to submit to faculty and proctors — bless them ! But I really
doubt whether we should feel so sociable if we had a regular hall. Our
meetings might then become too formal and lose half their spice.
We take this opportunity to urge visiting between the chapters
These visits call up the best of feelings, some that even the Convention
cannot boast. For in the chapter we see the joys of the home-circle ;
quieter, perhaps, but deeper than the experience of the grand assembly.
Without such visits, brotherhood becomes a shadow — ^an idea only, and
not a thing of flesh and blood that may be felt.
" Grinding " is just now the fashion at Harvard, and tutors are reap-
ing a golden harvest from the rich and lazy. Still, it takes little obser-
vation to see that the men, as a rule, are earnestly working for them-
selves in their elected studies. There is left almost no trace of the old
spirit of indifference, so conspicuous a few years ago, when a definite
course was presented to everyone. But, strange to say, in the midst of
all this willingness to work, we are shut out from the very means of ren-
dering the very best results. Our library, one of the finest in the coun-
try, has neither gas nor electric light, and it is never open after sim-
down. In the fall and early winter it is closed before four o'clock. At
most you find scarcely two consecutive hours to spare during the day.
We are, therefore, practically shut out during the only time when we
CHAPTER NEWS — HARVARD, LAFAYETTE, COLUMBIA. 37
<an use the library to advantage. The present system is so annoying
that many students (numbering into the hundreds) have given up
using the library altogether. We have long been poking the abuse,
•and crying for electric lights. The millenium may help us out.
The annual banquet of the New England Delta U. Club is looked
forward to with great interest. We hope that the more distant chap*
ters may be enabled to attend, for the pleasure and novelty of the oc-
casion will be so much the greater in proportion, as the men come from
the " remote comers of the earth."
LAFAYETTE.
Before we turn over a new leaf,'86, we glance at the old one,'85, crowd-
ed to the margin with its joys and sorrows, haps and mishaps. One of the
most pleasant things on the old page is the motto near the middle)
**AiKaia TiroB^xnj'* and what is strange about it is that, though it is written
but once, yet you can see it everywhere, when you look closely, out-
lined by our most pleasant experience. We are loath to leave it, so
we carry it over to '86, and write it at the top, with the hope that it may
<lo as much for us in the new year as it did in the old.
Our report for last quarter's work is progress. We have initiated
three new members since the last publication, and were hoping to de*
fer the writing of this letter a week longer, as there probably will be
three more initiated. Then we will have the highest standing men in
three classes, and a corresponding proportion of those excelling in other
xespects.
We are glad to say that our meetings have grown more and more
attractive and profitable. Every undue formality is removed, and
sociability and good-fellowship are cultivated to the highest degree.
We try and make everything about our lodge-room thoroughly home-
like. Our new members have caught the enthusiasm, and are already
ardent Delta U's. We all feel that we have received infinite profit from
Delta Upsilon.
COLUMBIA.
We begin to look forward with pleasurable anticipation to the ap-
pearance of the ColumHad\ for the beloved insignia of Delta Upsilon
will, for the first time, be seen there. The strong position that we
occupy at the start commands the respect of the other Greek-letter
societies, and the opposition, though strong, is not open and avowed.
38 WINTER — SONG.
Our lack of men in the two lower classes requires an explanation..
Men who, on entering college, seek advice of the most influential mem-
bers of the faculty, are counseled to wait two years before joining a
fraternity. The reason given is obvious, viz., often men who are good
students, on joining societies become so diverted that their studies
drop to a minor position, and they lose their standing, and sometimes
their membership in their class. All the men we approached in the
present Sophomore class — with one exception — had made up their
minds to wait till the beginning of the Junior year.
While we are a strong, live chapter, our days of warfare are not
over. Our first struggle was a powerful one, and it has brought us to
occupy a high place among the other fraternities ; our present struggle
is not only to keep this place but to advance higher.
WINTER.
The merry whistling winter's here,
His palace in the atmosphere
With frozen vapor glistens.
Now guard against a purple nose,
And fingers numb and icy toes.
Squeeze out the tears
And rub your ears.
While the wind of winter blows.
Henry E. Frazer,
Harvard^ '86,
SONG.
Hear Feb., — O — Ho ! but hear him blow
The world is turning round;
Within our walls we heed it not,
We glory in the sound.
True Vikings, we, along the board ;
Our mead-hall rolls the din^
But we despise the Danish joy
That lives in canakin.
IN MEMORIAM. 3^
^tt 9l^emonam«
CHARLES S. DUNNING, D.D.
WILLIAMS, '48.
The Rev. Charles Seely Dunning was bom in Walkill, Orange Co.,
N. Y., January 31, 1828. He was graduated from Williams College
with the class of 1848, and from the Union Theological Seminary in
1852. Following this he preached for one year in Binghamton, N.
Y., and then filled the position of instructor in Hebrew in Union
Theological Seminary until the spring of 1857. He was married
November 4, 1857, to Maria H., only daughter of the Rev. Henry
White, D. D., Professor of Systematic Theology in Union Theological
Seminary.
From April, 1858, to April, 1 861, he was pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church, of Franklyn, N. Y., and there accepted the call to the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Honesdale, Pa., where he
remained for nineteen years. Lafayette College conferred upon him the
degree of D.D. in 187 1. Dr. Dunning took rank, from the first, as one
of the ablest thinkers and expositors of biblical truth, not only in the pres-
bytery but in this section of the State. He had not the gift of oratory •
but his sermons, delivered with impressive earnestness, touched the high-
water mark of pulpit effort in logic, in learning, in religious fervor, and
in refined vigor of language. The unusual length of his pastorate at
Honesdale is a sufficient attestation of his hold upon the affections of
his people. Indeed, his charge was relinquished only on the utter
breaking down of his health. After a year or two of rest, anxious to
be again at work, he accepted a call to the pulpit of the Presbyterian
Church at Kingston, Pa., a less laborious field of labor. But even
this was too great a tax upon his strength, and after three or four years
he was obliged, by reason of still failing health, to relinquish this charge
also. In March, 1885, he removed to Metuchen, N. J., where he had
purchased a pleasant home in which he thought to wait, serenely, till
the final call of the Master. He had not long to wait. He died on
the first day of the following June. His body was brought to Hones-
40 IN MEMORIAM.
dale, where the best years of his life were spent, and laid beside the
children of his household who had gone before. On the afternoon of
the funeral all the business places in the town were closed, and the
mourning was general and sincere. At a later date a memorial ser-
mon was delivered by the Rev. William H. Swift, Amherst^ '70, who,
after a short interval, had succeeded Dr. Dunning in the pastorate at
Honesdale. This sermon is now incorporated in a handsome memo-
rial volume. Homer Greene,
Uniofiy '76.
CALVIN DAY NOBLE.
MIDDLEBURY, '64.
The Rev. Calvin D. Noble, A.M., died at his residence in River-
side, Cal., July 12, 1885.
Brother Noble was bom in Rochester, Vt., August 13, 1840. Left
an orphan when six years old, he lived upon a farm till fourteen, and
the next two years he was employed in the Vermont Chronicle printing
office. He prepared for college at Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt.,
and entered Middlebury in the class of '63. Ill health compelled his
absence from college most of his Sophomore year, and in the fall of
1 86 1 he entered the class of '64, in which he graduated.
During his college course he stood at the head of his class, sharing
equally with Ezra Brainerd, now President of Middlebury College, the
highest honors. They were warm friends, and by mutual agreement
Mr. Brainerd delivered the valedictory, Mr. Noble being assigned the
philosophical oration. He was Junior and Senior monitor of the col-
lege, and received other honors, besides an election to B K^ He
was an active and enthusiastic Delta U., devoting himself, as literary
critic and president, to hearty efforts in behalf of its general welfare
and the drawing out of the literary and musical ability of the chapter.
He has left evidence of this in both chapter and Fraternity. He was
respected by all who knew him for his intellectual ability and unswerv-
ing rectitude of character ; by his classmates he was always esteemed
and loved for his tender sensibility and constant forgetfulness of self.
IN MEMORIAM. 4I
Although his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had devoted
themselves to the ministry, he concluded to enter upon a literary life,
and accepted the position of assistant editor of the Vermont Record^
which, in a year, he left for that of literary editor of the Houston,
Texas, Telegraph, His health failing, he went to Cleveland, O., for
rest and recuperation.
While in college he became a warm believer in the doctrines of
the New Church as promulgated in the writings of Emanuel Sweden-
borg, and in 1867 he entered the ministry of that church. With his
active co-operation a society was organized in Cleveland and a church
built, he acting as pastor for three years. In October, 1870, he left
Cleveland for Chicago, to enter upon the duties of colleague of the
Rev. Dr. Hibbard, and during the latter*s absence in Europe had
charge of the two congregations in the city, preaching in the morning
to one, in the afternoon to the other. In 1870 he was married to Miss
Hannah G. Phinney, of Waltham, Mass. Health again failing, in the
spring of 1874 he resigned his pastorate, and practically terminated his
ministerial work. He visited some parts of the South in search of such
climatic conditions as best suited his case, but finally Southern Cali-
fornia was selected, and that fall he moved to Riverside, where he lived
till his death. The change of climate xmdoubtedly prolonged his life,
but consumption had obtained too strong a hold to be thrown off.
What strength of body and mind was given him was devoted to the
care of fruits on his land, to contributions in prose and verse to maga-
zines, and, in co-operation with his beloved wife, to the training of
their children, to which was added for a time a class of youth in the
higher branches. Mrs. Noble's health began to fail, and she died
April 22, 1885, her husband following in less than two months. Gifted
in person and mind, endeared to a wide circle of friends, hand to hand
and heart to heart they bore, with patient and loving submission to the
Father's will, years of suffering, pain, and deprivation. Four children
are left orphans by this bereavement.
Charles E. Prentiss, M.D.,
Middlebury^ '64.
42 IN MEMORIAM.
JOHN SIDNEY GIBSON.
SYRACUSE, '83.
John S. Gibson died at Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 22,
1885, of consumption.
Resolutions of the Syracuse Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity :
Where<is^ the sad intelligence has reached us of the death of our
brother, John Sidney Gibson, of the class of '83 ; and,
Whereas^ he became endeared to us by his generous nature and
Christian integrity ; therefore be it
Resolved^ That, while we bow in submission to the Divine will, we
mourn the early removal of one possessed of such mental gifts and
high aspirations.
Resolved^ That we extend to the bereaved family our heartfelt sym-
pathy in this great sorrow.
Resolved^ That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of
the deceased, and also be inserted in the college papers.
Frederick B. Price, '86.
John S. Bovingdon, '87.
Milton J. Fletcher, '88.
Committee,
THEODORE ALBERT BARTHOLOMEW.
LAFAYETTE, '88.
Yesterday a large gathering of sorrowing friends assembled at
Bath to pay the last tribute of affection and respect to the remains of
Theodore A. Bartholomew. He was bom in the above-named place
in 1864; entered the public schools; later, removed to Easton, where
he continued his studies preparatory to entering college, graduating
from the Easton High School in 1884, the Valedictorian of his class
and the recipient of the prize scholarship in Lafayette College. He
entered the class of '88 in the latter institution, and from the first gave
evidence of superior ability and a high order of scholarship, standing
at the head of his class at the end of the first term, receiving the
class monitorship and maintaining this high standard throughout the
IN MEMORIAM. 43
year. But he did not cultivate the mind to the neglect of the higher
and spiritual nature. He was a member of the Third Street Reformed
Church and an active worker in the Sunday-school, having been
elected secretary of the school just previous to his death. In the
•college he was an active member of high promise in the Washington
Literary Society and one of the charter members of the Lafayette
Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Those who knew him in
his fraternity relations could best appreciate and admire his social
qualities. None knew him but to love him.
About four weeks ago Mr. Bartholomew was forced to discontinue
his studies, and soon the symptoms of the fatal malady appeared, result-
ing in his sudden decease on Monday last. The high esteem in which
he was held by his classmates, both in the High School and the college,
as well as by the members of his Fraternity, was shown by the sorrow
and gloom caused by the announcement of his death and by the
many tributes offered him. His funeral took place yesterday and was
largely attended. His classmates in the High School and the college
attended in a body, they having chartered a special car from Easton
to Bath. The Chapter of Delta Upsilon also attended in a body, the
following members of which acted as pallbearers : Harvey, Henkell,
Tudor, Beatty, Rankin, and Croasdale. The floral tributes were ele-
gant and numerous. Among them was that of his Fraternity, a harp
whose strings, one of which was broken, each represented a member
of the chapter ; its base bore the words, " Our Brother ;" that of his
class in college a handsome broken shaft, and that of his class in the
High School a beautiful pillow bearing " '84." The funeral services
were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Sm ith, of the Bath Reformed Church
and the Rev. Mr. James, of the Presbyterian Church, and were very
impressive. — Easton Express,
At a meeting of the Lafayette Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fra-
ternity, held October 31, 1885, the following resolutions were
adopted :
WhereaSy God in his inscrutable wisdom has taken from us our
beloved brother and fellow-student, Theodore A. Bartholomew, a
young man of unusual promise and lofty integrity, foremost as a stu-
dent and devoted as a friend; therefore be it
Resohedy That in his death this chapter mourns the Joss of a mem-
ber, joined to us by ties of friendship which nothing can sever, rec-
ommending himself to us and to everyone by his amiability and high
44 TRIOLET.
type of character, his memory shall ever have an abiding place in
our affections.
Resolvedy That we extend to his sorrowing family our heartfelt
sympathy, and tenderly commend them to the mercy and grace of
our Heavenly Father, from whom alone cometh true consolation.
Resolvedy That these resolutions be recorded on our minutes and
that a copy of them be sent to the bereaved family, also that they be^
published in the Easton papers and the Lafayette.
Joseph H. Tudor, *86.
Stuart Croasdale, '86.
Charles H. Pridgeon
, -86. J
Committee^
TRIOLET.
the stalk and flower.
Oh, strong the stalk should grow
Which rears so fair a flower ;
God make me wise to know
How strong the stalk should grow
When winds of passion blow.
Or dark temptations lower ;
For strong the stalk should grow
Which rears a human flower.
Newton A. Wells,
Syracuse y '77^
GREEK LETTER GOSSIP. 45
GREEK LETTER GOSSIP.
Psi UpsOon is reported as desiring to revive her defunct Harvard
chapter.
The efforts of Alpha Delta Phi to enter Lafayette, have so far been
fruitless.
Delta Tau Delta has not, as reported, withdrawn the charter of the
Kenyon Chapter.
The Forty-fifth Annual Convention of Chi Psi will be held in New
York City, April 7th and 8th, 1886.
2^ta Psi has revived its chapter at Brown University ; eighteen
men were initiated October 16, 1885.
The New York Alpha Chapter of Phi Delta Theta was reorganized
at Cornell University early in February.
Ko Ko displayed excellent judgment in putting the Psi Upsilon
£>iamotui " on his list," for " it'll not be missed."
Delta Gamma founded a chapter at the University of Michigan
last December. The charter members were five in number.
Sigma Nu is the nu-est firatemity at Lehigh, its chapter, consisting
of eight men, having been established there, December 21, 1885.
Delta Upsilon's four new chapters, Wisconsin, Lafayette, Columbia,,
and Lehigh, have created quite a breeze in the fi'atemity world. This
gives her twenty-two active chapters.
Delta Kappa Epsilon at Cornell had a roll of twenty-three mem-
bers at one time last year, and, at the opening of the University in the
fall, but five returned. Quite startling mortality.
Phi Gamma Delta organized last December a chapter of twelve
men at the University of Michigan, five of the twelve, were members of
Phi Gamma Delta already in attendance at the University.
Delta Kappa Epsilon has revived several of her old Southern
chapters, as we never heard of the colleges before, and do not know
now where they are situated, we are unable to give particulars to an
anxious multitude.
Phi Gamma Delta has established a chapter at Lehigh University,
It is said that the fraternity was aided in its efforts to start a chapter
by the local chapter of Psi Upsilon. Lehigh ought to be pretty well
supplied with fraternities, ten of them being represented there now
46 GREEK LETTER GOSSIP.
A few weeks ago the astonishing news was heard that the chapter
of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity at this college was no more. The chap-
ter here, becoming dissatisfied with the management of the fraternity,
bolted, and are now working under the charter of the old fraternity
from which they sprung, the Delta Theta (local). This change has been
contemplated for some time, but was first announced a few weeks ago.
They are now the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Province of Delta Theta.
— Lombard University correspondent in Phi Delta Theta Scroll.
Prof. H. H. Boyesen, Chi '68, contributes " The Romance of a
Peer" to the Independent of May 21.
Gold win Smith, Chi '45, appears in the May Harper's with a strong
article, " Organization of Democracy." — Psi Upsilon Diamond,
Now, according to the Comellian^ the Chi Chapter of Psi Upsilon
was established at Cornell University in 1876, and it seems strange
that Prof. Boyesen should have been a member of that chapter in
1868, more especially as he was never a student at Cornell. All this
seems a little odd to the reader, but how trifling does it become when
we consider that Goldwin Smith, Chi '45, not only was a member of
Psi U. at Cornell thirty-one years before that society was established
there, but also accomplished the marvellous feat of being a student at
the University nearly twenty years before the institution was founded.
This will not, however, surprise those of us who recollect that the dis-
tinguished Homer, author of those interesting works, the " Iliad " and
" Odyssey," was graduated from the Chi chapter of Psi U. in the 834
B. C. delegation.
We quote from the " Psi Upsilon Epitome," " Journalism had no
exponents among the conservative fraternities until six years ago, when
Professor Fiske founded The Diamond, ^^
We wondered at first what fraternities Psi Upsilon classed as con-
servative, but the solution comes readily now. After nearly fom* years she
finds that Delta Phi, Delta Psi, Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi, and Theta Xi
have not followed her footsteps in the field of journalism, and so, fearing
she may lose her title of" conservative," she suddenly ceases publishing
the Diamond, We never did know exactly how to classify Psi Upsilon ;
whenever she did anything outside of the usual run it would be called
" developing our conservatism," to ease the conservative's mind. But
now she has classified herself, and done it so thoroughly too, that we
are truly thankful for the relief it has caused us.
GREEK LETTER GOSSIP. 47
We continue from the " Epitome :"
" The Alpha Delta Phi Star and Crescent is edited with great liter-
ary skill and taste, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly is a pub-
lication of which any cause or association might well be proud, though
it gives (one would think) too much space to discussions of, and state-
ments about other societies. Zeta Psi, Chi Psi, and Theta Delta Chi
are now represented by periodicals, as the Western and Southern fra-
ternities long have been. The Diamond^ unlike most or all of the other
papers, makes no exchanges."
True, the Diamond doesn't, and, by the way, sorrowful to relate, it
hasn't exchanged itself even among Psi U.'s, we are told, since the
issue bearing the date May, 1885, appeared.
Mr. Albert P. Jacobs, a writer somewhat known within the bounds
of Psi Upsilon, is the author of a volume entitled : ** The Psi Upsilon
Epitome." On page 232 he says, in reference to Delta Upsilon : ''This
order traces itself back to a huge association started in the lower classes
at Williams College in 1834."
Upon reference to the Delta Upsilon catalogue we find that the
largest delegation in any one class was fifty-three men in the class of
'40, at Union, and the next chapter having the largest class delegation
was that of '44, at Williams, which contained thirty-two men.
Seeking further information in the " Epitome," we found on page 103
a table of Psi Upsilon class delegations ; naturally we looked to see
which had the largest and smallest ; imagine our astonishment when
we discovered that Psi Upsilon, the select, the " conservative," had
at Yale within the last eight years four class delegations which num-
bered ovex fifty men each, the largest being that of '84, containing six-
ty-three men.
What a difference! Delta U.'s large membership was gathered in
her earliest days, when men were drawn together by conscientious prin-
ciples, and only one class contained five-sixths as many men as have
been classed under the name of Psi Upsilon at Yale College within two
years, and in which college it is merely a Junior affair, and a kind
of stepping-stone to entrance into a Senior society.
The difference is more striking too, when it is remembered that our
large membership occurred over forty years ago, when societies were
yoimg and had not yet begun, much less reached, the development and
organization which characterizes them to-day.
48 AMONG THE EXCHANGES.
AMONG THE EXCHANGES.
The heavy pressure upon our November issue, though the size wa»
increased to ninety-six pages, crowded out all the Greek Letter
Gossip and Among the Exchanges. We hope to make up this loss
in the remaining issues of the year.
Strolling casually into the Pan-Hellenic ballroom the other evening
our eye encountered a Greek-letter coquette. We had not met this-
variety of Pan- Hellene before, and our curiosity was at once aroused.
To tell the truth we rather liked it. In our last evening at Hellas we had
been button-holed and frightened half to death by the big and tremen-
dously intellectual Delta Kappa Epsilon. He had found plenty of
subjects to tell us about, and plenty of distinguished opinions to quote-
regarding them ; in fact (though we wouldn't for all the world have
this get to his ears), he rather bored us. We couldn't help thinking
that he would have been much more at home in the Nineteenth Cen-
tury Club than in our Pan-Hellenic coterie. That was one reason
why the little coquette in blue especially attracted us. We have
naturally a soft heart when the ladies are in question. People who-
have seen us striding about in our armor (of which most college publi-
cations have a picture), our helmet and plume, cocked fiercely to one
side, and our sword clanking beside us, don't realize how gentle Ve-
can be when we try. We are not always seen in such fierce array,
any more than the Beta Theta /¥ is to be be held astride of the rampant
wild beast who formerly clawed the cover of his magazine. The
Delta Gamma Anchora knows how, when her timid feet were first en-
tering the whirl of Pan- Hellenism, we shielded her. She remembers how
soft and sweet was our voice ; and, as for her answer — but never mind,,
we can keep our own counsel, and what passed between the little
maiden and her champion is safe with us.
But about the little coquette in blue. She was gossiping vivaciously
away when we came in. How she did hurl her comments and criti-
cisms to right and left ! We saw young Kappa Sigma^ recently intro-^
duced to this exalted society, first smile and blush, as the little chat-
terbox tapped him flatteringly with her fan, and then slink away whea
AMONG THE EXCHANGES. 49
«he turned her back on him, and flung out a couple of saucy criticisms.
Two new comers, who had stood smirking about her, and reminded
her of their recent introduction to her, were treated with coldest dis-
<lain. Then Kappa Alpha^ the serious-minded Southerner, was taken
dn hand. At first she abused him to his face with such pitiless ridicule
that the poor fellow dared not look up at us, and then, flirt-like, she
turned sweet all of a sudden, and gave him a sly pat on the shoulder
that made him beam again. We never knew (and the skeptical Beta
TA^lal^sBysht doubts it anyway) that Chi /W could write poetry;
.and yet here was the little rogue in blue flattering him to his face until
the business-like fellow could scarcely see for his blushes. She even
K^uoted from young CAi /^f x poem, and when the solemn old JDeUa
Kappa Epsilon came lumbering up to show her his poetry, and dem-
onstrate how much superior it was, she snubbed him on the spot.
Nay more, she pursued that amiable and dignified individual with
heartless badinage, until he was fain to lumber back to his study and
ring up Julian Hawthorne for an appropriate retort. Scarcely had the
blue coquette finished him when she turned to the rest of us, and at-
tacked us right and left. What a helter-skelter scramble there was to
^escape fi-om the scathing little satirist ! Alpha Tau Omega^ Star and
Crescent, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi, and Beta Theta JH, elbowed
'each other wildly as they ran. In vain she hurled sacred mysteries
and beautiful sentiments after the last mentioned ; he fled when she
blasphemed Wooglin.
We stayed to hear no more. Rash Pan-Hellenes who lingered
told us she had frightfully abused poor old Deke, held a statistical dis-
cussion with Sigma Nu Delta, snubbed the Sigma Chi, and ended by
speaking of our esteemed self, and saying blandly, in a manner that
crushed our very soul, that she liked our new clothes.
The Pan-Hellenic ball was over, and blue coquette and all were
gone. The rest of us, when we had lighted our cigars at Delta Kappa
Epsilon's eternal lamp, walked silently and moodily home.
Does any Pan-Hellene believe this to be a dream, a fantasy of our
imagination ? Let him read the Kappa Kappa Gamma Golden Key
Sox December, and begin on the eighth page.
50 AMONG THE EXCHANGES.
A SCENE IN THE PAN-HELLENIC CEMETERY.
In connection with the above view we reprint from the Golden Key
of Kappa Kappa Gamma the following veises.
ON THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF W00GLIN2&|C0.
Up from the Western meadows.
We send a querulous cry:
Where has the portrait of Wooglin gone
From the Beta TTieta Pi ?
Why are we cheated of Wooglin
With his cranium lofty and bare.
With his rigid, eyeless orbils set
In a bland though meaningless stare ?
Will he never return, this Wooglin,
With his wide, complacent grin.
With his nose too short for character,
And his bony, dimpleless chin ?
AMONG THE EXCHANGES. SI
Did he die of hydrophobia ?
Or rather of dog on the brain —
Or eat the owl for a young spring fowl
And break his jaws in twain ?
He never was healthy looking,
But he kept up a smile of cheer,
And he was too young for his jaws to be sprung.
This many and many a year.
And where is the festive dragon,
That we fear " was out on a tear,"
If we judge from the look of his eyes on the book.
And the grapes that dangled in air ?
Will it never, ah ! never be told us
If he was a circus-bill beast,
Or only a vision of jim-jams
That a Beta had after a feast ?
Weren't they all a fearful example
To teach the youth of the land
To shun the roll of the flowing bowl.
And join the temperance band ?
Didn't they show that a Beta,
If he drank the juice of the grape,
Would lose his hair and take the air
In Wooglin's bald-headed shape ?
That he'd dream of dogs and horned owls,
And eat the same with glee,
While a dragon insane would prance on his braini
Through all eternity ?
Naught from the silence answers.
But the gloom of the winter sky
Shadows the plain, blue covers
Of the Beta Theta Pi,
Gone are the smiling cadaver.
The dogs and the dragon so bold ;
And we say with a sigh as we put the book by r
"They took them in out of the cold."
52 ALUMNI NOTES — WILLIAMS.
ALUMNI OF DELTA U.
WILLIAMS.
*40. "The Rev. Charles Hawley, D.D., who was stricken with palsy two weeks
ago, died last evening. He has been Pastor of the First Presbyterian Charch in
Aabnrn, N. Y., since November, i8j7, was President of the Cavaga Co. Historical
Society, and was widely known in literary circles for his excellent historical writ-
ings. His work on the early history of the Jesuits in New York State is landed by
both Catholics and Protestants alike.**— -TAe Tribune^ Nov, 27, 1885.
Brother Hawley was at one time President of the Social Fraternity and was
valedictorian of his class ; later he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1841 he
commenced the study of law, but changed to theology and graduated three vears
later from the Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. He preached at New RocnellCy
N. Y., four years ; at Lyons, N. Y., and at the time of his death was a minister in
Auburn, N. V. He was at one time United States Commissioner at St Thomas,
West Indies. He was the author of *< History of the First Presbyterian Church at
Auburn," 1876; "Early Chapters of Cayuga History," 1879; "Early Chapters of
Seneca History," 1881 ; and some memorials on William H. Seward, James
Seymour, Henry Wells ; and several pamphlets. He received the degree of D.D.
from Hamilton College in 1861.
'47. The Hon. David A. Wells, LL.D., D. C. L., contributes to the current
literature of "Practical Economics " a volume from the press of G.«P. Putnam's
Sons. " Practical Economics " is the appropriate title. It is a collection of essavs
respecting certain of the recent economic experiences of the United States. All tne
articles but one have previously appeared in print in less permanent form in the
pages of periodicals. "Our Experience in Taxing Distilled Spirits" is perhaps the
most interesting of the essays. Three chapters of it appeared some time ago in
successive nunmers of the Princeton Review^ but the author has written a fourth,
especially for the present volume. Mr. Wells sums up the lesson to be drawn from
this "experience " by asserting that whenever a government imposes on any pro-
duct of industry a tax great enough to reward an ilUcit production of it that product
will be illegally manunictured, and the penalties consequent upon detection, how-
ever severe they may be, will be countea by the offenders as a part of the necessary
expense of their business. — New York Herald^ Jan, 24, 1886.
'50. Oliver Bliss Hayes, of Dalton, Mass., writes us : " I am well pleased with
the Delta U. Quarterly. The information it gave me about my old classmates,
Frederick A. Curtiss and Joseph H. Sprague, was worth the subscription price. It
is pleasant to hear from tne different colleges, and I take as much interest in mine
as I ever did in mv life. I should like to contribute something that would inter-
est your readers, out I really have written very little for the papers lately. I am
living, perhaps, too much at ease, absorbing newspapers, magazines and books,
but contributing little for the edification of the rest of the universe." A son of
Brother Hayes, who graduated at Williams in 1884, is now at the Theological Sem-
inary of the Northwest at Chicago.
'51. The Rev. Jerre L. Lyons, for many years in charge of the Bible
cause in East Florida and Georgia, has taken charge of the Presbyterian
church in Waldo, Florida.
*53. The Rev. Henry A. Miner writes: "I am greatly interested in the
Delta U. Quarterly and especially in the record of the Alumni." Brother
Miner was Vice President of the Fraternity in i8s2, received Junior Ex. appoint-
ment, was at Bangor Theological Seminary 1853-56; Pastor of the Congregational
church at Minasna, Wis., 1857-67; Monroe, Wis., 1867-71 ; and Columbus,
Wis., 1871-73. He was made Superintendent of Home Missions for Southern
Wisconsin in 1873, '^^ acted as Superintendent or General Missionary until 1883.
ALUMNI NOTES — ^WILLIAMS, UNION. 53
He wms a trustee of Ripon College, 1862-74, and has been a trustee of Beloit
"College since 1873 and of the Wisconsin Female College since 1879. ^^ ^^^^ been.
acting as GenenJ Manager of the latter college since 1884. He is a regular am-
tiibator to the Advance and occasionally oontribates to the Conpregationalist, He
has resided in Madison from 1874 to date, and in 1 881 be^an the publication of a
Monthly, Our Church fVorh, which has reached a drcolation of 5,000 copies. His
present address is 540 State Street, Madison, Wis.
'60. The Rev. James H. Harwood, of St. Louis, Mo., was at Williams-
town leading revival meetings int he Congregationsd Church on January 27
and 28th. He was returning from the eastern part of the State where he
had been engaged in the same work.
"60. The Rev. George Leavitt, is pastor of the Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church, Cleveland, O.; address, 413 North Perry St.
'63. The new volume on " Kansas," of the American Commonwealth
Series, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, b by Prof. Leverett
W. Spring of the University of Kansas.
'84. Calvin M. Clark is pursuing a course of theology at Andover,
Mass.
'85. William W. Ranney spoke on "College Work" before the State
Young Men's Christian Association Convention, held at New Britain, Conn.,
last November.
UNION.
'39. The Rev. W. F. Lockwood was rector of St. Thomas's parish, Baltimore,
Md., for thirty years. He died April i, 1883.
'39. Andrew Ross, <^ B E, studied and practiced law at Greensbnrg, Pa., until
the Mexican War. Joined the Second Pennsylvania Regiment, was appointed Lieu-
tenant, and died at sea on his way home from Mexico, May i, 1847.
'40. The Rey. Edward W. Champlin was a missionary near Napienrille, Ind.;
then preached in Joliet, 111. He died in 1845.
*40. The Hon. Amos G. Hall was elected Vice-president of the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence at New York in December. His address is 21 Park Row,
New York.
'40. Wjrnkoop Kiersted was a university student for one year ; then was a
burner, merchant, and tanner from 1840-47 at Caterskill Clove, N. Y.; 1847 to date
at Monganp Valley P. O., Sullivan County, N. Y.
'40. The Rev. Lyman Sewall graduated at Bangor Theological Seminary ; died
February 28, 1846.
'40. The Rev. Judson B. Stoddard delivered the Hebrew oration and took by
merit the Italian oration at his graduation. He is now a clergyman at Cheshire,
Conn.
'40. The Hon. David Thayer, ^ B K, M. D., after leaving coIlec;e taught two
years in Kentucky, and studied medicine two years longer at Harvard CoUeg^e and
Berkshire Mediod Institute. Since 1843 he has been a practicing physician in
Boston, Mass., and since 1877 a professor in Boston University. He was a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Legislature, 1862-67, and was coronor for many years.
He has served for twenty-Sve years on the staff of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery of Boston. As a physician he has been particularly successful, having
written numerous articles on ** gallstone," and having cured over a thousand cases
of the same without a single failure. Besides the above he has published "The
Coming Doctor," and numerous treatises on malarial diseases. Dr. Thayer's ad-
dress is 200 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Mass.
54 ALUMNI NOTES — UNION.
'41. William E. Eacker took a rank of 100 in Greek and Latin. Since gradua-
tion he has studied law, been a farmer and a gentleman of leisure. He was appointed
qoartermaster on General Fonda's staff daring the war.
'41. The Hon. Perry G. Parker, 4 B K, was one of the leading jury lawyers
of Bnffido, N. Y. He was District Attomev, U. S. Commissioner, and one of the
founders of St. John's Episcopal Churdi; died December 25, 1879.
'41. The Rev. Cyrus Smith, 4 B K, was pastor for a short time of the Baptist
Church at Shelbume Falls, Mass. He died September 16, 1844.
'42. The Hon. George De Graw Moore, A. M., 4 B E, is practicing law in
Newark, N. J. He was District Attorney of Sauk County, Wis., 1847^; State
Senator of Wisconsin, 1849-52; Fonndiyman at Urbana, O., 1859-64; Surrogate of
Essex County, New Jersey, 1869-79; Auditor of City of Newark, N. J., 1882.
'42. Otis H. Waldo, ^ B K, practiced law at Natchez, Miss, until 1849, then
at Milwaukee. Was President of the Milwaukee and Northern Railway, and
lawyer of the same road. Died March, 1875.
'4^. The Rev. Rodman Hazard Robinson, D.D., ^ B E, has been a Metho-
dist dergyman at Orville and Benson, Vt., and at Whitehall, Galway, West Trov,
Amsterdam, Cobleskill, Fort Plain, Ballston Spa, Albany, Greenhurst, Plattsburgh,
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and at Pittsfield, Mass. He has published several papers
and pamphlets on *' Sectarianism.*' He received the degree of D.D. from Syra-
cuse University, 1884. He was chaplain of the Thirty-second New York Regiment,
and was at the first battle of Bull Run. Address, 63 Washington Street, West
Troy, N. Y.
'43. The Rev. William Stevenson McLaren was fitted for the ministry at Edin-
burgh, Scotland. Chaplain a short time at City Point, N, Y. Died July 12, 1874.
'44. Samuel Spencer Stafford, M.D., studied medicine for three years, was on a
whaler two years for his health, then finished his medical studies. In '49 was suc-
cessful in mining in California, in 1852 went again to California with a cargo of goods.
He has sailed over 100,000 miles. From 1858 to date he has manufactured the
celebrated '• Stafford's Inks " in New York.
'46. The Hon. Hiram Nicholas Gates, 4 B K, taught in 1846-47; Theological
Seminary, 1848-50; missionary in Iowa, 1850-52; minister in Connecticut, 1863-71;
member of the Connecticut Legislature, io6j ; general missionary on N. P. R. R.,
1872-4; Superintendent of Missions, A.H. M. S., in Nebraska 1874-81 ; missionarv
in Nebraska, 1881-2 ; farmer in Connecticut, 1883-84; minister in West Hartland,
Vt., 1884 to date.
'46. Professor S. Marshall Ingalls, ^ B K, of East Springfield, N. Y., writes :
" I have been travelling during the past year in the West ; latterly, however, I
have been at home managing my financial interests, corresponding occasionally with
the newspapers, and supervising the management of the " East Springfield Acad-
emy," established a few ^ears since through my instrumentality, and of which I
have been four years President. I will be pleased to contribute something to the
Quarterly."
'47. The Rev. Samuel John Austin, 4 B K, was ordained February 22, 1857.
He is now pastor of a church at Darien, Conn.
'47. Warren G. Brown, 4 B E, graduated at the head of the class Merit Roll.
Teacher in Virginia and lawyer in Albany, N. Y., 1850-U. Professor of pleadings,
evidence, and practice at State and National Law School, Ballston Spa and Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.; lawyer in New York City since 1853.
'48. The Rev. Lawrence L. Comfort studied at the New Brunswick Theological
Seminary, 1848-ji; pastor at Whitehouse, N. J., 1851-54; New Hurley, N. Y.,
1854-71 ; travellmg in Europe, 1871-73; pastor at Berea, N. Y., 1873-79. Died
July 21, 1879.
ALUMNI NOTES — UNION. 55
'48. The Hon. Nicholas Jndson Seely, « B K, Unght 1848-52, minister in Con-
gregational Charcfa, 1854, to date. Member of Connecticut Legislature in 1873.
'48. The Rev. Wicks Smith Titos attended Union Theological Seminary, 1848-
SO ; has preached at Ogdensbnrgh, Watertown, Lowville, weedsport, Camden,
Hamilton, Canton, Wolcott, Mexico, and Geddes, N. Y. He now preaches at
Verona, N. Y.
'49. George Henry Hearman is a lawyer at Lansingbnrgh, N. Y. He was
Justice of Peace 1860-78; Police Justice for eight years.
'49. Nathaniel Merritt, M.D. Died in Bossine Parish, La., October 25, 1864.
'51. The Hon. James Howell Vail is practicing law. He was a member of the
City Council of St. Louis, 18J5-J6; Assistant Circuit Attorney, 1856-60; Circuit
Attorney, of 15th Judicial District of Missouri two years ; Judge of 15th Judicial
District, 1865-73; lawyer in Fargo, D.T., since 1882. He resides in Milnor, D.T.
'55. The Rev. Joseph L. Clark was a member of the Christian Commission.
Has contributed to or published Christian Instruction^ United Presbyterian^
Evangelieal Repository,
'55. The Rev. Edward A. Warriner, of Montrose, Pa., has published ** Victor
La Tourette, a Novel by a Broad Churchman," and " Kear, a Poem in Seven
Cantos.''
'56. The Rev. Fredrick W. Flint, « B K, has changed his address from Winona,
Minn., to Butte, Montana.
'56. Alexander J. Robb left college in Sophomore year, and has taught ever
since. For the last three years he has been Superintendent of Schools of Cohoes,
New York.
'57. Adiel S. Morse was a contractor. Died July 5, 1868, while constructing
a telegraph line along the coasts of Peru and Chili.
'■;7. James Wilkinson studied law in Potsdam, N. Y., and was a lawyer at
Rockford, Illinois, and Tama City, Iowa. Died July 29, 1880, at Daytona, Fla.
'58. Don Alonzo Hulett left college on account of ill health. Studied law in
Rhinebeck, N. Y., and taught until 1859. He was admitted to the bar in Decem-
ber, 1859, and has practiced law in New York City since. Address, 93 Nassau
Street.
'58. The Rev. Francis Van Vrankcn, ♦ B K, graduated at New Brunswick
Theological Seminary; preached at Lysander, N. Y., four and a half years ; Glen,.
N. Y., eight and a half years; Newark, N. J., eight and a half years; since at
Fultonville, N. Y.
'59. The Hon. Norman L. Snow, M.D., President of the Common Council of
Albany, N. Y., has died recently.
'61. Thomas J. Thorp entered the army as Captain of the 85th Regiment, N.
Y., was transferred and made Colonel ist New York Dragoons, and retired as
Brigadier General July 17, 1865. Was school commissioner at Livingstone, N. Y.,
1867-70. He resides now in Cadillac, Mich.
'61. Ex-Congressman Benjamin A. Willis was elected one of the two members
of the Permanent Committee of the Medico-Legal Society at its regular meeting in
December last.
'62. Henry E. Ogden, M.D., studied at Columbia Medical School 186264;.
practiced medicine at Walton, N. Y., 1864-84 ; died August 31, 1884.
'62. Samuel Yeoman, ^ B K, taught 1862-67; practiced law 1867.82; fiurmer
since 1882 at Delhi, N. Y.
54 ALUMNI NOTES — UNION.
'ai. William £. Eacker took a rank of lOO in Greek and Latin. Since gradua-
tion ne has studied law, been a fsurmer and a gentleman of leisure. He was appointed
quartermaster on General Fonda's staff during the war.
'41. The Hon. Perry G. Parker, ^ B K, was one of the leading jury lawyers
of Buffalo, N. Y. He was District Attorney, U. S. Commissioner, and one of the
founders of St. John's Episcopal Churdi; died December 25, 1879.
'41. The Rev. Cyrus Smith, 4 B K, was pastor for a short time of the Baptist
Church at Shelburne Falls, Mass. He died September 16, 1844.
'42. The Hon. George De Graw Moore, A. M., ^ B E, is practicing law in
Newark, N. J. He was District Attorney of Sauk County, Wis., 1847-^; State
Senator of Wisconsin, 1849-52; Foundryman atUrbana, O., 1859-64; Surrogate of
Essex County, New Jersey, 1869-79; Auditor of City of Newark, N. J., 1882.
'42. Otis H. Waldo, 4 B K, practiced law at Natchez, Miss, until 1849, ^^c°
at Milwaukee. Was President of the Milwaukee and Northern Railway, and
lawyer of the same road. Died March, 1875.
'4^. The Rev. Rodman Hazard Robinson, D.D., 4 B E, has been a Metho-
dist dergyman at Orville and Benson, Vt., and at Whitehall, Galway, West Trov,
Amstercmm, Cobleskill, Fort Plain, Ballston Spa, Albany, Greenhurst, Plattsburgh,
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and at Pittsfield, Mass. He has published several papers
and pamphlets on *' Sectarianism.*' He received the degree of D.D. from Syra-
cuse University, 1884. He was chaplain of the Thirty- second New York Regiment,
and was at the first battle of Bull Run. Address, 63 Washington Street, West
Troy, N. Y.
'43. The Rev. William Stevenson McLaren was fitted for the ministry at Edin-
burgh, Scotland. Chaplain a short time at City Point, N, Y. Died July 12, 187^.
'44. Samuel Spencer Stafford, M.D., studied medicine for three years, was on a
whaler two years for his health, then finished his medical studies. In '49 was suc-
cessful in mining in California, in 1852 went again to California with a cargo of goods.
He has sailed over 100,000 miles. From 1S58 to date he has manufactured the
celebrated •• Stafford's Inks " in New York.
'46. The Hon. Hiram Nicholas Gates, ^ B E, taught in 1846-47 ; Theological
Seminary, 1848-50; missionary in Iowa, 18C0-52; minister in Connecticut, 1863-71 ;
member of the Connecticut Legislature, i86^ ; general missionary on N. P. R. R.,
1872-4; Superintendent of Missions, A.H. M. S., in Nebraska 1874-81 ; missionary
in Nebraska, 1881-2 ; farmer in Connecticut, 1883-84; minister in West Hartland,
Vt., 1884 to date.
'46. Professor S. Marshall Ingalls, 4 B E, of East Sprmgfield, N. Y., writes :
" I have been travelling during the past year in the West ; latterly, however, I
have been at home managing my financial interests, corresponding occasionally with
the newspapers, and supervising the management of the ** East Springfield Acad-
emy," established a few ^ears since through my instrumentality, and of which I
have been four years President. I will be pleased to contribute something to the
Quarterly."
'47. The Rev. Samuel John Austin, ^ B E, was ordained February 22, 1857.
He is now pastor of a church at Darien, Conn.
'47. Warren G. Brown, 4 B E, graduated at the head of the class Merit Roll.
Teacher in Virginia and lawyer in Albany, N. Y., 1850-51. Professor of pleadings,
evidence, and practice at State and National Law School, Ballston Spa and Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.; lawyer in New York City since 1853.
'48. The Rev. Lawrence L. Comfort studied at the New Brunswick Theological
Seminary, 1848-ji; pastor at Whitehouse, N. J., 1851-54; New Hurley, N. Y.,
1854-71; travelling in Europe, 1871-73; pastor at Berea, N. Y., 1873-79. Died
July 21, 1879.
ALUMNI NOTES — UNION. 55
'4S. The Hon. Nicholas Jndson Seely, « B K, Unght 184S-52, minister in Con-
gregational Chorch, 1854, to date. Member of Connecticnt Legislature in 1873.
'48. The Rey. Wicks Smith Titns attended Union Theological Seminary, 1848-
50; has preached at Ogdensbnrgh, Watertown, Lowville, Weedsport, Camden,
Hamilton, Canton, Wolcott, Mexico, and Geddes, N. Y. He now preaches at
Verona, N. Y.
'49. George Henry Hearman is a lawyer at Lansingbnrgh, N. Y. He was
Justice of Peace 1860-78; Police Justice for eight years.
'49. Nathaniel Merritt, M.D. Died in Bossine Parish, La., October 25, 1864.
'51. The Hon. James Howell Vail is practicing law. He was a member of the
City Council of St. Louis, 18^5-^6; Assistant Circuit Attorney, 1856-60; Circuit
Attorney, of 15th Judicial District of Missouri two years; Judge of 15th Judicial
District, 1865-73; lawyer in Fargo, D.T., since 1882. He resides in Milnor, D.T.
'55. The Rey. Joseph L. Clark was a member of the Christian Commission.
Has contributed to or published Christian Instruction^ United Preshyterian^
Evangelical Repository,
'55. The Rey. Edward A. Warriner, of Montrose, Pa., has published ** Victor
La Tourette, a Noyel by a Broad Churchman," and " Kear, a Poem in Seyen
Cantos.*'
'56. The Rey. Fredrick W. Flint, ^ B K, has changed his address from Winona,
Minn., to Butte, Montana.
'56. Alexander J. Robb left college in Sophomore year, and has taught ever
since. For the last three years he has been Superintendent of Schools of Cohoes,
New York.
'57. Adiel S. Morse was a contractor. Died July 5, 1868, while constructing
a telegraph line along the coasts of Pern and Chili.
'57. James Wilkinson studied law in Potsdam, N. Y., and was a lawyer at
Rockford, Illinois, and Tama City, Iowa. Died July 29, 1880, at Daytona, Fla.
'58. Don Alonzo Hulett left college on account of ill health. Studied law in
Rhinebeck, N. Y., and Uaght until 18J9. He was admitted to the bar in Decem-
ber, 1859, and has practiced law in New York City since. Address, 93 Nassau
Street.
'58. The Rev. Francis Van Vranken, « B K, graduated at New Brunswick
Theological Seminary ; preached at Lysander, N. Y., four and a half years ; Glen,.
N. Y., eight and a half years; Newark, N. J., eight and a half years; since at
FultonvilTe, N. Y.
'59. The Hon. Norman L. Snow, M.D., President of the Common Council of
Albany, N. Y., has died recently.
'61. Thomas J. Thorp entered the army as Captain of the 85th Regiment, N.
Y., was transferred and made Colonel ist New York Dragoons, and retired af
Brigadier General July 17, 1865. Was school commissioner at Liyingstone, N. Y.,
1867-70. He resides now in Cadillac, Mich.
'61. Ex-Congressman Benjamin A. Willis was elected one of the two members
of the Permanent Committee of the Medico- Legal Society at its regular meeting in
December last.
'62. Henry E. Oeden, M.D., studied at Columbia Medical School 1863-64;.
practiced medicine at Walton, N. Y., 1864-84 ; died August 31, 1884.
'62. Samuel Yeoman, ^ B K, Unght 1862-67; practiced law 1867-82; Uxxatt
since 1882 at Delhi, N. Y.
J6 ALUMNI NOTES — UNION.
'69. The Rev. Edward McKee received the first Clark and second Blatchford
prizes; taught at Stamford Academy, 1869-71; Fergasonviile, 1871-72; Princeton
Theological Seminary, 1872-74; Newbargh, N. Y., 1874-75; preached at Winchester,
Kan., 1875-76; settled and ordained at Harshashville, O., April 14, 1877.
'70. The Rev. Alexander McLachlan graduated at Newbnrgh Theological Sem-
inary, ordained and preached at Claysville, Pa., since 1873.
'70. The Rev. Laurens Tillow Shuler was ordained October 28, 1873 ; preached
at «*The Clove," Sussex County, N. Y., 1873-75 ; 1875-76 travelled between two
^charges at West Town, N. Y., 1876-81 ; Paterson, N. J., 1881 to date.
'72. Harper's Weekly of January 23, 1886, contains a portrait of Col. Daniel S.
Lamont, and has (his sketch of his life :
An account of *'the administration" would be very incomplete without notice
of the President's private secretary, of whom most persons who call at the White
House on business see much more than they do of tne President himself. Daniel
Scott Lamont, the private secretary to President Cleveland, was bom at Cortland-
viUe, Cortland County, New York, February 9, 1851. Daniel Lamont and Andrew
Scott, his paternal and maternal grandfathers, came from Scotland. From the pub-
lic schools he advanced to the McGrawville Academy, and then to Union Colie^
He left college in his third year, without being graduated. Inclination and convic-
•tion led him to the Democratic party, and his first Convention experience was as a
representative of that party. In 1870, 1871, and 1875 he was a deputy-clerk of the
Assemblv at Albany, and visitors to the headquarters of the State Committee at the
Everett House, in 1875, ^^^ recall the slight, quiet, self-possessed, and invariably
courteous young man who knew everyboiiy and everything, and who had mastered
the difHculty of meeting and answering the most tedious bores without sending them
away angry, or much wiser for the information he courteously but briefly imparted
to them. When, in 1876, Mr. John Bigelow assumed the office of Secretary of
State, Mr. Lamont was appointed Chief Clerk of the State Department. The
business of the office was conducted by him in the orderly and thorough manner
;that has characterized all of his work as a public man, and he left a far better sys-
tem of managing its affairs than he found on entering the office. On January I,
1878, he entered the field of journalism as the reporter of the Albany Argus in the
Assembly. Later on he became a stockholder in the Argus corporation, and for a
time was managing editor of the paper, in which capacity he served as a member of
the Executive Committee of the New York Associated Press. Becoming clerk of
the Democratic State Committee in 1875, his intimate knowledge of the politicians
and political aims of the party in the State, together with a remarkable capacity for
dispatching business without fuss, confusion, or fatigue, led to his employment in
that capacity for all except two years frum the time of his first association with the
Committee up to the time of Mr. Cleveland's election as Governor in 1882. He
'had never met Mr. Cleveland up to the time when, in the winter of 1882, he was
requested to visit the Governor-elect at Buffalo. In the Governor elect's lodgings,
" over a hardware store," an intimacy began, which has since ripened into a friend-
ship as firm as that which existed between Damon and Pythias.
When the ex-Sheriff and ex- Mayor went to Albany to be inaugurated, he made
Mr. Lamont his military secretary, and afterward his private secretary, and he has
since been familiarly known by the honorary designation of " Colonel." As pri-
vate secretary in the Governor's office he was the almost inseparable companion of
the Governor, who repeatedly acknowledged the valuable services of his willingly
industrious and faithful assistant. The duties of the private secretary demand more
'than mere punctuality and readiness, however ; and Governor Cleveland came to
the conclusion, before his term of office at Albany had expired, and when he was
preparing to occupy a higher office, that the young man who had been so efficient
as his private secretary in helping him to unravel the masteries of legislative acts
:and the concealed purposes of^ ambitious and greedy legislators, must be retained
to discharge the confidential duties of private secretary to the President. Mr.
"XIOX. RAMILTVVX. 57
at Mie Ml tlie «Mni«
MKiL TW rasi of tW
Vr Ids poweHcl uktCffT«mtNtt» line
Lk ;ke Pmi dtmt Lauetl Late ia tlic «I^Cfftt<M« tlnry
to-diT prcGbch* v^at tker vef« wlieft tM
tW desk of the ^xtc«Qtr o&ce «t A)V«ny^
is as liktJT 10 ^eok of li» pnirate s«Cf^
10 refer to ** tlie t^TCivor,^ as eitb«r is to speak
^. "fke SccrKaiT^s wotk is not done at aigkt^ R>r be
ckc kdais aatx! tveSTe. or erea aatil o«e or two ia tke aoKwrnag. at tbe desk
tke Pif wirar, avuMiaf kna ia deariag ap a vast aaiooat of basiaess whv^ caa«
be di^pow^ of ilaiia^ tke koais fi^iea ^ to tbe aever^eading tkroa( of caUers*
*74. WSSaai L. Jacksoa was tke best atklete ia kis class. Has been a snrreyor
and otQ eapaeer ia tke Western Stales aad Territoiies* Now resides at Bamt
HiUs, X. Y.
*76l Wilbam H. Hoh kas been a mfrlnniri] draagktsman ia Batdieller's boot
and skoe wMn n l a rto r y , at West BrookMd, Mass., since gradaation.
'77. Tbe Rer. Spencer M. Adsit, ♦ B K, was ordained at Glens Falls in lSSi»
and is now preaduag at Ckarltoa, N. Y.
"Sa Fr ederic k A. BaOart is a dniggist in Syracnse, N« Y.
HAMILTON.
'50U lia W. Allen, A. M.» LL.D.y for several years Professor of Math*
emadcs and Astronomy in Antioch College, but for the last twcnty^three
years President and proprietor of Allen Academy, hais recently opened
elegant quarters for hts school at 1832-1836 Michigan Boulevard, Chica^,
IlL Here, miles away from the busde and din of Uie manufacturing indus*
tries of the great Western metropolis, and surrounded on all sides by the
qttiet and beautiful homes of her successful professional and business men
and merchant princes, boys can enjoy almost the stillness of the country,
and also the advantages of a great center of literature, science and art« itc
has a son now in Williams College, class of '88.
'51. Dr. Pratt was most loved and highly honored by those who knew
him best, and who were nearest to him in his daily life* After the death of
Dr. Pratt which occurred September 12, 1884, the Board of University
Regents placed upon its minutes a record of the high appreciation of hist
duuacter and services during a period of twenty years. This recortl, si);nctl
by Chancellor Henry R. Pierson and Secretary David Murray, gives the
highest honor to Dr. Pratt as one who in all the duties and relations of life
proved himself beyond all question and at all times the good and faithful
servant, who, in sdl his relations to the Board of Regents, was much more
than a faithful officer. — //ami/Ion Lit,
'57. James S. Baker, of the well-known firm of Baker, Pratt & Co. . is
now in business alone at No* 9 Bond Street, New York, the firm having
dissolved partnership.
58 ALUMNI NOTES — HAMILTON, AMHERST.
'65. James P. Kimball, M. D., surgeon of the XT. S. Military Academy
at West Point, writes : " The Quarterly has attained a point of excel-
lence upon which I do not feel able to suggest any improvements. I hope
the Alumni will cordially respond to the efforts for its support."
'68. Otis J. Eddy, M. D., Medical Reviewer in the Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C, writes: '^ During the nomadic life which I led from
graduation until my settlement here, I have been most of the time away
from the " States," and met but few of the Fraternity, yet I am as heartily
as ever a Delta U., though perhaps somewhat less demonstrative than
when an active member. Since the receipt of the Quarterly I have fol-
lowed with great interest the progress of our Fraternity, and no one ap-
preciates more than I the incalculable benefits which are resulting from the
efforts of the editors. I am perhaps too conservative in my ideas regarding
the extension of the Fraternity, and I trust that more energy will be ex-
pended in the revival of dead chapters than in increasing the number of
new ones."
'68. The Rev. Henry Nelson Payne, Field Secretary of the Presbyterian
Board of Missions for Freedmen, writes that his headquarters are " in the
field," and that his office and address are at Charlotte, N. C.
'68. Selden H. Talcott, M. D., Medical Superintendent of the New
York State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane, at Middletown, N. Y.,
delivered a lecture under the auspices of the General Society of Mechanics
and Tradesmen, on '' The Brain, its Uses and Abuses," at Stein way Hall,
New York City, February 4, 1886.
'69. The Hon. Francis M. Burdick, Professor in Hamilton College and
Ex-Mayor of Utica, N. Y., has been elected Fraternity Historian for 1886.
'73. Oliver £. Branch, the editor of the famous " Hamilton Speaker,"
is about to publish his second " Speaker."
'82. James D. Woley is one of the attorneys of the First National Bank
of Chicago, 111.
'84. Louis A. Scovel has left his position in Cleveland, O., to take a
post-graduate course at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, N. Y.
'85. William T. Ormiston has accepted a Professorship in the Robert
College, Constantinople, Turkey.
'85. Thomas C. Miller, an instructor in a boarding school at Comwall-
on-Hudson, recently visited the chapter.
AMHERST.
'48. Professor Hiram A. Pratt, a charter member of this chapter, is
proprietor of Pratt's Classical and English School at Shelburne Falls,
Mass.
'54. The Hon. William Merrill, formerly of the Wisconsin State Legis-
lature, is now secretary and superintendent of the Agencies of the North-
western Mutual Life Insurance Company.
'55. General John C. Caldwell, Ex U. S. Minister to the Argentine Re-
public, delivered an eloquent and scholarly oration on ** Man the Machine,
or Mah the Inventor — Which ?" before the Kansas State Teachers' Associa-
tion, at Topeka, Kansas, December 29, 1885.
ALUMNI NOTES — AMHERST, ADELBERT. 59
'56. George M. Guernsey died at his home in PlattsviUe, Wis., October
S. 1885-
'56. Franklin B. Morton is with the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad,
a.t Burlington, Wis.
'58. The Rev. Chester W. Hawley is Treasurer of the Fiske University,
Nashville, Tenn.
'62. The Rev. John Goddard is the pastor of the New Jerusalem
Church at Cincinnati, Ohio.
'70. Joseph E. Miller is the general agent for D. Appleton and Co., in
the States of Maine and New Hampshire.
'78. The Rev. John D. Willard died at his home in Appleton, Wis.,
last summer.
'79. The Rev. Darius A. Newton was recently installed pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Stoneham, Mass.
'80. The Rev. Herman P. Fisher is preaching at Ludlow, Vt.
•80. Prof. J. Frank McGregory, formerly instructor of chemistry at Am-
herst, now occupies the chair of chemistry at Madison University, Hamil-
ton, N. Y.
'80. Charles S. Noyes is practicing law in New York. His address is
198 Broadway.
'80. James Turner has recently returned from a trip to South America,
where he spent six months in visiting Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos
Ayres, and parts of the Argentine Republic.
'81. Starr J. Murphy has left the law firm of Carter, Homblower &
Byrne, 346 Broadway, N. Y. City, and is at present with Messrs. Root &
Martin, counsellors at law, in the Mortimer Building, No. 1 1 Wall Street.
'82. Walter C. Blanchard is with Ward & Gray, 178 Devonshire
Street, Boston, Mass. He was married January 13, 1886.
'82. Frank C. Partridge was recently elected secretary and treasurer of
the Clarendon and Pittsford (Vt.) Railroad.
'83. David B. Howland is night editor of the Rutland, Vt., Herald.
'83. Alexander D. Noyes is with Mechanics ^ with office at 171 Broad-
way, New York.
'85. Edwin S Tirrell, Jr., is teaching school in Welk, Me.
ADELBERT.
'69. The Rev. Josiah Strong since 1884 has been pastor of the Vine
Street Congregational Church, Cincinnati, O. (Lake Avenue, Walnut
Hills.)
'70. The Rev. Joel M. Seymour since 1884 has been pastor of the Pres-
byterian Church, at Norwalk, O.
'73. The Rev. Ferdinand V. Krug was Class Historian, and studied at
Auburn Theological Seminary, 1873-75. Pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Hanging Rock, O., 1875-79; Bloomingburgh, O., 1879-84; and White-
haven, Pa., since 1884. He published a church manual in 1882, and is
also the author of various articles in the " Presbyterian,^''
'74. Charles W. Foote, Ph.D., since 1885 in insurance business,
Youngstown, O., is now General Manager of the Rose Electric Co.
6o ALUMNI NOTES — ADELBERT, COLBY.
'76. The Rev. Melancthon K Chapin, who has been spending the past
year at his home in Northfield, O., returns to his work among the Dakota
Indians, in April.
'77. The Rev. Wilson D. Sexton since 1884 has been pastor of the Pres-
byterian Church at Salem, O.
'78. Prof. Newton B. Hobart has returned from his European trip, and
resumed his position as Principal of the Western Reserve Academy at Hud-
son, O. He spent the greater part of the time in Berlin University, making
a six weeks' trip into Italy, in company with a number of American students-
whom he had met in Berlin. Since his return he has delivered a well-
written and entertaining lecture on Rome and Naples.
'80. The Rev. Charles D. Jacobs, soon after his graduation at Auburn
Theological Seminary, was married, and is now preaching at Ishpeming,
Mich.
'82. Louis J. Kuhn, has been compelled to leave Lane Theological
Seminary on account of ill-health.
'83. John P. Sawyer is Physician in Charge at the Cleveland Hospital.
'84. Ledyard M. Bailey has entered the Cleveland Medical College.
'84. George C. Ford is studying law in Cleveland, O.
'84. John B. Hobart is in Union Theological Seminary, New York
City.
'84. Arthur C. Ludlow has left Lane Seminary, and is now in Union,
Theological Seminary, New York City.
'85. Fred W. Ashley is in Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Ct.
'85. Elmer E. Brooks is studying law in the office of Herrick Brothers,.
Cleveland, O.
'85. Frank J. Cox is in business in Michigan.
'85. Jesse Vickery, since graduation at Ann Arbor Law School, has
been practicing law at Bellevue, O.
COLBY.
'6x . James Underwood Chase is located at Rio Vista, Cal.
'61 . Captain Granville Cochrane died at Monmouth, Me., September 10,
1882. He was permanently disabled at the battle of Antietam, and at the
close of the war had risen to a captaincy in the Seventh Maine Volunteers.
'61. Captain James B. Cochrane, M.D., at the close of the war was a
captain in the i6th Regiment, U. S. A. He has practiced at Chelsea,
Mass., St. Paul and Cottage City, Minn., and is now in Dover, Me.
'61. George S. Flood was general freight agent, Maine Central Railroad,
and is now a merchant at Waterville, Me.
'61. General Cyrus Hamlin at the breaking out of the war was a law-
yer in Kittery, Me. He entered the army and rose rapidly to Brigadier-
General of Volunteers. Brevet Major-General of Volunteers was conferred
upon him for distinguished services during the war. He died at New Or-
leans, La., August 28, 1867.
ALUMNI NOTES — COLBY, ROCHESTER. 6 1
'6 1. Lieutenant-Colonel Amos M. Jacicson, M.D., was Brevet Lieutenant*
Colonel of the loth U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery. He has been practic-
ing medicine at Fall River, Mass., since 1873.
*6i. Randall £1. Jones was formerly a merchant, and is now a shipmaster
at Rockport, Me.
'61. The Hon. Edward P. Loring, of Fitchburg, Mass., during the war
rose to Major of the loth U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery. He was a mem*
ber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1872-74, was President
of the Common Council in 1881, and a State Senator in 1883. He was the
chairman of the £unous Tewksbury Investigation Committee.
'61. The Rev. Samuel B. Morse was Professor of Ancient Languages at
California College, 1 861 -66, and is now a minister in Oakland, Cad.
'61. The Hon. Llewellyn Powers, of Houlton, Me., was county attorney
1865-71, U. S. Collector of customs, 1869-73, representative in the Maine
Legislature, 1874-76 and 1882-84, and was a member of the 45 Ui U. S.
Congress in 1877-79.
'61. The Hon. Bartlett Tripp, of Yankton, Dakota, was an alderman of
Augusta, Me., in 1868, President and member of the school board of Yank-
ton for ten years, commissioner to revise the Dakota Statutes, 1877, and
has just been appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota.
'61. Cyrus G. Warren is a lawyer in Bangor, Cal.
'80. Carroll W. Clark is a manufacturer of school, church, and library
furniture at 75 Hawley Street, Boston, Mass.
'83. Charles W. Hanson and his brother George W. Hanson, ^83, are
members of the Senior class of the Law Department of Boston University.
ROCHESTER.
'62. Grove K. Gilbert, of Washington, D. C, who is connected with
the United States Geological Survey, was chosen President of the American
Society of Natural Sciences at the annual meeting held in Boston, Decem-
ber 29.
'63. Joseph O'Connor, formerly editor of the Buffalo Courier^ has as-
sumed the editorial management of the Rochester Post-Express^ an inde-
pendent Democratic paper. Jacob Hoekstra, '63, formerly of the Roches-
ter Herald, is associated with Brother O'Connor as city editor. Both of
these gentlemen have an established reputation as journalists, and their
paper will certainly not lack good editing.
'67. The Rev. Lafayette Congdon, formerly of Wolcott, N. Y., is now
the pastor of the University Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in Syra-
cuse.
*68. The Rev, David Crosby has resigned his charge at Penn Yan, N.
Y., and accepted a call to the first Baptist Church of San Mateo, Florida*
'77. Adelbert Cronise was re-elected President of the Rochester Acad-
emy of Science at the annual election.
'79. Prof. Melvin £. Crowell has been successful in obtaining a post-
graduate scholarship at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
62 ALUMNI NOTES — ROCHESTER, MIDDLEBURY, MADISON.
'79. Henry W. Conklin was married to Miss Anna Swezey, sister of
George Swezey, Rochester, '84, on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. and Mrs.
Conklin will reside in this city, where he practices law in the firm of Cronise
and Conklin.
*8o. George W. Pye, formerly a teacher in Chadwick's Classical School,.
Brooklyn, N. Y., is now at Bath-on-the-Hudson.
'81. Our popular brother and successful lawyer, William H. Beachy,
was married June 10, 1885, to Miss Ella Gurlock, of Rochester.
'83. William S. Lemen, writing from Tonawanda, N. Y,, where he is
principal of the academic department of the Union School, says, ** I can't
'keep house ' or even 'bachelor's hall,' without hearing from my Delta U.
brothers, through the medium of the Fraternity publication. I think the
Quarterly is a most excellent publication, and I wish it every success in
all its efforts."
MIDDLEBURY.
'59. The Rev. John G. Bailey, for thirteen years pastor of the Congre-
gational Church at Windsor, Mo., and for a considerable share of the
time supplying a neighboring church, handed in his resignation during the
summer. We have lately heard that he has been persuaded to withdraw it.
The Advance (Chicago) speaks of him as one of the oldest and best minis-
ters in the Congregational service in Missouri.
'59. The Rev. S. Leroy Blake, D.D., of Fitchburg, Mass., lately received
a call to a church in Sioux City, Iowa, but has declined.
'74. George G. Ryan, formerly principal of the Hudson, N. Y., High
School, is now principal of the Leavenworth, Kansas High School, the
finest school in the State.
'76. Charles Lewis Linsley, who is marked with a || in the Quinquennial,
is now at Bellows Falls, Vt.
'77. The Rev. John M. Hull, lately pastor of the Baptist Church at
Windsor, Vt. , and chaplain of the Vermont State Prison there, is now pas-
tor of a Baptist Church at Kingston, Mass.
'82. Clarence G. Leavenworth, in the employ of the Producers* Marble
Company, of Rutland, Vt., has been changed from Toledo, Ohio, to Cleve-
land, Ohio, to take charge of a new branch office at that place.
•85. Wilbert N. Severance is at home at Manchester, Vt.
MADISON.
'74. The Rev. Archibald C. Wheaton, who is an energetic pastor, is
doing a good work at Little Falls, N. Y.
^^^. The Rev. Sheldon E. Wilcox, of Muscatine, Iowa, has been elected
secretary of the Iowa State Union for Ministerial Education.
'78. Professor Benjamin S. Terry is instructor in Civil History, English,,
and Oratory in Madison University. His success is marked. The depart-
ment of History has taken a special advance.
'81. The Rev. Frederick A. Potter is preaching at Whitestown, N. Y.
He is an earnest worker, and is meeting with good success.
'81. Professor Charles W. Sheldon has accepted a position as teacher
of Greek and Latin in Blair Academy, Blairstown, N. J. Professor Shel-
don's record as teacher at Towanda, Pa. , is sufficient voucher for his suc-
cess in this new field.
ALCiaa NOTES — ^MADISON. RUTGERS, BROWN, 63
"83. The RcT. Edsom J. Farier has accepted a call to the pastorate of
the Baptist Chmchy Stilhratcry Minn. He enters upon his new^tield in
ApriL
'83. Frank P. Waters is preaching at New Haven» N. Y.
"S^. Albert J. Tmesdell is a member of the firm of TruesdeU & Erdlen,
publishers of the S<wd-lV€eUy MmU, of Salida. Col.
^85. Fred. M. l/y»mis is Professor of Latin and Mathematics, South
New Jersey Institute, Bridgton, N. J.
"86. Fred. C. Graves is studying medicine in New York City,
"SS. Fred. L. Sanborn is preaching at South Pueblo, Col.
RUTGERS,
'59. The Rev. Samuel James Rogers is now preaching at Toulon,^! II.
'71. John L. Connet is practicing law in Flemington, N. J.^In a re>
cent letter he writes: "The Quarterly is a very welcome visitor to me
for at least two reasons — the interesting and instructive matter it contains^
and the fact that it keeps me more closely associated with the old Fraternity.
I hope it may continue in its prosperity."
•7 1. The Rev. John H. Wyckoff is spending the winter with his family iit
Georgia. On November 17, 1885, he addressed the Fifth General Meeting
of the Missionary Conference of the Reformed Dutch Church, which was
held at Fonda, N. Y., the subject of his address being, ** Shall our
missionary force in India be increased?" December 15 he left for the
South.
'72. The Christian Intelligencer^ of December 16, 1885, contained the
following item : ** Professor Martin N. Wyckoff* our hard-working
missionary. Principal of the Sandham Academy in Tokio, has just put to
press a work in Japanese for beginners in English composition."
'80. Bevier Hasbrouck Sleght, M.D., has opened an ofRce at 23 Chest>
nut Street, Newark, N. J.
'81. James S. Wight, now residing in Perth Amboy, and practicing
law in that city, is a frequent visitor to New Brunswick when the county
courts are in session.
'84. Charles £. Pattison is located in Abilene, Kansas, where he is en*
gaged in furthering the interests of the Edison Electric Light Company.
'85. Charles Deshler is the fortunate possessor of a cane which signifies
to him and his many friends the fact, that at a recent fair held in New
Brunswick for the benefit of the New Brunswick Hospital, he was voted^ to-
be the most popular young man of the city.
BROWN.
^(iZ, Francis W. Douglas has a ranche in Beatrice, Gage Co., Ne»
braska.
'70. James O. Bullock, M. D., is a physician in Peale, Pa.
'70. Prof. Elisha B. Andrews, LL.D., is president of the Delta Upsi-
Ion Alumni Association of Brown University. He lately, in joint debate
with Senator Aldrich of this State, discussed Free Trade and Protection
before the Young Republican Club of Providence.
64 ALUMNI NOTES — BROWN.
'72. William S. Liscomb was married January i, 1886, by the Rev.
Prof. Elisha B. Andrews, LL.D., '70, to Miss Sarah A. Pearce, of Provi-
dence, R. I.
'72. William V. Kellen, Esq., is in Woburn, Mass.
'73. Stephen Greene is to repair the Washington Mills at Lawrence,
Mass. The work will probably occupy three years.
'77. The Rev. John R. Gow has just settled at Bridgeport, Conn., as
pastor of the East Washington Avenue Baptist Church.
'78. Walter G. Webster has returned from Europe, and resumed his post
at the Providence High School. He is Secretary of the Brown Alumni
Association above referred to.
'81. Charles C. Mumford is Assistant Attorney-General of the State of
Rhode Island.
'81. William Sheafe Chase, editor of the recent Quinquennial catalogue
of the Fraternity, has been rector of the St. James Church of Woonsocket,
R. I., since the early part of December last. In a recent letter he says:
** I am glad that the Quarterly is going on so successfully. I think it
an honor to the Fraternity and an absolute necessity to the highest. welfare
of our Brotherhood."
'81. Cornelius W. Pendleton, formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, Cal.,
has been successfully established in Los Angeles, Cal., for the past nine
months.
'81. Charles Evans Hughes is practicing law at 346 Broadway, New
York. '' Huggis " — as he is familiarly called, is very popular among the
New York Delta U's. Knowing the delight with which a contribution from
his fluent pen would be greeted, the Editor recently wrote, requesting him
to favor the Quarterly, and the following characteristic reply was re-
ceived. '* I shall not have thirty minutes I can call my own this week. I
ivish I could help you. But stop ! there is one who presides over the his-
tories of Delta U's ; he tries to cover himself with the ambiguous title of
The Delta Upsilon Information Bureau, but where'er the mails of
Uncle Sam have carried its pursuing, unrelenting, and never-ending circu-
lars, that name is synonymous with " Robe'' Eidlitz: have him contribute
a page or two on ** Eccentricities of Famous Delta U*s " or "By this Sign
we conquer, "or fill up with "Necrology, " anything at all, and the infatua-
ted votary who cons the QUARTERLY, will never know the difference.
When I get old, and generous philanthropists, out of regard for society, pay
me to keep quiet, I shall be dehghted to contribute. "
'84. George C. Gow writes from Newton, Mass., that there are "four
good Brown Delta U's, and about as many Colbyites, on Institution Hill."
'84. George A. Tyzzer is in Wakefield, Mass.
'85. Walter G. Everett was married December 24, 1885, to Miss Harriet
M. Cleveland, of Amherst, Mass. His address is 109 Doyle Avenue, Prov-
idence, R. I.
'85. Joseph H. Lord has resigned his position in Attleboro', Mass., and
gone South.
'85. Norman L. Richmond was married January 13, 1886, to Miss Jessie
F. Hartwell, of Providence, R. I.
*86. Frank E. Tingley, who left college at the end of Sophomore year,
was married December 10, 1885, to Miss Alice M. Howard, of Pawtucket,
R. I.
ALUMNI NOTES — CORNELL. 65
CORNELL.
'70. The Hon. Theodore B. Comstock is teaching at Champaign, III.
*7i. The Hon. James O'Neill, who was a member of the State Legisla-
ture of Wisconsin last year, has sold his paper, the Neillsville Times,
*7i. Frederic Schoff, manager of the Stow Flexible Shaft Co. (limited),
of Philadelphia, Pa., was recently elected Vice-President of the Philadelphia
Cornell Alumni Association.
'72. John M. Chase, of Vallejo, Cal. , expects to travel extensively on
the Pacific coast this spring, will make a trip to New York in May, and re>
turn to California in July.
'72. President David Starr Jordan, of Indiana University, read a paper
on Ichthyology before the State Academy of Science at their annual meet-
ing in Indianapolis, December 29, 1885.
'72. Daniel Rhodes, who graduated at Brown in 1873, has been a civil
engineer at Denver, Col., for the past seven years.
'73. George C. Morehouse is a prominent law)'er in Utica, N. Y.
'73. George E. Patrick, formerly a professor in the Kansas State
University, at Lawrence, Kansas, is now with the Bradley Fertilizer Co.,
27 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass.
'73. George H. Phelps is a member of Blanchard, Gay & Phelps^
counsellors-at-law, in the Tribune building. New York City.
'74. Prof. H. Leroy Fairchild lectured upon the "Age of Ice and Pre^
historic Man " at the science matinee in the large hall of the Hotel Bruns-
wick, on February 4. Prof. Fairchild has become a popular and well-known
lecturer in New York City.
'74. Reuben C. Foster, who was a surveyor on the elevated railroads,^
and later on a civil engineer in Mexico, is now at Flushing, N. Y.
'74. Louis F. Henderson, a member ol the victorious University crew at
Saratoga in 1874, is the botanical editor on the North Pacific Rural Spirit^
at Portland, Ore. He is President of the Portland Natural Science Asso-
ciation.
'75. Edward L. Nichols, Professor of Chemistry and Physics in the
University of Kansas, at Lawrence, Kan., writes under recent date : '* The
Quarterly is a very welcome visitor, and I hope you will continue to
keep the alumni news well up, as thereby the Quarterly will have con-
stant value to those of us who have been out of college some time, and who
need just such a means of maintaining in some sort our knowledge of the
movements of old-time society mates. The progress evinced by Delta
Upsilon within the last decade is a source of very great satisfaction to us of
a former college generation ; and foremost among the signs of her growth
we greet the Delta U. Quarterly."
'76. Frank O. Young is at Blue Island, 111.
'79. William C. Boyle is a stenographer in the Law Department of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
'80. Willis N. Rudd has for some time past been at Blue Island, 111.
'80. John N. Tilton is an architect in the Lakeside Building, Chicago^
111.
66 ALUMNI NOTES — CORNELL, SYRACUSE, MICHIGAN.
'80. Prof. William Trelease, of the Shaw Botanical Gardens, St. Louis,
Mo., writes in a recent letter: ''The Quarterly is always read with
pleasure, for I like to know what live Delta U.'s are doing. As an alum-
nus, I feel an especial interest in the notes of the doings of alumni. You
cannot make that department too complete for the older members."
'81. Henry W. Battin is engaged on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad. His headquarters have been changed again from Avery, Minn.,
to Tracy, Minn.
'82. Felix Rackemann, who is practicing law in Chicago, recently paid
a visit to the chapter.
'83. Fred L. Roehrig has established himself as an architect in San
Francisco, Cal. His address is 515 Post Street.
SYRACUSE.
'78. Philip I. Moule has for a number of years been engaged in cattle
raising at Bercail, Montana.
'81. Frederick H. Howard is teaching in Greyling Institute, South
Williamstown, Mass.
'82. William C. Kitchin, writing from Tokio, Japan, in a recent num-
ber of i\iQ Northern Christian Advocate^ gives an account of Mr. Fukuzawa's
private college in which he has lately accepted the chair of English lan-
guage and literature. He has the privilege of teaching the principles of
Christianity in the college, which, it is believed, is the first event of its kind
in the history of Japan.
'82. Nicholas Knight received the degree A. M. from Syracuse University,
in December, 1885. He is teaching mathematics and the natural sciences at
Cazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, N. Y.
'83. James D. Jamison, for the past two years Professor of Mathematics
at the Napa Collegiate Institute at Napa City, Cal., is now teaching at
Canisteo, N. Y.
'84. Edward C. Morey is with Wolcott and West, booksellers, in Syra-
cuse, N. Y.
'84. Frank R. Walker has been recently appointed clerk of the Senate's
Committee on Cities, and his address for the present is Albany.
'85. Hiram H. Henderson is studying law in the office of Jenny, Brooks,
Ruger & Co., Syracuse, N. Y.
'85. Rufus King, who left college before graduation, is preaching at
Three Mile Bay, N. Y.
'85. Frank H. Wood is having marked success in teaching at Granville,
N. Y. He is principal of the Union School.
MICHIGAN.
'79. James S. Bishop, of Huron, Dakota, is publishing an educational
journal — The Dakota Teacher — which is meeting with unusual success. It
has the support of the leading educators throughout the Territory, and
promises to become an important factor in the educational forces of the
new State. He has been the County Superintendent of Schools of Beadle
County, Dakota, since its organization in 1880. Under his supervision
ALUMNI NOTES — MICHIGAN, HARVARD. 6/
Huron has become a centre for educational gatherings, and the teachers
of the county rank foremost in ability, activity, and educational spirit.
He was recently elected a member of the American Institute of Civics, of
Boston, Mass.
'79. Leroy Halsey, who has been within a year since graduation Princi-
pal of the Battle Creek, Mich. High School, has been elected Superintend-
ent of Schools, Joseph H. Drake, '85, succeeding him in his former
•capacity.
'80. Thomas C. Green, of South Haven, Mich., is spending the winter
in Pensacola, Fla., on account of illness in his family. In a recent letter
he says : " The increasing curiosity, to know what one's classmates and
brethren are doing in the world, which the alumnus feels as the years creep
on apace should contribute largely, and more and more largely, to the
magazine's popularity. Delta U. occupies a vantage ground. Our ever-
present sense of a conscience untrammeled by a pledge of secrecy is as re-
freshing as a mountain breeze. It is true manhood's best ally; it is,
moreover, a manly Christian's characteristic which, in my opinion, is to him
a sine qua non.**
'81. Charles £. St. John is teaching chemistry in the Ypsilanti, Mich.,
Normal School.
'81. Charles D. Whipple is cashier of a bank in Battle Creek, Mich.,
having left a similar situation in Owosso, Mich.
'83. Charles W. Belser has been admitted to the ministry.
'83. Samuel C. Tuthill is at Omaha, Neb. His health, which has been
bad for some time, is improving.
'84. Henry D. Burnett, who has been teacher of mathematics and
physics in the West Side (Cleveland) High School, is going into the Brush
Electric Light Co.
'84. Harry W. Hawley is one of a syndicate of five who have purchased
the Minneapolis Journal,
'85. Horace G. Prettyman has left the Medical Department, and has
entered the School of Political Science, preparatory to the Law course.
'85. Ellas F. Schall, Principal of the Muscatine, Iowa, High School,
visited his home, Moorepark, Mich., during the holidays.
HARVARD.
'85. Victor C, Alderson is Superintendent of Public Schools in Dublin,
Ind.
'85. Robert S. Bickford is studying in the Harvard Law School, and is
a member of the " Pow Wow," the leading law club at Cambridge.
'85. Charles F. Carrier is traveling and studying in Europe, with head-
quarters at Leipsic.
'8$. George A. Craigin is studying medicine in the Harvard Medical
School ; he took a high standing in college and showed an especial aptness
for the profession he has chosen.
'85. Charles M. Harrington is studying law at Buffalo, N. Y«
68
NEW INITIATES.
'85. Henry T. Hildreth won the Parker Fellowship, which means a»
income of $800 for three years. He won highest honors in the classics and
delivered the Greek oration. He is now studying in Athens at the
American School.
'85. Joseph A. Hill, the class odist, is teaching in Philadelphia, Pa.
'85. George W. Rolfe, son of the famous Shakesperian editor, is assist-
ant in the Harvard chemistry department, and is rapidly making his way
upward.
'85. William C. Smith is editorial writer on a paper in Lowell, Mass.
Brother Smith won honors in English, a feat worth publishing in big^
capitals on account of the unusually high standard required.
'85. Charles S. Whittemore is studying law at the Harvard Law School.
He took several prizes last year for essays on scientific subjects.
NEW INITIATES.
WILLIAMS.
'85. William Watson Ranney,
North Bennington, Vt.
'87. John Thomas Buster,
Minneapolis, Minn.
'88. Herbert Marsena Allen,
Harpoot, Turkey.
" Augustus Walker Buck,
Fall River, Mass.
" Ellis John Thomas,
Utica, N. Y.
" Charles Adams Williams,
Underbill, Vt.
'89. John Glover Broughton,Jr.
Bloom field, N. J.
" John Frederick Fitschen, Jr.
Englewood, N. J.
" Henry Foster Grout,
Concord, Mass.
" Edward Alexander Johnson,
Cincinnati, O.
UNION.
*88. Martin P. Swart,
Schenectady, N. Y.
" James Ezra Smith,
Albany, N. Y.
HAMILTON.
'89. Hiram Horsburgh Bice,
Utica, N. Y.
" Edward Wilson Hyatt,
Cazenovia, N, Y.
'89. Edward Coit Morris,
Pulaski, N. Y.
" Eddy Ripley Whitney,
Flint Creek, N. Y.
AMHERST.
'86. James Mack Henry Fred-
erick, Akron, O.
'88. James Ewing,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
" Arthur Byron Russell,
Aurora Station, O.
'89. William Edwin Clarke, Jr. ,
Chicago, 111.
" Elmer Humphrey Copeland,
Weare, N. H.
** Louis Derr,
Pottsville, Pa.
" Thomas Ewing,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
" Thomas Arthur Mighill,
Haverhill, Mass.
" William Herbert Tingley,
Dudley, Mass.
ADELBERT.
'89. Evan Henry Hopkins,
South Cleveland, O.
" John 'William Van Doorn,
Cleveland, O.
NEW INITIATES.
69
COLBY.
'88. Edward Park Barrell,
Turner, Me.
" Henry Fletcher,
Newport, N. H.
•87. Justin D. Ames,
Skohegan, Me.
** Wallace Elden,
WaterviUe, Me.
" William Cary Shepard,
Scituate, Mass.
** Henry Barnes Wood,
Calais, Me.
ROCHESTER.
'89. Isaac Levi Adler,
Rochester, N. Y.
" Willis Homer Brooks,
Watkins, N. Y.
** Charles Ernest Burr,
Norwich, N. Y.
" Burton Stauffer Fox,
Stoner's, Pa.
** William Crain Raymond,
Norwich, N. Y.
MIDDLEBURY.
'89. William Francis Alden,
Middlebury, Vt.
" Prentiss Cheney Hoyt,
West Addison, Vt.
" Leslie Hewson Raine,
West Addison, Vt.
RUTGERS.
'87. William Pierson Merrill,
New Brunswick, N. J.
'88. Wm. Armitage Beardslee,
West Troy, N. Y.
" Elias Wortman Thompson,
Readington, N. J.
" Maurice Joseph Thompson,
New York, N. Y.
'89. John Ten Eyck DeWitt,
Walkill, N. Y.
" Stephen Jackson Keefe,
Rahway, N. J.
" KojiRO Matsugata,
Tokio, Japan.
'89. Warren Redcliffe Schenck,
New Brunswick, N. J.
'' Clarence Goodwin Scudder,
Vellore, India.
" John Phillips Street,
Beverly, N. J.
BROWN.
'88. Clarence Grant Hamilton,
Providence, R. L
'89. FrankWilliams Carpenter,
Attleboro*, Mass.
" Charles Arthur Denfield,
Westboro', Mass.
" Edwin Penn Goodell,
Dudley, Mass.
" William Gilbert Lathrop,
Providence, R. I.
" Richard Run yon Martin,
Kingston, N. Y.
" Robert LewisPrestonMason,
Providence, R. I.
" George Packard,
Providence, R.I.
MADISON.
'89. Francis Oscar Broady,
Stockholm, Sweden.
" George Augustus Broady,
Stockholm, Sweden.
" James Jay Finn,
Findlay's Lake, N. Y.
•' Othello Sidney Lang-
worthy, West Edmeston,.
N. Y.
" Fred Smith Retan,
OwossOi Mich.
'* Willis Locke Rowlands,
Utica, N. Y.
" George Kerr Smith,
Newburgh, N. Y.
" Creighton Richard Storey,
Owosso, Mich.
" Alfred Wesley Wish art,
Hamilton, N. Y.
NEW YORK.
'88. HowardChauncyAnderson^
Brooklyn, N. Y.
" George Travilla McNab,.
Jersey City, N. J.
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NEW INITIATES.
*88. Austin Dickinson Wolfe,
Montclair, N. J.
"^89. William MoNROS Chapman,
New York, N. Y.
" WiNTHROP Gates,
Newark, N. J.
**' George Gurnee Seibert,
Schraalenburg, N. J.
CORNELL.
'S6, Charles Henry Hull,
Ithaca, N. Y.
'87. GeorgeMontanyeMarshall
Towanda, Penn.
'88. Wythe Denby,
Evansville, Ind.
'89. George Chapman Shepard,
Medina, Ohio.
'* Arthur Mills Curtis,
Danby, N. Y.
" Leonard Callender Crouch,
Kingston, N.Y.
MARIETTA.
^89. B. G. Dawes,
Marietta, O.
**' Howard W. Dickinson,
Marietta, O.
**' Charles Russell,
Ashland, Ky.
^* C. C. Waddle,
Chillicotlie, O.
SYRACUSE.
^88. Arthur Bridgman Clark,
East Onondaga, N. Y.
^89. Wesley Hamilton Benham,
Syracuse, N. Y.
*• Byron Briggs Brackett,
Hannibal, N. Y.
" Levi Snell Chapman,
Fayetteville, N. Y.
** William Howard McKenzie,
Newark, N. J.
*• Thomas Noah Merriam,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
" CharlesSeaburyRobertson,
Galway, N. Y.
* *CHARLESL0RENZ0 W ALSWORTH
Sing Sing, N. Y.
KICHIGAN.
•86. Charles Wright Dodge,
Detroit, Mich.
" Chauncey Alvin Wheeler,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
'87. Arthur Lincoln Benedict,
Buffalo, N. Y.
'88. Oliver George Frederick,
South Toledo, Ohio.
" Richard Khuen. Jr.
Saginaw, Mich.
" James McNaughton,
Lake Linden, Mich.
'89. Charles Edwy Decker,
Battle Creek, Mich.
" Chas. Alexander Green,
Saginaw, Mich.
" C. Valandingham Nafe,
Rochester, Ind.
' * Ernest Blackm an Perry,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
" William Harvey Turner,
Ft. Wayne, Ind.
NORTHWESTERN.
'89. Forrest W. Beers,
Evanston, IlL
" Frederick C. Demorest,
Muscatine, IlL
" Charles Morton Denny,
Blair, Neb.
" Arthur E. Elmore,
Rockford, III.
" Samuel S. Farley,
Marengo, Iowa.
" Charles Wesley Ferguson,
Malta, m.
** Robert W. Holden,
Barroboe, Wis.
" Gust AVE W. Kunstman,
Chicago, IlL
" Herbert G. Leonard,
Minneapolis, Minn.
HARVARD.
'86. Walter Thomas Clark,
Cambridge, Mass.
" Nehemiah Samuel Kenison,
Chelsea, Mass.
" Myron Wallace Richard-
son, Somerville, Mass.
KBW INITIATES.
71
'86. Camillo Von Klenze,
Germany.
'87. Howard Henry Charles
Bingham, Hartford, Conn.
WISCONSIN.
'86. William Elmer Bainbridge,
Mifflin, Wis.
'87. Thomas A Polleys,
Centreville, Wis.
" Claude Valentine Seeber,
Waterloo, Wis.
" William Willis Strickland,
Ellsworth, Wis.
** Ambrose Pare Winston,
Forreston, 111.
'89. Frederick Harvey Whitton,
Madison, Wis.
LAFAYETTE.
'85. George Keyser Angle,
Lewisburg, Pa.
" Dewitt Cyrus Carter,
Blairstown, N. J.
* * Harry Prosper Corser,
Towanda, Pa.
" Benjamin Walton McGal-
LIARD, Bridgeton, N. J.
" William Blanch ard Mar-
shall, Philadelphia, Pa.
' * George Washington Moon,
Easton, Pa.
" William Webster Weller,
Easton, Pa.
^86. Samuel Barber,
Mifflinburg, Pa.
*" Joseph Chalmers Harvey,
Philadelphia, Pa.
•" William Emory Henkell,
Welsh Run, Pa.
"*' William Pusey Officer,
Council Bluffs, la.
'♦'Charles Hamilton Pridgeon,
Baltimore, Md.
** Kensey Johns Stewart,
Port Penn, Del.
**' Joseph Henry Tudor,
Florence, N. J.
'87. Charles Jeremiah Allen,
Falls Church, Va.
" Harry Townsend Beatty,
Conshohocken, Pa.
'87. WlLUAM J BURD,
B4!lvidere, N. J.
" John Gilbert ComfOR,
Berwick, Pa.
" Amasa Lewis Hyde,
Hydes, Md.
" Robert Joshua Rankin,
Long Green, Md.
" John Nelson Roe,
Branch ville, N. J.
" James Pascol Wilson,
Nichols, N. Y.
'88. Theodore Albert Barthol-
omew, Easton, Pa.
" Stuart Croasdale,
Delaware Water Gap, Pa.
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BOOK REVIEWS. 73
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
"The Fall of Constantinople, Being the Story of the Fourth Cru-
-sade:," by Edwin Pears, LL.6., pablished by Harper & Bros., is upon a portion
of history little studied by American students, yet wnich, on account of the present
critical position of the Turks in Europe, ought to be of the greatest interest. One
of the greatest questions of to-day, is how to get the Turks out of Europe, and
this book is instructive because it tells us how they came in. '* The conquest oi
Constantinople," the author says, ** was the first ereat blunder committed hyr the
West in dealing with the Eastern question." The tall of Constantinople admitted
Asia into Europe. ^
•• The Great Poets As Religious Teachers," by J. H. Morison, published
by Harper & Bros., is a small book containing many suggestions. The true poet
is a religious teacher ; not of creeds and tenets, but of high ideals. The author
has selected three poets, Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe. He illustrates Shakes-
peare's teaching by the characters of Cardinal Wolsev, Henry V., Macbeth, and
Cordelia. The quotations are selected with remarkable care and taste. The les-
sons drawn from the fall of Wolsey,
*' He found the blessedness of being little
* * • and died fearing God;"
the modesty of victorious King Henry, the growth of evil in Macbeth, the truth-
fulness ana piety of Cordelia, are earnest, tJioughtful, and abounding in consola-
tion.
*'The Idea of God," John Fiske, published bv Houghton, Mifflin & Co., is
a book containing the essays lately published in the Atlantic^ and of which we
have sp(»ken in these columns. The author has added a preface in which he tells
the occasion of this series of essays, — how some have misunderstood his *< Out-
lines of Cosmic Philosophy " — and in this book he has put forth the same ideas dif-
ferently clothed. His object is to make it plain that theism is compatible with the
doctrine of evolution.
" History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United
States," by George Bancroft ; publishers, D. Appleton & Co., is a book which our
student-reaaers should possess. We can in no way give a better idea of what the
book contains than by giving the author's division. The Confederation ; on the
way to a federal convention ; the federal convention ; the colonial system of the
United States; the people of the States in judgment on the Constitution; the
federal government. A new book on United States history coming from Mr. Ban-
croft needs only notice and not praise for us. This work is prepar^ with the same
care and truthfulness that characterize his former books, but like them errs slight-
ly in that it is as much apologetic as strictly historic Mr. Bancroft is certainly the
greatest pen-defender of the Constitution.
Another novel by Charles Egbert Craddock, "The Prophet of the Great
Smoky Mountain."— Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers. The author has al-
ready her circle of readers, and that they are determined to like her books is evi-
dent from the favor with which this one nas been received. We think it hardly as
good as "In the Tennessee Mountains." The plot is interesting, though one
reaches nothing that can be called intense until near the end. Her descriptions are
as beautiful and powerful as ever, and the dialect and characters as unique.
Doubtless many of our readers have seen noted the publishing of "American
PouTiCAL Ideas," John Fiske, by Harper & Bros., and have been ignorant of
74 BOOK REVIEWS.
what the book really treats. Its name is a misnomer. Mr. Fiske relates the pro-
cess of moulding that the political ideas of the early Teutons have undergone fromi
the earliest days till their culmination in the United States government. The book
is a treatise on state-making, and not the making of one state. The reason that
the Greek and Roman states could not endure, is because they would not or coald
not have their government based on the principle of popular representation. Teu-
tonic civilization, and especially the English oranch of that civilization, has pre-
served that principle. In America we see its result. " The chief problem of avil-
ization, from the political point of view, has always been how to secure concerted
action among men on a great scale without sacrificing local independence." The
book is entrancing.
«* Outlines of Practical Philosophy," by Hermann Lotze, published by
Ginn & Co., Boston, is composed of dictated portions of the author's lectures, trans-
lated by Professor Ladd of Vale College. " Benevolence " is the rule of conduct.
That man is a free moral agent is a fundament of his system, and a chapter devoted
to the discussion of freedom of the will is, as Professor Ladd sa^s, ** peculiarly rich
in suggestiveness, and touches almost every important point m that discussion."
The matter is severely condensed. Some of the subjects considered are, ethics of
labor, suicide, marriage, divorce, slavery, ground of property, obligation of con-
tract, government of states. One seldom reads, or rather studies, a book more
stimulating. It is a small volume and inexpensive.
It will be a desired piece of information to many philosophical students that
Edwards' ** Freedom of the Will" is published in convenient form by Robert
Carter & Bros., New York. It has been dimcult to obtain it heretofore without buy-
ing a large volume, or several volumes, containing others of Jonathan Edwards'
writings. When some one asked Rnfiis Choate what book he would advise a
young man about to study law to read first, he replied, *' Edwards on the Will."
"Principles of Political Economy," by Simon Newcomb, LL.D., published
by Harper & Bros., is a work of which we cannot say too much in praise. The
author's grasp of the subject, his tact in making his meaning plain, and his under-
standing of just what the student wants, make the volume of especial value to col-
lege men. The plan of the book is admirable. What the New York Commercial
Advertiser of recent date says is not more than the work deserves : " Students who
make themselves masters of the problem set for them by the illustrations and exer-
cises would know more of the subject then many of the avowed professors of the
science in our colleges."
E. C. Stedman has found time from his business to write another book of criti-
cism, similar to his ** Victorian Poets," — Poets of America, Houghton, Mifflin
& Co., publishers. The author calls the book " chiefly a review of our first dis-
tinctive lyrical period." The poets whose works are criticised are : Bryant, Whit-
tier, Emerson, Longfellow, Poe, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman and Taylor. The
opening chapters are "Early and Recent Conditions," and ''Growth of the Ameri-
can School.'' In this latter chapter the author speaks of innumerable early poets.
The last chapter of the book is entitled '*The Outlook ;" a forecast as to what our
national poetry will be in the future. For aiding the college student in his essay-
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plainly and substantially bound.
Lippincott's Magazine is beginning a new era ; its new cover pleases all its
exchanges and readers, and the increased amount of reading matter makes it doubly
welcome to many who always have held it to be the best light magazine published in
this country. The February number contains stories by M. B. Upham and J. S..
of Dale, poems by Helen Gray Cone and Margaret Edson. In Civil Service Reform,
Dorman B. Eaton shows more familiarity with the subject then did Gail Hamilton
in a recent number. The magazine doses with an obituary notice of J. B. Lip-
pincott.
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articles. Ministerisl Reipontibilitj and Ibc ConttilDlioD, by A. L. LowcU, i( a
diiciusioD of the reUlions between tlie executive and legisUlare. A. A. Hayes
tells about An American Soldier in China. The author ihowi that much of (he
credit that has been given to Gordoo for luppressing the Talping Rebellion, i*
really due to General Ward—" Vet the rebels took his life, the ImperialisU took
his money, and Gordon's biographers took his fame." The fairest estimation of the
vork of John Brotm that »e have ever seen, is in the article reviewing the recent
Life of John Brown, edited by F. B. Sanborn. Some excellent criticisms of recent
novels — among them, Astor's Valentino, take np fourteeo pages.
The PoPtiLAR Science Monthly abounds in good reading. General John
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theSan, bvW. M. Davis; The Musket as a Social Force, by John McElroy^
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LIBERAL EDUCATION AND THE CLASSICS.
The perfect man for our day and generation is the man of educa-
tion, trained to usefulness by experience. For " studies themselves,"
says the greatest of essayists, " do give forth directions too much at
large, except they be bounded in by experience." But Bacon himself
best exemplified the truth that, though " expert men may execute and
judge of particulars, one by one, the general counsels and the plots
and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned."
But what is, in our day, a liberal education, and how shall it be
acquired ? Popular impression says it is much knowledge acquired
from books. Scientific accuracy adopts the suggestion afforded by the
derivation of the word itself and says that education is development of
the mental faculties.
It is training to think. Power to think is the greatest ofispring of
creation. Physical strength is measured by the reach of physical sense ;
and it is its own helpless destroyer. Sampson could pull down the
temple only upon those who were confined within its walls ; and he
buried himself in the ruins. Physical strength is the servant of thought.
An impulse which is but another name for a quick thought— directed
the sightless giant's arm.
Thought, for good or bad, is, and always has been, sovereign of
the world, ancient and modern — and history records no interregnum.
•* For just experience tells in every soil,
That those who think, mast govern those that toil.'*
80 LIBERAL EDUCATION AND THE CLASSICS.
Education is learning to think. Liberal education is learning to
think on many subjects, — great subjects, broadly, comprehensively. It
is easy enough to say what education is, but how shall we get it ?
Some men — most men, cannot get it. It is the prerogative of those
bom with brains. The boy or girl without a natural endowment of
brains can no more be given a liberal education than the foal of a
draft-horse can be trained to trot a mile in two minutes.
" All men are bom free and equal," is a political axiom, not an in-
tellectual ; and its spiritual counterpart only, is found in the Bible.
To offer a liberal education to the masses is democratic folly. It is
casting pearls before swine, giving something which cannot be received.
By all means let us have common schools for every boy and girl in.
the land ; but colleges only for those whose nature demands them. Col-
lege degrees are now conferred on graduates, and diplomas given as
certificates of a liberal education, whereas to half the academic bache-
lors these are but evidences of four wasted years — a liberal education is
neither in their heads nor in their hopes.
But by those to whom nature does vouchsafe so great a blessing,
how can it best be acquired ? Ready enough is the answer, by study.
But study what ? Ay, there's the mb 1 The college world has been
aroused by the commencement of the campaign to snatch away the
" college fetich." The temples of learning have witnessed but the be-
ginning of an attempt of the modem iconoclasts to break the ancient
images of the votaries of Latin and' Greek.
A great error seems to have been nurtured by many high in author*
ity and esteem in regarding a classical education as synonymous with
a liberal education. This is, to say the least, an open question. It
certainly is an undetermined question if the term classical is intended
to embrace both Latin and Greek, or, in the languages, only Latin
and Greek. These two languages do not hold by any means the same
relation to education. Arguments directed against the maintenance
of Greek as a comer stone in the structure of a liberal education have
little force when Latin is the object of attack. If the purpose of
education is to leam to think, the purpose of an English education is
to leam to think in English. It should be remembered then that
Latin enters into the very substance of English not only directly, as
one of its constituent elements, but indirectly, through its various off-
spring, the Romance languages. This simple statement affords its
own argument in answer to those who would strike an undistinguishing
LIBERAL EDUCATION AND THE CLASSICS. 8 1
blow at the classics. While Latin and Greek are both called dead lan-
guages, the expression means or should mean, something very different
as applied to the one or to the other. They are called dead because
they are not now spoken. But this is true only of the Greek, that is^
of the Greek we study. Latin is spoken, universally, in its modem
form or derivatives. Hence the argument that Latin should be
included in any scheme of study for a liberal education. It is part of
the bone and sinew of our tongue ; and it is in a true sense, a modem
language. To be sure the Greek has supplied our composite language
with the roots for many technical and some common words, but the
same is true of numerous other languages, ancient and modem. Bui
because of this, should every youth, who aspires to a liberal education
be compelled to spend a good part of several precious years in an
attempt to acquire all these tongues ? Especially pertinent does this
question seem when we reflect that in many cases — ^perhaps most
cases — the roots of words afford no accurate suggestion of the meaning
of the words as employed. There ought to be some other and better
reason for forcing Greek upon every candidate for the bachelor's
degree. Doubtless such a reason would be at once forth-coming from
any Greek professor. He would ask with a commiserating tone,
''Yoimg man, do you not know that Greek is the language of
culture ? "
Now while we would freely accept the familiar dictum implied in
this question as applicable to a few charming centuries preceding the
era in which we live, we would be constrained to answer it with a very
humble assertion of our own, to wit, that for this benighted age, Eng-
lish is the language of culture. And adopting Webster's definition of
culture as " enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental training **
we further submit that more real culture can be gained in a few
months' faithful devotion to the English classics than is ever acquired
in the years spent in the study of Greek before and after entering col-
lege. It is the difference between a live language and a dead lan-
guage : and it is also the difference between a live culture and a dead
culture. But Greek is the language of culture because it contains such
a wealth of philosophy, of poetry, of oratory, of history — such a
precious literature. That is fully appreciated. But — to make use of
Horace Greely's idea — shall we be forced to swallow the aqueduct to
get a drink of water ?
The Hebrew, too, has a rich literature — precious as well by a spiri-
S2 LIBERAL EDUCATION AND THE CLASSICS.
tual as an intellectual value. Has the English race been denied the
beauteous charm of David's Psalms because but a few of its erudite
scholars could translate from that ancient tongue ? And though so
many can render the Greek into some sort of English, how many, if
any, besides the specialists and professors ever become familiar enough
with the language to learn to think in Greek, that is, to understand it
^thout translating. Let us have the Greek literature by all means.
But why should we be required to spend so many years in the dis-
heartening task of digging out and memorizing the roots, declensions
and conjugations of a dead language to the end that we might some
day appreciate the beauties and grandeur of the Iliad (for example) in
at best, some wretched rendering of our own, when such perfect trans-
lations as that of Pope or Bryant might have been learned by heart
while we were acquiring this headful of worse than useless grammar?
Could English in a measure, at least, supersede Greek in the College
Curriculum, there would be m education not only a revolution, but a
reformation. It certainly is a striking comment on the present system
that a large proportion of our graduates while familiar enough with the
literature of an ancient language, are shamefully ignorant of the beau-
tiful classics of their native tongue. The maintenance of Greek as one
of the fundamentals is an institution rooted in time and supported by
the pride and prejudice of the scholar, and supported on the theory
that without it education would not be solid and complete. But there
is no real educational advantage in the present method which would be
•surrendered by studying the Greek literature through the best transla-
tions, leaving the language itself to specialists. And that would have
the incalculable advantage of being a continued study of our own lan-
guage — sadly needed by the average graduate — and of securing valua-
ble years for acquiring familiarity with the ripest and richest thought
of both ancient and modem times.
He who said : " Histories make men wise ; natural philosophy,
deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend," presented,
if not an exhaustive, certainly a comprehensive scheme, for a liberal
-education ; and there is no mention of the languages in it, though
Bacon, surely, was a great scholar.
Possibly it proves or disproves nothing to cite the names of those,
who, having studied Greek, became great, or the names of those who
were great without it. Yet that is a fruitful comparison in this con-
•nection, which brings together the two greatest names in our literature.
LIBERAL EDUCATION AND THE CLASSICS. 85
Shakespeare and Milton. It may well be asked if it is not the very
scholasticism of Milton which dims his name before the people as time
goes by, and the very freedom from all that is called classic, which is
making the name, Shakespeare, shine brighter and brighter as the cen-
turies accumulate.
Ben Jonson, too, was one of the great classic scholars of his time.
And in the same poem, " L'allegro," the first part of which, burdened
with Greekisms, it is such a relief to forget, and the last part of which,
pure English, it is such a delight to remember, Milton speaks of him as
" learned Jonson," and then makes that happy reference to " sweet-
est Shakespeare, fancy's child, warbling his native wood-notes wild.""
And finally the << learned Jonson" makes his confession of the edu-
cational impotency of the classics, in his apostrophe to the " sweetest
Shakespeare,"
" Soal of the age
The applause, delight, the wonder of oar stage !
My Shakespeare rise I
« • •
Though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek,
From thence to honor thee, I would not seek for names,
Bat call forth thondering iEschalos,
Euripides and Sophocles to us,
PacuTius, Acdns, him of Cordova dead,
To life again, to hear thy buskin tread and shake the stage.
* * * Or leave thee alone for a comparison
Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome
Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come."
Britton Havens,
Rutgers^ *82»
^4 MEMORY: A DREAM.
MEMORY: A DREAM.
Within, beyond, and round about tis all,
A mighty beating throbs and throbs.
From earth and air and sea great voices call, —
The Soul of things is touched by human sobs.
Then put aside each worldly theme
And listen to my dream.
I saw a window in a darkened room
A window and the outer starlight deep ;
A window, — and a table in the gloom ;
A window, — and a face upturned in sleep.
Alone and shadowy on the table lay
A pen all oozing in an inky pool.
And through my soul deep sorrow found a way,
For all I saw there in the midnight cool.
So silent all ! and sad the sleeping face !
So weird and wide the open window seemed 1
Embodied human thought was in that place,
And something more than stellar radiance gleamed.
I felt the presence of the wonderful.
And on the pen's point rivited mine eye :
Twas there — ^yes, now I saw it — ^beautiful.
Pure and pellucid as the morning sky ;
As clear as dew-light shone the inky flow, —
And from its source the tranquil Seraph rose
Updrifting, bending solemly and slow
To hover o'er the sad face in repose.
I looked into those eyes of flame
And felt the soul of memory's name.
Harvard College, Henry £. Fraser.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard^ '86.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN. i..,/ 85
PRESIDENT LINCOLN,
Dear Brother Crossett:
At your request I now contribute some unpublished facts in rela-
tion to Lincoln, and if they are acceptable, will afterward contribute
some in regard to the inauguration of the Freedmen work at Hampton,
Va. And if in reference to them I cannot say with Virgil's hero,
iEneas, in relating the story of his adventures to Queen Dido,
** Magna pars fiii," I can say, Parva pars fui, — I myself had a little
part to act. And in these reminiscences, like Brutus, I shall simply
'* speak right on," and shall, I hope, be excused for using the first
person singular for the sake of convenience.
I begin with the causes that led to Lincoln's election. The im-
mediate cause was the contest for a free Kansas. It was stem resist-
ance to the stealthy encroachments of slavery upon free soil that
enthused the great Northern heart and culminated in the elevation of
Lincoln to the presidential chair. And in the organized emigration
that saved Kansas and Nebraska and the great beyond for fireedom.
I was a pioneer in New York, in concert with Hon. Eli Thayer in
Massachusetts. I inserted in the New York THhune a call for a
meeting to form a Kansas Emigrant Aid Society. And I was chosen
Secretary of the Society. And as the medium of collecting the first
company, I felt botmd to go with it and aid in its settlement At
Albany we joined a company firom Massachusetts. At Rochester we
halted to receive and respond to a Bible and Spelling-book Presenta-
tion. On arrival at Kansas City I had communication with Mr.
Pomeroy, the General Manager, afterwards United States Senator.
And it was mutually agreed that the two companies should settle
together at Lawrence, the place selected for the first colony.
On my return I resumed the ministry. And soon, in " the border
ruffian troubles," " bleeding Kansas " aroused the whole North and
fired it to fever heat. And on the tidal wave Lincoln was swept into
the White House.
But failing in the political arena, the South resolved to try the
fortunes of war. And well was it that such a man as Lincoln held the
helm of State. One who knew when to be Napoleonic and when
Fabian, in his policy. A fine illustration of the former characteristic
occurred while I was at Hampton and Fortress Monroe as pioneer in
the Freedmen work. Lincoln came to the Fort and told General
86 PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
Wool, the Commandante, and Commodore Goldsborough, it was known
in Washington that not a single squad of Confederate soldiers was left
about Norfolk, all having been sent to the defense of Richmond. And
he ordered the occupancy of the city. The general and commodore
expressed the suspicion that some might be lurking in ambuscade to
entrap the small Union force at the Fort, if they should attempt it.
But straightening up his tall form Lincoln said, emphatically, " You
must try it, or I'll cut your heads off!" Meaning, of course, an official
decapitation. And they tried it. And landing on the east side of
Elizabeth River, and marching along toward Norfolk, they were met
by the Mayor and welcomed to the hospitality of the city. And
doubtless Lincoln made himself and his Cabinet merry in telling the
story on his return to Washington.
But he was equally master of the Fabian policy when the case
required. After his issue of the Proclamation for arming colored sol-
diers, I went to Washington, and with Senator Pomeroy visited the
President and informed him that several thousand negroes at the fort
were ready to enlist. And his characteristic reply was, " Gentlemen,,
you've come to the wrong shop." The Senator said, "We didn't
know of any better place to come to than headquarters. We supposed
you meant something by the Proclamation." " O, yes," said he, " I
meant something but not everything; I meant this, and no more:
To save white blood Governor Andrews has been on from Massachu-
setts to get an order to arm the Yankee negroes. Let him do it.
Massachusetts is ready. Generals Hunter and Saxton have also been
on to get an order to arm the Southern negro, as a home-guard,,
and let the white soldiers, who are dying in the swamps, go to the
front. Let them do it. The North Carolina department is ready
for it But, Mr. Lockwood, while your negroes may be ready, I know
that the officers at the Fort are not ready for it. And Delaware and
Maryland are not ready. Pennsylvania is not ready. New York is
not ready. And the country generally is not ready. And we must
bide our time." And that is what saved the Union. He knew when;
to act the role of a Napoleon, and when that of a Fabius. And this
made him a second Washington. The one the fiaither, the other the
savior of his country. Fraternally yours,
L. C. Lockwood,
WilUamSy '37.
Woodhaven^ Queens Co,y L, L, N, K
DEER BROOK. 8/
DEER BROOK.
'Neath a quivering arch of green boughs interlacing —
Of birches and beeches, dark spruces and pines —
Fringed with ferns and with moss with its delicate tracing,,
'Mid rocks bounding all with their rugged oudines,
Darting under a trunk, leaping over a boulder,
Flowing smoothly in pools where the deep shadows hide.
And the water is clearer and purer and colder,
Or, 'neath the bright sun, gliding over a '^ slide,"
Deer Brook flashes down through a cleft in the mountain,
Murm'ring deep notes of joy, singing snatches of song.
In rills and cascades — a fair forest fountain —
With radiant delight as it carols along.
On its bosom the clouds and sky-tints are reflected ;
In the depth of its pools sport the bright-spotted trout;
Through fair vistas of beauty the eye is directed
To the moss-covered rocks which loom up round about.
Ah, not all the world o'er can be found keener pleasures
Than to clamber o'er rocks, or, with moss for a seat.
To recline and enjoy these beautiful treasures
Which Nature so lavishly spreads at our feet!
Delta Upsilon, purest spring flowing, and fairest !
With thy source in the mountains of Justice and Right —
Not the drought of attack nor the debris of error
Can hinder thy progress or lessen thy might !
We will drink of thy waters with zest which increases.
And bask by thy side in the sunlight of Truth ;
Our gain, our enjoyment, our love never ceases —
This, this is the fountain of Immortal Youth !
Albert W. Ferris, M. D.,
Keene Valley, Adirondacks. New York^ '78.
88 A VERMONT EXPERIENCE.
A VERMONT EXPERIENCE'
I was visiting a friend, during the April recess, at his country house
in a little Vermont town. We found plenty of amusement in the day-
time, but the evenings were long and rather tiresome. One night my
friend said, " Let's go down to the store and hear the liars." I
hardly understood his meaning, but I was quite ready for anything
fresh, so we went.
" The store " was the one universal emporium and post-office of
the town. When we went in we found three men sitting in various
easy positions about the little stove. Two of them — the storekeeper
and another — were vigorously pumping tobacco juice into a wooden
box filled with dirt and moss. The third, a grizzly bearded man of
about fifty, tilted his chair back between two barrels, and puffed medi-
tatively at a corn-cob pipe. As we took our seats on the counter, my
friend whispered that the smoker was one of the liars, and that the
other champion had not yet arrived.
He came presently, — a. long, lanky young fellow, with a fiery red
beard and a quick, stammering voice. The hitherto silent tobacco-
chewers greeted him cordially, and respectfully made room for his
soap-box between them. He was evidently the favorite. He drew a
black clay pipe from his pocket and began leisurely filling it. The
storekeeper looked at him eagerly.
"Any news up t' ther comer, Frank ?" he asked, at length.
" Wal, no," replied Frank, slowing his impetuous voice down to an
irritating drawl : " nothing t' amount t' anything. £d firackett's sold
one er them shepherd pups ter Calvin Smith."
" Them are pretty good dogs, er Ed's," suggested the storekeeper.
The champion smiled complacently.
** Wal, I guess they are," said he. " Ed tell you what the old one
done when I wuz down last Sunday ?"
" No," said the storekeeper.
My friend nudged me. The grim old fellow between the barrels
tilted back a little farther, and yawned ostentatiously.
" I come down ter see Ed's pigs," said the red-bearded youth, with
a glance toward the barrels, " and there wa'n't nobody ter home ; all
gone ter meetin'. Wal, I knocked, and that shepherd she come out
er the shed and looked at me a minute, an' then started fer ther bam.
I foUered her down, an' she went clear out 'round ter ther back door
that opens inter ther bam suller. She scratched at ther door, an' I
A VERMONT EXPERIENCE. 89
opened it She took me over t' the further pen, where them pigs
wore, an' barked twice. Then she come out an' took me up t' the
shed an' showed me her litter er pups, an' barked three times. Done
jest as wal as £d could, ef he'd been there."
The narrator scratched a match and began to smoke.
What did she baik for ?" timidly inquired the storekeeper.
•* Ter tell me ther price of 'em," replied the champion, scornfully.
Pigs two dollars, an' pups three dollars."
Wal, I'll be darned I" said the storekeeper, with a triumphant
glance at grey-beard. I glanced at my friend, but his face was as
sober as if he were listening to a sermon.
The grizzly liar behind the stove hitched his chair a little out of
the shadow of the barrels, and took his pipe out of his mouth.
** Shepherds are good dogs," said he, " but they can't hold a candle
to a good St. Bernard."
"Look-a-here, Jim," broke in the excitable youth with the red
beard, " you ken know all about Dakoty wheat fields an' Injuns, but
fer God's sake let me know a little about dogs 1"
" I hed a St. Bernard out West," continued the old man, impas-
sively, '^ that I used ter send 'round ter do all my shoppin'. One day
I give him a ten dollar gold piece, an' told him ter git two pounds er
beefsteak an' a hand er terbacker down ter Maguire's, an' take the
change 'round ter Riley's saloon an' pay Riley what I owed him."
" Oh, gosh !" ejaculated the red-bearded youth.
*' Wal, he got a five dollar bill an' some change, an' what do yer
s'pose he done with it ?"
*'Took it ter Riley, an' asked him what ther bill wuz, I expect,"
said the red-bearded liar, sarcasticaUy.
" No," said the other. " He went an' hunted up depperty sheriff
Jack Green, an' showed him ther bill. 'Twuz a counterfeit, an' Green
nabbed ther whole gang, with Maguire at ther head of it."
" Oh, by hokey I" groaned the red-bearded youth.
The storekeeper sighed heavily, and went to draw a pitcher of
dder. My friend and I went out When I got outside I drew a long
breath, and asked him if those men tasked their brains like that every
night. He said they did ; and ever since then I have been afiraid to
ask a Vermont man what time it is.
Harvard College, N. S. Kenison,
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard^ ^Z^.
90 CHAPTER LETTERS — AMHERST.
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS.
Delta Upsilon House,
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
Dear Brothers:
Delta Upsilon, at Amherst, has entered upon an eventful era, both
advantageous and honorable to our chapter. Mention has already
been made in the columns of the Quarterly of the room which had
been granted by the chapter for the use of the scientific members of
the chapter. But since writing that, the room has undergone a com-
plete metamorphosis.
Before the change one could see in this room only bare walls, with
here and there a cobweb for adornment ; but now — ^brothers, step in
and see — ^there are three tables, one large one in the centre, on which
are kept scientific periodicals, charts, maps, and also materials for
writing and drawing ; on another, the scalpel is used, and on the third,
microscopical investigation is carried on.
There are, on another side of the room, two large cabinets ; one
filled with mineralogical and geological specimens, the other with a
collection of birds, eggs, skeletons, and also some specimens of hy-
droid sponges, echinoderms, and some ferns, which one of the profes-
sors kindly presented for the collection. On the fore walls, physiolog-
ical charts have been hung ; the decoration of the fireplace, with its
black woodwork, and the fireboard, shaded in blue from the violet to
the yellow, on which Brother Wilder, 'S6, has painted a scroll with the
motto of the room, " Vive la Science," adds greatly to the general ap-
pearance of the room. Above the mantle we expect to soon see a
large Delta Upsilon monogram.
In one of the closets Brother Wilson H. Ferine, *SS, has fitted up
a photographers' dark room, which he is already using for developing
his negatives. Another room is to be used as a chemical laboratory^
which Brother Pond, '8i, has supplied with chemicals. And now a few
words as to the value of these rooms, and their relation to our chapter.
It may be urged against this plan that a society is not a college in it-
self, and has no business to assume the duties of the same. Granted,,
however, that society relations cannot take the place of college instruc-
CHAPTER LETTERS — AMHERST, ADELBERT, 9I
tion, they can make this instruction more instructive. Moreover, such
an objection is not raised in the appointment of trainers for drill in
elocution and rhetoric. Does one branch need more encouragement
than another ? If such is the case, it can be said that scientific studies
have been neglected in the past, for one room has always been devoted
to literary exercises. Again it may be claimed that such a system will
lead to specializing, and this in turn have an influence in the choice of
new members, and that our chapter will thus become a set of '' cranks."
But the object of this new part of our society life is not as a sub-
stitute for the college curriculum, not an enthronement of science over
literature, but rather as a fulfilment of that clause in otu: constitution
which pledges us to help one another in " all that is honorable and
right." As yet this departure is only an experiment; we do not claim
much for its practical value, but we do feel confident that it will give us
additional strength in the line of developing that which Delta Upsilon
is so proud of, earnest character. Believing such to be the character
of the work, we would heartily recommend it to our sister chapters,
hoping they may be fortunate enough to find such enthusiastic scien-
tists to carry on the work as the Amherst Chapter is favored with.
With best wishes for Delta Upsilon,
Fraternally,
William F, Walker, ^S6.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Adelbert College, Cleveland, O.
Dear Brothers:
The Adelbert Chapter sends hearty greeting to her sister chapters
and the Fraternity at large. We can safely say that our chapter has
kept even pace with the growing tendency of Delta U. to prosper and
come smilingly to the top.
What with the splendid condition of the Quarterly, with the
glowing reports brought home firom the Convention by our delegates,
could a chapter keep from boiling over with enthusiasm ?
We are situated somewhat between two fires. Alpha Delta Phi and
Delta Kappa Epsilon chapters of old fraternities, who are our chief
opponents in competing for men. The first mentioned is a good
square rival, meeting all opponents on a fair and equal ground, while
Delta Kappa Epsilon is apt to play the sneak in some respects, and
92 CHAPTER LETTERS — ADELBERT, BROWN.
delights in men who are of the so-called " tough " class. They, with
the Beta Theta Pi, have been giving the college some lively times in
their attempts to steal men from one another.
In fact, Delta Kappa Epsilon in this college has degenerated, now
causing little anxiety in working men. Our Alumni are still agitating
the question of building a chapter house, and our Freshmen are hop-
ing in the confidence of spending their Senior year in a Delta U.
temple.
Speaking of Alumni reminds me that the Cleveland Alumni Chap-
ter, together with our own, greatly desire the Convention to be held
here at the earliest opportunity. We have the prettiest city in the
country, and it looks simply beautiHd in the fall at the time of the
Convention; besides, we have ample facilities in the way of hotels,
opera houses, loyal sons, etc., wherewith we may insure you all a
good time, and make it a rousing success. The past term we have
had a pleasant visit from two of the Marietta boys, who report that
chapter to be in a splendid condition. We hope many more Delta
U.'s will favor us with visits. We are glad to meet Alumni and under-
graduates of other chapters, and exchange views and ideas.
Fraternally,
Frank Kuhn.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Brown University, Providence, R. I.
Dear Brothers :
Our Chapter sends greeting to all the sisters.
We are prosperously pursuing the " even tenor " of our way, though
the evenness here spoken of must not be understood to imply monotony.
At our last Public the old hall was completely filled. Specially enter-
taining were the reading by Brother Packard, and the last number —
the hit of the evening — "A Half-hour in the President's Office," writ-
ten by Brother Bronson. Brother White took with becoming dignity
the part of Prex, and to him entered the various characters which are
so familiar to every coUege man : the man who has '< flunked " in
nearly every " exam.," the athletic man, the boating man, the base ball
man, the '' slave " with a sweeping denunciation of the ministerial stu-
dent who has poured water on his head " thray times, yer honor," etc.,
CHAPTER LETl'ERS — BROWN. 93
etc The " Social Question " was announced as next in order, and
though, perhaps, the discussion of it was not carried on in strict econ-
omic fashion, yet, since we rejoiced in the help of Professor Andrews
and his wife, and in the aid, also, of quite a large number of " other fel-
lows^ sisters," the said discussion was one of the pleasantest inour annals.
The Chapter is congratulating itself on the election of Professor
Andrews to the Presidency of the Delta Upsilon Club of New England,
at the last annual banquet of the club in Boston. Six brothers went
from the Chapter to the dinner, and of our alumni. Brothers Andrews,
'84, French, '85, were present, and Professors Andrews and Liscomb
with their wives. The whole affair was very pleasant; the only draw-
back in the eyes of the Brown brethren was the late hour of beginning
which compelled them, in order to catch their train, to depart before
all the good things had been said.
In our last letter we said that there was considerable curiosity in
the college as to what the Faculty would devise to take the place of
the gray and ancient Commencement exercises. Now, behold, the
egg is hatched, and the project of the pundits is before us. It is briefly
this.
Three-fifths of the entire Senior class from those who have passed
every examination, are appointed to write orations. Half of these
orations are selected by the Professor of Rhetoric as surpassing the
other half in excellence. Further, from this so selected half, a commit-
tee consisting of the President, the Professor of Rhetoric, and the other
member, who is to be named by the Faculty, are to choose ten orations
to be delivered on the great and final day.
This scheme was received by the students with entire approval. It
certainly deserves such a reception, for, clearly, if the selections are
properly made, no man who cannot write a good oration and deliver
it with some degree, at least, of grace and spirit, can go upon the plat-
form. It is thus a vast improvement over the old system. But while
each man approved the method, he seems to have approved it as ap-
plied to his neighbor rather than to himself. A great number of the
best men in the class resigned their appointments. The orations
would require too much time and labor, especially as they were to be
handed in by the 28th of April. Only one of our men is going to write,
though all six had appointments. Alpha Delta Phi may do a little
better, but, at last accounts, the committee would have the enormous
task of selecting ten out of eleven orations.
94 CHAPTER LETTERS — BROWN.
Our Chapter has taken rather a new departure in its work. It has
organized itself into an imitation of the United States Senate. Brother
Willet is President pro Um. Brother Martin is Clerk, while the rest
of the brethren are allotted to the different States as Senators, one to
each State, as far as they will go. We have had only one session as
yet, but three bills, one on the financial question, the other a pension
bill a mile long, the third on Presidential succession, have been intro-
duced. At the first meeting after the spring recess we shall pick up
the thread again and go on for several meetings with the regular rou-
tine of the Senate, as nearly as we can conform to it. We think it will
be excellent practice, though as yet we do not know exactly how it will
work. It leaves debate free to all, and makes a man who really cares
to work look up every subject on which a bill has been brought in.
We have tried the experiment of which we spoke in the last Quar-
terly — that of a serial story, and found it a complete success, and a very
entertaining part of our weekly programmes. We can recommend it
highly. Not long ago the Chapter went into committee of the whole
and read Tennyson's " Passing of Arthur." Before the reading several
brothers designated for the duty gave short accounts of the original
Welsh legends of Arthur, of Geoffrey of Monmouth's tale, and of Ten-
nyson's version of the Sage.
Another variation in the regular literary programme came up very
pleasantly in an entirely informal way. We were gathered around our
center table, and a volume of Longfellow had been passing from hand
to hand, as did the harp in the old Saxon halls, when as some brother
took a long time in finding a poem to his mind. Brother Bronson
volunteered to give us a selection from memory. The b03rs assented
heartily and he gave Milton's " Hymn on the Nativity." This set the
good example ; the brethren cdled up from the depths of their memo-
ries one poem after another, some of Wordsworth, " Thaugbrand the
Priest " from Longfellow, and more than one beside. At the meeting
before this, one of the brothers had, by regular appointment, read selec-
tions from Wordsworth. The poems chosen would have given any
one imfamiliar with the poet, who is a mystery to very many, a good
idea of his peculiar style.
We still make literary work our chief aim. We enjoy it and en-
courage each other in it We do not neglect the social element of
life, but, unlike some of our sister chapters, we find literary work for
Delta U., however hard we are pressed with college work, a source of
CHAPTER LETTERS — ^BROWN, MADISON. 95
pleasure instead of a burden, and, when Friday night comes we find
our best relaxation in the solid work, which we intersperse with singing
and conversation. To alter lago's words, we are nothing here at
Brown if we are not literary. And we say this in no mere boasting
spirit. Such work is the centre of our Chapter life, and we wish the
same were true of all our Chapters. The men to whom we can point
as trained in this way go far, in our opinions, to demonstrate the truth
of our claim.
Yours fraternally,
Norman M. Isham.
Delta Upsilon House,
Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y.,
Dear Brothers:
Once more, as we near the close of another college year, the
Madison Chapter sends a fraternal greeting to her sister chapters.
The future seems encouraging and promising for us. While we
would not under-estimate the power of our rival societies, yet we feel
that our only position is at the top of the ladder. A No. x is our pass-
word.
We have four pledged men in the Senior Class of Colgate Academy,
one of whom will certainly be Valedictorian, and another wiU take
either second or third honor.
Our regular meetings are held on Wednesday evenings. The usual
scheme consists of declamations, essays, orations, addresses, and
debates, conducted upon parliamentary principles. We have found it
profitable to vary the scheme from time to time, as occasion may call
for. We devote an evening now and then to the study of some promi-
nent author. Essays are prepared and selections read upon his life
and works. We have also found the presentation of Shakespeare's
plays both amusing and instructive. This practice relieves the monot-
ony of dull work, and at the same time is very profitable.
The faculty of the University consists of thirteen professors, four
of whom are Delta U. men. Also in the Colgate Academy three of
the five professors are Delta U.*s, thus giving us a total of seven
professors here.
96 CHAPTER LETTERS— MADISON.
We are proud and happy to report a spirit of harmony and good-
fellowship among us. The shadow of discord has not yet been dis-
cerned. In this we deem ourselves most fortunate, for once permit
the seeds of disunion and cliquism to take root, and disintegration*
will commence.
We have not had the usual number of visitors this year, the cause*
of which we attribute to the approaching Convention. However, let
none pass by without calling, for we are always readyjto give a hearty
welcome to any of our brothers who may find it possible to call on us.
We cannot show you a babbling brook in whose waters we immerse our
initiates, nor an array of spikes on which we set those whom we are
about to embrace in brotherly affection, but we can give you a true
fraternal welcome; we can and will open our hall and our hearts to
you all
We endeavor to treat the members of rival societies as gentlemen..
The leading position which Delta Upsilon occupies here naturally
produces much ill-feeling and envy. We have found, however, that our
respectful treatment of opposing society-men not only aids Delta.
Upsilon but is the best way to put in practice the principles upon
which the Fraternity is founded.
We have done good work during the past two terms, but its results-
will not be apparent until the spring term, when the prize work com-
mences. We will not predict the results, but we hope that a consid-
erable portion of the prizes will fall to the lot of Delta Upsilon.
We still maintain a high social standing, but we endeavor to make
this aim subservient, rather than paramount, to literary achievements.
Social standing is highly desirable, but literary and mathematical suc-
cesses are more tangible and are better evidences of the mental
calibre of our men. We find that " to hold the fort " demands inces-
sant toil. We realize fully that true success cannot be gained by rest-
ing upon the achievements of those who have gone before. Eadi class-
must do its full duty in carrying forward the work, in maintaining the
principles, and upholding the honored name of Delta Upsilon.
Fraternally,
Alfred W. Wishart, '89..
CHAPTER LETTERS — MARIETTA. 97
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio.
Dear Brothers :
As noted in the " News Items " of the Quarterly's last issue,
Marietta begins her second half century under a new administration.
At the head of the list headed " Faculty," in the last catalogue, stand
the words, ** Hon. John Eaton, Ph.D., LL. D., President." Were these
words lacking, the text of the catalogue itself would plainly show the
presence of a new hand — ^though by no means an inexperienced one.
The number of elective studies is largely increased, new lectures are an-
nounced, and an outline of the work under each professor is ably set forth.
On the evening of March 25, President Eaton and his wife gave a
reception to the students and their '' lady friends," the resident trus-
tees, the Faculty, and others especially interested in the college. In
the words of the "lady friends," the reception was "just lovely."
Mrs. Eaton is highly accomplished in the musical direction, and her
hearty, cordial ways, I doubt not, will soon make her immensely popu-
lar with the students.
But let us return for a few minutes to the Catalogue. Each copy
owned by a Delta U. seems to open of itself to a certain page, appar-
ently indicating a frequent perusal thereof! This page is headed
" College Honors." The explanation of the frequent perusal is now
easy ; viz., that nine of the sixteen men whose names are down as
receiving honors and prizes last year, nine, I say, were Delta U.'s.
The list is headed by the Valedictorian of '85, Brother Charles L.
Mills. Of the eight money prizes which we took, Jive yrtrt first prizes ;
two second, and one was a half of the largest prize given — ^that ^in
American History. To state it in another way, our men received
almost sixty-one and one-half per cent, of the money dispensed, leav-
ing the other three societies to divide thirty-eight and one-half per
cent, among them. The probabilities are that we shall take the same
stand this year, with the addition of one or two prizes.
Under these circumstances it is a little amusing to see the comfort
which our chief rival. Alpha Sigma Phi (local society), takes in '89,
where she expects to secure the first two honors. If her hopes are not
blasted, the commencement of '89 will be the first time she has had
anything higher than third place for six years ; i. ^., since '83.
But high scholarship is not the only essential to the usefulness and
influence of a chapter. There must be warm fellowship and earnest
98 CHAPTER LETTERS-:— MARIETTA.
desire to make the chapter of the utmost attainable benefit to its mem-
bers, and a credit to its fraternity. In the last Quarterly was out-
lined the plan which we, at Marietta, intended following to gain these
results. Our hopes have been fully realized.
The first public entertainment which we gave, was held on Friday
evening, March 12. About seventy were present, including President
Eaton and several others of the faculty, our resident alumni and wives,
the " lady friends " of the active members, and the fiiends of the
Fraternity in general. The main features of the evening was a lecture,
by Brother William A. Shedd, descriptive of his joumciy through Persia
and Asian Russia on his return to America last year. Brother Shedd's
father is at the head of the college and seminary at Oroomiah, Persia,
where Brother Shedd taught for the succeeding three years, at the dose
of his Sophomore year in Marietta. The lecture was delivered by
request before the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and was repeated for our benefit
with the additional advantage of being illustrated by the impersonation
of several characters in costume. The whole presented a most vivid
picture of Persiani customs and peculiarities. After the lecture some
time was very enjoyably spent in conversation, examination of the
various Persian curiosities and photographs, singing of Delta U. songs,
etc All our friends seemed thoroughly delighted with the entertain-
ment, passing many compliments upon the clear, smooth style in
which the speaker expressed himself. Those who had not before
visited our hall expressed surprise at its comfortable, not to say elegant,
furnishing, the convenience of its stage arrangements and its general
adaptability for social and public uses.
On every side we were asked why we " hadn't thought of this
before," and urged by all means to do something of the kind often in the
future. Several said that they should think our non-secrecy and the
availability of our hall to outsiders would give us a tremendous advant-
age over the other societies — in which way of thinking they were correct.
I should like to talk on awhile, to tell you of the cosy little spread
— attended by none but undergraduates and pledged men — held at the
close of the term, and of other matters, in which Delta U. is interested;
but I will close now, as I always believed in that saying (Plato's,
wasn't it ?), " Enough is enough, and doo much is a blenty !"
So "all ye merry gentlemen" of Delta Upsilon good luck and
great joy. Heartily and Fraternally yours,
Edward B. Haskell, '87.
CHAPTER LETTERS — SYRACUSE. 99
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.
Dear Brothers:
Besides Delta Upsilon we have here chapters of four fraternities,
one local society, and three ladies' societies, commonly termed
sororities.
Delta Kappa Epsilon was established in 1871. She has somewhat
over thirty alumni in the city, the majority being from this chapter,
and twenty-five undergraduate members, the two lower classes largely
predominating. This chapter has the reputation here of being one of
the best, if not the best, in that firatemity; and if this were true the
fraternity would have slight cause for anything but satisfaction. Her
members, with a few exceptions, take good rank in class-room work ;
they make a good showing on the platform, in the upper classes, per-
haps better than the average ; they take an active interest in athletics,
and, generally speaking, do their share in supporting the various stu-
dent enterprises. One of the peculiarities of Delta Kappa Epsilon is,
that she is formed of such diverse, almost opposing, elements ; but,
while a smaller chapter might be embarrassed under like circumstances,
she seems to show no outward trouble.
The religious element is apparently not so strong as it was a year
or two ago, and the free-social element is stronger. They do not quite
sustain the reputation for good work earned by their predecessors ;
but it is probable, as sometimes happens in the history of a college
society, that this is a temporary condition, and that Delta Kappa
Epsilon will continue to be one of the strong fraternities. They are
in the main a good, pleasant set of fellows.
Psi Upsilon was formed from Upsilon ELappa — a local society —
in 1875. Her alumni support in the city is strong, there being more
than forty resident graduates. She has fourteen men in college, her
strength being mosdy in the Senior and Freshman classes. Psi Upsilon
holds a good position socially, her dty alumni being a great advantage
in this respect In scholarship she has not been strong since the gradu-
ation of '84. In athletics she takes an active interest, and ordinarily
figures prominendy in general college affairs. From '89 she secured
a delegation strong in numbers no less than in other respects, and she
is generally in a prosperous condition.
As to ourselves, there is not much to be said — we are on good
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•
terms with all. Rivalry here seldom leads to strife, and it is very
rarely that fraternity feeling causes unpleasantness.
The Oncndagan this year has been a decided success both finan-
cially and as to excellence, as compared with former issues. The dty
dailies have been very fi*ee in commenting on it as the best yet pro-
duced, and as we have had two men on the board, and as they have
been instrumental in bringing it to a successful issue, we feel somewhat
of satisfaction in the result.
We send greeting to all the chapters.
Fraternally,
John S. Bovingdon, '87.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Dear Brothers:
Michigan Chapter sends to all her sisters a most hearty greeting.
We number at present twenty active members, of whom two are alum-
ni. Oiu: meetings are held usually on Saturday nights in our down-
town hall.
The size of the University, and the opporttmity afforded to stu-
dents of electing, within reasonable limits, such work as they choose,
makes a fraternity a pleasant and profitable addition to student-life,
rather than a vital part of it, and to a certain extent relieves the soci-
ety from the responsibility of carrying on literary work of its own.
We do not mean by this statement, however, to imply any lack of loy-
alty of the members of Delta Upsilon or any neglect of the literary
work, which we consider to be one of the highest and most important
duties which every Delta U. owes to his chapter, his Fraternity, and
himself. Without such work our Fraternity is liable to degenerate in-
to a mere social club, as so many of the other Greek-letter societies
have done. We may be extreme in our views, but in our opinion a
chapter which loses sight of the fact that the Fraternity has pledged
itself to intellectual as well as to moral and social culture, fails, in a
measure, to grasp part of the true significance of the object for which
Delta Upsilon exists.
The relations of the college societies at Michigan are curiously in-
consistent. Collectively speaking, every society hates every other to
a greater or less extent. All the firatemity men hate the independents.
CHAPTER LETTERS — MICHIGAN. 10 1
Yet SO purely general is this ill-feeling that some of the members of
one fraternity room with other society men or independents, and soci-
ety lines are not drawn deeply enough to prevent the formation of
wann friendships across them.
As to the fraternities here, they do very little if any literary work,
-and some of them are but little more than boarding-clubs. Three or
four make pretensions to aristocracy, and another is characterized by
the immorality of its members. With the exception of this last, we
can oflfer no very severe criticism on any of our rivals here.
The college publications are : The Palladium^ published annually
by the secret societies ; The Oracle^ a Sophomore annual ; The Chron-
icle \ a bi-weekly college papery and The Argonaut^ a weekly. The
Jhlladium is avowedly hostile to us ; the Oracle does not recognize so-
cieties, and this year \re have had one of its editors ; the Chronicle is
under the control of the Delta Kappa Epsilons, Psi Upsilons, and
some of the other societies ; the Argonaut^ in whose foimdation we
had an interest, is supported by the Phi Kappa Psis, Alpha Delta Phis,
Delta U's, and others.
The college organizations are two literary societies, and engineering,
scientific, dramatic, musical, and philosophical societies, the Students'
Christian Association, the Rugby Association — which has just estab-
lished a gymnasium imder the direction of a competent instructor —
and the Students' Lecture Association, which presents annually a
course of lectures by such men as Talmage, Burdette, Carleton, and
Canon Farrar. With the receipts it maintains a reading-room.
The spirit of the administration of the college is a liberal one, and
the reins of power are held firmly but not too tightly. In chapel at-
tendance, the election of studies, and the choice of hours, great free-
dom is allowed, no prizes nor marks are offered as bribes to produce
an unhealthy zeal in the student, but a regular attendance and an ear-
nest puisuit of college work is insisted on. Consequently the college
bummer who looks upon his degree as a quid pro quo for his dues, and
who spends his four years at college in masterful inactivity, is a rare
specimen at Michigan.
So far we have said but little of ourselves, and for the reason that
we believe we are a typical chapter of Delta U., and that that type is
too well known to need description. This year we have no chapter-
house, but next year we shall either build a tempnrary.one or else rent
a house.
I02 SOUVENIR.
We are all pleased with the steady improvement in the Quarter-
ly, and hope that it will neither follow the example of the Rhombaidy
and die, nor degenerate into a ^-ly, like the magazine so often refer-
red to, which gets the better of Uncle Sam's postal service.
With our love and best wishes for our sister chapter»— our new
little sisters especially — we bid you farewell.
Fraternally,
Arthur L. Benedict, '87.
SOUVENIR.
FROM THE FRENCH OF AUGUSTE FONTANEY.
Dost thou remember. Dear, the lonely glade,
Where' first I breathed the vows of ardent love ?
The quiet evening seemed for wooing made ;
The twinkling stars looked blessings from above;
A gentle blush suffused thy modest face ;
I read my happy future in thine eyes,
Our hearts communed in one long fond embrace.
And swore a love as lasting as the skies.
But when, in all my glowing happiness.
To paint my new found joy I sought a name,
I said thou wert my Life — that God would bless
Such perfect love, " No ! No ! " thou did'st exclaim,
" But call me. Dear, thy Soul, to live alway,
I need the vow of its eternity.
Thy life, Alas, stem Death will take away ;
Thy Soul bids hope for immortality."
University of Rochester, Edward T. Parsons,
Rochester, N. Y. Rochester^ ^Z^.
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DELTA U. NEWS ITEMS.
William F. Walker, Amherst, '86, Amherst, Mass., is Secretary of
the Delta U. Camping Assodation. All those who would like to spend
part of the summer vacation at the Camp are requested to communi-
cate with him. Also to state their preferences for Lake George or the
sea-shore as the location for this year's camp.
The editor of the Quarterly, in order to complete files of our
Fraternity publications, wishes the following Annuals, containing the
records and addresses of the 38th, 39th, and 40th Conventions. The
Fraternity catalogues of 1844, 1853, 1859, and 1867. Vol. II. Nos.
one and two of Our Recordy published in 1868-69. All issues of the
Caduceus except December, 1869, and all issues of the University
^n^jMi/ published by the Rochester Chapter of Delta Upsilon, 1871-76.
Of the 182 men who have been admitted to the Fraternity during the
past year. New York State heads the list with 45 ; Pennsylvania comes
next with 24 ; and others come in the following order : New Jersey,
21; Massachusetts, zi; Ohio, 10; Illinois and Michigan each 9]
Maryland, Vermont and Wisconsin, 6 ; Maine and Rhode Island, 4 ;
Connecticut, Indiana, and Virginia, 3 ; Iowa, Minnesota, New Hamp-
shire and Sweden, 2 ; and one each from Delaware, Germany, India,
Japan, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Persia, Tennessee, and Turkey.
To those members of the Fraternity, who in summer, like to change
as much as possible from their customary surroundings, the Delta
U. Camping Association offers an excellent opportunity to gratify their
desires. Whether located at Lake George or at the sea-shore, the
camp life varies little, and the same good times can always be counted
upon. How the eyes, glisten, the cheeks glow, and the hands rise in
gesture, as the old campers tell us of the many happy days they have
spent upon the placid bosom of glorious old Lake George ; exploring
its scores of beautiful islands, rambling and driving among its noble I
rows of encircling hills, those exciting boat races for a pennant held by I
some fair hand, the base ball, tennis, and swimming matches, the moon- 1
light rows on the lake, the hops and entertainments at the seven hotels. |
KXL these bring up a flood of pleasant memories to the camper's j
mind and he tells us further what pleasure there was in that close ^
brotherly intercourse between members of widely scattered chapters, |
the joy in the hours spent in singing our Fraternity songs, and of the {
hours of animated discussion concerning the welfare of Delta U.
I
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THE ALBANY BANQUET.
The St. Marc tendered its hospitalities to a gracious company of
college alumni last evening. The occasion was the first annual ban-
quet of the Delta Upsilon Association of Albany, a body embracing
within its membership a host of bright and congenial spirits. Last
evening's celebration proved most enjoyable, as was to have been ex-
pected. Covers were laid for forty, and its gastronomical, social, and
mental features were beyond criticism. After an elaborate banquet
had been appreciatively discussed, Toastmaster John F. Mondgnani,
Cornell^ '79, announced the following toasts, which were responded to
with rare wit and eloquence :
Our Fraternity, - - Hon. Benjamin, A. Willis, Union^ '61
" One equal temper of heroic hearts." — Tennyson.
Our New Chapters, - - Otto M. Eidlitz, ComeU, '81
*' Heaven lies about ns in our infancy." — WtuUworth.
Union College, - - Rev. Spencer M. Adsit, Union^ '77
" Teach these boys facts."— Z>»Vit«w.
Our Ministers, - - Rev. Smith T. Ford, Afadison^ '78
« A sound divine is one who is vox et proeterea nihil."
Our Teachers, - - Professor Frank L. Nason, Amherst^ '81
"By doing this jre wonld not as befool.
Media ! the idea makes onr blood run cool;
Besides, of classics we'denongh at schooL"
Our Doctors, - . Peter R. Furbeck, M.D., Union^ '54
" When fevers bnrn or ague freezes,
Rhenmatics gnaw or colic squeezes,
Our neighbor's sympathy may ease us
Wth pitying groan." — Bums,
Delta U. in Politics, - - Hon. Charles D. Baker, Cornell^ '74
<' Politics ! Spend your life to spare the worlds."— J?. Browning,
The Ladies, ... Robert J. Landon, Unwn^ '80
<' Is there a heart that never loved
Nor felt soft woman's sigh ?"
Upon conclusion of the regular toasts Ex-Congressman WlUis,
Unim^ '61, was made the " Pope " of the evening, and created much
merriment in that role. During the evening an election of officers was
held to serve for the ensuing year, with the following result
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Pteskknty - - - Hon, Charles D. Baker, Cornell^ '74
Vice-Prestdent, - - . Lewis Cass, Union^ '78
Treasurer, . . - Jared W. Scudder, Rutgers^ '83
Secretary, ... Robert J. Landon, Union^ '80
The guests of the evening were :
Col. Benjamin A. Willis, Uniatiy '6z, Frederick M. Crossett, New
York, '84, Otto M. Eidlitz, CameU, '81, and Robert J. Eidlitz, Cornell^
'85, aU of New York City. — Albany Journal^ April 22.
THE BOSTON BANQUET.
The third annual reunion and banquet of the Delta Upsilon Club
of New England was held on February 22d at the Quincy House,,
about one hundred members, with ladies, being present. At five
o'clock the business meeting was held in one of the parlors of the
hotel, the following officers being elected for the ensuing year:
President, Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews, lA^.X)., Brawn, '70 ; Vice-Presi-
dent, Henry Randall Waite, Ph.D., Hamilton, %Z \ Secretary, George
F. ^^ezxi. Brawn, '81. Executive Committee: Chairman, William V*
Kellen, ^'8x\,,Brawn,*'^2\ Charles B.Wheelock,Esq., Cornell, '76; Hon.
James White, WiUiams,' i\ \ John C. Ryder, Colby, '82; Arthur C.
Stannard, Michigan, '84; Robert S. Bickford, Harvard, '85, and
Edwin R. Utley, Amherst, '85. The guests of the club were ex-
Congressman Benjamin A. Willis, Union, '61 ; Frederick M. Crossett,.
New York, '84, and Otto M. Eidlitz, Cornell, '81, all of New York
City.
The club sat down to dinner at half-past seven o'clock. After the
tables had been cleared the toast-master of the evening was introduced,
and that gentleman, the Rev. Edward E. Atkinson, Brawn, '79, of
Cambridge, made an interesting address to the club. He then intro-
duced the newly elected president, Professor E. Benjamin Andrews,
who thanked the club for electing him president, and congratulated
the retiring president for having done more for the club than any other
president before him. The attendance is one hundred per cent, more
than last year. He congratulated all present upon the presence of the
ladies. He did not believe that there is a better organization of
alumni in the land than the Delta Upsilon Club. The desire to have
our college education more solid, less bookish, is a growing one, and
this question of education is one that all college men must be inter*
to6 NEWS ITEMS — THE BOSTON BANQUET.
ested in. Another problem of the Delta Upsilon is the desire to make
the graduate capable of grappling with the political questions of the
day when he comes out of college; he thought that Delta Upsilon is
doing great work in this line, and he congratulated the members on
that fact. Another problem is the moral training of the students in
'Our colleges. For twenty-six years Delta Upsilon has been a great
worker in Brown University for the moral improvement of all the
'-students. He wished all prosperity to the club and success for its work.
Ex-Congressman Benjamin A. Willis, of Union, '6i, was introduced
^th a few well-chosen remarks by the toast-master. It had been his
good fortune to traverse Boston, to witness its beauty and admire its
buildings, but he thought it a crime that Faneuil Hall is neglected and
allowed to be a market. He believed the Delta Upsilon Fraternity to
be more prosperous and in better condition to-day that any other col-
lege fraternity. He could wish the club long life and prosperity in the
words. Hail, Delta Upsilon, all hail I
Professor William S. Liscomb, of Brown, '72, responded for "The
Ladies." He thought that the club represented the family as it never
had before, although the fraternal feeling had always prevailed before «
the ladies came to the banquet. He knew that the meeting must be
all the more pleasant on account of the presence of the fair sex. Wom-
en are becoming stronger and stronger every day, he said, and one of
our colleges is preparing to present a higher system of education for
them. The Hon. David Thayer, M.D., Union, '41, introduced as the
oldest graduate present, spoke interestingly of college days. He had
had breakdowns in the method of study, as he supposed many students
have had. A student who, by too close application to study, gets a
headache, should stop for a while. Henry Randall Waite, President
of the American Institute of Civics, spoke about "The right relation of
things." He claimed that the Delta Upsilon was founded on that
principle. Some men had wrong ideas of the use of a college course,
and the Fraternity, was founded to try and establish the right relation
of things. The Fraternity has poured much inspiration into its mem-
bers to enable them to do right. He thought a step in the right di-
rection was the invitation for the ladies to be present, and he hoped they
would be present at each succeeding reunion. He made an address
on the right of women, with the same endowments as their brothers, to
command the same wages and places — ^not to obtain such wages and
places as a mere favor.
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Secretary Bean read a number of letters of regret from Victor C.
Anderson, Harvard^ '85, Professor Winslow Upton, Brown^ '75, Ex-
Governor William Bross, WUKamSy '38, of the Chicago JHbutu^ and
from the Delta Upsflon Club of Rochester. The Hon. James White,
of WUHamSy '51, a member of the mother chapter of Delta Upsilon,
spoke briefly, and was followed by a few other speakers. — Boston
Herald.
THE NEW YORK BANQUET.
The Fifth Annual Reunion and dinner of the New Yor)c Delta
Upsilon Qub was given at the Metropolitan Hotel, on Friday evening,
March 19, 1886. The Club, which is composed of members of the
Fraternity living in New York and vicinity, was well represented at
the dinner, though some of the prominent men who were expected to
be present were unavoidably absent.
The arrangements were complete, and through the careful and
painstaking labors of the Committee, everything was highly satisfactory.
A reception Committee, consisting of Samuel B. Duryea of New York^
Alexander D. Noyes of Amherst^ Ezra S. Tipple of Syracuse^ Josiah
A. Hyland of Hamilton^ Frederick M. Crossett of New York, Otto M.
Eidlitz of Cameliy William F. Campbell of New York, and George G.
Saxe, Jr., of Columbia^ assisted in doing the courtesies of the occasion,
and as no third person is necessary in order to perform an introduc-
tion ceremony, when two Delta U. brothers meet, the functions of the
Committee were largely of the " pump handle " nature. And as these
functions were discharged by the members of the Committee with great
exertion and the utmost quietness (?) it was the common remark that
the " pump handle " was getting to be almost as awfully mysterious as
the " dorg " and Wooglin of a Western society. Before the dinner the
members of the Club assembled in the private parlors of the hotel and
at a business session held at that time, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year : President, The Hon. Benjamin A. Willis,
Union, '61 ; Vice-president, Alexander D. Noyes, Amherst, '83 ;
Treasurer, Otto M. Eidlitz, Cornell, '81 ; Secretary, Frederick M.
Crossett, New York, '84 ; Executive Council, Samuel B. Duryea, New
York, *66; Abraham B. Havens, Rutgers, '82 ; J. A. Hyland, Hamilton,
'75; Charles E. Hughes, Brown, '81 ; and Nelson G. McCrea, Column
bia, '85.
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At the dinner old friends arranged themselves together about the
table and sat down to a splendid m6nu, and it was a jolly gathering
too, where songs and jokes were well appreciated.
About the board were many who had often enjoyed similar occa-
sions together, and who thus were entirely too conversant with
the " tender spots " of each other to let them escape without a shot
There were the Convention " veterans " in full numbers, save Marc
Allen of Madison, Roberts of Western Reserve and Chamberlain of
Michigan, whose chairs this time were in mourning ; the Information
Bureau was there in a body, and there were parts of the Song Book
and Quinquennial Committees, a majority of the Quarterly editors,
and four of the five members of the Executive Council; then there
were graduates of twenty years' standing and more, still as jolly as of
old ; and then there were several (the patriarch of whom was the Hon.
George W. Clarke, Union, '39,) who were boys in college at the time
the Fraternity was founded, and who were greatly pleased to hear what
a splendid condition the Fraternity was in, and to know the size of the
ball they had set rolling in college fifty years ago. These last told
many a happy reminiscence, which stirred up the hearts and the loyalty
of the younger brothers. Cheer after cheer followed the recital of the
early difficulties and triumphs of our founders. The presence of these
old graduates, though each one declined to be called '' old " and
declared he was still young, — added greatly to the enjoyment of the
evening. A large number of the chapters were represented by
graduates, and among them were Williams, Union, Madison, Hamil-
ton, Syracuse, New York, Rutgers, Lafayette, Cornell, Brown, Amherst,
Rochester, Columbia, Marietta and Western Reserve,
After the dinner Charles Evans Hughes — The inimitable " Hug-
^s"^^Brown, '8i, perpetrated his jokes, old and new, upon the
banqueters and speakers, who responded to this excellent list of
toasts.
The Fraternity, - - - - Abraham B.' Havens,
« Great souls by instinct to each other tnm : Rutgers, *82.
Demand alliance, and in friendship barn." — Addison,
Delta U. in Law, - . . Hon. Benjamin A. Willis,
"Tariff for Revenue only." UnioHy »6i.
---Old Play,
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Delta U. in Politics, ... Hon. Amos G. Hull,
<* Ring oat the ancient forms of party strife." Ukum, '40.
Ddta U. in the Ministry, ... Rev. John C. Allen,
** He watched, and wept, and prayed, and felt for alL" Madison^ '74.
— Goldsmith,
Delta U. in Medicine, ... Albert W. Ferris, M.D.,
" I am here with my little stomach pnmp." New YorJk, '78.
"-SAakespeare (Edition of 1886).
Our Founders, ... James W. Brown, M.D.,
** From the heights of happy winning, Williams, '40.
Gaze we back on hope's beginning." — Goodale,
The Last Convention, - - - - Rossiter Johnson,
" So they meet once again, and re- weave the old charm." Rochester, '63.
— Owen Meredith,
The Executive Council, - - - Otto M. Eidlitz,
" My office is purely executive." Cornell, '81.
— G, Cleveland,
Modus Operandi, - - - - Edward M. Bassett,
" And here is a boy with a three-decker brain ; Amherst, '84.
He can harness a team with a logical chain." — Holmes,
Our New Chapters, ... - William W. Weller,
" Behold the child among its new bom blisses." Lafayette, '85.
— Wordsworth,
The Ladies, - - - - - Starr J. Murphy,
" Disgaise onr bondage, as we will, Amherst, '81.
'Tis woman, woman rules ns still." — Moore,
• • • «« Here's my hand ;
And mine, with my heart in't. And now tarewell." — Shakespeare,
The speeches were all in a happy vein, and awakened intense I
enthusiasm. Hughes as Toastmaster, was all that could be desired
from such a personage. Colonel Willis was even more felicitous than
usual, and Brother Murphy, because of recent experiences, spoke
feelingly of the ladies in general and particular. Mr. Johnson was
especially happy in his response, and apropos of the results of the
'' Last Convention " and the prospects of the next one, he in closing,
read the following original verses :
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• New lamps for old 1 — and shall we have more light
On any mystery of our mortal days.
Since Eighty-five has set in endless night.
And Eighty-six has risen on our gaze
With brighter rays ?
New hopes for old desires, forgotten now.
That last year often broke oar nightly rest.
Tried the whole heart, and taxed the fnrrowed brow.
And sent the fancy nor-by-sonth-by-west.
On foolish qnest !
New blossoms for dead fruit, and sweets in hive !
This sturdy branch of Time's perennial tree,
Which counts its harvests up to eighty-five.
Must bear of golden pippins two or three.
For you and me.
New loves for hatreds dead ! Fresh fisith and strong.
For worn-out grudges and resentments old,
For all the brood of prejudice and wrong.
The petty spites and malice manifold
That now are cold.
New blood for watery Age I New brawn for youth !
Fresh heaps of fuel for Ambition's fires !
New explorations in the realms of Truth,
New songs of genius from unheard-of lyres,
And silent choirs I
New friends, perhaps — ^but old ones none the less I
New passions, possibly ; for who can tell.
What shape the passing cloud will take, or guess
What current bears him, or what tempest swell.
Bodes ill or well ?
Plant newer borders, sexton, with your spade.
But let it not disturb the quiet graves
Where aught we cherish has been sadly laid.
Where any blossom of remembrance waves
O'er Thought's dim caves.
Sweep down the cobwebs from our walls and doors,
O Bridget New- Year, with your newest broom.
What portraits of lost beauty it restores.
That glorify again our darkened room
And life resume.
CATULLUS. 1 1 1
Yoong Master Enterprise, be not so fast.
Here in onr jonmej where the ways divide
You part not altogether with the past ;
For old Experience travels by yonr side,
A friend and guide.
The menu cards were of new design and were considered to be the
handsomest ever gotten up by the Fraternity. The dinner was
a gratifying success and served to bind together more closely the
alumni in the city and elsewhere.
CARMEN XXXI OF CATULLUS-
O Sirmio, the choicest of the Isles
That Neptune, lord of lakes and sea,
Upholds in ocean vast or limpid ponds,
How glad, how willing I return to thee ;
Believing hardly that far Thunia —
Bithimian plains were lately known to me ;
That now returned to Lake Benacus' shore
Once more in safety I do look on thee.
What is more blessed than to be freed from cares ?
The mind puts by its load, and we are led
Back to our Gods ; and faint with foreign toil,
We rest upon our long desired bed.
This is the one reward for toils so great.
Hail, charming Sirmio; joy in thy lord.
And ye rejoice, ye waves of Lydian Lake,
Laugh out as much as home can well afford.
Lehigh University, George A. Ruddle,
South Bethlehem, Pa. Lehigh, '86.
112 CHAPTER NBWB—WnjJAMSi, AMHERST.
CHAPTER NEWS.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
The Sophomore preliminary moonlight contest was held March 19.
Of the five men chosen, Augustus W. Buck and Henry D. Wild were
two of the successful ones. One week later the Junior contest was
held, and John T. Baxter was a successful speaker.
William Goodyear, '87, and John T. Baxter, '87, have been elected
members of the editorial board of the ltl//iams Literary Monthly.
Herbert M. Allen, *88, and John T. Fitschen, '89, have secured a
like position on the board of the WtUiams Fortnightly,
Charles H. Perry, ^Zdy has received an appointment for the Graves
oratorical contest.
The following men have received Commencement appointments.
Arthur V. Taylor, George H. Flint, Charles H. Perry, and William M,
Marvin.
March 20, 1886.
We wish to say to the readers of the Williams Chapter letter of the
February number that there was no malicious or evil feeling whatever
in the mind of the writer, when composing the article, which was done
fully too hastily.
The implications against character in the case of two societies was
very imfortunately made, since conflicting with actual facts, and we
feel bound after consideration and reflection to disclaim those state-
ments which cast reflections upon personal character.
R. W. Kimball.
AMHERST COLLEGE.
The boys have been quite active in society work this term and have
left many permanent testimonials of their zeal. The scientific rooms
are neat and commodious, the parlors are very fine and the Chapter
doing well. Some elegant curtains have been purchased for the
parlor, which add greatly to the general attractiveness of the House.
In the last issue of the Quarterly, we announced the election of
Walter P. White and Frederic P. Johnson, '87, as two of the editors of
the new Amherst Literary Monthly, It is a pleasure to speak of two
other Delta U.'s who are to drive the quill on a college paper. Edward
B. Rogers, '87, and James Ewing, '88, have been elected editors of the
Amherst Student.
By mistake the name of Elbridge C. Whiting was forwarded to the
CHAPTER NEWS — ^AMHERST, ADELBERT, COLBY. II3
Quarterly as the Corresponding Secretary of the Amherst Chapter.
It should be Walter £. Merritt, Amherst, Mass.
On Tuesday evening, March x6, the Chapter held its winter
reception and dramatic entertainment It is the social event of the
winter term, one that is looked forward to with a great deal of expec-
tancy. |A select number of guests, friends of the Chapter, were
present. Howell's farce entitled " The Garroters," was presented in a
very creditable way. The cast of characters was as follows :
Mr. Roberts Edward B. Rogers,
Mr. Campbell WUliam F. Walker.
Dr. Lawton Frederick B. Peck.
Mr. Bemis (pere) Arthur B. Russell.
Mr. Bemis (fils) John F. Bickmore.
Mrs. Roberts Harris H. Wilder.
Mrs. Crashaw Edwin P. Gleason.
Mrs. Bemis Samuel W. Warriner.
ADELBERT COLLEGE.
John N. Weld, '86, is home on the sick list. We miss him ex-
ceedingly, and hope that he may recover in time to graduate with his
class.
George A. Wright, '87, during the winter's vacation entertained at
his home in Bellevue, Delta U.'s from eight different classes of this
college. A jolly re-union for us.
George Snyder, *SSf won first prize at the annual meeting of the
Bicycle Club of this city, March 31.
George A. Wright, '87, had the Salutatory of his class at Junior
Exhibition.
COLBY UNIVERSITY.
Randall J. Condon and Thomas J. Ramsdell, '86, were delegates
to the District Convention of the Y. M. C. A, March 20-21.
Horatio R. Dunham, *S6, was re-elected to the School Committee
of Paris, Me.
Albert M. Richardson, *S6y has taken Excellent every term he has
been in college except one. This is the highest rank attainable.
Holman F. Day, '87, has edited the ** Campus " of the college
paper, the BcAo^ during the winter in a very creditable manner.
John A. Shaw, '88, preached during the winter at Hartland, Me.,
114 CHAPTER NEWS — COLBY, ROCHESTER, MIDDLEBURY.
but left at^the opening of the spring term, much to the regret of the
church.
Freeman J. Tilton and Henry Fletcher, *88, have been chosen for
the Sophomore Prize Exhibition.
So far in '86's course Delta U. has taken all the first prizes, and
two seconds. Delta Kappa Epsilonhas taken three seconds, Zeta Psi
one, and Phi Delta Theta one, Delta U. thus getting six prizes, and
the others five. She received fifty per cent, more money in prizes
then the three other societies combined.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.
Fred. L. Cody ^S6, has been compelled by sickness to be absent
firom college for a time.
Cortland R. Myers, '87, is our new corresponding secretary for the
coming year.
We have pledged one man in the class of '90. Frank French,
brother of Robert T. French, Amherst^ '84. Our prospects for a good
delegation in '90 are fair.
Delta U., in '*%^^ has taken every first prize offered in the course
so far.
Our hall on State Street has been newly papered in handsome
style. A new carpet and some new futnitiure help to make the hall
more attractive.
We have lately received an invitation to the initiatory banquet of
the Albany Alumni Association. We heartily endorse the formation of
such associations, for we see the good that may come out of one such
as we have here.
Many Delta U.'s must pass through Rochester in their travels in
the course of the year. We invite all who can to stop and make us a
visit. We, too, like the notion of visiting the different chapters, but
we see too little of our near neighbors at Syracuse, Cornell, Hamilton,
and Madison.
MIDDLSBURY COLLEGE.
At '86*s Class Supper, held February 22, at Brandon, Vt., Marvin
H. Dana was toast-master, and Henry L. Bailey historian. Charles
Billings responded very happily to the toast — << The Mental Inertia
of 'Z(>:'
The Sophomore class supper was also held at Brandon, February 2.
CHAPTER NEWS — MIDDLEBURY, RUTGERS, MARIETTA. IIS
«
Srother Cooledge was poet, and Brothers Clift, Cooledge, and
Hazen responded to toasts, Brother Hazen's, on '89, being reported as
the best effort of the evening.
The University of Vermont, and Lewis and Middlebury Colleges,
have formed a Vermont State Intercollegiate Base Ball League. How
Delta IT. will be represented on the Middlebury team is not known
yet, but we are certain that one, and perhaps two of our men will be
elected to the team.
Henry N. Winchester, '87, and Burton J. Hazen, *^, will be
editors of the Undergraduate ; the college paper, for the ensuing year.
RUTGERS COLLEGE.
'86. Lewis B. Chamberlain, Peter Stillwell, and George P. Morris,
are three of the six debaters in the approaching Inter-Society Debate.
The first two for " Philo," and the latter for " Peitho."
Frank J. Sagendorph, '87, is President of the Peithosophian Literary
Society.
Willard A. Heacock, *88, has left college and re-entered the Rutgers
Grammar School, devoting his time solely to the classics, having taken
the scientific course before.
MARIETTA COLLEGE.
These are the days of " spring dections," collegiate as well as muni-
cipal, and the following is a list of the offices now held, or to be held
next term by Delta U.'s :
In Psi Gamma Literary Society, President, Vice-President, Secre-
tary, Critic ; in Alpha Klappa, Vice-President. Each of these societies
.owns a library of about five thousand volumes, and the four librarians
a chief and an assistant for each library — are all Delta U. men.
While we do not consider the Y. M. C. A. a field for college
politics, the fact that we have the Corresponding Secretary and five
men on standing committees will show the position we occupy there.
On the Olio editorial board, the college paper, we have three
members, and on the Mariettiany the Sophomore annual, we have two.
The class offices which our men hold, are as follows :
'86, President, Vice-President ; '87, President, Secretary, Treasurer;
^88, President, Field-Captain, Treasurer; '89, Field-Captain.
Il6 CHAPTER NEWS — ^NORTHWESTERN.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
Among the " Medics " who celebrated " University Day " at
Evanston, February 22, was Charles H. Plummer, '84. He took his
sheepskin this Commencement.
We were favored with a visit from George F. Holt, Rochester^ '85,
a few days ago. He is attending the Morgan Park Theological
Seminary.
The boys are agitating the subject of purchasing a new piano for
the hall. We trust that this much desired instrument will soon be
procured.
Robert I. Fleming, ^%(i^ represents Delta U. on the Board of literary
editors of the college annual, The Syllabus^ and Oscar Middlekaufi^
'88, is our representative on the Board of business managers.
Charles Brand, '87, who left college at the beginning of the winter
term, has returned after bur3ring his mother, on account of whose ill-
health he left. He ir^ take his place on the Debate Contest, which
comes off on the 9th of April.
Robert I. Fleming, '86, has left for his home in Hannibal, Mo.,
to take a short vacation, hoping thus to recuperate his failing health.
The Fraternities and Soroses are expecting to indulge in a Pan-
Hellenic banquet some time in May.
On Thursday evening, February 25, occurred the sixth anniver-
sary banquet of the Northwestern Chapter at the Avenue House,
Evanston. About twenty-five couple partook of the menu, which was
bountiful, elegant, and served in the most approved style. Besides
the active members of the chapter, a few of the alumni were present
Peter D. Middlekauflf, '82 ; the Rev. P. H. Swift, of the Court St.
M. E. Church, Rockford, 111. ; the Rev. Olin H. Cady, '83 ; and the
Rev. Wilbur F. Atchison, '84. The occasion was one of unalloyed
enjoyment, and the time was spent in singing, conversation, feasting,
and listening to the eloquent toasts. Wilbur F. Atchison presided as
toast-master, and announced the following toasts : " Our Anniver-
sary," responded to by Robert I. Fleming, '86; "The Chapter,"
Columbus Bradford, '88; "Our Foundation," P. H. Swift, '81; "The
Ladies," Hugh D. Atchison, '87 ;." The Goat," R. H. Holden, '89.
The affair was pronounced a grand success by the ladies present and
all concerned.
CHAPTER NEWS — ^NORTHWESTERN, HARVARD. 11/
The chapter is in a prosperous condition. We have not a man in
the chapter of whom we are not justly proud, which in our opinion is
a very happy condition of a&irs, for nothing is more humiliating and
unlucky than to be constantly compelled to apologize for and cover
up the mistakes of some imworthy brother.
The influence of the principles advocated by Delta Upsflon have
had a marked efiect upon the fraternities of this University.
The fraternities never stood in such friendly relations to each other
as at present, and our chslpter, by a studied course of courtesy, charity
and unselfishness, has not only made no enemies, but has won the
respect and friendship of both Greeks and barbarians.
I think I am safe in saying that we are a congenial chapter, and
enjoy each other's society. At the same time we try to so conduct
ourselves as not to merit the imputation that we are clannish and
political "schemers." Our literary programmes have been success-
fully carried out this term, and have been profitable. They usually
consist of a reading or declamation, an essay and a debate. Skill in
extemporaneous speaking is what we are aU trying to cultivate most,
and I think we have made considerable progress in that line. Our
future is pleasing, and we intend to make our fraternity life a means
of greater profit than ever. The Quarterly has many friends in
Evanstown.
HARVARD COLLEGE.
What think you of our colored waiter ? Never again will it be
the lot of Tom, Dick, or Harry to flourish the ladle that feeds a hungry
host, while with heavy heart he watches the ice-cream vanishing like
snow in the spring sunshine ; for he has resigned his oflice and joined
the aforesaid host.
Several of our new initiates are skillful musicians of one sort or
another.
We have formed a quartet, and a Delta U. base-ball nine is our latest
creature.
At last there is definite talk of lighting the Harvard Library with
electricity. Within a year or two we hope to see our trouble at an
end.
Il8 CHAPTER NEWS — HARVARD.
We have the very best of news to report to the Fraternity. The
first mountain-top of our existence has been passed, and there is no
longer the least possibilty of a relapse on our part. For we are now
snugly housed in a cosy little hall of our own, beyond the reach of in-
quisitive proctors, or other busy-bodies. We have reason to fed
proud, and it is safe to say that every man of us does feel as proud as
his waistcoat buttons will permit.
What a time we did have the night of the opening. The chapter
turned out in full force, and besides the immediate members a num-
ber of our alumni were present, giving a touch of the reunion spirit to
the occasion. To make our *' time " complete, Mr. Edward £. Atkin-
son, Browny '79, our ever-welcome foreign resident (jocosely speaking),
peeped in on us just at the right moment, and, as usual, sent a thrill
of enthusiasm through us all. Our greetings and chit-chat were
noticeably warmer than ever before, and, indeed, everything that was
said or done was marked by a spontaneity gratifying to see, all on
account of the home-like spirit of comfort that has already spread its
warmth over our handsome hall. Pleasant associations have begun
there, and we can now look forward in serene expectation of tasting
some of the best fruits of our Fraternity. No society in College is
more homogeneous, happier, or blessed with a brighter future than
the Harvard Chapter of Delta U.
A word or two in detail may not be uninteresting. The hall is
well carpeted and furnished. An excellent upright piano stands in
one comer, while overhead a beautiful chandelier hangs gracefully from
the dome-shaped ceiling. A library will be started immediately, in
which we mean to make prominent the Delta U. publications in gen-
eral, and in particular the works of all our men who may hereafter find
anything attractive in the oceans of ink yet to be.
The opening night was especially memorable, because of the
initiation of six new men. They are: Edgar Buckingham, ^87, New-
ton, Mass.; Augustus Story Haskell, '87, West Roxbury, Mass.;
George Herman Tuttle, '87, Concord, Mass.; James Alderson Bailey,
^Z%y Arlington, Mass.; Maxime B6cher, *88, Cambridge, Mass.; Edward
Campbell Mason, ^ZZ^ Arlington, Mass.
Mr. Bdcher is the son of our most popular professors, who is at the
head of the French department. The other new members, previously
initiated, are : Selwyn Lewis Harding, '86, Cambridge, Mass.; John
Rice Eldridge, '87, Milford, Mass.
CHAPTER NEWS — HARVARD, WISCONSIN. II9
Alter the initiations Bickford, '85. explained the significance of the
Fraternity, emphasizing the fiurt of its superiority over all purely local
societies. His speech was heard with marked attention.
Frank G. Cook, one of the charter members, then told of the birth
of the chapter, and ended by warmly congratulating us on our pros-
pects. Brother Atkinson followed with an earnest speech on the per-
manence of the benefits to be derived firom Delta U. After the
speeches a special literary entertaiimient was given, pleasantly inter-
spersed with music on the piano and banjo. We are fortunate in hav-
ing among our number Bertram Henry, '86, the Class-day chorister.
He is by far the most promising and original student of music we have
in the college, and his excellent taste furnishes us with no end of en-
joyable " concord of sweet sounds."
A very tunely and beneficial bit of the entertainment was the read-
ing of congratulatory letters firom the Hon. Benjamin A. WiUis, Unian^
'61 ; Frederick M. Crossett, the Quarterly editor; Otto M. Eidlitz,
Cornell^ '81, Chairman of the Executive Council; Victor C. Alderson,
Harvardy '85, now in Indiana ; and a warm letter fit)m each of the fol-
lowing chapters : Amherst^ Brawn and Rochester, Each communica-
tion was received with genuine applause, showing that they all went to
the right spot. The brotherly sympathy expressed in them did much
to impress us that the Fraternity is a living thing, and that its influence
extends over a wide area.
Last of all came the spread, served up by ^ni^r colored waiter, followed
by a rattling attack on the coUege songs.* Few Monday nights have
ever had the honor of dating a merrier time than ours. Baby Tues-
day had rubbed his eyes three times, and had began to feel suggestive
growing pains, long before we turned out the lights and tinned in —
to bed«
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.
The Wisconsin Chapter cannot boast of a large membership, but
she yields to her sister chapters in no other respect We feel the Fra-
ternity tie as much, look for the Quarterly as eagerly, enjoy our
meetings as greatly as any of you. Nor do we think we are behind
in the quality of our men. One has been Junior Orator and Joint De-
bater ; probably the highest positions a student can fill ; another is one
of the editors of the college paper, and has been President of the
Champion Literary Society ; a third is now Vice-President of the
same Society ; a fourth is in the Glee Club and delivered one of the
120 CHAPTER NEWS — WISCONSIN.
two orations presented at our last College Rhetoricals. In the class-
room, too, I think we can at least say that we compete well with oth-
ers. As to our prospects for more men, I will at present say nothing
farther than that we expect to be able to make some announcements
soon. •
Let us look among our neighbors. On account of some antedi-
luvian quarrels, Phi Delta Theta is not recognized by the other secret
societies ; she does not appear to grieve over it, however, but continues
to live. In the upper classes she has some very strong men ; her
lower classes are not so large or so strong. She has in all about eight
men.
Beta Theta Pi has had good men and has some now, but is not
prominent in any direction. She has seven men. Phi Kappa Psi
leads in college society ; her men consider themselves the cream of
the earth. She has some strong men, and is of good size, having
about fifteen members. Chi Psi has had some strong men, particu-
larly in the class of 1885 ; at present, however, she is not noticeable
in that direction, although her members are pleasant fellows. She
numbers about seven. Sigma Chi was established in 1884, and has
seven men ; she is noticeable in no direction.
The ladies' fraternities have three representatives here. Eappa
Kappa Gamma, with a membership of about nine, is noted chiefly for
scholarship. Delta Gamma, with about sixteen ladies, deservedly oc-
cupies a high position both in social circles and as scholars. Gamma
Phi Beta, with, I think, nine ladies, was established only this Fall, and
as yet occupies no particular field, but has good prospects.
The University, as a whole, is prospering. The buildings to re-
place the one destroyed by fiire are being pushed, and two are already
^nished.
We have sustained some severe losses in our Faculty by the re-
moval of Professors Trelease, Cornell and Holden, and will sustain a
still heavier one in the resignation of our President, Dr. Bascom.
Fortunately, however, this resignation does not take effect till June,
1887. The Spring vacation is at hand — and examinations, too.
A few little " spats " with the Regents and the Professor of Mili-
tary Science are all that have broken the monotony of the term for the
students as a whole.
CHAPTER NEWS — LAFAYETTE, COLUMBIA. 121
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.
The chapter is prosperous and in good working order. We expect
all of our men in *S6 to have speeches on Commencement. Brother
Joseph C. Harvey, ^86^ has been elected " Orator " on Class Day,
Brother William E. Henkell, '86, " Mantle Orator," and Brother Wil-
liam P. Officer, *S6f Valedictorian in the Franklin Literary Society.
Brother James P. Wilson, '87, is one of the four chosen to represent
the Washington Literary Society in the coming Junior Oratorical
Contest.
'87's Melange^ our college«annual, will be issued very shortly. Our
three men who were members of the Board of Editors have been very
active in its publication.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
The re-union of the New York Alumni Association has passed, and
we certainly have no need to feel other than proud of our representation
on that occasion. Eleven of our members were present, and we occu-
pied a not inconsiderable part of one side of the table. To many of us
a new insight was given into the true spirit of our Fraternity, and we
returned home filled with a glorious enthusiasm to do our utmost in
behalf of our Chapter and the Fraternity as a whole. The presence of
aged men, taking an active part and evidently full of zeal for Delta U.,
caused us to realize the fact that membership in a good firatemity is
not merely a pleasure or a benefit incident to college life, but a privi-
lege that is deeply felt and appreciated throughout life.
The interest in our Chapter meetings has been lately very much in-
creased by the institution of an informal discussion on some leading
question of the day. We have not thought it best to make the literary
exercises compulsory, as there are connected with the college three
flourishing literary societies, in some one of which the most of us are
members. In the discussions that we have had, almost all the mem-
bers present have participated, and a strong interest in the subjects
has been manifested.
Our most formidable rival at the college is Phi Gamma Delta, be.
cause that society tries, as we do, to obtain representative and worthy
men. But with renewed activity, and stronger efforts, we see no rea-
son why we shall not in the future occupy a leading position among
the fraternities at Columbia.
122 CHAPTER NEWS — LEHIGH, ROMANZA.
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY.
The class of *SS held their annual supper on Friday evening, March
5. The Freshmen, wishing to have some fun and to give the Sopho-
mores a good appetite, visited them early in the evening. After a
skirmish with the Freshmen, about forty Sophomores sought the
dining-room about midnight. Brother Luther R. Zollinger, the class
president, made a short speech, and then the class sat down and en-
joyed a good supper. Brother Zollinger was toast-master, and Brother
Harlan S. Miner responded to the toast, "The Class." The speeches
were good, and the class enjoyed themselves very much.
The winter meeting of the Athletic Association was held March
27, at the gymnasium. The exercises consisted of fencing, jumping,
vaulting, sparring, etc. The tug-of-war between Sophomores and
Freshmen was very exciting. The Freshman team obtained a start at
the drop, and held it until the end. There were five contestants in
the spring-board jump. Brother Otway O. Terrell was the winner.
He jumped eight feet and four inches, breaking the cbllege record by
four inches, for which he received a special prize. In the high kick
the college record was broken, the kicker having reached the height
of eight feet and seven inches. The sparring was the last on the pro-
gramme, and was the most interesting. The sparring of the light-
weights was the closest contest, and was declared a draw at the end
of three rounds ; at the end of the fourth round Brother Robert L.
Whitehead was declared the winner. All the sparring was good, and
the entire meeting was quite successful.
ROMANZA- STAN ZA SECOND.
{See page 54 of the Delta Upsilon Song Book,)
Oh, how their mellow chimes,
Recall the happy times
Of former years, of other days—
The days so long gone by,
When future ills were wrapped in haze
And loved ones still were nigh.
But hark ! the bells do sing,
In words low whispering
" Those days shall come again to thee
in sweet eternity."
Marietta College, Edward B. Haskell,
Marietta, O. Marietta, '87,
GREEK LETTER GOSSIP.
Gamma Phi Beta has established her third chapter at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin.
The Chapters of Alpha Tau Omega at Washington and Lee Uni-
versity and the Stevens Institute of Technology are dead.
The DePauw Monthly says that a new ladies fraternity called
Omega Tau Chi has been founded at the Ohio University, Athens
Ohio.
Delta Kappa Epsilon has revived, with twenty men, its old Psi
Chapter at the University of Alabama, which was in existence during
The Alpha Delta Phi Star and Crescent has been suspended since
June, 1885. It is hoped that it will be able to resume publication
again this fall.
Beta Theta Pi has established a chapter in the Ohio State Univer-
sity at Columbus, Ohio. A local society known as Phi Alpha being
used as the stepping stone.
The Chapter of Sigma Phi at Union College is composed of one
member, a junior. Poor boy! and, by the way, he is probably the Pooh
Bah of the Greek letter world.
In order to make its chapter roll look longer, and more imposing
in college annuals, Sigma Phi prints the names of chapters that have
been deceased over thirty years.
Iota of Chi Psi, at the University of Wisconsin, lives in a rented
frame house, which she calls a chapter house. There is nothing
noticeable about it except a few broken panes of glass.
Theta Nu Epsilon is in full bloom at Amherst — ^in fact, quite as
blooming as the noses of its members are. It is understood to be
causing considerable annoyance to some of the " Greeks."
There was a rumor of the establishment at the University of Wis-
consin of a chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. A committee from Michigan
visited the university, but it has thus far amounted to nothing.
Delta Psi has recently established a chapter at Lehigh University.
Very little can be ascertained concerning it. The editors of the col-
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lege annual, the Epitome^ report that only two or three names have
been given them as members of the chapter.
Phi Delta Theta intends in the near future to publish a manual con-
taining a general sketch of fraternities an account of Phi Delta Theta,
with a list of the chapters, undergraduate statistics and prominent
members, and a short description of the colleges at which she has
chapters — Phi Gamma Delta Quarterly,
A new catalogue of the members of the great Phi Kappa Psi
college fraternity is in process of compilation. It will be one of the
most extensive and thorough pieces of cataloguing work ever done by
any college organization — New York Telegram,
The above is a sample of fraternity news found in newspapers.
The Alpha Tau Omega Palm^ says Beta Theta Pi is dead at Har-
vard. A Delta U. who recently visited Cambridge, reports that he saw
the Beta Theta Pi and Delta Kappa Epsilon arms pinned together on a
door in a room in Matthews Hall. The occupant (the catcher of the
Harvard base ball nine), said he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon
and Beta Theta Pi. The chapter has the names of twelve Seniors and
Juniors on its rolls, so we don't think Beta Theta Pi is dead in the sense
to which our exchange refers.
The enormous endowment, large number of students, and rapidly
growing reputation as a thoroughly first-class university, has attracted
the attention of the fraternity world to the Lehigh University as an
extremely desirable home for a chapter. Since Delta U. established
her chapter there last fall. Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Nu, and Delta
Psi have succeeded in founding chapters. Alpha Delta Phi and Delta
Kappa Epsilon are accredited with having recently investigated the
field, but they have probably found it too well occupied now to start
chapters.
The college fraternity is a Cincinnati of educated men, and it is
often regarded with the same kind of feeling which assailed the
old association of revolutionary comrades. Like that, it has a great
tradition. Like that, it is full of proud and tender memories. Like
that, it meets to refresh its recollections, and by that meeting to enrich
and enoble life. The singing roisterers in the smoky hall, whose bright
banter and gay chaff are 5ie charm of the college dinners, carry from
the table the blessing they do not always ask. They renew their con-
sciousness of the higher ideals that brood over the mercenary strife, the
contest of money making, and mean motives, and low ambitions. Yes
the tradition of college is good-fellowship, but good-fellowship in an
intellectual air and amid scholarly associations. To cherish it is to remem-
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ber not only that you are a member of that fraternity, that you wear
its blue or red ribbon, its collar or cross, its star or garter, but that it
lays an obligation upon you, an obligation of honor not to be shaken off.
The College clubs which have sprung up so suddenly and naturally
in the city — which is metropolitan at least in the sense of coUtctimg
citizens from the whole country — and the pleasant dinnen widi which
they celebrate themselves, continue the good woak of the college, not
by extending a knowledge of Greek and Malbematics, in which every
college man is ^x-oficu? already profickfltt, but by strengthening loyalty
to manly aims and stimulaJing generous sympathies. — Harpers
Magazine for May.
Some of the exchange editors of the fraternity magazines, in their
efforts to make their departments seem fresh, and not show any assist-
ance from other magazines, do not credit an item when it is copied,
but place it boldly in their columns as Simon pure original matter.
This often proves a trap to some luckless individual who has just
taken hold of the exchange department of his fraternity magazine. He,
in the innocence of his inexperience and limited knowledge of Greek
matters, seizes upon the item as a gem of the first water and incorpo-
rates it in the next issue of his paper. An instance of this occurs in an
exchange just at hand, in which the editor blandly informs us that '' Psi
Upsilon has established a chapter at Lehigh University." So she has,
and those of us who are ancient enough, with a hard struggle, can
recall that the said chapter was installed there over two years ago —
namely February 22, 1884.
Other editors are more refined and considerate of their shears, when
they see an item that pleases a particular fancy of theirs, they do not
cut it out bodily, but perhaps only take a part of it and add some
knowledge of their own. The favorite method however is to work the
item over and to give it a sort of I-knew-this-before-you flavor. But
to the writer who originally started the news on its perambulations it
doesn't make a particle of difference how much it is worked over.
The minute his eye falls on it he instinctively recognizes it as some-
thing his brain has produced or his energies gathered, and he is inclined
to refer rather harshly to the cribbing editor.
Moral : Don't try to live on other's capital without paying interest.
126 ALUMNI NOTES — WILLIAMS.
ALUMNI OF DELTA U-
It is intended to make this department as far as possible a supplement
to the Quinquennial Catalogue, which was published in 1884, and with this
object in view alumni and friends of the Fraternity are earnestly requested
to send to Robert James Eidlitz, 123 East Seventy-second Street, New
York, the Editor of this department, items of interest concerning mem-
bers of the Fraternity, changes of address, etc.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
'41. Alvin Devereux, of Deposit, N. Y., was a merchant and manufac-
turer of leather until 1884, when he gave up the latter business and devoted
himself entirely to the former. He was a Presidential Elector in 1884.
'42. The Rev. James Brewer is still in Gladbrook, Iowa, but has been
without a pastoral charge for the past two years.
'42. George R. En tier, Ph.D., a well know linguist and German student,
died recently at his home at Franklin, N. Y.
'43. The Hon. Luther W. Savage, of East Springfield, Pa., is at present
the Auditor of Erie County. He has also held the offices of justice of the
peace and of superintendent of schools in that county.
'43. Samuel E. Warner has been Assistant Secretary of the American
Tract Society since 1844, and is now the editor of the Illustrated Christian
Weekly, His home address is 98 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
'46. John C. Clegg taught in Worthington, Mass., in 1846, and
in the fall of that year went to London, where he taught schooL After
a short time he went to Versailles, France, to teach English, and in 1848 to
Germany, as a teacher of English and correspondent of newspapers. He
has contributed to the Newark Daily Advertiser^ the Boston Transcript ^
and the New York Herald, He was private secretary to the Hon. C. J.
McCurdy, U. S. Minister to Germany, at Vienna, 1850-52, and in 1852
returned to New York, where he has since practiced law. For several years
past he has been a school trustee of the loth Ward. His present address
is 305 Broome Street, New York, N. Y.
'46. The Hon. James H. Tuthill, formerly a member of the New York
State Legislature, is practicing law at Riverhead. He has been surrogate
of Suffolk County, N. Y., since January, 1880.
*47, The Hon. David A. Wells, LL.D., D.C.L., is the author of the
leading article in the April issue of the Popular Science Monthly, It is
entitled "An Economic Study of Mexico."
'49. Corydon W. Higgins received appointment for Junior Exhibition.
He studied for the ministry and was pastor of the Presbyterian church at
East Avon, N. Y,, 1853-55. From there he went to Spencer, N. Y.,
where he preached for three years, and thence to Newfield, N. Y. , where
he occupied the pulpit of the Presbyterian church 1858-65. His next
charges were Big Flats, where he remained one year, and then two years
at Cottage Grove, Wis. From 1868 to 1880 he preached at Osborn, Mo.,
ALUMNI NOTES — WILLIAMS, UNION. 12/
and since the latter date has been the proprietor of the Caldwell County
Sentinel, of Kingston, Mo., his present address.
'50. William D. Porter is Treasurer of the National Temperance
Society and Publishing House, with offices it 58 Reade Street, New York,
'54. H. Clay Merritt is a wholesale dealer in poultry and game at
Kewanee, 111.
'54. The articles appearing from time to time in The Ckurchmany giving
important details of churches in New York and Brooklyn, with views of
the church buildings, and presenting sketches of the rectors, illustrated
by portraits, are prepared by the Rev. Robert B. Snowden, who has
been a writer on The Churchman for about ten years.
'57. Robert E. McMath, C.E., who has been Commissioner of Sewers
at St. Louis, Mo., for the past three years, read an able paper on "The
Future Drainage of St. Louis," before the Engineer's Club of that city on
February 3.
'57. Horace H. Wells began teaching in Ball Seminary at Hoosic Falls,
N. Y., and in 1858 entered the Law school at New Haven, Conn. Later
he studied at the Albany Law school, from which he received his diploma
in the spring of i860. He began practicing law in Huntington, L. I., during
the same year, and died there of typhus fever, August 23, 1863.
'63. Professor Leveret t W. Spring, of Kansas University, will resign
the chair of English Literature in that institution to accept a similar posi-
tion in WUliams College.
UNION COLLEGE.
'40. John J. Tyler, formerly a lawyer at 82 Nassau Street, New York,
died recenty.
'47. William F. Hickock, ^ B E, a lawyer, died at Cincinnati, Ohio,
about 1880.
'48. The Rev. James M. Smeallie entered the ministry of the United
Presbyterian Church after graduation. His first charge was at Birmingham,
Mich., and the next at Kortright, N. Y., which he left to take the princi-
palship at Andes, N. Y., left vacant by the death of his brother Peter,
Union, '53. He died in September, 1868.
'49. Abel Merchant, * B K, was a vice-president of the Fraternity, and
while in college published the Fraternity paper, the Ouden Adelon, He
was a commencement orator. Since graduation he has resided in Nassau,
N. Y. He was president of the Nassau, Schodack & Chatham Mutual In-
surance Association, 1857-65, and has been Secretary of the Association
since. He is President of the Board of Trustees of Nassau Academy and
Secretary and Treasurer of the Nassau and Schodack Cemetery Associa-
tion. Besides holding these numerous offices, Brother Merchant is the
executor and adminstrator of several estates, and is insurance agent of the
Home Insurance Compa^iy of New York. He is also President of the
Nassau Library Association, and for the eleven years preceding 1879 was
a director of the bank of Castleton, N. Y. He has written for local papers
and also a review of a book on " Ensilage."
128 ALUMNI NOTES — UNION, HAMILTON.
'53. Peter Smeallie, <^ B K, was in Jackson, Miss., for a year or two, and
in 1855 assumed the principalship of the Johnstown, N. Y., Academy,
which is the oldest incorporated academy west of Albany. He filled this
position satisfactorily, and while at Johnstown was licensed as a minister by
the United Presbyterian Church. He never devoted himself exclusively to
the ministry, and in 1864 became principal of the Andes, N. Y., Academy,
over which he presided until he died February 4, 1867, aged 38. His
brother, James M. Smeallie (now deceased), was also a member of the
Union Chapter.
'53. John Hargnett Miller practiced law at Springfield and Nashville,
Tennessee, and died between the years 1861 and 1865.
'54. Dr. Philo G. Valentine, formerly of the St. Louis Medical College,
is dead.
'57. Joseph B. McChesney, ^ B E, has been teaching since graduation,
and for the past sixteen years has been principal of the Oakland High
School. He is at present a trustee of the Public Library. His address is
1364 Franklin Street, Oakland, Cal.
'58. The Rev. Henry A. Buttz, D.D. LL.D., President of the Drew
Theological Seminary, delivered an address before the Newark Methodist
Episcopal Conference at Jersey City, N. J., on April 2, 1886.
'58. Charles P. Shaw b a prominent railroad lawyer in New York City.
His address is 206 Broadway.
'64. The Hon. Anson D. Fessenden has been a manufacturer of cooper-
age and wooden- ware in Townsend, Mass., since leaving college, and is in-
terested in branch houses at Reed's Ferry and Londonderry, N. H., San-
dusky, O., and Grand Haven, Mich. He was a member of the Massachu-
setts Assembly in 1865 and a State Senator in 1880-81. He enlisted
October 17, 1862, while a Junior in college, as First Lieutenant of Co.
" D," 53d, Mass. Vols., and was promoted to Captain, May 25, 1863, 9th
Regiment, Department of the Gulf, 19th Army Corps. Siege of Port
Hudson.
'72. William B. McMeehan is practicing law very successfully in Kansas
City, Mo.
'85. W. Harlow Munsell is with the New York Central Sleeping Car
Co. Address, Room 9, Exchange St. Depot, Buffalo, N. Y.
HAMILTON COLLEGE.
'53. The Rev. Edward P. Powell recently delivered a lecture before the
Chicago Philosophical Society on, " Some Things Evolution Has Under
Control. " Brother Powell delivered some lectures in New York City the first
week in April. During the past year he has given a course of lectures on
evolution throughout many of the largest cities of the West.
'57. On the day of prayer for colleges, the Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.D.,
of the Bethany Church, Philadelphia, Pa., delivered three addresses at
Princeton College, to large and attentive audiences. At 10.30 A. M. he ad-
dressed the seminary students, and at 3. P.M. and 7.30 p.m. the undergrad-
uates. From the Boston Watchman, we find that Brother Pierson yearns to
see *' a fair, honest trial of a church organized and administered on the simple
ALUMNI NOTES — HAMILTON. I29
scriptural model, a church controlled neither by the men nor the maxims
of this world ; in which disciples shall dare a severe simplicity of work and
worship, without even an attempt at secular attractions in preaching or
praying, singing or playing, architecture or art ; where, from first to last,
everything shall exalt God ; where there shall be no fairs or festivals, Sunday
school libraries, or Sunday school picnics ; where there should be neither
salaried ministers nor rented pews ; where the Gospel should be preached
as free as the air of heaven or the water of the springs. Not because these
things are in themselves wrong, but because they argue a lack of faith in
God and a wordly policy corrupting our church life. We try all these
things to draw and hold the people, and, with them all, we have hard
work, because these are not God's methods. The spirit of the world
secularizes the church, and takes away its separate character, and
God's Holy Spirit is grieved. The power which alone is the sign by
which the church is to be marked and to conquer, is withdrawn."
The Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.D., of Philadelphia, in the HomiUHc
RevieTv^ says, " F. W. Robertson's * dumb poet* used to stand at the win-
dow during a thunder storm, gaze intensely into the clouds, thrill with ex-
citement as the thunder rolled away, sinking from a cannon's roar to faint
murmur, and then exclaim, ** That's what I mean." We sometimes give
undue proportions of our educational training to the discipline of the think-
ing faculty, while the speaking faculty is neglected; and so, many a
thought, well conceived, never comes to the birth, or, if at all, only with a
very imperfect, awkward, ungraceful incarnation. Let us try to perfect the
divine oil of speech ; as Hobbes said, the difference between animal and man
is rationale et oratumale,
'61. The Rev. William Walcot Wetmore, of Plymouth, Mich., has
accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church in Jonesvillc, Mich.
'61. The Hon. Albert L. Childs and wife returned a few weeks ago from
a trip to Des Moines, Iowa He will remain at Waterloo for a short time
and then will remove to that city. He likes the West very much and says
business is good.
'68. The Hon. Henry Randall Waite, Ph. D., has lately been chosen
president of the American Institute of Civics, under which The Citizen^ a
new but already widely known paper, is published. This paper is perhaps
second to none in furnishing that sort of information which a young man
most needs on entering into public life. It discusses the questions of the
day in a fair manner, taking no extreme views on either side, and leaves the
reader to draw his own conclusions. Thus a young man gets a moderate idea
of the living questions of our country, without being biased by party spirit.
Mr. Waite says, in his letter of acceptance — ** To be a means of inspira-
tion to such thought ; and to place its results in suitable forms, within
easy reach of the adult citizens of the Republic, and the youth who are
so soon to be clothed with the powers of citizenship— this, as I understand
it, is the aim of this Institute. In accomplishing this high aim, I am en-
couraged to believe that it will command the deserved co-operation of the
earnest and thoughtful men in all parts of the land, whose patriotic im-
pulses lead them to desire that exaltation of the national life which begins
in the life of the individual, who, with a full appreciation of the high powers
and privileges which are the coronet of manhood, he resolves to bring to
the coronet a manhood worthy of its crowning."
130 ALUMNI NOTES — HAMILTON.
'69. Among the noted contributors to Tke Citizen is Professor Francis
M. Burdicky Dean of the Maynard Law School of Hamilton College.
'70. Henry C. Maine, the only American among the four winners of
Warner prizes for essays on red sunsets, is a member of the editorial staff of
the Rochester, N. Y., Democrat and Chronicle, In the columns of that and
other papers he has for the last three years vigorously advanced the idea
that an intimate relation exists between solar storms and terrestial weather.
'70. The Rev. George R. Smith, of Canandaigua, has accepted a call to
become pastor of the Presbyterian church at Campbellstown, N. Y., and
began his labors there March x.
'77. At the meeting of the State Association of Teachers, held at Sara-
toga Springs last July, Superintendent George .Griffith, of Lockport, N.
Y., read a valuable paper on ** The Examining Teachers." He summar-
ized his conclusions in these words : " There is a necessity for the Normal
training of teachers. In this training I find many agencies at work, all
needed and each having its special work, which it, better than any other
agency, can accomplish. As to what this training should embrace and
how it should be carried on, I find wide diversity of opinion. To awaken
thought, to help toward some future construction of a complete system, I
submit the results of my study and experience in this field. My main
statement is that, in the training of teachers, we should follow more closely
the analogy of what we consider good teaching of children. To do this,
we should (i) tell those in training nothing we can lead them to discover
for themselves. (2) We should study the special needs of the teachers
and suit our instructions to those needs. (3) We should strive to give them
power rather than patterns. (4) We should dogmatize less and inquire
more. (5) We should develop principles of teaching and train the teacher
to apply these in testing and modifying old and in devising new methods.
(6) We should leave with them some definite and specific methods for
teaching the common branches. (7) We should lead them to realize how
important it is that the teachers should have the skill to observe and guide
the workings of the individual pupil's mind. (8) We should teach some-
thing of educational history and school law, and much of school economy.
(9) We should inspire them with a deep sense of responsibility and nobil-
ity of the teacher's work. (10) Finally, we should never fail to supple-
ment this theoretical training by an extended course of observation and
practice teaching under competent and immediate supervision and crit-
icism."
'78. Charles B. Hawkins, who was for six years prior to 1882 in the dry
goods business in Fairport and Rochester, N. Y., has been since that date
with De Land & Company of Fairport, N. Y. He was a member of the
class of '78, and not '79, as stated in the Quinquennial Catalogue.
'78. Professor Eugene W. Lyttle is associate principal of the Pingry
School of Elizabeth, N. J. During the summer vacation he is director of
"Camp Leatherstocking " on Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, N. Y. The
object of the camp is to provide a healthful out-door life for boys during
the school vacation and at the same time cultivate correct habits of obser-
vation and study. The camp opens July 7, and closes September 7,
1886. His present address is 33 Broad Street, Elizabeth, N. J.
'79. The Rev. B. Fay Mills, pastor of the West Rutland, Vt., Con-
gregational Church, has been engaged in evangelistic work all winter, and
. ALUMNI NOTES — HAMILTON, AMHERST. 131
has now resigned his pastorate, to give his whole attention to this new
work.
'83. President Edward Newton Jones delivered the opening address of
the Saratoga County Teachers' Association, held at Saratoga Springs,
January 29, 1886.
'85. Edmund J. Wager, who is studying law in New York, has changed
his address from 12 Chambers Street to in Broadway, with Beekman &
Ogden.
AMHERST COLLEGE.
'48. Miron J. Hazeltine, a charter member of the chapter, lately wrote :
** I received the circular in re of our prized Quarterly, and am highly
pleased to note the position of assured permanence it now announces. I
think the idea a very happy one to hurry off the numbers of the now
opening volume, and bring about the commencement of future volumes at
the opening of the college year. Now I feel that the Quarterly is the sur-
est bond of union, the most genial channel of sympathy, and best outward
type of active brotherhood that can be devised to bind our alumni and
undergraduates into a constantly increasing feeling of brotherhood in senti-
ment and action. I know it has revived and expanded my interest in
Delta Upsilon and its Brotherhood as nothing else could have done. Every
new number is a link in a constantly lengthening and brightening chain.
I found our principles good and true in college ; I find them good and true
in life. Still, I would not for a moment advocate extending our bonds of
noH-secresy beyond college. That questioii was wisely settled. As to the
request for literary contributions, I hardly think I can respond acceptably.
I occupy much of my leisure time pursuing studies of my own — have taken
up Sanscrit, for instance — and my editorial work is a constant and severe
tax. On the 3d of February I entered upon the thirty-second year of
consecutive service as a chess editor, a record few, in these modem days of
change, can show."
*55. Professor William L. Montague, who edited the ** Biographical
Record of the Alumni and Non-Graduates of Amherst College, 1821-1871,"
published in 1883, has revised and edited the *' History and Genealogy
of the Montague Family of America," which was compiled by George W.
Montague. The work, just published, forms a handsome octavo volume of
785 pages. Professor Montague has just issued the circular of the coming
summer school to be held in Amherst. The term commences July 5, and
closes August 6. While prominence is given to modern languages, in-
struction is given in the departments of Science, Art, and Music, the
cabinets and gallery of the college being used by the school. There are
ten departments, and twenty-one instructors. It is needless , to add that
the Amherst school is considered by fine critics the best summer school for
teachers in the country.
'56. William F. Bradbury has started the Cambridge Latin School,
which is run on the same principle as the Boston Latin School.
'58. The Rev. John Whitehill finished this month the seventeenth year
of his pastorate over the First Congregational Church of South Attleboro,
Mass. His son, Edwin H., is a member of our '87 delegation.
132 ALUMNI NOTES — AMHERST.
'58. The Rev. Chester W. Hawley, formerly of Fisk University, Nash-
ville, Tenn., is now principal of a Young Ladies' Seminary at Clinton,
N. Y.
'58. The Rev. Daniel J. Bliss, formerly of Hay en field, N. Y., is preach-
ing at Abington, Conn.
'59. The Rev. Dr. Samuel E. Herrick, of Boston, preached at the
Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Psalms xxv. 1 1 :
•*For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity; for it is grievous." I
John, ch. ii., v. 12 : "I write unto you, little children, because your sins arc
forgiven you for His name's sake.' Apostle and Psalmist utter the same words,
emphasize the same truth. God's name is a motive of right action, of divine merer
ana forgiveness. Let us look at the meaning of this phrase : ** For thy name^
sake." It is important or God would not have used it so frequently. What name
had God in the beginning ? He was Jehovah — I Am. When God began to create
— world on world and other intelligences who gave to God the names Holy, Wise,
Good, Just, Righteous — these were simply signs of eternal realities and of necessary
truth. But the name of a man signifies nothing eternal, nothing necessary, it is
simply an arbitrary distinction, and ha« no significance, hence yon cannot ask a man
to do anything for his name's sake. But in the name of God you have an argument
a pledge to men. As we increase in knowledge we can reach more into the name
of^God. But what is the real force in the text, << For His name's sake?" He for-
gives sin, gives peace. The words of the apostle and Psalmist are ours. Christ
came but He offered no new mercy from the heart of God. It is simply a new in-
flection of God's name which lets us into His character but has made no change in
His motive. Christ was simply a new epoch in His disclosure. It was a new
thought to man but an old thought to God. The old dispensation and the new are
at bottom one — sin is forgiven for His name's sake. God was in Christ reconciling
the world unto Himsel^as in the Old Testament Christ was in God reconciling
this world unto Himself. I do notisay that there was no no need of Christ's death,
but I do say that it is not necessary for your eye to gr^p the full force of the signi-
ficance of the cross to get full release from sin. The cross was an eternal fact in
the nature of God Himself. — New York Tribune.
'59. James O. Tiffany is a member of the school committee of Attle-
boro, Mass.
'70. The Rev. William H. Swift, formerly of Wilkesbarre, Pa., has
succeeded Brother Charles S. Dunning, IViliiams^ '48, recently deceased,
as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Honesdale, Pa.
'75. Frank I. Babcock is a popular and successful lawyer at Attleboro,
Mass. He was recently elected a Selectman of that town.
'78. Louis C. Denfeld is Superintendent of Public Schools in Duluth,
Minn.
'78. The Rev. Thomas L. Fisher, of Linden, Mass., has been spending
a few months in Europe for his health. He is expected home at Easter.
'79. H. Heman Gray is principal of the High School at Bridgewater,
Mass.
'80. Charles H. Sawyer is engaged in the practice of law at Meriden,
Conn. He has been Assistant City Attorney of Meriden since June
8, 1883.
'80. Charles H. Libbey is in Detroit doing newspaper work.
'80. Charles F. Hopkins is practicing law in Fargo, Dak.
'81. G. Gilbert Pond's name appears in Prof. William L. Montague's
Summer School Catalogue as instructor in Practical Chemistry.
ALUMNI NOTES — AMHERST, ADELBERT, COLBY. 1 33
'81. Charles A. Doubleday, formerly Professor in Parkville College,
Parkville, Mo., is studying at Johns Hopkins University.
'81. William S. Nelson, formerly Professor in Parkville College, Park-
ville, Mo., has taken an extended trip for the purpose of visiting mission
stations. He is now studying in the Lane Theological Seminary.
'82. Born at Newton, Mass., December 26, 1885, Russell Warren, son
of Gurdon Russell Fisher. Brother Fisher, under a recent date, writes :
" It is pleasant to note the increasing interest in the QUARTERLY, and I am
sure every loyal son of Delta Upsilon must wish it all success. It is, and
ought to be, a very important influence in the Fraternity."
'83. Eugene N. Stoddard, of Milford, Mass., graduates this year at
the Andover Theological Seminary.
'84. Willard C. Crocker is studying in the Burlington (Vt.,) Medical
School.
'85. Clarence M. Austin expects soon to enter business with his uncle in
Montreal, Canada.
'85. Edwin I. Tirrell has left his school in Wells, Me., and is traveling
for a Boston publishing house.
ADELBERT COLLEGE.
'69. The Rev. Josiah Strong is now pastor of Vine Street Presbyterian
Church, Cincinnati, Ohio.
'77. The Rev. Wilson D. Sexton, formerly of Saybrook, Conn., is now
preaching at Salem, Ohio.
*8o. Alfred Wolcott is practicing law at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
•83. Walter C. Van Ness is still teaching in the language department
of the New Lyme Institute, at South New Lyme, Ohio.
'84. The Alumni organization of this pollege, from which we expect
so much, was brought about mainly through the efforts of Harley F.
Roberts.
COLBY UNIVERSITY.
'57. Jonathan G. Soule has been re-elected Supervisor of Schools of
Waterville, Me., and an increase of over one-half in his salary has been voted
him for the able and thorough manner in which he has conducted his work.
'60. The Hon. Nelson A. Luce has been re-appointed State Superintend-
ent of Public Schools of Maine.
*6i. The Hon. Bartlett Tripp, of whom mention was made in the last
Quarterly, was bom in the town of Ripley, Me. At the age of eighteen
he entered college and did good work, leaving during the last term of his
Junior year, and going West. He has been practicing law in Michigan and
Dakota since. He has now fitly been appointed to the head of the Judicial
System of Dakota. While in college he used to say that one day he meant
to be a great lawyer.
'62. Colonel Zemro A. Smith, Associate Editor of the Boston Journal
has been elected Vice-President of the Colby Alumni Association.
134 ALUMNI NOTES— COLBY, ROCHESTER.
'79. Allen P. Soule is Superintendent of Public Schools at Hingham,
Mass.
'82. Frederick W. Farr has graduated from the Newton Theological
Seminary. He preached a short time at Bowdoinham and is now settled as
pastor over the First Baptist Church of Biddeford, Me.
'83. George W. Smith, since graduation, has taught the Wiscasset
(Me.), High School studied law with Webb & Webb, of Waterville, Me.,
and is now Professor of Sciences in the Cobum Classical Institute, Water-
ville, Me.
'83. Henry W. Trowbridge, of Thomaston, Me., has married and gone
to Denver, Col., to practice law.
'84. Benjamin F. Turner was married while attending the Newton
Theological Seminary, and has been supplying the Baptist Bethel Church,
of Boston, Mass., during the winter.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.
'59. The Rev. Winfield Scott, a Post Chaplain in the United States
Army, has been transferred from Ft. Stevens, Oregon, and is now stationed
at Angel Island, Cal.
'62. In the Fifth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey
appears an article on "The Topographic Features of Lake Shores," by
Grove K. Gilbert, President of the American Society of Natural Sciences.
'65. Edwin S. Chittenden, Esq., is practicing law at St. Paul, Minn.,
with an office in the First National Bank Building, cor. Fourth and Jackson
Streets. He makes a specialty of loans, collections, and examination of titles.
'68. The Rev. David Crosby has left Penn Yan, N. Y. , and gone to San
Mateo, Florida. San Mateo is the home of Professor Agustus C. Wmters, '6$.
*7i. The Rev. Jacob A. Ffeiday, was summonned by Major-General Pen-
dergast to accompany the British forces sent to dethrone King Thebaw of
Upper Burmah. His duty was to translate into the Shan language the
proclamations of the British General.
'78. Frank D. Phinney has been for four years Superintendent of the
American Baptist Mission Press, at Rangoon, Burmah. During that time this
old establishment has received new vigor, and increased greatly, in volume
of business and in- resources. The employes are of many Oriental races,
with the average amount of Oriental Uisureliness, but Brother Phinney
lately wrote. " I see evidences that a good share of the men take a real
interest in the work and try to please me in all they do. Certainly the
hurry and rush in our press is more like that in a Yankee printing office
than anything 1 have seen elsewhere in Burmah, and our work is more like
Yankee work than anything else." Brother Phinney was made glad, m the
latter part of January, by the arrival of his sister, who will study with him
preparatory to her work as a missionary teacher in Burmah.
'79. Professor John C. Ransom is now in the State Normal School, at
Canfield, Ohio.
'83. Frank W. if oote, has been since graduation principal of the Metho-
dist Memorial (English) School at Cawnpore, India. He spent his last
long vacation, which comes in our winter time, in a very enjoyable visit to
Brother Frank D. Phinney, '78, at Rangoon, Burmah.
ALUMNI l^OTES — ROCHESTl^R, MIDDLEBURY. t35
*83. Professor Curtis R. Morford has had charge of an academy at Mt.
Pleasant, Pa., since the completion of his course at Heidelberg.
'84m. Charles F. Pratt, of Cleveland, Ohio, writes : "I have been much
pleased with the Quarterly, and the editors will always have my best wishes
and most hearty support. Everything connected with Delta Upsilon is dear to
nxCf and their is nothing for which I would more willingly do anything pos-
sible than for our grand Fraternity. During the past year I have been
traveling in Northern and Southern Ohio for the Sherwin Williams Co., of
Cleveland and Chicago. I have met several Delta U's from Marietta this
year besides visiting the Chapter once. We have the best society at that
college now. It is nourishing better, if anything, than when we were there
at the Convention in '83.
'85. Henry C. Cooper was lately called from his studies in the Rochester
Theological Seminary to his home in Detroit, by the death of his father.
'85. George F. Holt isstudying theology at Morgan Park, 111. He writes:
''I am heartily pleased with the Quarterly ; both with its appearance and
matter. I am glad to know that it is on such a good footing, I want it and
need it even more now than when I was in college. I find my Fraternity
spirit not one whit abated, but continually growing stronger. I wish you
all success in the coming year's publication."
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont, this evening celebrated his 76th birthday
by a reception at his home, which was attended by nearly all the Senators,
Justices of the Supreme Court, Secretaries Whitney and Endicott, and
many other prominent people. — New York Sun, April 15, 1886.
*6S. The name of the Rev. Nathan R. Nichols, of Norwich, Vt, appears
in the catalogue of Dartmouth College among the Faculty.
'73. The Rev. Wells H. Utley, pastor of the Congregational Church at
Parsons, Kan., has handed in his resignation.
'72-73. The Revs. Henry M. Ladd, D.D., and Herbert M. Tenney,
of Cleveland, Ohio, are working very fraternally together. Both are Con-
gregational pastors, and, after preaching each in his own pulpit Sunday
mornings, they exchange in the eveninjp, so that each congregation has the
benefit of two able preachers instead of one.
'77. Harry P. Stimson is the Cashier of the Kansas City Safe Deposit
and Savings Bank, comer of Sixth and Delaware Streets, Kansas City, Mo.
'82. John D. Hutchinson, of Antrim, N. H., is in the Senior Class of
the Thayer School of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth.
'82. John C. Miller is now senior member of a firm of stenographers and
law reporters in Boston.
'84. Robert J. Barton, of Hartford Theological Seminary, has been at
his home in Johnson, Vt., nearly all winter ; his health being too poor to
allow him to continue his studies.
'87. George £. Knapp has returned from Germany, and will remain in
the law office of his father, Hon. Lyman £. Knapp, MiddUburyy '62, till
next fall, when he will continue his studies with '88.
136 ALUMNI NOTES — RUTGERS, BROWN.
RUTGERS COLLEGE.
'67. Samuel R. Demarest, Jr., is Attorney and Counsellor at Law at
Hackensack, N. J. The address given as Paterson, N. J., in a recent issue
is incorrect.
'69. The Rev. William Elliot Griffis, D.D., of Schenectady, N. Y., has
accepted a call to the Shawmut Congregationsd Church of Boston, Mass.,
formerly Dr. Webb's.
'71. John H. Jackson, Esq., is a member of the law firm of Jackson &
Codington of Plainfield, N. J.
'73. John H. C. Nevius, formerly with Hartshorn & Co., at 486 Broad-
way, is now a member of the firm of Nevius & Haviland, Manufacturers
of Spring Shade Rollers and Fine Wall Papers, at 255 Canal Street,
New York, N. Y.
'74. The Rev. Ral{>h W. Brokaw, of Belleville, N. J., has recently
refused the position of General Secretary of the '* Societies of Christian
Endeavor" of the U. S., and will continue his pastorate at Belleville, N. J.
'82. J. Chester Chamberlain is with the Consolidated Electric Light
Co. , who control the Sawyer-Man system. The ofHces are in the Mutual
Life Building, 32 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y.
'84. Charles E. Pattison, having successfully " planted " an electric light
plant, for the Edison Electric Light Co., at York, Pa., and Abilene,
Kansas, is now engaged in the same work at Lawrence, Kansas.
BROWN UNIVERSITY.
'68. Xenophen D. Tingley is teaching in Gloucester, Mass.
•73. The Rev. Edwin P. Farnham has resigned as pastor of the War-
burton Avenue Baptist Church, Yonkers, N. Y. His resignation takes
effect April 30.
'74. Edward Miller, Jr., is Treasurer of the Edward Miller Co., of Meri-
den. Conn. The company is one of the largest in the country engaged in
the manufacture of lamps, bronzes, etc.
'75. Prof. Winslow Upton, of Brown University, received one of the
medals awarded by Mr. Warner for essays on the causes of the recent red
sunsets. Brother Upton has an article on ''The Distribution of Rain Falls in
New England, February 4-10, 1886 " in the March number oiScUnce.
'76. Willard C. Parker is practicing law at Flemington, N. J.
'77. The Rev. Willis F. Thomas is having very encouraging success
among the Arracanese and the Chins about Sandoway, Arracan, where
he has been laboring in addition to his regular work among the Karens of
Henthada, Lower Burmah.
'79. The Rev. Edward E. Atkinson, after a two years' pastorate in Ohio,
is taking a course is the Semitic languages at Harvard.
'81. George F. Bean is in the law office of Roper, Gray, and Loring, 40
State Street, Boston, Mass.
ALUMNI NOTES — BROWN, MADISON. 1 37
'82. William A. Francis is teaching in Concord, Mass.
'82. William £. Jillson has purchased a house and lot in East Providence
and will soon settle there.
'83. Prof. Isaac B. Burgess has been Latin Master in the Rogers School
of Newport, R. I., since graduation. He writes : " I like the Quarterly,
The marked effort to make the personal and historical matter, both as
regards Fraternity and the Colleges in which it is planted, full and interest-
ing, is very praiseworthy."
'84. A musical pastor is certainly a novelty, but the Newton, Mass.,
Baptist church is to have one in the person of Mr. George Coleman Gow, a
young man of musical talent and promise. His duties will begin on April
I, and he will have entire charge of the music of the church and Sunday
school. Instead of hiring a quartet or choir the purpose is to turn over to
Mr. Gow the entire work of developing from the congregation a volunteer
gathering of singers, and thus to have eventually congregational singing of
a hitherto unknown (quality. Members of the congregation will be regu-
larly taught how to smg, and in the course of a few months '' the musical
pastor " expects to have singing equal to, if not better, than any ordinary
choir, and the religious services will become at once more in keeping with
the spirit of praise proper to church singing than could be the case should
the singing be rendered merely by a collection of paid and uninterested
singers. —New York Herald,
MADISON UNIVERSITY.
'67. The Rev. David B. Jutten has finished the first two years of his
pastorate over the South Church, Boston, Mass. During the past year
forty -nine have united with the church ; $6,000 have been raised for all
purposes, and the congregation has been increased fifty per cent.
'72. The Rev. George T. Dowling, D.D., of Cleveland, Ohio, has writ*
ten a story which the Lippincott Company of Philadelphia, Pa., is publish'
in g in a book. The title of it is " The Wreckers, a Social Study."
'72. The Rev. Judson O. Perkins, formerly of Copenhagen, N. Y., has
accepted a unanimous call from the Baptist Church at Chittenango, N. Y.
•72. The Rev. Elnathan G. Phillips and wife sailed from New York
November 21, 1885, returning to their work as missionaries at Tura,
Assam. With them went Mrs. Phillips' niece. Miss Ella A. Bond and Miss
Stella G. Mason, who will remain with her brother, the Rev. Marcus C.
Mason, Madison y '72, stationed at the same place.
'73. The Calvary Church, Washington, D. C. , the Rev. Samuel H. Greene,
pastor, distributes each year a printed statement of its work. The stati-
stics for the past year are most encouraging. There were 107 additions to
the membership, fifty-six by baptism. The present membership is 670.
The Sunday school has 593 members, and two mission schools have 368
and 382 respectively. The three schools raised last year $1,694. The
income of the church was $7,657, of which $1,473 was ^^^ benevolent
objects, not including $244 for the Central Mission. This is the largest
and most influential Baptist Church in Washington, and the prosperous
condition is very largely due to the wise and efficient labors of the present
pastor during the past six years.
138 ALUMNI NOTES — MADISON.
'74. '' The Rev. John C. Allen, the Hanson Place Baptist pastor, is fairly
run down by young couples to have the marriage ceremony performed
While the labor committee was interviewing Trustee Richsu-dson in the
vestry last Tuesday evening, Pastor Allen was marrying a couple in his
study. "— The Brooklyn Eagle,
" A debt amounting to $40,000 resting upon the Hanson Place Baptist
Church, Brooklyn, was wiped out on Sunday by subscriptions varying in
amount from $5 to $3,000. The movement to wipe out the debt owes its
success largely to the efforts of the Rev. John C. Allen, the new pastor."
— The New York Times,
'74. William R. Rowlands is President of the Young Men's Christian
Association, of Utica, N Y., and also Superintendent of the Bleecker
Street Baptist Church Sunday school. Brother Rowlands has been for
several years dealing in real estate, and we notice now with pleasure that
he is about to build a fine block in the city of his adoption. '' The work of
demolishing the old brick house below the Jones block on Genesee Street
has so far proceeded that it is evident that the work of pulling down
and building greater has begun in earnest. It is gratifying to know
under the circumstances that the building which will be erected by
W. R. Rowlands on the site will be a credit to the city and one of the finest
blocks on the street. No further evidence of the enterprise and prosperity
of this city could be asked than the magnificent buildings which line its
principal streets ; and in point of beauty, convenience, and size, this new
building will have few superiors." — Utica Herald.
'77. A revival of unusually large extent has prevailed for some time at
Owatonna, Minn. It began in the Baptist Church, of which William A.
Spinney is the deservedly popular pastor and to which there have been
many additions as the result of this effort.
'80. The Rev. Louis A. Eaton, of Bankok, Slam, by the return of the
veteran missionary. Dr. William Dean, is left in entire charge of the great
missionary work among the Chinese of Siam.
'81. The Immanuel Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minn., the Rev.
Daniel D. McLaurin, pastor, was recently dedicated. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Henson, of Chicago. The congregations during
the time the house has been occupied have varied from 800 to 1,000. The
entire property is valued at $60,000.
'82. Sidney Clarke is cashier of the First National Bank of Park River,
Dakota. This bank was recently organized and is fully equipped for busi-
ness ; every department of a first class banking establishment is success-
fully prosecuted.
'83. The Rev. Charles A. Fulton, was married to Miss Fannie Partridge
March 15 th. The wedding took place in the chapel of Shaw University,
Raleigh, N. C, where Miss Partridge has been teaching for nearly two
years. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Henry M. Tupper,
Amhersty '59, President of the University. Mr. and Mrs. Fulton go to
Aiken, S. C., where they expect to remain some time for the benefit of
Mrs. Fulton's health.
•85. The Rev. John S. Festerson may now be addressed at Moscow,
Idaho Territory.
The following alumni were among the speakers at the recent meeting
of the Oneida Baptist Sunday school Union, held with the Bleecker Street
ALUMNI NOTES — NEW YORK, CORNELL. 1 39
Church, Utica, N. Y. The Rev. Henry H. Peabody, D.D., '66, of Rome,
N- Y.; The Rev. Albert P. Brigham, '79, of the Tabernacle Church, Utica,
N. Y.; and the Rev. Frederick A. Potter, *8i, of Whitestown, N. Y.
UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
'84. John D. Blake came on from Princeton to attend the annual con-
cert of the University Glee Club at Chickering Hall.
'84. Charles A Bush, who graduated from the New York College of
Dentistry, on March 10, received the prize for the best article on ** Gold
Filling." He is playing on the Brooklyn Athletic Club's Lacrosse team.
'84. Frederick M. Crossett has left the Judson Printing Cor., and can
now be addressed at 83 Cedar St., New York. He is playing Lacrosse
with the Brooklyn Athletic Club's team this season.
'87. William H. Hill b with Winship & Burr, silk importers at 346
Canal St., New York, N. Y.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
At the annual dinner of the New York Cornell Association, Delta Up-
silon was represented by twelve men including Eugene Frayer, '76, the
President of the Association, The Hon. Charles D. Baker, '74, of Corning,
N. Y., who responded to the toast of " The University and the Law," and
the Rev. George F. Behringer, '69, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who responded to
the toast of " The University and the Clergy." Brother Behringer, was
the first man who received a diploma from Cornell University.
'73. A volume on *^ Statics and Dynamics "has just been published
by Professor Irving P. Church of the Civil Engineering department of Cor-
nell University.
'75* Ebenezer J. Preston is now located at Amenia, N. Y.
'75. At the ninth annual dinner of the Northwestern Cornell Associa-
tion held at Chicago, March 26, Delta Upsilon was represented by the
toast master of the evening, Philip H. Perkins, of Madison, Wis., and
Charles S. Harmon, Esq., of Chicago. Brother Perkins was elected Presi-
dent for the ensuing year.
'81. Erwin W. Thompson, superintendent of the Oliver Oil Co., of Char-
lotte, N. C, is writing a series of articles on '* Cotton Seed Oil Making'
for Dixie of Atlanta, Ga. The February issue contains the first paper.
'82. Frank B. Cooper is the Superintendent of Schools at Le Mars,
Iowa.
'84. Wilbur S. Knowles, formerly with A. H. Thorpe, architect, is now
with Frederick B. White at 189 Broadway, New York City.
'85. George L. Cole graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical
College in March, and is now practicing at his home in Morrisville, N. Y.
I40 ALUMNI NOTES — MARIETTA.
MARIETTA COLLEGE.
The Hon. Douglas Putnam attended the meeting of the Ohio Archaeo-
logical Society, of which he is one of the founders — ^last February. The
meeting was held at Columbus, its. chief business being to prepare for the
Centennial celebration of the settlement of Ohio, which will occur on April
7, 1888. The Government has been petitioned to erect at Marietta a
building memorial of the event.
The Hon. Alfred T. Goshom, LL.D., is President of the Cincin-
nati, Ohio, Museum Association. Cincinnati's determination to have
honest elections henceforth is illustrated by the appointment of such a
man as the Director-General Goshorn of the Centennial Exposition, to be
judge of elections in his precinct this spring.
'69. The Rev. Augustus W. ^illiams, having resigned his pastorate of
the Wharton Street Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, has gone to St.
Augustine, Florida. The change was necessitated by ill health in the fam-
ily, and is greatly regretted by his former charge.
'70. The following sketch of the Rev. Francis D. Kelsey's post-collegiate
work is condensed from the Home Missionary ^ October, 1885. ** Some time
during the summer of 1870 a young graduate of Marietta College, son of
the '' Superintendent" of Ohio, received a commision from the American
Home Missionary Society for labor at Lock and Olive Green, Ohio. The
year's service was a happy one to the young student ; a revival resulted in
each church, and at the close of the year the young fledgeling betook him-
self to Andover, that he might learn what true Christian doctrine is. Then
came three years of diligent, delightful work, followed by eleven years of
pastoral labor in New England ; years of toil, growth, burden and anxiety,
but, on the whole, years of far more happiness than is usually allotted to
men. One day this telegram came to his New England parsonage : ''Will
you accept call to Helena, Montana ?" After much hesitation, the decision
was reached to go, and now he is once more a Home Missionary. And
this is his account of stock: i. A most beautiful, though small church
costing nearly $10,000 ; 2. a debt which in a few more years must be raised ;
3. a church organized of thirty members ; 4. the location of the building
must go in among our assets, for we are on the side of a '' gulch," where
the best residences are going up. It is the newest part of this city of
10,000 inhabitants, a city only twenty-one years old ! AU modem inven-
tions, improvements, and appliances are in full operation here, where,
twenty- one years ago, roamed the Crow and Blackfoot and Flathead Indi-
ans in mortal feuds. Spiritually, the outlook is very hopeful as to the
growth of the congregation. Sixty per cent, increase is worth recording.
The church has attained an honored and valued place in the city. The
prayer-meetings have increased two-fold, and deep spiritual interest is
manifested throughout all our meetings."
'81. Charles G. Slack of Colorado is spending a few weeks in a visit at
Marietta, Ohio, his old home. Brother Slack's profession is that of assayist,
for which he received his education in the Columbia School of Mines. He
has lately been engaged by the United States Geological Survey in making
a study of the Denver artesian wells.
'82. The Rev. David W. Morgan, who was ordained on the 14th of last
September is now in charge of a church at Detroit, Minn. '' Davy " (as the
boys like to call him) was one of the five chosen from his large class to deliver
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
"A Mortal Antipathy; First Opening of the New Portfolio," by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The long intro-
dnction of thirty-two pages, written in the author's happiest vein, tells about
American literature of nfty years ago and reasons for calling this book " The New
Portfolio. " We have already spoken of the book as it appeared from month to
month in the Atlantic Monthly, but the idea one receives from the book as a
whole is more favorable than its appearance as a serial would warrant. The
author's ripest and wittiest moralizings are found here.
"Snow Bound At Eagles," bv Bret Harte, published by Houghton, Mifflin
& Co., is a deliehtful and artistic little book. A graduate of an Eastern college has
gone to the far West with his young wife, taken a ranch in an out of the way place,
and tries to introduce his ideas of law and order among his neighbors. A sequence
of startling experiences have brought both him and his wife into acquaintance with
gamblers and thieves, and considerably altered his way of looking at things. The
topic is one of Bret Harte's favorites, prompts him to write in his most engaging
style.
"My Religion," by Count Leo Tolstoi. Publishers, T. Y. Crowell & Co.,
New York. Tolstoi is the foremost Russian author now living. An old man,
having been in turn, courtier, soldier, and philosopher, he now finds that the life
he has been leading is vain and wicked. Tne doctrines of the world are not the
doctrines of Jesus. The church has led mankind astray, and is deceiving them as
much to-day as ever before. ** Resist not evil " is the maxim of Jesus' teachings
literally interpreted. The doctrines of freedom of the will and the immortality of
the soul are gigantic errors. To work, to do for others, to live simply, to be poor,
constitute happiness and "life eternal."
Another of Alfred Ayres* little books has appeared. This one treats of " The
Essentials of Elocution." He says that all books heretofore written on the
subject are worthless, and that this book embodies all that a learner need know.
To be natural, is the sum of his rules. The book is handy and quite interesting.
Funk & Wagnalls, New York, are the publishers.
A very pleasant book is " Upland and Meadow," by C. G. Abbott, M. D.,
Harper & Bros., publishers. A Poaetquissines Chronicle, the author calls it, and
in the preface explains to us this weird word. Poaetqaissings is an Indian word
meaning "a place of com bread baking. It is a tributary of the Delaware and in
the region that an old Swedish geographer of the seventeenth century said was
filled "with elks, bears, and lions, and every other kind of wild beasts." The
author, who is h naturalist, does not tell us of finding any of these terrible beasts,
but he finds birds and toads that are quite as interesting.
"The Silent South," by George W. Cable, Charles Scribner's Sons, pub-
lisl^ers, will interest every one who still gives thought to Southern problems. The
war did not solve as many problems as it cr.eated. The author ^oes so far as
to claim that the greatest question before the American people to>day is, what to do
with the negro. Two papers — the " Freedman*s Case in Equity," and ** The Con-
vict Lease System " are added.
A desideratum among college students has been a complete history of modern
Europe in one volume. The want is at last supplied by Harper & Brothers.
This History of Europe " From the Capture of Constantinople by the
Turks to the Treaty of Berlin, 1878," by Richard Lodge, is uniform in binding
with Harper's well-known "Student's Series." Carefully to choose the leading
events of 400 years, and then to state them in an interestmg manner, is no small
task, yet Mr. Lodge has accomplished it successfully.
Two of the late additions to Harper's Handy Series are worthy of notice.
" Goethe's Faust," translated from the German by John Anster, LL.D., and The
14^ ALUMNI NOTl^S — NORTHWESTERN, AaRVARD.
Inter-Theological Seminary banquet, which was held in Chicago, Febru-
ary 19, at Plymouth Congregational Church. He responded to the toast,
" Woman's Worth and Work for Christ in the Nineteenth Century."
'84. The Rev. LeonE. Bell of OrangeviUe, 111., was recently tendered a
very flattering donation and reception. Brother Bell is winning quite a
reputation as a revivalist. Last year he had over a hundred and fifty con-
versions, and this year over one hundred, in the same charge.
'85. Eugene E. McDermott is studying law in Lancaster, Wis.
HARVARD COLLEGE.
'83. Augustus Mendon Lord is the author of "A Book of Verses,"
recently published in Cambridge. The book has been well received and is
meeting with a ready sale. While in college, Brother Lord was on the
editorial board of the Harvard Advocate^ a literary bi-weekly not unknown
to fame.
'84. HoUis Webster is now an instructor in Natural History in the
college.
'84. Edward M. Winston is teaching Latin and Greek in the Indianapo-
lis Classical School, Indianapolis, Ind. Address 285 N. Delaware Street.
'85. William C. Smith has entered the Law School, and has just been
elected to the Pow-Pow, the leading law club.
BY THE KENNEBEC.
Upon the flowery margin of the stream
I sit, while all the air is blithe and gay,
And like bright-flashing, dancing leaves at play
The merry ripples in the sunshine gleam.
With delicate fingers Nature now doth seem
To sweep her harp, whose strings are boughs that sway,
And, all attuned to birds' sweet liquid lay,
To start the strain that makes me muse and dream.
And so Life's stream; its waves — Youth's gladsome days —
Flow joyous on, firom storm and tumult free,
'Long banks of Peace, beneath Hope's golden haze.
Until, too soon, they gain the raging sea.
Lo ! others by our side do sit and gaze
While Love upon their trembling heart-strings plays.
Colby University, William C. Sheppard,
WatervOle, Me. Colby, '89.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
** A Mortal Axtifatht; Fi^st Ofesixg of the Xkw PofcTrouo," by
Oliver Wendell Holnes, published bj Hoogbtoii, Mifflin & Co. The long intro-
duction of ihircj-two pugc&g wrinen in the anthor's happiest vein. tcUs about
Amerksit Uteratnie of nhj mrs ago and reasons for callu^ this boc^ ** The New
Portfolio.*' VTe have alrcuj spoken of the book as it appeared from month to
month in the Atiaxtic Moxthlt, but the idea one reodTes from the book as a
whole is more fiirvorable than its Mffptaiwaot as a serial wonid warrant. The
u&thor's ripest and wittiest morafiiings are foond here.
** Snoikt Bound At Eagles,'* by Bret Harte, pnblished bj Hooghton, MiflUn
& Co., is n deli^tfol and artistic little book. A gradnate of an Eastern college has
gone to the far West with his joimg wife, taken a randi in an ont of the way place,
and tries to introdnce his ideas of law and order among his neighbors. A sequence
of startling experiences hare broo^t both him and his wife into acquaintance with
gamblers and thieves, and considerably altered his way of looking at things. The
topic is one of Bret Harte's fevorites, prompts him to write in his most engaging
style.
** My RxUGiON,"by Coont Leo Tolstoi. Publishers, T. Y. Crowell & Co.,
Nevr York. Tolstoi is the foremost Russian author now livine* An old man,
hnving been in turn, courtier, soldier, and philosopher, he now finds that the life
he hns been leading is vain and wicked. The doctrines of the world are not the
doctrines of Jesus. The church has led mankind astray, and is deceiving them as
much to-day as ever before. " Resist not evil " is the maxim of Jesus' teadiings
literally interpreted. The doctrines of freedom of the will and the immortality of
the soul are gigantic errors. To work, to do for others, to live simply, to be poor,
constitute happiness and "life eternal."
Another of Alfred Ayrts* little books has appeared. This one treats of ** The
Essentials of Elocction." He says that all books heretofore written on the
subject are worthless, and that this book embodies all that a learner need know.
To be natnra], is the sum of his rules. The book is handy and quite interesting.
Funk & Wagnalls, New York, are the publishers.
A very pleasant book is " Upland and Meadow," by C. G. Abbott, M. D.,
Harper & Bros., publishers. A Poaetqnissings Chronicle, the author calls it, and
in the preface explains to us this weird word. Puaetqoissings is an Indian word
meaning "a place of corn bread baking. It is a tributary of the Delaware and in
the region that an old Swedish geographer of the seventeenth century said was
filled "with elks, beant, and lions, and every other kind of wild beasts." The
author, who is a naturalist, does not tell us of findin|[ any of these terrible beasts,
but he finds birds and toads that are quite as interesting.
" The Silent South," by George W. Cable, Charles Scribner*s Sons, pub.
Ushers, will interest every one who still gives thought to Southern problems. The
vrar did not solve as many problems as it cr.eated. The author ^oei so far as
to claim that the greatest question before the American people to-day ia, what to do
with the negro. Two papers — the " Freedman*» Case in Equity," and •* The Con*
vict Lease system " are added.
A desideratum among college students has been a complete history of modern
Europe in one volume. The want is at last supplied by Harper & Brothers.
This History of Europe "From the Capture of Constantinoplr hy the
Turks t(» the Treaty of Berlin, 1878," by Richard Lodge, it uniform in binding
with Harper's well-known "Student's Series." CarefuUv to choose the leading
events of 400 years, and then to state them in an interesting manner, it no •mail
task, yet Mr. Lodge has accomplished it successfully.
Two of the late additions to Harper's Handy Series are worthy of notice.
"Goethe's Faust," translated from the German by John Anster, LL,!),, and The
144 BOOK REVIEWS.
Choice of Books, by Frederic Harrison; Every student would be ashamed to
confess that he had never read ** Faust," yet we hazard the statement that not one
college stadent in ten has read it from beginning to end. Mr. Harrison's motto in
book-reading is — "non mutia s<d multum,^^ KeaA and re-read the books that
have taken their place in the ranks of immortal literature.
A useful book has been published by Charles H. Whiting, Boston, called
** Elements of Universal History." Prof. H. M. Cottinger, its author, has
sought to p|lace before students a concise view of the world's nistorv, and a few
chief points in the history of civilization. It is marvellous how mucn fact can be
crowded into a book when theories on causes, historical hypotheses, and argu-
ment against other writers, are omitted.
Alfred Waites has written, and Lee & Shepard, Boston, have published two
little books — "Forgotten Meanings" and "Historical Student's Man-
ual." The former tells about many English words that have meanings not gen*
erally appreciated, as for instance — biscuit,* Latin bis-coctus; loom, from Sir
Thomas Loom ; maudlin, from Mary Magdalen ; tariff, from Tarifa, a town of
Spain, etc. The latter is a chart in book form of contemporaneous events since
William the First of England.
" The Destiny of Man," by John Fiske, Houghton, MifHin & Co., publish-
ers, should be among the choice books of every college student. This little volume
contains the author's thoughts on many subjects which are elaborated in his larger
works. No other evolutionist has written English so clearly. For the ordinary
student John Fiske is vastly better than Herbert Spencer.
The second volume of the series of " Greek Statesmen," by the Rev. Sir
George W. Cox, has just been published by Harper & Bros. The civilization of
Greece was the lives of a few great men. Thucydides said that the influence of
Perikles was the swav of a single man. The lives of Greek statesmen is a complete
political history of Greece. Mr. Cox has done his work sincerely, and has let
nothing but well-sifted matter enter his books. The work is brought down to
Hermokrates, 407 B. C.
THE MAGAZINES.
The Popular Science Monthly for May contains an unusually large
number of articles fitted to interest our readers. Hon. David A. Wells, Williams,
'47, contributes his second paper on "An Economical Study of Mexico." "The
Problem of Crystallization," by Alfred Einhom, presents the latest discoveries in
that branch of mineralogy. The second of Herbert Spencer's articles on "Organic
Evolution " appears in this number. The sketch ot Francis Galton will be of
extreme interest to our scientific readers. Among the other contents are " The
Evolution of Language," by M. A. Hovelacque, "The Care of Pictures and
Prints," by P. G. Hamerton, and "The Science of Flatfish, or Soles and Turbot.'*
Julian Hawthorne contributes a story to the May Lippincott's, " Professor
Weisheit's Experiment," and by so doing pleases a large number of people who
are ever on the look-out for one of his short stories. Joel Benton has a critical
article on Thoreau's poetry. The second paper, entitled " Our Experience Meet-
in&;s," contains " My Experience as an Amateur Elocutionist." by tne well-known
lady, Cora Uuouhart Potter, and " Literary Confessions of a Western Poetess," by
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Andrew Lang relates a psychological story, entitled " In
Castle Dangerous." Lippincott's Magazine is fast gaining in popularity and its in-
creased interest deserves it.
The Atlantic for May be^ns with John Fiske's article on the United States
under the Articles of Confederation. Mr. Fiske seems to throw wonderful light
on any subject about which he writes, whether it be science, religion, or history.
Probablv tne most interesting piece in this number is W. J. Stillman's " Memories
of Lonaon." Maurice Thompson tells about "The Genesis of Bird-Song," in a
manner interesting and scientific, but not Darwinian. One of the best critical
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DIRECTORY.
The Delta Upsilon Fraternity, foanded as the Social Fraternity in
Williams College in 1834.
The Llld Annual Convention of the Fraternity will be held with the Madi>
son Chapter, at Hamilton, N. Y., October 27, 28, 29, 1886.
The officers are :
Honorary President Hon. Sereno £. Payne, Rochester, '64.
Active President . Wiluam R. Rowlands, Madison, '74.
First Vice-President Samuel B. Duryea, New York, '66.
Second Vice-President . Harley F. Roberts, Western Reserre, '84.
Third Vice-President Fred. A. Race, Rochester, '87.
Secretary .... Owen Cassidy, Madison, '87.
Treasurer . Frank A. Pattison, Rutgers, '87.
Orator A. Wayland Bourn, Madison, '76.
Alternate Polemus H. Swift, North Western, '8x.
Poet Professor William Swinton, Amherst, '56.
Historian Hon. Francis M. Burdick, Hamilton, '69.
Chaplain .... Ransom B. Welch, D.D., LL.D., Union, '46.
THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. Zj^m
Josiah a. Hyland, Hamilton, '75 1886.
Frederick M. Crossett, New York, '84 1887.
Otto M. Eidlitz, Cornell, '81 1888,
W. Frank Campbell, New York, '87 . ( tj^^j^^^^^^j /^ I • • '®^-
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THE QUINQUENNIAL CATALOGUE.
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THE
Delta Upsilon Quarterly
Vol. IV. JUNE, 1886. No. 3,
A DAY-DREAM.
" Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams ? "
— Tennyson.
The earth seemed to have disappeared — or, rather, not yet to
have been created — and I was alone, I thought, in Eternity, which
appeared, like a blue dome, limitless on every side. The power was
granted me of realizing heavenly distances, and the realization
was equivalent to traversing them.
Suddenly the shadowy outlines of a mighty city rose before me,
extending far above, and resting on foundations that were lost in
the still, blue depths of space. So sudden was the revelation that
I doubted whether the city had not always stood there, to my
unskilled eyes for a moment invisible. I say a city, yet it was
not like a city. I saw what appeared to be battlements and tur-
reted walls ; but when I tried to distinguish them my human mind
refused me the power of perception. Millions of dim shapes
moved silently in and out among the battlements, but none of them
appeared to see me, although I knew their forms were like mine.
I knew it, but my human understanding again failed me when I
tried to picture them to my mind ; and I could distinguish only
their brows and gentle eyes and the divine expression of their
features. Something within me whispered that the spirit world
was before me.
150 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
In a moment it had vanished, and I was alone again. A con-
viction entered my mind that I was far up in the heavens, although
I felt that up and dawtty and all expressions for distance^ had no
meaning in Eternity. A mysterious voice, which seemed to ac-
company me and to speak to me as if it were myself, now bade me
descend. Instantly I knew that the world had been created ; and,
looking down through the deep, I saw the Universe with its starry
firmament, and heard — or, rather, felt — the initial anthem of the
spheres.
Although I had descended through immeasurable distances, and
seemed to be at the very border of the Universe, still my position
was far, very far, above the stars. The voice, which, I was now
convinced, was none other than that of the sleepless spirit Memoryy
pictured to me the distance in a wonderful manner. I cannot re-
call the words used, for they were unlike the speech of men, and
were expressive beyond description ; but my faint recollection of
the impression made upon my mind is like this : We see the moon,
the beautiful attendant of the earth, gliding through the sky of
night, and watch her as she nears her post in the zenith ; and then
we think of the distance she is above us, poised in the clear, cold
heights of ether. Choose a night when the shadow of the earth
falls upon the moon, and mount in thought above the enveloped
orb, up, up, and beyond, to the dim apex of the shadowy cone,
until the moon becomes a little star in the depths. Now,
while emerging into immensity, glance upwards, giving wings
to your thought, and traverse in a moment a distance to pass
which the quickly-moving light would require a thousand years.
Behold ! you are at the threshold of space and of limitless dis-
tance!
As I stood there the spirit world again mysteriously appeared.
It seemed to embrace, not only the visible Universe, but rose
shadowy and impressive into farthest space as well. You have
seen, on a quiet afternoon of summer, those vast walls of cloud
that stand like mountains in the central heavens. You cannot
distinguish their foundations from the blue atmosphere; their
summits fade away in the sky, and so dim are the massive forms
themselves that you must look again before realizing their presence.
Just so the limits of the silent city were lost in infinitude.
A DAY-DREAM. 15 1
While I was wondering as to the meaning of this second appear-
ance, I saw many spirits, brighter than the stars, and as glorious as
the cherubim of MHton, rapidly ascending from the direction of the
eaith« £ach spirit was accompanied by a second, a majestic being,
on whose brow I read the word Memory j and then I knew they
were human souls. Divine melody filled the region about me as the
spirits drew near, melody for which there is no name on earth, inas-
much as music is the divinest sound known to us, and that is only
as it were the language of the soul. The spirit choir mingled with
the inhabitants of the city, seeming to recognize in it their former
home. I gladly joined the band, happy in the thought that I was
one of them; and we conversed as spirits do — an impulse in the
heart — a glance from the eye — and a sympathetic touch with the
handy without the jarring of words.
Presently I became aware that we were nearing the earth. Already
we had entered the shadow, and soon we passed among the stars and
softly glided downwards. The sleeping world lay below, bordered
by a golden rim of sunlight — the foundation of the shadowy cone ;
and I thought that among the sleepers were our own breathing forms,
into which our vigilant memories were now swiftly conducting us,
that we might be ready to direct those wonderful organisms during
the coming day. In the east, the pearly glow of morning began to
invade the darkness, while in the west the subdued red of sunset
still lingered.
We moved along the eastern wall of the hollow shadow, and as we
descended we saw in the far west another band of spirits mounting
rapidly towards the mysterious city. The triumphant glory of
morning now burst across the heaven — and the beautiful visions
faded. ♦ ♦ ♦
Harvard College, Henry E. Eraser,
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard^ '86.
152 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
THE LEGEND OF MACKINAC.
But of all enchanting wonders
Seen upon this famous island,
One, a huge bluff, upward rising
Far above surrounding waters,
Moves the heart with deepest pathos.
Years ago, before the pale-face
Came to tread these winding pathways,
Me-che-ne-mock-e-nung-o-qua,
Fairest of Ojibeway maidens.
Often sought this lofty summit,
There to sit in silent wonder
Gazing on the scene beneath her;
Where, in great array of prowess.
Lay the swift canoes all ready
For the journey to the southward.
And the warriors, decked with war-paint
Filled these light canoes of birch bark,
And with fierce cry^ loud resounding.
Ventured forth so brave and fearless.
Seeking fame and battle's plunder.
Here upon this towering highland
First the maiden met her lover,
Ge-nin-e-gon, noble-hearted.
Here she sat and sang her love songs, *
Dreamed of coming joy and pleasure,
Watched and waited for the coming
Of her hero, from the war-path.
Whose first glance, on coming homeward.
Would be turned to seek the welcome
Of the loved, true-hearted watcher,
Me-che-ne-mock-e-nu ng-o-q ua.
Loveliest of the Indian maidens.
Far across the waters wafted
Used to come the shout of victory.
As the braves left Pe-quod-e-nong.
Once, alas, when home returning.
Bearing spoils won bravely fighting,
As across the waves, the tribesmen
THE LEGEND OF MACKINAC. 1$^
Loudly sang their welcome tidings,
And the maiden, fondly waiting,
Tried in vain to catch the accents,
Dear to her, grown so familiar.
Something told her inmost spirit
That the one she looked for came not.
He had fallen in the struggle.
Pierced by the foeman's arrow;
And his soul forever henceforth
Would await the blest reunion
In the hunting grounds above her.
Just before his life departed,
Quite unmindful of his own fate,
- He had thought of her whose watching
For his coming would be fruitless.
And to her he Sent this message.
That his last thoughts, e'en while dying,
Were of her, his most beloved.
As the maiden ever after,
Broken-hearted, wandered lonely
Near this spot, now disenchanted.
She would see her lover beck'ning
Her to follow where he hastened;
And one morning, as a warrior
To the shore had turned his footsteps.
Strange and sad the sight that met him —
At his feet, all bruised and lifeless.
Lay the Indian maiden's body.
But her heart had ceased its mourning,
And her soul, to heaven ascending.
To the spirit land had risen.
There to meet her dusky lover.
Now the people, to do honor
To the faithful, loving maiden.
Lover's Leap, the cliff have christened.
University of Michigan, Fred C. Hicks,
Ann Arbor, Mich. Michigan^ *86,
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.
Dear Brothers :
The accounts of the continued prosperity of our Fraternity,
which reach us through the medium of the Quarterly, give us
much pleasure. What liveliness the baby chapters are showing!
They are evidently thoroughly imbued with the true Delta U. spirit,
and have a brilliant future to look forward to. Let us have more
like them.
The year now drawing to a close has been a pleasantly active one
for our Chapter. We have been well represented in all of the note-
worthy college events; our reputation in the class room is good; and
in athletics we have taken the lead.
We number eleven, exclusive of some pledged men, which make
us third in size among the eight fraternities at Union College. Sigma
Phi has become reduced to one member, and is practically extinct;
with this exception, the Chapters are all in good working order.
They are as follows: Kappa Alpha, eight members; Delta Phi,
nine; Psi Upsilon, twelve; Alpha Delta Phi, eight; Beta Theta Pi,
eleven; Phi Delta Theta, fourteen.
The relations existing between the fraternities are, in the main,
friendly. Of course we have our political factions, but the feelings
engendered during the excitement of election are rather those of
rivalry than of bitterness. All are represented on the Garnet^ our
college annual, published by the fraternities.
Our chapter meetings, held weekly, have been both interesting
and profitable. We have introduced a new method of providing
the literary entertainment, which works well. For each week two
members are appointed a committee to provide such material as
they may choose. Sometimes it is an original story, sometimes an
oration or essay, and again it is a collection of short sketches
dignified by the name, "The Comet,"
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS. 1 55
We leave the heavy literary work to the regular debating
societies, of which there are two in college — the Adelphic and
the Philomathian.
The Chapter hall is at present undergoing a renovation prepara-
tory for our annual reunion at Commencement. It is located on
State street, opposite the Givens Hotel, and we will be glad to
entertain any Delta U. who may favor us with a visit.
Our chapter sent quite a delegation to the first banquet of the
Albany Alumni Association, and those who went reported an enjoy-
able time. The formation of this Alumni Association is a good
move, for there are many enthusiastic Delta U's dwelling in Albany
and vicinity, and their coming together will prove pleasant to them-
selves and beneficial to the Fraternity and our Chapter.
With hearty wishes for the continued success of our sister
Chapters and the prosperity of our Fraternity at large.
Fraternally,
George W. Furbeck, '87.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Brown University, Providence, R. I.
Dear Brothers :
The college year, as every one is probably aware by this time, is
almost over. Here, at Brawn, while the underclassmen are getting
ready for examinations, and living in anticipation, nothing mars the
serenity of the Senior, save the sound of his Commencement oration
and the fit of his dress-coat.
By the time this issue comes before its readers, Class Day and
Commencement, too, will have passed into history, and we shall be
slowly recovering from the wild scenes which they bring with them.
Already there is much preparation. The Seniors of the different
societies are arranging their particular spreads, and the underclassmen
are scheming to obtain tickets to the '* big " spread in Sayle's Memo-
rial Hall, a spread given by twenty-five Seniors without regard to
society relations. Two of the Delta U. brethren are implicated in
this afifair, but that will not prevent the Seniors of the Chapter from
having their private spread together, and they mean to have one
worthy to be looked back to from their future toil in parish, school
and profession.
156 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
These last three words remind one that there is somethings be-
yond Class Day, something not at all frivolous — the question of the
continued existence of the newly-escaped Seniors. This question
does not present itself simultaneously with its solution. It now
stares the Delta U. Seniors in face, and it has deeply stirred those
handsome and accomplished young gentlemen — that is, one would
think so to see the way in which some of them spend their time in
the earnest discussion of practical tennis.
Brother Burnham, byway of example, has gone to Westerly, R. I.,
to fill a vacancy in the position of Assistant Principal in the High
School there. Brother Fuller will go to Narragansett Pier this sum-
mer — in an official capacity. He will probably be seen quite fre-
quently at the Casino. Next year he enters the Harvard Medical
School. Brother Isham wants to be an architect, but the place and
time are involved in his mind in a hazy obscurity. Brother Man-
chester intends to teach, but otherwise is in about the same state of
mind as the last-mentioned brother. Brother Willett is, while we
write, astride of a bicycle in the White Mountains. He, too, will
assume a pedagogic r6le.
Let us drop this subject, however, and talk of something
pleasanter. One of the most profitable things of the year we are
just leaving behind us has been the freer intercourse with other
Chapters. We have already chronicled in the Quarterly our visit
from Amherst at the initiation " dog " and our return of their call.
Of late Brown and Harvard have been holding regular conventions
independently of the Executive Council. Some time ago, some of
the Harvard brothers came down to return the call, which we, in the
person of our delegates, Parshley and Dietrich, made upon them
during winter. We enjoyed the visit very greatly, and felt our fra-
ternal spirit grow warm as the patriotism of Dr. Johnson's man grew
warm on the plain of Marathon — or his piety among the ruins of
lona, we have forgotten which. But it is not proper to boast of
one's hospitality, nor, indeed, do we feel inclined to do so when we
think of the way in which the Harvard brethren received those of
us from Brawn, who, in response to their, kind and urgent invitation,
arrived in Cambridge on the 26th of May. Well, we had a good
time, a thoroughly good time, for both outer and inner man.
The new rooms of the Harvard Chapter, neatly carpeted and
furnished, were just large enough to hold in cosy comfort those
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who g^athered there that evening — the hospitable Chapter, with
several alumni, their Brown guests, Brothers Parshley, Fuller, and
Isham, '86 ; Bronson and Dietrich, '87 ; Pinkham, '88 ; Lathrop and
Mason, '89 ; and last, but by no means least. Brother Edward E.
Atkinson, Brawn^ '79.
After the call to order and the usual formalities, the intellectual
part of the entertainment began with an overture by the Harvard
" orchestra," led by Brother B. C. Henry, '86, who played the piano,
while other brothers performed severally and excellently upon the
clarionet, the cornet, the violin, and other instruments. The literary
prog^ramme which followed was most excellently planned and carried
out. Brother Howes read an episode from one of Poe's blood-
curdling tales, and more music was given by the Chapter quartette,
which was heartily encored. Brother Eraser's poem was bright and
entertaining ; equally so was the paper in which Brother Palmer
^ave us a glimpse of the Champs Elys^es. Music came in very
pleasantly in a piano solo by Brother Henry and some German
songs by Brother Von Klenze. Brother Nay, formerly of Amherst^
'87, declaimed a couple of stanzas of that immortal classic, " Bingen
on the Rhine," after the manner of a man with an artificial right
arm. Two stanzas were enough. The whole audience was in con-
vulsions over the gesticulations with which the wooden right arm,
assisted by the live left one, illuminated the text. Brother Kenison
was almost as funny, however, in the extracts he gave from his
^eat work on the " Anatomy, Physiology, and Osteology, etc., etc.,
of the Cat" (we hope that's correct), which is sooner or later to
appear.
The literary exercises over, all adjourned to the "spread " which
stood awaiting us in the adjoining room. Brother Atkinson, the
most inveterate and hardened punster Brown ever produced, had been
appointed " impromptu " toast-master, and, when the brethren were
duly filled with strawberries, ice-cream, cake and lemonade, he be-
gan to gather in his victims. When the echoes of the last pun had
died away, we gathered again in the Chapter-room and talked and
sang till after midnight; then out in a body into the "yard," where
cheers for Brown and for Harvard disturbed the sacred quiet and
brought appreciative yells of " More ! more ! " from several of the
open windows.
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The whole affair had been delightfully pleasant, and the Brawn
brothers will long remember it. And when the Harvard brethren
come down — all of them — next year, if Brown doesn't turn out,
alumni and all, and give them a hot reception, why — well, there will
have been some fearful convulsion of Nature. And — this sottovace
for the benefit of Harvard — we'll make them all speak if it takes
till day-break.
Brown has many thanks to give Harvard for that evening, and
she will never cease to be proud of her work in founding the Har-
vard Chapter.
Fraternally,
Norman M. Isham, '86.
Delta Upsilon House,
Madison University, Hamilton N. Y.
Dear Brothers :
Delta Upsilon is at the close of one of her most successful years
in Madison University: the work done this year gives us great reason
to be encouraged. Our Seniors have completed their work, and can
hardly contain themselves, so great is their ecstasy over the large
number of Phi Beta Kappa keys they have captured. The Juniors
have begun to sigh that the season of flirting is so nearly over. The
bold Sophomores have already picked out the fair damsels whose
hearts they mean to break next year. Our Freshmen can hardly be
called verdant, any longer, for like a well grazed pasture they begin
to show a substantial background.
At the approaching Commencement, Delta U. will bear no insig-
nificant part, she having seven out of ten speakers, including second,
third and fourth honors. The dedication of our new Theological
Hall will be an interesting feature. We expect five Presidents of
Baptist Theological Seminaries to be present, of whom two are
Delta U's., the Rev. George W. Northrup D.D., LL.D,, of Morgan
Park, 111., and the Rev. H. G. Weston D.D. of Chester Pa. The
former graduated at Williams in 1854, the latter at Brown in 1840.
These men will be listened to with great interest, for they are among
the leaders of their denomination.
In the graduating class we have nine men. Nine men from the
class of '86 will be elected members of Phi Beta Kappa. Of these nine
six are Delta U's. When '86 were Freshmen, our men received
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from the other societies the tender appellation, " Delta U. babies,"
but since then the Delta U. babies have grown and waxed strong,
till, like the little leaven, they have leavened almost the whole lump
of keys. Other society men go around, calling down maledictions on
our heads, for some of them had sworn by their beards to take the
honors which the babies took. We have the Salutatorian, the
Classical, and Philosophical orators. Out of twelve men selected
for the Kingsford prize speaking we have six. We also have
men competing for prizes in Greek, Mathematics, Chemistry, and
Kssays. Some of these we are sure of, for we have only to compete
among our own Delta U. brothers. During the present year, we
have been without a representative on the corps of editors of our
college paper, the Madisonemis^ but at the recent contest in editorial
work, two of our men secured appointments on the board.
Since the last issue of the Quarterly, we have placed in the
parlor of our Chapter house an elegant baby grand piano, which,
we find, adds greatly to our popularity among the fair ones of the town,
and has a magic influence over the men whom we desire to pledge. In
the purchase of a piano, we are perhaps behind many of our sister
Chapters. This is owing to the fact that we have been engaged in
a greater scheme of erecting, furnishing and paying for our Chapter
house. We went on the plan of building the nest before we feath-
ered it. But now that we have at last secured a piano, we wisely
turn to our brothers and say, " You are sadly behind the times if you
don't own one."
The approaching Convention is the subject which is claiming our
chief attention. We are making preparations to have the jolliest
time Delta U. has ever experienced. Let every man get his lungs
and throat in good working order, for when you get here we intend
to serenade the State of New York.
We extend a cordial and hearty invitation for you all to come and
partake of our hospitality, and we expect to see Delta U's from all
over the United States and abroad here next October 27, 28 and 29.
Fraternally,
Oscar R. McKay, '87.
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Delta Upsilon Hall,
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Dear Brothers:
The Chapter's silence in the Quarterly has not been due to any
apathy or to any indifference to Chapter affairs on our part ; quite
the contrary. No fraternity Chapter at Cornell is more prosperous
or more active than our own. No more than a glance at our year's
record is needed to establish this. In scholarship, in athletics, in
society, in all that pertains to making a college course of most value
to a man, it is not self-flattery to say we do not occupy the rear-
most seat.
Our Senior members have prominent parts to play during the
Commencement festivities. The presiding officers of the Junior
and of the Sophomore classes respectively are of our number. The
chairman of the Sophomore Banquet Committee; the president of
the Episcopalian Society; the business-manager and one editor of
the Cornell Review; the editor-in-chief and one editor of the
Cornellian^ the college annual, are of our Chapter.
In society affairs we are by no means wall-flowers. One of our
members was an efficient committee man in the Junior promenade,
and another is on the Senior Ball Committee.
One of the most enjoyable events of the year was a reception
in our parlors tendered to the ladies of Sage College. Our Chapter
rooms, not unhandsome in themselves, were further beautified under
the tasteful hands of the Committee. The main hall was crashed,
and the greater part of the evening was spent in dancing. In the
smaller rooms, whist entertained the more dignified of our guests.
The five Delta U. professors in the University, with their families
and several of our Alumni, were among those present. The dance-
orders, hand-painted in gold on blue silk, were unique and elegant.
The refreshments were provided by the best caterer in Central New
York, and the music was the best obtainable. Three o'clock a.m.
seemed all too early to end the gayeties.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity (sorority) recently enter-
tained a select company by a german, in the parlors of Sage College,
to which many of our members were invited.
In scholarship we have made conquests and enviable records.
Our Seniors have all won " honors for general excellence," and the
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only one eligible for Phi Beta Kappa obtained his key at the end of
his Junior year.
The only literary prize heretofore open to competition is the
Woodford prize of $ioo offered each year to the Senior who should
<ieliver the best original oration. This year the University authorities
have deemed it advisable to establish a Junior contest in declamation.
"The reward is rather Olympic in its character, being nothing more
than first and second honorable mention, with the names printed on
the Commencement programme. The general excellence of the speak-
ing at the recent contest and the new interest awakened in the study
of elocution has fully justified this new departure, and there is every
reason to hope that in a few years finished orators will be one of the
products of Cornell,
The class of ^Z(> leave as a memorial a fund the proceeds of which
will constitute the prize in Junior Declamation for succeeding years.
Two Delta U*s were among the seven contestants this spring, one of
them obtaining the second mention — equivalent to the second prize.
We believe that the source of one of the greatest benefits to be
derived from a good fraternity lies in intercollegiate relationships,
which can be maintained, to some extent, by mutual visitations, and
by conventions. These, for obvious reasons, are not frequent
enough to secure that intimacy between Chapters which ought to
result in a more fraternal feeling, and arouse enthusiasm in Chapter
work. The most practical way to bring this about is by correspond-
-ence. In view of this, the corresponding secretary should be a man
of ability, indefatigable as a worker, and zealous in the cause. We
take pride in presenting as a model our own corresponding secre-
tary, Allyn A. Packard, '%(y. Aside from the great amount of
business correspondence relating to the Chapter and the answering
of letters of inquiry, he has prepared circular letters to be sent to
each one of our Alumni members once each term, and has written
one (sometimes more) fraternal letter to every Chapter of Delta U.
•once each term ; the only exception to this being that, during the
winter term, no letter was sent to those Chapters which had failed to
respond to those of the fall term. His tireless zeal may well be
emulated by many other like officers.
Several of our members who attended the New York State Inter-
collegiate Field Day, at Utica, reported that a small convention of
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Delta Upsilon could have been held in that city, so many from the
various New York colleges were present.
Cornell seemed to carry the broom in the intercollegiate games,
by winning ten first, and eleven second prizes, on eighteen events.
One Utica paper headed its account of the contests : "The Young
Gentlemen from the University at Ithaca hold a Field Day at Utica.*'
Our brother, Horr, '87, reaped glory for the University and for him-
self by winning the hundred and the two-hundred-and-twenty-yards
dashes.
The recent Alpha Delta Phi Convention was held at Ithaca, with
the Cornell Chapter. Many of the prominent men among the Alumni
were present. The Convention, however, could not be compared
for one moment with the Fifty-first Annual Convention of Delta
Upsilon, held at Rochester, N. Y., last fall.
Our Madison brothers seem determined, by their activity in
already beginning preparations for next year's Convention, to make
a grand success of it.
Fraternally,
George M. Marshall, '87.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.
Dear Brothers :
The end of another college year is fast approaching, and with it
comes the first anniversary of the founding of our Chapter. The
Senior examinations begin May the 27th. After they are finished
they will hold their class supper in New York, and on Wednesday
evening, June 2, they will then enjoy a vacation until the last of
June, when they will return and graduate. One of our men has a
toast at the class supper.
We enjoyed a banquet, a few nights ago, which was given by
Brother Rankin, '87, in celebration of his birthday. Our rooms pre-
sented a very pretty as well as lively scene. Brother William W.
Weller, '85, who chanced to be present, and Brother Tudor delivered
in fine style the Chapter's congratulations to Brother Rankin, who
responded in a neat speech. The lateness of the hour was the only
thing that finally put an end to our conviviality. We hope that many
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another brother will make known his birthday in a like acceptable
manner.
We have, for some time past, noticed that the other fraternities
were harboring some jealousy against us. It became very plain that
this was the case in the last Sophomore class meeting, when the
editors of our college annual, the Melange^ were elected for next year.
A motion was carried by a large majority, that we be debarred from
having a representative on the staff of editors. The reason assigned
was, that it was customary for a Chapter of a fraternity to have
existed a year at least before it was entitled to a representative. The
fact of the case is, that we have existed over a year, and that the
" time limitation " was but a pretence whereby they hoped to injure
us. There is a slight possibility of the class reconsidering the
matter, but as it stands at present, it is but an attempt to keep us
•down. We can, of course, retaliate, if we choose, by not supporting
the publication. The issue of the whole matter, however, is not of
very tremendous moment.
We have had pleasant visits from several of our Lehigh brothers,
and have also enjoyed their kind hospitality and good cheer more
than once.
Our meetings are still very well attended, and most interesting.
Besides the musical and the social parts of our programmes, the
literary is equally pleasant and profitable. We had some difficulty
at first as to the manner of conducting our meetings, especially in
regard to the literary part, as we all belong to one or the other of
our college literary societies, and have enough of outside work in
that line. We have overcome this difficulty in having this portion
•of the exercises, for the most part, extemporaneous, consisting of
speeches, debates, etc. The members like the plan, and it is sur-
prising how much can * really be said in a two-minute extempo-
raneous speech. This has been a great means of improvement to
many of us. With kindest regards to our sister Chapters,
Fraternally,
Charles H. Pridgeon, '86.
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164 delta upsilon quarterly.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.
Dear Brothers :
Time was when Zeta Psi was one of the strong fraternities in
Syracuse University ; but that time is known to men now in college
by tradition only, and not by personal experience.
This Chapter was established in 1875, and, in its early history,
several strong classes were graduated, '79 and *8o being sp>ecially
noteworthy. For several years, however, Zeta Psi has been dwind-
ling away, until now she has in college only four men, one Junior
and three Sophomores. She has a good Alumni support in the city,
and this is the source of about all the life that still remains.
As an active factor in college afifairs, she is no longer of impor-
tance. For a number of years, she has had no representation on the
college annual, the Onondagan^ and, with the graduation of '84, she
ceased active connection with the college papers.
Sigma Psi, a local society, was established in 1881, and has at
present fourteen members, three Seniors, one Junior, and five in each
of the lower classes.
They confine themselves mostly to college work, taking little
interest in athletics or student enterprises, except those of a literary
character. They have two men on the staff of the University Herald'^
and they had one on the board of the Onondagan, They can hardly
be considered, as yet, a rival of the fraternities, and yet, if they
formed a Chapter of a good fraternity, instead of being simply a
local society, they would be a rival, and a strong one, too.
They are beginning their history in the right way — doing the
hard work first, and paying less regard to the diverting features of
society life.
Phi Kappa Psi was formed in 1884, from Kappa Delta, a good
local society. They have been growing in numbers, and now count
sixteen active members, and among them some good men.
In college work they do not particularly excel, and this year
they are without representation at Commencement and Sophomore
exhibition. o
Socially they are beginning to do cons»f idera^> ^^ ^^o lower
classes being especially active in this line^j. T}y take no great
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interest in athletics, and in student enterprises generally do not take
a leading part.
The Phi Kappa Psi's affiliate most commonly with the D.K.E's,
and least, perhaps, with the Psi U's, though no antagonism exists
between any of the fraternities.
There is a prospect of a large class next year, and a good class
for fraternity men, and some cultivating has already been done. We
are in no great haste, however ; we ordinarily get the men we desire*
and probably next year will be no exception.
With greetings to the Chapters,
Fraternally,
John S. Bovingdon, '87.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa.
Dear Brothers :
Delta Upsilon at Lehigh is closing its first year in full vigor, and
with prospects of a highly satisfactory future.
We have not been able to raise our membership as high as the
majority of the Chapters of Delta U., because our Chapter was not
established until the middle of the first term of the college year.
A large number of the men of the Freshman class that showed
themselves to a good advantage soon after entering college, were
taken into fraternities before we had a chance at them. Generally,
the fraternities at Lehigh have the misfortune of taking men who,
through some cause, have to leave college before graduating, or at
least not graduating with the class in which they entered. This
being our first year, we thought it proper to Work slowly, and take
only those that were good men, and would stay with us. We started
with ten men, and having since initiated three more, now number
thirteen, and will lose only two of them in June, and these by grad-
uation, leaving us, therefore, in a good condition for next year.
There is every probability that there will be a large entering class in
September, and Delta U. will use her best endeavors to secure her
full share of the desirable men.
The Psi isilon fraternity held their Convention here in May,
and from a counts they had a good time. Psi Upsilon was
formed froir :al society in 1884. They have always taken a very
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large number of men in each class, and their Alumni support in
Bethlehem is comparatively strong. They have a much larger
Chapter than any other fraternity here, and it is supposed they are
large because of the heavy expense they are under.
" The American Institute of Mining Engineers " also held their
Convention at Bethlehem, in May. They ended up by having* a
grand ball in our gymnasium.
Our annual, the Epitome y is just out. It is published by seven
editors and three artists, chosen from the Junior class, but not con-
fined to fraternity men, as at many other colleges. We are happy
to say we have two of the board of editors recently elected for next
year's issue. Our other publications are the Lehigh Burr^ published
monthly, and the Engineering Journal^ published quarterly. Besides
Delta U., we have here Chapters of six general fraternities, and one
local society.
The Greek-letter fraternities, dates of establishment, and number
of undergraduates are as follows : Chi Phi, established 1872, 18 men ;
Alpha Tau Omega, established 1882, 12 men ; Psi Upsilon, estab-
lished 1884, 24 men; Delta Phi, established 1884, 12 men; Theta
Delta Chi, established 1884, 14 men ; Beta Beta, established 1885,
II men; Delta Upsilon, established 1885, 13 men; Sigma Nu,
established 1886, 9 men. There are also 12 men belonging to frater-
nities having no Chapter at Lehigh, making a total of 1 25 under-
graduate fraternity men. This leaves 196 non-fraternity men in
college.
Fraternally,
John M. Howard, '87.
TO '86.
Our college life has flown too fast.
The four years through ;
But recollections of the past
Come ever new ;
And of the memories which the mind
Presents to view,
The sweetest one from all these years
Is Delta U.
All other joys of college life
Fade from the mind ;
Its pleasures and its toils alike
Are left behind ;
But one sweet thought shall cling to us
Life's journey through,
It is our tender, faithful love
For Delta U.
We love her for her lofty aims,
So high and pure ;
For the sweet sense of brotherhood.
So strong and sure.
Those aims — towards which we ever strive
While life shall last,
Those friendships — which shall endure
When life is past.
So, though the end of college life
Is drawing nigh.
Our recollections of that life
Shall never die.
And now, where'er our footsteps turn,
Whatever we do.
We'll keep a corner in our hearts
For Delta U.
Rutgers College, William P. Merrill,
New Brunswick, N. J. Rutgers^ *«?7.
DELTA U. NEWS ITEMS.
Delta U. carried off the highest honors in the class of '86 at
Columbia College and the University of the City of New York. Our
two New York City Chapters are to be congratulated upon their
success.
THE CAMP.
The annual meeting of the Camping Association will be held at
Bolton-on-Lake George the last week in July and the first two weeks
in August or longer, at the pleasure of the campus. A cordial invita-
tion is extented to members of the fraternity to join in this — the
annual social gathering of the fraternity. Those whose engagements
will prevent their spending the full three weeks can make such stay
as their time allows, provided their intentions are stated before hand
so arrangements can be made for them. To such "transients" the
rate per day or week will be the same as those who stay the entire
time. Eight Chapters are already represented, and from them are
the names of many well-known members of our Fraternity, whose
presence at the camp already insures its success. The large number
who are going will make the expenses very reasonable, and none
should dismiss the idea of camping from that standpoint. Further
particulars and all information concerning time, rates, necessary
equipment, means of transportation, meeting place, etc., will be
furnished by F. M. Crossett, New York, '84, who has charge of this
year's camp, owing to the illness of Mr. William F. Walker, Amhersty
'86, the Secretary of the Association.
Address all inquiries to
Frederick M. Crossett,
83 Cedar Street, New York.
DELTA U. NEWS ITEMS. l6^
THE ALBANY BANQUET.
The want of a convenient gathering place for the large body of
Delta Upsilon Alumni residing within a radius of fifty miles of
Albany, N. Y., has long been recognized, and several efforts have
been recently made to organize an association corresponding to
those now flourishing in New York, Chicago, Boston, and Cleve-
land, and elsewhere. At a meeting held in Albany early in
October, 1885, a committee was appointed to arrange for our
first Annual Reunion in the spring of 1886. This committee
labored, as time and opportunity allowed, throughout the winter,
and their efforts resulted in a most enjoyable banquet at the Caf^
St. Marc, on the 21st of April, 1886. The day that was chosen for
the celebration proved to be an unfortunate one, not only because
several conferences were in session at the same time, thus depriving
us of some of our most earnest brothers in the ministry, but
because a peculiar combination of circumstances prevented at l^ast
a dozen loyal Delta U*s from being present on this particular night,
much to their own and our regret. Notwithstanding, twenty-seven
were on hand in the evening, representing eight different chapters
of our Fraternity.
After the dinner, next in order were responses to the toasts,,
which, under the efficient management of our master of ceremonies,
— John F. Montignani, Cornell^ '79 — elicited many a witty remark
from those who responded, and constant and hearty applause from
the listeners. The Hon. Benjamin A. Willis, Union, '61, headed
the list with a toast on " Our Fraternity," which fairly bubbled over
with humorous thrusts at the mysterious doings which some one
told him were wont to prevail at the seances of our highly re-
spected, but saddly erring, Fellow Greek-letter Societies. Otto
M. Eidlitz, Cornell, '81, informed us of the progress the Fraternity
had been making of late in establishing "Our new Chapters."'
" Union College " was to have been responded to by the Hon.
Judson S. Landon, but at the last moment he found that he was
unable to attend the banquet, and the Rev. Spencer M. Adsit,
Union, '77, replied heartily for his Alma Mater. The aim of "Our
Ministers " was ably presented by the Rev. Smith T. Ford, Madison,
'78, while Prof. Frank L. Nason, Amherst, '82, proved conclusively
by the reductio ad absurdum method that their main qualifications
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for - Oar Tcacfacxs " were clearness, elegance, and brevity. Lewis
A. Cass, Umi^m^ '78, gave as a stirring speech on " DelU U. in
Politics,- and Robert J. Landon, Um4m, '80, pathetically advised
those of us vho had not yet followed his example to join at once
the ever-increasing band of **C)ur Newly Married Men."
At the h^py snggestion of brother Eidlitz we elected Colonel
W:::» to the office of His Papal Highness — an honor which in-
spired him to require immediate responses from several of our
nnmber on the most startling topics imaginable.
At length, after joining heartily in singing our Fraternity songs,
parted, gratified at the success of the banquet, and trusting to
1 again before another year had passed.
At the New York State Intercollegiate Field Day, held, May 26,
at Utica, N. Y., Delta Upsilon again took more prizes than any other
fraternity. Delta U. captured the loo-yards dash, first, Charles W.
Horr, Jr., Ccnull^ '87 ; throwing the hammer, second, John S.
Bovingdon, Syracuse^ '87 ; throwing the ball, second, William P.
Landon, Umtam^ "86 ; pole vault, first, William P. Landon, Union^ *86 ;
patting the shot, second, Charles S. Van Auken, Hamilton^ *^6 ; 220-
yards dash, first, Charles W. Horr, Jr., Cornell^ '87 ; mile walk, first,
John S. Bovingdon, Syracuse^ '87. Charles S. Van Auken, Hamilton^
'86, was elected President of the Association for the ensuing year.
SHADOWS,
As the sombre hues of twilight
Steal the brightness from the day,
And the sun, its beams withdrawing.
Lengthens shadows with its ray,
So dark omens of the future
Take the joys from prospects bright,
And a pleasure, as it fleeteth,
Lengthens sorrows with its light.
Lafayette^College, Charles H. Pi
Easton, Pa.
CHAPTER NEWS.
The Chapter sent two delegates to the Albany Alomni meeting.
John T. Baxter, '87. and Orlando C. Bidwell, "86, who reported an
enjoyable time and a good attendance for their first mceiing.
About fifteen E>elta U's came from Amiurst to vitness the base-
ball game between Amhent and Williams, May 29. We were very
glad to have a pleasant call, and hope that when they come to
W^illiamstown again they may have more time to meet the boys, and
become better acquainted.
We had a very pleasant visit from Mr. Cross, of the YaU Theo-
logical Seminary, on the 4th of May. Mr. Cross is a member Oi
the Yale ball team, and is also a member of the Adeliert Chapter erf
Delta Upsilon, class of '84.
Charles A. Williams, Augustus W. Back, and William W. Newell,
'88, have been elected members of the Historical Society.
The Chapter house looks very much improved by a new coat of
paint. Including the improvements inside, and the refurnished
parlors, we feel very comfortably situated at presenL We expect
there will be many of our Alomni here at Commencement, and we
would like to see them all at the house, which is on South Street, to
show them the society as it exists to^ay. Come and sec as, which
will save a good deal of our time in trying to hunt you up, for we
shall try to meet every one.
TM. :ii L -__ _f _. g .^g^ '46, '56, and '61, this Com-
mbers in all of these still living,
dl Commencement week. Tues-
one to which members of our
ieth anniversary of their gradua-
lad in that class are now living,
U Commencement season.
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for " Our Teachers " were clearness, elegance, and brevity. Lewis
A. Cass, Union, '78, gave us a stirring speech on "Delta U. in
Politics," and Robert J. Landon, Union, '80, pathetically advised
those of us who had not yet followed his example to join at once
the ever-increasing band of " Our Newly Married Men."
At the happy suggestion of brother Eidlitz we elected Colonel
Willis to the office of His Papal Highness — an honor which in-
spired him to require immediate responses from several of our
number on the most startling topics imaginable.
At length, after joining heartily in singing our Fraternity songs,
we parted, gratified at the success of the banquet, and trustin^f to
meet again before another year had passed.
At the New York State Intercollegiate Field Day, held, May 26,
at Utica, N. Y., Delta Upsilon again took more prizes than any other
fraternity. Delta U. captured the 100-yards dash, first, Charles W.
Horr, Jr., Cornell, '87 ; throwing the hammer, second, John S.
Bovingdon, Syracuse, '87 ; throwing the ball, second, William P.
Landon, Union, *86 ; pole vault, first, William P. Landon, Union^ '86 ;
putting the shot, second, Charles S. Van Auken, Hamilton, '86 ; 220-
yards dash, first, Charles W. Horr, Jr., Cornell, '87 ; mile walk, first,
John S. Bovingdon, Syracuse, '87. Charles S. Van Auken, Hamilton^
*Z(i, was elected President of the Association for the ensuing year.
SHADOWS.
As the sombre hues of twilight
Steal the brightness from the day.
And the sun, its beams withdrawing.
Lengthens shadows with its ray.
So dark omens of the future
Take the joys from prospects bright.
And a pleasure, as it fieeteth,
Lengthens sorrows with its light.
Lafayette^College, Charles H. Pridgeon,
Easton, Pa. Lafayette, *86.
CHAPTER NEWS.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
The Chapter sent two delegates to the Albany Alumni meetings
John T. Baxter, '87, and Orlando C. Bidwell, '86, who reported an
enjoyable time and a good attendance for their first meeting.
About fifteen Delta U*s came from Amherst to witness the base-
ball game between Amherst and Williams^ May 29. We were very
glad to have a pleasant call, and hope that when they come to
Williamstown again they may have more time to meet the boys, and
become better acquainted.
We had a very pleasant visit from Mr. Cross, of the Yale Theo«
logical Seminary, on the 4th of May. Mr. Cross is a member of
the Yale ball team, and is also a member of the Adelbert Chapter of
Delta Upsilon, class of '84.
Charles A. Williams, Augustus W. Buck, and William W. Newell^
*88, have been elected members of the Historical Society.
The Chapter house looks very much improved by a new coat of
paint. Including the improvements inside, and the refurnished
parlors, we feel very comfortably situated at present. We expect
there will be many of our Alumni here at Commencement, and we
would like to see them all at the house, which is on South Street, to
show them the society as it exists to-day. Come and see us, which
will save a good deal of our time in trying to hunt you up, for we
shall try to meet every one.
There will be a reunion of classes '36, '46, '56, and *6i, this Com-
mencement. Delta Upsilon has members in all of these still living,
and we shall be glad to greet them all Commencement week. Tues-
day, June 29, is the day for reunions.
The class of '36 is the oldest one to which members of our
Fraternity belong, and this is the fiftieth anniversary of their gradua-
tion. Seven of the twelve men we had in that class are now livings
and we hope to see several of them at Commencement season.
172 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
UNION COLLEGE.
William L. Kennedy, '88, who left college during last term on
account of illness, has returned.
Dorwin, Landon, La Monte, and Randall, our Seniors, occupy
positions on the University base-ball nine.
William P. Landon, '86, is captain of the " Varsity " nine.
Delta U. will be represented on the Senior stage by Landon and
Randall.
Gustave S. Dorwin, '86, is Class Historian, and Frederick S.
Randall, '86, is Class Poet.
We enjoyed a call from Frederick M. Crossett, New York^ '84,
early in June.
William P. Landon, '86, and Nelson M. Redfield, '87, are among
the ten contestants for the Vedder Prize. The prize consists of $50,
to be given to the best extemporaneous speaker.
At the beginning of the term, the Greek-letter fraternities
numbered as follows : Kappa Alpha, 8 ; Sigma Phi, i ; Delta Phi, 9 ;
Psi Upsilon, 12; Delta Upsilon, 11; Alpha Delta Phi, 8; Beta
Theta Pi, 11; Phi Delta Theta, 14.
At the recent spring meeting of the College Athletic Association,
held May 12, seven of the twelve first prizes, and several seconds,
were awarded to Delta U. men.
The following is clipped from the Schenectady Daily Union:
"If there had been a prize for the best general athlete, Landon, '86, would have
captured it. He won six nrst prizes, and one second prize, a better record than any
other contestant."
Brother Landon is a son of Judge Landon, president of the col-
lege, a brother of Robert J. Landon, Union, *8o, and a brother-in-
law of Lewis A. Cass, Union, '78.
At the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which was held at
Utica, N. Y., May 26, William P. Landon, '86, received first prize in
the pole-vault, and second in the ball-throw.
HAMILTON COLLEGE.
Charles S. Van Auken, '86, is president of the Intercollegiate Ath-
letic Association of Central New York. The spring meeting was held
at Utica, May 26.
The college choir consists of twelve men, of whom five are
Delta U's.
CHAPTER NEWS. 1 73
At the election of Senior officers for Commencement, Delta Upsilon
received the following: President of Class Day, E. Root Fitch, Jr.;
Poet of Tree Day, Philip N. Moore ; Member of Presentation Com-
mittee, Charles S. Van Auken; Response from '88, William H. Squires.
Frederick M. Crossett, New York, '84, paid us a short call
recently.
Along with the good fortune and prosperity of the Hamilton
Chapter of Delta U., she has had her share of misfortune. The
winter term opened with an accident which happened to Frank H.
Robson, '87, while coasting. Next, Henry D. Hopkins, '87, was
called home on account of the death of his sister, which was followed,
in less than a week, by the death of his mother. About six weeks
before the term closed, John G. Peck, '87, ran into a tree at the foot
of Freshman Hill, breaking his left leg about four inches above the
knee. The last day of the term, Tuesday, March 30. Frank B.
Severance, '87, while crossing the central track at Rome, was struck
by the Second Atlantic Express train, throwing him seven or eight
feet into the air. Brother Severance is slowly recovering, and we
hope to have him again with us soon. '87 seems to be the unfort-
unate class this time.
William H. Squires, *88, is said to be the best organist the college
has had in a long time.
In the largest church in Clinton, N. Y., the position of base singer,
recently made vacant by death, is filled by Warren D. More, '88.
At the Spring Field Day, out of thirteen events, in which there
were twenty-six prizes (counting firsts and seconds), Delta Upsilon
took ten — six firsts and four seconds.
E. Coit Morris, '89, is the Poet for the Freshmen class supper, and
Edward W. Hyatt, '88, is responder to a toast.
Hiram H. Bice, '89, who has been out of college most of the year,
on account of his eyes, has just returned from an extended trip
through California and the South West.
COLBY UNIVERSITY.
Four of the nine Commencement speakers are Delta U's, mz, :
Randall J. Condon, Seldom B. Overlock, Thomas J. Ramsdell, and
Albert M. Richardson.
Three of the Junior Prize Orators are Delta U's — Holman F.
Day, Stanley H. Holmes, and Charles C. Richar^lson.
174 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
The Freshman Prize Reading took place at the Baptist Church,
Wednesday evening, May 26. Wallace S. Elden captured the
second prize. Henry B. Woods was also a competitor.
The Eighth Annual Field Day was held Friday, June 4. We
took five firsts and one second prize. The first were in the one-
hundred-yards dash, bicycle race, potato race, throwing base-ball,,
and obstacle race.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.
The Senior and Sophomore exhibition appointments have been
made. In the Senior class, we have three out of the eight who re-
ceive appointment on the ground of scholarship: Wallace S. Trues-
dell, William E. Loucks, and Ernest N. Pattee. Of the twelve
Sophomores appointed to contest for the Dewey declamation prize,
four are Delta U*s : Walter C. Betteridge, William C. Wilcox, Alden
J. Merrell, and Samuel M. Brickner.
Both the Oration and the Poem before the Alumni, at Commence-
ment, will be delivered by Delta U's, the poem by Joseph O'Connor^
'63, editor of the Post Express^ and the oration by Charles B. Parker,
'74, M.D., of Cleveland, O.
There is manifest a better spirit in athletics than ever before.
The Field Day held May 2 1 was the best we have ever had. Cort-
land R. Myers, '87, was one of the committee of arrangements, and
this meant a great deal towards success. Delta U. was not very
prominent in the contests, but we took a number of prizes. The
class of '89 covered itself with glory, winning the relay race, the tug-
of-war, and taking nearly every first prize. But they needed it, for
only the day before the Sophomores had eluded them and escaped
to Owasco Lake, where they cremated Calculus.
'86 will probably not observe Class Day. There is a political
difficulty which they cannot surmount. Alpha Delta Phi and Psi
Upsilon both mean to have orators, and neither one will yield ; con-
sequently. Class Day will have to be passed over.
Our Chapter is suffering in the sickness of two members. Fred
L. Cody, '86, has been confined at home since March, and Charles
E. Burr, '89, has been sick with typhoid fever for four weeks. In
the death of Brother Riddell, '88, our Chapter lost one of its best
men.
CHAPTER NEWS. 1 75
Brother Crossett, New York, '84, of the Quarterly, spent a
day or two with us recently.
There has been considerable delay in the publication of the an-
nual, the Interpres, but now that it is out, it is spoken of in terms of
praise.
We are heartily in favor of extension, both in establishing new
chapters, where it may seem desirable, and in reviving old ones.
RUTGERS college.
Peter Stillwell, '86, is the senior editor on one of our Targums,
and Thurston W. Challen, '87, is an associate editor on both.
Asa Wynkoop, '87, has received the $60 prize for an essay on
Christian Missions founded by Brother A. V. W. Van Vechten,
WiliiamSy '47.
William P. Merrill, '87, is the chorister of the Chapel choir for
the ensuing year.
Challen, Merrill, and Wynkoop, represent Delta U. on Junior
exhibition. Frank J. Sagendorph was one of the eight selected, but
declined, so that Challen might speak.
Thurston W. Challen, '87, and Sherman G. Pitt, '88, were the
delegates from Rutgers to the State Y.M.C.A. Convention, at Bur-
lington, on May i and 2.
Franklin A. Pattison is captain of '87 's base-ball team.
Sherman G. Pitt, '88, took the $10 prize for the best oration in
Philo, and Oscar M. Voorhees, '88, took the second prize for original
oration in Peitho.
Stephen J. Keefe, '89, is secretary, and William B. Tomkins, '88,
a director of the Athletic Association.
Byron Cummings, '89, of West Bangor, N. Y., was initiated on
May 18.
The Commencement appointments have been announced. Elmore
De Witt has third honor, and Louis B. Chamberlain fourth honor.
Our other '86 man, Peter Stillwell, receives an appointment for
scholarship.
At the Senior Class Banquet, on May 25, Louis B. Chamberlain
toasted " The College," Frederick B. Deshler, " Our Absent Mem-
bers," and Peter Stillwell, " The Ladies."
176 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
MADISON UNIVERSITY.
Frank C. Barrett, '88, will go to Wisconsin for the summer.
Albert E. Seagrave, '86, is preaching at Point Grain, N. Y.
William H. Cossum, '87, expects to spend the summer vacation
in Wisconsin.
Frederic W. Rowe, '87, expects to visit the West and South
during the summer.
Frederick M. Crossett, New York^ '84, paid us a short visit
recently.
Edward M. Jeffers, '87, will spend the summer preaching for the
Baptist Church, at Ingham's Mills, N. Y.
The following Delta U's have entered the lists for prizes:
Lasher essay prize, Owen Cassidy, '87 ; Chemical prize, William
F. Langworthy, '87, Owen Cassidy, '87, Frederic W. Rowe, '87 ;
Greek prize, Oscar R. McKay, '87 ; Allen prize essay, George W.
Douglass, *88, Irving A. Douglass, '88, Philip C. Payne, *^%y Fenton
C. Rowell, '88 ; Mathematical prize, Fenton C. Rowell, '88, Clajrton
Grinnell, '88 ; Kingsford prize declamations, Frederic W. Rowe, '87,
Edward M. Jeffers, '87, George W. Douglass, '88, Irving A. Doug-
lass, '88, Creighton R. Story, Alfred W. Wishart, '89.
Edward E. Whitford, '86, has been appointed Assistant In-
structor in French in the University — a recognition of faithful
work done by him in that department.
UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
Commencement appointments have been made for the class of
*86, and Charles Holmes Roberts is Valedictorian ; he also receives
the first fellowship of $300, which is the only one granted this year.
J. Harker Bryan is appointed to deliver an oration.
William Francis Campbell and Arthur Herbert Cameron, '87,
have been elected members of Phi Beta Kappa, and are now en-
titled to the privilege of wearing the famous key.
In the Class Day exercises of '86, to be held on June 14, Joseph
Harker Bryan will make the Presentation Addresses, and John Stanley
Lyon has been chosen Poet. Bryan is chairman of the committee
on arrangements.
The University Glee Club, which has given thirty-one concerts
this year, will sing at Class Day exercises, and then disband until
fall. J. Harker Bryan, '86, to whose untiring efforts so much of the
CHAPTSR NEWS. 1 77
success of the club is due — will probably renew his connection with
them in the fall. At the concert given in Chickering Hall, May 4,
seven members of the Club were Delta U's, including the leader
and accompanist
We are glad to hear of the plans concerning a Delta U. house
in this city this fall, and one or two of our men will probably take
up quarters there.
Commencement will take place on the 17th of June, at the Acad-
emy of MusiCy at 8 p.ic Our Chapter, as usual, will occupy one of
the proscenium boxes, and a cordial invitation is extended to Delta
U's to be present at the exercises, and occupy a seat in the box.
The Chapter banner will be suspended from the box, so its location
may be easily fixed.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
Frank W. Shepard, '86, and AUyn A. Packard, '86, represented
the Chapter at the Alpha Delta Phi reception, on the evening of
May 13.
George J. Tansey, '88, was chairman of the Sophomore Banquet
Committee, and James H. Edwards, '88, as president of the class,
responded, at the supper, to " The Class of *88."
James E. Russell and George M. Marshall, '87, were two of the
seven competitors in the Junior prize declamation contest, held May
27. The latter received the second prize, which entitles him to a
prominent mention on the Commencement programme and in the
Register of the college.
The annual publication of Cornell, the Cornellian^ that has just
appeared, has two of its seven editors from Delta Upsilon, namely,
George M. Marshall and Albert R. Warner, '87, the latter named
being editor-in-chief.
Charles W. Horr, Jr., '87, is the fastest short-distance runner in
college, and the fastest sprinter in the New York State collegiate
world. At the recent New York Intercollegiate Field Day Sports,
at Utica, he won the 100 and 220-yards dashes, without any apparent
effort. At the intercollegiate games held in New York city, he won
his heat, making the same time as that by which the final was won.
James H. Edwards, '88, is the president of his class, and stands
at the head of his class in the course in civil engineering.
178 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
The Chapter has received pleasant calls from Delta U's on the
Syracuse University's base-ball nine, and expects to entertain mem-
bers of Hamilton^ Uniofiy and others, when they come this way.
Charles W. Horr, Jr., '87, has been elected to the board of
editors of the SuUy the Cornell daily for the year 1886-87.
Allyn A. Packard, Frank W. Shepard, '86, Albert R. Warner,
'87, George J. Tansey, '88, Arthur M. Curtis, and George C. Shep-
ard, '89, were guests of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, at a
recent german.
Frank W. Shepard, '86, was computer on the annual engineering
survey of Lake Keuka, during the two middle weeks of May.
Charles H. Hull and Frank W. Shepard received Conunencement
appointments.
Allyn A. Packard, '86, was a member of the Class Day and Ball
Committees of the Senior class.
We have initiated James Harvey Edwards, '88, of Oxford, N. Y.,
and Eads Bates, '89, of Dardenne, Mo.
The Chapter will lose three "bright and shining lights" at the
end of the year, in Allyn A. Packard and Frank W. Shepard, '86, and
George J. Tansey, '88. Charles H. Hull, *86, who resides in Ithaca^
although graduated in June, will, we hope, be with us for some time
to come.
George M. Marshall, '87, is president of the Seabury Guild, and
is also acting president of his class, in the absence from college of
the regularly elected president.
Edward T. Parsons, Rochestety '86, recently paid us a pleasant
visit
An Historical and Political Science Association, similar to the
one in Michigan University, has been organized here by President
C. K. Adams, Professors Moses Coit Tyler, Herbert Tuttle, and H.
C. Adams, the first named as president of the society. Several of
our members are interested, Charles H. Hull, '86, being secretary.
Henry C. Olmsted, '85, attended our reception on the evening
of April 30. He was cordially welcomed, but his visit was too
brief.
The Chapter has recently been " taken " for its annual photo-
graph. The result is one of the best group pictures we have had for
years
CHAPTER NEWS. 1 79
Charles H. Hull, '86, is Historian of his class for the Class Day
exercises.
Theta Nu Epsilon is bound to be exterminated, as far as the
Cornell Chapter of Delta Upsilon is concerned.
At a regular meeting, some time ago, the following self-explana-
tory resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Whereas^ It is deemed advisable and expedient to emphasize that portion of our
Constitution which relates to the qualifications for membership (Sec. 3, Art. II.),
be it
Resoived^ That the following pledge be signed by all who take the pledge of
initiation ;
Resolved^ That the pledge be printed in the form of a book ;
Resolved^ That these Resolutions be printed in the front of the said book.
The pledge referred to reads as follows :
Ithaca, N. Y 18S
I do hereby assert upon my word of honor that I do not belong to the college
secret organization known as Theta Nu Epsilon, and I also faithfully and solemnly
promise that I never will have any connection with that organization as long as I
am a member of the Cornell Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.
[Signed] .
This pledge, in addition to its being required of each new mem-
ber, has been signed by every member of the Chapter.
MARIETTA COLLEGE.
Rufus C. Dawes and Charles S. Mitchell, '86, have been appointed
to deliver the Valedictory and Salutatory respectively, at the coming
Commencement, June 30. "Brother Mitchell will be the fourth Phi
Beta Kappa man, and the third Salutatorian from his family, his
brothers Prof. Oscar H. Mitchell and John Q. Mitchell having had
that honor in '75 and '80, and all Delta U's.
In '87, Fred E. Corner, Edward B. Haskell and William A. Shedd
are competitors for the Junior Rhetorical prize. The subjects as-
signed for the essays are, "The Ordinance of 1787," "William Pitt,
the younger," and " Longfellow as a Poet." Shedd is one of Alpha
Kappa's, and Haskell one of Psi Gamma's representatives on
Junior exhibition, held at Commencement. Brother Shedd attended
the Lane Theological Commencement, which took place on May 6.
While at the Seminary, he had the pleasure of meeting several Delta
U*s, among them Kuhn, of Adelbert^ '82; Nelson of Amherst^ '81;
Adair of Hamilton^ '84, and Shane of Marietta^ '83.
The prize declaimers have been appointed, and of the five Soph-
omores, four are Delta U. men, viz, : William B. Addy, Walter G.
Beach, Benjamin W. Labaree and Robert M. Labaree.
l8o DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
June x8 is the date set for the Annual Field Day. In lodoiig
over the four past years' programmes in my possession, I find that the
number of prizes offered (excluding class prizes) averaged 20'^ pe
annum, and that on an average 10^ of these were taken by our
men, leaving io}i to be divided between the other three fraternities.
Unless all signs fail, we shall secure a goodly number this month.
The college as a whole is in good condition. Last year it awoke
to the common-sense view of advertising; vtz.y to do lots of it In
addition to this, the impetus received from the celebration of the
Semi-centennial, a year since, has moved things forward strongly.
An entering class of 25 or 30 is expected next fall, and we are
happy to state that seven of them, "good men and true," have already
pledged to Delta Upsilon.
Phi Gamma Delta, the only general fraternity besides our own in
college, is also in prosperous condition. She now ranks third in
numbers, having more than doubled her membership within the
past year, and stands well generally. Her delegation in '90 numbers
about the same as ours. We are glad to see her success, since we
prefer the rivalry of general to that of local fraternities.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY.
Milton N. Frantz, Frederic B. Price, and William A. Wilson
have been appointed Commencement Speakers.
Walter S. Eaton, '87, will be away from College the rest of this
term, having temporarily assumed the Pastorate of the Methodist
Church at Newcomb, N. Y.
Dewitt Spink Hooker, '87, of Syracuse, N. Y., was initiated
on the evening of June 4.
Milton J. Fletcher, '88, has been appointed one of the speakers
at the annual Sophomore Exhibition.
Levi S. Chapman, '89, is temporarily absent from College, having
charge of the Fayetteville Union School.
Frederick C. Lyford, * 88, is out of College this term, but will
return next year.
At the last Field meeting of the Athletic Association, John S.
Bovingdon, '87, bettered the College record in putting the shot, and
throwing the hammer; and Arthur B. Clark, '88, and Charles S. Rob-
ertson, '89, broke the record in the 220-yards run, and Robertson in
the 440-yards run.
CHAPTER NEWS. l8l
At the New York State Intercollegiate Field meeting at Utica
N. Y., May 26, Bovingdon did the mile walk in 8m. 8s., lowering the
record.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
George E. Howes won second prize in the '86 tennis tournament.
He also delivers the Latin Oration Commencement Day. Delta U.
knows how to unite athletics with excellence in the classics.
Wilton L. Currier, '87, took a second prize at the Boylston Prize
Speaking.
Frank N. Nay, formerly Amherst^ '87, now Harvard^ '87, has
been received into our Chapter.
Walter P. White, Amherst, '87, recently visited us in our new
rooms.
We report the following initiates : James Harvey Robinson,
Bloomington III; Edward Gardner Tewksbury, East Somerville,
Mass.; and Frank Vogel, Boston, Mass., all from '87. We shall
initiate no more men this term.
Here is the result of our annual election of certain officers: Cor-
responding Secretary, Howard H. C. Bingham, 23 College House,
Cambridge, Mass.; Permanent Secretary, Robert S. Bickford, 59
Matthews, Cambridge, Mass; Associate Editor Quarterly, Frank
N. Nay, 18 Thayer, Cambridge, Mass.; Business Editor, Quarterly,
Frank Vogel, 22 College House, Cambridge, Mass.
Fred M. Crossett, Nov York, '84, who stepped over from New
York the other day to see us, suggested the appointment of a per-
manent secretary as a centre of correspondence for our Alumni. We
call brother Crossett's attention to the election item just above.
A number of our men recently went down to Brown, and were
gratified with the cordial reception tendered them. Their report
was heard with much enjoyment by the stay-at-homes.
Frank Vogel, '87, has been elected president of the Harvard
Dining Association, a position that stamps the holder a man of
ability.
Of our seventeen *86 men, fifteen are entitled to Commencement
parts, and ten are members of Phi Beta Kappa.
Our orchestra is a gratifying success, and adds much to the
pleasure of our meetings.
l8a DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
The lacrosse team from the University of the City of New York
recently visited Cambridge, and we were pleased to find four mem-
bers of the team Delta U's, including Charles H. Roberts, the cap-
tain of the team. With them came Fred. M. Crossett, Ntw York^
'84, who spent several days with us before his return to New York.
May 26 marked another pleasant episode in the history of the
Harvard Chapter — and say, Brother Atkinson, Brown^ '79, was
toast-master. We take this occasion solemnly to warn every member
of the Fraternity against this broker of jokes ; for he lies in ambush
under a loaded horse-chestnut tree, ready to bombard the unsuspect-
ing, and when weary of climbing the big tree in search of unshelled
fruit, he scruples not to rake together as ammunition the scattered
heaps of disintegrated kernels lying about on the ground. The cele-
bration was in honor of Brown^ which had sent up a delegation of
eight men. Now, that the persistent odor of musty chestnuts has at
last gone from our hall, and the inner man resumed his normal func-
tions, we feel that the visit has strengthened the close friendship
which has this year made Brown and Harvard practically one.
Brother Alderson, '85, came from far-off Indiana expressly for the
purpose of attending the gathering ; and he was well repaid for his
trouble. Our Alumni were represented by Frank G. Cook, '82,
Augustus M. Lord, '83, Robert S. Bickford, and George W. Rolfe,
'85. This meeting closes our work for the year.
But our Strawberry night and Class Day spread are yet to come ;
and after Class Day, we mean to go on a Delta U. tramp, a distance
of twenty miles or more, before we finally separate.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
During the Easter vacation. Brother John F. Fitschen, Jr., Wil-
liamSy '89, visited our Chapter, and we spent a very pleasant evening
with him.
We have planned a pleasant camping expedition for two weeks,
an account of which will be given in the next number of the
Quarterly.
Oscar J. Cohen, '86, will speak the Greek salutatory at Com-
mencement, the highest honor of the class.
Joseph G. Snyder, '86, has been awarded the Alumni prize, which
is given to the '' most faithful and deserving student of the Senior
class."
IN MEMORIAM. 1 83
Hamilton L. Marshall, '86, did not return to college this year.
Chauncey B. Stone, '87, is a second tenor on the College Glee
Club.
Last year, one of our men took the highest honor — the Saluta-
tory — at Commencement, and another, the prize awarded to the
" most faithful and deserving student of the Senior class." We are
happy to report that these two honors have again fallen to Delta U's.
In flDemoriam«
HIRAM PRATT RIDDELL.
ROCHESTER, '88.
On the 1 8th of April, 1886, at his home in Canisteo, N. Y., our
brother, H. P. Riddell, breathed his last. He was born in Canisteo,
October 20, 1864. He early in life manifested a desire for a liberal
education, and after graduating from the Canisteo Academy, in 1882,
he spent two years at Cook Academy, Havana, N. Y., completing his
preparation for college, from which institution he graduated with a
fine record for scholarship, in the class of *84. The following autumn,
he entered the class of '88 at the University of Rochester. From
the first, he took a high rank in his class, and though sadly hampered
by illness, which caused him to lose the last term of the Freshman
year, he nobly maintained his position. During his work at Roches-
ter, he earned an enviable reputation for manliness and uprightness,
and he was both respected and loved by all who knew him. Above
all, he was an earnest, consistent Christian. His noble Christian
character made a strong impression on all his friends and acquaint-
ances.
He was an active member of the Baptist Church at his home, and
in Rochester attended regularly the Second Baptist Church. He
was an enthusiastic member of the Rochester Chapter of Delta Up-
silon, and was ever seeking to promote its interests.
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Brother Riddell's health, never good since his illness last spring,
had been gradually failing during the winter. He returned, how-
ever, after the spring vacation, and made an attempt to go on with
his work, but his shattered constitution would not allow it, and he
was obliged to return to his home, where he died after a short but
severe illness. The news of his decease cast a gloom over the college,
and his Chapter in particular.
The President of the University and several of the members of
the Faculty paid high tribute to his sterling character and high moral
worth.
The funeral services, conducted by the Rev. Joel Hendrick, pastor
of the Baptist Church, were held at Canisteo, April 21, and were
largely attended. The profusion of the floral offerings, and the
sorrow manifested by those who were present, testified to the esteem
in which our departed brother was held by all. Delegates from the
Rochester Chapter and from the class of '88 were in attendance, and
magnificent and appropriate floral tributes were sent by both bodies.
The following resolutions were adopted by the Chapter :
Whereas^ we have learned with the deepest sorrow and pain of the death of our
beloved brother, Hiram Pratt Riddell, of the class of '88, and would seek some way
in which to convey to those who mourn his early death, our sympathy with them in
their affliction, which we, too, feel ; therefore, be it
Resolved^ That in his death, the Rochester Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Frater-
nity has lost one of its most active and efficient workers, and that we as individuals
mourn the loss of a true friend and loyal brother ;
Resolved^ That we extend our heartfelt S3rmpathy to the bereaved family, and,
believing in the goodness of God, that we intercede with Him to lighten their
sorrow ;
Resolved^ That a copy of these resolutions be entered on the minutes of this
society, that a copy be sent to his family, and that they be printed in the Delta
Upsilon Quarterly and Rochester Campus.
Herbert A. Manchester, '87,
Fred A. Race, '87,
Samuel M. Brickner, *88,
Burton S. Fox, '89.
Committee.
GREEK LETTER GOSSIP.
Sigma Chi has established a Chapter (Alpha Omicron) at the
Tulane University of New Orleans.
Phi Delta Theta has been established at Cornell with a goodly
number of members and a Chapter house.
The Fifty-third Annual Convention of the Alpha Delta Phi
Fraternity, held with the Cornell Chapter, May ii, 12, and 13, was,
on the whole, quite successful. The literary exercises were tame,
indeed, but the ball was a brilliant success.
Bowdoin seems likely to become the Mecca of all non-fraternity
men. There are 121 students in the College, all but five of whom
(one Senior, one Junior, two Sophomores, and one Freshman) are
members of the Chapters of Alpha Delta Phi, Psi Upsilon, Delta
Kappa Epsilon, Theta Delta Chi, and Zeta Psi, located there.
A collegiate branch of the New York City Sorosis was organized
in the University the 14th of May, 1886. Rumors of an attempt to
secure a college branch of this society have appeared recently in the
New York and Chicago papers, but the well-known exclusive
character of Sorosis, and the fact that, with many imitators, it had
never recognized any organization as a branch of its own, led many
to doubt entfrely the success of the proposed movement.
The following extract is from the official communication of the
corresponding secretary of the New York Sorosis, notifying the
Collegiate Sorosis of the favorable action taken on its petition :
" Sorosis accepts your proposition with pleasure, thanks you for the
gracious compliment implied, extends to you the right hand of fel-
lowship, and promises to assist you by her support and protection in
your advancement in all excellent things."
The fame and influence of the New York Sorosis are wide-spread.
Its active members are from among the most gifted, brilliant, and
useful of the women of New York City and its immediate neighbor-
hood, and upon its roll of honorary members have been inscribed,
during the eighteen years of its existence, the names of some of the
l86 DELTA UP51LON QUARTERLY.
most distinguished women of the age, both at home and abroad.
Among them are Alice and Phoebe Cary, Frances Power Cobbe,
George Eliot, Lucretia Mott, Paulina Wright Davis, Haria Mitchell,
George Sand, and Harriet Mosmer.
The members of Collegiate Sorosis, as founded here, arc from the
three classes above the Freshman class, and the society, in its aim
and organization, follows the New York Sorosis. — Michigan Arp-
naut.
Mr. W. B. Smith, '87, a Chi Phi from the Ohio State Univeraty,
writes in the April Chi Phi Quarterly about fraternities at Cornell
University as follows :
" Fraternity life at Cornell College is especi^ly active, the leading iDen
being connected with the different organizations. All the College moventents
are inaugurated and managed by Greek-letter men. Chapter houses abound,
the Chapters are wealthy, and the 'mystic life' may be studied in its most
complete and comfortable aspect. There are Chapters of Psi Upsilon, Kappa
Alpha. Alpha Delta Phi, Zeta Psi. Theta Delta Chi, Phi Kappa Psi, Chi Psi.
Beta Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Delta Upsilon, with odd men in
DelU Tau Delta. Phi Delta Theta. Chi Phi and a few othere. Alpha Delta
Phi. Zeta Psi and Psi Upsilon have Chapter houses of their own. and, witb
the Kappa Alpha, have the choice of men. They have a membership of
about twenty each, ei^cepting Zeta Psi, which averages fifteen. This frater-
nity is the most select and richest in the College, having a handsome house
and no debt. The Kappa Alpha, however, are perhaps even in a better
financial condition, having several members of the faculty. It will probably
build a house this spring. The Theta Delta Chi have a very nice and
energetic set of men.
"The Delta Kappa Epsilon for years stood far in advance, but. owing
chiefly to the want of a Chapter house, have fallen and d^tindled away to nine
men. It is undoubtedly a fact that possessing a Chapter house enables a
fraternity to have the choice of men. Phi Kappa Psi has but eight or nmc
men, and exists more in a name than anything of influence. StOI worse is
Beta Theta Pi — few men and not very select. One of them has distinguished
himself as an ardent and noisy member of the Salvation Army. The mem-
bers ot Delta Upsilon are mixed in appearance and disposition, but are in
common among the 'digs.' As a result of their hard work they do much in
the way of college honors. Chi Psi just started again last spring, and is not
making much headway. The field seems to be too well occupied already lor
the new-comer. Unless it could start with a Chapter house and a good fund
at its back, its chances of life are small."
If Mr. Smith has ever visited Cornell University, his article very
adroitly conceals the fact, for it contains such clarin? misstatements
that they appear almost intentioi
which he mentions Zeta Psi, we car
lion has been gleaned from that
kind, but not fair. ZeU Psi has foi
GREEK LETTER GOSSIP. 1 87
Eastern fraternity at Cornell, and at the past five Commencements has
graduated less than seventeen per cent, of the total number of men
initiated. Her rented house is of no greater advantage to her than
those of Delta Kappa Epsilon or Phi Delta Theta, or the " blocks *'
of Kappa Alpha, Delta Upsilon, Theta Delta Chi, and Chi Psi ; and
it is Phi Kappa Psi and Beta Theta Pi only which are at a loss
for the want of attractive homes. Psi Upsilon and Alpha Delta
Phi, with elegant Chapter houses of their own, have a slight pres-
tige, and yet with Cornell Chapters, perhaps, more than with those
of any other college, it is the men, and not their surroundings, which
attract the new-comer. To the Chi Phi's correspondent, Chapter
houses must be a novel idea, for he invariably returns to them as
the basis of all success. Kappa Alpha, he thinks, is placed in a
better financial position than Zeta Psi, because the former has
several members in the faculty, but if wealth can be measured by
members of the faculty. Kappa Alpha would take only fourth place,
Psi Upsilon, Delta Upsilon, and Alpha Delta Phi ranking ahead of
her in the order named. Despite his opinion, too, that Chi Psi is
not making much headway, that society is progressing in a manner
which must be encouraging to its members. The treatment by the
writer of several of the other societies at Cornell is as unjust as it is
untrue. As to ourselves, we are satisfied to have a Chi Phi
term us '' digs," but we ask our sister societies at Cornell whether
we have earned this title ? We are conscious that we take our full
share of college honors, but we are also well represented on the
papers and in every other sphere of college life. And in conclusion
we would urge Chi Phi, as a fraternity, to follow a little more
closely in the footsteps of the "digs." Had she done so, her Xi
(Cornell) Chapter would not to-day be marked with an ♦, and the
authorities of Cornell University would not have deemed it neces-
sary for the protection of its students to close the doors of the
institution against any organized branch of the Chi Phi fraternity.
l86 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
most distinguished women of the age, both at home and abroad*
Among them are Alice and Phoebe Gary, Frances Power Cobbe,
George Eliot, Lucretia Mott, Paulina Wright Davis, Maria Mitchell,
George Sand, and Harriet Hosmer.
The members of Collegiate Sorosis, as founded here, are from the
three classes above the Freshman class, and the society, in its aim
and organization, follows the New York Sorosis. — Michigan Argo-
naut,
Mr. W. B. Smith, '87, a Chi Phi from the Ohio State University,
writes in the April Chi Phi Quarterly about fraternities at Cornell
University as follows :
" Fraternity life at Cornell College is especially active, the leading men
being connected with the different organizations. All the College movements
are inaugurated and managed bv Greek-letter men. Chapter houses abound*
the Chapters are wealthy, and the ' mystic life ' may be studied in its most
complete and comfortable aspect. There are Chapters of Psi Upsilon, Kappa
Alpha, Alpha Delta Phi, Zeta Psi, Theta Delta Chi, Phi Kappa Psi, Chi F^i.
Beta Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Delta Upsilon, with odd men in
Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Chi Phi and a few others. Alpha Delta
Phi, Zeta Psi and Psi Upsilon have Chapter houses of their own, and, with
the Kappa Alpha, have the choice of men. They have a membership of
about twenty each, excepting Zeta Psi, which averages fifteen. This frater-
nity is the most select and richest in the College, having a handsome house
and no debt. The Kappa Alpha, however, are perhaps even in a better
financial condition, having several members of the faculty, h will probably
build a house this spring. The Theta Delta Chi have a very nice and
energetic set of men.
*' The Delta Kappa Epsilon for years stood far in advance, but, owing
chiefly to the want of a Chapter house, have fallen and dwindled away to nine
men. It is undoubted! v a fact that possessing a Chapter house enables a
fraternity to have the cnoice of men. Phi Kappa Psi has but eight or nine
men, and exists more in a name than anything of influence. Still worse is
Beta Theta Pi — few men and not very select. One of them has distinguished
himself as an ardent and noisy member of the Salvation Army. The mem-
bers of Delta Upsilon are mixed in appearance and disposition, but are in
common among the ' digs.' As a result of their hard work they do much in
the way of college honors. Chi Psi just started again last spring, and is not
making much headway. The field seems to be too well occupied already for
the new-comer. Unless it could start with a Chapter house and a good fund
at its back, its chances of life are small."
If Mr. Smith has ever visited Cornell University^ his article very
adroitly conceals the fact, for it contains such glaring misstatements
that they appear almost intentional. From the ultra kindly way in
which he mentions Zeta Psi, we can but infer that much of his informa-
tion has been gleaned from that source. His treatment of her is
kind, but not fair. Zeta Psi has for years been regarded as the weakest
ALUMNI OF DELTA U. ' I9I
'45. Lawton S. Parsons, after leaving college, first taught school at East-
hampton, L. I., then commenced the study of law at Peekskill, N. Y., and
Easthampton, and was admitted to the bar. He practised for a while at
Sag Harbor, and then at Easthampton, where he died of typhoid fever, Decem-
ber 29, 1 86 1, aged 36 years.
'45. The Rev. Daniel S. Rodman taught in Buffalo, N. Y., 1845-46.
Studied in Yale Theological Seminary, 1846-48. Installed pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at Cheshire, Conn., 1849, and remained until 1855.
Taught in Wadawanuck Seminary, at Stonington, 1855-56, and in Montclair,
N. J., later on. He has delivered numerous lectures, and since 1882 has been
retired at Wellesley, Mass.
'45. George L. Squier taught school in Lanesboro, Mass., 1845-46. Later,
he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Springfield, Mass., in 1848.
He practised in Holyoke, 1848-50, and in Chicopee Falls, 1850-52. In 1852,
he became a member of the firm of Whittemore, Squier & Co., manufacturers
of agricultural implements, and in 1857 went to Buffalo, N. Y., as the head
of the Buffalo Agricultural Machine Works. He has been engaged in this
business since, and is now president of the George L. Squier Manufactur-
ing Co.
'45. George Stone taught near Elizabeth, N.J., 1845-49; then taught for
many years in South Orange, N. J., and in addition to his school had the
management of a farm. Aner about i860, he taught at Orange Valley and
Newark, N. J., and was connected with the Central Presbyterian Church at
Newark. About 1866, he purchased a piece of land at Maplewood, and
while building a house upon it, he was hurt by a fall, and died of his injuries,
February 25, 1868, aged 52 years.
'45. Lewis White taught at Lexinpon, Ky., 1843-45, and then started
overland for California, and farther into British America, as a teacher.
When the gold excitement broke out, he came back to California, and lived
there as a miner, mostly at Coulterville, Mariposa County. In 1 883, he left
for the East, and died two days after reaching his brother's house in Richland
Township, Holmes County, Ohio, January 2, 1884, aged 66 years.
'45. William P. White studied at Lane Theological Seminary, 1845-47;
principal of a seminary in Rising Sun, Ind., 1847-49. ^^ '^49 ^e went to
Evansville, Ind., and established himself as a merchant there, and later re-
turned to Rising Sun, from where he removed to Vevay. He died at Cin-
cinnati, O., of consumption, on May 3, 1870, aged 46 years.
'45. Hyman A. Wilder, bom at Cornwall, Vt., February 17, 1822;
graduated at Hartford Theological Seminary, 1848; ordained at South
Adams, Mass., as missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. to the Zulus, South Africa,
March 2, 1849; sailed from Boston April 7. Had charge of the mission
printing-press one year. In 1851, started a new station at Umtwalumi,
where he labored until 1875, when he took charge of a training school, till
sickness obliged him to leave his work. He reached America January, 1877,
and died at Hartford on the 7th of September following. He was for many
years secretary of the mission ; published an article on Polygamy against
Bishop Colenso. He was a self-sacrificing, zealous, untiring missionary.
He married Miss Abby Linsley, of Cornwall, Vt., February 23, 1849.
'46. Erastus Anderson left college in the fall of 1843, o^ account of de-
clining health, and died of consumption in Ware, Mass., August 6, 1844,
s^ed 25 years.
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most distinguished women of the age, both at home and abroad*
Among them are Alice and Phcebe Gary, Frances Power Cobbe,
George Eliot, Lucretia Mott, Paulina Wright Davis, Maria Mitchell,
George Sand, and Harriet Hosmer.
The members of Collegiate Sorosis, as founded here, are from the
three classes above the Freshman class, and the society, in its aim
and organization, follows the New York Sorosis. — Michigan Argo-
naut.
Mr. W. B. Smith, '87, a Chi Phi from the Ohio State University,
writes in the April Chi Phi Quarterly about fraternities at Cornell
University as follows :
" Fraternity life at Cornell College is especially active, the leading men
being connected with the different organizations. All the College movements
are inaugurated and managed bv Greek-letter men. Chapter houses abound,
the Chapters are wealthy, and the ' mystic life ' may be studied in its most
complete and comfortable aspect. There are Chapters of Psi Upsilon, Kappa
Alpha. Alpha Delta Phi, Zeta Psi. Theta Delta Chi. Phi Kappa Psi. Chi Psi,
Beta Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Delta Upsilon, with odd men in
Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Chi Phi and a few others. Alpha Delta
Phi, Zeta Psi and Psi Upsilon have Chapter houses of their own, and, with
the Kappa Alpha, have the choice of men. They have a membership of
about twenty each, excepting Zeta Psi, which averages fifteen. This frater-
nity is the most select and richest in the College, having a handsome house
and no debt. The Kappa Alpha, however, are perhaps even in a better
financial condition, having several members of the faculty, h will probably
build a house this spring. The Theta Delta Chi have a very nice and
energetic set of men.
" The Delta Kappa Epsilon for years stood far in advance, but, owing
chiefly to the want of a Chapter house, have fallen and dwindled away to nine
men. It is undoubtedly a fact that possessing a Chapter house enables a
fraternity to have the choice of men. Phi Kappa Psi has but eight or nine
men, and exists more in a name than anything of influence. Still worse is
Beta Theta Pi — few men and not very select. One of them has distinguished
himself as an ardent and noisy member of the Salvation Army. The mem-
bers of Delta Upsilon are mixed in appearance and disposition, but are in
common among the ' digs.' As a result of their hard work they do much in
the way of college honors. Chi Psi just started again last spring, and is not
making much headway. The field seems to be too well occupied already for
the new-comer. Unless it could start with a Chapter house and a good fund
at its back, its chances of life are small."
If Mr. Smith has ever visited Cornell University^ his article very
adroitly conceals the fact, for it contains such glaring misstatements
that they appear almost intentional. From the ultra kindly way in
which he mentions Zeta Psi, we can but infer that much of his informa-
tion has been gleaned from that source. His treatment of her is
kind, but not fair. Zeta Psi has for years been regarded as the weakest
I
ALUMNI OF DELTA U. 1 93
evening. Brother Goodrich has presented the Historical Society with some
very interesting relics of China and its people.
UNION COLLEGE.
'39. James M. Austin, ^ B K, resided in the City of New York, or in
some of the suburban cities or villages for the most of his time after grad-
uating. He connected himself with the Society of " Odd Fellows " and rose
to prominence therein, and enjoyed an emolument resulting therefrom, so
that he did not engage in any profession. He died in or near New York, three
or four years ago.
'39. George W. Huston, ^ B K, after graduating, engaged in teaching,
as principal of an Academy at Mayville, Chautauqua County, N. Y., and died
there in 1843.
'39. The Rev. Lawrence Mercereau died yesterday at his home, No. 28
Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn. He was bom in 1812, in Union, Broome
county, N. Y. He graduated from Union College in 1839, and three years
later was graduated from Union Theological Seminary. He then entered
the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, and in 1854 became principal of the
Little Falls N. Y. Academy. He moved to Brooklyn in 1859, and in i860
founded the Lafayette Institute at No. 1 50 Lafayette Avenue. He retired in
1872.— The New York Times,
'39. John W. Nelson, 9BK, was a son of the Hon. Judge Nelson of
Cooperstown, N. Y., studied law, after graduating, and died at Cooperstown
very soon after entering upon his profession.
'39. William Patton, resided at Geneva, N. Y., for some years after
graduating, where he was connected with a hotel.
'39. Ambrose Wager, resided at Hudson, N. Y., after leaving college,
studied and practised law there, and was prominent in the profession. He
died in 1863.
'39. Francis J. Warner was instructor of languages in a college in the
State of Delaware. Afterwards studied and took Orders in the Episcopal
Church, under the supervision of Bishop Alonzo Potter, in Philadelphia.
He was Rector of a church in Wakefield, R. 1., and afterwards at Olneyville,
R. I., where he died about twenty years ago.
'41. David H. Crittenden, ^ B K, became a teacher and a leader of
teachers institutes in various places. He published a Grammar and an
Arithmetic, and about twenty years ago, was teaching in the Academy at
Malone, N. Y. He subsequently became blind, and though he is still believed
to be engaged in institute work, track of him has been lost.
'47. The Rev. William Calderwood was Volume Agent for the Tract
Society for Massachusetts ; City Missionary in Cambridge, Mass., and has
been a missionary of the Presbyterian Board, 23 Centre Street, New York
City. He was stationed at Saharaupur, India, 1855-83, and has been at
Muzaffarnagar since the latter date. He has published numerous religious
articles. He writes the Information Bureau under date of April 27, 1886:
''When I entered the Junior class, at Union College, in 1845, the Equitable
Union was defunct, and I was among several of those who revived it. I
think the first badge we had was a cravat pin in black and gold, an ' A ' over
an *0.' This moment I have before me the gold key which was the badge
when I was graduated. On one side is ovSer adtfXov — the figure of the sun
194 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
and Union College; on the obverse is W. N. Calderwood. £. U., 1833. I
have always disapproved of secret societies, and have declined earnest
solicitations to join several. I heartily wish the Delta Upsilon Fraternity the
most complete success.''
'55. Henry D. Burlineame is an Attorney and Counselor at law at 50
State Street, Albany, N. Y.
'55. William W. Kirby is in the real estate business, in the Borell Build-
ing, 1 1 5 Broadway, New York, N. Y. His residence is Roslyn, L. I.
'50. Adoniram J. Blakely read law at Pawlet and Albany, N. Y., gradu-
ated from the Law School in 1861, and commenced practice at Port Henry,
N. Y. In 1862, enlisted in Co. B, 14th Vt. Vol. Inf., was commissioned ist
Lieutenant, and served as such until the discharge of the regiment, July 30,
1863 ; shipped fine stock from Vermont to the West, 1865-67, and in the lat-
ter year located in Grinnell, la., where he has remained since, engaged in
farming, live-stock growing, and shipping grain. He has been assessor of
Grinnell township, and secretary of the township school board since 1881,
and is at present secretary and treasurer of the Iowa State Wool Growers'
Association. He has written extensively on Agriculture, Government
Finances, etc., etc.
'59. Sheldon £. Blakely graduated at the Albany Law School in i860,
and practised law in Minneapolis until 1868. He was then engaged in stock-
raising at Grinnell, la., when he removed to Colorado, in 1873. A few years
later, he went to San Francisco, and for the past years has been in mercantile
business. His present address is 1,065 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal.
He has two brothers in the fraternity, both members of the Union Chapter :
Adoniram J. Blakely, '59, of Grinnell, la., and Collins Blakely, '61, of Mont-
pelier, Vt.
'78. Lewis A. Cass, Esq., of Albany, N. Y., was recently married to
Miss Landon, daughter of Judge Landon, of Schenectady, N. Y. Mrs. Cass
is a sister of Robert J. and Wuliam P. Landon, Union, '80 and '85.
*8o. Frederick T. Rogers, M.D., of Westerly, R. I., has gone abroad on
account of ill health.
'80. Everet T. Tomlinson has been offered the presidency of the college
at Kalamazoo, Mich. Ginn & Co., of Boston, Mass., have just published a
teict book of his, entitled, " Selections from Latin Authors for Sight Read-
mg.
'85. William C. Mills, Jr., is studying law at Gloversville. N. Y.
HAMILTON COLLEGE.
'48. The Rev. Stewart Sheldon has been appointed Field Secretary of
the American Congregational Union, with his office in Boston, Mass. Brother
Sheldon was formerly of Yankton, Dakota.
'50. Prof. Ira W. Allen, A.M., LL.D., president of the famous AUen
Academy, 1832-36, Michigan Boulevard, will spend the summer in Dresden.
He will sail with his family from New York early in July.
'53. The Rev. Edward Payson Powell is one of the contributors to the
best historical magazine published in America ; that of Mrs. Martha J. Lamb»
30 Lafayette Place, New York.
ALUMNI OF DELTA U. I95
'57. The Rev. Arthur T. Picrson, D.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., has been a
contributor of twelve articles, entitled, " Leaves from a Pastor's Note Book,"
to the HomiUtic Review,
'66. The Rev. Henry Loomis writes the Information Bureau as follows,
from Yokohama, Japan, under date of May 8, 1886 : "I studied theologv at
Auburn Seminary from 1866 to 1869. I preached at Menominee, Mich., three
months in 1868, and organized the Presbyterian Church at that place; then
preached one year (1871) at Jamesville, N. Y., and went to Japan, in 1872, as
missionary. I returned to the United States in 1876 on account of poor health,
and resided in California until 1881. I was appointed Agent of the American
Bible Society in Japan in May. 1881 ; reached there in August, 1881, and am
still engaged in this work. I enlisted in the 146th Rgt., N. Y. S. Vols., in
August, 1862, was promoted to 2d lieutenant in January, 1863, to ist lieu-
tenant in 1864, and captain in 1865, twice brevetted for bravery and
meritorious conduct in the battle-field, and was recommended for a third
brevet during the closing campaign. I was in the battles of Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristol Station, Rappahannock Station, Mine
Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Northanver, Tolopotoing, Cold Harbor,
Siege of Petersbure^, The Mine, Raid to Hicksford, Weldon R.R. (three
battles), Bethesda Church, White Oak Road, Hatcher's Run, Gravelly Run,
Five Forks and Appomattox Court House. I was discharged with the regi
ment in July, 1865, and returned to college and graduated in 1866."
'69. Prof. Francis M. Burdick, Dean of the Hamilton College Law
School, has an article on " Special Legislation as to Cities," in the March
number of the Citizen.
'69. Prof. Elliot R. Payson, of Binghamton, N. Y., has written an article
for the April number of the Academy — asking, "How far can Literary and
Rhetorical work be carried in our High Schools ?"
'72. The Victorian Age has a competent and pleasing reviewer in Albert
L. Blair, whose lecture, bearing the above title, has held the close attention
of ma^y audiences. Mr. Blair, formerly of the Troy Times, and now
managing editor of the Daily Saratogian, sets forth in most attractive
l^ngua^e the great achievements of the last half century of England, under
the reign of Victoria. The governmental reforms — the penny post, the
repeal of the com laws, the abolition of slavery, the extension of the suf-
frage, the disestablishment of the Irish Church ; the achievements of science,
which include the adaptation of steam, the wondrous application of elec-
tricity, and the birth of theories and systems of scientific thought that have
made mental battle-fields for the world; the triumph of individuals —
Victoria as a queen, Albert as a patron of science and the arts, Disraeli
and Gladstone as premiers. O'Connell as a ruler of popular passion; the
creations of literature, culminating in Darwin's and Spencer's works, in
science, in Tennyson's epics and odes, in poetry, and in the humor of
Dickens, the satire of Thackeray, and the soul-searching analysis of George
Eliot, among writers of prose — all were discussed with delicate discrimina-
tion and delightful diction. The lecture was, perhaps, most admirable for
its fascinating portraits. A few graphic touches for each man and his sur-
roundings, and the result was a veritable picture-gallery of England's great.
The discourse is an attractive illustration of the popular upheavals which,
like the tide-rising, have carried upon their bosoms English institutions,
willing or unwilling, and set them farther ahead than the previous generation
196 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
could have dreamed of. Mr. Blair's summary of England's recent develop-
ment deserves a large hearing wherever presented. — Hamilton Lit,
'75. The Rev. Junius J. Cowles has accepted a call to the Presbyterian
Church, in Adams, N. Y. He was formerly at Fairhaven.
*77. Prof. George Griffith, of Lockport, N. Y., has received an excellent
appointment to the Professorship of the Science and Art of Education, in the
new State Normal School, at New Paltz, N. Y. He will enter upon his
duties next September.
'77. Prof. Jacob Streibert occupies two chairs of instruction at Gambler,
O. ; one is the Chair of Hebrew, in the Theological School, the other is
that of Greek, in the college.
'84. Louis A. Scovel, M.D., has hung out his " shingle " at Cazenovia,
N. Y.
AMHERST COLLEGE.
'56. The Rev. Hiram C. Haydn, of Cleveland, O., is among those spoken
of for the presidency of Adelbert College, East Cleveland, O.
'81. Starr J. Murphy is a lawyer in the Trinity Building, iii Broadway,
New York City.
'82. Prof. Frank L. Nason, of the Troy Polytechnic Institute, is to go to
South America as geologist for a Chicago mining corporation.
'82. Frank C. Partridge, Esq., of Middlebury, Vt., is treasurer of the
Vermont Marble Co., the Rutland and Tidewater R. R., the Clarendon and
Pittsford R. R. ; acting treasurer and a director of the Producers' Marble
Co. of Vermont, which last year shipped six thousand car-loads of marble.
He is also a director of the Rutland Evening Telegram,
'82. Fletcher D. Proctor, son of ex-Governor Proctor, of Middlebury,
was married at Westford, Vt., May 26, to Miss Minnie, E. Robinson of that
place. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John K. Williams, Mid-
dlebury, '60.
'84. Edward M. Bassett graduated recently from the Columbia Law
School.
COLBY UNIVERSITY.
'62. The Rev. William C. Barrows is supplying the pulpit of the Baptist
Church at Lisbon Falls. Me.
'63. Ex-Governor Marcellus L. Steams, president of our last annual
Convention, is now abroad.
'80. Prof. Charles H. Case is reported very sick in South Pasadena, Cal.
'80. The Rev. John E. Case is engs^ed in missionary work in Burmah.
'82. The Rev. Frederic W. Farr, pastor of Adam Street Baptist Church,
was married, May 27. to Miss Susie A. Coltman, of Portland.
'83. Charles H. Hanson and George W. Hanson graduated from the
Law Department of Boston University at the late Commencement.
'84. Willard K. Clement, who is studying in Germany, has a brief, but
soul-stirring article on "Postpositive Etenim,' in the Journal of Philology
for April.
'84. Herbert M. Lord, who has been one of the editors on the Courier-
Gazette, Rockland, has been engaged as editor of the Waterville Sentinel,
He began his work on the Sentinel, May ist.
ALUMNI OF DELTA U. I97
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.
'63. Joseph O'Connor, editor of the Post Express, of Rochester, N. Y.,
has articles in the annual of the American Cyclopcedia on Victor Hugo,
General McClellan, and Cardinal McCloskey. In the preface, Mr. O'Connor
is spoken of as "one of our brightest journalists and ablest students of
American history." Brother O'Connor reads the Poem before the Alumni
Association at Conmiencement.
'64. The Hon. Sereno E. Payne, of Auburn, N. Y., who made a long
and interesting ar^ment in the House in support of the report of the ma-
jority of the Elections Committee to retain Mr. Romeis, of Ohio, and refuse
to seat Mr. Hurd, who made a contest for it, was complimented highly by
his Republican associates for his effort. He was so acceptable to his side,
that other Republicans yielded their time to him rather than interrupt his
argument. The impression among members of the House is that the ma-
jority report will be adopted. — New York Times,
67, The Rev. Charles D. Morris, D.D., of Gloucester, Mass., delivered
the annual address before the Alumni of the Rochester Theological Semi-
nary at its Commencement. His subject was, "The Dependence of the
Pulpit upon the Church."
'69. Joseph McMaster, formerly a United States Indian Agent, has gone
West to establish a cattle ranch.
'74. Charles B. Parker, M.D., of Cleveland, O., who is to deliver the ora-
tion before the Alumni at the approaching University Commencement, stands
in the foremost rank of the medical profession, and is pleasantly remembered
by hosts of friends in this city. He was a vigorous and effective speaker
while in college, and an extended course of foreign study has given him a
breadth and liberality of thought which are likely to make his Alumni address
an attractive feature of Commencement week.
'80. The Rev. William F. Faber. of Westfield, N. Y., has published, by
request, a series of sermons delivered before his own congregation. The
book has attracted considerable notice, and is spoken of highly.
'81. The Rev. Daniel J. Ellison has been given a vacation by his church
at Bergen, N. J., and will take an extended trip through Europe.
'83. Walter Rauschenbusch was appointed, on the ground of superior
scholarship, to speak at the Commencement of the Rochester Theological
Seminary. He spoke on " The Ethics of Thought." He also took part in
the exercises of the German department of the same Seminary, delivering an
address on " Character." Brother Rauschenbusch graduated from the gym-
nasium of Genterlah, Germany, primus omnium, in 1883. He has been
called to the pastorate of the Second German Baptist Church of New
York, N. Y.
•
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE.
'64. The Rev. George H. Bailey, of the Congregational Church of Mo-
ravia, N. Y., declines a call to a church in Salt Lake City, Utah.
'68. Prof. Edwin H. Higley, of Worcester, Mass., will deliver the Alumni
Oration at Commencement.
'72. The address of the Rev. Kerr C. Anderson, D.D., is Bradford, Eng.»
instead of Manchester, as previously given.
198 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
'72. The Rev. Henry M. Ladd, D.D., is chairman of the general com-
mittee of arrangements for the Congress of Churches soon to be held in
Cleveland, O.
78. The Rev. Edwin £. Rogers, pastor of the Allen Street Presbyterian
Church of New York, N. Y., has resigned.
'79. Henry W. Hulbert is one of three men nominated by Commissioner
of Education Eaton to go to Corea and introduce the English language and
American systems of education, the Corean government having asked ours to
select men for that purpose.
*8i. The Rev. James L. Barton, of Harpoot, Turkey, contributed an
interesting article on depreciated currency to a recent number of the New
York Tribung,
'82. The Rev. Henry E. Howard, having served three years as pastor of
the Methodist Church at Canaan, Vt., has been assigned to Derby, Vt.
'82. John D. Hutchinson has just graduated from the Thayer School of
Civil Engineering, at Dartmouth. His graduating thesis will be printed and
used as a text book.
'82. Clarence G. Leavenworth, of Cleveland, O., was married June i,
to Miss Julia O. Eldredge, daughter of the Hon. Loyal D. Eldredge, MiddU-
^ry '57, of Middlebury, Vt.
'82. Harry P. Powers has just graduated from Hartford Theological
Seminary, and accepts a call to a church in Little River, Kan.
'83. George M. Rowland, who graduated last month from Hartford
Theological Seminary, will deliver the Master's Oration here at Commence-
ment, and in the fall will sail for Japan, as a missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. .
'83. Claude M. Severance has returned to his home in Manchester, Vt.
after spending a year in France and Germany.
'59~'6i-'69. The Congregational Church, at West Rutland, Vt., dedicated
a new church on May 19. Prominent on the programme were the Revs. B.
Fay Mills, Hamilton, *79. the retiring pastor ; John K. Williams, '61, a former
pastor ; Milton L. Severance, '59, and Rufus C. Flagg, '69.
'62-'7i-*72. Among Delta U. Memorial Day orators, we notice ex-Gov-
ernor Proctor, at Ludlow, Vt. ; Col. Lyman E. Knapp, '62, at Warwick,
Mass.; the Hon. Walter E. Howard, '7^ at Fairhaven, Vt., and the Rev.
Edgar L. Walker, M.D., '72, at Arlington, Vt.
'6i-'73. In the list of delegates already chosen to the Triennial National
Council of Congregational Churches, to be held in Chicago. 111., next October,
we find the names of the Rev. Moses M. Martin, '61, delegate from the Kala-
mazoo Association, of Michigan, and the Rev. Wells H. Utley, '73, from the
Southern Association, of Kansas.
RUTGERS COLLEGE.
*S9. The Rev. John H. Van Doren, A. M., of Gallupville, N. Y., has ac-
cepted a call to the Reformed Dutch Church at Esopus, N. Y. He will enter
on his ministry there in June.
'60. The Rev. John W. Beardslee, D.D., attended the annual examina-
tions at the Reformed Dutch Seminary on May 18-19, i^ ^i^ capacity as
president of the board of superintendents of the Seminary. He conducted
the Chapel worship on the 1 8th. Brother Beardslee's memorial sermon on
«ihe Rev. Dr. Oscar H. Gregory is published by the Consistory.
He k
ALUMNI OF DELTA U. I99
'69. The Rev. William E. Griffis, D.D., preached the farewell sermon to
Ills conmgation at Schenectady on April 4, and the congregation has pre-
sented him with a handsome set of solid silver spoons and forks. " His pas-
torate/* says the Christian Intelligencer, " covers nine years, during which
time the collections have amounted to ^60,406." Brother Griffis is now pastor
of the Shaunnut Congregational Church, comer of Tremont and Brookline
Streets, Boston, Mass. He will resume his duties on September 5.
'69. The Rev. Edward Lodewick, of the Pascack, N. J., Reformed
Church, preached his eleventh anniversary sermon on April 4.
*7 1 . The Rev. John H. Wyckoff , who recently returned from India, has
a. letter in the Christian Intelligencer oi May 11, on the "Academy and
Church at Orange City," dated Barnwell, S. C.
'80. Nathaniel W. Voorhees, M.D., has removed from Scranton to Dan-
ville, Pa.
'81. Irving S. Upson, has finished the Quinquennial Catalogue of Rutgers
Alumni, upon which he has been engaged for more than a year. The work
was issued on May i.
'82. Britton Havens has removed his law office from the Post Building,
18 Exchange Place, to Room 69, in the Vanderbilt Building, 132 Nassau
Street. New York, N. Y.
*82-'83. William I. Chamberlain, '82 ; John Morrison, '82 ; and George
Z. Collier, '83, graduated recently from the Reformed Theological Seminary,
at New Brunswick, N. J. Messrs. Chamberlain and Collier were two of the
three Commencement orators.
'84. William P. Bruce will preach in New York during the summer.
'88. Elias W. Thompson is teaching at Pottersville, N. J., and will enter
'89 next year.
MADISON UNIVERSITY.
'72. The Rev. Charles A. Piddock is in the sixth year of his pastorate of
the First Baptist Church of Middletown, Conn. He is president of the State
Sabbath School Convention, secretary of the Educational Society, chairman
of the Committee of Examination of the Connecticut Literary Institution, a
trustee of the same, and also of the State Convention, and a member of the
Board of Education for the city of Middletown. Since leaving college, he
has made two extensive European tours.
'74. The Rev. Archibald C. Wheaton spent a few days in Hamilton
recently.
'75. The Rev. David E. Post, formerly of Brandon, Vt., has settled with
the Calvary Baptist Church, at Warwick, N. Y.
'78. The Rev. Warren G. Partridge, formerly pastor of the Baptist
Church at Cooperstown, N. Y., has accepted a call to Norwich, N. Y.
'82. The Rev. John W. Phillips has removed from East Aurora to South
New Berlin, N. Y.
'83. The Rev. Albert B. Coats has accepted a call to the First Baptist
Church of Oneonta. N. Y.
'83. Charles A. Fulton and wife, who have been spending a few months
in the South, are expected to be in Hamilton, in a few days, to attend Com-
mencement. We are glad to learn that Mrs. Fulton's health has been greatly
improved by her stay m the South.
200 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
'85. John S. Festerson has closed his work at Moscow, Idaho, and is
now settled at St. Charles, Minn. In September he expects to enter the
Hamilton Theological Seminary.
UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
'71. Prof. Borden P. Bowne, LL.D., of Boston University, delivered the
Commencement Oration at Kent's Hill Academy, Maine, June I2.
'73. John K. Brigham is an importer of tiles, with office at 237 Broad-
way, New York, N. Y.
'73. The Rev. James W. Hillman is in charge of the Presbyterian Church
at Cape Vincent, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
'78. Gaylord Thompson is an engineer on the new aqueduct He may
be addressed, care of Mrs. J. A. La Grange, comer Dove and Hamilton
Streets, Albany, N. Y.
'81. Cephas Brainerd, Jr., has opened a law office at Room 45, iix
Broadway, New York, N. Y.
'84. John D. Blake has completed the first two years of his course at the
Princeton Theological Seminary, and during the summer vacation will have
charge of a church at Lanesborough, Minn., a few miles from his old home.
'84. Louis B. Paton has written that he will spend another year abroad
in study, and will probably be in Sweden most of the time.
'84. Carl H. Lellman, Jr., graduated recently from the Columbia Law
School.
'85. George A. Minasian, who is studying in Columbia Law School, left
for Europe, May 29, to spend the summer in study and recreation. He will
fo first to France and Switzerland, and may be addressed, after the first of
uly, at Galata, Constantinople, Turkey.
'87. Henry B. Maurer, of Berlin, N. Y., was married, recently, to Miss
Mamie Crowell, of New York.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
'74. Prof. John C. Branner, Ph.D., of the Indiana State University, read an
article on the " Glaciation of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys " before
the American Philosophical Society, on February 19, 1886.
'74, Prof. John H. Comstock will conduct one of the two summer
courses of learning at Cornell this year. Having charge of the course in
entomology, and general invertebrate zoology, begmningon June 21, and con-
tinuing ten weeks. Those who are not regular students at the University,
can have the benefit of this extra instruction upon the payment of a
small fee.
'82. Armin E. Brunn, who graduated in the course in agriculture at
Cornell, and later on took the degree of D.V.S., from the American Veterinary
College at New York, has gone to Woodstock, Conn., to establish a stock
farm.
'82. Felix Rackemann was married on May 19, to Miss Julia Mlnot>
daughter of Dr. Minot, of Boston, Mass.
'82. Seward Mott graduates this year from the United States Military
Academy at West Point.
ALUMNI OF DELTA U. 20I
'S5. Charles £. Curtis is a civil engineer for the Blossburg Coal Company,
at Amot, Pa.
'85. Bertrand H. Fisher is at San Bernardino, Cal., engaged in his
favorite work, civil engineering, and, as the Cornell Sun says, "drawing a fat
salary."
MARIETTA COLLEGE.
•69-'73. Seymour T. Hathaway Esq., and Harry N. Curtis, M.D., have
been elected trustees of the Old Ladies' Home at Marietta, O.
'73. The Hon. Sidney Ridgeway, Esq., was elected Mayor of Marietta, O.,
for the second time, last April. In spite of active opposition by the " baser
sort " he received a round majority.
'74. Frank A. Layman was clerk of the Sandusky Board of Education
last year.
'74. William W. Rowlands, having taken a course in law at Columbia
Law School, is now practising at Racine, Wis., in the firm of Fuller & Fuller.
'77. Charles H. Bosworth holds the position of Superintendent of the
Illinois Railroad Coal Company.
'80. Byron N. Himebaugh is carrying on a ranch near Ravens, Mesa
County, Cal.
*8o. John Q. Mitchell, of the New York Custom House, is expected to be
present at his brother Charles' graduation in June. At the beginning of this
administration Mr. Mitchell was relieved of his position, but afterwards
received an unsolicited reappointment — quite a tribute to the value of his
services.
*82. Theron H. Hawkes, Jr., is engaged in the real estate business at
Duluth, Minn.
'84. Charles G. Dawes graduated from the Cincinnati, O., Law School.
The Commencement exercises took place on May 26.
'85. Harold Means, having taken a course at Nelson's Business College,
Cincinnati, O., is managing a store near his home at Ashland, Ky.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY.
'77. Richard E. Day, editorial writer of the Syracuse Standard^ will read
the Poem at the meeting of the Alunmi Association in Commencement week.
'77. Prof. Newton A. Wells, of Syracuse University, spent the month of
May in the art exhibition at the Salon in Paris. He will spend the greater
part of the summer in the studio of the famous Edouard Frdre, at Ecouen.
'78. James E. Ensign, formerly of Scriba, N. Y., is now principal of the
Ives Seminary, at Antwerp, N. Y..
•79. The Rev. Charles W. Rowley, Ph.D., who has for the past three years
been serving the Methodist Church at Canajoharie, N. Y., is now stationed
at Hoosac Falls, N. Y.
'81. William W. Wilcox, principal of the Graded School at Lawrence;
N. Y., has been obliged to disco||iuie his work at present on account of
sickness. He is ^By^nie in^^H||, N. Y.
., ^,^^^^ m^^--^^ Jarch 31, 1886, at N24>a City, Cali-
200 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
'85. John S. Festerson has closed his work at Moscow, Idaho, and is
now settled at St. Charles, Minn. In September he expects to enter the
Hamilton Theological Seminary.
UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
*7i. Prof. Borden P. Bowne, LL.D.. of Boston University, delivered the
Commencement Oration at Kent's Hill Academy, Maine, June 12.
'73. John K. Brigham is an importer of tiles, with office at 237 Broad-
way, New York, N. Y.
'73. The Rev. James W. Hillman is in charge of the Presbyterian Church
at Cape Vincent, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
'78. Gaylord Thompson is an engineer on the new aqueduct. He may
be addressed, care of Mrs. J. A. La Grange, corner Dove and Hamilton
Streets, Albany, N. Y.
'81. Cephas Brainerd, Jr., has opened a law office at Room 45, iii
Broadway, New York, N. Y.
'84. John D. Blake has completed the first two years of his course at the
Princeton Theological Seminary, and during the summer vacation will have
charge of a church at Lanesborough, Minn., a few miles from his old home.
'84. Louis B. Paton has written that he will spend another year abroad
in study, and will probably be in Sweden most of the time.
'84. Carl H. Lellman, Jr., graduated recently from the Columbia Law
School.
'85. George A. Minasian, who is studying in Columbia Law School, left
for Europe, May 29, to spend the summer in study and recreation. He will
fo first to France and Switzerland, and may be addressed, after the first of
uly, at Galata, Constantinople, Turkey.
'87. Henry B. Maurer, of Berlin, N. Y., was married, recently, to Miss
Mamie Crowell, of New York.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
'74. Prof. John C. Branner, Ph.D., of the Indiana State University, read an
article on the " Glaciation of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys " before
the American Philosophical Society, on February 19, 1886.
'74. Prof. John H. Comstock will conduct one of the two summer
courses of learning at Cornell this year. Ha\nn^ charge of the course in
entomology, and general invertebrate zoology, beginning on June 21, and con-
tinuing ten weeks. Those who are not regular students at the University,
can have the benefit of this extra instruction upon the payment of a
small fee.
'82. Armin E. Brunn, who graduated in the course in s^^culture at
Cornell, and later on took the degree of D. V.S., from the American Veterinarv
College at New York, has gone to Woodstock, Conn., to establish a stock
farm.
'82. Felix Rackemann was married on May 19, to Miss Julia Mino^
daughter of Dr. Minot, of Boston, Mass.
'82. Seward Mott graduates this year from the United States Military
Academy at West Point.
ALUUNl OF DELTA U. aol
a civil engineer for the Blossburg Coal Company,
'Sj. Bertrand H. Fisher is at San Bernardino, Ca]., engaged in his
favorite work, civil engineering, and, as the Cornell Sun says, "drawing a fat
salary."
MARIETTA COLLEGE.
*73- The Hon. Sidney Ridgeway, Esq., was elected Mayor of Marietta, O.,
ior the second time, last ApriH In spite of active opposition by the " baser
aort " he received a round majority.
'74. Frank A. Layman was clerk of the Sandusky Board of Education
last year,
'74.. William W. Rowlands, having taken a course in law at Columbia
I-a^v School, is now practising at Racine, Wis., in the firm of Fuller & Fuller.
'77- Charles H. Bosworth holds the position of Superintendent of the
lUinois Railroad Coal Company.
'80. Byron N. Himebaugh is carrying on a ranch near Ravens, Mesa
County, Cal.
■80, John Q. Mitchell, of the New York Custom House, is expected to be
present at his brother Charles' graduation in June. At the beginning of this
administration Mr. Mitchell was relieved of his position, but afterwards
received an unsolicited reappointment — quite a tribute to the value of his
services.
84. Charles G. Dawes graduated from the Cincinnati, O., Law School.
* ne Commencement exercises took place on May 26.
_. *S' Harold Means, having taken a course at Nelson's Business College,
v-incuinati, o., is managing a store near his home at Ashland, Ky.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY.
the p^ 'Richard E. Day, editorial writer of the Syracuse Slandard, will read
, °*ni at the meeting of the Alumni Association in Commencement week.
May J^ Prof. Newton A. Wells, of Syracuse University, spent the month of
pai-( ? 'he art exhibition at the Salon in Paris. He will spend the greater
,, ' '"e summer in the studb of the famous Edouard Frere, at ficouen.
Ives i^l /ames E, Ensign, formerly of Scriba, N. Y., is now principal of the
. ^miliary, at Antwerp, N. Y.
Graded School t
Qrk at present 01
202 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
'84. Herbert W. Swartz, M.D., is located at Sendai, Japan. Since hif
removal from Tokio, he has been engaged chiefly in missionary work.
'88. William W. Eaton, who has been teaching in Shoreham Academy.
Shoreham, Vt., the past year, is now at his home in White Creek, N. V. He
will enter, in September, the Drew Theological Seminary, at Madison, N. J^
of which the Rev. Dr. Henry A. Buttz, l/nson, '58, is president.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.
'78. William L. Jenks is practising law at Port Huron, Mich. He writes
under date of April 16 : " The Quarterly deserves to be, and I hope is, a
great success ; so much of interest to the members of the Fraternity is pre-
sented in so attractive a form. Such a periodical, generally taken, will do
more to keep up the interest of the Alumni than any other means."
'83. Samuel C. Tuthill went West for the benefit of his health, last suxn>
mer, and has since been settled in Omaha, Neb. During the sunmier axxl
fall, he was with Stevens & Son, contractors and builders, is now acting as
assistant secretary of the Y.M.C.A., but expects to return to his former posi-
tion with Stevens & Son about the first of May.
'84. Winthrop B. Chamberlain was married, March 20, to Miss Anna
Mozart, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Brother Chamberlain still retains his position
as city editor of the Ann Arbor Register^ and, with his bride, will make this
city his home.
'86. Frederick C. Hicks has accepted the principalship of the La Porte,
Ind.. High School for the coming year.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
'82. The Rev. Walter A. Evans has accepted a call from the Congrega-
tional Church of Cherokee, la., and has removed thither.
'83. Alfred E. Hills has gone to California for a few months.
'85. Frank Cook is book-keeper in Wilson & Taylor's establishment, in
Evanston, 111.
'85. Leonard L. Skelton writes from Arkansas that a Northern man
dare not air his political opinions in teaching, the scholars are all " such little
rebels." He will shortly return to Evanston.
'87. Edward L. Minard expects to return, next year, to complete the
course.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
'85. Victor C. Alderson, who has been teaching during the past year at
Dublin, Ind., has come East to spend the summer.
'85. Robert S. Bickford will spend part of the summer at the Delta U.
camp, at Bolton Landing, Lake George.
'86. William V. Judson has taken high rank in his class at the West
Point Military Academy. Through some oversight his name was omitted
from the Quinquennial Catalogue.
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COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
*8 5. Nelson G. McCrea» who has been pursuing his studies as a fellow of
tile college, and has assisted in the Latin Department, has received the degree
of A..M. this Commencement. His address is 533 Franklin Avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
'85. George D. Egbert has attended Union Theological Seminary during
tlie past year.
'88. Charles L. Eidlitz is with the Edison Machine Works.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
A pleasant and thoughtful book for students to read during the summer is John
burroughs' last, called " Signs and Seasons." The author joins science and litera-
ture, and thus makes his books a pleasure to searchers for art in print, and a stim-
ulus to those who are ever seeking new awakenings in science. " Books in the
running brooks " open their pages to this genial naturalist. The last chapter of the
lxx>k is a vajpable architectural treatise. A house, for the home, should have
"beauty, meamng, and fitness. Repose in its appearance, and genuineness in its
building, are essentials of the roof-tree. One feels more in hannony with nature
after reading this good book. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are the publishers.
The Harpers have just published an important book of literary criticism —
•• George Eliot and Her Heroines," by Abba Goold Woolson. Admirers of
George Eliot's novels, who think that she possessed the summum bonum of a nov-
elist, will be shocked at the multitude of faults which Miss Woolson finds. We learn
that George Eliot sacrifices art for the sake of making the truth more impressive,
and Miss Woolson thinks that in this the great authoress erred. It seems to us
that in this very thing lay the secret of George Eliot's power. Miss Woolson claims
that the heroines of her novels are the greatest artistic successes, and devotes most
of her book to a discussion of this point. We cannot think that Miss Woolson is
always right, or even nearly always right, in her criticisms, but this much is true,
that this book is excellent for one to read who is in a rut in his study of George
Eliot, and that it will cause him to think over again points which he may have
thought were settled.
'* Back-Log Studies," by C. D. Warner, is a book not new to most of our read-
ers. But we wish to speak a word concerning the series to which this is the latest
addition, the Aldine Series, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. These books
are similar in size, print, margin, etc., to those printed by Aldus Mauritius, at the
close of the fifteenth century. Beautiful in appearance, convenient in size, and
modest in cost, they make a series which, for neatness and utility, surpasses any-
thing of similar nature attempted in this country. " Back-Log Studies " has long
been a favorite with college students, and ought to be well appreciated by them in
its new form.
Count Tolstolf's novel, "Anna KARfeNiNA," recently translated from the Rus-
sian into English, is a political work close-packed with wisdom — a treatise on social
philosophy — and a novel as intense with moral instruction as George Eliot's
** RoMOLA." We shall not stop to speak of the incidents in the story, though the
book is exceedingly interesting from that point of view. *' How shall men be
happy ? how shall they make life on earth heavenly ? " is the theme of the book.
High position in society ; fame, however great, in politics ; rural life on a large
304 DELTA UP8IL0N QUARTERLY.
estate ; militiTy Ubtinctum Bud popularity — all these fail to bring happinen.
Nihilism and commuaism tell as nothing of this earthlf heaven. Hard work, small
riches and a ^"' o^ kindness to others, can make the peasant happier than the
king. Count Tolstoi's plan of life is more elaborately told In his " Mv Religion,"
of which we have had occasion to speak in these columns. T. Y. Crawell & Co.,
New Vork, are the publishers.
" Manual Tkaining." by C. H. Hain, published W Harpers, preSEHts a solo-
tioo of social and industrial problems. Bacon said : " The real and legitimate goal
of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and riches."
The aim of education is to make men able to do some useful thing for the race.
The first part of the book is devoted to a description of the Chicago Manual Train-
ing School— what is taught, and how the teaching succeeds. The latter port of the
book will probably be Ihe more interesting to our readers. The author here con-
siders automatic, contrasted with scientitic. education ; education and the social
problem historically considered, and history of the manual element in education.
The book has long been wailed for, and is not disappointing. The author is a
philosopher, and a practical man.
Lee & Shepard have just published a useful book, " A Hand-Book of English
HlSTORV," by Francis H, Underwood. It is based on the lectures of the late M.
}. Guest, and has a supplementary chapter on English literature of [he nineteenth
century. The book makes a complete history of England, from the earliest times
down to the year iSSo. The author has written in simple language, and stated
facts, not discussions. For the student who needs a hand-book of English history
— and every student does need such a volume — he will with difficulty find anything
so clear, condensed, and useful, as this book.
The PopiiLAK SciENCK Monthly for June opens with an article in which
W. D. Le Sueur tells why he thinks that Lyman Abbott is wrong in holding that
evolution is bounded by theology. David A. Wells contributes his third paper on
Meiico. " The factors of Organic Evolution," by Herbert Spencer, is concluded
in this number. F. L. Oswald writes of the causes of the Dark Ages, entitling his
production " The Millenniumof Madness." Prof, S. Lockwood has a faalf-humoroos
Eiece on " Scratching in the Animal Kingdom," and in it lets out the secret as to
ow many of the lower animals, as tish, for instance, scratch themselves. The
editor's departments in the latter part of the magazine are unusually good.
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THE
Delta Upsilon Quarterly
EDITORS:
FREDERICK MELVIN CROSSETT, A^^rw YorJk, '84, Editor-In-Chief.
Alexander Dana Noyes, Amherst^ '83.
Edward Murray Bassett, Amherst^ '84.
Robert James Eidlitz, Cornell, '85.
Henry Wells Brush, Columbia, '89.
Vol. IV. AUGUST, 1886. No. 4.
THE REAL MEANING OF NON-SECRECY.
" Vere scire est per causes scire**
Editors Delta Upsilon Quarterly :
One day, while walking toward college, I overheard part of a
conversation between two men, whom I judged to be Independents.
In some way, Delta Upsilon had been suggested to the mind of one,
and he said to the other : " I don't think much of Delta Upsilon ;
it's just as bad as any secret society, although it claims to be non-
secret." The speaker's companion, in his reply, defended us by
saying that outsiders were occasionally invited to our meetings. At
this point, I passed out of hearing, and lost the rest of the discus-
sion ; but it made an impression on my mind, which was deepened,
some weeks later, when a secret-society man asked me if it was
really true that we had no secrets, and seemed almost incredulous
when I assured him that such was the case.
These incidents illustrate the fact that real misunderstanding,
combined with malicious misrepresentation, has brought against us
the charge of being false to our principle of non-secrecy. Indeed, it
is sometimes said that non-secrecy is simply a step between anti-
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secrecy and secrecy, and that this change in our title is equivalent to
a •confession of defeat. In answering these accusations, it will be
necessary to review briefly the history of the anti-secret contest ; for
it is only in the light of past events that the present can be rightly
judged.
It is now a trifle over half a century since the rise of the secret
societies which have played so prominent a part in American student-
life. The animus of these societies comprised several elements, that
of prime importance being the fraternal spirit and then secrecy, the
desire of monopolizing college politics, the aristocratic element, liter-
ary culture and the element of disorder.
Scarcely had the secret fraternities gained a permanent foot-hold
in our colleges, when they were confronted by a new society — or
rather by seven or eight independent local organizations which^
shortly after, united into one fraternity and extended to other col-
leges. This society, appreciating the advantage of the fraternal re-
lation and to a far greater extent than any secret society, the im-
portance of literary work, disapproved entirely of the ideas that a col-
lege education should include practical experience in wire-pulling,
or rowdyism, and that college students should band themselves to-
gether to revolutionize the democracy of college life into an aris-
tocracy with its attendant snobbishness and ill-feeling. Combined
with this opposition to the practical workings of secret societies,
there was an antagonism to secrecy in itself — an echo of the anti-
masonic outcry of the time.
For many years, the contest between secrecy and anti-secrecjr
was fiercely waged, and while the change of title from anti-secret to
non-secret has put an end to open warfare, there is still some bitter-
ness between the two factions. The questions for us to consider are :
" Were we right or were we wrong ? " " Are we successful, or have
we failed ? " " Shall we be able to maintain the position we have taken,
or shall we eventually be compelled to surrender to the enemy, and
either be exterminated or be reconstructed into a secret society ? "
First, " Were we right or were we wrong ? " Was it a principle
for which we fought, or were we deluded by fanaticism ? The facts
that the anti-secret movement began independently and almost simul-
taneously in so many colleges, that it had from the beginning the
support of the neutral students, that many ^college presidents and
THE REAL MEANING OF NON-SECRECY. 207
prominent members of the faculties were bitterly opposed to the secret
societies in those days, and even now, in a few Northern and many
Southern institutions, are at least probable arguments that the evils
of the early days of secrecy were real and were sufficient cause for
the opposition which they excited. Be that as it may, all admit that
the character of the men who joined the anti-secret fraternity, and
the methods which they adopted, were above reproach.
With regard to our success or failure, while it is certain that we
have not failed, we have not been successful in the sense that we
have destroyed the secret societies, or that we have converted them
bodily to our original methods of thinking. Secret societies still ex-
ist and flourish, and they exist as secret societies, but their secrecy
has been reduced to a minimum, and the' real evils which that se-
crecy cherished have almost disappeared. The time slowly came
when the opposition of Delta Upsilon to secret societies had so far
succeeded that there was very little for that opposition to direct it-
self against. It is true that not all Chapters of secret fraternities
were such as to merit our entire approval, but these failings were
local issues, and each Chapter of Delta Upsilon was then allowed to
choose between anti and non-secrecy. Secrecy itself, moreover, had
changed from a dangerous power to a negative weakness. The
work of Delta Upsilon as a distinctively anti-secret fraternity was
thus done, and the question presented itself — "Should the society,
after having passed an honorable and successful life, be allowed to
die a peaceful death ? " One Chapter did thus die, but the Fraternity
as a whole, enjoyed existence too much. The warm life-blood of
brotherly love coursed vigorously through its members, its mind was
still clear and active, its conscience clean, and its strength unim-
paired.
Plainly, Delta Upsilon must not die, yet it could not live and
continue to swing the bloody shirt of anti-secrecy as a banner ; so it
put away the war-flag, ceased hostilities, and inscribed on its stand-
ard of peace those qualities which had upheld it through the long
contest — Fraternity, Morality, Scholarship, Non-secrecy.
Lastly, " Can we maintain the position we have taken ? " That
V we are strong enough to exist as a worthy fraternity, no one can
deny, and our history for the past six years amply proves it ; but
now that we have ceased to struggle actively against secrecy,
••-fSj'^f «(£-■:«» ", rraag 'jx presscrv
1/. {.'•--:■ fn-./'.-s *r-; »-T-: -. s i«;, a-.j -■-,rc thsr. we wo-^d
!.-. r # ■.'. r- ,.t.-.-i ;,. , ■. •-,* ;,- .i** ir'iiri ',f o-r fiir.:!:^. bji «e can
ir.-I *r.'. . -, -T*. ;■- '/r -; -: .'■: > .'. ^t'-vy^i that ^cret n:-J:::.€S. g^ps.
[,i*-t B'-r-; :.- -: I--- a-- ■,-*--•.■»- :r. ', ir Fraary.::r, ar.-J thai vhat
rw'-..':i. ;.: -; 'I'-'-p^T tf-.-frz-i'. ■?.:-!. tr^y ri.*.ip;.<ar entirely in the pres-
rt<'f. lA t\: ,-•»'.?■'■>■ fr:Tr.'J 'A <>.x "larr-fy" — the Fratemiir,
In a:.','''r w.'iv, »e o-.i.';,: l/j e::.;/r,a.'ize our principle of non-
v'.f'y. rr, f^f.-.,-.^ aS-'/i ;t':!y t'l l-e connected with any of the
vi <.::. •■<\ 'i-'.rf:' i>r'j_:i:,:7^::'.f.\. e^[^f,:a:iy th'i~e who have for their aim
Ih'- "-'■;r,:.x of '.'.ii\'> ar,'! coliexe ofti'.ts through the same methods
wl.i' h J.;iv<: I'ft VI nj.v.-^ht'.y a Mot on the early historj- of the secret
fra>'-rf 'S.
In V. far as we ui:-^\':'.\ to avoid even the appearance of secrecy,
mf. rxyiisi; oiirs'lv':s to criticism, and while non-secrecy does not
mean pui.iicily, we nMi^l reiiic-nil«r that those who see only the sur-
fa"r, will jml;;': Mipcrfi' ially, and that the more thoroughly our
motiv'd and nj'rlhffds arc undersfxid, the more fully will our past
cffortH anil present attitude l)e appreciated.
University of Michigan, A. L. Benedict,
Ann Arbor, Mich. Michigan, '8f.
L
IVY ODE.
Tender climbing ivy vine,
We to thee our homage pay ;
Thee to mother earth consign,
Ere we journey on our way.
Young and tender as thou art,
Trust we that thou'lt live for e'er,
Drawing us as heart to heart,
By the ties which bind us here.
Sign of how we've labored long
For the honors dearly won.
Raise we here our hearts in song,
Now our work is nobly done !
May we heed this emblem dear.
Truths impressed upon each heart,
May they cheer us year by year,
As we from each other part.
Ivy, our own token dear,
Emblem of our course complete ;
May thy leaves grow never sere.
Nor be crushed 'neath idle feet.
Ivy vine, dear ivy vine,
Forth we go where duty calls !
May thy tendrils ever twine
Round these dear old Rutgers* walls.
Rutgers College, Elmore DeWitt,
New Brunswick, N. J. Rutgers, '86.
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from its absence, have we sufficient steadfastness to resist the pressure
ifhich is exerted against us? While I know that every Delta U.
who reads this will respond enthusiastically in the affirmative, let us
not overlook the fact that a current which checks but slightly the
progress of a moving vessel, requires a strong pier to break its force.
Though we should, by all means, avoid any hostility to the once-
secret societies, and should strive to maintain friendly relations with
them, we should be ever vigilant to guard against the insidious pene-
tration of secrecy into our institutions.
We cannot, of course, be expected to proclaim our private matters
to friends, strangers and enemies alike, any more than we would
think of making public the private affairs of our families, but we can
and should let it be distinctly understood that secret mottoes, grips,
pass- words and rites are unknown in our Fraternity, and that what
may appear to the careless observer like secrecy, is no more than a
natural and proper reserve which may disappear entirely in the pres-
ence of a trustworthy friend of our "family" — the Fraternity.
In another way, we ought to emphasize our principle of non-
secrecy, in refusing absolutely to be connected with any of the
so-called secret organizations, especially those who have for their aim
the securing of class and college offices through the same methods
which have left so unsightly a blot on the early history of the secret
fraternities.
In so far as we neglect to avoid even the appearance of secrecy,
we expose ourselves to criticism, and while non-secrecy does not
mean publicity, we must remember that those who see only the sur-
face, will judge superficially, and that the more thoroughly our
motives and methods are understood, the more fully will our past
efforts and present attitude be appreciated.
University of Michigan, A. L. Benedict,
Ann Arbor, Mich. Michigan^ ^87.
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i Tender climbing ivy vine,
J We to thee our homage pay ;
I Thee to mother earth consign,
1 Ere we journey on our way.
; Young and tender as thou art,
( Trust we that Ihou'lt live for e'er.
Drawing us as heart to heart,
' By the tics which bind us here.
i
Sign of how we've labored long
i For the honors dearly won.
Raise we here our hearts in song,
[ Now our work is nobly done !
> May we heed this emblem dear,
' Truths impressed upon each heart,
> May they cheer us year by year,
< As we from each other part.
Ivy, our own token dear,
Emblem of our course complete ;
May thy leaves grow never sere,
Nor be crushed 'neath idle feet.
Ivy vine, dear ivy vine.
Forth we go where duty calls !
idrils ever twine
lese dear old Rutgers' walls.
Elmore DeWitt,
Rutgtrs, 'U
2IO DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
CONCERNING VACATIONS.
Dear Quarterly :
Few can have a more pleasant place in which to spend their
summer vacation than Newport. As I write you to-day, I recall the
manner in which I spent these vacations in past years.
For a long time before I entered college, I knew what it was " to
make haste slowly " on a Massachusetts farm, where plenty of stones
were to be picked, and where potato-bugs roved in armies, and twitch
grass grew luxuriantly on a board fence in the scorching sun. Two of
my vacations, after I graduated from the farm, were passed in
selling maps. The gall of a map agent must not be divided into
three parts, but needs to be concentrated at one point.
As a vender of maps, I had more than one strange experience.
Once, for example, a lady, who was expecting her nephew on the
evening train, met me at the front door with endearing words, and
it was with difficulty that I escaped from her loving embraces.
In this fascinating occupation, I learned both to hate and admire
myself. Last summer, I tried to hold the reins of a small sea-shore
church, but no doubt the congregation grew as tired of hearing me
as I did of hearing myself.
This summer, I hardly know just what I am. People don't use
honorary titles much here, but I have given the matter much thought,
and think myself a sort of a cross between a city missionary and a
colporteur, with the features of the former and the feet of the latter.
I see just enough of poverty to draw forth my pity, and just enough
of riches to draw forth my piety. It seems to me that in this summer
resort, the prayer of the Pharisee may be offered with a righteous
fervor.
It seems an age since we boys were in the "fitting-school"
together. But why have I thus turned away from my theme ?
Fort Adams, across the harbor, and the school ship New Hamp-
shire^ floating in the bay, are among the first objects of interest one
sees on entering Newport from the water side.
Last year, a friend of mine came to make me a short visit, and at
once was put through the Newport drill.
He was not contented till he had taken the ten-mile ocean drive^
roamed along the cliff walk, mused over thej* Old Stone Mill," vis-
CONCERNING VACATIONS. 211
ited the ancient Trinity Church, the Red Wood Library, Purgatory
and the Hinging Rocks.
This was a foot-sore journey, and when my friend Tom returned
to his room, as the fog came in and the sunset gun was fired, he
looked as though he felt gloomy, and lonesome, and sad.
He saw in ancient buildings so much to remind him of the past,
and in the wide stretch of water so much to remind him of the future,,
that he said, on retiring that night, " I really question my own iden-
tity in discovering how small a drop I am in the great ocean of life."
The next morning, Tom still looked dejected, so I suggested that
he take a " drag " to the beach, and see the people bathe.
To the beach he went, and what a sight for weary Tom !
If one were never sea-sick before, to see the Newport visitors bathe,,
would bring on sea-sickness. Tom said he could only think of O. P.
Gifford's remark, when he saw the people at Long Branch frisk
about the beach : " These remind me of animated clothes-pins. "^
But people are not satisfied to bathe alone here ; they take in their
dogs and horses. Some wear rubber hats, and it is rumored that
others wear water-tight rubber suits.
To poor Tom, the sight was fatal, and he declared he would
leave the city on the morning boat ; but on reaching home, I had an
invitation for him to attend a tennis club, and with great reluctance,,
he decided to stay one day longer.
Strange things from that afternoon began to happen to him.
He became very fond of tennis, and still more fond of those with
whom he played. Why should he be lonely ? Could not the feeling
be dissipated ? He knew what he ought to do, but he hardly knew
how to begin.
In the fall when Tom returned to college, it was rumored that
he was engaged to a Newport beauty. He said very little about the
truth or falsity of the report, but all could see that something had
happened. His room was newly furnished, his pocket seemed to
grow deeper, and luxuries surrounded him on every side. In a few
months, Tom formally announced his engagement. The boys said
he had fallen on to the rocks.
Tom had a little of old-time righteous sagacity, didn't he ? How
sad it is that you and I have still to plod along in such a common-
place way ! Fraternally Yours,
Charles.
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS.
Delta Upsilon House,
Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
Dear Brothers :
The hearty greeting which Amherst always has for her sister
Chapters we wish to extend to you all again. The enthusiasm and
earnestness evinced by all the members of the Chapter has been so
uniformly steady that it will take but a few words to sum up what
has been the key-note of all our reports this year — success, and bet-
ter still, progress. We do not say this because it sounds well but
because it is true. With no disadvantages in favor of any other so-
ciety with respect to men, reputation, or house, and on the other
hand with the great and sound principles of the Fraternity in our
favor. Delta U. in Amherst is second to none.
Society interest is likely to be put to the test in the support of
literary work, and in this we have a record of which we are justly
proud. During a year of weekly literary meetings — with the excep-
tion that every fourth meeting was devoted to something special —
not a single failure to take the appointed parts has been recorded ;
in cases of absence or sickness the parts have been taken by one of
the brothers present.
Our Chapter house has been recently painted and repapered in-
side, and the halls and parlors refurnished with curtains and shades.
The addition of the scientific rooms, of which we gave a report in a
former number of the Quarterly, greatly increases the usefulness
and general attractiveness of the house. After having them fitted
up for two terms, it seems as if we could not get along without them
now, not for the reason simply that they are nice to look at, but be-
cause they are of real practical value, especially in the departments
of zoology, chemistry and mineralogy.
As we have stated before, our last initiation was a great improve-
ment on the former ones ; our dramatics in the winter were unusually
goddl ; we have taken during the year our share of college honors,
and th« outlook for the coming year is in all respects the most grati-
fying tha^ the Amherst Chapter has had for a long time.
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The principal society event during Commencement was a recep-
tion Class Day evening. A number of the lady friends of the members
were in town, and they kindly took charge of decorating the house with
flowers, and worked with real Delta U. enthusiasm, adorning the par-
lors with excellent taste and effect. Invitations had been issued to
all our Alumni, to the senior delegations of the other societies, to the
faculty and many others, and so many responded that the reception
committee had all they could attend to for the allotted time of two
hours. The reception was eminently a success in every way. So-
ciety receptions are becoming one of the gayest features of Com-
mencement week, and society antagonism is so far laid aside that in-
vitations are exchanged between nearly all the different fraternities.
In closing, we would add that the Amherst Chapter always gives
hearty welcome to brothers in Delta U., and is always glad to receive
them at the Chapter house at any time.
Fraternally yours,
Edward B. Rogers, '87.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Brown University, Providence, R. I.
Dear Brothers :
The past year has been one of prosperity and progress for the
Brown Chapter. The utmost harmony prevails among us, and the
past months have been filled with continuous hard work, which has
brought present profit and gives promise of future gain.
No sorrow has come to us but saying our last " Good-night " to
those who have gone forth from our united band to win fresh laurels
for Delta Upsilon. We would not have them linger, for we believe
that we can see in them all indications of future usefulness and
greatness.
Our sorrow in parting is also mitigated by the thought that we
shall welcome to our number next year, new men, who will unite
with us in sustaining the high place Delta U. holds throughout the
college and city.
The members of '86 have always been zealous and enthusiastic in
all that has concerned the best interests of our Chapter, and have
brought to us not only power but honor.
214 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
Every man in *86 received an appointment to Phi Beta Kappa.
Some Chapters in college received not even one, but Delta U. has
always succeeded in keeping its head high in good scholarship.
Whitman, Wheeler and Bronson, '87, were three of six to receive
first appointments to Phi Beta Kappa. Brother Burnham, 'S6,
received special honor in mathematics. Brother Parshley, '86, was
chairman of the editorial staff of TAg Brunoniafty our college paper,
during his Senior year. Brother Dietrich, '87, who has been Brother
P.'s devoted assistant, succeeds to his position.
Brother Whitman, '87, who easily leads his class, was awarded the
prize for excellence in mathematics. In connection with college
work, Brother Whitman is the successful pastor of a flourishing city
church.
About the middle of May we were visited by the Harvard Chap-
ter. Special literary endeavors were made to make the evening
profitable and amusing. A few days later a large delegation from our
chapter returned the visit and were royally entertained.
Up to the present time we have met in a large hall used by a Ly-
ceum in the city. We have now decided to furnish and own rooms of
our own. They will be in the Daniel's Building, Custom House Street.
The new rooms will be smaller and more to our ideal. A few days
before we disbanded, the necessary amount needed for the transfer
was easily raised among the brothers.
Fraternally,
Charles L. White
Delta Upsilon Hall,
University of the City of New York, N. Y.
Dear Brothers :
The happy outlook and prospect of better days for the Univer-
sity, which we announced in our last letter to the Quarterly, has
more than reached our expectations, and to-day the University and
all its departments stand upon a better footing than they ever did
before.
The University has now reached its fifty-fourth year, and as we
glance over the last page of its yearly history, we note many changes
and improvements which denote a spirit of progress throughout the
institution. The most important event has been the donation of a
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS. 215
fund of $100,000 to the Medical department, for the erection of a
building to be known as the Loomis Laboratory. This gift, it is
said, is to be followed by another one of an equal amount, and will
also probably be given for some special purpose. The Medical
department is in a flourishing .condition, and nearly 600 students
were in attendance during the last sessions. At the annual Com-
mencement, in the Academy of Music, March 6, a class of 171
members was graduated, and at the University Commencement, in
June, the degree of M.D. was conferred on fifteen more men, making
a total of 186 graduates from the department this year. That the
school has a wide reputation is seen from the fact that over ten per
cent, of the students are from foreign countries.
The Law department has been especially fortunate in securing a
valuable reference library of over 10,000 volumes, the number of
students has considerably increased, new lecturers have been added
during the year, and at the annual Commencement, in the Academy
of Music, May 27, a class of about thirty was graduated.
The department of Arts and Sciences, from which the members
of our Chapter are drawn, has 105 students enrolled, and the prospects
are good that the number will be largely increased this fall. An
assurance of this is already in sight, in the person of the incoming
Freshman class, which is the largest that has ever entered the Uni-
versity at the June examinations. In the Faculty some changes have
been made. Professor Bull, after nearly forty years of active service,
has been made Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering. Daniel
W. Haring has been appointed Professor of Physics, and under his
superintendence the physical laboratory has been entirely refitted.
The museum, which was opened last year by Professor Stevenson,
has been enlarged, and the geological specimens which he secured
in Virginia during the April vacation have been arranged in order
and catalogued. A series of lectures, known as " Monday Lectures,"
will be given on the last Monday of each calendar month except
June. These lectures are open to the public, and during 1886-87
-will be given as follows : On September 27, by Howard Crosby,
D.D., LL.D.; October 29, General Wager Swayne ; November 29,
Charles F. Deems, D.D., LL.D.; December 20, Samuel M. Hamil-
ton, D.D.; January 3, Charles H. Parkhurst, D.D.; February 7,
Theodore L. Culyer, D.D.; March 7, Talbot W. Chambers, D.D.,
3l6 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
LL.D.; April 4, W. H. Thomson, M.D., LL.D.; May 2, Roswell
D. Hitchcock, D.D., LL.D.
The curriculum has been enlarged, and a number of electives
added to Junior and Senior year, but the most important departure
that has been made, is the giving instruction in graduate courses, and
henceforth the University will confer the degrees of Master of Arts^
Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy only upon examination.
Eleven professors will givr insiriu tion necessary for such advanced
degrees. The last catalo^iu-, which is a vast improvement upon its
predecessors, is a convenidit haul-book of over 125 pages, and sets
forth very clearly the many ailvantages which the University is now
offering. Delta U. has three pr(»fcssors in the Faculty — Prof. E. A.
Johnson, LL.D., Presidt-pt c»i the Faculty ; Henry M. Baird, Ph.D.,
D.D., LL.D., and Abrani '^. Isaac-, Ph.D. Professor Baird has a
son who will enter the i ' .ss of '90. We have three officers of the
Alumni Association — Prof. Htnry M. Baird, '50, Registrar ; the
Rev. John Reid, '70, oi the Executive Committee, and Prof.
Abram S. Isaacs, '71, of the \'isi'^ing Committee. The Rev. Theo-
dore F. Burnham, '71, of ihe N<^iili River Presbytery, and the Rev.
John Reid, '70, of the ^Vc^tchest^M- Presbytery, are Visitors to the
University appointed by the Synod of New York.
With pleasure do we now turn to our Chapter, to report to the
Fraternity the record of her succf^sses, and how we have been getting
on. At the beginning of college last fall, we hired a pleasant room
with two large windows, on the str- et side of No. 733 Broadway, had
it repainted, papered, and furnishttl it nicely and comfortably. This
has been our Chapter home ever evince, and we will probably continue
with it next year, as it is so ccnivenient to the University, easy of
access, and gives such gcntral satisfaction. There are four principal
things that claim the attention 0: t'u; students of the University, and
are the basis on which to make a c*. iparison between the Greek-letter
societies represented here. 1 h( se things are : the scholarship of
their members, their rtprcsctcit'oii in athletics, and on the Glee
Club and college paper. \V:.:.l : as the JVew York Chapter of Delta
U. to show in this compai i. < ii " Wf.at has she done here that reflects
credit on the Fraternity? 'I in ar. wer comes that she is in the van
in all. Her standing in ^'.lu I. :<\\y is shown in the Valedictorian of
'86, and the men who arc 1 rt anl second in '87. The Lacrosse
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS. 21 7
team constitutes the University's sole devotion to athletics, and on
that team we had five players, including the Captain, and who has
held that position for three years. On our famous Glee Club we
have had seven members, including the leader and accompanist, and
on the college paper two editors, one of whom was editor-in-chief.
Thus, as *S6 steps forth from her Alma Mater, we can point to the
Valedictorian of the class, the leader of the Glee Club, the Captain
of the Team, and to close the quartet, the editor-in-chief of the col-
lege paper. May we not be permitted to speak with pride of our
standing ? That our members are thought well of by the professors
we have often had evidence, and it was but a short time ago that a
Psi U. professor who meets the upper classes, while in a conversation
with one of our Alumni, mentioned the names of five of our men in
the upper classes, and said he regarded ** them as the very best men
in college." Our Alumnus candidly admitted that, and added that
he would find some more of the same kind when the lower classes
reached him.
As to our rivals, they are all apparently doing well outwardly,
though there are rumors of internal strife, and a Delta Phi was heard
to declare in the college halls about Commencement time that he
didn't care anything for his society. The boom which Zeta Psi
received a year ago has not yet worn itself out, and they are doing
well. They receive third and fourth honors at Commencement, and
have the next best representation after us on the Glee Club, lacrosse
team, and college paper. Delta Phi has thirteen men, six of whom
graduate this year. One of her Juniors has been the leading spirit
in a movement to publish an annual, TAe Lyre^ and has got himself
into a position which he probably now regrets, and which the other
editors undoubtedly wish they were out of. We were represented on
the board, at first, but our editors resigned, at the request of the
Chapter, because of the manner in which they proposed our Chapter
should appear in the publication. The three remaining editors
thought they could carry it on without our assistance. At Com-
mencement, The Lyre had not appeared, and one of the editors
announced that only fifty subscriptions had been received. As the
printing is nearly all done, the question of the hour with the students
is : How much will The Lyre editors be out of pocket ?
The prospects of our Chapter for the coming year seem to be
extremely encouraging. We have a fine '87 delegation, who will
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take the helm, and they will be heartily assisted by our recent gradu-
ates and the present members. We hope to send a good delegation
up to Madisotiy to help in the celebration of the fifty-second anniver-
sary of the founding of the Fraternity ; and we venture to predict
that the New York delegation will not be the smallest there, nor her
cheer drowned by that of many other colleges. From the prepara-
tions which already have been made by Madisotiy her favorable sur-
roundings, and the enthusiasm of her men, we are expecting to see
one of the most successful conventions the Fraternity has ever held.
Trusting to meet large delegations from all our Chapters at
Madison, in October,
Fraternally,
J. Harper Bryan.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Dear Brothers :
We have no college honors here in the shape of prices, honors,
etc.; so we have no list of Commencement successes to report to the
Fraternity at this time, as the other Chapters have. This last Com-
mencement has taken from us six Seniors whom we shall miss
greatly, but who have taught us by example and precept to perform
those duties which, by their departure, devolve upon us.
But we have gained men as well as lost ; for since writing, we
have initiated *89's class president, Charles Upham Champion, of
Cold water, Mich., and have pledged other men from the same class.
One evening, we received from Brother Charles A. Wheeler, '86,
a package containing neatly-printed cards, whose inside pages gave
a list of our members, and the honors which they had taken. For
this convenient substitute for a page in an annual, our most hearty
thanks are due Brother Wheeler.
A few weeks ago, all our active members, and three resident
Alumni, met at a photographer's and were photographed. It may
not be modest to say it, but it was a fine-looking body of men, worthy
of the monogram which appeared conspicuously in the foreground,
to label us as Delta U's.
One disappointment we must chronicle — the Chapter house,
which we expected for next year, must be postponed. Still, our
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS. 2x9
fund is already of considerable size, and the delay will be a compara-
tively short one.
This year has bten for us one of steady, quiet growth ; no great
advance has been made, but our loyalty has strengthened, little trials
have been overcome, and we have learned to realize more fully than
before that our Fraternity is worthy of our best efforts, and that the
duties it lays upon us are the pleasant ones of brotherly love. May
each Chapter of Delta Upsilon enjoy like blessings !
Fraternally,
A. L. Benedict, '87.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.
Dear Brothers :
Delta Upsilon, at Lafayette, is in a prosperous condition. She
has been watched with jealous eyes ; but, thanks to the zealous care
of her guardians, she begins her second year with ardent hopes and
bright prospects. Some were inclined to think that she, like our
first parents, was born adult ; but this, perhaps, was a mistake. We
are inclined to think that her growth, although in keeping with our
nineteenth century, which goes by steam and electricity, has yet
nothing of miracle about it. We think she has just cut her wisdom
teeth.
Owing to the fact that the place at which we desired to hold our
banquet, namely, "The Arlington," the only temperance house in
Easton, had been engaged beforehand, we held our reunion on Sat-
urday night, instead of Monday, as the other fraternities do. We
had a most enjoyable occasion. The Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.D.,
Hamilton^ '57, of the Bethany Church, Philadelphia, who had been
engaged to deliver the address at the anniversary of the Y.M.C.A.,
was with us, and added much to the pleasure of the hour. His
response to the toast, " Delta Upsilon of the Past," was both in-
structive and entertaining. The Rev. Dr. Edsall Ferrier, dif rater in
urbe, and some of our own Alumni, helped to make the occasion one
of pleasant memory.
Looking from another standpoint, it would seem that Delta U.
had known no infancy at Lafayette, for the very year of her estab-
lishment she sent forth seven sturdy sons ; and the same number
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again this year arriving at their majority, leave the place of their
nativity into Delta U. We shall miss these elder brothers sorely.
They were all men who honored the Brotherhood. Six of the seven
took speeches at Commencement, one of which was the Valedictory.
John N. Roe, '87, was one of the editors of the Commencement
Record^ and is also on the editorial staff of the Lafayette^ the college
paper for the ensuing year.
The prospects are that the class of '90 will be an unusually large
one. The number registered at the June examinations was more
than twice as many as the year preceding, and we know of several
fine fellows who have had Delta U. instructors, and who are, there-
fore, favorably disposed. So, while depressed by the loss of our
brothers of '86, we nevertheless turn our faces to the future
" Without fear and with a manly heart."
Fraternally,
J. Nelson Roe.
Delta Upsilon Hall,
Columbia College, New York, N. Y.
Dear Brothers :
The first annual reunion of our Chapter was held on the evenings
of June 2, at Brother Eytinge's house. After a very social time
we initiated Charles Leo Eidlitz, '88, of New York, N. Y. After
the exercises were over, Brother Eidlitz favored us with a speech, in
which he showed that he had deeply imbibed from his well-known
brothers the true Delta U. Fraternity spirit. A collation followed^
which served to further increase the pleasure of the meeting. Then^
after singing and more social intercourse, we bade one another fare-
well. Besides the members of our own Chapter, there were present
Brothers Robert J. Eidlitz, Cornell^ '85, and Frederick M. Crossett,
New York^ '84, who assisted in their usual able manner in the initia-
tion ceremonies, and who, we are pleased to say, have often at-
tended our meetings during the winter.
Another meeting of the Chapter was held a few days later to
arrange for the Chapter camping party. At this meeting there was
initiated Danford Newton Barney Sturgis, of New York, N. Y.,
School of Mines, '89. For Brother Sturgis we are indebted to
the energy and zeal of our recently initiated Brother Charles L.
Eidlitz, '88.
LETTERS FROM CHAPTERS. 221
As we have now completed the first year of our existence as a
Chapter, it becomes us to look back over our history, and to see what
has been accomplished. Our struggle at Columbia has not been an
easy one. At a college where there are so many long-established
fraternities, and where so many men fail to see the advantage
of any fraternity, it is very difficult for a new Chapter to obtain
members. The Chapter was, unfortunately, founded without the
aid of any men from the class of '88, and that lack we have been
partly unable to supply. We have, however, secured men from other
classes, and we feel especially glad to be able to close the year,
knowing that we have established a footing in the School of Mines.
A list of the honors taken by members of our Chapter at Com-
mencement will be found elsewhere. It may be well here to speak
of an event which was previously overlooked in giving the Chapter
news. In the spring, a joint debate was held between the three lit-
erary societies of the college, the Barnard, Peithologian and Philo-
lexian. The subject was the further restriction of immigration. Two
speakers were chosen from each society, one member from each
society speaking on each side of the question. The debate was to
be decided by three competent judges, and then the two best speak-
ers were to receive honorable mention. Brother Oscar J. Cohen,
'86, one of the speakers from the Barnard, was on the winning side
of the debate, and received second honorable mention.
We send hearty greetings to all our sister Chapters, wish them
long life and prosperity, trust that all the brothers will enjoy a
pleasant vacation this summer, and meet with us at the Convention
with the Madison Chapter, October 27, 28 and 29.
Fraternally,
William Gasten, '87.
TO A CLOUD.
Stay ! snowy cloud on yonder height,
Where darkest pines
In rugged lines
Now sink their beauty in thy white
And breathe repose and sweetly woo
Thee, virgin vapor of the pearly blue.
Harvard College, Henry E. Eraser,
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard, '86.
EDITORIAL.
The Quarterly acknowledged with gratitude the receipt of
many favors from different persons during the year. The receipt of
the college annuab has given much satisfaction, and an effort will be
made to review in the fall those which have been received. Various
additions have been made to our files of fraternity magazines and
catalogues. Our thanks are especially due to the many kind friends
who have taken so active an interest in our welfare, and who, by
their kindness in sending information, books, pamphlets, items of
interest concerning Alumni, etc., have done much to ease the work
of securing suitable matter for publication. We hope this disposi-
tion to send matter to the Quarterly will grow largely during the
year.
During the long summer vacation, many of the undergraduate
members of the Fraternity will probably have some spare time on
their hands, which it seems difficult to occupy with something that
will prove of advantage. Now, we wish to suggest that one of the
best possible wa3rs in which extra time can be spent is in literary
work, and that the Quarterly offers a splendid opportunity for
placing the result of such time and thought before readers. As a
means of reaching a wide circle of intelligent and interested people,
it is far superior to the ordinary college papers. The edition of
from 2,500 to 3,000 copies, and the present mode of distribution, will
bring an article or literary production before a class of readers that
no one other magazine reaches, and one whom it is quite an honor
to be able to reach. Short stories and poems, vacation experiences,
and articles of general interest to college men, are among the sub-
jects which will prove most acceptable to the Quarterly. Let us
see what the members of the Fraternity can do this summer.
With this issue the Quarterly closes the fourth volv
existence, and in many respects the most satisfactory,
ending of the last college year six numbers of the Quartt
been published, and we are now prepared to start at the
of the next college year with Volume v "' ^ht ta
EDITORIAL. 223
paring^ and publishing these issues has been an extremely severe one,
the numbers coming within two months of each other, and in con-
sequence some departments have not had the attention bestowed
upon them which they need to present the completeness that the
board of editors desire. The editorial department has been appar-
ently neglected, but there are various reasons for this, the most
important of which is the position the Executive Council of the Fra-
ternity is taking in the management of its affairs. Formerly such
matters of interest and importance as came before the Fraternity were
discussed in the editorial columns, and action waited until the an-
nual gathering of the Chapters in convention. Now the Executive
Council plays such an active part in the Fraternity government that
matters of importance, as fast as they arise, are attended to at once,
and the result placed before the Fraternity before the Quarterly
has a chance to get out and say a word. In consequence, the time
which otherwise would be devoted to editorials has been spent on
other departments. There has been a large increase among the
subscribers to the Quarterly, and especially is this so among the
older members with whom the Quarterly seems to meet with much
favor. The financial support has been excellent, and there is little
to complain of in the manner in which the undergraduate editors
have done their work. The cordial expressions of sympathy and
approval, the hearty support and kind wishes for success that have
come from all sides, have done much towards lightening the burdens
which the publication of such a magazine necessarily entails. We
appreciate very much these kind feelings and will do our best to
deserve their continuation.
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DELTA U. NEWS ITEMS.
Wanted — A copy of the Annual of the forty-fourth Conrention,
held with the MidcUebury Chapter in 1878.
Address Paul V. Perry,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Delta U's are quite numerous in the central part of New York,
and we think an Alumni Chapter could be well maintained at some
such central point as Utica, a city which has a number of enthusias-
tic members of the Fraternity.
The fifty-first graduating class in Delta Upsilon has closed its col-
lege career with great honor. From the reports which have reached
us, it is shown that in Williams College we had second honor; Union,
second ; Rochester, third ; Middlebury, first and second ; Rutgers,
third and fourth ; Madison, second, third and fourth ; New York,
first ; Marietta, first and second ; Harvard, first, second and fourth ;
Lafayette, first, and Columbia, first honor, making a total of six first,
six second, three third and three fourth honors, with others yet
to be heard from.
By the time this issue reaches our readers, the Camping Associa-
tion will be in their quarters on Barker's Point, Bolton, Lake George,
N. Y. Among the campers are the well-known names of Bassett,
Walker and Merritt, of Amherst ; Allen and Turnbull, of Madison ;
Crossett, of New York^ and Bickford, of Harvard. The encamp-
ment will last from July 27 to August 17, or perhaps later. A cordial
invitation is extended to visitors to stop and see how the boys get
along. Letters will reach any of the members, addressed in care of
the Delta U. Camp, Bolton, Lake George, N. Y.
Nearly 250 college men, from twenty-five States and ninety col-
leges, are now assembled at Moody's School, at Mt. Hermon, Mass.,
for Bible study. The term lasts from July 8 to Aug. i. These students
are the delegates of their respective College Y.M.C. Associations,
and are here not only for their own benefit, but for that, also, of their
DELTA U. NEWS ITEMS. 225
•colleges. Probably every American college Fraternity is represented
here. The most noticeable pin, because the most frequently seen, is
Delta U. While Delta Kappa Epsilon has twelve men, and Phi
Delta Theta has eleven, other fraternities run from these figures
<iown to one. Delta U. has seventeen men here, and the Rev. Dr.
Arthur T. Pierson, Hamilton^ '57, of the Bethany Presbyterian
Church, Philadelphia, Pa., who is to be one of the instructors, will
be the eighteenth. The representation is as follows : WilliamSy
Ellis J. Thomas, Henry D. Wild, Charles A. Williams, '88 ; Fred-
•erick J. Fitschen, Jr., '89. Uniony William P. Landon, '86. Amherst,
Elbridge C. Whiting, '88. CoUfy, Addison B. Lorimer, '88. Rochester,
William C. Wilcox, '88. Middlebury, Henry L. Bailey, '%(>, Rutgers,
Lewis B. Chamberlain, '86 ; William P. Merrill, '87 ; Willard A.
Heacock, 88. Brown, Henry W. Pinkham, '88. Madison, Fred S.
Retan, '89. Marietta, Benjamin W. Labaree, '88. Syracuse, Charles
X. Hutchinson, '87. Harvard, Edward G. Tewksbury, '87.
The second annual statistical table which we present with this
number offers much interesting information and shows the Fraternity
to be in an excellent condition. In comparison with last year's
table, we find there are now 107 Seniors in the Fraternity, whereas
there were but 84 last year. 126 Juniors, 102 Sophomores and 97
Freshmen, against 104 Juniors, iii Sophomores and 91 Freshmen
last year, making a total membership of 390 for 1884-85 and 432 for
1885-86, thus showing a gain of 42 for 1885-86. 332 are to come
l)ack to college in the fall, an increase of 30 over the number who
were to return last fall. Each one of our twenty-two chapters has a
representation in each of the four classes, except Harvard, which
has no Freshmen, and who usually draws its membership from the
Senior and Junior classes exclusively. Delta Kappa Epsilon leads
in the list of rival fraternities, we meeting her in sixteen colleges.
Alpha Delta Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Psi Upsilon and *Zeta Psi are in
common with us in eleven institutions. Of others, Chi Psi leads
with ten chapters ; Delta Phi, Phi Delta Theta and Theta Delta Chi,
seven chapters ; Chi Phi and Phi Kappa Psi, six chapters ; Delta
Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta and Sigma Chi, four chapters ; Delta
Psi, Kappa Alpha and Sigma Phi, three chapters; Alpha Tau
Omega, and the law fraternity Phi Delta Phi, two chapters ; and one
chapter each of Phi Kappa Sigma, and Sigma Nu. During the year
Beta Theta Pi has died at Harvard, Chi Phi at Michigan, Sigma Phi
at Union, and Theta Delta Chi at Lafayette. Phi Delta Theta has
been established at Williams, Phi Gamma Delta at Michigan, Theta
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Delta U. has been represented during the past year on college
publications as follows : Williams College, John T. Baxter and
William Goodyear, '87, on the Literary Monthly. Herbert M. Allen,
*88, and John F. Fitschen, Jr., '89, on the Williams Fortnight.
Union College, Irving P. Johnson, '87 business manager, and Fred-
erick S. Randall, '86, editor-in-chief, of the Concordiensis, George W.
Furbeck, '87, on the annual The Garnet. Hamilton College, E. Root
Fitch, Jr., and Fred W. Griffith, '86, on the Hamilton Lit ; John G.
Peck, '87, on the annual The Hamiltonian. Amherst College, Walter
P. White and Frederic P. Johnson, '87, on the Amherst Literary
Monthly. Edward B. Rogers, '87, and James Ewing, '88, on the
Amherst Student. Adelbert College, Frank Kuhn and George A.
Wright, on the annual The Reserve. Colby University, Seldom
B. Overlock, Holman F. Day, and John R. Wellington, '86, managing
editor, of the Colby Echo. Thomas J. Ramsdell, '86, editor-in-chief
of the annual The Oracle. Rochester University, Samuel M. Brick-
ner, '88, on the Rochester Campus ; Herbert A. Manchester, on the
annual The Interpres. Middlebury College, Henry N. Winchester,
'87, Bernard M. Cooledge, '88, and Henry L. Bailey, ^%(> editor-in-
chief, of the Undergraduate^ and Henry N. Winchester, '87, on the
annual The Kaleidoscope. Rutgers College, Thurston W. Challen, '87,
Lewis B. Chamberlain, and Peter Stillwell, '86 editor-in-chief, of the
Rutgers Targum. Asa Wynkoop, '87, on the annual The Scarlet
Letter. Brown University, Frank S. Dietrich, '87, and Wilbur B.
Parshley, '86 editor-in-chief, of the Brunonian. Madison University,
Owen Cassidy, '87, on the annual The Salmagundi. University of
the City of New York, Charles H. Roberts and John S. Lyon, '86
editor-in-chief, of the University Quarterly ; Harry E. Schell, '87
(resigned) on the annual The Lyre. Cornell University, George M.
Marshall, '87, and Charles H. Hull, '86 business manager, of the
Cornell Review; George M. Marshall, and Albert R. Warner, '87
editor-in-chief, of the annual The Cornellian. Marietta College^
Rufus C. Dawes and Charles S. Mitchell, '86, and Frederick E.
Corner, '87, on the College Ohio. Walter G. Beach, Benjamin W.
Labaree and Robert M. Labaree, '88, on the annual The Mariettian.
Syracuse University, Frank G. Bannister, '88, Walter S. Eaton, '87,
Lincoln E. Rowley, '88, Byron B. Brackett, '89, Emmons H. Sanford,
'87 business manager, and William A. Wilson, '86 editor-in-chief,
of the University Herald. Josiah H. Lynch and John S. Bovingdon,
:228 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
'87 business manager, of the annual The Onondagan. University of
Michigan, Charles A. Wheeler, '86, and Arthur L. Benedict, '87, on
the Michigan Argonaut ; James McNaughton, '88, in the Sophomore
annual The Oracle, Northwestern University, Wilbur F. Atchison
and Charles L. Linebarger, '88, on the Northwestern. Robert I.
Fleming, '86, and Oscar Middlekauflf, '88, on the annual The Syllabus.
Harvard University, Bitram C. Henry, on the Herald Crimson-
University of Wisconsin, one man on the college paper and annual.
Lafayette College, Harry T. Beatty, John N. Roe, and James P.
Wilson, '87, on the annual The Melange. Lehigh University, Ben-
jamin A. Cunningham, '87, on the Engineering Journal.
It will be seen from this list that in every college in which Delta
U has a Chapter, she was represented on the editorial board of one
or more of the college publications.
A recent strong proof of the spirit of earnestness and enterprise
to be found in Delta Upsilon is that so many of her sons have come
here to Mr. Moody's Summer School for Bible study. Seventeen
brothers have come to this hill to listen to the noted and able
lecturers who are furnishing here such a rich intellectual treat.
It doesn't take long for Delta U's to find each other out, and we
were soon all well acquainted with each other, and many good times
have we had since. Tramps about the country, and a moon-light
ride, in which eight out of the seventeen participated, have drawn us
closer together, and we realize, as never before, that not only the
members of our own Chapter, but those of all the Chapters, are
brothers in the truest sense ; and we feel that our intercourse here
will draw closer together not only ourselves but the Chapters we
represent.
From the very first we have tried to have an informal meeting in
which we all might meet together, talk, and sing, and get a Delta U.
greeting from one another, and the evening of July 15 was finally fixed
for this meeting. One of the lecturers now here being Dr. Arthur T.
Pierson, Hamilton^ '57, a committee waited on him and gave him a
cordial invitation to attend, which was as cordially accepted. In the
evening, all but one of the eighteen Delta U's here gathered in
Brother Chamberlain's room. Dr. Pierson was unanimously chosen
chairman of the meeting. Merrill, of Rutgers^ was chosen secretary,
and directed to send a report of the meeting to the Quarterly.
DELTA U. NEWS ITEMS. 229.
After this, the meeting listened with great interest to reports from
the various Chapters represented in the meeting. The reports
showed that the Chapters everywhere are in a prosperous and flour-
ishing condition, and that Delta U. leads the van in almost every
phase of college life, particularly in althletics, literature and scholar*
ship. The need of maintaining active communication between the
various Chapters was dwelt upon at some length. From a compari-
son of the reports we can .see that Delta Upsilon in almost all her
Chapters stands as high as any other fraternity in scholarship, ath-
letics, and above all in nobility and manliness of character.
Hamilton was the last Chapter called upon, and as no active
member was present, Dr. Pierson responded in a most enjoyable
address, listened to attentively by all, and interrupted frequently by
applause. The Dr. said that he had never been a zealous partisan
of Delta U.; that his position kept him from being so. But he was-
always glad to do anything for the Fraternity, as he felt that he had
derived great benefits from it. He said, illustrating the point with
stories, that during his Freshman year he was very fresh, and needed
much correction ; and he felt that he owed an unspeakable debt of
gratitude to Delta U. for the help and aid he got while in college.
He recalled the fact that he was one of the first to urge the change
of the name of the society from anti-secret to non-secret, and also
spoke of the old Theta Sigma pins, which he said were the prettiest
pins he had ever seen, with one exception, our present Delta
U. pin.
In conclusion. Dr. Pierson paid a high tribute to Delta Upsilon.
He said, as a result of careful observation in his visits to various
colleges, that there is not a Chapter of our Fraternity in which he
would not trust his own boys, at the most pliable time of their life,
so high an opinion has he of their moral standing. He has found
the manliest and the godliest men in our Fraternity, and this com-
bination of manliness and godliness is the greatest possession a
young man can have.
After a few closing words to us personally, which all present will
long remember, the meeting adjourned, all having enjoyed the even-
ing, and feeling that their love for each other and for the Fraternity
had been strengthened, and hoping to meet again before the session
of the school is over.
William P. Merrill, Sec*y..
Mt. Hermon, Mass.,
July 16, 1886.
CHAPTER NEWS.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
Arthur V. Taylor gave the Latin Salutatory at Commencement.
George H. Flint, '86, was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
William M. Marvin, *86, received an appointment for Commence-
ment.
Charles H. Perry, '86, received an appointment, and was also Class
Orator.
John T. Baxter, '87, received the first Junior prize in the " Moon-
light " speaking contest.
Ellis J. Thomas, '88, received the first prize in History, the second
in Greek and an honorable mention in Latin.
Charles A. Williams, '88, received an honorable mention in Latin
and Greek, and received a Rice Book Prize.
Henry D, Wild, '88, received the first prize in Latin, Greek and
Mathematics ; the second prize in History, and an honorable mention
in Natural History.
Commencement Week. — The Commencement of 1886, that
marks the close of the ninety-second year of the college, attracted to
Williamstown fewer visitors, by far, than the Commencement of 1885.
Never, however, were the elements more propitious. The wet and
gloomy weather of the week preceding only beautifully cleared the
atmosphere to display to visitors the charms of Williamstown scen-
ery. All day Saturday the visitors constantly arrived, and at the
Graves Prize speaking of that evening, many of the Alumni were to
be seen. There were several interesting class reunions, especially of
the Class of '36 : all combining to draw many Alumni to their Alma
Mater.
The speaking was above the average, and was carried on in a
very animated style. It was especially enjoyable to those who delight
in a " feast of reason."
Sunday proved a perfect day. In fact, it seemed as if all nature
had tried to render the conditions of enjoyment complete.
The address of the Rev. Dr. Duryea before the Y. M. C. A., and
the Baccalaureate sermon of President Carter, marked the day. Dr.
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Duryea had, previous to his coming, many friends among the students,
but by his last appearance here, he has increased their number and
deepened their affection for him. President Carter's text was :
" For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now."
Monday abounded in excitement with the *S6 quartette concert,
the presentation by the Junior Dramatic Company of two farces, and
with the Kappa Alpha and Alpha Delta Phi receptions. The concert
was a pronounced success, as is shown by the fact that the programme
was nearly doubled by encores. It was the last appearance before
the students of a quartette to which they had each become attached.
Usually, the society receptions are the leading social events of the
week, and this year's were no exception. The two receptions of
Monday evening, those already referred to, were attended by large
numbers. Expensive and extensive arrangements were made in
regard to floral decorations, platforms for dancing, music, etc.
Tuesday was, perhaps, the red-letter day of the week. Dr. Hop-
kin's speech in thdmorning, the Class Day exercises in the afternoon,
and the " Moonlight " prize-speaking in the evening, called out great
crowds. There was nothing the Alumni were so much pleased with
as Dr. Hopkin's address. Outbursts of applause greeted the ven-
erable speaker as he proceeded in giving his views of an ideal college.
The features of the Class Day exercises were the oration by Brother
Charles H. Perry, and the " Address to the Lower Classes." Of the
" Moonlights " an old Alumnus himself, a " Moonlighter " in his day,
said, " It was even better than when I took part."
For the generality of the visitors, Wednesday was the last great
day. Long before the appointed hour, the church was comfortably
filled. The class of '86, headed by Doring's band and followed by
the Alumni,, marched from the chapel to the church to participate in
the last public exercises of the class, as a whole. The exercises over,
students and visitors hasten to leave, and by Thursday almost all
are gone except the Seniors, who remain to Marshall's supper.
Thus closed the leading event of the college year, and fifty-eight
young men stepped out from their Alma Mater into the world to try
fortune among its whirls and eddies.
Among our Alumni who attended Commencement were : the Rev.
Theodore J. Clark, of Manchester, Vt.; Anson L. Hobart, M.D., of
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232 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
Worcester, Mass., and Zalmon Richards, Esq., of Washington, D.C.^
'36 ; ex-Goveraor William Bross, '38, of Chicago, 111. ; James W.
Brown, M.D., '40, of Framingham, Mass.; Charles L. Hubbell, M.D.^
of Williamstown, Mass. ; Allyn S. Kellogg, of Hartford, Conn.;.
Andrew M. Smith, M.D., of Williamstown, Mass.; Abraham V. W..
Van Vechten, Esq., of New York, N. Y., '47 ; the Hon. James White,
of Boston, Mass., and General Charles L. Alden, of Troy, N. Y., '51 ;.
Llewellyn Pratt, D.D., '51, of Hartford, Conn.; Orlando C. Blackmer^
'53, of Chicago, 111.; Prof. Cyrus M. Dodd, '55, of Williamstown, Mass.;.
the Rev. James K. Hazen, '56, of Richmond, Va. ; Irving Magee, D.D.,
of Rondout, N. Y.; George W. Carrington, of West Winsted, Conn.;,
the Rev. Thomas E. Brastow, of Camden, Mass., and the Rev.
Chauncey Goodrich, of China, '6i ; Prof. Leverett W. Spring, '63, of
Williamstown, Mass. ^ j^
•^ Chapter Reunion. — The evening of the 29th of June, Tuesday
of Commencement week, was one long to be remembered by the
under-graduate members of our Chapter. At this meeting we
met several of the men who had founded our Fraternity in Williams-
College, nearly fifty-two years ago. The early history of the Chapter
was then fully made known again to us. From these venerable mem-
bers, we learned of the struggles the Chapter had for existence ; of
the great principle on which they worked. The relation of these
facts, connected with our earlier history by our founders, made a
deep and lasting impression upon the undergraduates. Among
those present were : Anson L. Hobart, M.D., and Zalmon Richards,
Esq., '36 ; ex-Governor William Bross, '38, of the Chicago Tribune ;
James W. Brown, M.D., '40 ; General Charles L. Alden, and the
Hon. James White, '51 ; Llewellyn Pratt, D.D., '52 ; O. C, Black-
naer, '53, and Irving Magee, D.D., '57.
Each of the gentlemen, when called upon by Dr. Hobart, the
President of the evening, who was, by the way, the President of the
. Chapter when it was organized in 1834, made hearty, loyal speeches,
'i^pleasing especially to the undergraduates.
The occasion was the source of much encouragement and pleasure
for the active members, and thoroughly enjoyed by the company.
The evening of June 18 was the occasion of the supper to the
graduating members of our Chapter. Although sorrow was universal,
because of the departure of so many brothers from our ranks,
yet we feel confident that a prosperous future awaits them. After
the cravings of the inner man were satisfied, the members were enter-
tained by several toasts, and not until a late hour did the gathering:
break up.
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UNION COLLEGE.
Commencement Week. — On Sunday, June 20, the Baccalaureate
sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Ormiston of New York,
N. Y.
Monday, June 21, the Ivy exercises of the Senior class were held
in the afternoon. The Pipe Oration was delivered by Brother Wil-
liam P. Landon, in place of the regularly-appointed orator. The
Class Day exercises occurred in the evening, when brothers Frede-
rick S. Randall and Gustav S. Dorwin were, respectively, the Poet
and Historian.
Tuesday, June 22, meeting of Phi Beta Kappa, at 8.30 a.m.
Alumni meeting and election of Alumni trustee, 10-12; Dr. Feath-
erstonhaugh was re-elected. Alumni dinner and speeches by the
Alumni, 1-3 p.m. Junior and Sophomore Oratorical contest, and
the Veeder Extemporaneous contest, 7.30-10. Brother James E.
Brennan, '88, took second oratorical prize, and Irving P. Johnson,
'87, Nelson M. Redfield, '87, and William P. Landon, '86, entered
the Extemporaneous contest.
Wednesday, June 23, Graduating exercises, 10.30 a.m. -1.30
p.m. Chancellor's address delivered by Senator Warner Miller,
'60. Prizes awarded. Delta U. men received: the first Allen Essay
prize, Wilbur F. La Monte, '86; first Blatchford Oratorical prize,
William P. Landon, *86; second Blatchford Oratorical prize, Frede-
rick S. Randall, '86; first Clark Essay prize, Irving P. Johnson, '87;
second Sophomore Oratorical prize, James E. Brennan, '88. It is
hardly necessary to add that no other society received so many
honors. The President's reception was held Wednesday evening,
and after it came the annual Commencement Ball.
The Commencement exercises were of a higher order than for
several years past, and plainly showed the improvement in thorough-
ness of instruction, especially in the speaking. Although it rained,
large audiences greeted the speakers at all of the meetings, and good
feeling prevailed throughout, and general satisfaction was felt be-
cause of the new spirit that is pervading every department. Broth-
ers Landon and Randall received Commencement appointments, and
Brother Landon received second honor and an election to Phi Beta
Kappa. The Trustees have not yet chosen a permanent President;
but there is no need of one, as far as our internal affairs are con-
cerned, and is only necessary to satisfy public opinion.
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Our annual Chapter banquet was held at our Hall, i68 State Street,
on Tuesday evening, June 22. This year we were more interested
than usual, as we were not only to have the Alumni with us, but also
were to initiate three men — Irving Peake Johnson, '87, of Schenec-
tady, N. Y., Max Muller Smith, of Schenectady, N. Y., and Charles
Henry Flanagan, of Albany, N. Y., '89. Our initiation occurred at
II P.M., and our banquet at 12. It is needless to say that it was a
happy time, because every Delta U. knows that, and our baby mem-
bers can testify that we carried out everything right royally.
Ex-Congressman Benjamin A. Willis, '61, of New York, N. Y.,
presided in his usual happy manner, and among those present were:
Arie Banta, Esq., '46, of Fox Lake, Wis.; the Rev. Denis Wortman,
D.D., Amherst^ '57, of Saugerties, N. Y., and Peter R. Furbeck,
M.D., *54, of Gloversville, N. Y., College Trustees; the Rev. Philip
Furbeck, '54, of Little Falls, N. J.; the Rev. Joseph H. Wright, '73,
of Xenia, O.; Prof. Olin H. Landreth, '76, of Nashville, Tenn.; Prof.
Frank M. Comstock, '76, of Le Roy, N. Y.; Clarence E. Akin, Esq.,
'77, of Troy, N. Y.; Lewis A. Cass, Esq., '78, of Albany, N. Y.;
Robert J. Landon, Esq., '80, of Schenectady, N. Y.; William H.
Munsell, '85, of Buffalo, N. Y.; besides the fourteen active members.
Irving P. Johnson, '87, is business manager, and Frederick S.
Randall, '86, editor-in-chief of the college paper. The Concordiensis,
A considerable sum was given towards increasing our library at
the initiation banquet, and Dr. Peter R. Furbeck, '54, has presented
us with a beautiful edition of Dickens' works.
In addition to those present at the banquet, we noticed the fol-
lowing attending Commencement exercises: The Rev. Richard Os-
borne, of Saratoga, N. Y., and the Rev. Jeremiah Petrie, of Pompey,
N. Y., '46; the Hon. Joseph B. Graham, '58, of Schenectady, N. Y.;
Eben S. Lawrence, M.D., '76, of Greenfield Center, N. Y.; Hugh H.
De Yermand, '78, of Albany, N. Y.; David H. Muhlfelder, Esq., '80, of
Albany, N. Y.; Ripley S. Lyon, of Brookings, Dakota, and William
M. White, M.D., of New York, N. Y., '81; and the Hon. Judson S.
Landon.
HAMILTON COLLEGE.
The Delta U. editor of the Hamilton Literary Monthly for the
next college year, is Frank H. Robson, '87.
CHAPTER NEWS. 235
Frank H. Robson, '87, took first classical prize of '87.
William H. Squires, '88, took first prize in Sophomore essay.
Carl W. Scovel, '88, took the Sophomore Greek prize, of $25.00.
The editor of the Hatniltonian from the Chapter is Carl W. Sco-
vel, '88.
E. Coit Morris, '89, took second prize in declamation. Commence-
ment week.
Frank B. Severance, 87, was elected vice-president of the college
Y.M.C.A. for the coming year, and Warren D. More, '88, is to be
the corresponding secretary.
Work on our Chapter house is progressing, and we hope it will
be so far completed as to allow of our entertaining members of the
Fraternity on their way to and from Convention.
Commencement Week. — Another Commencement has come and
gone, and it is now a thing of the past ; yet there is a new vigor and
life in the Hamilton Chapter^ and all is hope and happy expectations.
Commencement-week at Hamilton was introduced by a rainy day.
At first you could notice the gloomy looks on the faces of all, espe-
cially the Seniors, but, in the afternoon, as the sun brightened the
day, it likewise brightened the countenances of all.
The first thing of any importance was prize speaking on Satur-
day evening. In that Delta U. had her usual representation and
carried off second prize in the Freshman class in the person of
Brother Morris.
On Sunday, there was the accustomed Baccalaureate sermon by
President Darling, and in the evening an address to the Y. M. C. A.
of the college. Monday proved very interesting on account of the
prize debate. Tuesday afternoon was Tree Day, and the Campus
never looked prettier than it did, when numberless carriages drove
on, containii^ Alumni, friends, students and the fairer sex. Delta
U. spoke her part in the form of the " Poet " and the response
from '88.
On Wednesday afternoon, Class Day, Delta U. took the lead in
the capacity of " President " of the day. Thursday was Commence-
ment Day, winding up with the usual reception at the President's
house.
Of all the Commencement week, the most interesting day to
Delta U. was Wednesday. In the early part of the morning the
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members of the active chapter were very busy making preparations
and gathering the Alumni in the Delta U. Hall, on College Street
At 10.30 the meeting was called to order, and a more enthusiastic
reunion has not been held in Clinton for years. At 12 o'clock the
meeting adjourned, and at 10.30 p.m. we met again in the parlors of
the Willard House for our Annual Banquet. Besides the active
chapter, there were twenty-seven of our Alumni, making forty-seven
in all, present. If there was anything which would inspire a man,
it was to look upon that assemblage, surrounding the table elegantly
adorned for the feast, when the Rev. L. Merrill Miller, D.D., '40,
of Ogdensburgh, N. Y., asked grace.
During the course of the evening there were very many pleasant
remarks and stories from our Alumni. After the bodily wants were
satisfied, the satiation of the brain commenced, and the following
toasts were cheerfully responded to :
** Hamilton College." — Prof. Francis M. Burdick, '69.
"Clergymen in I^lta Upsilon." — The Rev. James F. Brodie, '76.
Song, " Naught of Sadness."
"The Ladies." — Prof. William H. Maynard. '54.
•• Business Men."— William M. Griffith, '80.
Song, " The Happiest Night."
" Future."— Prof. George W. Warren, '84.
" Law." — Leslie R. Groves, *8i.
" The Amherst Chapter." — The Rev. Chester W. Hawley, Amherst, '58.
Song, " We Sing of Delta U."
** Delta Upsilon as a Teacher." — Prof. George Griffith, '77.
" The Active Chapter." — Charles S. Van Auken, '86.
" The Delta U. Chapter House." — Prof. Isaac O. Best, '67.
Song, "The Bulldog."
Each of the following brothers, when called on, had something
good to say for Delta U. : Milton Howe, Esq., 56 ; the Rev. William
L. Page, '54 ; the Rev. Richard G. Keyes, '48 ; Joseph Y. Chapin,
Esq., *66 ; Dr. L. Merrill Miller, '40 ; the Rev. William H. AUbright,
'76 ; Byron Wells, '76 ; the Rev. Alphonso L. Benton, '56 ; the Rev.
Dwight Scovel, '54, and the Rev. Alfred M. Stowe, '49. As the
hour was now very early in the morning, the banquet broke up, with
hearty cheers for Delta U.
The following were among Delta U. Alumni in attendance Com-
mencement week :
The Rev. Richard G. Keyes, '48, of Watertown, N. Y. ; the Rev.
Alfred M. Stowe, '49, of Canandaig^a, N. Y.; the Rev. Warren W.
Warner, '50, of Pitcher, N. Y.; Prof. William H. Maynard, D.D., of
CHAPTER NEWS. 237
Hamilton, N. Y., the Rev. William L. Page, of Rochester, N. Y., and
the Rev. Dwight Scovel, of Clinton, N. Y., '54; Truman G. Avery,
Esq., of Buffalo, N. Y., the Rev. Alphonso L. Benton, of Montrose,
Pa., and Milton Howe, Esq., of Poland, N. Y., '56 ; the Rev. Samuel
Miller, '60, of Deansville, N. Y.; Joseph Y. Chapin, Esq., of Ogdens-
burg, N. Y., and the Rev. Charles Simpson, of Sherman, N. Y., '66 ;
Prof. Isaac O. Best, '67, of Clinton, N. Y.; Prof. Francis M. Burdick,
of Clinton, N. Y., and Charles H. Searle, Esq., of Utica, N. Y., '69 ;
Frederick H. Gouge, '70, of Utica, N. Y.; the Rev. William H. All-
bright, of Auburn, N. Y., the Rev. James F. Brodie, of Woodstock,
Vt, and Byron Wells, of Buffalo, N. Y., '76 ; Prof. George Griffith,
'77, of Lockport, N. Y.; William M. Griffith, '80, of Utica, N. Y.;
Leslie R. Groves, Esq., of Utica, N. Y., and Francis W. Joslyn, of
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., '81; Prof. Charles L. Luther, '83, of
McGrawville, N. Y.; Joseph A. Adair, of Cincinnati, O., Louis A.
Scovel, M.D., of Cazenovia, N. Y., and Prof. George W. Warren, of
Cazenovia, N. Y., '84.
AMHERST COLLEGE.
The hot weather of Amherst at Commencement time has become
almost proverbial, but this year it failed, and in its stead a beauti-
fully mild and even temperature, together with a fair sky, helped
greatly in making the Commencement of *86 a success in every way,
and also in showing to the numerous visitors the beauty of Amherst
in her commanding position and fine views of the surrounding
mountains.
The warning that Commencement was near, reached us with the
arrival of the sub-Freshmen, and all went at the campaign work with
an earnestness and system that made success sure. The number of
the incoming class that took examination here was unusually small
and indeed rather uninteresting, but with one good man for a nucleus,
and several others as good as pledged, we feel confident of a good
delegation in the class of '90.
The first of the Commencement exercises proper was the Bacca-
laureate sermon by the president, on Sunday, June 27. On Mon-
day came the Hyde and Kellogg prize speaking, in the first of
which Delta U. was represented by Brothers Robert A. Woods and
Harris H. Wilder, '86, and in the latter by Brother Arthur B. Rus-
sell, '88.
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Tuesday morning an exhibition was given by the Junior class in
the Pratt gymnasium, and this was followed by an organ recital in
the college church. Class Day exercises were held also on Tuesday,
and concluded with the Class Day Concert in the evening.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society met on Wednesday morning.
Brothers Walter P. White and Frederic P. Johnson are elected mem-
bers from '87. Commencement speaking and the Alumni dinner
followed, and the night was devoted to the gayest festivity of Com-
mencement, the Promenade Concert at the Pratt gymnasium.
'S6 met for their last class supper at the Amherst House, on
Thursday evening, Brother Robert A. Woods acting as chairman of
the committee. Although Delta U. has not taken as prominent a
part as usual in Commencement this year, her leading position among
the societies of Amherst College is so well established, that her repu-
tation will not suffer. Among our Alumni attending Commence-
ment were Prof. William L. Montague, A.M., '55 ; William F.
Bradbury, Josiah H. Goddard, M.D., Edward P. Kimball, the Rev.
John W. Lane, and Cyrus H. Pendleton, M.D., '56 ; the Rev.
George F. Merriam, '61 ; the Rev. William S. Rowland, '70 ; the
Rev. Herbert G. Lord, '71 ; the Rev. William C. Merrill, '74; Lo-
renzo W. Searle, Esq., '78 ; Prof. Joseph F. McGregoryand Charles
S. Noyes, Esq., '80 ; Elmer S. Forbes and Prof. G. Gilbert Pond,
*8i ; David B. Rowland, '83 ; and Edward Simons, '85.
The delegation of '86 has had a checkered career and an up-hill
pull to establish the reputation which at the outset they seemed
sure of attaining. Entering ten good men, at the end of Junior
year half of the delegation, including some of the best men ever
pledged to Delta U., had left college, and only seven graduated, two
coming in from other colleges.
Freshman year the Porter prize for the best Entrance Examination
was awarded to Francis B. Holt, and Alonzo M. Murphey took the
Kellogg prize for excellence in declamation.
During Sophomore and Junior years Brother Murphey was Presi-
dent of his Class, and during Junior year Editor-in-chief of the Am-
herst Student^ and also a member of the college Senate. Brother
Murphey was a man who naturally took the lead wherever he went,
not only in society matters, but also in college, and his loss at the
end of Junior year was one of the severest blows the chapter has had
to sustain.
CHAPTER NEWS, 239
During the same year Harris H. Wilder took the first Sawyer
medal for excellence in physiology. Brother Wilder is a devoted
scientist, especially in the department of biology, and has done much
to increase the interest in that line in the Chapter.
During Junior and Senior years, Robert A. Woods was on the
board of the Student editors. Brother Wilder was one of the editors
of the Amherst Papers in Philosophy, and both of the Brothers
AVoods and Wilder were speakers for the Hyde prize at Commence-
ment. George A. White was champion of the college in heavy gym-
nastics for two years in '86, and still holds the position as a member
of '87.
Although few of the Commencement honors fell to '86, five of
the seven graduated with cum laude on their diplomas. Their occu-
pations for the future, so far as they have been settled, are as fol-
lows : J. Frank Bickmore will engage in business. James M. H.
Frederick studies law and oversees a ranch in Dakota. Frederic B.
Peck will teach in Colorado. Harry B. Ferine has a stock farm in
Missouri to manage. William F. Walker will study law at home,
Benson, Vt. Harris H. Wilder will take a post-graduate course in
biology. Robert A. Woods will enter the field of religious journalism.
COLBY UNIVERSITY.
Delta Upsilon, ever since it was re-established at Colby, has stood,
and still stands, at the head in scholarship. In '* fishing " it has
ever been our aim to make good moral character the first thing to
be looked at, and literary ability second only to the first. Money in
a man, as something his father or grandfather has done, counts for
very little. If a man is ever so " smart," and yet be morally bad, we
don't need him, and our motto has been : "Better lose a good man
than get a bad one."
Working on this careful basis, our men are not always the most
showy during the Freshman year, but when the Junior and Senior
year comes around, " we are there " every time.
In '86, Colby has one of the best classes she has had for some
time, and from that class Delta U. has seven men who have won her
glory, and who have stood by her during four prosperous and happy
years.
240 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
They will be missed, and a pang of sorrow is felt in the hearts of
the other classes, as they think of the brothers with whom they have
met week after week ; and to '86 comes also a feeling of sorrow, as
they think of the dear old hall where, for four happy years, they
have met and been forming characters that soon must bear the test
of life's action.
But '86 has the satisfaction of knowing that she has done her
part for the Chapter, and that many honors have been won for the
Chapter by her men.
By her men a second prize was taken at the Freshmen Reading,
by Randall J. Condon ; the first Sophomore prize for Declamation^
by Randall J. Condon ; first Junior prize for Writing and Speaking,
by Randall J. Condon ; first Junior Poet, by Albert M. Richardson ;
third, Randall J. Condon (these were for excellency in scholarship
during the first two years) ; Senior prize for best writer, Thomas J.
Ramsdell. Seldom B. Overlock has been the Campus editor of the
Echo for two years, and conducted his department in a most praise-
worthy manner.
John R. Wellington, during the past year, has been the managing
editor of the EchOy and under his able management, $250 was left
in the treasury, and justifies the issuing of the paper bi-monthly
instead of monthly.
Thomas J. Ramsdell has been for two years one of the editors of
the Oracle^ our annual, this year as editor-in-chief.
Seldom B. Overlock has been director and manager of the col-
lege nine, and John R. Wellington first director and manager after
Brother Overlock resigned. Last year Overlock was president of
the class, and Ramsdell awarder of prizes. This year Overlock was
orator, Ramsdell had address to undergraduates, and Condon was
prophet at Class Day : and as a fitting climax to this record of the
nine Commencement speakers, two were ladies, and of the seven gen-
tlemen, four were Delta U's — Condon, Overlock, Ramsdell and
Richardson.
In '87, we also have an able delegation of nine men, many of
them standing high in their class.
Holman F. Day is the literary editor of the EchOy and is one of
the most polished writers in the class, having composed poetry of
real merit.
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Holmes has been appointed marshal for the college for two years,
and is also president of his class, and took first prize at the Junior
Exhibition for Writing and Speaking.
Charles C. Richardson was also one of the speakers and was first
on the executive committee.
Larabee is the pet of the college when you speak of base-ball,
and has done much by his wonderful playing at short-stop and by
his skillful handling of the bat, to win the State Intercollegiate pen-
nant for Colby this year.
Irving Q. Palmer is first director of the base-ball association for
the coming year.
In '88 we have five good and able men. Henry F. Fletcher
is one of the Campus editors of the Echo^ and stands the highest in
rank in his class.
John Shaw is a preacher of much power already, as is also Addi-
son B. Lorimer.
'89 holds three men who are loyal to the gold and blue, and one
of them, William C. Sheppard, has already obtained quite a reputation.
At the unveiling of the Webster statue, at Concord, N. H., which was
a State occasion, he was invited to read an original Ode, which he
did, and it was printed in all the leading Boston dailies.
Such are some of our men, and not only in literary rank do they
exceed, but in athletics and in social circles as well.
We also have the correspondents of the Boston Journal^ Lewiston
Journal^ Kennebec Journaly Waterville Mail and Waterville Sentinel,
Reunion Echoes. — The societies all held their reunions on
Tuesday evening, July 6, after an oration by the Rev. Edward
Everett Hale, D.D.
Our hall was well filled by enthusiastic undergraduates and royal
Alumni, and several hours were spent in a royal manner, listening to
the speeches humorous, and yet filled with true loyal regard for the
old Chapter where they had got so much help for life's work. After
speeches and conversation, ice-cream and refreshments were in-
dulged in. Before the reunion closed, the Alumni got their heads
together, and resulted in a present of about $ioo in money for the
"boys." We now have a beautiful and tasty hall over the First Na-
tional Bank, fitted up' in an excellent manner, and are in excellent
financial standing, owning all our furnishings, and entirely free from
X4J DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
debc The prospect for next year is in every way satisfacrto
Each year large classes are leaving, and our namber of Alumn :
being increased, and is a source of great strength to us.
Among the namber of Alomni present were Corthill, Prinof j
of the Gcrham Normal School ; Estes, of Hamilton Academy, Ann
Pnr.::pa: of Richmond High School; Dunham, of Portland Hi>
Sch'o! ; Andrew, of one of Boston's Grammar Schools ; Cochran
Dutton (a graduate of Br^um), and Emery, who are leading nnii
isters in this State ; Lord, of the Waterville Sentinel^ Smith, G. >A
and A. P. S-juIc. and Keith, of Waterville, and Snyder, of the Littleton
Ma>s^ High School
The college is in abetter condition than ever before, the motto v
prcri^ess, with plenty of money and a large class to enter next fall
Of the sLk English orators, there were by Delta U*s, Condon,
RamsdciU and Richardson. This is the highest honor given by the
cr-llege, the next being Oration, etc, etc Only one of our men was
as low as third part.
UXIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.
Herbert A. Manchester received the Second Junior Greek prize
at Commencement, and Alden J. Merrill and William C. Wilcox
divided the second Sophomore Latin prize. Our '86 members have
taken the following prizes during their college course. Freshman
Mathematical prize. First, William E. Davis, Sophomore Latin
Prize. First, Henry W. Bean, Dewey Sophomore Declamation.
First, William E. Loucks, Junior Greek Prize. First, Wallace S.
Truesdell, Hull Senior Essay Prize. First, Wallace S. Truesdell,
Davis Prize Medal for best Commencement oration. Second,
William E. Loucks. On a scholarship basis, Delta Upsilon had
four men out of the first twelve on Sophomore exhibition, and fur-
ni^hed three of the nine who were entitled to speak at Commence-
ment on the ground of scholarship.
Commencement Week. — Rochester has hatched its thirty-sixth
annual brood of fledglings and sent them out into the world to
scratch for themselves. Taken altogether, they are a valiant set,
with few white feathers, yet some of them would have been more
companionable if they had been " sit " on a little longer.
CHAPTER KEWS. 243
The exercises of Commencement week opened with a sermon
before the Young Men's Christian Association of the University on
Sunday evening, June 13. This is a Baptist institution, and though
the students are seldom aware of its denominational character dur-
ing the year, and though a large proportion of the students are not
Baptists, nevertheless, at Commencement, we are usually over-
whelmed with visiting Baptist brethren, and often saturated with
water too — in perspiration — yet on this occasion the annual ser-
mon was delivered by a Methodist, the Rev. J. M. Buckley, D.D,,
editor of the New York Christian Advocate^ but the moisture was
not absent. His theme was a rather comprehensive one, '^ The
social, political, moral and religious changes which have taken place
in this country since the rise of the Y. M. C. A." It didn't hurt the
boys, and pleased the Methodists, who came in full force to hear
their leader.
Monday was, till nightfall, a dies nan so far as Commencement
was concerned. Most of those who enter the college are admitted
by certificate, and the few who take examinations wait until fall, so
that the sub-Freshman is not seen in a " chemically pure " condition
at this time, and the incandescent Fresh-Sophomore hath here no
occasion for exhibition, and hence hieth himself to other places to
fish in deeper waters. Thus Commencement rests until evening,
when the voice of the Sophomore is heard in the land, and he
" braces himself " before a* select committee of three in the contest
for the Dewey declamation prizes. Our beautiful new chapel is
built as yet only in somebody's eye, so the First Baptist church
" built for the glory of God and to hold Commencement in," is
made the scene of rendezvous, and the contest goes on to the strains
of martial music by the Fifty-fourth regiment band, when twelve
men who stand highest in the class are appointed to this exhibition.
This method does not always include the best speakers, and in-
variably includes some poor speakers ; but this year all of them did
well, though it was rather dramatic than oratorical. Delta U. had
four men in the contest, but received only honorable mention for
excellence. The award of the committee was universally conceded
to be a " queer " one.
Evend^iy hoped that '86 would revive Class Day, and '%6
hoped^^^^Hl^plia Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon couldn't endure
244 , DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
to see the other elect the Orator for that day, so rather than yield
their petty political point, the whole affair fell through. In conse-
quence of this action Tuesday was a dead-letter day to all except
the Trustees and Alumni, who held their annual meetings and elec-
tions. In the evening, Brother Charles B. Parker, M.D., '74, of
Cleveland, O., delivered the Oration before the Alumni, and Brother
Joseph O'Connor, '63, editor of the Rochester Post-Express^ read
the Poem. Dr. Parker's oration was a sensible straightforward
vindication of the time-honored college course and a plea for in-
creased facilities for the study of science. Mr. O'Connor's poem,
" The White Rose," was written with delicate and felicitous expres-
sion, telling of a rose which a Southern maiden gave, just before the
battle of Gettysburg, to a Northern soldier, who wore it through the
thickest of that terrible three days' fight.
Commencement-Dav was a veritable Baptist day, for the rain
came down freely and deluged the land, as well as the hats of the
devoted fair ones who came to see and be won. Of course it was
insufferably tedious because of the great length of the exercises.
There is room for reform in the manner of conducting Commence-
ments. But the speakers, fourteen in number, had very commend-
able productions, and spoke their pieces with as much grace, ele-
gance and force as one could expect from a young rooster who has
fluttered to the top rail of the fence and struggles hard with his
wings, toe-nails and mouth to crow. There were but nine men
appointed to speak at Commencement on the ground of scholarship,
and three of those were Delta U's. We have not done particularly
well in taking prizes this year, yet we have secured four out of
thirteen.
On Monday evening, after the Sophomore declamations. Delta
U. held 'its thirty-third annual banquet and reunion. Thirty-five
loyal sons of Delta U. met in the parlors of the famous caterer
Teall, whom our Cornell brethren love so well, and made such a ter-
rible onslaught on his beautiful tables that he fain would weep, and
so likewise would Delta U. fain weep — for more just like it. Dr.
Parker presided with as much skill as a surgeon could desire and
more grace than is usually imputed to a physician. The way in
which our stomachs responded to the good things eatable, and the
manner in which the speakers responded to the other toasts, were
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such that even Grover himself might envy the happiness of the
wearers of the Gold and Blue, as we wended our way homeward at
the hour of early morning. Among the many present were the
Rev. T. Harwood Pattison, D.D., the Rev. Myron Adams, Hamilton^
'63; Robert T. French, Amherst^ '84; Henry W. Conklin, '77;
Adelbert Cronise, '77 ; Frederick R. Campbell, '82 ; William H.
Beach, '82 ; Frank E. Glen, '74 ; Charles H. Smith, '85 ; J. Ross
Lynch, '85 ; Jacob A. Hoekstra, '63 ; Horace G. Pierce, '74 ; David
Hays, '78 ; John A. Batrite, '81 ; Charles B. Parker, M.D., '74.
One of the enjoyable events of the college year was a visit from
Brother Fred. Crossett, of New York^ '84. His visit was all too
short, so much did we enjoy his stay among us.
Brother Walter Hays, on the occasion of his twenty-first birth-
day, gave a reception to the Chapter at his residence. The pretty
yum-yums added greatly to the enjoyment of the occasion.
MIDDLEBURV COLLEGE.
Commencement Week. — The eighty-sixth Commencement of
Middlebury College occurred from June 25 to June 30. It has been
pronounced by many to be the best Commencement for many years.
On Sunday afternoon the Baccalaureate sermon was preached in
the Congregational Church by Prof. George N. Webber, D.D. In
the evening. Prof. George N. Boardman, D.D., of the Chicago Theo-
logical Seminary, gave the address before the Y. M. C. A. of the
college.
Tuesday was Alumni Day. After a business meeting of the
Alumni in the chapel, they adjourned to the church, where an ad-
dress was given by Brother Edwin H. Higley *68, on " The Growth
of Language." Everybody expected something good from Professor
Higley, and they were not disappointed. The Rev. J. E. Rankin,
D.D., gave an able Memorial address on "The Rev. Henry N. Hud-
son, '40, the famous Shakespearean critic."
Following this came the Alumni Dinner at the Addison House.
In the afternoon, at 5 o'clock, the Chapter held its annual re-
union. The number of Alumni present was small, but all enjoyed
themselves and recalled many pleasant incidents connected with the
Hall and their experiences here.
246 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
In the evening four Freshmen spoke for the Parker prizes, and
nine Sophomores for the Merrill prizes. It is by this time nearly
proved that our Chapter lacks ability in declamation, as three men
last year and four men this year failed of capturing a prize for us.
We intend to profit by the experience. The reunions of Delta
Kappa Epsilon and Chi Psi took place after the speaking.
Commencement Day was noted for its fine weather. The pro-
gramme for the day was begun by a meeting of the Alumni in the
chapel at 9.30. At 10.30 the Undergraduates and Alumni were
formed in line and, preceded by a band, marched to the church
where the Commencement exercises were held. After prayer and
music, the speaking was begun with the Latin Salutatory and an
oration on "The New Crusade," delivered by Brother Henry L.
Bailey. Brother Marvin H. Dana spoke on " The Supernatural in
Literature," and Brother Charles Billings gave an oration on " Ma-
terialistic Pantheism," and ended the exercises with the Valedictory.
The graduation of the first lady from Middlebury College was highly
applauded. She had the sympathy of all except the College Cor-
poration, who alone prevented her from taking the highest honors
after leading her class, simply because she was a woman.
The Masters* Oration by Brother George M. Rowland, 'S;^, on
"The Practical Education of the Nineteenth Century," was highly
spoken of by all who heard it. After the conferring of degrees and
awarding of prizes, Prof. Ezra Brainerd, President-elect, was inaug-
urated as President.
The Corporation Dinner in the afternoon, the Concert in the
evening, followed by the President's Reception and the Promenade
Concert closed the Commencement of 'S6.
Prizes were awarded to Delta U. as follows: Waldo, for scholar-
ship; first and second Senior, second and third Sophomore, and first
and second Freshmen, to Charles Billings, Henry L. Bailey, Bernard
M. Cooledge, Burton J. Hazen, Leslie H. Raine and Prentiss C.
Hojrt respectively. The prize for highest scholarship in Freshman
Greek to Prentiss C. Hoyt.
A.M. was conferred on Brothers George M. Rowland and
Claude M. Severance, '83, and D.D. on Brothers Henry P. Higley
and Edward P. Wild, '60, and William A. Robinson, '62. Brother
George H. Bailey, '64, non-graduate, was made an honorary member
CHAPTER NEWS.
247
of the Alumni. The following of our Alumni were present dur-
ing the week: Prof. Henry M. Seely, the Hon. Loyal D. Eldredge,
Henry S. Foote, Esq., and the Rev. Azel W. Wild, 57; the Rev.
Edward P. Wild, D.D., and the Rev. John K. Williams, '60; Prof.
Lyman W. Peet, '61; the Hon. Lyman E. Knapp, '62; the Rev.
George H. Bailey, '64; the Rev. Millard D. Brown and John W.
Lovett, '66; Prof. Edwin H. Higley, '68; the Rev. Rufus C. Flagg,
'69; the Rev. Eugene F. Wright, '70; Prof. Charles C. Gove, '74;
the Rev. Horace P. James, the Rev. William A. Remele and George
F. B. Willard, M.D., '76; Prof. William H. Shaw, '78, and George
M. Rowland, '83.
Our Chapter is now thirty years old. For its record see the fol-
lowing table:
Valedictory
Salutatory
Phi Beta Kappa
Waldo (Scholarship) . .
Literary " . .
Parker (Declamation)
Merrill "
Ware Medal (Oratory) .
Philosophical
Botanical
Greek
Total 673
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56
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9
127
42
39
36
16
2
6
5
8
5
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19
12
3
3
37
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6
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RUTGERS COLLEGE.
Elmore De Witt, class secretary, class Ivy Ode on Class Day, Phi
Beta Kappa, third honor at Commencement.
Peter Stillwell, Senior editor of the Targutn^ address to the Presi-
dent on Class Day, second Geology prize. Commencement ap-
pointment.
Sherman G. Pitt, '88, took the second Sophomore Oratorical
prize. Oscar M. Voorhees, '88, and William B. Tomkins were among
the eight orators.
248 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
Asa Wynkoop, '87, received the Junior Oratorical prize. The
subject of his oration was " A Plea for Culture."
William P. Merrill, '87, received one-half of the Wilson Mental
Philosophy prize, which Lewis B. Chamberlain, '86, took last year.
Of our '86 members, Peter Stillwell received the second Geology
prize, and a Commencement appointment. He spoke on *^ Our Pub-
lic Land System " at Commencement. Elmore De Witt, third honor
man, spoke on " Memory in Education," and Lewis B. Chamberlain,
fourth honor man, spoke on " The Practical Side of Science."
Our Seniors have made the following record: Lewis B. Chamber-
lain, secretary athletic association, captain class eleven, assistant
treasurer athletic association. Sophomore orator. Junior orator, cap-
tain university foot-ball team. Senior editor of the Scarlet Lottery Tar-
gum editor, presenter of class memorial on Class Day, Phi Beta Kappa
second Spader History prize, Wilson Philosophy prize, fourth honor
at Commencement.
Commencement Week opened with the Baccalaureate sermon on
Sunday evening, June 20, preached by the Rev. W. R. Davis, of Al-
bany, N. Y. On Monday followed the entrance examinations, and,
in the afternoon, the Class Day exercises, where Delta U. was repre-
sented by all three of her Seniors — Lewis B. Chamberlain being pre-
senter of the Class memorial, a handsome revolving book-case;
Elmore De Witt, author of the Ivy Ode; Peter Stillwell, Address to
the President. In the evening the annual Glee Club concert was
given in Masonic Hall. On Tuesday, meetings of the Trustees and
of the Alumni were held. At the former meeting, a resolution was
passed recognizing the accurate work of Brother I. S. Upson, '81, on
the Alumni Catalogue, and at the latter meeting Brother Upson was
elected biographer, and Brother Charles H. Pool, '63, was elected a
member of the standing committee. After this came the Alumni
collation, the address before the literary societies by the Hon. C. E.
Fitch, of Utica, N. Y., and the contest for the gymnasium prizes, at
which Brother Byron Cummings, '89, received honorable mention.
In the evening was the Junior Oratorical contest, where the value of
our weekly drill in speaking and debate was shown by the fact that
we had four men on, one-half of the entire number of speakers.
William P. Merrill spoke on " The True Idea of Liberty," Thurston
W. Challen on " The Poet, as Prophet and as King," Asa Wynkoop,
CHAPTER NEWS. 249
" A Plea for Culture," Frank A. Pattison, " Arbitration Between La-
bor and Capital." Asa Wynkoop received the prize. On Wednes-
day, Commencement proper was the chief event. Elmore De Witt
and Lewis B. Chamberlain were third and fourth honor men, and
Peter Stillwell also had an appointment. The degree of M.A. was
conferred on the following Delta U's: William I. Chamberlain, '82;
Henry W. Beebe, '83; George Z. Collier, '83; J. Waterbury Scudder,
'83; M.S. on J. Chester Chamberlain, '82.
Annual Reunion. — The Annnal Reunion was held on Tuesday
night, after the Junior Exhibition, in the Chapter hall, which was
handsomely decked with the baskets of fruit and flowers received
by our Junior orators. After the feasting, and a song had been
sung, Seaman Miller, Esq., '79, our Toast-master called for the his-
tory of the Chapter during the past year, which was read by William
P. Merrill, '87. Brothers Haring, Crossett, Allen, Van Arsdale,
Wight, L. B. Chamberlain, and Wynkoop, were then called upon,
and their toasts were interspersed with songs. After vainly trying
to obtain a speech from J. Preston Searle, '75, he was elected Toast-
master for next year.
The following is a list of those present: The Rev. Richard De
Witt, '60; the Rev. Nathan H. Van Arsdale, '62, editor of the Chris-
tian Intdligencer ; the Rev. Frederick E. Allen, '73; the Rev. J.
Preston Searle, '75; the Rev. Peter H. Milliken, ^76; William F.
Wyckoff, Esq., '77; Seaman Miller, Esq., '79; Cornelius I. Haring,
Esq., *8i; Irving S. Upson, '81; Edward B. Voorhees, *8i; James S.
Wight, Esq., '81 ; J. Chester and William I. Chamberlain, '82;
Charles E. Pattison, '84; Fred. B. Deshler, '86; David T. Kilpat-
rick, '86; Rufus N. Chamberlain and Willard A. Heacock, *88; War-
ren R. Schenck, '89; and Frederick M. Crossett, Ntw York^ '8^.
Total Alumni, 20; undergraduates, 19; grand total, 39. '83 had
their class supper at the same time, otherwise we would have had
three more present. In addition to the Alumni mentioned above,
the following were present during Commencement: The Rev. Arad
J. Sebring, '59; State Senator George H. Large, '72; Sherman Van
Ness, M.D., '80; the Rev. George H. Stephens, *8i; J. Waterbury
Scudder, George Z. Collier, and Henry W. Beebe, '83.
BROWN UNIVERSITY.
Commencement Week at Brown was much the same as ever —
one of brightness, glad reunions, and sad farewells.
Examinations for the under-class men ended June 10, and on
that evening the Junior Class, well supported by Freshmen and
Sophomores, carried out an elaborate programme in the Skating
Rink to an audience of fifteen hundred persons.
250 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
The following was Class Day, and at 10.30 a.m. a large and culti-
vated audience assembled in Sayles Hall to listen to a brilliant ova-
tion by Brother Parshley, entitled " The Influence of Metaphysical
Thought on Politics."
Brother Manchester followed with an exquisite poem, entitled
"A Landscape."
With the exception of a few remarks by the President of the
Class, Delta U. was in full possession of the morning.
In the afternoon at 3 a large throng gathered on the Campus
to listen to the Class-tree addresses.
President Robinson, an honorary member of our Fraternity, was
in his happiest mood, and spoke touchingly in a most felicitous
strain.
After the planting of Ivy by the class, the gay crowd, who
seemed loth to leave, we entertained with college songs by the
Glee Club.
Class Day evening was a great occasion with us. The Campus
and buildings were brilliantly illuminated.
About six thousand tickets are generally issued through Alumni
and students.
Reeves* Band played to a late hour, fire works followed, and at
at 12 o'clock the Seniors were escorted to their class supper.
On the following Wednesday occurred our Commencement exer-
cises proper. Hundreds of the Alumni formed in line and marched
to the ancient First Baptist Church of America.
All of our delegation in '86 received Commencement appoint-
ments, but from stress of work in other directions, some were
excused from taking an active part.
The night before Commencement was a pleasant occasion for
Delta U., for on that evening occurred the Senior Public in our
Hall. Over two hundred were present to listen to the very interest-
ing programme carried out by the departing brethren.
Among the Alumni present were Blake, '73 ; Webster and
Weston, '78 ; Faunce, '80 ; Bronson, Burgess and Fitz, 83, and many
others.
MADISON UNIVERSITY.
Commencement at last is ended, the students are homeward
bound, and Hamilton has settled down for its summer nap. The
week has been one of the liveliest ever known in the history of the
University. As usual, the Delta U. boys opened the ball by their
annual reception in the Chapter house, given Wednesday evening,
June 9. Our receptions have always been a success, but this proved
a success beyond our expectations. About eighty guests were enter-
tained, and the new piano was the center of attraction. Miss Sturte-
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vant, of Norwich, rendered a few choice selections. For the first
time in years Delta Kappa Epsilon omitted her annual reception, and
also their annual reunion spread. They have recently erected, a
monument in memory of Professor Lewis, thereby incurring a small
debt, which is making them go slow. They have always been obliged
to hold their receptions in private houses, their Chapter hall being too
Liliputian for that purpose, but the patience of their friends seems to
have given out, and no place remained for them to receive in this
year unless they took the Campus. However, the loss was slight,
and little notice was taken of it. Our annual reunion occurred
Wednesday night of Commencement week. Over thirty Alumni were
present, besides the active Chapter. The Rev. Edward K. Chandler,
of Boston, acted as Toast-master, and the usual programme was
pleasantly carried out.
In the class of '86 Delta Kappa Epsilon got first honor, the first
time in years ; Delta U. took second, third, fourth and seventh hon-
ors. Beta Theta Pi was obliged to be content with fifth honor, not-
withstanding her four years of bragging. A neutral captured the
sixth honor. In addition to these, the eighth and ninth men in the
class were elected into Phi Beta Kappa, both Delta U*s. Brother
Warren A. Clapp stood tenth in the class. Thus we had seven out
of the first ten men in '86. The Delta Kappa Epsilon's assertion in
their Quarterly, some time ago, that we have neither of the first two
men in '85, '86 or '87 seems likely to prove a case of '* kaleidoscopical
tergifisation." She now says she takes " quality, and Delta U. quan-
tity." The classes of '85, '86, '87, '88, '89 and '90 seem to prove the
assertion. But, then, they do not state what kind of quality they take.
In the class of '90 we already have five men pledged, the First
and Third Dodge men among them. " Quantity " that ? Beta Theta
Pi captured the Second Dodge man, after a sharp campaign with
Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Some of our members expect to join the camp. We are trying
hard to make the Convention this fall a grand success. We are get-
ting letters from the different Chapters already, promising large
delegations. Amherst^ Cornell^ Hamilton^ Rochester and Syracuse have
already promised over seventy-five, and we are only assured of fifty
from New York. We expected more, but it looks as if they need a
little stirring up down in Gotham. The date is October 27, 28 and
29. Delegates and visitors are expected to arrive on the afternoon
\ of the 27th, and stay until Saturday, the 30th.
[ Among our Alumni attending Commencement, we noticed :
Prof. James M. Taylor, '67, of Hamilton, N. Y.; the Rev. Edward
[ K. Chandler, '69, of Boston, Mass.; the Rev. William T. C. Hanna,
^ '70, of Ballston Spa, N. Y.; Prof. James W. Ford, '73, of Hamil-
) ton, N. Y.; William R. Rowlands, Esq., '74, of Utica, N. Y.; Corne-
I lius J. Clark, of Carthage, N. Y., the Rev. Smith T. Ford, of
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Waverly, N. Y., William S. Garnsey, M.D., of Gloversville, N. Y.,
the Rev. Warren G. Partridge, of Cooperstown, N. Y., and Prof.
Benjamin S. Terry, of Hamilton, N. Y., '78 ; the Rev. Albert P.
Brigham, '79, of Stillwater, N. Y.; Prof. Joel W. Hendrick, of
Greene, N. Y., and Prof. George B. Turnbull, of Hamilton, N. Y,,
'80 ; Marcus C. Allen, of Sandy Hill, N. Y., and Charles F. Hahn^
of Hamilton, N. Y., '81 ; Albert B. Coats, of Eaton, N. Y.. and
Prof. Elmer H. Loomis, of Hamilton, N. Y., '83 ; Prof. William
H. Maynard, of Hamilton, N. Y., Hamilton^ '54. ; George C. Horton,
Esq., of Utica, N. Y., Hamilton^ 71, and Prof. J. Frank McGregory,
of Hamilton, N. Y., Atnhersty '80.
UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
The University of the City of New York, which has so long been
noted for its conservatism, has at length yielded to the progressive
spirit. This is indicated, not only by the recent change in the course,
by the enlarged catalogue, and by the improvement in the buildings,
but also by the greater attention which is paid to the exercises of
graduation. This year these occupied an entire week, each day ad-
ding its share to the general success.
Commencement Week. — On Sunday night, June 13, the Rev.
William M. Taylor, D.D., delivered the Baccalaureate sermon at the
University Place Presbyterian Church. He took his text from Jere-
miah xlv., 5th verse — "Seek ye great things for thyself, seek them
not! " The discourse dwelt chiefly upon the folly of the ambition,
which creates a longing for that beyond the grasp, and discontent
with present duties. The speaker declared that the true aim of life
should be, to do well the work which your sphere demands and not
to seek advancement, but let advancement seek you.
Class Day. — Eighty-five had the honor of inaugurating the suc-
cess which attended the exercises then, and the great improvement
upon them this year cannot fail to make this a permanent custom of
our institution. They were held this year in the Asbury Methodist
Church, just across the street from our buildings. Vice-Chancellor
MacCracken declared that the saint who had charge of the weather
at this period of the year, was an old bachelor, and knowing that so
many of the young lady friends of those about to graduate would
want to be present upon this occasion, he purposely sent a heavy
rain-storm to keep them away. Despite the rain, however, the church
was well filled. The members of the Sophomore secret society,
Lambda Nu, were present in satanic costumes in the front row of
seats, and, by their remarks, added much to the embarrassment of
the speakers and of the unfortunates who were called forward to re-
ceive the gifts of the Presentation Orator. Brother John S. Lyon
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was appointed Poet for the day, and Brother Joseph H. Bryan, to
whose efforts, as chairman of the committee, much of the day's suc-
cess was due, delivered the Presentation Oration. The programme
incladed the usual orations, prophesy, and history, and the Glee Club
furnished music.
In the evening the Phi Beta Kappa meeting was held. An at-
tempt was made to elect the sixth member to which the class of '87
was entitled. As ballot after ballot was cast, each resulting in no elec-
tion, the professors began to get an insight into the intricacies of college
politics. The Rev. Charles W. Baird gave the oration upon "The
Duties of the Scholar in Politics, his fitness for solving political ques-
tions, and acting as arbitrators between the various opposing factions.'*
Vice-Chancellor and Mrs. MacCracken gave a reception to the
Faculty and members of '86 on Tuesday evening.
For a number of years the graduating class has given the janitor
and wife a present. On Wednesday evening, after the class had
caused the disappearance of a supper which had been prepared for
them, Brother Clarence R. Sanford, with a graceful speech, made
the presentation.
Wednesday morning was devoted to the last chapel exercises and
to reading the Eucleian prize essays. Three essays only were
handed in for competition; two of these by members of Psi Upsilon,
and the third by a Delta Phi. The essay of the latter was thrown
out, and as there were but two others, though they were very poor,
the judges awarded them with remarks not highly complimentary;
first prize to a Junior, and second prize to a Sophomore Psi U. The
unpopularity of that society and its members had a further manifes-
tation here. After the first essay had been read, almost the entire
body of students left the chapel, and the second essayist had empty
benches for his audience.
On Thursday evening a large and fashionable audience filled the
Academy of Music to hear the members of '86 startle the world with
their Commencement speeches. The large number of people in
evening dress, the august body of the Faculty and Council, the class-
men in gowns and mortar-boards hurrying from friend to friend, and
the boxes loaded with flowers, and decorated with handsome fraternity
banners, presented a very brilliant appearance. The Rev. Dr.
John Hall, Chancellor of the University, presided. Brother J. Mar-
ker Bryan was among those appointed to deliver orations, and
Brother Charles H. Roberts delivered the Valedictory, and at the
close of his speech was presented by the New York Chapter with a
large floral monogram of the Delta Upsilon pin, in beautiful yellow
and crimson rosebuds. Brother Roberts also received the first fel-
lowship of $300.00; the second and third were not awarded on ac-
count of the low standing of those taking second and third rank
in the class. Brother S. G. Keyser, *66, received the degree of
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A.M., and Dr. Thomas Armitage, LL.D. Heretofore, Commence-
ment has always been held in the morning, and this change from
morning to evening, the limiting of the eight speakers to six minutes
each, together with the excellence of the speeches and music, con-
spired to make this one of the University's best Commencements.
The final event of the week was the Alumni meeting held in the
University building Friday evening. Much business was attended
to, but the most gratifying to the new-fledged Alumni was that a
dinner should be held at Delmonico's during the coming winter.
Vice-Chancellor MacCracken read an interesting paper upon tJ^c
University. He said that, as the man in the parable employed three
agents, so the University of New York would gladly employ five, and
that all who cherished the University would like to see them employ
their talents to the best of their ability for her interests. These five
agents were the Faculty, the Council, the Students, the Alumni, and
the Natural Constituency. The duties of each were clearly stated,
and the address abounded in witty remarks. Dr. MacCracken de-
clared that the Medical Faculty as a body had obtained the degree
of LL.D., inasmuch as they had just received the Loomis Labora-
tory Donation of $100,000. He closed by saying that his five points
were not the five of Calvinism, but he would say of them, as the old
lady did of the third point of Calvinism, which is total depravity: " It
is very good doctrine, if you only live up to it." After the meet-
ing had adjourned to the Law department, where a collation was
waiting, the class of *86 showed its merit individually and collectively,
and the speedy manner in which they fell into the habits of the
old Alumni almost took the breath (and collation) away from the
members of '84 and '85, who happened to be present. The man who
responded for his class actually usurped the prerogative of the old
Alumni by telling ancient stories for the amusement of the company.
The meeting was decidedly successful, and the spirit that the Uni-
versity was entering upon a greater degree of prosperity than ever
before seemed to pervade all.
We were pleased to have the Hon. Benjamin A. Willis, Union^
'61, present with us in our box at the Academy of Music on Com-
mencement Day, and of the Alumni whom we noticed attending the
exercises were William L. Ludlam, '68, of New York, N. Y.; the
Rev. John Reid, '70, of Yonkers, N. Y., Prof. Abram S. Isaacs, Ph.D.,
and the Rev. Henry M. Reed, of New York, N. Y., '71, of the Uni-
versity; Prof. Marcus D. Buell, '72, of Boston University; Prof.
William M. Hoff, '73, of Columbia Grammar School; Cephas Brain-
erd, Jr., of New York, N. Y.; Henry H. Dawson, of Newark, N. J.,
and Isaac Hamburger, of Brooklyn, N. Y., '81, Charles A. Bush, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., Frederick M. Crossett, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles
H. Lellman, Jr., of New York, N. Y , and Thomas Walters, of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., '84, and William H. Hill, '87, of Passaic, N. J.
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MARIETTA COLLEGE.
The Commencement just passed has been the pleasantest — from
a. Delta U. point of view — for several years. As our Alumni
dropped in, the Fraternity colors were tacked on them, and by
Commencement Day, the Blue-and-Gold fluttering from the lapels of
A^lumni, active members, and pledged men, seemed to enliven the
"w^liole town, as well as the college vicinage.
The good time began at our last regular meeting, Saturday even-
ing, June 26. After the necessary business was finished, we had a
series of such loyal, encouraging speeches from our Alumni as did
our souls good to hear. Then Brother Charles Adams, '77, brought
his grand voice into play in some solos, which were roundly ap-
plauded. The meeting adjourned with that favorite chorus,
" Michael Roy," and Vive la Delta U.
On Sunday afternoon, the Baccalaureate sermon was preached
by Prof. D. E. Beach, D.D., from Romans xii. i. After the service,
a Williams graduate remarked that that sermon would compare
favorably with some of President Hopkins' — the first time this par-
ticular Williams man ever admitted such a thing in his life.
Prof. E. D. Morris, D.D., of the Lane Theological Seminary, de-
livered the address before the College Y.M.C.A., on Sunday even-
ing. The day was rainy, and the audience was, therefore, smaller
than usual.
Monday was clear and cool, and the people fairly poured out to
the prize declaiming in the afternoon. There were nine speakers —
five Sophomores and four Freshmen — of whom four were Delta U*s,
viz,: William B. Addy, Walter G. Beach, Benjamin W. Labaree, and
Robert M. Labaree. Notice was given that the prizes would be an-
nounced at the Junior Exhibition in the evening. There were six
speakers, three from each literary society. Delta U. was represented
by William A. Shedd, Alpha Kappa, and Edward B, Haskell, Psi
Gamma. By an oversight, the prizes for Declamation were not an-
nounced Monday evening, but Tuesday morning, at chapel, all the
Commencement prizes were announced. At the close, an incoming
Freshman asked one of our fellows : " Are all your prize men here
Delta U's?'* It looked considerably like it, for the result stood
thus: Sophomore Declamation, first prize, a tie between Brothers
Walter G. Beach and Robert M. Labaree (no second prize an-
nounced); Junior Prize Essay, first, Edward fe. Haskell, and third,
William A. Shedd ; Prize for American Political History ($50.00),
divided equally between Brothers Shedd and Haskell. Out of one
hundred and twenty dollars, Delta Upsilon had taken ninety-five ;
neutrals, fifteen, and Alpha Digamma local society, ten. " That's
the way the money goes ! "
The other occurrences of Tuesday were the meeting of the
Alumni Association, and an address before them by the Rev. S. B.
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Shipman, of Cleveland ; meeting of the trustees, and the Entrance
Examination.
In the evening, Mrs. President Eaton gave a delightful reception
to college officials, Alumni of Marietta and other colleges, members
of the learned professions, etc., etc.
The inauguration of President Eaton took place Wednesday
morning. The first address was a touching one by the retiring
president. Dr. Andrews, who has been connected with the college
since its founding, with the exception of three years. The Doctor
made a laudatory reference to Mr. Douglas Putnam, an honorary
member of Delta U., who has been secretary of the trustees from the
beginning, and has signed every diploma the college has issued dur-
ing the fifty-one years of its existence.
The next address — in behalf of the trustees — was given by an-
other honorary member of our Fraternity, the Hon. Alfred T.
Goshorn, LL.D., director of the Centennial Exposition. Addresses
of welcome on behalf of the Alumni and Faculty were given by Dr.
John M. Kendrick, '56, and Prof. David E. Beach, D.D. President
Eaton then delivered a strong, scholarly Inaugural address on the
place and work of Marietta College in the wide field of education.
The Commencement exercises proper, in the afternoon, opened
with the Latin Salutatory, by Brother Charles S. Mitchell, and closed
with the Valedictory, by Brother Rufus C. Dawes. The honor of
delivering these orations was a fitting climax to the good work done
by our brothers of *86 throughout their college course. Following is
a catalogue of the prizes they have taken : Freshman year, first
prize in Entrance Examination, second prize for General Scholar-
ship ; Sophomore year, first prize for General Scholarship, second
prize for Declamation ; Junior year, first and second prizes for
General Scholarship, first prize for Essay, half of Howard prize for
excellence in American Political History. The total sum of money
which these prizes represent is two hundred and five dollars
($205.00).
The degree of LL.D. was given to Governor J. B. Foraker.
After the graduating exercises the Hon. R. D. Mussey, of Washing-
ton, D.C., addressed the Literary Societies.
After all, as at the wedding in Cana, the good wine came at the
close of the Commencement feast. At seven o'clock Wednesday
evening, June 30, the Marietta Chapter of Delta Upsilon, with its
pledged men and visiting Alumni, sat down to its sixteenth Com-
mencement Banquet. Leaving the material feast, which so rapidly
vanished from the tables, let us turn to the " feast of reason " und so
wetter^ which shall remain with us pleasant food for reflection for
many a day. Henry M. W. Moore, '82, M.D., was the lively and effi-
cient Toast-master. Two of the toasts were, " Delta Upsilon as
Related to Preaching," by the Rev. Henry C. Haskell, William^
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'59» and "Delta Upsilon as Related to Practice," Henry C. Dimond,
M.D., Marietta, '78. The sentiment with the latter read :
*' Who, doomed to go in company with pain,
Turns his necessity to glorious gain."
John Q. Mitchell, *8o, made a most happy response to the toast,
** Duties — Custom-House and other." The speaker turned the
word " Duties " into " D. U. ties " with good effect. Another hit
"was his remark that if called to pass upon a cargo of Si — (excuse us,
no personalities) he should classify them as '^ old junk not otherwise
provided for." Theron H. Hawks, '82, of Duluth, Minn., responded
to the toast, " The Wild West as adapted to the cultivation of Delta
TJ's." All regretted that the hour for going to the President's levee
came so soon ; but the majority returned after its close, and what,
with singing, laughing, chatting and general hilarity, the occasion
was altogether jolly. After warm hand-grasps with those whom the
morning would bear from us, we separated in the " wee hours,"
heaving a sigh for the happiness just ended, but drawing in hope
and courage for the future with the fresh breath of the gray dawn.
The following Delta U*s attended the fifty-first Commencement
of Marietta College : Douglas Putnam, Hon. Alfred T. Goshorn,
LL.D., '54, Seymour J. Hathaway, Esq., '69, Harry N. Curtis,
M.D., '73, Mayor Sidney Ridgeway, '74, George P. Dye and Prof.
Oscar H. Mitchell, Ph.D., '75, Richard G. Lewis, '76, Charles N.
Adams and Frank P. Ames, '77, Henry C. Dimond, M.D., '78, John
Q. Mitchell and Howard W. Stanley, '80, William H. Slack, '81,
Theron H. Hawks, Jr., R. Grant Kinkead, Henry M. W. Moore,
M.D., and John B. Webb, '82, Hannibal A. Williamson, '83, Allen E.
Beach, Charles G. Dawes, Eagleton F. Dunn, Edgar B. D. F. Kin-
kead and Frank E. McKim, M.D., '84, Earle S. Alderman, Harold
Means and Charles L. Mills, '85. Also the Rev. Henry C. Haskell,
Williams^ '59, the father of Edward B. Haskell, Marietta^ '87.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.
Fred. C. Hicks, '86, is Chairman of the Senior Programme Com-
mittee, Corresponding Secretary of the Lecture Board, Instructor of
the Political Economy Club, and Treasurer of the S. C. A. Building
Fund.
Charles A. Wheeler, *86, is Senior Treasurer and Editor of the
Michigan Argonaut, Editor and Managing Editor of the S. C. A.
Monthly Bulletin.
Arthur L. Benedict, '87, is an editor of the Michigan Argonaut^
the college paper.
James McNaughton, '88, is an editor of the Oracle, the Sopho-
more annual.
258 DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY.
Charles Upham Champion, '89, of Coldwater, Mich., is a recent
initiate. He is President of the Freshman Class, which is a college
honor regarded as only second to that of Senior President.
Elmer E. Clark, '88, and William H. Turner, '89, are members of
the Political Economy Club.
Though on the face of the returns, of the men at present in
college, not over fifteen will return next year ; yet the re-entering
college of old men, and men already pledged, insure us about
eighteen men to begin with.
Commencement Week began Sunday evening with the Bac-
calaureate sermon by President Angell, in University Hall, from
the text " Stir up the Gift of God which is in Thee."
Monday morning well-attended Class Day exercises were held by
the Medical Class, and in the afternoon likewise by the Senior mem-
bers of the Law department. In the evening took place the
" Grand Symphony Concert " by an Orchestra of thirty picked
musicians, mostly from Detroit. The Amphion Club and Miss Julia
Carruthers also shared the honors of the evening. It was the
grandest concert, in an instrumental way, that Ann Arbor ever
heard. Over 2,000 persons attended the concert, the success of
which was assured by subscriptions to a guarantee fund by the
Seniors.
Tuesday morning was devoted to the first half of the Class Day
exercises of the Literary department. They consisted of an Ora-
tion and Poem. In the afternoon, around the Tappan Oak on the
Campus, the class gathered to hear their History, Prophesy, and
President's Address. The large and yearly growing number of
ladies made it again necessary to forgo the old custom of passing
round the last cigar. In the evening, the Senior Reception was held
in a spacious pavilion reared for the occasion. The crush was
tremendous and fashionable. At 3 o'clock in the morning, when ye
reporter retired, the Seniors were still keeping up their merry tap-tap
on the pine floor, under the electric lights of the pavilion.
At the public Alumni Exercises on Wednesday, the Oration was
by Wm. I. Gibson. Class reunions were not very largely attended,
with the exception of the class of '83. In the evening, the Senate
gave its usual " swell " reception.
Thursday was Commencement. Ex-Governor Cushman JL
Davis, of Minnesota, delivered the Oration before an audience of
4,000 people. 366 diplomas were conferred. At the conclusion of
the exercises, a procession was formed of the chosen few (800) who*
could get tickets to the Alumni Dinner in the skating rink. This
closed the exercises of the week.
The principal topic of conversation during the week has been
the ".politics " which, so it goes, entered into the appointment by
the Regents of the Hon. Charles I. Walker (a Democrat) in the place
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of the Hon. Otto Kirchner (a Republican), by a party vote, to a
Professorship in the Law department
Several Alumni were present at the Delta U. corporation meet-
ing (which comprises all Michigan Delta U*s) on Wednesday morn-
ing. Nathan D. Corbin, '86, was elected President ; Paul V. Perry,
'88, Secretary, and Asa D. Whipple, *8i, Treasurer. The Directors
for the coming year will be William L. Jenks, '78 ; Asa D. Whipple,
'81 ; Arthur W. Burnett, '80 ; Clarence Byrnes, '87, and Elmer E.
Clark, '88. Finances were reported in a good condition, and decidedly
^^ on the grow**
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
George I. Larash took second prize on the Declamation contest ;
a lady took first prize.
Robert I. Fleming, '86, and Oscar Middlekauff were our repre-
sentatives on the board of editors of the Syllabus^ our college an-
nual.
J. V. Clancy, '90, a pledged Delta U., acquitted himself honor-
ably on the programme of the Commencement exercises of the Pre-
paratory school, Monday evening, June 21.
Charles Linebarger, '88, represented Delta U. on the Northwest-
ern staff last term. Charles Brand, '87, was our representative on
the Adelphic oratorical contest. The two prizes were united and
divided between him and Mr. Little, a Phi Kappa Psi.
Our only Senior this year was Robert I. Fleming, of Hannibal,
Mo. Although we have but one representative in '86, we feel that
we are, nevertheless, well represented. He did himself and the Fra-
ternity great credit both on Kirk Contest and on the Commence-
ment programme. He has taken four prizes during his college
course.
Commencement Week at Northwestern opened Sunday, June 20,
by a sermon by the President, Joseph Cummings, D.D., LL.D.,
before the graduating class. Dr. Alabaster, of Trinity Church, Chi-
cago, preached the annual sermon before the Students' Christian
Association. On Monday was Class Day, and the exercises were
interesting and enjoyable.
Tuesday, p.m., was occupied in athletic sports and contests.
Delta U. took her share of the prizes. In the evening the Conserva-
tory of Music gave its Commencement concert. Wednesday was
Alumni Day, and in the afternoon the corner stone of the new Hall
of Science was laid with appropriate ceremonies. In the evening
occurred the Alumni concert.
Thursday, at 10 o'clock, the Commencement exercises took place
in the M. E. Church.
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The class of '86 is unparalelled in the history of the University
for the paucity of its numbers, there being only thirteen who received
diplomas, but, nevertheless, the Commencement exercises, Class Day
and Kirk contest were fully up to grade.
A number of our Alumni were here Commencement week ;
among them the Rev. Robert H. Pooley, '83, of the Richard Street
M. E. Church, Joliet, III.; the Rev. Polemus H. Swift, '81, of the
Court Street Church, Rockford, 111.; the Rev. Nathan J. Harkness,
•82, of Chicago, 111.; the Rev. Olin H. Cady, of Chicago, 111.; the
Rev. Wilbur F. Atchison, of Desplaines ; Leonard L. Skelton, '85,
who has been teaching in Helena, Arkansas ; Frank Cook, '85, of
Crete, 111., and the Rev. Leon E. Bell, '84, of Orangeville, IlL
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Commencement Week : The Baccalaureate sermon was deliv-
ered Sunday, June 20, in Appleton Chapel, by the Rev. Dr. Peabody.
The preacher urged his listeners to show, by faithful culture, that
the very flowers of heaven could bloom along the busiest paths they
might tread.
Wednesday, June 23, witnessed " strawberry night," an annual
festival observed by nearly all the societies at Harvard. Practi-
cally, the meeting was, with us, our farewell to *86 ; but certain pre-
liminary business was transacted which has caused us to wear a
most knowing look ever since. Just wait ! and see what the next
few months will disclose.
Class Day fell on Friday, June 25. Thursday brought with it
a drizzle from " down East ;*' and when bed-time came, the Seniors
retired silent and heavy-hearted, in spite of the frequent assertions
of the knowing ones that for nine — some said thirteen — consecu-
tive years Class Day has been pleasant. Next morning we looked in
vain for blue skies, sunshine, and flashing foliage, which usually lend
such a glory to our out-of-door festivities. We were forced to sniflF
philosophically in toleration of the unmistakable vapors of New
England's pet wind. As we listened to the well-meant condolence
of our sympathizers, we looked fondly at our shining silk hats, and
selfishly wished that the preceding thirteen years had been rainy —
provided only that our day were fine. Soon, however, the rain
ceased, and by the middle of the forenoon everybody was beginning
to feel cheerful. Prayer was offered in the Chapel by Dr. Peabody,
and shortly afterwards the Seniors assembled in the yard and
marched to Sanders' Theatre, where the Oration, Poem, and Ivy
Oration were delivered, and the Ode was sung. Brother Bertram C.
Henry led the music.
By this time the outside world was pouring its youth and beauty
into the college yard, something much better than sunshine. The
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Seniors capitulated instanter^ and soon one and all were aglow with
the delightful sense of admiring and being admired. The slight
dampness on the grass only intensified the in-door entertainment
Spreads were served in the Gymnasium, in Massachusetts, University
and Sever halls during the afternoon. The Hasty Pudding Club en-
tertained its guests in Sever Hall ; the Pi Eta, in Massachusetts ;
the Signet (our chief rival), had about five hundred guests in Uni-
versity Hall. Besides these, many extensive private spreads were
given in the dormitories. The interiors were beautifully decorated
with flowers, evergreens, ivy, myrtle, laurel, etc.; and in such places
as the ** Gym." bunting and trophies were conspicuous.
Towards evening, a peculiar stir and bustle on all sides gave
notice that something was in the wind. In fact, the most exciting
part of the day was about to begin ; and numerous allusions to the
" Class-tree " readily explained what was coming. Just here it may
be virell to state that our Class-tree is the same from year to year.
The classes have long been accustomed to gather around one noble
elm, which is golden with accumulated associations. It stands in
the center of a smooth plot of grass, enclosed on three sides by
buildings, and open to the street on the west. Holden Chapel is on
one side, Hollis Hall — a dormitory — on another, and Harvard
Hall — which is used for recitations and lectures — on the third.
Thus we have religion, home, education, and active life, symbolized
there. But notice : we board up the street side, thus for one day
shutting out the unromantic world, which is only too eager to swal-
low us as soon as we turn our backs on Alma Mater ; tiers of seats
are built against Harvard Hall, thereby hiding a possible reminder of
the wearisome " grinding " just past ; finally, the windows of Holden
Chapel — a disused place of worship — are given up to merry
young faces of to-day, as all places of Puritanic austerity ought to
be given up.
Within a few minutes after the gates were thrown open, over
three thousand people ranged themselves on the graded rows of
seats. The graduates and the under-classmen then marched in and
seated themselves on the outskirts of the arena, and straightway in-
tense expectation was the spirit of the place. Outside, the Seniors,
headed by a band, were marching around the yard, cheering each
building in turn. At last they entered the arena and took up their
position immediately around the tree, while laughter and cheers
greeted them on all sides. And no wonder. To say that they
looked like tramps would be altogether too flattering. Only the
chief marshal was dressed respectably. The rest wore all kinds of
non-descript clothing, calculated to afford as slight a hold as possi-
ble to opponents in a struggle, and to leave the body free to twist
into a compact double knot, if that should be necessary. All eyes
were fixed on a point midway up the trunk, where was nailed a
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broad belt of flowers. After singing the Class Song and cheering
everything under the sun connected with the college, the Seniors, at
a characteristic signal from the chief marshal, charged the tree en
masse, and in a second were squeezing one another like too many
smelt in a small stream. Heads up, heels up ! Glory to him that
gets a fist-full of the flowers, and honor be to the girl who finally re-
ceives them. Undoubtedly the scramble for the flowers is the most
inspiriting event of Class Day. While the Seniors were good-na-
turedly tearing one another to pieces — the strong exerting their
muscle, the lithe their agility — the lower classes formed concentric
rings and began a wild dance in opposite directions around the Se-
niors, as if to test the true significance of the laws of friction. Figu-
ratively speaking, it would be unsafe to estimate the number of toes,
fingers, wrists, ankles, collar-bones and heads broken in the revolu-
tions, or the number of ribs found next morning sticking in the tree.
Delta U. was not unmindful of glory. We banded together and put
up our slimmest man, who quickly filled his arms with flowery trophies,
which were divided among us.
Directly after the Tree exercises, the Delta U. spread was given
in the Holden Chapel. We venture to assert that it rivaled the Sig-
net's, both in style and quality, as well as in the number of gu«sts
present.
In the evening, President Eliot received the Seniors and their
friends, and the Glee Club sang in the college yard, which was now
the picture of Fairy-land. Thousands of Chinese lanterns were
strung along the stately trees in mazy lines, producing a pleasing ef-
fect with the ever-changing scene below. As soon as the singing
was ended, young and old thronged to Memorial and the Gymna-
sium, to trip the light fantastic under the fragrant festoons. Prome-
nading was enjoyed by many, and later on fireworks added their
part to render the scene attractive.
All things must have an end. By midnight few persons were to
be seen except the omnipresent Cambridge small boy. Solitary
Seniors wandered about slowly and meditatively, wondering whether
Class Day — the glorious star of their Freshman skies — had actually
gone out into the night.
Wednesday, June 30, was Commencement Day. Headed by the
Germania band, the Seniors led the way to Sanders* Theatre. Be-
hind them were the graduates of the professional schools. President
Eliot, with Governor Robinson and staff, came next, followed by the
Fellows, invited guests, overseers, faculties, and other officers. A
large audience was in attendance at the theatre. Brother George E.
Howes delivered the Latin Salutatory Oration, and Brother Camillo
Von Klenze a dissertation on " Cavour and Italian Independence."
223 of the 235 students in '86 received their degrees.
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Whoever attains a general average of ninety per cent, for the
four years, or takes highest honors in any special department, is grad-
uated summa cum laude^ and is entitled to deliver an oration at Com-
mencement. We do not care in the least to conceal our pride in
laying before the Fraternity the following statistics :
Out of a total of nineteen orations in the class. Delta U was en-
titled to nine. As there are only eighteen Seniors in the Chapter,
this means that fifty per cent, of the number are highest-honor men.
The first, second, fourth, seventh, eighth and tenth men on the
final rank list — covering all four years — are Delta U's.
Seven " highest honors " in special studies were given. Delta U.
takes three. Five out of thirteen " honors " in special studies were
given Delta U*s. Surely we have secured our "share."
Highest honors : in Classics, Edmund N. Snyder ; in Music,
Bertram C. Henry ; in Mathematics, William F. Osgood. Honors :
in Classics, George E. Howes ; in Mathematics, Binney Gunnison ;
in Physics, Selwyn L. Harding and William A. Stone ; in Natural
History, Myron W. Richardson.
" Honorable mention " in any study is based on the attainment
of a general average of eighty per cent, of the maximum mark in the
equivalent of three elective courses in that study. The following
table speaks for itself :
Received Honorable mention : Henry M. Ayers in History ;
Ralph W. Black, Philosophy ; Percy G. Bolster, English Composi-
tion ; Walter T. Clark, English Composition ; Charles R. Fletcher,
Greek, Latin, English Composition ; Henry E. Eraser, English Lit-
erature, Chemistry, English Composition ; Binney Gunnison, Math-
ematics, English Composition ; Selwyn L. Harding, Physics, Math-
ematics, English Composition ; Bertram C. Henry, Music ; George
E. Howes, Greek, Latin ; Nehemiah S. Kenison, Natural History,
English Composition ; William F. Osgood, Mathematics, English
Composition ; Joseph N. Palmer, English Composition ; Myron W.
Richardson, Chemistry, Natural History ; Edmund N. Snyder, Greek,
Latin, English Literature, English Composition ; William A. Stone,
Physics, Mathematics ; Camillo Von Klenze, Greek, History, Eng-
lish Composition.
After the exercises in the theatre, the various classes represented
by the Alumni present held reunions around the festive punch-bowls
in the older dormitories, the Glee Club sang, and old men felt them-
selves young again.
In the course of the day, the Alumni held an important business
meeting, at which the first official report of the programme for Har-
vard's coming 250th anniversary was read by the secretary. Since
this celebration is less local than national in interest, a detailed ac-
count is presumably unnecessary, inasmuch as the daily papers
publish full information.
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The annual dinner was held in Memorial Hall in the afternoon.
The procession of Alumni, nearly twelve hundred in all, was an im-
pressive sight. The old, gray-bearded veterans at the head were
followed by the later graduates in order of classes, ending with the
youths of '85 and '86. Forty or fifty years from now, the line will
look exactly the same to the future graduate — only '85 and '86 will
be at the other end of the line.
Among the Delta U*s noticed attending Commencement were :
the Rev. Edward E. Atkinson, Brawn, '79 ; Edwin R. Utley, Amherst,
'85 ; Allyn A. Packard, Cornell, '86 ; and the following Alumni of
the Harvard Chapter : Frank G. Cook, '82 ; Augustus M. Lord
and Archie L. Hodges, '83 ; Hollis Webster, '84 ; Robert S. Bick-
ford, George A. Craigin, Joseph A. Hill, George W. Rolfe, William
C. Smith and Charles A. Whittemore— all '85.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.
The ceremonies attending Commencement at Lafayette began on
Sunday morning with the Baccalaureate sermon by Dr. Knox. From
this time, the gentle-folk of Easton, who join with us in our festivi-
ties, have only one or two breathing spells, and still less time for
sleep. Next in chronological order is the anniversary of the Y. M.
C. A., held in the First Presbyterian Church. The church was un-
able to accommodate all who gathered to hear our Reverend Brother
Arthur T. Pierson, D.D., Hamilton, '57, of the Bethany Presby-
terian Church of Philadelphia, Pa. Our high expectations were more
than realized. Although very much worn, he spoke with unflagging
animation and earnestness, convincing men, from the book of Nature
and history, that God rules.
Scarcely, however, had the echoes of the church organ died away,
when the populace began to wend their way toward College Hill.
There the Freshmen were desecrating the Sabbath by carrying wood
to make the great bonfire for the Cremation of Calculus. At 12.15
A.M. the procession began to move. The Sophomores were dressed
in Indian costumes, the chiefs riding elegantly-caparisoned horses.
The Freshmen, in long white gowns, walked on either side with
torches. Calcium lights were burning continually along the line.
Thus, headed by the Junior Cornet Band, the whole procession, with
hideous yelling, awakened the adult and frightened the infantile
population of Easton. After parading the principal streets, the pro-
cession returned to College Hill, where the trial was held, followed
by the condemnation and burning of Calculus. Tied to a stake, the
poor culprit, whom they had tortured by almost drowning in kero-
sene, suffered the death of a martyr.
Phoebus had ridden well on toward the zenith when our dreams
of tomahawks and scalping-knives were broken by the chapel bell.
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The reading of the Graduating Theses by the Technicals was soon
over, and we had time to say "how-do-do " to the Brothers who had
come again to visit their Alma Mater in this, her gala season.
At 2 P.M. we were again drawn by the sweet strains of music.
We read on their caps Ringgold, and we knew it was the well-known
band of Reading, Pa. The occasion was Class Day exercises. Delta
XJ. boys did not shirk their part. Joseph C. Harvey was Class Ora-
tor, and William E. Henkell was Mantle Orator. The exercises
were held in the open air, and the assemblage was so large that the
budding Ciceros were unable to make themselves heard by the outer
circles. These, however, contented themselves with little private
chats, and with ant-like wisdom were making provision for the even-
ing; for then came the Promenade Concert. The same band fur-
nished the music, kind Providence the weather, and Chinese lanterns
the light, which dimly " shone o'er fair women and brave men." It
seemed as if all Easton, South Easton, and Phillipsburg, N. J., had
come en masse to walk and talk with us, and hear the music. Too
soon the old clock pointed with its short finger toward the figure
ten. The players ceased, and slowly the immense concourse de-
scended the zig-zag steps and wended their way homeward.
Tuesday morning brought a goodly number to our college chapel,
where the Rev. Dr. Ormiston, of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed
Church, New York, delivered the Commencement address. He took
a text, and we thought he was going to preach — and so he did ; but
there are a few men that we enjoy hearing preach, and he is one of
them. We observed only a very few napping, and these poor fellows
had had so much to eat and drink at their fraternity banquets the
night before, that morning had come and found them still at supper.
Immediately after the Commencement address, the Literary Socie-
ties held their reunions. Here again Delta Upsilon was represented.
John N. Roe, '87, is president of the Washington Literary Society,
and John G. Connor, '87, and William A. Price, '89, are librarians
in the Franklin. The Valedictory address in the latter was also by
Brother William P. Officer. These reunions lasted until dinner was
cold; then we prepared for the Field Sports, which came in the aft-
ernoon. While we are proud of the stand which Lafayette is taking
in the field, yet it seems that our Delta U's have not taken a promi-
nent part in athletics. In the evening, the Senior Ball in the Opera
House gave another opportunity for those of the lower classes to
enjoy *• Nature's sweet restorer."
Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock, the auditorium was filled to
overflowing. In front of the platform sat the graduating class, back
of which stretched out a sea of white; and from this wavy, rufHed
sea shone faces so bright and eyes so sparkling that no one would
have suspected that already they had passed through three restless
days and sleepless nights. Six of the orations were by Delta U's»
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tnclading the Valedictory by Brother Joseph H. Tudor. Brother
Benjamin M. Gemmill, '89, was awarded one of the three equal Cole-
man Biblical prizes. After the conclusion of the Commencement
exercises, the Trustees, Faculty, Alumni and graduating class ad-
journed to the gymnasium, where the ladies of Easton had prepared
a sumptuous repast, a manifestation of the kindly relations which
exist between the good people of Easton and the sojourners on Col-
lege Hill. The ill-feeling which so often exists between students
and the inhabitants of the town is entirely unknown. Students at
Lafayette are received into the best families of Easton, to which their
visits are frequently continued long after Graduating Day.
The President's reception on Wednesday evening completes our
programme. While the music echoes through the long corridors of
Pardee Hall, free at length from all the duties and cares of the class-
room, forgetting the drudgery of the past, and seeking not to pene-
trate the uncertain future, come teacher and schoUu: and friend,
once more to greet and say good-bye.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
Commencement Week. — The Sophomore Theatre Party. For
many years it has been the custom at Columbia for the Sophomore
class to give a " triumph." This " triumph " consisted of a march up
Fifth avenue, from Madison Square to Forty-ninth Street, and thence
to the college grounds, where an effigy of Legendre was burnt with
appropriate ceremonies, and a subsequent adjournment, for the pur-
pose of drinking beer and smashing hats, to some place hired for the
occasion. To the glory of the recent Sophomore class, be it said,
that they dealt a vigorous, if not a decisive, blow against this custom,
and provided a substitute which will tend to reflect more honor upon
Columbia students.
The theatre party was given. May 28, at the Standard Theatre.
The play was " A Tin Soldier," and the numerous college hits which
were introduced were loudly applauded. The seats were almost ex-
clusively occupied by Columbia students, and three of the boxes
were filled by the Glee Club, the Boat Crew and the Base Ball Club,
respectively. On the front of the box occupied by the Base Ball
Club were pinned the scores of the victories over Harvard, Yale and
Princeton. The Glee Club added to the enjoyment of the evening
by singing between the acts, and the whole affair was a grand success.
Class Day. — The Class Day exercises were held in the Library,
on the afternoon of June 2. The day was bright, and consequently,
the place was thronged. The audience, however, were not repaid
for their attendance, as the miserable acoustic properties of the Lib-
rary rendered it almost impossible to hear. It becomes more evident
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every year that some other place must be selected for these exercises.
As far as could be judged, the chosen participants creditably ful-
filled their several tasks. The Presentation orator was especially
^ood, and the singing of the Class Ode was much better than the
previous year. Brother Cohen received a palm leaf fan to commem-
orate his successful race for the leading position in the class.
Phi Beta Kappa Oration. — The Phi Beta Kappa Oration was
delivered on the evening of Class Day by the Hon. Stewart L. Wood-
ford, in the Library. His subject was " the Labor Problem/' which
he treated in a masterly manner. Brother Nelson G. McCrea, '85,
acted as an usher. On the following Tuesday, nineteen Seniors and
three Juniors were initiated into the society. It has hitherto been
the custom of the Columbia Chapter to elect the first third of the
Senior class. According to an amendment adopted this year, here-
after only those students of the Senior class will be eligible to mem-
bership who have attained an average of at least 90 per cent, for the
whole period of their college course, and if such students exceed one-
third of the class, then that proportion will he chosen from among
them. Hereafter, also, the first ninth of the class will be elected at
the close of the Junior year. Among the Seniors initiated this year
were Brothers Cohen and Snyder, and among ths Juniors, Brother
Gasten.
Commencement. — The Commencement was held in the Acad-
emy of Music, on the morning of June 9. After two selections by
Bernstein's band, the trustees, faculty and graduating class marched
down the central aisle, the class taking their seats in the parquet, and
the others on the stage. After a brief prayer by the Chaplain, Rev.
Dr. Cornelius R. Duffie, Brother Oscar J. Cohen delivered the
Greek Salutatory, which is the highest honor. He spoke in an ex-
ceedingly clear and distinct manner, so that he could be easily under-
stood by all lovers of the Greek tongue. The Latin Salutatory was
afterwards delivered, and following, with intervening music, four
English orations, two by students of the School of Arts, and two by
students of the School of Mines. After this, the various prizes and
degrees were awarded. Brother Nelson G. McCrea, '85, received
the degree of A.M. The most marked event of the occasion was
the awarding of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to Miss Winifred
Edgerton, a graduate of Wellesley College. She is the only woman
upon whom Columbia has ever conferred a degree. She was loudly
applauded and received a large number of bouquets, of which she
was kindly relieved by the venerable Professor Drisler. The Vale-
dictory was then delivered, and after the benediction, the exercises
of the 132nd Commencement came to a close.
The honors were shared by Delta U's as follows: Oscar J.
Cohen, '86, was first in his class and delivered the Greek Salutatory.
He was also honorably mentioned for constant attendance in the Greek
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sight-reading class. To Joseph G. Snyder, '86, was awarded the
Alumni prize. William Gasten, '87, received the Junior scholarship
in English, and honorable mention in Latin. Warren £. Sammis,
'87, received first honorable mention in English. William S. Barstow,
received first honorable mention in Physics.
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY.
George A. Ruddle was appointed a Commencement orator.
Harlan S. Miner, '88, was a speaker at the Cremation exercises,
and has been elected an editor of the Epitome,
Luther R. Zollinger, '88, was a speaker at the Cremation exercises,
and has been elected an editor of the college annual, the Epitome^
for 1886-87.
Benjamin A. Cunningham, '87, is Captain of the Lehigh base-ball
team, an editor of the Engineering Journal, 1885-86, and for 1886-87
and is elected a member of Tau Beta Pi.
Commencement Week. — The Commencement exercises of the
Lehigh University began on Sunday, June 20, with services of
University Sunday, and the Baccalaureate sermon by the Rt Rev.
Cortlandt Whitehead, D.D. The services were held in the Univer-
sity chapel, and conducted by Bishop Whitehead, the Rev. C. K
Nelson, the Rev. G. P. Allen, and the Rev. F. R. Bird. The text
was Joshua x. 24 : Joshua said unto the Captain of the men of war
"Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings." After
speaking of the promises of the Holy Land to the seed of Abram, of
the frequent repetitions of this promise, of the wanderings of the
children of Israel, and of the circumstances connected with this
text, the Bishop said : " Even so comes the exhortation to men of
education the world over."
Class Day. — The exercises of Class Day — formally known as
Banner Day — took place on Tuesday afternoon. The exercises are
usually held on the Campus, but as it was raining, they were held in
the drawing-room. The class, which was the largest that ever
graduated at Lehigh, headed by the Allentown Cornet Band of
twenty-four pieces, marched into the drawing-room, and took their
seats on the stage. On the stage were placed tables containing bowls
of punch, glasses, pipes, etc., and to one side was placed a coffin, and
on the other the Class shield and the Prophet's sketches. The Presi-
dent made an introductory speech, in which he welcomed those
present. One of the members of the class proposed a toast to the
" Class of *86." The class then gathered around the punch-bowl,
filled their glasses, and drank to " '86," after which the song, '^ Here's
to '86 ! Drink it Down," was sung by the class.
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The Class Poem was then read. The poet recites various phases
and incidents of college life for their four years, and then concludes :
As on the earth revolving round its pole
The setting sun pours down its brightest rays ;
As at the end of day the radiant sky
Its softest yet most gorgeous hue displays.
So, in this little college world of ours,
Those whose appointed course is almost run,
Most radiant to our gazing eyes appear,
Most like unto the larger setting sun.
And as with lingering look our little world
Would hold the Senior with parting sight,
He from his place looks down and sighs,
For " blessings brighten as they take their flight.**
And now upon her former sphere, illumed
By softening rays shed from the setting sun.
Old Eighty-six casts the longing glance,
And grieves to think that now her day is done.
After the Poem, presentations were made to various members of
the class. Then the Prophecy was delivered. The high priest then
stepped forward, opened the coffin, and said : '^ If you have tears,
prepare to shed them now." He told the tale of woe, and then con-
signed the various jokes and college chestnuts to the coffin. The
coffin was then taken to a vault. The class marched to the chapel,
and placed the Class shield upon the wall.
On Tuesday evening, the Juniors gave a reception to the gradu-
ating class and their friends.
Alumni Day. — At 1.30 on Wednesday afternoon the members of
the Alumni Association assembled in the gymnasium, where a fine
lunch was served to them, and after it the annual meeting of the
association was held. On Wednesday evening the Alumni address
was delivered by Dr. S. A. Sadtler, '69, Professor of Chemistry in the
University of Pennsylvania.
Commencement. — At 10.30 on Thursday morning the exercises
were held in the drawing-room. After the Valedictory, President
Lamberton awarded certificates in the advanced course in electricity
to six men, and conferred the following degrees: B.A., 2 ; B.Ph., 4 ;
C.E., 9 ; M.E., 6 ; B.M., 8 ; A.C.. 4 ; E.M., 4. He then addressed
the graduates, and complimented the class very highly upon its
record, and declared it to be one of the best classes ever graduated
from the Lehigh University.
The Cremation. — The cremation of Olney's Calculus by the
Sophomore class took place on Thursday evening. The procession
was formed as follows : Comet band, Japanese police, tablet in-
scribed with name of deceased, orators, priest with attendant
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bearing large Japanese umbrella, incense and prayer burner, Japanese
nobles and officials, Japanese hearse, relatives of deceased, urn for
ashes, mourners and attendants carrying Japanese lanterns. The
procession was illuminated by torches, and at intervals red and green
fire was burned. They marched from the college grounds to the
ladies' seminary in Bethlehem. As it was raining very hard, the
order of the programme was not very closely followed. The pyre
was rapidly built, the hearse placed upon it, and a match applied to
the fuse. The top opened, and a figure of a man holding an open
Calculus in his hands, sprang up, and was soon consumed. The Japs
sought the hotel for shelter. After reaching the hotel, they were
persuaded to finish the programme. The Glee Club then sang a song
to the tune of " Tit-Willow," after which an orator mounted one of the
office tables, and delivered his " Tale of Woe." The Glee Club then
sang, " Curse, O Curse Thee, Vile Olney," and then Brother Harlan
S. Miner mounted the table, and delivered his oration. He was con-
tinually applauded. The Glee Club then sang, " Farewell, Farewell,
a Long Farewell." The priest. Brother Luther R. Zollinger, deliv-
ered a Japanese prayer, which sounded very funny, and brought
down the house. Every member of the class was robed in Japanese
costumes, and the effect was very good.
Having been founded early last fall, our Chapter, in consequence,
had no Alumni to return to Commencement. And, in order to hold
a Chapter banquet successfully next year, we inaugurated the custom
this year, and enjoyed our spread very much.
ALUMNI OF DELTA U.
It is intended to make this department as far as possible a supplement to
the Quinquennial Catalogue, which was published in 1884, and with this
object in view. Alumni and friends of the Fraternity are earnestly requested
to send items of interest concerning themselves and other members of the
Fraternity, changes of address, etc., to the Editor of this department, Robert
James Eidlitz, 123 East Seventy-second Street, New York.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
'47. At the request of Abraham V. W. Van Vechten, Esq., of New York„
N. v., and others, a revised edition of the Alumni Register, with occupations
and residences of the Alumni, is being issued.
'47. At the banquet at the Massasoit House, Springfield. Mass., in cele-
bration of the 250th anniversary of the city, the Hon. David A. Wells, LL.D.,
responded to the toast, " Springfield — the flavor of old times makes fresh
and sweet the new." " The Hon. David A. Wells closes his series of papers
in The Popular Science Monthly^ on * An Economic Study of Mexico,' with
an article m the August number considering the attitude which the United
States should take toward that country. Having given us what is accepted
by the best informed as a generally accurate and approximately complete
statement of the deplorable condition of affairs which now exists in Mexico*
Mr. Wells maintains that, being partly responsible for this ourselves, we
should assume the rdle^ henceforth, of the generous big brother, and actively
assist them in their strivings after better thmgs."
'50. Under the active presidency of the Rev. Dr. Peter M. Bartlett, Mary-
ville College, of Maryville, Tenn., has reached a membership of nearly 300
students.
'50. The Rev. William E. Merriam, D.D., delivered the closing address
at the anniversary of the American Missionary Society, at Saratoga, N. Y.
'51. The Hon. James White presided at the annual meeting of the
American Congregational Association, held in Boston, Mass., May 25. The
same gentleman was elected Treasurer of Williams College by the Trustees,.
June 28.
'52. The Rev. Stephen C. Pixley was bom at Plainfield, Mass., June 22^
1829, graduated at Williams in 1852, and at Hartford Theological Seminary
1955. He was ordained at Plainfield, Mass., September 25, 1855, ^^^ started
as a missionary to Natal, South Africa, in October, arriving there in January
of the year following. He was a pastor and teacher at Umahlougua, ar
Adams, and is now at Lindley Station. He assisted in translating the Bible
into Zulu, and visited America for the first time in 1881 to get this translation
published by the Bible Society, returning to South Africa in 1882. He mar-
ried Miss Louisa Healey, of Northampton, Mass., October 13, 1855. Hi&
present post-office address is Duff's Road, Natal, South Africa.
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'53. The Rev. Henry A. Miner, editor of Our Church Work, of Madi-
son, Wis., is the General Manager of the Wisconsin Female College, at
Fox Lake, Wis. Brother Miner delivered an address on " The Demand Ux
Christian Schools " at the Lemonweir Convention at New Lisbon, Wis., June
9, and another on " Aggressive Work in our Conventions," at the Madison
Convention at Windsor, Wis., June 7.
'63. Prof. Leverett W. Spring, recently of Kansas University, was in Wil-
liamstown during Commencement, preparatory to setding there for the
ensuing college year as Professor in the college.
. '86. Of the graduates of this class, Orlando C. Bidwell will study law in
Elmira, N. Y., Henry Flint and Arthur V. Taylor will engage in teaching,
and Charles H. Perry will attend the Hartford Theological Seminary.
UNION COLLEGE.
'51. The Reading, Pa., Eagle, of February 28, 1886, in a two-column
article on the Life of the Rev. Jacob Fry, D.D., who is a pastor in that city,
contains the following: The Rev. Dr. Fry was bom in 1834 at the Trappe,
Montgomery County. He received his preparatory education at Washington
Hall Boarding School, Trappe, and graduated at Union College in 1 851, at
the age of seventeen, bein^ the youngest member of a class of no. The
degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by the same college in
1873. Dr. Fry received his theological education at the Lutheran Seminary
at Gettysburg, where he graduated in 1853, and was licensed to preach the
same year by the synod at its annual session, held in Trinity Lutheran
Church in this city — thus entering the ministry before he was quite twenty
years of age. He was called to the English Lutheran Church, at Carlisle,
where he remained eleven years, until February i, 1865, when he came to
Reading, and entered upon his present charge. The Rev. Dr. Fry accom-
panied the late Rev. Dr. Krauth, of Philadelphia, on his European trip, in
1880, when the latter went to obtain material for a Life of Martin Luther,
which he was preparing. They were gone four months, and visited
Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, England and Ireland.
'59. The Hon. Simeon M. Thorp was killed, while he was a member of
the Kansas Senate, by Quantrel's Band, at the sacking of Lawrence, Kan., in
the summer of 1863. *' At the time of his tragic and lamentable death he
ivas serving his second term in the Senate, and died full of promise and
:goodness.
*6i. Thomas J. Thorp, Esq., of the firm Dunham & Thorp, attorneys
and counselors, of Cadillac, Mich., writes us : " Your most esteemed favor,
the Delta Upsilon Quarterly, is received. The Quarterly is an
honor to the order, and affords ample proof of the ability of its editorial
staff."
'72. Union College has conferred the honorary degree of A.M. on
Daniel S. Lamont, the President's secretary. A Worcester, Mass., paper,
commenting on this, says that " the A.M. means that you have to rise
early in the morning to get ahead of Dan Lamont."
'74. James M. Lewis, Jr., after graduating, farmed in Fairfax Co., Va.,
-when, in 1876, he went to Washington, and held a position in the city post-
office until 1882. In that year he went to Kansas, and has been engaged
there in stock and farming since. Address Kingsley, Edwards Co., Kansas.
ALUMNI OF DELTA U. 273
'76. Eben S. Lawrence, M.D., is now practising at Ballston Spa, N. Y.
He has been Coroner of Saratoga since January i, 1885.
HAMILTON COLLEGE.
*54. On the evening of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of
Prof. William Hale Maynard, of Madison University, his house was filled
vrith friends and relatives. The Faculty of the University gave him a silver
tea-set, and the Senior class presented him a soup tureen and ladle.
*57. The Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.D., of Philadelphia, Pa., con-
tributes to each number of the HomiUtic Review a paper entitled " Seed
Thoughts for Sermons." He also conducts the "Missionary Field"
department.
'60. The Rev. Isaac P. Powell, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has lately lost
his wife, who was related and well known in Clinton.
'61. The Commencement address before the literary societies of Kansas
University, at Lawrence, Kan., was delivered by the Hon. Albert Childs,
formerly of Waterloo, N. Y., but now of Des Moines, la.
'69. The Rev. Martin D. Kneeland, of Fredonia, N. Y., will start on a
Western trip in the first week in July. He expects to extend his tour as far
as the Pacinc coast.
'69. Dr. Selden H. Talcott, M.D., has entered upon his tenth year of
service as Medical Superintendent of the State Asylum for Insane at
Middletown, N. Y.
'75. Josiah A. Hyland, Esq., with offices at 30 Park Place, New York,
practises quite largely in the Admiralty bench of the U. S. Court. He has
expended nearly %\ 5,000 on law books, and his law library is as complete as
any belonging to a lawyer of his years.
'81. Edgar C. Dayton, one of the Seniors of Lane Theological Seminary,
begins his work by organizing a new church on the Northern Pacific R.R.,
at Dickinson, D. T.
'81. Richard L. Groves, of Utica, N. Y., has been elected Corresponding
Secretary of the White Cross Movement of that city.
'82. Lowell C. Smith, spends his vacation in home mission work at the
lumber settlement in Georgian Bay. His address will be Spanish River,
Province of Algona, Ontario.
'85. Plato T.Jones, of the middle class in Auburn Theological Seminary,
is going to do home mission work in Redfield, N. Y., this vacation.
'86. James B. Parsons is to be one of the teachers in the Clinton Gram-
mar School, next year.
COLBY UNIVERSITY.
'j8. The Rev. Benjamin F. Lawrence has given his labor, with the ex-
ception of two years spent in Colorado and Wisconsin, to churches in New
England. He has been in Meriden, N. H., since 1881, and is doing faithful
and permanent work in his pastorate.
'62. The Rev. William C. Barrows served a year in the late war, and
then completed his preparation for the ministry. A native of the State, and
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a son of a well-known ministefp he has spent the most of his ministry in
Maine, and is widely recognized as an interesting and instructive preacher.
Present address, Lisbon Falls, Me.
'63. The Rev. Charles M. Emery, A.M., has had a fruitful ministry in
several of the churches in Maine. For two years he was chaplain of a
hygienic institute in Danville, N. Y. He is now pastor at Freeport. Me.
'65. The Rev. William T. Chase, D.D., holds, perhaps, the most prominent
position amon^ the Baptist ministers of the North-west. He is pastor of the
First Church, m Minneapolis, which has a wide and commanding influence.
He was chaplain of a colored regiment for one year during the war. He is
an earnest and enthusiastic worker, and is abundant in labors.
'66. The Rev. Hazen P. McKusick has spent the most of his ministry in
California. His chief work is that of teacher, and he is now at Norwalk.
'81. Asher H. Barton, Esq., formerly of Yankton, Dak., is now practising
law at Canton, in the same state.
*82. The Rev. Windsor H. Wyman has accepted a call to the Baptist
Church, at Winchendon, Conn.
'84. Arthur S. Doe is now principal of a grammar school at Woon-
socket, R. I.
'84. Benjamin F. Turner, who is studying at Newton Theological Semi-
nary, will preach during the vacation at Niiddlebury, Mass.
*86. Preparatory to entering Newton Theological Seminary, Thomas J.
Ramsdell will teach during the fall term at Shapleigh, Me.
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE.
'59. The Rev. Silas L. Blake, of Fitchburg Mass., was among those
who addressed the Alumni of Andover Theological Seminary on June 9.
*6o. The Rev. Giles F, Montgomery, of Phoenix, N. Y., until lately a
missionary in Marash, Turkey, thinks he is needed more in Turkey than in
this country, and will go back to Marash in August.
'70. The address of the Rev. Eugene F. Wright, is Rockton, instead of
Pecatonica, III.
'80. Willis A. Guernsey is now at Lynn, Mass., in the electro-lighting
business.
*8i. The Rev. James L. Barton writes from Harpoot, Turkey, under
date of March 22, 1886, as follows: "You will see that my address has
changed from Hartford, Conn., to the above. Under the A.B.C.r .M. I am con-
nected with the work here for the education and evangelization of the Arme-
nians. Our field is considerably larger than the State of Massachusetts,
and contains twenty-four churches, nearly 200 stations, one endowed
college, one theological seminary, three boarding schools, and over
100 fitting schools, with more than 4,000 scholars under instruction.
The course in the college requires five years, and is but little inferior,
if any, to the New England college. There are nearly 600 scholars
in the college boarding and preparatory schools of this city. The Rev. Orsa
P. Allen, Amherst, '52, a Delta U., is here also. Let me congratulate the
Quarterly upon its great success. It is an able paper and an honor to the
Fraternity. Its Alumni Notes will render it of great worth to the Alunmi."
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RUTGERS COLLEGE.
'59. The Rev. John H. Van Doren has been installed as pastor of the
Ref onned church at Elsopus, N. Y. His address is Ulster Park, Ulster Co.,
N. Y-
'59. The Rev. Henry M. Voorhees began his pastorate at Helderburg,
N. Y.» on June 9, 1886.
'60. The Rev. John A. Beardslee has been appointed one of a committee
to ^o to Holland and attempt to secure the works of the principal Dutch
auuiors for Hope College.
'62. The Rev. Elbert N. Sebring is now at Leeds, N. Y.
'69. The Rev. John Hart was commissioner for the classis of Philadel-
pliia in the recent trial in the General Synod of the Reformed (Dutch)
Church in session at New Brunswick, N. J.
'71. The Rev. John H. Wyckoff. who recently returned from the mis-
sionary field in India, may be addressed at Bound Brook, N. J.
'82. William L Chamberlain was ordained a missionary on June 20, in
Kirkpatrick Chapel. Dr. Campbell, who had preached the sermon to Dr.
Chamberlain on a similar occasion, now preached to the son. Mr. Cham-
berlain will sail for India in about a year's time.
BROWN UNIVERSITY.
'64, The Hon. Ratcliffe Hicks, of New York, N. Y., was registered at
the Hotel du Louvre, Paris, May 7.
'67. The Rev. Joseph F. Fielden, who is pastor of a flourishing Baptist
church, at Winchester, Mass., was married in June to Miss Annie Gardner
of that city.
'70. Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews, D.D., LL.D., of Brown University,
delivered the annual address before the Y. M. C A. of the University of
Vermont 27. The college paper, TAe University Cynic, speaks of it as " a
remarkably fresh, vigorous, original and eloquent inculcation of the duty of
conscientious independence of thought and action."
'81. George F. Bean is now attorney for the American Boot and Shoe
Reporting Co. of Boston. His address is 147 Sumner Street.
'81. Bom March 20, 1886, in Westboro, Mass., a daughter. Flora Belle,
to Mr. and Mrs. George B. Brigham.
'81. Cornelius W. Pendleton, of Los Angeles, Cal., was married in San
Francisco, July 12, to the daughter of J. D. Brower, Esq.
'82. Frank F. Brigham has completed his year as house-physician at the
city hospital in Lynn, Mass., and has commenced practising m that city.
'82. Stewart Chaplin is doing editorial work on the New York Ex-
aminer,
'82. Newton S. Fuller was married June 29, 1886.
'83. Arthur £. Baker is teaching in the Pearl and Eleventh Street School
at Los Angeles, Cal.
'83-'84. Isaac B. Burg^ess is a teacher in Rogers' High School, Newport,
R. I. Frank M. Bronson is also teacher in the same school.
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MADISON UNIVERSITY.
*72. The following comments on " The Wreckers," a novel by the Rev,
George Thomas Dowling, D.D., of Cleveland, O., speak for themselves :
The immediate success of " The Wreckers/* bv Geo. Thos. Dowling, docs
not surprise me, for I have watched him all along on his way to the front.
Now he puts into the press a book, brilliant, Iife>like, tmique, timely and use*
ful. It i? certain that, as an author, he will fully equal his great power as a
preacher. — T, De Witt Talmage,
It is full of life and movement, and we fully expect to see it dramatized. —
Philadelphia Inquirer,
" The Wreckers " is a social study, dealing with humble types of life, with
a thoroughly fascinating plot, and one elaborated with skill and ingenuity. —
Boston Evening Traveller.
The story becomes intensely dramatic. The demand for it in this city
has taken on the character of a rush. — Cleveland Plaindealer,
It is an excellent story, abounding in good lessons. In its romantic char-
acters, fine descriptions, sarcasms without bitterness, with its friendly inter-
woven argument, the author proves himself no novice, even if it is a first effort
in fiction. — Chicago Inter-Ocean,
A book like ** The Wreckers ** will help better to a comprehension of our
duties to each other, and a proper understanding of the rights and needs of
labor, than would volume upon volume of essays on political and. social
economy. — Philadelphia Record.
The fourth edition of " The Wreckers " is now ready.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.
*66. The Rev. S. Gedney Keyser, of Dobbs' Ferry, N. Y., received the
degree of A.M. at Commencement.
*8i. Horace G. Underwood, who was a missionary at Seoul, Corea, has
received an appointment to a position under the Corean govemmenL
'84-*86-*88. Charles H. Roberts, '86, has been elected captain of the
Brooklyn Athletic Club's Lacrosse team. Charles A. Bush, '84, Frederick
M. Crossett, '84, and Harry E. Shell, '88, are also members of the team.
'86. John S. Lyon will teach Latin and Greek next year in the Friends'
Female Seminary, New York, N. Y.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
'70. Prof. Theodore B. Comstock, of the State College at Champaign,
111., took his second degree from Cornell at the last Commencement.
'72. The first honorary degree ever conferred on a ^aduate of Cornell
University was that of LL.D. given to President David Starr Jordan, of
Indiana University, at the recent commencement. President Jordan sailed
for Europe recently on the Westernland, of the Red Star Line.
'73. Prof. John G. Newkirk, of the State University of Indiana, at
Bloomington, has resigned the chair in History at that institution. His
esignation to take effect January i, 1887.
ALUMNI OF DELTA U. 2^^
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY.
a medical missionary to Japan,
ow Sendi, Miyagaken, Japan.
"84. During the months of July and August, Ezra S. Tipple wil! occupy
the pulpit of the Mt. Vernon Place M. E. Church in Baltimore, Md, At the
last Commencement, the degree of Ph.D. was conferred on Brother Tipple
by Syracuse University.
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.
'79. Isaac C. Goff. formerly of Los Angeles, Cal., is now with his
brother, Fred Goff, '82, at Cleveland, O.
■81. Asa D. Whipple was elected secretary and treasurer of the Central
Michigan Alumni Association of the U. of M., at their recent meeting.
'83. Franklin C. Bailey, who has just finished his course at Union The-
ological Seminary, will preach the coming year at Kasoto, Minn.
*82-'83. Jacob E. Reighard will take the place on the Faculty of Howard
Ayers, who goes to Harvard next year.
'83. The law firm of Potter 8l Thompson, Alden H. Potter and lames
McK. Thompson, of Minneapolis, has expanded into first floor front offices.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
'83. The Rev. Walter A. Evans has recently been installed a pastor of
the Congregational Church at Cherokee, la.
"83. The Rev. H. Olin Cady received his degree of A.M. this Com-
mencement. He received bis degree B.D. at the Commencement of Garrett
Biblical Institute, in May.
'83. Frank Reynolds has just returned to his home in Evanston. having
graduated from the Boston School of Technology,
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