FEBRUARY f^^Jr..^.^ ESCENT: if � The Crescent.

�W. J. GUrnEIE, Editor-in-Cht^. DUFF MEEEICK, Vice-Editor-in-Chief. E. \V. DAY, Business Manager.

C0RRE8POSOING EDITORS.

Will Cable-ion. Brooklyu, S". Y. EouT. O. IlEiNEH, WnBhington, D. C. Prof. J. N. Stidy, Groeiu'astlo, Iiiiliaiia. PiiOF. W. S EvEESOLU, Wooster, Ohio. C M. Hnvdiui, OkahumkH, Floriilii. A. 1'. 'I'nAUTWuix, Hoboken, N. .1. C. E. Richmond, Jloadville, Pa. Eisv. \V. R. GuK.MNisiiAM, OilessiL, Missouri.

CHAPTER SECRETARIES.

J'irst <>i'unil Division. Beta Epsilon�Emory College, Geo. W. Ghineh. Osfoni, Alplia� (Grauil Chnpter). Allef;lie(iv College, Chakles Georgiii. B. KnsTi.ER, Box G02, Meadville, I'a. Beta Theta�University of the Soiitli, Rowlaxr Hale, Tau�FraJilvHn ami M^ir.^hall Collesje. ,1. H. Gekhabt, Seivanee, Tenn. No. {i03 W. Oratiiiy St., T.,'Uioaslcr, Fa. Rho�St�vens luRlitute ofTeehuology, E. II. Rice, 3(i2 Third Grand I>ivisIon. Bloonilielil St., Hobokeu. N. .1. Delta�(Grand Chapter), University of lliehigan, A. G. Upsilon�Keiisse I iior PolyMelinie liisiitiitc, 0. A. Zayas, Pitts, Bos -^83, Ann Arboi-, Mioli. Ko. 51 4th St., Truv, New Yorlt. Phi�Hanover Uolleae. L. R. JlKi.ciiEK. Hanover, Ind. Pi�I.ehigh University, E. M. McIi.vaink, South Belh- Epsilon-Albion Collego, VikSwauthoct, Albion, Mioli. leliein, Pa, lota�Michigan AEriciiltiiral College, Lyss Bonham, Gamma�Wasliinsctoii and -Jclfereon College, E. H. Mc- Lan-ing, Miehigan. Faulainij, Box 0U!>, W;isliinsrtou, Pa. Kapp.i�Hillsdale College, L. E. Dow, Hillsdale, Mich. Nu�Lafaj-etlo t'ollcge, .Joun E. Eox, Kasioii, Pa. Beta Bet!i�DePauw University, W, Boyd Johkson, Bui ni;i� Beta Gam Columbia College, Edvauu \V . Clarke. 217. Greeiioastle, Ind. Bos en, TeniiHv, N. J. Beta Iota�Adrian College, E B. Rood. Adrian, Mich, Secoud Uriiiid Uirlsinn. Beta Zeta�Buller University, D. M. Davison, Irvington, Ind. Mil� Ohio J. W (Grauii Chapter). Wesleyan Uuivorsity, Foilrill (iriktid Division. Magrvdeh, 15ox 423,^. Dela�;no, O. Chi�Kenyon College, O. B. II.MiKis, Bus 171. Gambler, O. Lambda�(Grand Chapter.) I.oaibard University.Chas.L. Psi�Wooster Uuiversily. il. M. KiNiiKiiv, Woosler, O. EiiWAUDS, Bos 732, Galesburg. III. Zeta�Weptei-n Keservo Univorsiiy, (Ailelliert College), Omega� Iowa Htate College, W. J. Wicks. Amp=, Iowa. Kent B. Waitk. Bos STO. East Clevob.iul, O. Xi�Sirapsoii Centenary College, N. B. A.shby, Box 21)11, Sigma�Ml. Union College, I.T. Hedi.and, .Mt. Union, Indianola, Iowa. Ohio. Omieron�Iowa State Uuivei'sity, Carl If. Piuieroy, BetJt� Ohio Universiiy, D. L, Johnston'. Attiens, O. Iowa City, Iowa. Theta� Hethaiiy College, F. P.Ahtiiui!. IJeth;mv,W. Va. Beta Et.i � University' of Minnesota, Orris CoLiiijus, Eta�Bnohlol College. F. W. Gii(Bi.;R, Akron, O. '2Q21 Ced.ir Ayeiine, Minneapolis, Minn. Bela Dolta�Uoiversily of Georgia, J. It. Burdett, BetJi ICappa�University of Colorado, Gf.orck Stidgeb, Athens, Georgia. Boulder. Colorado.

EXECUTIVE COUSCIL. Pres't�fl. T. Biiicif. Eho, 7S. Hoboken, N. .1. Seo-eiory-WinbehColvis. Bet^. '80. Springfield, O. Treasurer�W . L. McChtkg, Alpha, 7'J, 117 to 121 Wabash Prof. W. S. Eversole. Beta. '(i9, Woosfr, O. Avenue. Chieago, III. W. M. Day, M u, '71. 122 Water Street. Cleveland. O. H.W" PLU.MMER, Alpha, 'S4, Bos 144. Meailville, Pa. A G. Pitts, Delta, 'SI, Bos SS3, Ann Arbor, Mieh. J.W.Magruder, Mu, 'M-1, 13i>x 123J, Delaware, O. C L. Edwards, Lambila, '84, Box "Hi, Galesburg, 111

COMMITTEES. Catalogue Com.�U. T. Bguck, Iloboken. N. .1. SadAgt.� J..A. Mathey. 274 Bloomfleld St, Hoboken, Color ^Ijf.-Akthur G. Glasgow, llfl Hudson St., Ho- Son^ Booh Coni.�]l. P. Washer, 250 N. Duke Street, keii, X. J. Lancaster. Pa.

CONYESTIOS. TbeXXTI Convention of the DeltaTau l>elta Fraternity will he Iiebl at W.-itkius' Glen. N.iY.,"Au2ust 20, 21 and 22, 18S4. Tbe oilicers of the Convention are : President. Rev. Benj. F. Ilimmiek ; Vice-President, Wm. W. Cook ; Secretary, J. W. McLane; Orator, Hon. William B. Sutton; Poet, Joliu K. Scott; Historian, A. P. Trautrteiu; Somj Writer, C. M. Snyder. ^% C^KmB^rp

Amiciliu nisi inter bonos esse "Mnj- no cloud otecure the Crtst'ent

� noR potest Cicero. 0f our Good old Delti Tau."

Vol. VU. MEADVOiLE, PA., EEBEUAET, 1884. No. 5.

THE WAY AND THE WAYSIDE. The tiresome course, bnt most are fajn to stay. Dark suicide, the devil's damning pit. COKVENTIDN I'OICM OE IKir,. Lies hiilt conceded iu some secluded place ; There, also, victiiua f.ill and Haming lit BY FK.INK P. HKITT. Hell's lake receives them from the world's embrace.

I. V. 'Tis ah ! and wouderous Look long at ht', and look as long as vou may, slrj.rge, very strange, odd. This is some for fancied All phases sciin, and se;in tliein aa you will, pit sought by weal, 'lis not Iror man lo know how Yet, hfe's all ups and duwna, a winding way Ilowe'er, God, The willi flnile mind deal. O'er sunny plain, or rough and rngged hill. luliuite, may Skirti'd, sometimes, with forlnnps f^iirt'st fliwers. At Intel vals, on eiiher side, are seen The uf rum- aoul Whose rare aromas all the air perfume. miry slougiis damning rum, Aud men widiin the like brutes demean While here and there are beaute los snmnicr bowers mire, but O ! still others come. Where ir.ivelers rest, and then their march resume. Themse^cs, yel, God, VI. I!. But life's all ups and downs ; we tiiidge along, Sometimes 't's lined with follj's thickert hedge .^nd come lo Plea'Jnre's vale and piiasioj^ park ; Of thorn and poiaouous ill weed. jjriekly i'^nter, ji'tnsc, panai: and linger with the throng Which o'er arouml distill from either edge That surges here iind ihere round many a mark. Miasmal and disea.ses breed. odors, This park is, ah ! a Paradisian placi; 'Tis a even hei-c, along sandy, plain. With lovely groves and gentle slopes and vales ; Where o'er of easeful cus', passage paititis A river serpenting athwart the space. And there 'tis o'er hills aod gulliea main, huge And charming si'cues on which the eye regale;. and vast. Along sleep precipice ledges vn.

III. The Ci.ideBS of the Park, ia gay attir.>, litilh 'Tia now full alrpiight ami no departures With graceful move, glides round to each resort ; To lead nawary, wanton feet awrdiig ; And sanclious anght and all that can inspire

Aud now it narrows U> a devious pa'h. Her votaries, and wilcli them with ber Epoii. al With roiiny a treaclieroua footway joined ng. Here deals s^ gamblers' cards, and joina the game; Tu travel o'er this way, full oft requires, Tliere music sweet attunes and joijis the dance ; An Ad.iTUantine courage, faitli nnd strength. Here scarlet clad she leads men to ill fame ; For naught bul such imjierial power insp res There actress is, aud plays in lewd romance. tedious li. The mortal on to trudge its leng VIII. IV. .\nd how she lolls beneath the pines or b;isks In mellow sunshine al the liver's side Some falter, fail, aud f.dl bul hulf way througii i ; And fair masks Some earlier, e'en exhausted, faint away. Iheii, assuming deceptive then renew Riots witli and flirts with Pride. Though some renerve Ihemselves, and Luxury 94 THE CRESCENT.

All characters are represented here ; XV. Grave Wisdom least, sheer Folly most abound. Could we, but now, usurp prophetic power Vice, Indolence, and Faaliion hold career To augurale new glory for our band, will lower Conspicuous wilh full attendance round. And view the fauis of greatness ihat To this land � rs. show our pr.Jses through lovely ; Here Satan, subtle foe to humankind. Could we now vision strange events to be. Behold our circle's erescive fame Perdition plots fur man in every form. mystic Would zealous Greek the ranks dare Full many, too, alas 1 his subjects blind. any Bee, Or seek to his honored Grecian name ? Still fondly wail, nor held the low'ring storm. cliange It bursts in fnry o'er their heads and sweeps svl. Do ever feel With mad, swift vengeance down the teeming vale, you, my Brolhers, regret In with these true and valiant \VreckB all save him who walehful i igii keeps, joining Greeks, mutual friends have And hastes fo seek salvation from ihe gale. Where only friends wilb mtt And friendship firmer, slronger frien 'ship seeks? Thus fated those the Siren GodJesj leads. Ah, no! deep treasured iu our hearts endure Self immolated at tbe far famed sbrine. The vows of love and friendship here we pledge To in sweet and Defying e'en with ministrant mercy pleads gush mem'ry, sacred, pure. And cheer us e'en the dark The rescue proffered them through grace divine. upon grave's edge. XVII. But life's all ups aud downs. Aside we see The pool of Politics, that stagnant pool. 'Tia Love and Friendship binds our social band, Where haughty Wealth shakes hands with Poverty Not power, nor pomp, nor weiUb, nor gaudy show, And deigns to smile upon the fawuing fool. Fur ihey who seek for these soon understand SL The painful cause of self-deatructioil's woe. Where high-viced vandals arlfully connive. 'Tis love and friendship, holy, true, divine. And monej-pampered Justice drops her scales; What precious meanini; those Iwo words impart I Where Renegades and Kascals sumptnoualy thrive. The wealth of language holds witliln her mind And foul-mouthed Slander^ spotless Fame assails No words of deeper impress on the hear!. Where servile minions haste lo lowly greet xvrii. Their crafly, cynic chief like abject slaves; Go, girdle earth ; strange dialects explore ; Whore Kogues advance aud honest men retreat, Deep delve in tongues of ancient time and new, Corruption rules and Frjud full ram pan I raves. And say if there be words that raeaneth more SII. Than in our language love and friendship do. Disgusting pool ! Its putrid stencil ascends. And let tliem ever he ihe sacred signs And mimba and nauseates the moral sense; Of that concealed and sympitiiellc iie, And, aa it far and farther round extends, That all our hearls in close accord cnlwines. KiUa trade and llirowa our country in suspense. And gives us impulse, noble, pure and high. We leave this pool, and hurry on apiiec : XIX. The vaB(y hill of knowledge looms amain. Yel learned men will now and then assail " " Across the way long siretching. At ila base The secret craft of things unseen ; A temple stands: 'tia Educalion'a fane. Tut often those who ihus deride and rail XIII. Have never felt what love and friendship mean. Here let us pause, for here, Fralernal Friends, Tiieae men know not thai soft propitious ajiell The grandest place, along Life's way, That mystics feel when mjslic friends they meet, e'er what and swell We meet, to-night, where useful mystery lends ^ Xor conceive joys pleasures Her charming spull, and learning bears the sway. The hcirta that ia true union Ibrob and beat. Yea! College life ! That nobler, liigher life, xs. Where something strangely sacred round ua reigned. Then, younger fiatera, cherish and revere Where loftier purpose stills the common strife. With loyal love tbe cause you now niaiatain, And friendship true ita strongeaWtie attains, And failliful prove while yet jou tarry here XIV. At education's classic, honored fane. Here "Greeks of Modern Time," to-night we stand, Here muat you learn tu mount up Knowleilge Hill, and and hard lo climb Rejoicive in Ibe cause we love s-j well, For high it ia, sleep ; And, joined by heart to heart and hand to h md And ignorance nnd preparation ill traveler from its sub'ime. We feel, indeed, the strange auspiciiius spell. Will bar the height Conid we, to-night, by magic arl, unveil XXI. either The dark arcana fate reveals, Two paths depart from here, one way,

� our lead this massive eminence To scan the page that tells future tale, ^ And around,

� and thai where Ere time in sepulture that page enseals ; The path ot Ignorance, they THE CRESCENT. 95

Of medioeral merit most abound. The weary pilgrim totters to the shore. Vaal mulliludcB on either aide career, Sad frienda are round, and sad farewells are said ; While fewer nnmbera dare the upward course; The night born Charon waits wilh dripping onr. Some long to mount, but motives interfere And rows bim to the regions of the dead. That the (heir fond change way desires endorse. xxvm.

XXII. He had his virtues and his vices too, On mem'ry's tablet let ua write them each � Upon this height men study nature's laws ; These againat errors we would else pursue. Addn 83 the vocal earth and learn ber love ; -guards Those�inaudible lo imitate and teach. Converse with Neptune, trace his course and cause. Trufffriends and fraters, upward let us strive. And raonntaina on the moon's far disc explore. Nor aught perform to sully records fair. Then !um and with mysLerious self commune. Nor let� from orb arrive � ray envy's For still the grandest Ibeme to man is, man ; To set in flame ihe crown of peace and war. And Christians prove while Infidels impugn A triune Gud's all comprehensive plan. XXIX. And while the years in quick rotation glide xxilt. And cruel eliange presents the picture new, O ! would that scholars this clasjie thronged heigbl. Still in onr hearls eternally shall bide Till reison would delusion prevail, fade. The love of Brotherhood, so warm and Irue baleful to Black, ignorance change beaming light Abrive our sacred altar let us clasp truth the whole broad And universe prevade ! Our hearts in sweet devotion to our cause. life's all and downs. Aaide the Tut ups way Nor let harsh Ihoughts nor anjzry feelings rasp, Stands Fame's tall peak, and e'en lo heaven spires ; The bond that binds the good old Delta Tans. Hope's halo bright and glory's Iranscient ray Lure mortals up and flame their "wonted fires," SONG. XXIV.

But few e'er reach the acme. Many try RPES RSSUItCAIVI. Aud fail BO soon oblivion strikes them dead.

� EY CHARLES M. '82. Others half way up attain when lurus the die SKYDBR, ALPHA, They fall and those more nimble lake their stead. Where the fullness of time in ita silver of years. The authiir on its cngs indites his song ; Veils the palsy of age in halos of glory ; Ihe martyr there pours out his crimson tide ; Or caught in the tremble of deep welling tears. The statesman scales its slippery steps along ; There gleams the remembrance ot tremulous slory. lead blood-strtined armies its side. 'An

ns the that filled all the We only know God's paradise is there, Who taught hope days sun iu roseate hue And Safan'a pandemonium of Hell- And kept ihe selling ; for set In this, the damned eternal kirmenls bear, �Or furnished primroses thorny ways, � of our eiforla ia vidw. In that, tho saved in bli^ eternal dwell. Whilst keeping the goal 96 THE CRESCENT.

I know him� knave^ It the treacherous, pilfering as a Sociely for philosophic research. may He ia here with me now, but not as a ; gucot have heen intended to conimeuiorate among stu I think he is buried, but nut in a grave ; dents the hirth of the as the Cincin I know he is sleeping, but never has res'. Republic, nati was afterwards designed to perpetuate I have him imprisoned, aw.iy from my sight, the who saw the In ihe deepest of cells chilled memory knows ; among veterans, Kcvolutionary No more he entrances with spectacles bright. War close, the memories and eomi'adeships of Or witnes es of or woes. aught my triumphs their campaigns. It may have heen intended to

� When firsl� as the stury has often been told form u bond of union among eillege men and to I met bim in scenes which were new; agiin associate them as a class for literary and possibly He bad all the sparkle and glamor of old, Its records are W^hen I bid ihe dear Brothers of Delta affleu. patriotic pui'poses. early gone. Its name, its simple but dignified form of initia He built larger schemes to capture my thoughl. its and some tradilions are all And laughed just as merry as ever he did ; tion, (jnaint grip, But ah ! Ihia old tempter, what riot he wrought. that remain from a time that t^aw the beginnings For all his bpguilinenls�hia treachery hid. of our Nation. But these are much. Tliey It is but a step on the thrCabold of time, seem to make the preservation and just e.\ten- And ouly a moment we pause, ere we glid,' sion of I'lii Beta Kappa a iilial duty, on To animal fullness or manhood subliaie. binding the and of our With others all s'ruggling alike at our sidp. scholarship patriotism colleges. The was estal ilislied in It's all in the hands of the Fa'hcr, who knows Society early Hai'vard, What each Brother Delia has fixed iu his mi..d ; Yale and Dartmouth. Tt thence extended fo

He if we from numberless wo shield?, will, s, many other institutions. But as it only aecepfed .\nd shows us the nobler�he knows �he Ii kind. members late in theii' college course, and ifs Still never leave though it often be'rays ; hop", meiidjcrsliip soon came to be regarded as a mark Hope on, bul remember when put to tbe test � of and class rank, it Of all the fond scenes wliicii gladdened our gaze, scholarship high euggeated That only and ever survives, which is best. rather than fulfilled tlie needs of student com * � radeship. From the fact that 'P B A had Ijeen REVIVAL OF PHI BETA KAPPA. oi'ganized with a Greek Letter name and under forms of came the influence that [From the Dilta Kappa Epailon Quarterly f, r January.] secrecy, shaped college elnbs and student associations in ihis Oldest amoni' the collegiate Fraternities of country. Following 0 B A', they have taken oni' land is I'hi Btita Kappa. Most of us can Greek Letter names and adopted some foi-m of recall tlie respect with which, as Freslimen, we secrecy. This is curiously shown by the faet looked at the square gold keys, with their stars that the earliest among them, the A' .-/, whieli and index lingers and mystic letters, which tlie was organized at Union, in 1825, adopted a kej spectacled professors wore, and which in turn the for its badge, and thus followed 0 II A' in the honor men of the Senior class put on jnst before form or fashion of its emblem. then- graduation. p Thus were born the younger and now widely Little is known of the exact details as to how spread Greek Letter F>aternities^ Their iii- and iu what form Phi Beta Kappa was organ ilnence on our American college life has heen ized. Beyond this, that the Society was founded curiously great. Their growth has heen very in William and Mary College, Virginia, l.y large. The strength of their ties is to-day Thomas Jefferson, in 1776, almost nothing is recognized by old grey-headed graduates just as certain. But these simple facts invest the Fra cordially as by those eager young Freshmen, to ternity with dignity and hallow it with patriotii; whom their ipiaint pins and badges are a per memories. JcIterson have established it " may petual but enticing mystery. Ternpora w- on of the French Student originally the plan lantur et 1105 inuiamur In illig.'" well may the clubs of that day. It may. have heen, organlaed Greek F'rjiternitieB say. Tlieji' Chapters, of THE CRESCENT. 97

1 fifty years ago, were mere student clubs, work- for the worse, the Fraternities mnst bear much uig wilhin the lines of faculty decrees. Tiieir of the responsibility; if, as I believe, they- have field was then so narrow that their iniinenee was changed for the better, then to them is a large felt. Liter as scarcely on, one petty preroga share of the credit due. tive after another was given np by the college This naturally resulted in a third stage of officers, the Fraternities extetided the scope of development now attracting the notice of col their influence. Thus the second stage of tiieir lege officers. In matters of study and discipline, development began, iu which all tiiat concerned each student is now largely guided by his per the sliident outside of the curriculum was af sonal predilections, by the advice of those he sees fected by tlicir influence. These Fraternities fit to considt, by the moral force of his chosen concluded that voliintai'y and private literaiy associations. This association is now largely exercises were productive of more real culture determined in many colleges by tlie Greek Let than forced efforts encouraged by the Faculty� ter Societies or Fraternities. The transforma and the old "open debating societies" were no tion is thus completed, and the "enlightened more. In this regard I tliink tiieir infinence un autocracy" which the old college was, is becom fortunate. The large debating society lias al ing�in great part has become�an aggregate of ways seemed to me n very vidnable addition to student republics which constitules the univer- collegiate training. Ne.xt, these Fraternities si'y of- to-day. Being the exponents of the noted that deep rooted collegiate customs liad movement which has thus prevailed, the Fra survived their possible excuse and effectually ternities have met the rec[uirements of circum handled what Faculties dared not touch. Nat stances they have thus so largely brought about. urally, it is to Yale that I turn for illustration, At each loosening of tlie "parental" care of the duplicated, I donbt not, elsewhere. There, J J college there has been created for them a new iD, 'I'' }' and A K A' withdrew their support from opportunity which they have promptly accepted. " Liuunia" and "Brothers," and their dust-cov The consefpienccs have been a development, un ered libraries were turned over to tlie college. dreamed of by their founders, but in every way J A' /.' withdrew her endorsement, and " Coch- legitimate and substantial. The members of the " " leaureati" became a matter of collegiate history- Little Clubs of the past shared responsibility Such was the status at fhc time of the Srst for a small rental, and were common owners of a It limited stoek of whereas general attack upon the Fr.itcniity system. furniture, the Greek was claimed that the Fraternities had established Letter Chapter of to-day is frequently a chartered their rule in place of the parental functiun of corporation, with club house, dormitories and tlie professors, and from one cud of tlie land to -lihraries, maintaining complicate and important the other the discussion was mamtained. For a relations with its college, its sister Chapters, its admitted Alumni and the central Executive of its Fra Krore of years it has been practically that the Societies have finally succeeded. Look ternity, of the wbe.i differences between ing back now wc can sec that tlie burden To-day, students are ili,-cussed tlie charge against them was true, and, though their a;id Fa<'iilty by press and pub- defenders sincerely disavowed it, that the disso lie with ei|iial delcrcnce to the views of each lution of the " parental system" mu.st be laid iu side, the aiitlmri.ics of more than one noted col bet arc Fraternities to them great part at their door. But they buikled lege urging leading give the influence uf their ter tlian Ihey knew, and, though unwittingly, Chapters. Very different To views are held men. Ex- were the prophets of the new dispensation. by very Ihoughtful move Pre.-iidcnt of still believes no one t^anse more than to the Fraleridty While, I'urdue, they and ment haa been due the altered condition of col should he put down, argues that the classical lege culture. If these conditions have changed and. literary tendencies of the "Greek .Societies" 98 THE CRESCENT.

are so strong that a scientifie college must com present, representing 12 Chapters. As a brief first bat them, while President "White, of Cornell, resume of what has grown out of that meet finds them useful factors in university govern ing, I quote from a report of Prof. Adolph ment. The Paciilty of Amherst, abdicating ita Wernei', the present Secretary of the Fraternity, old position as sole guardian of college order, to whom and to Mr. Justin Winsor and Prof. has called to its aid a committee of students John K. Lord I am indebted for the full inform wliose selection is practically made hy the Fra ation that tiicy have kindly furnished : ternities. Bowdoin has placed the discipline of " In the spring of 1881, the Harvard Chapter the college hi the hands of students, a majority invited the other Chapters to send delegates to of whom are chosen as direct representatives of attend the celebration of the hundredth anniver tliese Chapters. On every hand college corpora sary of their establishment, and to empower snch tions are disavowing much of the old responsi delegates to constitute themselves a Convention bility for the personal conduct and moral guid to represent the Society, A majority of the ance of students, and the Fraternities are left as Chapters responded to the hnitation and the the sole efficient and stable centi'es of student delegates met at Cambridge on the 30th tif June, organization. It is thus seen that we have to 1881. Some discussion was had upon the con consider a new status of things. The time is dition of the Society, and upon the possibility of " " apparently at hand when College Government bringing the Cliapters into closer relations than is to be very largely changed into "Student had existed. Tlie institution of a permanent Government," and it is in meeting this, their representative body was suggenleil. The dele new responsibility, that the Fraternities have gates did not take action, but resolved to meet taken upon themselves tlie intense activity, again in the fall. Accordingly, a meeting was which haa market! the past five years. held at the University Building, in the City of The most venerable of them Phi all. Beta New York, on the 18th of October, 1881. Six was a factor in Kappa, liberal education in this teen Chapters were represented- It was re country from the beginning. Witliout the Op- solved to recommend the creation of a National which later times afforded its success portuniiy Council, for which a constitution was adopted it filled so well its and modest ors, early place that was to go into effect upon ratification hy that it suffered the misfortune of patronage, and twelve Chapters. F'urthernioi-e, a committee CS /.f an association of kindred devoted A, spirits, was appointed to prepare a uniform constitution to liberal was so learning, carefully watched and form of hiitiation for the use of the several over by professors, and so swathed with tokens Chapters." of that it has been in respect by Faculties, dan A tliird meeting was held at Saratoga Springs, of from excessive attention�of ger dying being N. Y., on the 6th and 7th of September, 1832, treated as a and entombed with royal mummy and the new constitution was submitted, dis monumental honors, cussed, amended, and finally adopted by the B K � 0 had been dormant for many years unanimous vote of the Conveution. It was rati in silence�an existing honorary Society merely, fied by some delegations and by others recom a a watch a ribbon. name, charm, red Butthree mended to their Chapters for raritication. The a committee was at Har years ago appointed constitution was to take effect when ratified by vard, whose Chapter is now the oldest in the fourteen Chapters. It was ratified by seven on Fraternity, to arrange for a Convention of all tlie above date. It has now, as I am informed the at in to com Chapters Cambridge, 1881, hy the Secretary, been ratified by sixteen, and memorate the centennial of the Harvard Alpha. thus stands as the organic law of this Fraternity.

which was the first " At this Convention, general The Con slitulion of the Uiiiied Chapers o( tlie Phi assembly of the Fraternity, 29 delegates Were Beta Kappa Society" cOMisU of fonrleoa articles. Thti THE CRESCENT. 99

first provides for the composition of the National rouncil, Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, President Angell, of aud consisting of certain Senators Delogati'S, cacii Chapter Michigan University; President Francis A, being entitled lo ibrio delegatea, who must be graduates of of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech atleastSve yeara' standing. Article II. provides for the Walker, Senate, " consisling of twenty Senators, chosen by the dele- nology, and the compiler of this article. the first session of the Kalionul Council from the gitesof the enactments of this first Sociely at large," and thereafter to consist of thirty Senalors, Among important perpetuated by alternate elections. The Senate is divided Council stand the following : The Secretary was into two classes, whose terms expire respectively at the ad- directed to obtain from every Chapter a com of alternate sefsions ot the National Coun jonrnnient regular plete list of its membership. Probably 0 B K cil-. This National Council is synonjmons with the "Con " stands next to A K E in of it be vention" or Congrebs"of other Fraternities. It is office: ed point numbers, now it has over se\'en tlious- as ihey are. There is a provision, iiowever, that ihe Presi ing estimated that dent shall be chosen from among ihe Sinators. A provision and members, although no general catalogue has ia also made that the National Council shall meet on the ever been published. As to finance, aiTange- first Wednesday of September, in every third year. By far ments were made for the first assessment Ihe most important provision of the conslitution, as illiis- levying traling how closely * li K is following tbe eieculive methods on the Chapters, and the administration of tho

� of the other Greek Letter Fr.iternities, is the fifth article Fraternity�thus speedily and successfully awak the Senate and its functions �whii-h reads as follows : ened from its long lethargy�was placed in the " During ths sessions of the National Council Ihe Senate hands of its Central Committee- shall have no separate existence, but iis members shall take wilb the as members ol the National their places delegates Such are tho methods which have been Council, voting with the delegaies, aa well upon all other 0 D K. To what do tend? matters as upon the election of ufficers and Senators, eicepl adopted by they as provided in Article II. When the Natioual Council is It he to propose an end to not in session ihe Senate aball constitute an indipendem might presumptuous body, charged with the duly of rcprcst-nting the Phi Bcia which 0 B K should be guided. But some of Kappa Society, and speakins in lis name, and exercising, in the tendencies of our venerable and honored addiiion, the functions of a permanent Executive Commit * * * tee of the National Council. It shall liold its Fraternity are akeady well defined. meeiings at snch times and places as it shall deteroilno. Il shall recommend eandid:ites for eleciion as Senators. It the younger Greek Letter Societies shall also have power to call an eilc.i session of the National To-day Council. Il shall furthermore prepare and recommend lo give tone to the student life of many of our col the consider ^1 tion of the Xational i ouncil such matters as il * * *^ and these ai-e may deem proper. St shall also transmit in th. leges, colleges rapidly becoming same manner lo tlie National Council a report of iis doings student democracies. In this oflice 0 B K has between the sessions of the Council." little sliare. It is late in the course that her Article VII. provides for granting new cbariei-s, and re elections are made, and then from those who quires that all applications be made lo the Senate at leastsls have dedicated themselves most to months before the regular pession of the National Council. unreservedly liberal culture. Is her mission, outside of col The first meeting of the National Coimcil walls, and after graduation, to systematize be considered the foiu-th meeting lege (which may and make effective the force of American edu under the new was held at Saratoga movement) cated I In shall she for Thirteen thought short, attempt on the 5th of September, 1883. Chap at what is done the student constitu society large by ters were represented. Under the new Chapters of each college for their own under tion of the Fraternity it was first necessary to graduate world ? Is this dream chimerical�or elect the Senators. The following gentlemen is there in it some suggestion of possibility ? To were chosen: The Rev. Dr. Edward .Everett those who have moi'e fortunate oppoitunities for Hale, Prof. Adolph Werner, O, E. Frothing- literary work and collegiate effort, the answer ham, Geoi-gc "William Curtis, Justin Winsor, must be left. Should it be realized, we should Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., President Elliot, of surely advance those "humanities" whereby all Hai-vard; Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, Joseph educated men arc of common kin. H. Choate, Prof, John H. Wright, Thomas Wentworth Higgmson, Walbridge A. Field, Stkwakt L. Woodfoed. 100 THE CEESCENT.

' The Crescent, tiling is, hut Tfte Cres^int is not what it ought to be." And Jiaving delivered yourself of this ^1.00 PER IN ADVANCE. of YEAR, sage remark, you put the matter out your SINGLE COPIES lo Cts. mind and think no more of it nntil the nextnnm- ber is received, and then the same useless exer "W. J. GUTHBIE, Editor-in-Chief, cise is repeated. You do not stop to question Dcrr Mekrick, I7re Ediloi-in-Ckief. whether this want could lie suppHed in part by E. W. D.iV, Business Manager. yov, for that is none of your business. Certainly C. B. KlSTiEn, Chairman of Mailing Com. not. There is au editor elected liy the Conven tion. He ought to improve it. That is liis ilW Commmiieaiions should be sent in by the 15th of each business. Well, we will grant that�and there tnonlh, to secure insertion� earlier, if possible. Address, "IV". J. fore this writing. You say you do not GiTTiiHrE, Lock Box I44, Meadville, Pa. exactly make out just what the trouble is. Occupy with All matters concerning sahscriplionf: and adcertisenienis should the editorial chair for a few and we be addressetl tu the Business Manager, K. W. Day, Lock Box us, minutes, l-ii, Meadrille, Pa. will explain the mystery, A\'e too, realize with " this but wc can see where If there is a mark before this, it is to indicate that your sub you want," easily scription remains unpaid. If so, please remit at onee. the trouble is. In our desk is a pile of letters, some twenty or more; they are answers which As CAN BE readily seen by reference to the we have received and requests for just such lit Literary Department of this number of The erary support -as our journal so much needs; CsESCKNT, wo have been compelled to make it up and each and every one of tliem ends with this almost of entirely selections taken from our ex " cheering and consoling remark : I am very changes. 'While wc are glad to be able thus to sorry tliat I can not give yon any assistance at present thoughts and sentiments that find ex pi-esent. A(it:cpt my best wishes for your suc pression outside of our own Oi-der, we prefer to cess elsewhere," etc., etc. Perhaps as you look distribute them somewhat throughout the vol over these letters you will be amused to think ume and not devote au entire number to their that so many of onr Bri:ithers are so thoi-oughly service. Yet this result has been forced upon engrossed in business that they can not even us, simply becaase the time for publication is lind time to devote an hour or so a year to the alarmingly near, and we have received no com Fraternity journal. Yea, you will smile as you munications from our Alumni, upon whom wc read them, until yon have passed the fifteenth must depend for assistance in making this part perhaps, then the amusement will wear off, and of our a suciress. While we paper acknowledge as you fold up tbe twenty-first or second, and the interest and finantdal support whieli Toe ihoughts of a long delay in Che publication lie- come mixed in with sev Ckescent has received this year, as highly satis strangely up your mind, eral hundred cards and each one factory and even sni-passlng our expectation, we postal letters, as they each can not but feel that site lacks that more concealing ill-disguised impatience, help '' in turn inquire : What is the matter with The material interest which has made other Fra Crescent J It is two weeks overdue and we " ternity journals what they are, and given them iiave not received it i We greatly fear that the high position and infinence wlii

� is the walls are firm and but the II. It shall be the duly of the Chapter Secretary to pre- strong ; ti-ne, senl, at the last regular meeting of each semesler, a report of rubbish of years has been allowed to accumulate, the condition, needs and prospects of the Chapter; the num until now so many unsightly heaps of uaelesSj ber of members and condition of the Chapters of oilier Fra worn out material can be found, that at fii-st ternities existing here, together wiiii sueh other matter as he tho casual observer sees little else. We may ihlok of interest to our Alumni ; said report to be .luh- glance jeet to amendment by the Chapter, The report shall then have on our Chapter roll many good and strong the 11 istocian shall he instructed to be adopted, and procure Chapters, situated in the leading colleges of the a certain number of copies printed and to send one lo each United States; but so less of the abaent members of the Chapter. The secrecy of these many poorer, pre names stand side side with reports to be preserved. possessing by them, Upon the record hook of the Alpha can be that they are seldomcd taken into account ; for found laws almost similar to those which are it is hy the poor and weak, not the strong Chap presented above. For years they were adhered ters of a Fraternity, that the average critic to it. The name to, but of late the time has Iwen allowed pass, judges influence that the of one and the printed copies never reached those for Grammar School on a Chiipter roll exerts, is whom they were intended. We consider such a stronger than that of a dozen leading universi do not donbt if a measure highly commendable, and ties. Suppose, you please, state of events. its efficiency if systematically cai-ried ont. Sev Let the Delta Tau Delta be a body composed of and eral of onr Chapters, in their monthly Chapter twenty Chapters, twenty only. We need To those no not in this article tite Take papers, supply this need. issuing designate colleges. our roll of and publication we would heartily recommend it. thirty-two strike off twelve ; you But judging from the success of the past, we can easily decide which will I'emain. Darwin's fear that the plan, being a a voluntary task upon "survival of the fittest" will be a siitficient guide. tbe Chapter, will soon be neglected. Without What will be the result? Twenty Chapters, for each in its own donbt, such a plan will result iu great good strong, strength, and in the the Chapter and the Fraternity. Therefore, we harmonious asaistanee of every other Chapter; 102 THE CRESCENT. eager to work for the Fratermty of which they say, "Let it alone; we know it is useless, worn are proud ; not of its Eastern, Middle or West out stuff ; we know it is unsightly and cumber ern Division only, but proud of it as a whole ; some. We see that the heap contains little, if enthusiastic in the work of extending and in anythhig, of vahie, but it is composed of ruins creasing its power. Twenty Chapters, of not of old Chapters, and we must not disturb these one of which we need be ashamed. We will be relics, lest we offend s-ome hovering wraith of stronger in every feature than we are to-day. memory. These Chapters have given us some The rank and standing of a Fraternity de of our best men, and we must consider them in pends, not on its long roll of Chapters, not on a tills matter." Or, on the other hand, will we multiplicity of institutions ; many of them as lit throw off the load and see our Fraternity spring tle known and respected as the Fraternities ex foi'ward with fresh strength for the contest ! isting in them. These considerations entei' but Let us not be content to keep our eyes con little into the judgments of an intelligent ob stantly downward, looking only at what we have server. It is tiie Fraternity ,that is composed of attained, and foofishly congi'atulating ourself earnest, ready, working Chapters, existing only upon the highth to which we have risen. Let in first-

Chapter Letters, closed an evening of rare enjoyment, as far as the banquet itself was concerned. At a word, where we in ALPHA.� ALLEGHENY^ we again repaired to the pai'lors, dulged in the old-time "Walk Around," which has a series of successes, and successes Alpha well closes every Alpha banquet. It now being only, to report to her sistei's through the me into we i-etnrned to our dium of The Ckescent. Sunday morning halls, well satisfied that the 5tli Annual Pow-wow was As announced in our last, the 5th Annual a suceess in every feature. One thing w^e have, Chocktaw Pow-wow occurred on the of e\'emng however, to deplore; that is, the unusually small the 23d, at the Commercial Hotel in this city. number of Aluimii who met with us at this ban- Abont sc\'en o'clock the boys began to assemble (juet. We have received regrets from many, in our halls, on Chestnut street, and after our showing that their absence is the result of no in regular Saturday evening session, the war-paint difference, but made necessary hy circumstances, and Indian dress having iieen assumed, M*e etc. ; but from others we have received no word. marched iu sober Indian file to the great Com We had a grand time ; and, Brotiier Alnmnua, mercial wigwam. After smoking the pipe of yon would have iieen well paid if you had been peace in the most approied style, it was soon " present. announced that the collation of " jerked meats We were glad to entertain Brother A. G. were waiting our plcastu'c, and wc immediately Pitts, of Delta, Grand Secretary of the Third repaired to the dining rooms, where a few squaws Gi'and Division, on liis return from the meeting not of our ministered to our (but tribe) many of the Executive Council at Akron. Brother wants. Of the baiiijiict we will say little�for Pitts gave us some very valuable accounts of little remains to be said after announcing that it Delta, and wo will gladly welc^omc any more w.as served at the Commercial. Ample justice such Delts. from our sister Chapters. was paid to the spread ; and then came the In conclusion, we wish to say that wc heartily part of the programme. Brother pleasantest concur in the action, of the Executive Council, Guthrie assumed the position of toast-master, in regard to the withdrawal of ticrtain charters, on Brother Gill to to immediately calling reply as a unanimous vote of ratification tcstitic.-. " the toast, The Delta Tau Delta," which was briefly responded to by Brother Gill. Brother BETA EETA.-DEPAUW. E. E. Baldwin made some very fitting remai'ks " concerning The New Ualls of the Alpha," af Beta Beta is still enjoying her usual pros ter which we had the pleasure of iiearing Brother perity. Although we c;innot, and do not wish Pitts, of Grand Chapter Delta, iu response to to boiist of the number of men initiated this "The Third Grand Division." Brother Pitts year, still in the internal workings of the Chap spoke of the pleasant relations that have always ter we feel that we are bettor than ever before. existed between his Chapter and the one he now We have Brother R. P. A. Berryman, of tlie had the pleasure of \-isitiug, expressing tbe hope class of '8fi, to introduce lo the Delta Tau that this sympathy and regard might continue in world. He has proven himself an active, the future, as now�a hope which we fully con thorough Delt. cur in. "The Crescent," responded to by E. Tlie name of this institution will be changed " from to some time W. Day ; Deltas in Mcadvfile Journalism," by Ashury DePauw, this month. W. B, Best, City Editor of the Republican ; The Board of Trustees formally turned it over "Our Chocktaw Dude," by C. B. Kistler; "The to Mr. DePauw on the 16th of January. An Delta Girls," by E. P. Cullum ; with general observatory, two dorniitones and a new labora remarks by Brothers GUI, FlmriniCT mi Guthrie, tory are to be built during the summer. lOi TEE CRESCENT.

Brother W. A. Pitton, Alpha, '8i, of Nash we could permanently call our own, and we look ville, Tenn., made us a flying visit. The boys upon it as a sort of crisis iu onr development. all fell in love with liim. It will materially help us in pledging candidates, Brother C, W. Maun, '85, luis been appointed as our rooms are not far fi'om college. A com cadet at West Point, and Brother W. M. Crose, fortable suite of rooms, wiicre one can go, either '87, cadet at Annapolis. to study or read, is a great inducement to offer. Brother F. D. AVimmer, '86, lias heen very Onr rivals are in splendid condition, hence we sick for some time. have most formidable opposition in neai'ly every Brothers H. T. Norton and H. S. Davidson quarter. Delta Psi has forty men, twelve of were called home at the beginning of this term whom are Freshmen. Psi Upsilon has tlih-ty- by their business interests. eight, and Delta Kappa Epsilon about thirty-six. Anyone wUl admit that we have great odds to hut we intend to the BETA EPSILON.-EMOKY. contend against, keep np struggle and succeed, no matter how distant sin,- We are still alive, and swfar as we are able to cess may be. see, still prospering. Wc are novv to pledge a man w'hom Wc take pleasure iu introducing Brother C. hoping the four So

� COLUMBIA. to BETA GAMMA. After our long silence wc ure again ready Since I wrote iny last letter wc have initiated report.

� at llie Convention two worthy men into ourBrotherhtiod Brothers We stated Indianapolis Zeta's were J. A. Mills, '86, Yonkers, New York ; and F>cd. that probably Beta days numbcied, E. Buckhigham, '84, School of Mines, Brooklyn, and conditioned her coniiuuunce on our ability received N. Y., who bid fair to Ijccome eai'iicst workers to secure tirstcliiss men, Wc have our ami in om- common cause. nniny inquiries concerning prospects, the first cau a We have rented a flat, consisting nf six rooms, now, for lime, give satisfaclorj The of Ihc bus been ihist wliere wc hitend hereafter to hold our meetings. reply. history year men reliiiucd lo hist fall. It is the first time that we ha\'e had a hall that Three college THE CRESCENT. 105

lost Having one man, by the efforts Beta Zeta arc ended, and will give way to D. of Brother Curtis we were able to add W. M. M. Davison, who has been appointed our suc to the list of the Alley f^uthfnl. lie was com cessor. If wo have not written many loiters, it to leave pelled college at the close of the term, is because we have been waiting till we could the death of his by mother. make a good report. Having made it we will For the third time in her history. Beta Zeta cease. was reduced tu two num. There were two BETA KAPPA.� STATE UNIVEE8ITY OP chisses of men outside of Fraternities, The COLOEADO. first, composed of little preps., we could not nse. IsrriATES� M. '87, Grand The second was mostly composed of preachers Gny Thompson, Idaho nnd Rapids, Mich ; Victor Ii'win Noson, '87, strong anti-.Fratornity men. By the hard Springs, Colorado ; Edward Cook Mason, '87, est of work wc succeeded in capturing two of Silver Colorado. the best men of the latter ehiss. Let me intro Cliff, This term is a one to us. Brotiier duce llicin�Lindsey Thomas VanCleavc, '87, pecfiliar Stanton has to Del and is New Market, Indiana; and Daniel Melvin gone Norte, Principal of Schools at that Brother Pease has ac Davison, '88, Min;iuk, 111. Sigma Chi is honesi place ; cepted an in a siu'veying ex cnougli to say she fried her best, lint failed to important position pedition for the U. P, but will 1)0 got tliein. Sigma Chi has dune pruTuiacuous Company, with us the latter part of the term. spiking. She has spiked fifteen men and initi Onr Brothers Noxen and ated Ecvcn. initiates, Tliompson, Five of these were preps., and one arc " Mason, men of whom any in our of licr preps, has been uncereinoniour^ly "fired Chapter would be and imotlicr left suddenly. Fratermty proud. There is a strong probability that Sigma C!ii We luive four gnod men pledged and will in will make an attempt on the Umversity. We itiate them soon. A prep., who gels in aliurry, say let them come, for we are ready for them. can jtiin one of our rivals. Our jircps. are con We are secui-e now and able to battle with any tent to wait. Fi'aternity that may see fit to stand over against The last numiicr of tiic Phi Delta Theta us. Scroll contains a well very sensildc, written We have to the " applied Faculty, through iirlicle ou Jolm M. Ctdlege Politics," hy Prof, Hanas, for a jiight in Commencement of DcPanw It reads Goodwin, University. week, and our application has been gi'anted. but if Mr. Goodwin had very nicely, explained We purpose to give the first public entertain his and the he has why Fraternity, Chuptcrs ment ever given by "actives" in the Stale. been a member of are so noted for their ciissed- Brother Willis Ktidger was married on Feb ucss in it would have been college politics, ruary SOth, to Hattie L. Silcott, of Indianola, ncHrer lo the point. His letter comes at a very Iowa. suitaldc time, as the two Piii Dr-lta 'J beta Ciiap- Brother George Stidger was married on March of which he has and the oue of which lers, lK?en, 5th, to Helen A, Dorr, of Des Moines, Iowa� lie is now a are in about the member, cngngcd an I. C. meanest piece of chicanery in tlie annals. of col The Phi Psi Kappa made an attempt to It is the action of the Bntler lege politics. pledge two of our students, but failed. in our recent oralurical and the Phis, election, We have but one more man hi view for this tlicm. support given and when we secure we yeai', him can truthfully The future of Beta Zeta seems than brighter say that any Delta wonld be satisfied with our it has for and so we are years, happy. w^ork for tlie fii'st yeai\ Wc will say farewell, as our days as S. A., of We arc anxious to let all Deltas know fully of 106 THE CRESCENT.

onr do honor to progress, that tlicy may satisfy themselves men still in school, who would whether or not we arc a benefit or a detriment, Delta Tau Delta, but, as you see, we haven't Wc refer for particulars conccrtung our work to room for them. that E. well known and Delta, J. Ware, a loyid We were happily surprised in receiving fine, who Sf the with us. spent part year eighteen dollar album, from our much respected Brother Connable, which came to us as a New DELTA. -UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Year's On a in the cover is en � gift. gold plate

: � Since we were last heard from, we have set graved tled down in our new Chapter House. The de of it was in the last number of scription given Prfsentfd to Sjisffoa Chaj.Ur, The Ckescent. We are very pleasantly situated ; ATA, ha\e twelve men in the house, and still there is hy room for any Deltas who happen to eome this way.. A. W. ConnaUe. Jan. 1S.V,. The first semester closed on the 15th, and the 1. second semester began on the followmg Monday. Brother Springer, formerly of '86, has re It is rapidly being filled with the cabinets nf turned to college and entered the Law Depart our Alumni. " " ment. We are very glad to welcome Rosy There were with us, at the State Y. back among ns. present M. C. A. Convention, held in Albion early in Brother Ripley, of '76, di'opped in to see ns the following Brothers: Prof. last month and stayed with us a few days. He February, of Hillsdale � Chair is at present assistant engineer of the Sault Ste. Haynes, College Wagner, man of the Hillsdale Marie ship canal. delegation; Waldron, Arnold, Corbet of Kappa, Lucas,'83, and Jones, of Brother Ware has also found time to remem Beta Iota. These Brothers all expressed them ber Delta. Brother W., it wiU be remembered, selves as highly pleased with our new hall. In- was onr S. A. last year. Ee was prevented deed, one Brother, who said he knew, remarked from being with us this year on account of sick that Epsilon's was the finest Delta hall in the ness, but iiopes to be back next year. State ; but, of course, we wouldn't have it re The Third Division will be represented at the peated. But, by the way, we are just hugely meeting of the Executive Council by A, G. enjoying our new rooms. Onr Chapter Hall Pitts, of Delta. has really become our college home, aud we re Wc before the next number of The hope, turn to our meetings with very much the same Ckescent is out, to he able to introduce to tlie feeling that we experience upon returning home Fraternity a man whom we can all be of. proud after a college term.

We are in receipt of invitations to the First EPSILON. � ALBION. and Secoud Division Confercneea. We wish the May Epsilon introduce to F'raternity her the Fraters thus meeting most successful Con three initiates, iu order of initiation : �Brothers ventions, and deeply regret that none of us are M. R. Ciuricr, T. J. Martin and N. A. Cole. able to attend. We are very glad that matters We ourselves on our congratulate term's work, pertaining to tho Conference of the Third Div for these are men of the With royal stripe. ision are being so vigorously pushed by Brother this accession to our nmnbers we now are seven Pitts, onr Division Secretary. Epsilon may be teen active men. There at a score of are, least, expected to attend en masse.

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IOTA.�MICHIGAN " AGRICULTURAL. They are true blue," and of that texture which After an untold amount of hard work, and bids fair to wear well. This now makes our many discouragements, we arc glad to report number fifteen, and that has always seemed to lota's catalogue lists in good shape�not quite me an ideal number. The Chapter supplies that what w;e would desire�for it was our sincere much-felt want of college life,^pjnilydike .isso- to have ihem and if we would have we must liope perfect in every respect ; yet, ciation, harmony notwithstanding we have been working at them have a limited number of select men ; not the over a most select in as so often* three years, few points hangs a mist. college, correspondents " There is no denying the fact that it h;is been put it, for, ns Eta well phrased it, no Chapter a difBcult task can have all tlie but those whom to secure all the data necessary cream;" upon concerning Iota's ahimni, yet we do not believe you can depend, individually and collectively, arc for of character her alumni any more negligent, or harder to integrity and capacity for enthu than are siastic work. The tree that blossoms find those of ihe average chapter. suddenly in a The amount of labor connected with the secur forth spring with multitude of promises for the when that harvest ing of data has led us to inquire whether some harvest, eomes, may yield means can not be devised for lightening this only a few small, sour apples. Quality, not is tho watchword of success. liibor in the future. To secure Ihis failure ease quantity, fraternity and insure greater accuracy, we are having a On February 7, Lambda celebrated the seven record book made. The book is nine by twelve teenth anniversary of her initiation by having inches, and contains three hundred pages. The an oyster supper. Of course we took the ladies, first are fifty pages ruled so as to give cohimns and consequently Ihe dancing and other an.use- for Ihe following subjects in the order named : ments were as full of enjoyment as we could de Number, full name, address, date of birth, birth sire. It was the next day when we stopped, but place, date of initiation, class, name and address the remembrance will last longer. of nearest relative, page. The page refers to a page in the hack of ihe book, one page being MU.�OHIO WESLEYAN. devoted to each member. On this we in page In accordance with the promise made in the tend to a record of a man's keep college honors, October Ckescent, our weak condition in the and a full one of his work after very leaving lower classes has been materially changed. In this we to secure for the college. way hope Brothers W. M. Porter, of Greenfield, and J. next all data that may he desired, and, A. of Van catalogue Arnold, Wert, Ohio, both '86, were with far less labor than the has re too, present initiated on the evening of the 9tli, and are now quired. This book is a cheap one, aud is simply wearing "our purple and our gray." experimental, but on learning by experience just what is needed, wc shall have a more permHuent form. We are pleased to know that three of Kappa Psi ; Shannon and Greer, '87, and our chapters have similar records, and hope that they may be adopted in every one. Now is the time for such a record to be commenced, as each S. A, is familiar with the location of the ahimni. numbers as follows:

Year. a T A * FA 4-Kf Ken X * 4i A 0 Z X Total

� 5 LAMBDA, LOMBARD. '84 4 0 4 a S fl 23 '6b 4 ti if a 4 ?. 1 21 It ifi with that Lambda 'an 2 4 6 4 considerable pleasure n 1 0 17 'BT 1 4 4 3 2 3 1 presents her last initiates, Bros. August Dehl- IS Total. gren, Charles A. C, Garst, and Thomas Nolan. 12 1 14 15 14 9 11 4 79 108 THE CRESCENT.

Brother Elliott, '85, is now teaching at Belle- "The Unlanndried"�A, M. Mann, Beta vne, Ohio; but he will he witli us ngnin next Theta Pi, '86. term. "Us Seniors"� R. H. Callahan, Pbi Delta Theta, '84. Brother Bak�, '87, has gone into business The occasion was so and eflicient with his fatholPllB publisher of the Bellevne enjoyable in strife and a Local News. settling promoting feeling of amity among Fraternities, tliat it will in all � Brother W. M. 'Tl, editor of the Iron Day, probability be the beginning of an established Trade Review and Western made ns Machinist, custom. a short call on the 11th. NU.� LAFAYETTE. On the first day of the term. Brothers Col Within t!ic few months has burn and Dowling, the representatives of the two paat Lafayette been in such a tliat to Fraternilies at "Old Belhauj'," namely, Beta moving along quiet way, write a letter of interest Theta Pi aud Delta Tau Delta, stopped off on you any wonld, indeed, lie almost an We are aware of their way back to school to aee Iheir Brothers impossibility. the a letter must to here. The day was cold, as they discovered be deliglit good Chapter give the Editor-in and we that we are un fore they found us, or, we them ; but the heart cliief, regret able to furnish such com munications was warm. Iu the evening twenty Greeks met frequently. We arc also aware that in an inverse ratio must around the oyster bowl, and with singing .and be his ou an lieuco toasting made merry, until ihat unseemly hour delight receiving insipid one; the cause of our silence. when none bnt goblins and Frat. men are said We the term with a member to stir abroad. If the visiting Brothers were began present " of Bro. of been thrilled" with the singing of 700 students as ship eleven, Earl, '87, having to leave on account of bad sembled in Chapel, we were also delighted with compelled college health. their college songs, a branch of music in which A few weeks we had the of en we are so lamentably deficient. Rgo pleasure tertaining Bro, A. K. Niles, of Wellsboro, P.i. As soon as the Rijou is published, we will Niles was one of Nu's most ardent members be pleased lo oxcliange for other college an while in and to his and nuals. college, untiring energy good judgment the prosperity of onr Chapter is On 19tli, the seven Saturday evening, January largely due. Fraternities of the 0. W. U., to banqueted one of the " Undoubtedly greatest compliments gether at the Crescent," D. A. Hayes, Delta that was ever paid to any Fraternity here, was Tan Delta, acting as toast-master. Responses given to our hoys of '84, in their recent elec were to the toasts : given following tions of class day performers. We have three " The Fraternity Idea"�D. C. Porter, Phi boys in '84, and each one was honored hy an Gamma Delta, '84. election. Bro. Camp was chosen� poet, Bro. was chosen "The 0. W. U., the Fraternity Centre- of Campbell presentation omtor, and Bro. Maurer historian. were Ohio"�G. A. McNntt, Sigma Chi, '85. These elections all unanimous, and the positions are amongst ihc ''The Olympiad, the Bond of the Ancient most desirable. . Greeks "'�A. B. Austin, Delta Tan Delta, '85. Our new gymnasium ia nearly completed, and " "� The Bijou R. B. Lloyd, Phi Kappa P,-i, iu a few weeks will be ready for use. The base '85. ball team, with Bro. Campbell as qaptain, is "The Fraternity Girls"�B. E. Cheney, Chi under good training, and excellent results for the Phi, '85. next season are looked for. THE CR ESCENT. 109

We are anticipating at the coming Confer are all good men, socially, intellectually and ence of tiie Eastern Division a royal lime, as morally, and all intend to graduate. is the that way in which Rho usually treats her Imiigine the figure twenty of us will cut in guests. college politics, amoug 300 sj^bnls ! 6| per dis We are sorry to announce the severe illness of cent, of the attendance (no subs^or preps.) Bro. VanDevander, who was suddenly taken tributed among four Literary Societies ia a pow sick by a severe attack of pneumonia, but, al erful disturbing element. within that honors are the though danger yet, his speedy recovery Admitting college " is expected. emptiest of honors," why do so many of the Chapters boast so much of them ? My Brother OMEGA.� IOWA STATE. seems to be making war on the whole Fra on this score. Owing to the fact that our school year for '84 ternity Also, iu do so of has not yet opened, I have no news from Omega, college jiolitics, why many onr so much to a themselves, hut perhaps few thoughts in reply to an arti Chapters arrogate " while at tbe same time the cle, entitled The Size of Chapters," in the last deprecating proceed ings of other Fraternities ? This evil Ckescent, may not be out of place. Now, it spirit seems to have taken of and seems to me, that the faidt-finding spirit mani possession incog., caused him to lake his and abuse fested in the above article is, to ^ay the least, up pen Omega and other for actions I donbt reprehensible. Ciiapters wdiich, not, can, iu the majority of cases, bo defended In this spirit the writer assails Omega as being and even if the officers " justified. Nevertheless, one which has sinned in tbis respect more than of the Fraternity think our case needs looking once," maintaining too largo a membership. after, we sliall be glad to impart any informa He speaks of one Chapter which "re;'entlv tion in our power as soon as the eollcge yoar boasted of initiating no less lhan twelve Fresh at which time I shall call the " opens, attention men," and demands an investigation by the of ihe Chapter to the matter in hand. general officers of the Fraternity, into ihc con dition of a Cliapter which docs not a display PI. � LEHIGH. sense of shame in reporting such an act." Tlu'ougb some mysteritjiis agency, the word With all due respect to liis opinion and ex "none" in onr last letter was converted into perience, as also the opinions of others wdio ad "nine," and in consequence we had nine more vocate small Chapters, I cannot agree witli liiin, men rooming hi our Chapter House ihan we that in each and every case they are tbe best. Is knew of. Since then, however, one of the hoys the Brother conversant with the circumstances has gone into it, and another will follow in a aud surroundings of all the Chapters which short time. We experience some trouble in get have, in maintaining a membership of twenty or ting men to fill it, as most of onr boys live in "sinned in this The attend more, respect?" town. ance at Iowa State is about and College 300, We are all lookhig forward to the First Di there are in existence two Secret Socieiics� vision Conference, to be hehl in New York, on Delta Tall Delia and I. C; ihe former num 2:3d and 23d of tlie Febi uary, with a great deal bers about and the hitter about fiflecn twenty of pleasure. These Conferences serve a two- members. is it not to nmintaiu Now, possible fuhl object. First, that of bringing the views of or more in a and have all good the ditferent twenty Chapter, Chapters t-^igetlier, whereby onr men who would be an honor to ? any Fraternity views ui diU'crent suiiji'cts are enlarged; and did initiate twelve Unquestionably, yes. Omega .second, that of bringing us togcthei' in a sotdal Freshmen and lias no cause of regret. Tiicy standpoint. 110 THE CRESCENT.

Tho Delta Phi's have granted a cliarter to only obstacle was the necessary funds. Bnt Lehigh, and their Chapter already numbers six these have come at last, in pai't at least, in the men. shape of a $10,000 donation, from Mrs. James It is stated dfe'efiable authority that Psi Up M. Hood, of i'rederick City, Md. When this a to the Theta was aimoimcod in a silon has trraMTO charter Phi Chapel, few weeks ago, Psi's, which- was started for that purpose, but as there was great and enthusiastic applause. But yet they have not assumed their new dignity. the joy of the hoys was further increased, when the Doctor further stated that donations would SIGMA MT. UNION. most likely follow for the erection of special The donhle number of The Crescent seems buildings, f(u- our laboratory, museum, library, more interesting than usual. It may be on ac and perhaps gymnasium. Tiie work of biulding count of its increased size�possibly from the on the observatory will be begun eaidy in the quality of its matter, or, perchance, waiting spring, so as to have it fuiished and equipped hy sweetens receiving; certainly, it was thrice wel the time of the next Commencement; and if come. The boys devour its contents more ea any of our Brother Deltas shoidd happen along gerly than ever before. this way, about that time, we invite them to Bro. U. C. DeFord is with us again, digesting drop in and have the pleasure of seeing the natural science at his usual rate. heavenly bodies from the F'rankliu and Marshall At the recent election of performers for the Observatory, closing entertainment of the Linnean Literary Om- college annual, the Orifiamme, will be Society, Bro. E. H. Stanley was elected orator, out about May, and we shaU he glad to exchange and Bro. W. W. Hammond, valedictorian. In for any other annual. regard to their performances, we only say that We are doing our best for the support of Tub Sigma expciits every man to do his duty. Ckescent. Om- subscription list at present is Bro. H. H. Millard is pursuing a theological fifteeti. All the active members subscribe, and course at Drew. 'Hope Hirst will use the theo we are now drumming up our Alumni. logical text-books, as he did the text-books here. Wc are busily engaged in furnishing our hall, Bro. H. L. Day is our delegate to the Second but as the expenses fall mostly upon the active Division Conference. members, the work ia somewhat slow. At a recent trustee meeting at Canton, the Brother Albright has been elected one of the motion made by Bishop Simpson with regard to orators in the Junior Oratorical Contest, and a:- ihc was considered. endowing college, carefully he is a fine sjieaker we have bright hopes of add Committees were enthusiasm was a[jpointcd, ing another feather to our cap. aroused, and we now have every reason to be Brother Miller, of us a visit a few lieve that the college will continue the growth York, paid

� weeks as did also Brother '8l"i. which she began two years ago the financial ago, Levan, growth, I mean. We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of the It is a fact that when C. Aultraan, Lewis Rho Chronicle and Beta Beta Reporter. Miller and Jacob Miller take liold of a financial matter, as have this, that it never falls they TU ETA. � BETHANY. throngh; and especially when hacked by the en thusiasm of such men as Bishops Harris, Simp The old Chapter looms up, and as Brother ex-President and others. '" son, Warren, Eayea, Dowling says, Our sotd is booming." We have had f.dditions to onr TAU.�FKANKLIN AND MARSHALL. many good ranks, making in all twenty-one. For some time past there Las been much said Our old friend and new i-e- among ihe Faculty, students and friends of the Brother, Cooper, college, about erecting an observatory. The cently visited us and spoke in the Bethany THE CRESCENT. Ill

While we were diurch. sorry be could not and the True There was not a more popular have gi'adiiated this year and have enjoyed his man in college than "Slim," and everybody re cjnipany more, yet we were glad to meet bun grets that he was forced to leave. He will, for and see a growing man from wdiom we shall hear the present, remain at the above mentioned more. classical towTi, and we assure any Brother, who Brother Jackson has home on gone account of may happen that way, that he will receive the sickness. Brothers Martin and McGill also cordial welcome and hospitality which are due to found it to " necessai-y go. Brother Calhoun, also, a Knight of the Purple and the Grey." has bade us we just good-bye. But hope to see While we were ihus bewailing onr sad lot, a ihem all back next year ready for work. leading member of one of our strongest rivals Brother Dowlhig, having been detained in his expressed to "yours, truly," the entire willing course by teaching iu the college^ will be with us ness of that honorable body to clasp our Chap another year. This gives us great pleasure, as ter to her tlu-obbiMi|bosom. It was very kind (?) BO of our many old boys will leave us this year, and considerate (?) in them, and we fully appre aud it is refreshing to hear of one remaining. ciate their efforts in our behalf; but, iis we We are well supplied with musical talent. couldn't see just how we could use them in our Brothers Payne, Dowling, Willcit and Muckley business, we rather emphatically declined, with form a quartette, and the old hall rings with the thanks. Yet it was pleashig to discover our strains raised in honor to "Good Old Delta most inveterate enemy to be our best friend in Tau," disguise. I'liimy what pleasing shapes Mr. The Fraieniity is indebted to Sister Olive Lucifer can assume. Muckley for a beautiful cover for the stand used Brother W. S. Arter has just received a new liy the President, and appi'eciate her kindness Frat. badge. A very uiiiijuc arrangement of highly. The room is improved much hy this pearls, tnrquois ami diamonds, makes it by far addition and we feel proud of it. As to our the prettiest badge In college. position with other Fraternities we stand well. The students of Adelbert attended in a body We extend to them our hearty good will, and ihe lecture of Matthew Arnold, the distinguished trust tliej' will do as well by us. The Betas English author, as guests of Col. John Hay, one have noble men in their ranks and we are thank of our honored Trustees. This was his famous

" ful for it. We endeavor to recogmze all good lecture ou Numbers." We ai-e pei'fectly will wherever found, and thus carry on tho eternal ing that the rest of the Trustees should follow " nature of our motto, We Labor for the Beauti Col. Hay's example, ful aud Good." W^o lately discovered another Frater in urbe, Trusting to see some of our l>clta Brothers at throngh the help of the Catalogue Committee. Wm. P. olil Theta, with a good will towai-d all, and es It is Lamphcar, Theta, '72, aud he is at pecially to those of old Delta Tau, we close for present assistant in the wholesale and retail book this time. estaldishmeut of Cobb, Andrews &, Co. He still has in his heart a warm spot for Delta Tau. ZETA. � ADELBEKT. M thei'c are any more stray Deltas in this little IJiothcr M. J- Hole, "86, has packed up his " burg," let ihem make themselves manifest in -grip-sack" and betaken himself to the ances the flesh. the Brother Pettibone Is practicing all sorts of tral abode, a Sabbath day's journey into fancy steps, pi'eparatory to making a des(^ent wilderness of Damascus, Ohio. His failing npon Akron, at the Conference. his withdrawal. he has hcaltii caused Thongh Brothers Pettibone and Arter will represent to gone from ii-i, yet he will iie found ever ready this Chapter at the Second Division Conference, do a double share for the Good, the Beautiful and will iloubticss make things hum.

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Alumni Notes. '77�^F. I. Mann, Hlinois Industrial Univer sity, is managing partner of the nursery firm of F. I. Mann A Bl. ALPHA.� ALLEGHENY. Co., Gilman,

'79�C. E. has removed to and '65�Capt, Robert G. Ileiner is now stationed Boyle Chicago is in the lumber business. at Fort Grant, Arizona. engaged '79�John H. Oliver has been selected to fill '68�S. J. Moyer is a lawyer and real estate the of Alumni Orator, of the agent at Chamberlain, Dakota. place Sydenham of the Indiana Medical at its � Society College, '69 Jolm 0. Brown is engaged in mercantile next Commencement. business at Yonngstown, Ohio. '80� B. Curtis is with the law firm of � Joseph '70 D. R. Hamlin is a lawyei' at Smethport, Morris A Ncwbcrger, Indianapolis. He is First Pa., and recently and substantially manifested Lieutenant of the Indianapolis Light Artillery, his continued interest in his Chapter. and will command the drill section in the Na '71�End. Hearn is a broker at 68 Broadway, tional Encampment at Washington. N. Y. His munificent testimonial to his old '82'�-.1. A. is of " Kelsay special agent the Chapter completely brok 'er all up." Mannfactiu'ers' and Marine Insurance Co., with '71�Rev, Geo. W. Loomis is now the suc headquarters at 210 Olive street, St. Louis. cessful Pastor of Si. Paul's M. E. Church, '82�I'rank M. Morris is with Bowen, Stew Rochester, N. Y. art & Co., Indianapolis. '77�Tom. is a run for Sensor � making strong '83 -H. W. Allen is foreman of the upholstery the of ihe Crawford Superintendency cotmty. department of A. L. Wright & Cu.'s wholesale schools, Pa., house. '80�Ned. Locke was recently made the happy L. O. Phillips is attending Jefferson Medical father of a baby girl. Ned. says she is a de College at Philadelphia. lightful little creature�and he ought to know. II. S. Phillips is farming at Pasadena, Cali

� fornia. '81 Charley Chryst is doing a thriving busi GAMMA.�WASHINGTON AND JEKFEK-SON. ness at Warren, Ohio, '61�Dr. T. class of � IL Jefferson '81 Walter McJunkin is in the drug busi Phillips, '61, is the of Ohio. ness in Clearfield, Pa. leading physician Canton, '81�Brother L. J. Olmstead is liouse ]diy- '82�J, H. Hai'per and E. T. Harper, '84, siciaii in the Huron street Homeopathic Hos- have recently entered into a mercantile partner pitsl, Cleveland, Ohio. ship at North Hope, Pa. '83�Asher D. Miller is the man in

� leading '82 C. ii. Richmond was re-t:ommis- lately his class at Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- sionetl as Major on the staff of Gen. Eartranft, pkia. N. G. P. '83�Ehner F. Frasher is Professor of Pen '84�Will A. Pittoii is a traveling salesman manship in his father's Business College, Wheel for a wdiolesale firm iu large paper Nashville, ing, W. Va. Tenn. '84-^T. J. Stevenson is the Union BETA ZETA. � IKVINCiTON. attending Theological Seminary, New York City. '76�M. W. is iu the of ihe Phillips employ ETA. � BUCHTEL. Model Clothing of Company, Indianapolis. '70�Brother O. C. Beatty is Deputy Clerk '76�J. R. Mann, Illinois Industrial Univer of U. S. Circuit Court, Cleveland,

is � sity, practicing law at 50 and 52 Major Block, '80 Brother F. B. Skcels is a rishig young Chicago. lawyer at Sd Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, THE CRESCENT. 113

IOTA.�MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL. '83�E. A. Butler ia in a bank at Mauclt '72�C. E. Miller is a practicing physician at Chunk, Pa, Cadillae, Mich. '83�F. W. Diileyruple is on an engineering '75�^John T. Brown has abandoned the law corps, stationed at Scranton.

at Pontiae, Mich., and is now enjoying a good '83�W. T. Goodnow is a draughtsman in the practice at Detroit, Mich. Philadelphia Bridge Works, at Pottatown, Fa. '79�E. D. Parshall, formerly of Drayton SIGMA. � MT. UNION. Plains, Mich., ia opening a stock farm of 320 '75�James V. Welch has recently formed a acres, near Gros, Dakota Territory. law partnership with Jolm J. Eall, at Akron, '81�S. B. Share is inspecting lumber at Lud- Ohio. ington, Mich. '77�C, S. Cobba is giving eminent satisfac tion as SoliciUir of Ohio. Said an '81�A. E. to the statement City Akron, Voigt objects " " to ua : He has won the esteem that lie is in the possession of the best of attorney to-day of more and heavier work wives." How we made this mistake we cau not everybody. Having than any of hia predecessors, he haa cared for it siiy, bui his letter to a brtither would lead us to all with rare tact and A think him married. He that ho ability. prominent says positively ' business man said to me not long since : He still enjoys single life. We hope he is not yet will be our next Prosecuting Attorney.'" lost to ns.

'82�J. B. Siielion was united in marriage! Within a few weeks, there was issued from ai December 20tli, to Miss Hattie E. Lausing, the Government Office at " Printing Washington, Handy, a charming young lady and loyal Delta a volume bearing the title: "Memorial Ad Sister" of that place. They have onr best dresses ou the Life and Character of Godlove wishes. S. Orth," being a reprint of the addresses de '83�N. F. is not over our state Hoyt happy livered in the House of Representatives and in ment in ihe November number. We his beg the Senate, during the Second Session of the He is in Medical at pnrdon. Starling College, Forty-sevenlh Congress, and which appeared hut is not Columbus, Ohio, ataiiy ing homeopathy. originally in the Congressional Record, of Feb

� PI. LEHIGH. ruary 1st, 1883, shortly after t!ie death of a '76�W. B. Baldy is editor of the Montour Brother Orth. It is handsomely bound and American, published at Danville, Pa. printed quarto volume of 61 pages, and contains a fine portrait of Mr. Orth, engraved ou steel. '7C�John Calvert is in Philadelphia. Twelve thousand copies of Ihe volume were W. Fredericks is in New York '76�T. City. printed by order of Congress. A copy should '76�W. Griffiih is in llie coast survey. find its way into every Chapter's library. Eulogies were pronounced by Brotiier General '77�L. T. Wolle is in Akron, Ohio. Thomas M. Browne, of Indiana; and Messrs. �Wm- B. Hammond is life in '79 enjoying Calkins, 'iP A' '/", of Indiana; Robinson, W Y, Harrisburg, Pa. of New York; Holman, 0 A B, oi Indl.ana;

� is a law '80 T. H. Hardcastle rising yonng Deiistcr, of Wisconsin ; BellKlioovcr, 0 K '/', of yer of Lastor, Md. Pennsylvania; Pierce, li 8 iJ, oi Indiana;

'80�L. B. Treham ia teaching in Boston. Davis, of Illinois; DeMotto, B 6 It, of Indiana; Ford, of Missouri ; and Doxey, of Indiana. In 'SO-F. C. Wooten has a on the P. position ihc Senate, addresses were made hy Messrs. U. R. Harrison, tf'ii 61, of Indiana; Frye, W Y, of '82�J. D. Ruff is in Saniliago, Cuba. Maine ; and Yoorhces, B 8 fl, of Indiana. 114 THE CRESCENT,

KAPPA.� HILLSDALE. '75�Edward W. Porter is of the law tirm nf

� Lindner & Mich, '69 WiU Carleton is in the midst of a very Purler, Bay City,

� is nf the Cen successful lecture season, in the course of which '75 J. I. VanDoren Secretary of he has appeared before the students of Cornell tral City Knife Co., manufacturers pen and LTniversity, Washington and Jefferson College, pocket cutlery, a large cnnccru doing busiiicst! United States Military Academy, and other in in Plwnix, N. Y. stitutions, his usual topics being the well known '77�Wayland B. Augir is a iiieiiiber of tlu* "The Golden Horse" and "The Science of hiw firm of Byers &. Augir, 224 Hennepin Minn. Home." The Mandi uuiubcr of Harper s Mag avenue, Minneapolis, '77�Frederick IL Sli.lfns, in Racine, Wisconsin. '69�Frederick E. Watson is joint owner of '78�Wilson B. Paine will grailiuitein Mnrcli, the Bank of Wells, a prosperous concern at at the Bellevne Hospital Medical College, Kcw Wells, Minn. York.

� a th� '70 Albert J, Hopkins is member of '79�licv. James W. Pnrsons is still at S:n'i), law firm of & 111. Hopkins Aldriidi, Aurora, Maine, where lie was installed as piistor of llm

� in '71 Alfred H. Johnson manages the finances Freewill Baptist cliurcli 1879. of the Indianapolis station, of the Wabasli, St. '79�Diinicl W. Cuok and William C. Wil Louis and Pacific Railroad. son are associated in ihc lumber liusincss in

and are � City, linliana, prospering '71 John R. Parker is an attorney and coun Michigan sellor at 163 La Salle street, Chicago, 111. He nicely. '79�Rev. E. Chnk, until resides at 965 Polk street. Dudley rcccnily pastor at Davids

A Zeta Psi club will probably be formed at Greei^World. Phihidelphia, Pa., in the near future. Nu has enteruil Sigma Bolliany, W. Vn. We biive heard a rumor tliat Piii Kappa Psi A new Senior Sociely has been cstalilished at will soon appear ai West Miiislcr College. Yale. Phi Kiippa Psi's elaimed Chapter, at the Uni Piii Delia Tilda longs for :i Chapter at Ann versity of Georgia, has failed to develop. Arbor. Psi Upsilon and Alpha Delta Phi, at Ken Ciii has entered tlic of Signui Univbrsily yon, lire both contemplating Chapter houses. Kansas. Kappa Sigma Kippa bus gained a footing at The Chiipter liouse of Clu Psi, al Amherst, is the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, Miss. rapiilly progressing. Tlie Chapter of Sl^^ma Alpha Epsilon, estab Piii KDelta Gamma h^is a suh Anli-Fratcrnitv laws at Ahibania State Col rosa Chiipter iit Ashnry. lege have been repealed. Great rejoicing among Kappa Alpha is conlcmphdiiig Centnd Uni those interested. versity with a wishful eye. Beta Tbeta Pi received a petition for a char credits with a sub Report Kuppa Alpha rosa ter from Ccnlral University, Richinond, Ivy. Chapter at Centre College, Probably refused. A new Ladies' Plii F'ratcrnity, Alplm Iota, The reported &ub rosa Chapter of Alpha from Boston hails University, Delta Phi, at Asbury, is, iu nil probability dead, Kappa Epsilon has established a Chapter at if it ever had a life to lose. Hampden, Sidney CoUege, Va. A new locid society has liccn organized at wliicb to make Sl^ma Alpha Epsilon has establislied an Al- Madison, prom'scs things intcr- for the Fraternilies established there. iiinnuB Chiipler at Enfanbi, Ala. eitliig Two members of Beta Tiieta at The Psi Upsilon Chapter, at Trinity, is build Pi, Madisim, were from that From all re ing a brown stone Chapter house. expelled Chnptcr. ports the Chapter gained by tiie transaction. Phi Dtdt.i Tbeta and Delta Upsilon arc re Tiiere are rumors thai the Theta Zeta Chap ported as about lo enter Denisou. ter, of Delta Kappa Epsilon, at the University The Scroll iufonrs ua that Phi Kappa Psi. al of California, intend building a CltHpter hall. Bethany, W. Va., has passed away. The Beta Theta Pi correspondent from Ilar- new in the line of Fraternities is Something varii, complains that liie multitudinous class to be found al Ricbmonil Va. College, societies almost kiU tbe Fraternities at that in Chi Psi liris re-established her Wesleyan stitution. in a con Chapter and is now quite fiourishiiig Tlie new Chapter house of Alpha Delia Plii, dition. at Wesleyau, will soon be fiiiislicd. It is of Chapter Chi, of B^a Tlieta Pi, situated at pressed brick, two stories high, built in an L, is Beloit College, some time ago reported dead, and In Queen Anne stjlc. reviving. The different F'rateniiiies at Delaware, Ohio, in a Piin-IIcllcnic on All the colleges ot North Carolina have anti- indulged banquet, the note are of 19lh. A Fraternity rules, yet very few of any evening Jannary thoroughly good was and all voted it a success. found where the rules have been successful in time had, Seven Fralernities were excluding the dreaded Greek Letter Societies. represented. 116 THE CR]

Congressman E. John Ellis, of Louisiana, is a The secret societies of Yale arc heing dis Piii Kappa Sigma. cussed in the Nation. Died�-University of Pennsylvania, Beta The Zeta Psi Motithly is authority for the tvhapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Cause, general statement that the Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, at debility. Interment private. Rutgers, is dying. Rev. David B. Knickerbocker, D. D., the Phi Delta Tbeta has entered the University new Episcopal Bishop of Indiana, is a member of Nebraska with seveu men. The material is of the Trinity Chapter of Psi Upsilon, reported good and the effort successful. is the bless Sigma Alpha Epailon enjoying An attempt was made, by a few students at of a bran new Constitution and ings Ritual, Asbury, fo obtain a charter from Phi Been at their last Convention at Louisville. adopted Kappa. No further developments having ap Phi Gamma Delta has granted a charter for peared, the petition was probably refused. a. at the of Texas, at Aus Chapter University Congressmen Belmont, of New York; Her tin, Tau Dcuterou is the name which it by bert, of Alabama; Eurd, of Ohio; Pettibone, will be known. of Tennessee ; Wadsworth, of New York ; and All the Fraternities at tho -of University Washburn, of Minnesota, are members of Delta Mississippi, except Phi Kappa Psi, have agreed Kappa Epsilon. not to solicit Freshmen during the first two Three out of the five members of Phi Delta months of college.�Jf A E Record. Theta, expelled from Monmouth, are now at Phi Delta Theta seems to be finishing up the Knox College, Probably a Chapter will bo Western State universities, before turning her established there, as four other members of Flu attention toward the East. She, ex however, Delta Theta are in attendance. pects to begin that campaign before long. The new Chapter hall of Delta Phi, AU active members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Alpha at Wesleyan, is ready for plastering and will he are required to subscribe for the Record. This occupied by Commencement, The building is plan seems to be gaining popularity. It is a of brick and wood, in some respects following pity tliat legislation is necessary to secure this the Anne of architecture. result. Queen style The The last Convention of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Sigir.a Chi, at Delaware, has placed the Grand Chapter of that Fraternity in Ohio, been unfortunate. An unresfraiDcd the hands of the Chapter at Sewanee, Tenn. desire to borrow part of the college electric ap The Record wUl hereafter be pubfished from paratus to assist at a recent initiation, caused that Chapter, the Faculty to decree their abrupt dismissal. Zeta Chi was founded at Miami, hy six mem Southern Kappa Alpha has heen divided into bers of Delta Kappa Epsilon, who refused to four divisions, each one having an executive oflicer cuter a caucus on a society election. Ttie six over It. This is the same plan which Delta founders arc still elaimed by Delta Kappa Ep Tau Delta has found so eSicient, except that the silon.�&roK. oflicer has been replaced by a Grand Chapter, The Chapter of Theta Delta Chi, at the Sigma Chi refused an application by six stu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been re dents of Allegheny College, to establish a

established. It ia � reported that Theta Delta Chapter at that institution. Cause room all Chi will soon estabUsh a Fraternity joirrna!, to occupied. She haa also had under considera be published by the Tufts Chapter,�Zeta I'si tion applications from Albion and Simpson Monthly. Centenary. THE CRESCENT. 117

The Alumni of Washington Alpha Delta Phi, ganization, and nine on banquet, fo ho given at had a on banquet January loth their next meeting. Of the present Congress, John A. Porter, of Washington, D. C, is sixteen are members of Delta Kappa Epsilon. writing au article on "College Societies" for At a meeting of the Senior class of Yale, ou an early number of the Century. February 1st, the following resolution was pre- scuted, nnd after considerable discussion lost, The Alumni of the Sigma Delta Chi Fra the vote 51 to 51 : ternity, a local society in the Sheffield Scientifie standing VVni:iiKA.s, Tlie i^rcseiit Senior sociely ayBteiii ci'patea a School, resident in New York h,id a re City, stwiiil arLstijui-acy, 'SKei'ciaes .i,!! niiiliie intiuence in college union and at the banquet Hotel Brniiswn-k, ou politics, fciatt^rs a trnrkling jliii:! cowering liiapogitioTi itmong jMiiiniry 9tii. Ihe lower elates, cresiles dissi^n.sions and unmilicK in every class, alienstes the affections of the srailnntes fniiii the col- Phi Kappa Psi has established an Ahimni Ii'gv, ^tiflts the full ex|>re^aion of college sentiment by its Chapter at Washington, D. C. A suite of coiitiol of llie college press, That we believe this ifetriiuental to the rooms will Resohed, sj.slem be fitted up in the near future, and a best, interests of Yule College anil injurious to oui^elves ; valuable aid will be thus secured to the active tliat we reiiuest llif college press lo publish lliis resolution of Chapter situated at that place. the Senior cirtsa; that the (Ihiiii-rnan and two oUiers, to be appointed by hiia, be a comiiiiltee of three to lay thia reso The Western of Chi have ile- Chapters Sigma lution before the i'resident, Facility, and the members of the cided to hold a small convenllon, for the pur corpor.ation. pose of becoming better acquainted. This is In the debate whieli preceded the taking of the same plan npon which the Division Confer- the vote, the arguments against the Secret So cucts of the Delta Tan Delta have been held ciety system, which liavc liccu urged iu certain for three years. papers outside the college, were reiterated. It was claimed that the societies destroy the unity Tiie Psi Upsilon Chapter house, at Univer of the diss and create a false aristocracy among sity of Michigan, is owned by a stock corpora its that bridle the tion. The hTheta Xi F'ra to the society men ; that Yale graduates who at the Sheffield Scien ternlty.'having Chapters were non-society men lose affection for their tific Ihe Rensselaer Insti School, Polytechnic Alma Mater on account of the societies, and, and the Stevens Institute of tute, Technology, for that re;isou, do iiol help the college with under the occurred on February 22d, auspices their donations, as do the graduates of other of the latter Chapter. colleges. Several members of Sigma Chi, at Marion, Tlie Zeta Psi Fraterniiy w;as well represented being required to sign a pledge not lo belong to at its Thirty-seventh Atimid B^inquet, at the on of debarred any secret society, pain being Hotel Brunswick, New York City, January +lli, from all college honors or offices, liave resigned 1884, about 160 delegates being |ircseiit. Earlv from the offices they held in the Military De- in the cvmilng cx-Spcaker Clinrles J. Noyes, of tho Miissaeliusetts delivered an ora parlmrnt of th;it institution. Legislature, tion on "'I'iic Debt and Duly of the American An Alumni of Delta Epsilon Chapter Kappa Scholar." Tlie cfinvontion poem was read by has been establislied at Washiuton, D. C. Two the Rev. Dr. W. K. Diiryec, and the following one of five on or ofHceis were elected : 1 A. committees were appointed, A, Liberty Holden, 118 THE CRESCENT.

Chi 2 Jolm A. Delta Ciiaptcr ; A, Miller, Jr., Mr. J. R. Snydam, of Columbia ; Mr. Lewis L. Theta Chi Chapter ; 3 A, Henry Brock, Chap Delafield, of Columbia ; the Hon. C. M, Van ter 4 Gustavus ; A, Rcmak, Jr., Sigma Chapter"; Slyck, of Providence ; Mr, Laflin L. Kellogg, of 5 A, Charles B. Everson, Psi Chapter; 6 A, New Jersey; Mr. Spotwood D. Schenck aiidMr. Charles G. Beldeii, Gamma Chapter ; and 7 A, J. Frank Anbarn, of Columbia; Mr. C. Work, A. C, Phi Taken as a Aubery, Chapter. whole, of Philadelphia ; Mr. E. C. Gale aud Mr. L. L. this was one of the most successful conventions Jenkins, of Troy, and Mr. R, M. Corwin, of e\er held this meas by Fraternity. Important Princeton. Letters were read from Gov. Lud ures were discussed and a generannterest in the low, Gov. Gaston aud Sunset Cox, expretaiug welfare of the order w'as exhibited. universally their regret at being nnable to attend the conven The Phi Kappa Psi correspondent from Madi tion. The Delta Phi reports frtim the eiglil showed that the was in au son, Wisconsin, says that the Chapter of Beta Chapters Fraternity Theta Pi, at tiiat place, is deteriorathig rapidly excellent (condition, and had made more progress from tlie high position it heretofoi'e ociaipied. during the past year than in any previous year. I'hc Fratornity now has 2,000 members, A The Tenth Anniveisary of the Alph^Bcta history of the society from its foundation in 1827, Tau (ladies') Fraternity, was held on the 23d of until the present time, is to be piihllahed iu November, at Oxford, Miss. The principle March. Mr. J. Duane Livingstone, the Secre feature of the occasion was a banquet, at whic tary of the Delia Phi Society, stated that a new some thirty-five couples participated. Chapter has been started at Lehigh Universiiy, Delta has revived her WUliams Upsilon Cliap and another re-established at the University of ter wdth men. Powerful Alumni eight support Michigan. The next convention will be held at will doubtless be to bear the effort brought upon Philadelphia, in November, 1884. and it will be successful. This was the parent Tbe Delta Upsilon Society had their ISth an Ciiaptcr of Delta Upsihtn, but was kUled by the nual December at in war. dinner, 21st, 1883, Clark's, New York. Covers for 43 were and in the A laid, report comes from Salem, \'a., of a strong absence of formal toasts the parllcipaifts re chquc of non-Fraternity men, who, bcheving hearsed old stories. Delta Upsilon is one of the that college politics needed a restraining hand, oldest college societies in existence, dating back undertook the task of furnishing the same. Dis to 1834. A very enjoyalde time was reported. satisfaction in their ranks, howei'er, prm-ed fatal Delta Upsilon lias some very nanica to the organization. prominent on her roll, among which is that of Jtimcs A. The principal Fraternities at Ann Arbor imm- Gaj-field. hcr as follows : '/" r, 2.5 ; J T, 24 ; J T A, 22 ; B e n,n; a K /�:, IS; 0 K . The other Fra , ; If, [From the Diamond of Psi Upsilon.] ternities there are h I H and P B represented 8, A recent number of the I)iam.imd, the organ (ladies') ; and .Y

OE THE BOOMERANG. with gratuitous gabble about the merits or short ANTAEUS, A DRAMA IK TQKEE ACl-H. of their rivals, the Diamond has never comings ACT I. to given any space exchange notices. ScEXE FlBST.^.A Greek youth is barred from the Olym- " We have never favorably considered the in piea of Purdue�all bee luse of his philhellenie disposition. Music, Presidents March. TAni.i:Ar, {no tight) Great troduction of an into the exchange department " White" Czar. columns of tho aud we are confident Diamond, ScusE Second.�The C:oiirt!j of Indiana, headed by the that our courae meets the approval of the mem tribunal of last resort, order tlie faculty to adniil the appli bers of Psi Upsilon. cant. MtJSif, 2 X Polka. Tabi.eau, (starlight) Jnpiler " Stutor. When our desire to in the ex participate ACT II. so with the change gossip, prevalent Fraternity fcENE First.�The f.iculty evade the decision of the press, surpasses our devotion to Psi Upsilon, we court by passing regiildtione which mafce the liiat state of first. Mnsi'^�" at wiU reconsider our course. that young man worse than the If first goa " � He into an " don't succeed." Tableau (uioonlii^htl jumped The of Psi are not to be garments Upsilon other bush." soiled into liy cnteriug promiscuous exchange SCKBM Second.�The Leglshiture of the Stale declines to started for the amusement of imbroglios, every make the annual apiiropriation for Pui-diie, exee]rt on revo

� Waltz. liliputian orgamzation that niay choose to raise cation ^the faculty of ila action. Music Whirligig Tableau (by liglitiiiiig)^/niiian guarding the Acropolis. a cry. " ACT in. Wc announce it as an established policy of SCEKB First.�President White resigns. McslC�Dirge, the Diamond, not to exchange with any Fra "Perdu!" Taelk.aU {Mae light]�Lof s flight.

ternity journal. Scene Second.�A President is elected to fill the vHCancy, " not to understood as intend We do wish be who is a leading member of the fraternity to which the phil- of the Fraterni hellene in Music� S X (Iraitd March. ing any disrespect to any good question belonged. Tableau (daylight)�" The White Cross." ties, for personality is not invalued in our posi tion. Our is u-respective of any organiza policy NOTICE TO CHAPTER SECRETARIES, tion. " Psi Upsilon has formed her policies, inde We wish to publish The Ckescent hereafter, pendent of any Fraternity, for fifty years, and in the month that it Is due. To make this pos will continue in the same course for fifty years is eoucemed. send in your letters, for the longer, as far a& the Diamond sible, please Chapter at once and hereafter send in all " next issue, ; Exchanging is one of the first stages of Pan- at the and not the fifteenth no communications Jlrst, HeUeniciam, in which we have sympathy with of the month, as A prompt attention whatever. Both ideas are incompatible the formerly. assist ua in to be to this rerpiest will greatly bringing poficies of a Fraternity that professes about this desirable secret. change. " The Diamond is for Psi .U's, and for Psi We desire once more to re

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INITIATES. Francis Clmton Shenehon, '86, MinneapoUs, Minn., October 27th, 1883. EPSILOS. ALBION. William Franklin Webster, '86, Cleai-water, Thomas Jolm Martin, '81, AUiion, Miehigan, Minn., October 37th, 1883. February 2d, 1884,

LAMBDA . LOMBAKD. NOTICES. Charles Abraham Clark Garst, '83, Stanford, We have had to borrow to meet our III., Febrnaiy 2d, 18S4. money to our These, and other August Delgren, '88, Galesburg, 111.. F'oh- jiayments printei-. hills, will lie due before tho next issue, and ruary 2d, 1884. large we wish all to forward their imme Thomas Nolan, '89, Eugene, IU., F'ebruary 3d, subscription The Secretaries will see that their Uats 1884, diately. are in MO. OHIO WESLEVAN, paid up full. John Anderson Van Arnold, '86, Wert, Ohio, The October issue is exhausted and there arc Januai-y 9th, 1884. several files incomplete, including The Ckescent WiUiam Merriman Porter, '86, Gre^pfield, file. If any Brother has a copy of the October Ohio, January 9th, 1884. ntiinber, which he does not want to preserve, he CHI, KENYON. will confer a great favor on The Crescent by George Arthur lieid, '87, Geneva, Ohio, Sept sending it to us. ember I'Jth, 1883. We wiU Send The for the remainder Walter Wright Scranton, '87, Wilmington, Crescent, of the to new for cents but Ohio, September 12th, 1883. year, initiates, fifty ; can send the back numbers pal. WOOSTER. (excepting October) if desired. Lister Pomerene, '88, Berlin, Ohio, Septem ber 15th, 1883. In sending subscriptions always use Postal Walter Agnew Alsdorf, '88, Utica, Ohio, Notes, Orders or New York Drafts, and in or October 1883. 11th, dering extra copies, inclose stamps to pay post John Lloyd Lee, '85, CrestUne, Ohio, October age ; otherwise they will not be sent. ^Tth, IS83. Theke are several volumes of Vol. I, James Marion Shellenberger, '86, Wooster, complete of The Crescent, winch can be had at cents Ohio, January 19th, 1884. fifty a volume. E. W. Bus. oMicRON.�cNivEKsrrv of iowa. Dav, Manager. Joel Woodward Witmer, '85, DesMoines, Iowa, October 2d, 1883. Also, in sending in Ahimni Notes, please ar Harry McPherson Hedrick, '87, Ottumwa, range them, in your manuscript, according to the Iowa, October 13th, 1883. college class in which they graduated. This will John Godfrey Spielman, '87, Fairfield, Iowa, save us the extra work of re-copying your man October 20th, 1883. uscript before sending to the printer. Herbert Peery, '87, Trenton, Mo., November 3d, 1883. The Rho Alpha, a local society at Simpson . BETA EPSILON. EMOKV, Centenary College, having become possessed of a Thomas Walter Sliands, '88,Brau.son, Florida, tVafornity ambition, have been negotiating with December lltli, 1883. Sigma Chi for a charter. The fact that a Sigma BETA KTA. nSIVEKSITT OF MINNESOTA. Chi Alumnus is assisting them in their efforts Alvah WiUiam Oc makes it that the will not be Jones, '8G, , Ohio, probable petition tober 27th, 1888. refused. S. HAWKRIDGE, iSnciri^s^rjr In Geo. Vr.�.Lb. i^- Co.)

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