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THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON

Official Publication of Psi Upsilon Fraternity Published in November, January, March and June, by The Diamond of Psi Upsilon, a corporation not for pecuniary profit, organized under the laws of Illinois

An Open Forum for the Free Discussion of Fraternity Matters

Volume XIV JUNE, 1928 Numbee 4

BOARD OP EDITORS

Mask Bowman ...... Delta Delta '20 R. BouRKE Corcoran Omega '15 Ralph C. Guenther Tau'26 Kenneth Laied Omega '25 George W. Ross, Jb Phi '26

ALUMNI ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE DIAMOND

Henet Johnson Fisher Beta '96 Herbert S. Houston Omega '88 Edward Hungeefoed Pi '99

Julian S. Mason ...... Beta '98

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON THE DIAMOND

Walter T. Collins Iota '03 R. BouRKE Corcoran Omega '15 Herbert S. Houston Omega '88

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MdresB all communications to the Board of Editors, Room 500, 30 N. Dearborn St., TABLE of CONTENTS

The 1928 Convention 209

Notes of the Convention 211

The Alumni Conference 212

The Convention Banquet 216

A Scholarship Prize of $500 230

Delta Chapter Life Subsceibers 232

Chapter Scholaeship Recoeds 233

Omiceon Alumni of Unknown Address 238

Expulsion Notice 238

In Memoeiam 239

Edwaed a. Bradford, Beta '73

Jay Feank Chappell, Omega '20

Eael W. DeMoe, Rho '92 Chauncey M. Depew, Beta '56 Rev. Edw. C. Feillowes> Beta '88 Colonel Moses M. Greenwood, Se., Beta '58

James Wabrington Lyons, Rho '25

Lawrence Maxwell, Phi '74

Charles E. Shepaed, Beta '70

Charles A. Waeebn, Phi '74

Our Alumni 250

A Scaesdale Reunion Aeeanged by Joseph Foed, Zeta '95 . . . . 253

Kushida Reviews Course of Panic (Manzo Kushida, Tau '90) . . 254

Another Echo of Epsilon Phi Installation 256

A Reminiscence of Thomas A. Wise . . 257

Chapter Communications 258

Chapter Roll 277

The Executive Council 277

Alumi Club Dieectory 278 Henry Miller News Picture Service, Inc.

Chauncey M. Depew, Beta '58 \ \ca

95th Convention Banquet, May 12, 1928, The Stevens, Chicago THE 1928 CONVENTION

memorable convention of Psi Upsilon is now a glorious ANOTHEEchapter in our history. With delegates present from every chapter� four members of the Executive Council and hundreds of alumni and un dergraduates other than delegates the convention assembled at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, on May 10-11-13.

Over five hundred registered in all but there vrere many others present who did not ofi&cially register and thus it is impossible to relate exactly the actual number present. The Omega Chapter and her alumni together with the alumni associa tion of Psi Upsilon in Chicago were ideal hosts�every detail of the pro gram and arrangements gave evidence of sound preparation to royally entertain the guests. Under the personal supervision of Ernest J. Stevens, Omega '04, owner of The Stevens, assisted by Harley C. Darlington, Omega '07, his assistant and Graeme Stewart, Omega '26, an assistant manager, every facility needed at the hotel was at the service of the members of Psi Upsilon.

A novel and interesting feature of the convention was the large suite of rooms on the fifth floor�designated as the "Psi Upsilon Club of Chi cago" for the period of the convention. This was ably arranged and super vised by at committee consisting of E. Malcolm Anderson, Iota '14, P. B. Evans, Omega '15, E. L. Murphy, Omicron '07, E. B. Peirce, Beta '13, Eugene Vinet, Epsilon Phi '11, and E. E. Hibben, Omega '28.

THE PROGRAM OF THE CONVENTION WEDNESDAY, MAY 9

6.30 p. m.�Informal Opening of Registration Booth and Pai Upsilon Club of Chicago for early arrivals.

THURSDAY, MAY 10

7:00 a.m.�Opening of registration, Hotel Stevens, 5th floor. (This headquarters will be open during entire Convention.) 10 : 00 a. m.�^Leave by bus for Omega Chapter House. 10 : 30 a. m.�Opening session of Convention. Address of Welcome by A. A. Stagg, Beta '88. 12:30 p.m.�Luncheon at Chapter House. This luncheon will be served under the auspices of "The Mothers Club of the Omega." 2:00 p.m.�IBusiness session. 4:30 p.m.�Leave by bus for Stevens Hotel. at The Stevens. 5:30 p. m.�Official opening Psi U. Club of Chicago of 6:30 p.m.�Informal Dinner, University Club Chicago (College Hall). 209 210 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

8:30 p.m.�Theatre Party, "Good News" (Selwyn). All ofiicial delegates and members of Executive Council will attend the theatre as guests of the Convention. 9:00 p. m.�Psi U. Club of Chicago will have open house for alumni to not attending theatre party. Bridge and other entertain- 1 : 00 a. m. ment will be provided. FRIDAY, MAY 11 9 : 30 a. m.�Business session, South Ballroom, The Stevens. 12:00 p.m.�Open House, the Psi U. Club, The Stevens. 12:30 p.m.�Luncheon, West Ballroom, The Stevens. 1:45 p.m.�Leave by busses for Omega Chapter House with tour of grounds of the University of Chicago. 3:00 p.m.�Business session at Omega House. 5:00 p. m.�Leave by busses for The Stevens. 5:30 p.m.�Open House, the Psi U. Club. 6 : 30 p. m.�Informal Dinner and Smoker, Red Lacquer Room, The Palmer House. Entertainment during dinner, followed by an interesting program, consisting of special features by Omega Chap ter, Pi Chapter Alumni, a few alumni, and professional entertainers. 11:00 p. m. to 1 : 00 a. m.�Open House, Psi U. Club of Chicago, The Stevens. GOLF: All alumni desiring t& play golf on Friday afternoon are requested to leave names at registration desk. Party will leave hotel at 1:'30 p. m., returning in time for dinner. SATURDAY, MAY 12 10.00 a. m.�Meetings in separate rooms for alumni and active mem bers of each chapter for discussion of such matters as may be of interest to said chapter. Room assignments will be posted at registration booth. 11:45 a. m.�Open House, Psi U. Club, The Stevens. 12:30 p.m.�Luncheon and General Alumni meeting, undergraduates will attend. Subjects for discussion: 1. "Do the Present Conferences of Alumni Representa tives Fill the Need?" 2. "Are Any Changes in the Method of Carrying on These Conferences Desirable?" 3. "Should the Present Conferences Be Supplanted by Annual Convention Conferences; Or, Should One or the Other Be Abandoned?" 4. "If Convention Conferences Are Continued, How Should They Be Organized?" 5. "Should the Conventions Be Held Only In Large Cities?" General Discussion.

3:00 p.m.�Indoor-Outdoor Baseball Game�Grant Park, opposite The Stevens. East vs. West. Alumni will alternate every second inning with under graduates; or, if desired, there can be an all-alumni game, and an undergraduate game. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 211

5:30 p.m.�Open House, Psi U. Club. 7:00 p.m.�Formal Convention Banquet�Grand Ballroom, The Ste vens. Speakers: Herbert S. Houston, Executive Council. Honorable William P. MacCracken, Jr., Assistant Secre tary of Commerce. Dr. Max Mason, President, University of Chicago. Senator George H. Moses. Charles P. Spooner, Executive Council. This dinner is being arranged under the personal super vision of Brother E. J. Stevens, of The Stevens.

In addition to the scheduled program one outstanding very pleasant happening occurred just after the final adjournment of the official conven tion session on Friday afternoon at the Omega Chapter house. E. Mal colm Anderson, Iota '14, and Mrs. Anderson invited the convention to their beautiful home which is about a mile from the chapter house. This open house was a delightful occasion which will long be remembered by those present and the hospitality of this good Psi U brother and his gra cious wife was indeed a high spot of the convention.

NOTES OF THE CONVENTION D. BABST, Iota-Phi '93, and Edward L. Stevens, Chi '99, were EARLunanimously re-elected as members of the Executive Council for the usual term of five years. The many signal contributions of these two brothers toward maintaining the fraternity during their past service on the Council has greatly endeared them to all members of Psi Upsilon.

Three petitions for charters were presented to the convention; The Wranglers of Northwestern University, Pi Upsilon of the University of Kansas and Alpha Kappa Alpha of the University of Vancouver (the lat ter was a new petition this year). The petition of the Wranglers again the convention and will be submitted to the in the next passed , chapters college year for a ratification vote.

The oldest Omega alumnus present was ISTewton C. Wheeler, Omega '73. E. M. Robinson, Zeta '71, and E. J. Weeks, Phi '71, were the oldest alumni in attendance while Charles R. Dean Omega '77, of Washington, D. C, was the oldest Omega man coming the longest distance to the convention.

A cablegram of affectionate brotherly greetings was sent by the conven tion to, President Babst in Italy and similar telegrams were sent to Moses Greenwood, Beta '58, George S. Coleman, Xi '76, Dr. George Henry Pox, Upsilon '67, Hon. William Howard Taft, Beta '78, Josiah W. Willis, Phi '73, and Mrs. Chauncey Depew. 212 The Diam,ond of Psi Upsilon

One of the cherished messages to the convention was a letter dated April 3 from Mrs. A. D. R. Handier, daughter of M. M. Greenwood, Beta '58, as follows : "Col. M. M. Greenwood, Beta '58, sends hearty greetings and best wishes for the success of 'The biggest event in the history of Psi Upsilon.' His 94 years are warm with loyalty to Psi U. Since the article in the Diamond of Psi Upsilon of June, 1936�^he has been housed, due to a stroke on August 1, 1936, at the home of his son-in-law. Rev. A. D. R. Haucher, Richmond, Va. "All of the literature of Yale with your valuable magazine he reads and prizes most highly. Would a photo answer his name at roll call for the 1938 convention of Psi Upsilon�fraternity? 'A Dean of Psi Upsilon.' "Fraternally yours, M'. M. Greenwood, Beta '58. per daughter� (Mi's.) A. D. R. Hancher. The Shenandoah, Richmond, Va. (The photograph is published elsewhere in this issue.) Just before the convention banquet a telegram was received from Mrs. Haucher stating that her father had died on April 34�however his letter and photograph would serve as a parting message.

THE ALUMNI CONFERENCE session of the convention designates as the "Alumni Conference" THEwas attended by nearly 300 alunmi. The Chairman of the meeting was Samuel M. Havens, Upsilon '99. Many interesting subjects were discussed and we quote from the records: BROTHEfR BARRY MOHUN, Eta '96 : In the history of our coun try it has never transpired before that one man held the position of Presi dent of the United States and also the position of Chief Justice of the United States. Of course, when that had to happen it fell to the lot of Psi U. (Applause.) Brother Taft is of the Class of '78 of Beta and there is no more loyal Psi U and never; has been, and he intended to be here today. I saw him. He didn't say this, but I am going to say that only his physical condition could have kept him away. They are always all right until they die, but Brother Taft's heart has not been in good condition and he has to be extremely careful in going with the crowd. Otherwise he would have come. The idea we have in mind (and I think these conventions are marvelous things) is to have the next meeting in Washington. In the first place it is a delightful time of the year there, and in the second place they arte hospitable and we have another opportunity to show honor to the Chief Justice of the United States. May I digress for a moment ? Did you ever The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 213 think of that title? His title is not Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; he is Chief Justice of the United States, the head of one of the three great departments of the Government, the President, the Congress and the Chief Justice of the United States. I think the proper ambition of every lawyer should be to be Chief Jus tice of the United States. I think some of our chapter members have been to Washington and some have not. There is a great influence in coming to A Washington. young man who does nothing more than go to the Lincoln Memorial makes a success of his trip. There is a real opportunity to show honor to one of our most distinguished Washington alumni. We have Bill McCracken there, also Scott Turner. By the way, I should Like to remind you that yesterday the Chamber of Commerce of the United States elected a good Psi U their president. Bill Butterworth. (Applause.) I have one more item to bring up. George Moses wrote me a letter under date of April 18 as follows :

"Dear Brother Mohun : It is a source of real chagrin to me that I find the situation in Congress to be such that I dare not plan to absent myself in order to attend the Psi U Convention at Chicago on May 10th, 11th and 13th.

"I shall be with the brethren in full spirit from the heart; and I hope you will give them my greetings and my best wishes for the success of the Convention and for the future of the Fraternity. "If I had found myself able to attend the Convention I would devote my energies to an effort to bring the Convention in 1939 to Washington. To be sure, there is no Chapter nearer than Philadelphia; but the Capitol City is full of Psi U's of all degrees of eminence and of an excessive degree of loyalty and enthusiasm.

"Since I cannot lay this matter before the Convention, may I ask you to do it and if there is any manner in which I can contribute to bringing this about I hope you will let me know. "Psi U (Signed) "Geo. H. Moses." (Applause.)

BROTHER CORCORAN: The idea of these Alumni Conferences as I have seen them and as Brother Babst has outlined them has been that they have been an initial step toward the development of greater alumni participation in the development of our chapters. Those of us on the Coun cil who have visited three or four chapters each year find in nearly aU of the cases a very ardent desire on the part of the undergraduates for more enthusiasm and more active sympathy and leadership from a greater number of alumni. 214 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

I think our fraternity has created an opinion among our alumni in our ninety-five years of existence that too much emphasis has been placed upon the fact that the undergraduates are very well able to take care of themselves, and that the duty of the alumni -^yas merely to go back at com mencements and initiations and have a good time, and to leave the work of guiding and leading and assisting the chapters to those few faithful souls of each chapter who bear the burdens. Every chapter has those few men and they are doing a darned good job. The finances of most of our chapters are in excellent condition. We are the only fraternity with over ten chapters in number in which every chapter lives in their own chapter house, which is a very fine testimonial to the loyalty of the alumni.

I do not believe that any member of your Council has ever questioned in his mind the fact that our alunmi were not loyal and interested. The only question that the Council does have is that the alumni by and large don't contribute of their own personality and leadership and sympathy to the undergraduate members of the fraternity. We talk a great deal about scholarship; we tell the boys they must improve their grades; the chapters are floundering around trying to find out why they are low, and a few alumni are trying to help them. If you wiU. study the table of vital statistics distributed at this convention you will find, I think, the figures on seven members of our undergraduate body who dropped out of college this past year for want of finances. We have a very large and com paratively very well-to-do alumni body, many of whom earned their way through college, and I know that many of these same alumni would take a great deal of pleasure in assisting financially some of our boys to com plete their course. The boys that drop out for financial reasons are usually those boys that are strong factors in our chapters, boys that are good students, that are there with a serious purpose. They don't want charity. We wouldn't want any such charity.

There is one thing you alumni can do and what the boys in our chapters need more than anything else, and that is, to my way of thinking, the sympathetic assistance and the sympathetic friendship and inspiration that our alumni can give by going around frequently and helping them solve their problems. We tell them that they must take boys now whose high school records of scholarship are such as will warrant their graduation from college. Our alumni are not assisting them in getting these men.

By and large, I think that this group of alumni here representing prac tically every chapter of the fraternity should be able to give us some very distinct ideas that will help the Executive Council to guide the chapters and to be a further inspiration to the undergraduate members. (Applause) . The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 215

BROTHER HOWARD L. WILLETT (Omega '06) : I should like to make a suggestion along the line suggested to me by Brother Corcoran's speech.

For many years I was active as an alumnus in the Omega Chapter and I know that the activities of the alumni depend entirely upon the attitude of the chapters toward the alumni. The chapter as a rule is friendly toward the alumni; we want them around, but they just don't know how to handle the situation. They are just not technically pro ficient enough in handling the situation. You have here now, as I under stand it, alumni representatives, somebody that is supposed to report to the Executive Council, somebody in the alumni who is responsible for Omega, and so on.

There are certain times when the chapter is in vital need of sincere alumni help, personal help, not financially or anything of that kind, but personal help, just sympathetic advice and consideration. At the times when the chapters are doing the best is when they have that guidance sympathetically. That is all right, they go ahead and do the thing, not with the idea that the alumni are trying to impress on the chapter that their way is the right way to get the chapter to do it.

If you had three or four more jobs, so to speak, you would have three or four more alumni interested in the chapter. If you could have an alumni representative appointed every year as an alumni chairman of rush ing who would go back there and organize the alumni to come back during the rushing season, you would have somebody in the alunmi who would be definitely responsible for the alumni representation during the rushing season. Every chapter man knows what this means; it means an immense amount to a chapter to have ten or fifteen active alumni who are real go-getters around there for ten days or so. The alumni are sincerely interested in this and are willing to come around if they are picked out and told "ISTow, Bill, come on and let's go help the fellows at So-and-so." You could have another alumni representative to act as financial advisor and another alumni representative on the faculty who could act as studies advisor to the chapter, etc.

These alumni could get the sympathetic attitude toward the fraternity, that is, the attitude that they are going to help the fraternity get over the idea that the alumni are trying to tell them what they should do, them what and letting the chapter go their own way after they tell they think is right. You will get sincere and worthwhile results from a method of that kind. (Applause). THE CONVENTION BANQUET May 13, 1938

Banquet Session of the Ninety-Fifth Annual Convention of Psi THEUpsilon Fraternity, held at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, May the 10-13, 1938, was called to order at seven-forty o'clock by Toastmaster, R. Bourke Corcoran, '15.

TOASTMASTER CORCORAN : Brothers, we will all rise and sing the Doxology.

The audience arose and sang the Doxology. TOASTMASTER CORCORAN : Reverend Brother Coolidge, I will ask you to please ask the blessing. REVEiREND BROTHER COOLIDGE: Bless, we beseech Thee, our Heavenly Father, this food to our use, through Christ our Lord. Amen. Convention photograph was taken.

TOASTMASTER CORCORAN : I want to announce that this group had a of singers who are singing here are brothers who have not singfest Iota. together for twenty-seven years. It is a reunion of four brothers of (Applause.) welcome the It is a very great pleasure on behalf of Omega Chapter to brothers to this, the Convention Banquet of the Ninety-Fifth Convention thank most sin of our fraternity. On behalf of Omega Chapter I wish to cerely the alumni of the many chapters residing in Chicago for their very hearty cp-operation to make this convention the success that we hope it has been. (Applause.)

It is a great pleasure to welcome here the brothers from many chapters time and the alumni from many places. We hope they have had a good and we hope they will come frequently. I am going to try and not make hear any speech because you have some good speakers you are going to from.

I should like you to know the brothers who are at the head of the table. This is Brother Holmes Boynton, a senior of Omega Chapter. (Applause.) Next is Dr. Geo. A. Harlow, Gamma '89. (Applause.) Next is W. G. McLaury, Omega '03. (Applause.) This is Brother N. C. Wheeler, Omega '73. (Applause.) Brother Granville Browning, Phi '77. (Applause.) This is Brother E. Mi. Robinson, Zeta '71. (Applause.) This is Brother Ralph Ringwalt, Iota '94. (Applause.) This is the Reverend Brother John Coolidge, Iota '03. (Applause.) I shall skip over a few of these gentlemen. (Charles P. Spooner, Rho '94, and Herbert S. Houston, Omega '88.) 216 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 217

This is the Treasurer of the Executive Council, Brother Walter T. Col lins, Iota '03. (Applause.) This is Brother Fred Mehlhop, Phi '88, one of the long-standing and sound backers of the Psi U movement in Chicago. (Applause.) This is Brother Luke Wilson, back from Washington, D. C, Mu '95. (Applause.) Barry Mohun, Eta '96, from Washington,D.C. (Applause.) Brother Charles R. Dean comes from Washington, D. C, Omega '77. (Applause.) This is Brother E. J. Weeks, Phi '71. (Applause.) This is Miller Munson now President of the Alumni Association of the Fraternity in Chicago, Rho '14. (Applause.) He is our very young and handsome president. I am going to read just a few telegrams that have been received. This is from Brother William Howard Taft :

"Thank you and the Fraternity for your kind telegram. I am very sorry not to be with you. I congratulate all of us on the two tfine chapters in Toronto and Montreal. They are real additions to our strength. Fraternally yours." (Applause.) I think the brothers from Canada had better stand up and acknowledge such a fine salutation. The delegates from Canada arose and applauded.

TOASTMASTER CORCORAN: This message was read at the con vention but all of the brothers didn't hear it. This is a cablegram from Brother Babst from Italy: "Greetings and Hail Psi Upsilon." This is from the "baby" of the Executive Council, Dr. George Henry Fox, Upsilon '67 : "An old fellow who has been a Psi U for sixty-five years sends fraternal greetings to the boys." (Applause.) A telegram of hearty best wishes from Brother A. Avery Hallock, Xi '16, a member of the Executive Council. (Applause.) A cablegram from Riga, Latvia, from Brother Fred Coleman of Phi ('96) "Greetings from Phi in Riga." (Applause.) A telegram of greetings from Brother Reinald Werrenrath, Delta '05, from Banff. (Applause.) I find that I have left upstairs a telegram from Brother Archie Douglas, Lambda '94, another member of the Executive Council, in which he sends his greetings. A telegram of greetings from the "Psi Upsilon Club of the General Theological Seminary in New York. 218 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

The first speaker on our program is a brother who has been bearing the burden of this convention as the senior representative and chief of the Executive Council. He needs no introduction to this group. We have all seen him and I know that you all love him as much as I do. Brother Charles P. Spooner, Vice President of the Executive Council. (Applause.) BROTHER CHARLES P. SPOONER (Rho '94) : Brother toastmas ter, and you other brothers in Psi Upsilon, I speak to you tonight with mingled feelings of pleasure and embarrassment. I am substituting for Brother Earl Babst, a man we love as typifying aU that is best in our fraternity, and who has our warmest wishes on his sorely needed vacation. You can all see how small I look from where you are sitting, but you cannot see how over-poweringly numerous and important you look from here. Like Peter Pan's belief in fairies, I am trying to think of you as what I hope you really are�just a crowd of overgrown boys to whom I may speak from the heart, with the certainty of a charitable and sympathetic hearing. I wish, first, to express to the Omega, the deep appreciation of the Fra ternity for the model convention it has afforded us. It has been organized and carried through with remarkable executive ability. Not a detail has been overlooked that could add to the pleasure and comfort of the indi vidual, or to the success of the convention itself. Generosity has been added to efficiency, until the Fraternity has been placed under a debt of gratitude to the Omega and its alumni, which it is a great pleasure to acknowledge. So far as I am informed, this is the greatest convention ever held by Psi Upsilon, and should be of inestimable value to the Fraternity. To our new brothers from Canada�^the Epsilon Phi of Psi Upsilon� we extend the right hand of Psi Upsilon fellowship. While we cannot offer you the spiritual refreshment to which you are accustomed, we do the best we can. In this case, the flesh is willing, but the spirit is weak. We have great expectations of you, and can wish you no more than that you shall be as happy vrithin our brotherhood as we ourselves have been. The Executive Council appeals to you, as chapter and as individuals, for your wholehearted and enthusiastic support of "The Diamond." We feel that it is entitled, on its merits, to all that you can give. It is a fine, dignified organ of the Fraternity, and has no superior, if it has an equal, among fraternity publications. Once more, it becomes fitting that tribute should be paid our host, the Omega. The resurrection, quality and success of The Diamond is due to the able and loving labor of Brother Bourke Cor coran, and the co-operation of Brother Herbert Houston, both of the Omega. Except for these men, there would probably be no Diamond in existence today. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 219

Our Fraternity will be one hundred (100) years old in five years�in 1933 we shall celebrate our Centennial. Brother Babst has been the mov ing spirit in initiating steps for that celebration, and you may be sure that, in dignity and beauty it wiU be, in every way, a fitting commemora tion of the birth of Psi Upsilon. While a century is a short period in the life of humanity, it is a long span of years in the history of American col lege fraternities. Do you realize that Psi Upsilon is now an older insti tution than almost one-half of the colleges and universities in which it has chapters, and that it is only from two to seven years younger than six or seven of the others?

It grew out of the similar social instincts of seven undergraduates at Union College. They were exceptionally good students, as all were gradu ated, and three received Phi Beta Kappa keys, usually evidences of char acter as well as scholarship. But we have the word of one of them. Dr. Goodale, that the ruling motive was the social one. While primarily a social order for the cultivation of the friendship and happiness of its mem bers, at least a reasonable seriousness in the acquisition of an education characterized a large percentage of its earlier membership. Roughly speaking, up to the Twentieth Century, we find our chapters preserving a fairly high average of scholastic standing, and receiving their full share of scholastic honors. During the first fifty years, a love of learning and scholarship seems to have pervaded the Fraternity. Upon no other hypothesis could so many college honors, either purely scholastic or largely dependent upon scholarship, have come to the Fraternity.

This brings me to a problem, not of our Fraternity alone, but shared by it with fraternities generally. That fact does not make it any the less serious for us, because we have thought of our own standards as peculiarly high.

Although there has been an improvement in the past two or three years, there has unquestionably been a general falling off in scholarship, with a resulting decrease in the percentage of initiates graduated. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to accurately mark the begin ning of this tendency. Irrespective of when it could have been first rec ognized as a distinct tendency, it has certainly been marked since the World War.

The past ten years have been characterized by a feverish pursuit of serious and intensive This has every undergraduate activity except study. not been equally true in all institutions, nor of all undergraduates, but it has been sufficiently general, I think, to warrant my statement. This is sufficiently ominous, but, unfortunately the general average of fraternity men has been below the general average of the whole student 220 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon body, and more unfortunately still, the average of Psi Upsilon under graduates has been well below the general average of all fraternity under graduates. This has naturally attracted toward the fraternities the unfa vorable notice of the authorities of many of the colleges and universities. To my personal knowledge, the president of one of our oldest and most prominent universities, himself a fraternity man, has stated that fra ternities are "on trial" in his university, and that if they continued to dem onstrate that membership in them involves an average lowering of under graduate standards in scholastic standing and conduct, they must, sooner or later, go. Assuming the approximate truth of all of the foregoing, what is the cause and what is the answer? Right after the War, I felt, as did most of you men of twenty or more years out of college, that this was a crazy, wrongheaded generation, whose passing on would be "a consummation devoutly to be wished." Surely that was superficial and unkind! All one need do to rid him self of it, is to Tcnow present day undergraduates, and do a bit of thinking. The World War changed or destroyed many of our values, but as a human being, the undergraduate is the same yesterday, today and forever. Those of today are as lovable, as human, as generous, as irresponsible, and again as responsible, as those who preceded them. The trouble is not with them. They are being asked to react to an entirely different world and one they did not make. And furthermore, we have expected them to show the same reaction that we did to an earlier and utterly dissimilar set of conditions. Let us consider for a moment some of the changes, remembering that they have nearly all come about in the past twenty years. In our day, com paratively few men went to college, and the life of the college was quite simple and comparatively unexciting. It was infinitely easier to do the necessary amount of scholastic work to keep up with the much less rigorous curriculum. Work, that in those days would put a man in the upper half of his class, would now barely keep him from dropping out of college. The influences, against study, were few and comparatively unexciting. We walked or drove a livery horse. These boys are given high-power motor cars, and will soon be given airplanes. True, we had football, baseball and tennis, but to these have been added so many new extra curriculum activi ties that it takes the better part of a college annual to catalogue them. We danced rather sedate waltzes and two-steps with young women, who were fairly well covered with clothes, while these boys have served to them the most seductive dances and dance music, accompanied by alluring young women, whose protective armor, fore and aft, and from zenith to nadir, is for the most part "Just a memory" ; and we're all human. In our college days, the United States of America had not yet embarked upon the won derful experiment of eliminating intemperance by lawfully clubbing a man The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 221 on the outside, instead of utilizing the brain and soul inside. From five to seven percent beer was all most undergraduates ever drank. The pres ent college boy can't have beer, but he is engulfed by a flood of hard liquor �mostly poisoned by bootleggers and the United States Government. How do you think we could have reacted to all this, as undergraduates ? The answer is that, old as we are, we don't react much, if at all, better than the boys. Had scholastic standards remained unchanged, the diverting influences I have sketched would have made the life of the present undergraduate hard enough�but they are changed all the time, and always raised. I dare say that this generation of college students has been subjected to more educational experiments than all that preceded them. The present undergraduate, in many of the colleges and universities, is expected to be a kind of collegiate white mouse or guinea pig, on which is tried out each new educational serum, and the result carefully watched and catalogued. While what I have just said may seem to be a reflection on college fac ulties, it is not meant to be except in a limited way. They, too, are re acting to new conditions, and the readjustment is not easy. They are having to cope with a flood of men who, without any serious purpose, are desirous of college prestige, without work. The amazing amount of new money, incident to, and growing out of the War, in the possession of parents with no background, has been the force behind this flood of boys who really have no legitimate place in college. While necessary, mere scholastic marks mean little, except that the fac ulties demand them. The great object of a college education, for the great majority, is not Idgli scholarship or preaMearning. They are, and always have been for the few. The average do not possess the avid thirst for it or the capacity for the even and sustained labor that is necessary for its acqui sition. With the greatly increasing percentage of business men, and pro portional decrease in those going into the professions, it is only by a com parative few that high scholarship and great learning are seen as an ob jective to be practically useful in after life, as it is, for example, in teaching. While high scholarship and great learning are for the few, there is a great objective for all. The real object of a college education is the devel opment of character'�including a permanent taste for fine things and a lifelong desire for knowledge. The elemental test of character is the do ing of the things that duty requires. The less taste and aptitude one has under for the task, the more character does one develop in doing it. The graduate who fails, despite honest and persevering effort, is deserving of or stands near the foot of his our sincere sympathy, but the one who fails, class because he won't work is not only recreant to himself, his parents and 222 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

his fraternity, but is failing to develop character, without the develop ment of which, a college course is a waste of time and money. At least, a fair average of scholastic standing is the best evidence that an undergradu ate can give that he is building a real man within himself. Our brotherhood is based on friendship. Other things being equal, the man who shows the character to meet his successive tests, makes the best friend. The man who quits, a loser in the tests of academic life, is likely to be a quitter in the greater tests hereafter�and why should he be ex pected to meet the tests of a lifelong friendship? What Psi Upsilon asks of its undergraduates is its share of Phi Beta Kappa keys and other schol astic honors, but above all things, the development of an average of char acter that is ashamed, for its own sake and for Psi Upsilon's, not to meet the tests of academic life, at least, with credit. I have spoken of the challenge of the college and university to the fra ternity. I feel that the fraternities are also a challenge to the educational authorities. An education is the uncompleted work of a life time. As the derivation of the word shows, it is the drawing out of the latent capa bilities of the individual.

They are not merely capabilities of the intellect, they are capabilities of the heart ; of the soul or spirit and of the very being. While having or claiming for them no monopoly, I like to think of a fine fraternity as the guardian of warm hearted friendship among men�as the developer of those kindly, courteous, lovable traits, without which, infinite learning is a barren thing indeed. Psi Upsilon is great because it inspires to generosity, charity, friendship and love. I ask you educators�are you quite sure that you are meeting this challenge by a constantly rising stand ard of the scholastic dead-line? While not overlooking its defects, I am very conscious of the beauty of our college life in the 90's. I cannot but feel that too severe an academic life has a tendency to stifle the beautiful things that grow from the lovable casual life of undergraduates, if they are not too severely and mechanically straight-jacketed. Your obligation is to develop, a few scholars, but a great many fine gentlemenly men. In the intensive effort to develop mere scholars are you not sometime over looking the beauty of developing also the qualities of the heart and soul? I have an old-fashioned notion that a boy should be happy in college; that knowledge should be so imparted to him that learning is an exquisite pleasure. If your standards are too rigid and to hard, happiness is re placed by worry and college boys are a bit young to do too much worrying. No matter what the colleges and universities do, Psi Upsilon must meet their requirements with credit, and that can only be done if each under graduate of Psi Upsilon will think of himself as a responsible representa tive of the Fraternity, through which she must suffer no discredit. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 223

in Now, closing, a few words to you as alumni. On visiting the chapters, we have been impressing upon them that the undergraduate years, while important, are but a fleeting phase of Psi Upsilon; that true fraternity life is until death. To remember that they will all soon become, and re main, alumni and that close relations should be maintained with their graduates.

Wherever we go, the strongest chapters are the ones whose alumni are the most devoted. Remember that the undergraduates are, after all, just boys. They need and appreciate the sympathetic interest and help of their alumni, and they are all entitled to it. For the sake of your chapter, keep your interest in it alive. For your own sake get as close to the chapter as you possibly can. Your reward will be very great, for it is the way to keep young and to live once more your own college days. Undergraduates are as sensitive and receptive as a photographic plate. As soon as they know you, and are conscious of your sincere love and understanding, they pay you by letting you see them being natural, and it's a wonderful sight. Just to hear them kidding each other�^hollering at the tops of their young voices and roughing one another all over the place, is worth all you can pos sibly give. By far the oldest member of the Council is Dr. Fox, Upsilon '67�but he is also the youngest. If you could see him with a bunch of undergraduates, you would understand why his years mean nothing to him or to them�^he loves them and they love him, so of course he remains young. Won't every one of you help us to prove to the active chapters that Psi Upsilon means a life long interest ? A deathless fountain of youth.

.. .The audience arose and applauded. . .

TOASTMASTER CORCORAN: We are very much honored, indeed, this evening to have one of our alumni return who has reached signal dis tinction while he is still a very young man. I have a great pleasure, indeed, in introducing to you brothers assem bled the Honorable Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aviation, our own Bin MacCracken, Omega '09, and I expect some day to vote for him for President of the United States:

...... The audience arose and applauded HONORABLE WILLIAM P. MacCRACKEN : Brother Corcoran and Brothers: That introduction of Bourke's reminds me of the last word I heard from E'd Ahrens before I came here. He said he came down to get some real low-down on the political situation. I said, "Well, I will tell you right now, don't bet any money on me." (Laughter). It has been something of a habit during the past month to eat a dinner and then get up and pay for it by making a speech. I did that at the other end of the building tonight, but I paid for this dinner and I didn't 224 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon get to eat it, and now I am making a speech besides and I think that entitles me to claim some kind of medal or reward from that Ancient and Honorable Order of Fidos who speak for their meals.

In casting around for something that might serve as a subject for my remarks I thought that perhaps you would be interested if I gave you something of fraternity spirit in aviation as it has come to my attention during the past few years that I have been rather closely connected with it.

First of all, I want to tell you something about the part that some of our own Psi U brothers have played in that field. May I mention first my colleague, the Assistant Secretary of War, F. Trubie Davison, of Beta Chapter '18. As you will recall, he got his training in the air service by organizing what was known as the Yale Unit before we were in the war, and after we were in the war in the course of a flight he became seriously injured and many people despaired of his ever taking any active part in public life and affairs or private affairs again. Yet, with that indomitable spirit with which he is endowed, he has reconstructed himself physically, so that in spite of his handicaps he plays a good game of tennis and has stuck vrith aviation and public service and has done a wonderful piece of work in carrying out the five-year army program, in the air, as the First Assistant Secretary in the War Department who has charge of Aviation. Another Psi U that I might mention is Charlie Lawrence, the designer of the Wright Whirlwind engine. Charlie is also a member of the Beta Chapter, '05. You will recall, some of you, that after Lindbergh's famous flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, some of Charlie's fellow-townsmen in the suburbs of New York thought he wasn't getting enough recognition for the part that he had contributed in constructing and designing the motor. They got up a delegation for him and unknown to him�it was to be a surprise party, and when he was called upon to speak, feis introductory remark was typical of his modesty, for he said, "I don't know why I am here, for who in hell knows the name of Paul Revere's horse." (Laughter). There is one other man that I want to mention. Perhaps he is not as well known to the average citizen as the first two, but yet for years he has made a name for himself and has played a very important part in the field of aviation. That is Brother Sam Bradley of Phi, '91, the secretary of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce and of the Manners Aircraft Association. He became affiliated with those organizations a good many years ago and during the lean years of aviation Sam Bradley has been plugging away with the idea that some day it was going to come across. He has been trying to keep harmony and good will among the manufacturers and operators of aircraft, and that, at times, is not the easiest task, yet he has done a wonderful piece of work and the fraternity may well be proud of him. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 225

When I get to talking about aviation to a group of men such as you gentlemen, and most of my audiences were composed of men who are not active in the flying game, I am sometimes reminded of the fact that we have a terminology that is more or less our own, and occasionally that requires a little explanation. That accounts for the fact that I very seldom tell many stories that have to do with aviation, but there are one or two where there isn't any of the technical slang or parlance of aviation in volved and they sometimes serve the purpose. One of them concerns an occurrence in Philadelphia at a bookstore. An old maid went into this bookstore and was looking around, apparently not finding the book that she wanted, and the clerk stepped up to her and said, "Madam, perhaps I could be of some assistance to you." She said in reply, "If you would be so kind. I have been looking for Lindbergh's Tt.'" (Laughter). I remember telling that story a few weeks ago and a chap came up to me after the dinner and said, "This actually occurred to me : I was going into one of these drug stores where they have everything except drugs, because they had listed in the window, the book window, the book, 'Wings,' for 75c. I went up to the book coimter and it was all helter-skelter and one thing and another. I was standing there picking the books over trying to find a copy of 'Wings.' I coudn't find it and pretty soon a flapper walked up vrith a short skirt, (shorter, I guess, than even Brother Spooner had in mind in the course of his remarks) with plenty of rouge on, also lipstick. She said, 'Can I help youse ?' "I said, 'Have you got "Wings"?' " "She said, 'Gee, kid, what do you think I am? An angel?' (Laughter). This is the thing, I think, that makes aviation so attractive. Of course, there is romance in it and it has attracted to it men of adventure, but the best part of it all is the fraternal spirit. That exists whenever you get a group of flyers together. I have met men from foreign lands, men who won't speak English any better than I spoke their language, which was zero, and yet in our sign language and by means of interpreters perhaps helping out a little bit, it doesn't take very long to get up a very close feeling of friendship. There is a fine camaradie that exists among the men who are in avia tion today, and to my mind, that is one of the most attractive things about it, and very frequently takes me back to my days in the Omega Chapter. I have sat aound the table with a dozen or half a, dozen of fel lows sometimes, talking aviation, and while I was listening to them talk and kid one another I closed my eyes and I might almost have thought that I was back in 6106 Woodlawn when I was a freshman, and I want can in to tell you that is a wonderful spirit. I recall the old Omega days 226 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon the pledge. I don't know whether it has been changed or not, but I can hear Brother Willet say it now: "The vows that you took at this Psi Upsilon altar shall ever be binding." I want to tell you that the lessons you learned at the Psi Upsilon altar and in the Psi Upsilon house will have more effect on your life after you get out of college than the lessons you learn in your school or class room. (Applause) . What this world needs in business, in social relationships, and in inter national relationships, is more of the true fraternal spirit, and the reason that we hear these pioneers of the air called Ambassadors of Good Will is simply because they exemplify the best fraternity spirit that exists in our college fraternities and we can all be thankful that because of their courage and their achievements they have caught the ear and the atten tion of the public to where they are listening to their message, and I hope that possibly without realizing it they will be able to absorb some of that fine spirit. It is the best thing that you can hope to have in life and it should be cherished. Too many of us when we get away from college and out in the business world in the pressure and rush of earning a living forget some of the lessons we learned in our college days around the chapter houses. I don't know but that I can plead guilty as I am sure I have been derelictory along that same line.

I do not know that it has been my close association particularly with the younger generation of men of the air that has brought home to me more forcefully than ever before a realization of the importance of the frater nity spirit that I learned in old Psi U. Before closing, may I make this one suggestion, and I do it to the delegates as a group rather than to the alumni. I have received a good many letters from men who are in college or are just leaving college, or perhaps have been out of college for a year or two, wanting to know what opportunity there might be for them in the field of aviation. When I have a group together as large as this I think perhaps while the majority of you may not be particularly interested in that subject, enough of you vnll be to make it worth while that I give you just a few ideas along that line.

Aviation is the newest means of transportation. It isn't something that should attract you because of the glamor or glory of it, but if you are interested in problems of transportation, that particular branch of commerce, if you are interested in pioneering in transportation, because commercial aviation today is in the pioneering stages, then it is the field that undoubtedly will appeal to you. There are a great many men because of what has been done by Lind bergh, Byrd, Chamberlain, LaCosta, Brock and Schlee, Maitland, Hagen- berger, and all those who have flown the oceans are interested in it as a The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 227 spectacular thing, but that is only the window dressing. Important though it is, back and behind all that, there is building up in this country a real system of air transportation and to anybody who is interested in pioneer ing in a field of that kind I can assure you that you will find a bunch of good fellows in it and work which is well worth your mettle. I should like to tell you one story in conclusion. It is about an Irishman who had never been to the horse races. One day a friend of his came in and gave him a ticket and he went out and watched a couple of races. Suddenly his curiosity was aroused by some transaction that was going on in back of him. He went over there to the booth and he said, "How much are them tickets?" The fellow said, "Two dollars." He laid down his two dollars and said, "Give me one." The fellow said, "Which one do you want ?" "Oh, give me any one." So the man handed him over one off the pile from which there had been the fewest sales. The Irishman went out and watched the race, holding the ticket firmly in his hand, and he didn't know any more about it than he did before. After a couple of races one of his neighbors noticed that his ticket entitled him to a dividend, so he went up to him and said, "Why don't you cash in your ticket, my friend?" "Sure and where do I do that?" "Right over here." He went over and laid the ticket down and the cashier handed him $40. He looked at it and counted it over and finally said, "Do you mean to say that for this $3 ticket I get this $40?" "Yes, that's your money." "Well, my God, and how long has this been going on?" (Laughter and applause) . So far as my remarks are concerned, they have been going on plenty long enough, but so far as the spirit of old Psi U is concerned, which has been going on for nearly a century, I am satisfied that it is going to continue on down through the ages and play an important part in our college life. When it comes to that other subject that is dear to my heart, that of aviation, it is only getting nicely started and I know that every one of this fraternity who has been privileged to contribute to its progress has been glad of that opportunity, and in their name I extend to each and a to in civil all of you, young and old, welcome participate aviation, or user of the air mail. either as pilot, executive, manager, stockholder

arose .. . . .The audience and applauded. 228 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

TOASTMASTER CORCORAN: The Chairman of the Executive Council Committee on The Diamond, is an Omega man. Brother Herbert S. Houston. It is a great privilege and a great pleasure to introduce him to this audience; he will speak to you on "Psi U Forever." Brother Her bert S. Houston, Omega '88. (Applause). Among other things he said:

"As we close this lusty and enthusiastic convention with Omega I'm sure we'll all agree that Psi U is ninety-five years young. And as we go on to our centenary we'll also agree that both our hope and belief about Psi U is expressed in that happy phrase of Oliver Wendell Holmes that she's 'aging toward youth.' But will Psi U go on forever? That will depend on the way the fraternity adjusts herself to the changing needs and con ditions of the oncoming college generations. Today Psi U and all other fraternities are to some degree on the defensive. Even their right to exist is being challenged in some quarters. For one, I do not consider the situation alarming, but it should cause us to stop, look and listen. It first saw is no time for the easy philosophy of laissez faire. Since Psi U the light at old Union a new college world, with a new spirit and new objectives, has come into being. Are we keeping in touch with that new world? For without vision college fraternities, like nations, must perish.

"I trust that President Max Mason will pardon me if I make one or two personal references in order to illustrate my theme. In the Daily News this evening I read this legend under the picture of the President of the University of Chicago�'President Mason's slogan has been oppor tunity not compulsion, and he has worked to promote productive scholar ship and correlate the University with the life of the time.' "In that caption I've quoted. Brothers of Psi Upsilon, is the challenge to scholar before every college fraternity today. What is its relation ship and what is its relation to the life of the University? If Psi U to is to go on forever she must justify herself in constructive answers those questions. Those are the two questions that were always in the Her mind of our staunch and strong leader for nearly a half century, and bert L. Bridgman. They are the questions with which his loyal able successor. Earl D. Babst, wrestles, as did Jacob with the angel. They Con were the one engrossing subject for consideration at the Alumni ference at the University Club in New York a few weeks ago. Those who were at that conference will recall the emphasis President Babst placed Phi Beta on the facts presented in a survey, in a recent number of the Kappa Key, of the relationship between scholarship and success in after life. Even a more powerful case is made for scholarship, in the current issue of 'Harper's,' by Walter Gifford, President of the American Tele graph & Telephone Company. But how overwhelming the case may be. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 229 the distressing fact remains that the scholarship of fraternity men has been steadily falling below the general college average ; and Psi Upsilon is no exception. Now this is not a sign of immortality. If it continues indefinitely it may be quite the reverse. So Psi U is confronted by a condition and not a theory. Something must be done about it. I ven ture to propose what I believe might be a partial solution at this Con ference. It was this�^Let the alumni of each chapter offer a series of three scholarship prizes to he awarded annually; one to the chapter as a whole if it improved its relative position, compared with other frater nities; another prize to the chapter if it lead all other fraternities in its college in scholarship ; and a third, personal, prize to the member of the chapter who won the highest rank in scholarship. "Here is something for the alumni to do.

"Personally, I believe that on this issue of scholarship depends, in great degree, the other question of the relation of the fraternity to the Univer sity. The solution of one will really settle the other. This will come about by getting human values in better focus. Let us have both scholars and gentlemen. There is no contradiction or conflict in these terms."

TOASTMASTER CORCORAN: I am sure we all regret very much that Dr. Mlason could not be here tonight. Brother Max is quite ill with a very severe cold and a very sore throat. His secretary told me that the doctor absolutely forbade his coming out this evening. We all know what a good Psi U he is, and I know personally how much he wanted to be here, and he asked that I express his personal regrets at his inability to be here. Before closing this banquet as the last formal occasion of the con vention, I am sure we would be very much remiss if we did not acknowledge our backward a very sincere debt of gratitude to very humble, brother. Brother Ernie Stevens, who has done so much to make this possible. The audience arose and applauded. TOASTMASTER CORCORAN: I don't believe he is in the room. He wants to stay in the background but I know that he has been very happy to do this. I know that this dinner has been put under his personal supervision and his generosity and interest are beyond my humbly telling you. the Shrine in the con I now suggest that we rise and sing Song closing vention. I ask our brothers of Iota to lead us, the good singers in our famous quartet. The audience arose and sang the Shrine Song. The meeting adjourned at eleven o'clock. A SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE OF $500.00

An Award Open to Every Chapter of Psi Upsilon By Herbert S. Houston

of the Executive Council

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR cash prize is offered to the chapter A of Psi Upsilon that makes the greatest advance in the scholarship standing of its members during the coming college year of 1938 and '39. An alumnus, who did not wish his name to be used, came to me after the convention banquet in Chicago, at which I had proposed that the alumni of each chapter should offer a series of scholarship awards, and authorized me to make this announcement through The Diamond. The conditions of the award will be carefully formulated by the Execu tive Council and sent to each chapter before the beginning of the next fall term, but they will be in accordance with the expressed wish of the generous donor who said this: "What I should like to see the award help in accomplishing is the gen eral improvement in scholarship of all the members in each chapter. Therefore I would ask the Executive Council to award the five hundred dollars to the chapter that shows the greatest progress, in the college year of '38 and '39, over the preceding year of '37 and '38, in the scholarship standing of its entire active membership." The donor also suggested that $350.00 of the prize should go to the chapter in cash and $350.00 to the purchase of books for the chapter li brary, a suggestion that the Council will undoubtedly be glad to see car ried out. I

While the award is made only for the coming college year, the donor said he felt reasonably sure that ways would be found for continuing it, if satisfactory results were secured. In order to help toward that end The Diamond will follow and report what each chapter is doing to win the prize, and it will join heartily, with the entire fraternity, in celebrating the victor.

This award may well be the beginning of better days for Psi U in scholarship. The letter written me by the donor was as follows : May 18, 1928. Dear Brother Houston:

Was it not a source of gratification to you to hear of the improvements In scholastic standing of so many of the chapters from the reports of the different undergraduates at the Convention last week?

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matter is one which is ^J.^*! very near to my heart. When I was in college, decades ago I was not one who could be very proud of his scholastic record ana it proved a handicap to me throughout my life.

I agree with Brother Spooner when he says that it is only vouchsafed for the tew to be at the top, but I can see no reason, save that of health, why any Fsl U should fail in a study or why he should be even "poor" in his work He IS presumably "looked over" very carefully by the active chapter before he is even pledged, and is hence of presumably sufficient mental caliber to carry the work laid out for him by his college. If this is not the case, the responsibility for his record lies upon those who chose him to wear the Psi U pin. Further more, he has been sent to college by some person or persons who have his sole interests at heart to so prepare himself that he may take his share of the burdens and responsibilities in after life, and is not "playing the game" in not fulfilling their wishes.

I have a that feeling every chapter could improve its general average. Many of them have Phi Beta Kappa men, but have also some whose marks tend to down the bring chapter average, others have a general tendency toward medio Both are crity. able to show great improvement in percentage of chapter if average they so desire. In order to encourage each chapter to do so I offer the for following prize the next school year, '28/29, but in so doing, I count upon you to keep the source of this offer in strictest confidence.

At the end of the school year in 1929 I will send you a check for five hun dred dollars ($500.00), to be banked in your personal account and your check in lieu to thereof be presented to that chapter which shows the greatest per of centage improvement in its scholastic standing for the coming year over that of the one just ending, provided however, that said chapter does not at that time one have member on its list who has had a failure during the year. In this event, i. e., of a failure, the prize is to go to the chapter with the next largest percentage of increase in general average but without a failure during the year. Said $500.00 to be spent as the winning chapter desires, but it would be my wish that it be used for some permanent addition to the chapter (enlargement of its library, e. g.) or to establish a fund for students who might need to borrow from it to enable them to continue their college courses, but not toward any of the expenses of the chapter.

Should we not have a slogan that "A Psi U does not fail?" Why does he go to college? Yours in the bonds. An Old Psi U.

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Name Class Name Class 1908 Atwood H. Townsend 1864 F. B. Judge '09 George Zabriskie '70 R. H. Oakley C. B. Zabriskie '78 Geo. A. Young '09 S. A. Eddy '80 Louis P. Sanger '09 S. M. Dix '81 J. O. Miller '11 G. H. Hazen '81 Andrew Ten Eyck '11 I. H. Brainerd '82 C. L. Von Bgloffstein '12 R. W. Higbie '82 W. A. Wurth '19 James Abbott '83 J. H. Esquirol '20 Chas. L. Bristol '83 H. L. Riddel '23 W. M. Kingsley '83 R. E. Bach '24 Clarence Thwing '84 J. J. Harding '25 F. M. Brown '86 F. L. Howley '25 Palmer Townsend '87 R. T. Lockhart '25 C. S. Benedict '90 J. M. McConnell '25 Wm. F. Groves '92 W. R. Miiller '25 '25 R. A. Frost '93 Norville V. Morse '25 H. W. Skerry '93 B. W. Wood '2fi Rev. P. B. Wightman '93 J. S. White J. V. Irwin '94 A. H. Winters '26 J. E. Ruston '94 H. E. Hellenbach '26 C. F. S. Whitney '96 Francis C. Leffler '26 B. G. Phillips '96 Gilbert BrinekerhofE '26 Louis L. Snyder '97 Horace A. BrinekerhofE '26 W. J. Thompkins '97 Henry Tobler, Jr '27 G. B. Townsend '97 Wm. Steinkampf '27 E. L. Garvin '97 Adolph Wulff '27 H. P. Foster '99 Fred Louis Stephans '27 C. V. Chllds 1900 Jean S. Bergman '28 T. L. Shear '00 Richard David Mallery '28 J. B. Van Vleck '00 David Hill Van Dyke '28 Wm. A. Young '01 Charles M. Rapolt '30 Ed. F. Rorke '01 Robert Holdane '30 C. R. Adams '04 Alfred W. Walmsley '30 E. S. Peck '04 Howard J. Ruch '30 R. Werrenrath '05 Richard W. Hart '30 William Holme '06 Chas. F. Harmon '30 E. S. Gorham '08 Curwen Stoddard '30

232 CHAPTER SCHOLARSHIP RECORDS the suggestion of the Executive Council, the Diamond will publish ATin the future all information received relative to the comparative standing of our chapters, scholastically. This will show the ranking of our chapters in their respective institutions, giving the comparison with the other fraternities located at the same college or university. Nearly every institution uses a different system of grading but the comparative standings are, of course, relative.

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Scholarship Cup 192fi-1927

Managers 78.5 Second Assistant Managers. .. .74.23 Non-Fraternity Seniors 77.73 Total College Men 73.84 Class Officers 77.08 Total Juniors 73.71 Theta Delta Chi 77.03 Assistant Managers 73.64 Troubadours 76.92 Varsity Baseball 73.49 Total Seniors 76.82 Freshman Track 73.47 Ragpickers 76.64 *Total Fraternity Men 73.23 Fraternity Seniors 76.17 Varsity Track 73.19 Campus Staff 75.97 Total Sophomores 73.19 Y. M. C. A 75.84 Beta Delta Gamma 72.87 Varsity Basketball 75.74 Sigma Delta Epsilon 72.774 Interpress Staff 75.59 Psi Upsilon 72.7729 Glee Club 75.53 Theta Chi 72.7676 Dramatics 75.28 Fraternity Juniors 72.72 Non-Fraternity Sophomores 75.05 Fraternity Freshmen 72.46 Non-Fraternity Juniors 74.73 Freshman Basketball 72.44 Student Officers 74.72 Total Freshmen 72.4 Delta Upsilon 74.71 Non-Fraternity Freshmen 72.35 Alpha Delta Phi 74.64 Fraternity Sophomores 72.08 *Total Non-Fraternity Men 74.56 Delta Kappa Epsilon 71.35 Freshmen Football 74.45 Freshman iBaseball 71.00 Mountebanks 74.32 Varsity Football 70.79

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Table showing the Scholastic Standing of the Active Members and Pledges of Fraternities for the First Semester 1927-1928.

ACTIVES Sigma Phi 1.384 8 Ave. Rank Phi Beta Delta 1.'381 9 Alpha Gamma Rho 1.657 1 Triangle 1.361 10 Alpha Kappa Lambda 1.555 2 Pi Lambda Phi 1.359 11 Chi Phi 1.461 3 Delta Upsilon 1.341 12 Alpha Epsilon Pi 1.457 4 Delta Tau Delta 1.335 13 Phi Kappa Psi 1.415 5 Phi Delta Theta 1.331 14 Alpha Delta Phi 1.406 6 Sigma Pi 1.327 15 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1.389 7 Phi Sigma Delta 1.302 16 233 234 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

Delta Sigma Phi 1.290 17 Chi Psi 1.067 35 Sigma Phi Sigma 1.270 18 Phi Epsilon Pi 1.037 36 Phi Kappa Sigma 1.263 19 Zeta Beta Tau 1.022 37 Kappa Sigma 1.257 20 iPsi Upsilon 1.007 38 Theta Chi .1.232 21 /Acacia 1.003 39 Alpha Chi Rho 1.228 22 Phi Kappa Tau 1.000 40 Alpha Tau Omega 1.208 23 Delta Sigma Tau 979 41 Sigma Phi Epsilon 1.181 24 Theta Delta Chi 977 42 Delta Pi Epsilon 1.179 25 Lambda Chi Alpha 974 43 Beta Kappa 1.169 26 Beta Theta Pi 911 44 Pi Kappa Alpha 1.160 27 Sigma Chi 891 45 Phi Gamma Delta 1.153 28 Beta Phi Theta 867 46 Delta Chi 1.151 29 Alpha Sigma Phi 840 47 Theta Xi 1.093 30 Phi PI Phi 805 48 Sigma Nu 1.091 31 Delta Kappa Epsilon 736 49 Phi Sigma Kappa 1.087 32 Phi Kappa 732 50 Zeta Psi 1.085 33 Tau Kappa Epsilon 1.079 34 All Actives 1.168

PLEDGES

Ave. Rank Delta Kappa Epsilon 831 26 Alpha Kappa Lambda 1.937 1 Delta Sigma Tau 816 27 Phi Epsilon Pi 1.746 2 Sigma Phi Sigma 771 28 Sigma Phi 1.746 3 Delta Sigma Phi 764 29 Pi Lambda Phi 1.694 4 Delta Upsilon 742 30 Phi Kappa Psi 1.319 5 Sigma Nu 731 31 Phi Sigma Delta 1.260 6 Kappa Sigma 724 32 Alpha Chi Rho 1.207 7 Acacia 699 33 Triangle 1.148 8 Tau Kappa Epsilon 652 34 Lambda Chi Alpha 1.109 9 Delta Pi Epsilon 649 35 Alpha Delta Phi 1.100 10 Beta Kappa 643 36 Alpha Gamma Rho 1.096 11 Phi Sigma Kappa 640 37 Beta Theta Pi 1.087 12 Phi PI Phi 619 38 Phi Kappa Sigma 1.071 13 Theta Chi 616 39 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 1.066 14 Pi Kappa Alpha 574 40 Zeta Psi 1.050 15 Psi Upsilon 542 41 Phi Gamma Delta 1.034 16 Phi Kappa Tau 531 42 Theta Xi 1.000 17 Alpha Epsilon Pi 522 43 Alpha Sigma Phi 995 18 Sigma Chi 488 44 Chi Phi 965 19 Delta Tau Delta 473 45 Phi Delta Theta 954 20 Beta Phi Theta 400 46 Chi Psi 943 21 Phi Beta Delta 385 47 Zeta Beta Tau 933 22 Phi Kappa 358 48 Sigma Pi 928 23 Theta Delta Chi 305 49 Alpha Tau Omega 924 24 Delta Chi 283 50 Sigma Phi Epsilon 889 25 All Pledges 862 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

RECORD OF THE UNDERGRADUATE FRATERNITIES

Winter Quarter, 1928 Mem- Grade Pts. per. Maj. bers Pledges Pledges Rank Fraternity Grade Members Pledges All Graded Graded Eligible 1. Tau Sigma Omicron.. B� 3.418 3.142 3.365 12 2 2 2. Acacia B� 3.295 2.400 3.129 8 2 1 3. Pi Lambda Phi B� 3.269 2.000 3.031 18 4 1 4. Delta Chi B� 3.025 2.976 3.008 15 8 4 5. Chi Psi C 3.120 2.222 2.983 18 3 1 6. Zeta Tau Beta C 2.982 2.444 2.930 29 3 1 7. Delta Upsilon C 3.025 2.666 2.922 21 8 5 8. Tau Kappa Epsilon.. C 3.224 2.000 2.891 27 10 5 9. Lambda Chi Alpha... C 2.936 2.444 2.857 17 3 3 10. Alpha Delta Phi C 2.916 2.000 2.846 24 2 1 11. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. C 3.151 1.333 2.830 19 4 1 12. Phi Beta Delta C 2.807 2.857 2.823 13 7 5 13. Delta Kappa Epsilon. C 2.815 2.666 2.804 26 2 1 14. Psi Upsilon C 2.779 2.333 2.755 37 2 2 15. Phi Gamma Delta... C 2.821 2.117 2.688 25 7 3 16. Phi Delta Theta C 2.686 2.681 2.685 21 4 3 17. Tau Delta Pi C 2.787 0.000 2.683 26 1 0 18. Beta Theta Pi C 2.625 3.000 2.673 27 4 2 19. Alpha Epsilon Pi C 2.571 3.333 2.637 13 1 1 20. Delta Sigma Phi C 2.602 2.727 2.626 15 4 3 21. Phi Kappa Sigma.... C 2.652 2.444 2.606 16 5 3 22. Phi Pi Phi C 2.852 1.500 2.557 20 5 1 23. Sigma Nu C 2.783 L852 2.490 13 6 3 24. Phi Sigma Delta C 2.595 1.833 2.473 22 4 1 25. Delta Tau Delta C 2.583 �2.000 2.435 11 1 0 26. Alpha Tau Omega C 2.688 1.918 2.377 19 13 3 27. Phi Kappa Psi C 2.453 1.777 2.341 10 6 1 28. Sigma Chi C 2.647 0.842 2.252 12 4 2 29. Kappa Sigma C 2.464 1.692 2.237 23 9 3 30. Alpha Sigma Phi C 2.266 1.333 2.197 14 1 0 31. Kappa Nu C 2.388 1.200 2.030 12 6 1 32. Alpha Phi Alpha C� 2.812 1.200 1.916 3 4 1

Note�The scale of grades is A, B, C, D, and F, with corresponding grade points�6, 4, 2, 0, and �2.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA August to December, 1927

standing of each organization are grouped alphabetically in their THEis based on the average grade point respective classes balance of its members. With the ex SHOWS REAL STANDING ception of the first group, in which The table is divided into four groups. the organizations are arranged accord Group 1 includes those fraternities ing to relative standing, fraternities having an average of 6 grade poiuts 236 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon or above per man; group 2 an aver fraternity varies it will be reflected age of from 4 to 6 per man; group 3, by the change from one group to an those from 2 to 4 grade points per other, and will not be dependent, as man, and group 4, those from a in the past, on the scholarship of the straight "C" average to 2. The re other fraternities." maining organizations are below a Delta Upsilon received the highest "C" average. scholarship rating, placing first in "This new system applies only to group 1. Timbran and Kappa Delta members of the Interfraternity Coun Rho placed second and third consecu cil, and is for the purpose of showing tively. the real standing of each group," said The rating of the members of the Dean Hyde. "If the scholarship of a Interfraternity Council is as follows:

I ^ S > ^ a o Q o d .� ^ * -3 Name

Upsilon ... 33 5 5 0 Theta Alpha.... 13 0 4 0

2. Timbran ... 10 2 2 1 Theta Upsilon 3. *Kappa Omega 22 3 9 0 Delta Rho. 17 4 3 1 Theta Chi 18 2 6 0 GROUP II. GROUP IV.

Alpha Chi Rho. 22 2 3 0 Abracadabra ... 24 0 10 2 Alpha Kappa Alpha Delta Lambda 25 4 5 0 Phi 21 0 8 1 Chi Psi 17 2 7 0 Del Rey 18 1 4 2 Delta Chi 15 1 3 1 Delta Sigma Kappa Nu 16 2 2 0 Lambda 26 0 10 0 Phi Beta Delta. 12 3 5 0 Delta Sigma Pi Alpha Phi 22 0 7 1 Epsilon 16 3 5 0 Delta Tau Delta 26 0 9 1 Pi Kappa Alpha 20 3 5 0 Lambda Chi Tau' Kappa Alpha 25 2 9 3 Epsilon 26 2 4 1 Phi Kappa Psi.. 23 0 11 0 Zeta Beta Tau. 24 7 5 1 Phi Kappa GROUP III. Sigma 16 2 4 1 Achaean 29 4 9 3 *Phi Mu Delta.. 24 2 6 1 *Alpha Gamma *PI Kappa Phi. 23 0 11 0 Rho 14 0 5 0 Sigma Chi 25 2 6 1 Alpha Sigma Theta Delta Chi 20 1 8 2 Phi 26 2 7 0 Theta Xi 21 1 7 1 Alpha Tau Zeta Psi 24 1 7 1 Omega 18 0 8 1 BELOW "C" AVERAGE

*Beta Kappa. . . 18 2 7 0 Chi Tau 9 0 6 0 Beta Theta PI.. 17 0 3 0 Delta Kappa Phi Delta Theta 22 1 6 0 Epsilon 17 2 8 1

Phi Phi . Pi 27 4 6 1 Kappa Alpha. . 19 2 9 1 Sigma Alpha Kappa Sigma... 28 1 17 1 Epsilon 20 1 6 0 Psi Upsilon 16 0 6 0 Sigma Phi 16 1 1 Sigma Nu 22 0 9 0 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 237

*Fraternities which have petitioned Breck Moran, '28, president of the for membership In the Council but council. have not been admitted. The table is divided into four In the rating of the members of groups. Group one includes those ASthe fraternities, the standing of having an average of -f6 grade points the organization is based on the aver or above; group two, those with an age grade point balance of its average of -f4 to -f-6; group three, pledges. "We hope in this manner to from -(-2 to -|-4; and group four, those improve the scholarship of the from a straight "C" average to -|-2. pledges by having the fraternities The remaining organizations are be realize its significance," explained low a "C" average.

Eligible Pledges Numbered The first group is arranged accord fraternity Council scholarship ruling; ing to relative standing, and in the In the third, those whose individual remaining groups the fraternities are averages were "B" or above; in the placed alphabetically. The figures fol fourth, those below are "C" average. lowing the name of the organization The following ia the pledges scho in the first column indicate the num lastic rating of the members of the ber eligible for Initiation by the Inter- Interfraternity Council :

a (U o o o II o r�< �H

Kappa Sigma. . . 7 7 0 4 Alpha Sigma Phi 4 4 Phi Delta Theta 9 9 2 4 II. GROUP Phi Kappa Psi. 9 8 0 6 6 1 2 Delta Upsilon... 6 Phi Kappa 1 2 Kappa Nu 6 6 Sigma 9 8 0 3 2 2 Theta Chi 6 4 Tau Kappa 4 0 0 Timbran 4 Epsilon 9 8 0 4 GROUP III. Theta Alpha 9 8 0 3

.. 7 1 4 Alpha Delta Phi 7 6 0 2 Zeta Beta Tau 7 Chi Tau 10 8 2 5 Zeta Psi 8 6 1 4 Delta Kappa BELOW "C" AVERAGE 3 3 0 1 Epsilon Abracadabra ... 4 4 0 3 3 0 1 Phi Pi Phi 3 Alpha Chi Rho. 6 4 0 4 0 4 Pi Alpha Epsilon 8 6 Alpha Tau Sigma Alpha Omega 10 8 0 7 5 0 3 Epsilon 6 *Beta Kappa.... 11 8 0 5 5 2 2 Sigma Nu 6 Beta Theta PI.. 11 8 0 6 GROUP IV. Chi Psi 8 7 0 5 9 7 1 4 Achaean 4 3 1 3 Delta Chi ?Alpha Gamma Delta Sigma A 2 Rho 9 7 1 Lambda Alpha Kappa Delta Sigma 1 Lambda 8 7 0 2 Phi 238 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

Delta Tau Sigma Chi 9 7 0 6 Delta 8 7 Sigma Phi 4 4 0 2

.. 7 5 Kappa Alpha. Sigma Phi Delta *Kappa Epsilon 15 12 0 10 Rho 12 10 Theta Delta Lambda Chi Chi 7 6 0 7 Alpha 5 5 Phi Beta Delta. 2 2 Theta Upsilon *Phi Mu Delta.. 9 Omega 4 3 0 3 PI Kappa Theta Xi 9 6 0 6 Alpha 10 ?Fraternities which have petitioned *Pi Kappa Phi.. 3 for membership but have not yet been Psi Upsilon 5 admitted.

OMICRON ALUM'Nl OF UNKNOWN ADDRESS

L. J. Dyckes '07 Crane S. Bruner '15 L. H.Bremer '11 Dr. G. W. Haan, Jr '16 Gerald C. Smith.... '13 W. L. Doremus, Jr '17 Harry 0. Bock '13 Henry W. lineen '18 Elmer B. Shinn '13 Robt. S. Emery '20 Milton 0. Jensen '15 L. H. Buckingham '23 Dr. Robt. L. Lowry '15 Kindly send all information concerning above to Board of Editors.

EXPULSION NOTICE

The Ej)silon Chapter announces the expulsion of Silas Burr Prime, Class of 1928. iwm~w^

W. B. Poynter Lawkence Maxwell, Phi

(See page 246)

IN MEMORIAM

Edwaed A. Bkadford, Beta '73 DWARD A. BRADFORD, seventy-seven, editorial writer on "The � E New York Tribune," died of heart disease at his home at Montague Gardens, Brooklyn, May 4, 1928. "Mr. Bradford was born in New York. He attended Yale, where he founded "The Yale Record." After being graduated in 1873 he obtained a as position reporter on "The Times," and served that newspaper in various more than capacities for fifty years. He was legislative correspon dent at Albany, financial editor and editorial writer. He also was cor of respondent "The London Standard" for twenty-five years, and occasion ally contributed to magazines. He was the inventor of a turnstile, which was used on the "L" roads in Brooklyn. In 1890 he married Miss Susan C. Packer, of Brooklyn. She died eight years ago and two years ago Mr. Bradford married Mrs. Edith Myers, daughter of John Turner, long a resident of Providence, R. I. Mr. Bradford was a direct decendent of Governor Bradford, of Ply mouth. He was the son of George Partridge and Engelina S. Oakes Bradford. His wife stirvives him."

Jay Frank Chappell, Omega '20 FRANK CHAPPELL, thirty, head of the insurance firm bearing JAYhis name, died suddenly May 9th at Asheville, North Carolina. Death was due to pneumonia. He was taken ill while motoring in the south. He was active in the insurance business in Chicago. During the war he was a lieutenant in naval aviation. His wife and four children survive him.

Eael W. De Moe, Rho '92 W. DE MOE, fifty-seven, head of the claim department. Benefit EARLAssociation of Railway Employees, died at his home in Evanston, 111., last January. He received his B. L. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1892, and his L. L. B. degree in 1897.

Chauncey M. Depew, Beta '56 M. DEPEW, chairman of the board of directors of the CHAUNCEYNew York Central Railroad, a director of many others and one of Psi Upsilon's most prominent sons, died on April 5, 1928, at his home in New York City at the age of 93. 239 240 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

The following article appeared in the New York Times, April 6, 1928 : then a vil "Mr. Depew was born on April 33, 1834, in Peekskill, N. Y., lage of about 2,000 inhabitants, nearly all of Revolutionary families. His father, Isaac Depew, who was descended from the French Huguenots who came to America in the seventeenth century, was a merchant, farmer Peekskill and New York and a pioneer in river transportation between 'City. His mother, Martha Mitchell Depew, who had literary tastes, was a descendant of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence. The house in which Chauncey was born had been the Depew homestead for more than 200 years. Church at "Chauncey grew up in a religious and literary atmosphere. of 5 tendance was unanimous by young and old. At the age Chauncey a was sent to a school kept by the pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Greek man of letters, who aroused in the boy an interest in Latin literature and culture which remained with him throughout his life. Later he attended the Peekskill Academy, where he was fitted for college. His oratorical talent showed itself even in school days and his name appears of the as the orator on old programs for the graduation exercises academy of the day. "He entered Yale College in 1852 and was graduated in 1856. Greek and Latin, the English classics and mathematics were his principal studies. At that time the chief extra-curriculum activities were the meetings of the literary societies, which held weekly debates on current questions. Depew participated vigorously in these debates and won a reputation as a debater. In the commencement exercises in 1856 he made a hit with an address was sat on 'The Hudson River and Its Traditions,' a subject in which he urated from his reading of Revolutionary history and the works of Wash ington Irving, and on which he rang many changes both in public addresses and private conversations in later life. He said in later years that he gained great benefit from the advice of a Yale professor in elocution, who told him: "The principal thing about oratory is to use your diaphragm instead of your throat.' At "Young Depew was an omnivorous reader both in and out of coUege. home his mother instilled in him a love of the English classics and he was particularly fond of Scott, Dickens and Thackery. "An uncle, the village postmaster, let him read the high-class maga zines and foreign reviews which passed through the postoffice. Mr. Depew he said in later years that the knowledge of current literature and politics gained from such reading had been of infinite value to him. "After returning home from college he studied law for two years in the * * * office of a Peekskill lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in 1858. "In 1858 Mr. Depew was elected delegate to the Republican State Con vention at Syracuse from the Third Assembly District of Westchester The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 241

County. Three years later he was elected to the Assembly, spending only $100 for expenses in a personal canvass of the district with speeches every day. He was re-elected to the Assembly in 1862, although popular unrest because of Union defeats at the beginning of the Civil War lost the Governorship to the Republicans and reduced their majority in the Assembly to a tie. Mr. Depew was nominated by the Republican caucus as the party candidate for Speaker of the Assembly. He was ambitious for this honor and could have had it through the promise of two Demo crats to vote for him. But he gave it up for a trade with the Democrats by which a Democrat became Speaker, and the Senate and Assembly in joint session elected Edwin D. Morgan, Republican, as United States Senator. This sacrifice for the sake of sending a Republican to Wash ington to support President Lincoln's Administration gained Mr. Depew a national reputation and the lasting gratitude of his party. "Mr. Depew became Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Republican leader of the Assembly. He was also Acting Speaker for part of the session. Mr. Depew was elected Secretary of State of New York in 1863, after speaking seven hours a day for four weeks in a campaign covering the entire State. "At the end of his term of office, which expired in 1865, Mr. Depew decided to give up public life and return to his law practice, on the ground that politics was an uncertain career which unfitted a young man for ordinary pursuits. Two incidents compelled him to make an immediate choice between a public and private career. The first was his appointment as United States Minister to Japan at a salary of $7,500 a Vanderbilt 3'^ear. While he was hesitating whether to accept, Commodore sent for him and offered him the job of attorney for the New York & Har lem Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad, Vanderbilt's first ventures in railroading, at a salary far less than the salary as Minister. Mr. Depew spoke of his appointment to Commodore Vanderbilt, who replied: " 'Railroads are the career for a young man; there is nothing in politics. Don't be a damned fool.' "That decided Mr. Depew, who declined the appointment as Minister, and entered the service of the railroad on Jan. 1, 1866. "Mr. Depew remained with the Vanderbilt system for the rest of his life. Behind the immediate reasons for his acceptance of Commodore Vanderbilt's offer Mr. Depew believed that his hereditary interest in transportation was responsibile for his decision. Before the railroads in the and then the came his family had been heavily interested sloops steamboats that plied between New York City and Peekskill-on-the-Hud- had with two son, a distance of forty miles. Young Depew grown up dreams�one to become a United States Senator and the other to become President of the Hudson River Railroad. He realized both ambi tions. * ** 242 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

"When Depew entered the railroad service, the Vanderbilt system con sisted of the Hudson River Railroad, 140 miles long and ending at Albany, and the Harlem Railroad, 128 miles long and ending at Chatham, and the total mileage of the United States was 36,000. Today, the Vanderbilt system covers more than 20,000 miles, and there are about 300,000 miles of track in the U|nited States. In his railroad career, therefore, Depew lived through the golden era of development and expansion of American rail ways, and saw one new method of transportation after another, by air, land and sea, come to amaze the people as much or more than did the early locomotives of his youth. He also lived through the great change from an agricultural to an industrial civilization in the United States, seeing small cities, tiny villages and vast unsettled areas give way to big cities, factories and modern business.

"Mr. Depew was very proud of his record of having served more than half a century with one railroad company. He acted as Commodore Van derbilt's legal adviser in the expansions and consolidations which built up the great New York Central system, and became general counsel to that system. In 1874, several years after the Vanderbilt system had been extended to Chicago by the purchase of the New York Central Railroad, running from Albany to Chicago, Mr. Depew became a director of the New York Central. Three years later he became a director of the Chicago & Northwestern, affiliation with which extended the Vanderbilt system to the Mississippi. "He became Second Vice-President of all the Vanderbilt roads merged into the New York Central in 1882. A year later Commodore Vanderbilt resigned the Presidency because of illness. James H. Rutter succeeded him, but Depew acted for him during his two years' service. On Rutter's death, in 1885, Mr. Depew was elected President.

"During his Presidency Mr. Depew effected the merger between the New York Central and the West Shore Railroad, which became absorbed by the Central after the West Shore made an unsuccessful attempt to take away the Central's business by a rate war. Mr. Depew was Presi dent of both roads for several years. Mr. Depew's career as a railroad President was particularly notable for his efforts to make the Central popular with the public and to maintain friendly terms with the em ployes of the road. He instituted the policy, against the advice of his associates, of keeping his door open to any individual or committee of employes who had a complaint or a grievance. The result was that while the labor question was acute elsewhere there was only one strike on the Central while he was President, and that was while he was in Europe for a rest and was caused by the Knights of Labor controversy within the ranks of union labor. Mr. Depew also kept his door open The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 243 at all times to i;he public and to the press and never had any trouble in presenting his side of public issues. * * * "After thirteen years as President, Mr. Depew was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors, a position which he held until his death. De spite the fact that he had renounced politics as a career when he took his Job with the railroad, Mr. Depew returned to public life from time to time as a sort of side line in his later career, but never devoted his whole time of it. He was defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican ticket in 1872. He became Regent of the Uni versity of the State of New York in 1877 and served until 1904. "In 1885 Mr. Depew declined election as United States Senator. That was the year in which he became President of the New York Central. The New York delegation of the Republican National Convention in 1888 unaninaously nominated him as New York's candidate for President, and he received ninety-nine votes from the convention. He withdrew from the race because of the hostility shown by delegates from the Western States against anybody connected with railroads. "Mr. Depew was a delegate to every Republican National Convention from 1888 to 1924, when illness kept him away from Cleveland. He placed Benjamin Harrison in nomination for the Presidency in 1888, and later refused appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's Cabinet. * * * "Mr. Depew served two terms as United States Senator, from 1899 to 1911. At the end of this period he asserted that his twelve years in the Senate had been among the happiest years of his life. He was at tacked in the Senate once as a representative of the railroads and other big corporations, but fear of his ready humor and ridicule kept him free from further attacks. One of his unofficial acts while Senator was to address the Gridiron Club, the organization of Washington newspaper ** correspondents, at its first dinner. * "Mr. Depew could tell a story in such an amusing way as to win the attention of the most restless audience. He was always in demand for

� in and at ban a speech at Republican conventions, political campaigns, quets and other public events. He probably made more and better speeches during the half century in which he was in his prime than any other American orator. A collection of his public addresses fills eight * * * volumes, published in a de luxe edition several years ago. Mr. shone most "It was as an after-dinner speaker that Depew brightly after his active days in politics were over. No New York dinner or wit and fund of Yale reunion was complete without his scintillating of cele anecdotes. For about thirty years the Montauk Club Brooklyn was the brated his birthday with an annual dinner at which Mr. Depew guest of honor and the principal speaker. 244 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

"During the past four years, however, on his physician's instructions, he attended few dinners, and his ninetieth birthday found him too ill to deliver an address before the Montauk Club. He made his first ad dress over the radio shortly after he passed his ninety-first birthday. On his ninety-second birthday he said he expected to live to be 100, when he would 'take up golf.' On his ninety-third birthday he gave reporters an interview in spite of his physician and in spite even of the Watchful * ** ness of Mrs. Depew.

"At the time of his death Mr. Depew Was a director not only of the New York Central and West Shore Railroads, but many other companies including the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Chicago & North western Railroad Company, Canada Southern Railway Company; Cleve land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company; Canada South- em Bridge Company; Delaware & Hudson Company, Hudson River Bridge Company, the Kensico Cemetery, Michigan Central Railroad Com pany, New Jersey Junction Railroad Company, New York & Harlem Railroad Company, New York State Realty & Ternainal Company, Niagara River Bridge Company, St. Lawrence & Adirondack Railway Company and Walkill VaUey Railroad Company. "Mr. Depew married twice. His first wife was Elise Hegeman, whom he married in 1871, and by whom he had one son, Chauncey M. Depew, Jr. She died in 1898. His second wife was May Palmer, whom he married in 1901. His home was at 27 West Fifty-fourth Street and his office at 466 Lexington Avenue.

"Mr. Depew was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati and an officer of the French Legion of Honor."

Rev. Edwaed C. Fellowes, Beta '88. EDWARD FELLOWES, retired Congregational minister, died REV.at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 24, 1928. For a number of years he was engaged in literary work. He was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1864. He was a graduate of Yale, class of '88, and was a member of Scroll and Key, and identified with the Yale Lit erary Magazine. He was graduated from Yale divinity school in 1891. His pastorates included churches at New Bedford, Derby, Conn., Bellows Falls, Vt., and also preached in Cambridge, Mass. He also had been con nected with the Federation of Churches with headquarters at Buffalo. He is survived by a widow, a son, Capt. Edward A. Fellowes of the Philadel phia Marine barracks, and a daughter, Mrs. Norman H. White, Jr., of Gloucester. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 245

Colonel Moses M. Geeenwood, Sr., Beta '58. MOSES M. GREENWOOD, Se., ninety-four, died at the COLONELhome of his daughter, Mrs. A. D. R. Hancher, of Richmond, Va., on April 24, 1928. "He was graduated from Yale in 1858 or two years after the graduation from that institution of the late Chauncey M. Depew, and was said to be next to the oldest living graduate of Yale. He was a friend and fraternity brother of Mr. Depew. Colonel Greenwood was a confidant of the late Jefferson Davis, presi dent of the Confederacy, and during the war between the states, while a resident of New Orleans, he was entrusted with the preservation of the phosphorous and salt deposits of the South, so essential for the muni tions department of the Confederacy. iHe was bom in Hubardston, Mass., and before entering Yale College, he went to a preparatory school in Lester, Mass., and it was there that he and a friend toUed a bell when Daniel Webster died. He afterwards resided in New Orleans, from whence he went to high school in Massa chusetts and later to Yale.

While at Yale he was assistant librarian at the college, and in 1857-58 he was identified with the water sports there, having been a member of the freshman crew in 1855. During his day at Yale, Colonel Green wood found the Harvard regattas as popular as they are today. He said bas in late years that he did not remember any intercollegiate football, the students ketball or even tennis, although tennis was played among at Yale.

a rather dia He was the proud possessor of his Psi Upsilon pin, large mond-shaped, gold pin, the face of which is black enamel. It bears the Greek letters, Psi and Upsilon, and two clasped hands. On the back name and is engraved "Beta," which was the name of the chapter, his "Class of '58." He lost this pin on the streets of New Orleans, and years a Psi on a later some one in Minneapolis noticed Upsilon pin traveling Greenwood's name astronomer, and, after looking at it, discovered Colonel on the back and returned it to him. For Me married Miss Mary Mulford Whitelsey, of New Haven, Conn. where he was a member of the a number of years he resided in St. Louis, Yale Alumni chapter. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. A. D. R. Hancher, of Richmond, Moses and Miss Jennie Greenwood, of St. Louis; and three sons. Colonel Charles Greenwood, Jr., and Walter Greenwood, both of New York, and W. Greenwood, of Little Rock, Ark." 246 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

James Waeeington Lyons, Jr., Rho '25 WARRINGTO NL-YONS, JR., of the class of 1925 at the JAMESUniversity of Wisconsin, a member of the Rho Chapter of Psi Upsi lon, was suddenly killed by an explosion at the Refinery of The Pure Oil Company, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on April 28th, 1928. fHe had been sent to Muskogee as a representative of the engineering staff of the Pure Oil Company and at the time he was killed was wit nessing an experiment on an oil still which exploded, resulting in the death of five men. A short time before his death Brother Lyons had been appointed As sistant Chief Engineer of The Pure Oil Co., an important and responsible position which was a signal recognition of his ability by the company with whom he had been connected but a few months before his death. Previous to his association with the Pure Oil Co., Brother Lyons, or "Jimmy," as he was affectionately known by his classmates and frater nity brothers was in the sales department of the AUis-Chalmers Manu facturing Company's office at Chicago. He was born in Chicago, on October 19th, 1902, and graduated at Oak Park High School, in 1921. At the time he was at The University of Wisconsin, Brother Lyons was on the varsity swimming team, and as a member of the committee on refurnishing the Rho Chapter House was largely responsible for the great improvement which was made in the house furnishings. "Jimmy" possessed a happy, cheerful disposition and typified the finer type of young manhood. Although his span of life was short, he had given a good account of himself in all lines of endeavor, and his untimely passing wiU be de plored by those whose privilege it was to have known him. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Lyons, of Chicago, and brother of the wife of Samuel C. Vail of Rho, 1916.

Laweenge Maxwell, Phi, '74.

MAXWELL, one of Cincinnati's foremost attorneys, LAWRENCEand noted patron of the Arts, died February 18, 1927, at his residence, Edgecliff road. Walnut Hills, after an illness of several days, at the age of 74.

He was always a very loyal supporter of the Phi and did a great deal for the chapter. "He was a man of high attainments that embodied all of the romance and culture that are associated with the profession of law. He was one of the foremost attorneys in the country and became so prominently as- The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 247 sociated with cases involving vital constitutional and legal questions that interest in his appearance often overshadowed the issues at bar. "He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 4, 1853, during a visit of his mother, Alison Crawford Maxwell, to her native country, and was brought to Cincinnati when he was an infant. "He attended the public schools in Cincinnati and was graduated from Woodward High School, after which he entered the University of Michi gan, Ann Arbor. Graduated from the University of Michigan in 1874, he returned to Cincinnati, where he took up the study of law in the office of Stanley Matthews, later Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and in the Cincinnati Law School. He received his degree from the Law School in 1875. Other degrees included the honorary degree of Master of Arts fromi the University of Michigan in 1893 and of Doctor of Laws in 1904. A few months after having been admitted to the bar, he became associated with the firm of King, Thompson & Longworth. When Nicholas Longworth, father of the present Congressman, was elected to the Common Pleas bench the firm became King, Thompson & Max well. Later he withdrew from the firm and became associated with Wil liam H. Ramsey, who had been a partner of Justice Matthews. "His practice soon became so great that he had no time to devote to politics, although he served as Solicitor General during the second Ad ministration of President Grover Cleveland. He was Chairman of the commission which in 1911 revised the equity rules of the Uuited States Supreme Court. "During his career he acted as Professor of Law at the Cincinnati Law School from 1896 to 1912; non-resident lecturer. Law Department, University of Michigan, from 1909 to 1916; President of the Cincinnati Alumni Association, University of Michigan; President of the Cincin-. nati Musical Festival Association, and Chairman of the section of legal education of the American Bar Association. He was a member and had been President of the Queen City Club, was a member of the Univer sity Club, New York; the Metropolitan Club, Washington, and belonged to similar clubs in other cities of the country. "In 1893 President Cleveland offered him the office of Solicitor Gen eral of the United States, which he is said to have accepted on condition matters and that he would be relieved of any participation in political of having nothing to do with political appointments. During the term was called on to defend his office as Solicitor General the Government tax law enacted in the Supreme Court the constitutionality of the income by Congress in 1893. of the "It is reported that President Cleveland, after the enactment of the law from law, obtained separate opinions on the constitutionality 248 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

Attorney-General Olney and from him as Solicitor General. Mr. Olney expressed his opinion that the law was a valid one, while he stated de cisively that he considered it unconstitutional. This disagreement is said to have resulted in him offering his resignation to the President, which was accepted with reluctance.

"The Supreme Court, in Pollock vs. Farmers Loan and Trust Company, decided, in accordance with his views, that the law was unconstitutional, with the result that an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, many years later, first enabled Congress to levy income taxes.

"Among other litigation of public interest in which he was counsel was the controversy between Taylor and Beckham in the Courts of Kentucky and the Supreme Court of the United States, growing out of the election contest for the Governorship of Kentucky, at the election of 1899, and the subsequent prosecution of Caleb Powers and other Republican office holders for the murder of Governor Goebel.

"In the latter case he appeared as counsel, especially employed by the State of Kentucky in the Supreme Court, which decided that the case of Powers for the crime of having been an accessory before the fact to the murder of William Goebel, could not be removed from the Jurisdiction of the Kentucky Courts into the Federal Court. "His connection with the Cincinnati May Musical Festivals dated back to 1873, the year of the first festival, when he was one of a committee of 70 citizens who invited Theodore Thomas to bring his Chicago orchestra to Cincinnati for the purpose of carrying out a plan for permanent festi vals which already had been arranged by a committee of which George Ward Nichols was President; John Shillito, Treasurer, and Bellamy Storer, Secretary. "During the life of Theodore Thomas, and later, when the festivals were held under the direction of Mr. Van der Stucken, Edgar Elgar, Ysaye, and other directors, he always co-operated in the making up of the pro grams and gave his personal attention to the selection of soloists and making of contracts with them. For many years he made special trips to Europe or important musical centers in this country for the purpose of Judging of the capacity of the popular soloists by hearing them. "His interest in the development of good music in the public schools of Cincinnati was continuous for many years. As far back as 1894 it is reported that he conceived the ambition of having hundreds of school children in Cincinnati carrying the music books of the finest choral works from home to the public schools. This ambition was realized in the fes tival of 1914, and again on a larger scale in 1923., when the Bach D minor Mass was sung by a chorus of more than 600 school children� The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 249 the latter performance probably being the greatest in the history of that work. He married Clara Barry Darrow, of Ann Arbor, Mich., in December, 1876, and has two children : Mrs. Joseph S. Graydon and Mrs. W. Horace Schmidlapp."

Ohaeles E. Shepaed, Beta '70. E. SHEPARD, eighty, attorney of Seattle for 36 years, CHARLESand known for his literary attainments, died at the home of his brother-in-law. Former Mayor C. Herbert Moore, W207 Eighth avenue, April 1, 1928, of paralysis. Bom in Danville, N. Y., March 21, 1848, he was graduated from Yale, class of 1870. After 10 years of practice in Milwaukee, Wis., he went to Se attle and was active in his profession until last August, when his health be gan to fail. In the pleasant environment of the Moore home he proceeded with his pen, soine of his writing, done with almost copperplate precision, having been advanced within a few hours of his passing. Besides his widow here, Alice G., who is a sister of Mrs. Moore, Mr. Shepard is survived by a sister. Miss Mary Shepard, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He was closely identified with the American Bar Association, in recent he was chairman of the uni years as a western trustee. For many years form law commission, which functions with the American Bar Association was a law lec committee in many states. While practicing in Seattle he turer in the Ujniversity of Washington. He was, for 20 years, a chan cellor of the diocese of the Episcopal church at Olympia. Neale & Co. Three weeks ago he released the final proofs to Walter and now in New York, on a book they were publishing for him, probably and Other of a the press, called "Found in Bagdad Divigations Lawyer," and at the time of his death he was working on a life of Sir Edward Coke, great English barrister. He attended all of his Yale class reunions every year until three years an art critic and a collector. ago. He was also

Chaeles a. Waeeen, Phi '74. A. WARREN died at his home in Chicago, 111., on April 6, CHARLES1928, at the age of 75. He retired from his general practice of law about six years ago. He an ardent and Psi U. was well-known in Chicago and was loyal OUR ALUMNI

DR. MAX MASON, RHO '98, RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

three years after welcoming Max Mason as president at a home OtfLYcoming dinner, the faculty of the University of Chicago gathered June 1, to say farewell to Dr. Mason, who has been chosen to head the division of natural sciences for the Rockefeller foundation. There was no academic restraint in the parting words voiced by spokesmen for the faculty or in the ovation given to President Mason. In response to this demonstration, which was held in Ida Noyes hall on the University Campus, Dr. Mason outlined the progress of the univer sity and gave his conception of the function of the institution in the future.

A Plea for New Ideals The University of Chicago, because it is an endowed institution, must produce something different than the large state university. President Mason declared. It must, he said, have the courage to try experiments which will set the plane for other educational institutions in the Middle West.

"It is remarkable today," Dr. Mason said, "to see the way in which laymen are meeting the presentation of arts and sciences and are becom ing their enthusiastic supporters. America is awakening to the need of research. "The university must make the spirit of scholarship understandable to men capable of supporting its work and to whom this understanding will bring happiness. When the University of Chicago becomes merely an other university, it will lose its value. "I hope that the undergraduate problem will be treated with the seri ousness it deserves. There is the magnificent opportunity to make scholar ship prized, sought for, and enjoyed."

MEDICAL ADVANCE TOLD Dr. Franklin McLean, head of the university's school of medicine, out lined the progress that has been made in the fulfillment of the medical program under the leadership of President Mason. A program of de velopment which would ordinarily have required 15 years for completion has been finished in three years under Mason, he said.

"It is good to have on the Rockefeller foundation a man from the West who knows the efforts we are making to transform life from a thing of slavery to one of mastery," Prof. Gilbert Bliss, chairman of the depart ment of mathematics declared.

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Dean Gordon Jennings Laing of the Graduate school of arts and liter ature was the toastmaster.

The Omega Chapter and the Psi U alumni in Chicago regret to see Brother Mason leave us, but we wish him great success in his new responsi bilities. * **

Walter T. Collins, Iota '03, Treasurer of the Executive Council, was admitted as a general partner in the firm of Hemphill Noyes & Co. on May 1. The National Business Review, on May 15, published the fol lowing :

Walter T. Collins Elected Hemphill, Noyes Partner When firms like Hemphill, Noyes & Co., widely known financial house, decide to enlarge their firm by increasing the number of partners, they do not look outside their organization for new blood, but they do look over the roster of outstanding employees and choose the new partner from that list.

The choice of this firm has fallen upon Walter T. Collins, who for eight the western busi years has managed the private wire system and handled ness of this company in a distinguished manner. Mr. Collins is being congratulated by his wide circle of friends, and by the clientele of the firm upon his well-merited recognition. To have attained such a position pre-supposes excellent natural business abilities, a of coupled with a high sense of responsibility and real understanding the value of faithful, intelligent devotion to the best interests of the firm. Add to this, the pleasing personal qualities p&ssessed by Mr. Collins, and the secret of his success is apparent. It is possible for many young as Collins must have set him men to set themselves a similar goal Mr. self, and achieve it, if they will at all times display the same qualities.

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Dr. Chester C. Guy, Omega '22, was married on April 11 to Miss Helen Isabel Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Smith of Oak Park, Illinois. 63rd Dr. Guy has recently opened his new office at 1180 E. street, Chicago.

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Richard Barthelmess, Beta Beta '17, was married on April 20 to Mrs. Jessica Haynes Sargeant, formerly of New York. They sailed on April 21 for a honeymoon in Honolulu. 252 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

L. Claee Moyer, Nu '10.

is in Canada a generation of young university men who were THEREJust old enough to go to war fourteen years or so ago and now are beginning to become prominent in national affairs.

Nu Chapter of Psi U has a number of such men. Among them is L. Clare Moyer, a young man still in his thirties, who is coming to the top as a corporation counsel in Ottawa.

Moyer came to the University of Toronto from the town of Gait, On tario, and graduated at the head of the honor course in political science in 1910. He spent the next three years in the newspaper business, first with the Toronto Star and later as news editor of the Regina Leader. Then he trained for law and was admitted to the bar of Saskatchewan in 1915.,

In the same year he enlisted for active service and was in France for three years of war. He was mentioned in despatches and promoted to be major in 1917, and in 1918 was again mentioned in despatches and award ed the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry in the -field. After the Armistice he served with the army of occupation in Germany as intelli gence officer of the First Canadian Infantry Brigade, and upon return to England took a post-graduate course in law at the famous Inns of Court in London. He returned to Canada later in 1919 and practiced law in Regina, Saskatchewan, until 1921, when he was appointed law officer of the attorney-general's department for Saskatchewan. In 1922 he became private secretary to Right Honorable Mackenzie King, prime minister of Canada, and moved to Ottawa. He held this posi tion for over five years, through two strenuous election campaigns, and accompanied the prime minister to the imperial conference in London, England, at the end of 1926. At the end of 1927 he resigned the secretaryship and in January of this year began private practice in Ottawa as a corporation counsel and parlia mentary agent. The latter is a comparatively new field which is develop ing rapidly, and Moyer, in his first three months of practice, has been retained by some of the largest corporations in the country. He possesses the great asset of inspiring instant confidence and there are prospects which can not be mentioned here that he will shortly be invited into rela tions of high importance.

* * * Major L. Glare Moyer, D. S. O., Nu '10 Col. M. M. Greenwood, Beta '58 AND youngest GRANDSON, A CANDIDATE FOR BETA 1948

This photograph sent in by Brother Greenwood a few weeks before his death with wording, "God's richest blessing on Psi U." (See pages 212 and 245) A SCARSDALE REUNION ARRANGED BY JOSEPH FORD Zeta '95

T^HE STORY of Psi U's friendly re-entry into Canada, by establish- i the new Phi ing Epsilon chapter at McGiU University, was told by Herbert S. Houston, Omega '88, of the Executive Council at a delightful meeting held at the home of Brother Joseph A. Ford, Zeta, at Scarsdale, New York. Brother Houston, who had written the Associated Press news article on the in great days Montreal, that had been published all over the United States and Canada, gave a spirited account of the installation and initiation. In particular he dwelt upon the simplicity and impressiveness of the ceremonies. "Every one of the hundreds of Psi U's present," he said, "entered into the fuU spirit of the occasion. That spirit was suffused with the great tra ditions of Psi Upsilon. But it was not only fraternal, it was deeply inter- naitional. President Babst struck a high note of dignity and simplicity, and that characterized everything. All were in academic dress and the colorful degree hoods of many of the Alumni gave a fine university touch to the scene. Never have I attended a Psi U gathering that struck and maintained throughout such a pitch of true sentiment. Many of the Ep silon Phi men, as they felt the warm grip of brotherhood and saw the diamonds gleaming on their breasts, broke into tears. It was all simply and deeply moving. "President Babst is entitled to the highest praise for the way he prepared every detail and saw it carried into effect. The whole occasion will be memorable in the annals of Psi U." After finishing his talk many questions were asked and answered. Great interest was shown by the Alumni brothers from the many chapters in the scholarship standing of their own chapters. Brother- Houston told of the earnest effort that wa^ being made throughout the fraternity to raise the standard of scholarsliip and spoke in praise of President Babst's efforts along this line. He gave an account of the recent Alumni Confer ence at the University Club, where the subject of scholarship was up for special consideration. He also suggested to the alumni present something which he had brought before the Alumni Conference, to the effect that the alumni of each chapter should establish scholarship prizes for the mem bers of their own chapters. He said : "This will answer the often-raised question as to what the alumni can do that wiU be effective for the whole fraternity, because it will result, I am confident, in definitely raising the standard of scholarship." as Chairman of the Coun In response to an inquiry. Brother Houston, cil Committee on the Diamond, explained the endowment plan based on life subscriptions of $10.00 each. Immediately a number of those pres- 253 254 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon ent entered life subscriptions, and Brother Ford was made a special repre sentative of the Diamond Committee to round up all the Psi U's in West chester County for Life subscriptions. The delightful evening of reunion and fellowship was closed by the singing of the Shrine Song. Among those present were : Fred Agate Lambda Rev. Geo. Smythe Delta W. F. Atkinson Chi Spencer Scott Phi Phillip Brown Kappa Frank Willard Pi Dr. James Corscadin Xi Eric Wallin Delta Wm. H. Draper Delta Eldred A, Halsey Delta Albert E. Hadlock Zeta Rutledge Davis Lambda Caleb Hyatt Delta Fred Leggett Zeta Frank P. Hammond Pi Richard Craig Theta Wm. J. Henry Pi Donald Williams Lambda W. N. Jennings, Jr Xi Henry GinneU. Sigma Ray Morse Chi Rutgers Fish Delta Herbert Outwater Delta Joseph A. Ford Zeta Walter Robbins Phi

KUSHIDA REVIEWS COURSE OF PANIC Declares Nation Now Recognizes Mistakes It Made, Is Trying to Correct Them

By Manzo Kushida, Tau 1890 Chairman of the Board, Mitsubishi Bank the couirse of his speech at the Japan Society dinner in New York INon January 5, Mr. Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Mbrgan & Company remarked that "within the last few years Japan has had three crises to surmount."

He visited us last fall and although his stay in Japan was brief it was not too short for him to survey the general situation here. Mr. Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York, speaking before the Industrial Club of Chicago on December 8, 1927, said that "Japan has passed a year of financial and industrial disturbance, a culmination of a process of nursing unsound credits which originated in part as a result of the earthquake troubles of 1923." Both these observations, though very brief, are correct and accurately so. Those of us who visited the United States and England during 1921 and 1922 felt the keenly significance of the thorough-going process of the post-war readjustment these countries were then passing through, and upon our return we endeavored to impress upon our own business people the necessity of the same process. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 255

Quake Changed Peogeess

Perhaps it might be said that, while we were making our efforts, we were unfortunate in having to go through that terrible disaster of 1923, all the more so because we were then almost at the point of solving the important problem of gold.

When we come, however, to examine the situation that lead to the bank ing panic of last March and April, we must admit that we lacked cour age to face the problem in its earlier stage. To have believed that we would get through the difficult period without any great trouble or hard ship would have amounted to deceiving ourselves, because we were too well aware of the weak spots in our business and as to where some of those weak spots were. Since we allowed the situation to drag on until it culminated in the great disturbance, we must be honest to ourselves and be ready to bear our share of the burden of responsibility, because even if the worst is now over, as we believe it is, we can only hope to be must able to see our way clear ahead. The effect of these repeated blows be felt for a considerable period and the length of that period must depend our out the of re on how thoroughly we make up minds to carry policy and determination to the covery upon a sound basis with patience equal task that is laid before us.

TOOK ONLY measure

As regards the emergency measure that was passed last spring to cope with the situation when it came to be a very serious crisis in April, natur ally it has since called forth some severe but honest criticisms, but we doubt if anything short of some such measure could have been sufficiently effective in controlling the whole situation. At the same time it also is its to be expected that a measure of this nature may, in accomplishing direct and immediate object, have more or less undesirable effects. under The central bank is salvaging a number of banks in difficulties their this special act and has supplied quite a large amount of funds to pay other depositors and the greater part of this money has found its way into of banks, resulting, at least for the time being, in an over-supply money which compared with the genuine requirements of commerce and industry, an demand for Govern are none too active. This in turn caused active of the in ment securities and industrial bonds of better class and many to conversion of their se dustrial concerns in their turn began to resort This in itself cannot be curities on terms more advantageous to them. of this said to be- undesirable because the concerns taking advantage op their accounts to portunity will reduce their interest charges and improve a corresponding degree. 256 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

But what we apprehend is that the thing is very apt to be over-done and the security market might become more or less speculative. There is also reason to fear that some of the bankers may become less careful, though the sad experience is still too fresh to be forgotten.

This is the tendency of the money markets for the moment and it is not easy to judge just how long it will continue, but we are glad to know that the central bank has decided to sell the Government securities it holds in order to control the market, and we believe this wiU have desirable effects.

ANOTHER ECHO OF EPSILON PHI INSTALLATION

(An Editorial from the Christian Science Monitor of April 9, 1928.)

Clasping Hand in Hand

are those who look askance at the entire college fraternity THEREsituation in the United States, declaring that membership in a secret society detracts from the solid benefits of university education and simply encourages social amenities which do not make for the best in terests of the students. To such the fact that Chief Justice Taft has made the installation of a Psi Upsilon Fraternity chapter at McGill University the occasion of a message of strong commendation of the value of this fra ternity, in strengthening the union of feeling between Canada and the United States in university atmosphere, must give occasion for thought.

Of late years there has been a great expansion of thought and interest in almost every direction, and it is but natural that the fraternal aspects of college activities should be estimated from a larger standpoint than often in the past. It may be granted that in years gone by coUege fra ternities have not been completely free from certain abuses. This fact, however, does not involve the admission that benefits have been entirely lacking from these and other fraternal organizations. The general idea of the brotherhood of man is becoming more and more widely realized and appreciated�^to some extent unquestionably as a result of the frater nal sense operating in the colleges. Mankind is looking beyond the mere boundaries of small nations and relatively insignificant lines of demarca tion. The friendship between the English-speaking nations is one of the greatest peace safeguards in the world. Hence this forward step in con nection with Psi Upsilon Fraternity is welcomed.

* * * A REMINISCENCE OF THOMAS A. WISE

GODFREY SAXE, Lambda '00, recently recalled a favor ren JOHNdered many years ago by the late Thomas A. Wise to the Psi U's of New York.

While Chief Justice William H. Taft, Beta '78, was in executive office, the Psi U's of New York held two reunions at Terrace Garden. Brother Taft, while Secretary of War, attended the first. On the second occasion. Brother Taft had become President of the United States and had a per emptory engagement at Annapolis, and Mr. Saxe, remembering that Mr. Wise had made a lifelike impersonation of him at a then recent function of the Amen Corner, hunted out Mr. Wise at the Lambs Club, and asked him to repeat. Mr. Wise cheerfully accepted and turned down any thought of compensation.

During the evening many of the hundreds of Psi U's present made in quiries as to whether the President was to be there. No one was sure. Along about 11 o'clock, loud cheers were heard in the street. The master of ceremonies ran to the stage and interrupted Brother Edward Fales Coward, who was doing an impersonation act. The cheers resounded in the elevator. The master of ceremonies whispered to the orchestra, which room rushed struck up "The Star Spangled Banner." Into the twenty undergraduate Psi U's cheering, and following them came Psi U's illus trious President (pint size), shedding his overcoat and bowing from right to left. He took the stage and repeated his Amen Corner speech, which had been courteously loaned by the Corner, and slightly revised to fit this fraternal occasion. It was one of those vritty speeches, which had made the Amen Corner famous and was eloquently delivered by the pseudo-brother Taft. At the end of the speech, Mr. Wise was presented with a gold cane, bearing both Brother Taft's name and his own. The hoax was complete. Even Brother Henry W. Taft and Brother Edwin D. Worcester, a class and mate of Brother Taft's, were almost persuaded against themselves, the late Brother Justice Charles F. McLean of the class ahead of Brother him the Taft, hurried forward to greet his illustrious brother and give of the Psi U's as the grip. The occasion has gone down in the memory greatest of the fraternity's New York city functions. to Mr. Saxe added: "There is no tribute too high for me personally A. Wise. He was a actor and a pay to the memory of Thomas great great to see him From New man. I keenly regret that I am never again."� York Sun, March 28, 1928.

257 CHAPTER COMMUNICATIONS

THETA�Union College

seven hardy adventurers from Brother Rose, after much effort on his THEthe Theta who braved the perils part and we congratulate him accord and vicissitudes of the dangerous ingly. Brothers Dyke and Rothman Delaware and Hudson trail to attend leave for Philadelphia this week-end the installation of Epsilon Phi up with the track team to enter the Penn where the aurora borealis flickers and Relays, the former in the 100 and 220, flares brought back wild tales of the latter in the half-mile. "gold in them thar mountings" and The Theta Board of Trustees has re ale at a shilling a quart. The old cently evolved a plan for a permanent sourdoughs were gently tucked in bed endowment fund which may be inter and the college physician summoned, esting to some of the other chapters- who diagnosed their condition as un Starting this year, every active mem dernourishment�it seems that the ber of the chapter who is willing to brave lads had been unable to find do so, signs a special insurance policy time for meals�and prescribed plenty for $300 running ten years. At the end of sleep and a strictly solid diet. Se of this time the sum of $300 is turned riously, it was a most impressive cer over to the chapter to form a perma emony, and all of us who were nent fund. This is to be used for fortunate enough to be able to attend any special emergency or applied to brought back a much stronger concep the mortgage, if necessary. The yearly tion of the real Psi U than we took premium on such a policy for the sum with us. Much credit is due the mem mentioned is $26, which is paid from bers of the Executive Council who man each brother's room-rent while in col aged the whole affair so well. lege and as a lump sum by him per The end of the Easter vacation was sonally after graduation, until ten marked by a snowstorm, and cloudy years are up. In the event of death skies, and cold winds made the rest the money automatically goes to the of the month a period of despondency chapter. Practically all the active and grippe. Quite a few of the members have signed up, and with brothers were laid low with quinsy- eiach incoming freshman delegation fever and colds until the number of the plan should bring in quite a little vacant chairs assumed alarming pro money. portions. With the advent of May Speaking of freshmen delegations, conditions have flnally improved and the first member of the 1932 delega it would seem that Spring has come. tion was pledged last month�namely, The brothers have been fairly ac James Foote, son of George Foote, tive in the spring sports, but ineligi Theta, '98. bilities have kept several men from Our spring house-party starts to participation who looked good for posi morrow, ushered in by the usual up tions. Brothers Hyland and Blair are roar for freshmen and clouds of un socking them down the fairways for suspected dust. the glory of Old Union. Brother Terry The chapter's scholarship is still a has finally broken into the charmed sore point and it looks as if we were circle and is on the Alpha Delt-Union good for the cellar again this semes tennis team. Brother DuBois appears ter but under what might be deter on the lacrosse team at crucial mo mined as a reform administration, we ments, while Brother Schmitt waits hope for better things next year. willingly to pitch the big Garnet base ball team to victory. The Glee Club A. Page Stkong, is now under the management of Associate Editor.

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DELTA�New York University

1933. The class of erford. Well, how's activities? Doing NOVEMBER,1928, gathered from the four cor anything on the campus, or is this one ners of the world, pull up in front of of the bad years? the Delta, en route to the centennial 1933. Not at all. Have everything celebration at Union College! on the campus worth talking about� 1928. Will you look at this: What three captains, two managers, nine var on earth has happened to Delta? Fitch sity letters, one editor� must have gotten his hands on it at 1928. Not bad, not at all bad for last. To think we have come to that! the present generation- Now back in No�wait a minute. There's the old owl. '28�what was it that we had? About It's the old Delta as sure as you live. thirty-five positions divided among the But look, Dick�a stone wall. Can five of us. Let's see, there was Mal

� you beat it? Remember when lery you boys know Mallery, the man "Home again Howard" used to get who sends all the big rushing checks grey hair trying to keep the baby car up from Santa Fe. What was that list riages and the Fitch traffic off the the freshmen used to recite? Oh yes: lawn? Wonder what the lawn commit Phi Beta Kappa, honors in English, tee does now? And a new portico. Editor of the Violet, President of E;i- What an earthquake must have hit this cleian. Red Dragon, P. and P., Student place! Well, boys, let's pull ourselves Council, etc. Then there was "Strong together and have a look inside, but Arm Van Dyke," ail-American manager

� I'm warning you if I see a new grand of football, and. . piano I'm going to faint�so be on your 1933. You'll pardon me if I make guard. a phone call. After recovering from the shock of 1928. Say, Marty, I wonder if ho the magnificently furnished interior, thinks we were stuffing him? And the arrivals engage in conversation we were only just getting started. with the undergraduates. Look here, Gil; where did this crowd 1928. And it has been this way for of grey-beards come from? The riot nearly five years. It all happened squad must be at it again. Wonder right after we left. They certainly what the trouble is now? Let's ask did put one over. (To themselves). this bird. It's time we began to put them thru 1933. Oh, that's only a normal gath come all their paces. (To undergrads.) Well, ering of alumni. They up ths and let's see how many men have you in time. We get along splendidly, the Chapter? they can't do enough for us- Don't know what we would do without them. 1933. Thirty, and twelve pledge- 1928. Great Caesar! What's that? men. A skirt in the Psi U House! Quick, 1928. Rushing pretty good then? 1933. You bet. Easiest thing in the explain. 1933. That's our mothers' club. world. We get them planted on the They are giving a luncheon today. davenport over there, put a history of What next? Let's run up the Delta in their hands, and there is 1928. stairs for a minute; I'm feeling very mighty little else to do. This atmos weak. phere certainly does the trick. 1928. Marvelous. And a history of As the visiting Brothers approach out a the Delta Chapter. Can you beat that! the library, "Happy" Weiss lets Seems like yesterday that we loaded war-whoop. After a desperate strug down. His eight bread-boxes of scraps and records gle, he is finally quieted into Sid's stage coach, and shipped classmates think how forunate he was, like them off to Brother Abbott's in Ruth for, with a collection of books 260 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon that their conscientious librarian the tag of Delta '28. would have taken seven years to go To Otjk Alumni through college instead of five. It is sincerely hoped that the mus After a thorough inspection of the ings of a cracked editor may be more house, the '28 men continue to marvel than a dream. It is no mere guess at the great changes. And they thought that material prosperity will have far that the house would surely go to the reaching effects in the right direction. dogs after they left. Frankly, and bluntly, we need you. 1928. Ah, an inspiration. Come Help us now to break down any mis here, '33. We have a very potent ques understandings of the past. Our doors tion to ask. Are you ready? HOW are wide open. We invite you whole DO YOU STAND IN SCHOLARSHIP? heartedly to contribute of your per 1933. Just fine. Psi U has held first sonality, your leadership, and your place for the past four years. sympathetic understanding to the It is said that the noise at the cen Delta Chapter of Psi Upsilon. tennial celebration was an important HOKACE Aethtjb contributing factor in restoring to con Brinkeehoff, sciousness the five brothers who bear Associate Editor.

BETA�Yale University

the annual spring elections, seven In the annual Tap Day elections to INsophomores were admitted to the senior societies the following men Beta Chapter. They are as follows: were tapped: Skull and Bones�Lloyd Benjamin Cheney of South Manches Hilton Smith, chairman of the Yale ter, Conn. Daily News and member of the Stu Henry Tefft Clark of Omaha, Nebr. dent Council; Granger Kent Costikyan, Clement Gazzam Hurd of New York member of the Yale News board; City. Scroll and Key: George W. Wyckoffi Maxwell Moore of New Britain, and Chauncey K. Hubbard; Wolf's Conn. Head, Stanley A. Brady, Alfred Whit Henry Emmanuel Russell of New ney Griswold, Martin Fenton and John Britain, Conn. Dudley Charlesworth, who achieved Paul Morton Smith of New York the honor of being the last man City. tapped. Election to Wolf's Head was Holland Van Etten Williams of refused by Lloyd Hilton Smith. Buffalo, New York. Brothers Archbald and Curtis were Of the seven new initiates. Brother delegates to the national convention at Cheney is on the junior varsity base Chicago, and both reported a very in- ball squad. Brother Clark is on the tertaining and profitable trip. University football squad. Brother Brother Woodruff Rankin Tappen is Hurd is a member of the University at present stroking the Yale varsity 150-pound crew. Brother Moore was a crew, and thus far has stroked the member of the Freshman Hockey eight to victories over Columbia, Penn Team and won his numerals on the sylvania, Princeton and Cornell. The championship class hockey team this Yale crew is conceded an excel winter. Brother Russell is a member lent chance as the United States Olym of the University 150-pound crew. pic crew. Incidentally, Brother Tap- Brother Smith is an aspirant for the pen in all his years of rowing has golf team. Brother Williams is man never sat in a losing shell. Brother of the ager University basketball Mosle is rowing at bow on the Yale team. junior varsity crew. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 261

In other fields of athletics, Brother in college, and having taxed the pa Childs is attempting to emulate Icarus tience and purses of graduate brothers in the pole-vault. Brother Oliver is a to the utmost, enough money has been prominent linksman. Brother Kitchell raised to ensure completion of the a well-known coxswain, while Brothers interior by some time this summer, Wilson, Hickok, West and Hazon are and to make occupancy by the time getting set for a strenuous football college opens next fall a condition, not season. a theory. In extra curriculum activities. Needless to say any brothers that Brother Jones is competing for the drop in to inspect the house next fall baseball managership, Brother Samp- will be more than welcome and it is sell for the track managership and with a feeling akin to exultation that Brother Harding for the crew man we can at last announce that the days agership. of "tombs" are over forever. A hearty As for the perennial and much-dis invitation to all chapters is extended cussed question of the new house, we and we hope to have many visitors at last have something like a definite during the coming year. report. After one hundred percent M. F. Hanson, contribution from the delegations now Associate Editor

SIGMA�Brown University (No communication received)

GAMMA�Amherst College

suppose that it is fitting that success as they go out from the halls WEthe editors of this chapter should of the Gammy one month from now. extend their apologies for failing to Outside activities have kept many of submit a communication for the last the brothers of the house busy for the issue of the Diamond. However, we past few months. Brothers R- V. Mil and B. Brittain beg to remind those anonymous well- ler, S. Grant, Heisey, wishers that the notice of the time for have won track letters. Brother B. S. the our communication to be due was Wilson, Jr. is holding down key on the Sabrina Broth never received, probably due to the stone sack nine.. laxity of the postoffice. er Parnall was recently electfed captain team. Brother Last week end we joined with Deke c.f next year's hockey elected and Beta for the round robin parties. E. S. Wilson was recently .Association The festivities were successful in every president of the Christian and with his Brother R. way and we were glad to welcome such he, brother, W. have been elected to the brothers as Moore, Cameron, Thayer, Wilson, Brothers Atkinson, Grant, Newkirk, Snyder et al. Student Council. Moran made the With the end of the year so near, E. Miller and Spring Bermuda with the Musical it seems only fitting that we should trip to speak of the outgoing senior delegation. Clubs. to the fact that there was no Needless to say, they will be greatly Due this in the missed from the house. The least that communication from chapter of the we would we can do is to wish thpm the best last issue Diamond, 262 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon like to take this opportunity to wel- says that the Mt. Royal was plenty conie our new brethren in Epsilon cold enough for him at the same time. Phi. Brother R. van Iderstine Miller We hope that during the course of who attended the installation reports the summer if any of the Brothers that tobogganing on Sunday afternoon have information on any freshmen, in Montreal is something in which who are entering college in the fall, more people should participate. Broth they will notify Brother J. A. Mit er Cameron, who was also present, chell, Jr., at Dorset, Vt.

ZETA�Dartmouth College

final exams starting the first for the honor of the fraternity through WITHweek in June, the Brothers look his work within the house during his back upon another pleasant Spring in four years of college life. This year Hanover, marred only by the April marked a new award within the chap showers that we are still having. Clos ter, and Brother John Phillips wears ing the books upon the year, with the the pin of former President William nine members of the 1928 delegation Jewett Tucker '61, who passed away receiving their diplomas this month, two years ago. The pin worn by the the house looks forward to pledging; man known as "the Great President" the members of the present freshmanI of Dartmouth, was presented to the class upon their return in the Fall. chapter during the year by his wife, Entering upon the third season of Mrs. Tucker, as a memorial to a great second-year rushing, the committee in brother. The distinction of wearing charge is congratulated again this year this pin is given to the member of for the work it has done, for through the senior delegation who, scholastic- its efforts and the support given to it ally, has shown the greatest improve by the house, prospects for the new ment during the first seven semesters delegation look very promising after of college. weeks of calling and occasional open The Psi U baseball team has won houses. its three games in the Interfraternity After a successful week-end of! League, and on the date of writing, is Spring House Parties, the chapter cele entering the semi-finals. The support- brated its eighty-fifth anniversary onI ers of the team look for another cup May 16, at its annual birthday party� within a week. The golf and tennis an event which is welcomed each year teams representing the house are just with a great deal of enthusiasm. "Doc" getting under way and offer a threat Griggs took charge at Moose CabinI to all comers. with one of his renowned strawberry Brothers Ted Foster and Cliff Purse shortcake dinners�enough said!' Att both report an excellent time at the that time, the winners of the Found- convention held in Chicago. Thanks er's badge and the William Jewett; to the brothers of the Omega. During Tucker Memorial were announced. the Spring months, Frank H. Neff, Jr., Brother Ted Foster now wears the! '30, was pledged and initiated. pin which belonged to one of the) The work of the chapter outside the founders of the Zeta in the class ofE house continues and~speaks for itself. 1842, having, in the judgment oft Brother Carl Spaeth was elected to the two upper delegations, done mostt captain next year's basketball team. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 263

Brother Johnnie Bryant, intercollegiate opitus, the student-government body champion in the 50-yard swim, was re at Darthmouth. Brothers Jeff Glen- elected captain of swimming, and dinning�holder of the College record Brother Harry Enders will lead the in the 220, Hetfield and Phillips are Dartmouth water polo team during at the present time competing with 1928-29. When the elections from the the track team. The house didn't do 1930 Managerial Competition were an so badly in the elections of class of nounced it was found that Brothers ficers, and with that we will close. Pete Callaway, Prank Neff and Fred Brother Roy Milliken was elected per Schmidt will hold down the manager manent secretary of the senior class; ships of hockey, freshman basketball Brothers Spaeth and Bryant were and freshman football respectively. elected president and secretary of the The elections to Green Key, the jun junior class respectively; and Broth ior honorary society which takes care ers Mickey Emrich and Nelson Rocke of visiting teams, took place recently feller were elected president and vice- and the 1930 delegation supplied ten president of the sophomore class re of its members�Brothers Walt Birnie, spectively. Pete Callaway, Mickey Emrich, Bud It has been a good year and we have French, John French, Dick Hood, enjoyed it. Finals are coming and we Bunkie Lewin, Bob McClory, Fred have said our say. Schmidt, and Heine Swarthout. James Ellswokth Brothers Bryant and Spaeth are among Cavanagh, the thirteen elected to the 1929 Palae- Associate Editor.

LAMBDA�Columbia University (No communication received)

KAPPA�BowDoiN College

last few weeks have seen Brothers Moore and Wilks and advice THEBrothers Moore and Drake return from all the team. with superlative reports from the con vention. The seniors have sailed In other activities there is little to through their major exams with much relate. Brother Pettingill has recently of higher averages than has been usual in been elected assistant editor the the past. The Chapter House Associa college weekly and also president of the tion is seriously contemplating the ad Outing Club. He and Brother Wilks of the cast dition of a coat of paint to the house constitute a major portion next fall and extensive landscaping of the Ivy Revue. Brothers Puller and projects will also be carried out. Pierce have important dramatic parts Brothers Beckett and Bunker have in the Shakespearian play given at recently been awarded their track let Commencement time. ters and Woods, Haycock, and Herrick The scholarship continues on an have done good work in the same even keel. Some of the suggestions sport. Chalmers and Crimmins have relative to ways and means of improve held down second and third base re ment made at the convention will be as we all are anx spectively on the unfortunate baseball given trial next year team. The house team has taken over ious to pull out of the cellar division the Alpha Delts twice in a three-game of the campus scholastic league. It series behind the masterful hurling of may be added here, however, that 264 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

Brothers Beckett and Dana are out At present, outside the ominously standing candidates for the June Phi looming finals, all attention is on the Beta Kappa elections. coming Ivy house party. The commit Brother Betts was obliged to leave tee, headed by Brother Osborne, has college before midyear with an attack worked hard and promises a very good of tuberculosis- He is convalescing time. And after that, the deluge. slowly at Saranae Lake and may be Laweence R. Leach, able to return next fall. Associate Editor.

PSI�Hamilton College

so many week-ends ago Mam'- mencement time; Brother Calkins NOTselle Printemps (see"LaVieParis- pitches marvelously on the baseball ienne," adv.) struck the Hill, bring team; Brother Barns has received the ing with her the annual assortment of H for fencing, is business manager of mud, dandelions, and second-hand the new Literary Magazine, and has Fords, whereupon the brothers of the also been recently elected president of Psi with one accord invoked Terpsi the Charlatans, the college dramatic chore and a number of other girls and society; Brother Combs has been threw a Spring House Party. It was, elected editor of Hamilton Life; to use a cliche, as great, (and even Brother Denne has been chosen to the greater), a howling success as ("than" position of Advertising Manager on to appease the grammarians) any the 1930 Hamiltonian; Brother DeSor- party that has been so per mo's work at breaking the local track petrated at the Psi for a number of records does not prevent his doing years. Brother Calkins ran this party likewise with sundry female hearts; and deserves great credit for the mas Brother Carpenter received his letter terly way in which he made both ends in basketball; Brother O. "Osgood" meat (yeah, that's right, we had hot- Smith received a letter in hockey; dogs Saturday night.) And while we Brother Pitcher receives them daily are on the subject of Brother Calkins from Wells; Brother Callanen has sold and Springtime, it might well be ap his Ford. This brief recital of activi propriate to mention the fact that he ties at the Psi will suffice, with, per and Miss Florence Ingle, of Rochester, haps, a passing mention of the recent N. Y., have recently announced their pledging of Brothers Jones and Mac- intention of entering the Bonds of millan to Pi Delta Epsilon. Pi Delta Holy Matrimony (with each other) Epsilon, we might add, being the local at some as yet undetermined date in journalistic society, is considered a the future. Brother Briggs and Miss great honor�particularly by the mem Althea Taylor, of Buffalo, N. Y., also bers, including Brother Pitcher, local expect shortly to enlist in the Holy Greek. War. Our delegate to the 1928 convention So far as activities are concerned, returned with a glowing tale of his and in spite of the fact that the red very successful and profitable trip, ghoul of examinations now comes rid thoroughly convinced that the Omega ing apace upon the black war-horse of had outdone the Psi in organizing and work undone, the house is doing executing the vast amount of work nobly. Brother Pitcher is already that a convention entails. When in for the crouching spring with which terviewed by a representative of the he will snaffle all the honors at com- Tribune, he stated, "I consider the The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 265 time spent away from Clinton well refrain from mentioning his e-s. worth the candle." Therefore we are not mentioning his We call the attention of all alumni -ar-. (2) Brothers Jones, Pitcher and of the Psi chapter to the date of the Calkins will be seen about the British annual Commencement reunion on the Isles as well as the Continent (Mont- evening of Saturday, June 16th. Ar martre District) during the coming rangements for the entertainment of a summer. Brother Pitcher, who will large number of guests are already be probably lurk much about the Latin ing made by the undergraduates and quarter, can be identified by a small the Psi expects and hopes that many mole in his left armpit. Brother Jones of her elder brothers will be present. will visit the ancestral Welsh castle. Addenda and corrigenda: (1) Seymour M. Brother Pitcher was especially desir Pitcher, ous that this communication should Associate Editor.

XI Wesleyan University

the actual advent of Spring top of the list here on the campus, the WITHin this raw location of the Con Brothers seem to be making out okay necticut Valley the Brothers seem to in extra-curricular activities so far have suspended their labors for a brief this term. Brothers Travis, Thomas, and are excellent time, a happening that seems to be an Kennedy twirling annual event at Wesleyan. Who can ball for the championship varsity, the work when the blue skies and green two first mentioned being first and sec Funk is foliage invite one to enjoy that aspect ond string pitchers. Captain a at and of nature, or when blue eyes and young playing good game shortstop, Brother "Butch" is calves reawaken an interest in all liv Silloway gleaning the daisies in his old in the ing things that run or walk or ride? position meadow. With Brother There is even a rumor about that right Thomp the end of Brother Moe Funk, old man and bach son handling managerial the ball team has its full elor extraordinary of the Chapter, is the club, Xi men. Our making bi-weekly wanderings in the quota of representation activities is not so direction of the nearby Silver City; it in other Spring is as but Brother Root has may be a late Spring, but it sure great this, won four first in the pole vault an extraordinary one! places on the "Little Three" championship reference of Alumni The continual track team. Brother Thompson was of the chap to the scholastic standing recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa, ter seems at last to have borne some and is still playing on the varsity golf at the of the fruit, for publication team. marks ten of the twelve Mid-year The recent Spring parties were emi themselves on the Seniors found nently successful, but this year there Honor Roll�with the coveted Un are no exciting reports (meat for the The recent limited Cut privilege. neighboring scandal sheets) of auto Examinations, how Comprehensive accidents, midnight orgies, and other have not added to the joy and never ever, ' events that are reported but of those same brethren, and happiness take place. We would appreciate it if until marks come in a dozen heads the a few more of the alumni would drop the will be resting uneasily through in and sample these festivities in the still small hours. future, an opportunity which we shall around the 13th of June, Although we are hearing continual offer them week dirge's about the imminent downfall just previous to Commencement of the Xi from its long reign at the end. 266 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

The Chapter recently had the plea happy to report that Brothers Bow of the class of sure of initiating three of the fresh man and Kellog, both and that men who were unable to make the re '24, were recently married, quired grades for the earlier initiation Brother Stone, '23, was recently made in the Pall. These are Frederick Ful the father of a young heir, that will ler, John H. Thompson 2nd, and Wil be entering these halls in some nine liam Hopkins. Dr. Cecil R. Garcin, an teen years. There has been an im alumnus of the Epsilon Phi Chapter provement this year in the number the but we living near Middletown, was taken in of alumni visiting chapter, done at the same time. The evening was still feel that this is not being with the sincere made more pleasant by the presence enough. We close now on more of the of ten or fifteen alumni, including the hope that from fratres in urbe and the Psi U mem alumni brethren will realize that the bers of the faculty. Chapter belongs to them as much as Although the alumni persistently re to those who are here temporarily, and fuse to send in notes of interest about that we would appreciate it very us themselves that may be used in the much if they would drop in on DIAMOND, we occasionally hear things more frequently. about them that makes possible For the Chapter, D. the meagre alumni notes included James Thompson, here. In the domestic field we are Associate Editor.

UPSILON�University of Rochester (No communication received)

IOTA�Kenyon College

Iota commencement only a monthL Through the efforts of the of the WITHaway, the division has taken on at Alumni Association the interior most scholarly appearance. If results3 house has been redecorated. Plans can be judged from the amount ofE for the future include a refurnishing work done this semester there is little3 scheme which will put the house in doubt but what the Iota will haveJ a most excellent condition. We are improved its scholarship considerably. more than grateful for the interest The annual May Hop, the social1 the alumni have taken in the chap- event of the season, was a greater: ter and hope that they will attend success than usual. Under the effi the commencement exercises as guests cient leadership of Brother Phil Rus of the active chapter. sell, the chapter's Hop Committee ar Concerning campus activities we are ranged the most lavish and enjoyable3 proud to say that Psi U is represented banquet ever sponsored by any chap - on the golf team by Brothers Gilson

- is ter on the Hill. There were twenty- and Phil Russell. Brother Henning two girls present, the largest numberr the newly elected Vice-President of ever to attend an Iota house party. the Philomathesian literary society. It was unfortunate that the party7 The brothers who turned out for came at the same time as the conven- spring football are Taylor, McCabe, tion for it was only due to the con- Hilton, Hetherington, Toland, and flict in dates that more of the chapterr Palmer. Of these Brother Taylor is did not attend the latter function. the only one who played last year. but we feel sure that the rest will be on the varsity squad, and Brother successful in earning positions on this Johnson plays doubles. Brother Welsh Tomorrow we year's squad. open the as tennis manager is busy now getting intramural baseball schedule with the the courts in shape. and we are Delts, confldent that the The prospects for next year are most chapter will acquit itself with honors. promising, and we are already look Brothers Welsh and Hubbell have been ing forward to the opening of school given important parts in the annual in September. The chapter will Senior Play to be given at commence keenly feel the loss of Brothers Beid- ment. They should both do well in ler, Johnson, Welsh, Hubbell, and Gil- asmuch as the title of the production son, for it will be most difficult to is "Ten Nights in a Bar Room." The fill the vacancies which they will Ohio Intercollegiate Tennis tourna leave. Every effort will be made how ment is to be held in Gambler next ever to carry on the work which they week, and by the time this article did, and to execute the business of goes to press Brother Kawasakie the chapter with as much integrity. should be well on his way to the sin Theodore Huss, Jr., gles championship. He plays No. 1 Associate Editor.

PHI�University of Michigan

A S the year draws to a close, the Phi made a Junior Editor of the Michigan �'*� feels that it has accomplished a Daily for the coming year. The great deal. We have made a payment diminutive Brother K. Moore is again of one thousand dollars thereby com on the tennis team and according to pletely erasing a note of some years his own word sweeping all opponents standing and now feel ourselves in at before him. Brothers Turner and Pot least a conxfortable financial position. ter have recently been awarded their Scholarship has been on the up grade numerals on the Freshman track team. and there is reason to hope that we Brother Schinnick is making his own will be in better than 54th position peculiar contortions around second

next year. The brothers have taken base on the Freshman baseball team.

an active interest in campus activi The chief topic of conversation at ties; three having won the coveted present is the Spring Houseparty "M." Perhaps the best thing of all which is to take place directly after is the security we feel among the my Exams in June. As usual, it is to be riad fraternities at Ann Arbor. the best ever and it probably will be

Brother Todd was recently ap for all that. The Brothers who were pointed an Editor of the Michiganen- at Chicago are full of glowing reports sian for next year and was in con of the treatment there. I really don't sequence elected to Sphinx, the Junior see how anyone could ever forget it honorary society. Brother Holmes myself. was also made an Editor of the same Clarke W. Baldwin, publication. Brother Tilley has been Associate Editor. 268 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

OMEGA�University of Chicago

the time of writing the Omega convention we will win easily and set AThas pretty thoroughly recuperated a record for the largest crowd ever from the varied effects of the con singing with one fraternity. vention and is busily engaged in re Spring rushing is coming along first covering lost ground in studies and rate and the Omega is laying a strong many student activities. The chapter foundation for an excellent 1932 dele wishes to extend a most hearty vote gation. of thanks to the alumni brothers Already the brothers, in spite of the whose splendid support in organizing coming finals, are planning their sum the convention and in fixing up the mer activities. The graduating seniors house made possible whatever success are looking for jobs, while the under attended the annual gathering of Psi classmen are planning a pleasant or Upsilon. profitable vacation. We will have We have not wholly negjected the quite a few men in summer school activities of campus even while pre this year, and have received notice paring for the convention. A dozen that two or three out of town brothers of the brothers have been working will be with us this summer, so if hard on the annual production of you are in town drop around to the Biackfriars, the big male musical com house as there will always be some edy of the year, ranging in "jobs' one here. from superior in the order to the low ALUMNI NOTES�Brother George liest chorus girl. Brothers Hoerger, Bates is on a hunting trip in British Pratt, and Burgess have been play Columbia. ing ball on the Varsity and Urban, The members of the Omega Chapter Cahill, Smith, Tipler, and Bradshaw had a splendid opportunity to gain have been helping out the Freshman the acquaintance of many alumni at team. Brothers Urban and Cahill look the recent convention and wish that like the best pitching prospects the the alumni as a whole would drop school has had for some time. Bro around to the house more frequently. thers Libby, Hayden and Brand are Chapter meetings are on Monday on the track team. Brother Whitney nights. has taken Brother Kerr's place as The Omega with the rest of the Uni President of the Dramatic Associa versity, regrets the resignation of tion. Brother Max Mason, Rho '98, from the Right now the chapter is busily en Presidency of the University, and gaged in soliciting alumni support for wishes him success in his new under the annual Interfraternity Sing which takings. takes place on June 9th. If the alumni J. C. Pratt, Jr. turn out as well as they did for the Associate Editor.

PI�Syracuse University

(No communication received) The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 269

CHI�Cornell University

the advent of June and Ex Brothers Hilyard and Bliss were WITHaminations, the Chi looks back elected to Beth I'Amed. Brothers upon what has been a most successful Reed, Carter and Waterbury have been scholastic year from every point of elected to Kappa Beta Phi. Brother view. We feel greatly the loss of the Brauner has been elected to Gar Senior class which is leaving us to goyle. Brother Hilyard was elected take its place in the world among to Pyramid and also to the Civil En those that have gone before it. gineering Honor Committee. Brother On May fourth and fifth, we held a Gates was awarded his numerals in house party with Delta Kappa Epsilon track. and Alpha Delta Phi which all We look forward to the Fall term averred to be the outstanding social with hopes and expectations of a suc event of the year. We entertained cessful rushing season and scholastic about thirty young ladies including year. Many of the underclassmen are several sisters of the Chapter. The enrolling in competitions for extra party was throughout an evidence of curricular activities and the prospects the friendship and esteem that exists for engagement in activities are among these fraternities. bright. In a university survey of the schol We held a Rushing Party on April astic rating of fraternities, the eleven 28, at which several young men who older national fraternities being given enter the university in September primary consideration, Psi Upsilon were entertained. We consider these was awarded the highest rank in functions a great asset in forming a scholarship with an average of 74.6%. nucleus for the next year's class. The During the course of the term we following men were pledged: have had the pleasure of entertaining Mr. Napier Caldwell many brothers representing other Predonia, New York Chapters and athletic teams. We sin Mr. Olaf A. Brauner cerely hope that these visits will con Ithaca, New York tinue as we consider the contacts thus Mr. Arnliot R. Brauner formed to be invaluable. Ithaca, New York Among the recent elections were Alumni Notes those of Brothers Waterbury and Car It was with regret that we learned ter to Sphinx Head. Brothers Will- of the death of Brother Herbert cox and J. M. Parker were recently Governeur Ogden, Chi '97. elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Brother Robert L. Bliss, Browne was elected to Book and Bowl. Associate Editor,

BETA BETA�Trinity College (No communication received)

ETA�Lehigh University

came to a close in a mad cir produce their own or someone else's APRILcle of dances, dinners, and girls. girl. The carefully planned round of All but two of the brothers managed to dances and dinners came off to perfec- 270 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon tion, in spite of the rain, which lasted Russell Lorenzo Quesada the entire week-end. Sunday saw the Havana, Cuba departure of the girls, and though Class of '31. most of the brothers have temporarily "Russ" won his numerals in foot recovered, there are still several walk ball, and is now playing on the Fresh ing around with that vacant, far away man Baseball team. Brothers Latham, look in their eyes. Forstall, and Chaffee are also on the Brother Le'idy, '98 saw in the ex squad. Brothers Reynolds, Caskey, cavating for the Packard memorial and and Evers have been showing the Laboratory an opportunity to Improve real stuff in spring football practice. the ground below the house. Ac Brother Clark is out for the manager cordingly brother Visscher '99, the ar ship of football. chitect, was called upon and plans Brother Emery has been elected to were laid. For the last three weeks a Alpha Kappa Psi, honorary business fleet of trucks has been disturbing our fraternity. peace. Now we have quite a sizeable The senior delegation has managed pile of mud where once was an ornate to win exemption from their final rubbish heap. Some day we hope to final exams by their showing in the have it terraced and turfed. In any exams by their showing in the Car condition it is a great improvement. negie Experimental Examination. We wish to announce the pledging Daniel P. Johnson, of Associate Editor.

TAU�University of Pennsylvania

again Spring has burst forth ing period of the term. Those to ONCEupon the campus and the Tau enter the ranks of the Tau are: "Castle" stands out in all its pristine Walter Robert Bliedung glory with bright green ivy hanging Milwaukee, Wis. from its walls and sprigs of newly Franklin James Collins, Jr planted grass dotting the rather lim Scranton, Penn. ited Psi U lawn. Already that bug John William Clegg, Jr "spring fever" has crept into our blood Chestnut Hill, Penn. and brothers can be found lounging on Ralph Richard Eichelberger the front steps and draped from the Saxton, Penn. windows, issuing cat calls until far Royal Douglas Gregg into the night. Providence, R. I. Probably the most important event James Hughes Knowles of the Tau has been the pledging and Youngstown, Ohio initiation of thirteen freshmen, the Maurice Daniel Larkin, Jr pick of the Class of 1931 and one Dayton, Ohio Our season was sophomore. rushing Richard M. Miller . . Cedar Rapids, la. a successful one and from the very Norman Alfred Reeks . Montclair, N. J. opening smoker night until all the Jacob Richard Ranck.Strasbury, Penn. brothers gathered at the banquet table Basil Douglas Robinson on pledge night singing, "We'll pledge Rochester, N. Y. him now and forever Psi Upsilon!" Benjamin Charles Taber . . Norwalk, 0. every brother kept going strong. Our George Augustus Vare. .Ambler, Penn. hat is off to Brothers Gade and Sims Henry De Forest Wright for their valiant work during thid try- Schenectady, N. Y. The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 271

Another important event on the Psi Brother Bliedung added another cam U calendar and one that we hope to pus publication, "The Red and Blue," continue in future years was the in to his list of extra curriculum activi auguration of a Pounders' Dinner, for ties. those members of Psi U who made The hard luck prize for the year possible this chapter. In spite of the goes to Brothers Eichelberger and fact that it was held on a rainy Sun Sellers, potential Editor-in-Chiefs, of day evening, twelve members of the two campus publications. The Psi U's "Old Guard" reported for duty. The never were good politicians and this evening was so filled with happenings simply verifies the fact. "Better to �dinner, speeches, songs, stories, and have run and lost than never to have smojies, that the undergraduates really run!" If you don't believe this ask had more fun than those who were Brother Ball. He ran a good race our Anyway the old boys ad guests. against Paddock! mitted they hadn't had such a rush since their college days and when All the brothers are mourning the asked concerning an annual Pounders' fate of poor brother Sanford, Captain Dinner, the cry was unanimous�^YEA! of the baseball team, who waited four Those present were Brothers: years to pitch against Yale in the an nual Straw Hat game. He just didn't J. Warren Coulston, Jr. '90; J. S. have the heart to strike out the Eli Elverson '87; Chester A. Farr, Jr. '90; boys. Probably he waited too long� George M. Hughes '93; John H. Minds still Ty Cobb is going strong! Brother '95; H. H. Patterson '93; J. Percy Field is working hard to "sew up" Remington '98; Richard S. Stoyle '90; an assistant manager job on this same J. H. Terry '91; A. D. Whiting '88; outfit. He was elected to the Blue Edward Woolman '94; and Henry N. Key society recently. Woolman '96. Lest we forget the far famed Mask Someone has jokingly said that and Wig, we must add a few words Brother G. T. Sharp, our esteemed about "Tarantella" this year's pro Graduate Treasurer, was anxious to duction. When everybody was absent show the founders what an improve from chapter meeting one night and ment has taken place within the Tau the few present were trying to figure since they departed. It was chiefly out the reason, someone happened to through his manipulation that enough remember the Mask and Wig was put at money was scraped together to finance ting on a performance down town the complete renovation of the "Great the Brlanger Theatre. Brother Curtis, Hall" of the Tau. With the new pan head of the undergraduate club, wrote eling, rugs and upholstered furni this year's show and played a leading ture, rushing should be an easy thing role. Why not? They needed a good filled the next year. comedian and he certainly part. Brothers Sellers, Kelly, Mit As far as undergraduate activities chell, Andrews, Maschal, and Keator are concerned, the Tau is right on top. tended to make up the rest of the Psi Brothers Clark, Graham, and Craft, U aggregation that augmented the the managerial corps of Soccer, Bas dancing choruses. The T. T. T. shows ketball, and Track respectively, will be certainly do bring out the talent. wearing Sphinx hats next year. Bro it is to ther Ball, our football player and track Before closing only fitting Brother aspirant, will uphold the honors in the add a word of praise for for Phi Kappa Beta Junior Society. Bro Schroeder and Brother Meyers ther Bolton crashed through in Crew their fine work in the offices of for the as the new assistant manager while Treasurer and Secretary chap- 272 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

ter. We are also indebted to Brothers To them we wish the greatest success Mitchell and Mills for the manner in the world never forgetting their af in which they handled the table during filiations at the Tau in spite of the the year. It is a combination hard new fields of adventure ahead of them. to beat. So as we close this communi Brother Eichelberger, cation we feel like we are closing an For the Chapter. other year of Psi U history at the Alumni Notes: Brother Robert Tau. Our only hope is that we may Eichelberger '26, recently announced carry on the banner handed over to his engagement to Miss Helen Nace us as the Seniors' pass from our ranks. of McConnelsburg, Pa.

MU�University of Minnesota the last issue of "The Diamond" In co-operation with the University's SINCEthe Mu has added eleven new names Mothers' Day program, the chapter gave to its roll of brothers. The list of initiates a luncheon for its mothers at the Chapter reads as follows : House on Saturday, May 12. The mothers Class of 1930 seemed to enjoy their brief glimpse of James Weed Moore St. Paul, Minn. the active chapter�on its good behavior,

Richard Carl Bates. . . Minneapolis, Minn. that is. Class of 1931 Cigars were recently passed around by Charles R. Arenschield, Jr Bro. Jim Moore, '30, in announcement of Philadelphia, Pa. his engagement to Miss Alice Ramer of William Henry Ball Fargo, N. D. St. Paul. William Wakely Foshay This communication would be indeed Minneapolis, Minn. incomplete were not some mention made Gordon Preston Loomis of the annual picnic. The 1928 excursion Minneapolis, Minn. equaled, if not surpassed, those of pre William Preston Loomis vious year^. The weather was ideal, the Minneapolis, Minn. location was excellent, the refreshments

Donald Leroy Melin .... Linstrom, Minn. were perfect. All complaints will be James Edgerton Orme, Jr answered by the dark complexioned St. Paul, Minn. brother from downstate. Albert Theodore Schuster Alumni Notes Rochester, Minn. The engagement of Brother Ed. Mott, Harry Elmer Westmoreland '25, to Miss Gertrude Ireland of Portland, Minneapolis, Minn. Oregon, has been announced. The wed Members of the Alumni Association ding will take place in, Portland, June 16. were hosts to the active chapter at a Brothers Bob Budd, '28, and Augustus buffet supper given at the Chapter House, Clapp, '29, have recently become bene April 16. The chapter greatly appreciates dicks. Bro. Budd married Miss Dorothy the interest in its welfare exhibited by Bell of Waco, Texas, and Brother Clapp the Alumni. Thanks are especially due to married Miss Elizabeth Miller of St. Brothers Ken Miller, '18, and George Paul. Womrath, Eta, '96, for their work in Maurice H. Steathman, Jr. bringing the active and alumni brothers Associate Editor. into closer relationship. Rho Omicron and Delta Delta.

RHO�University of Wisconsin

CNo communication received) The Diam-ond of Psi Upsilon 273

EPSILON�University of California

the past semester the Epsilon to ride this mechanical bovine will for DURINGhas distinguished itself on the cam get it in a hurry. Little Milkshake, as pus in many lines. Brothers Schmidt and we called her, was a barrel, saddled, and Rickson did well on the baseball dia suspended on four ropes so that by mond. Brothers Swift and O'Rourke pulling them we could give anyone a real were appointed as junior managers in rough-ride. Milkshake had no trouble track and tennis. Brother Armstrong throwing even the best of her riders dur was selected as editor of the law jour ing the evening, in fact most of those nal, which is the highest honor that who tried to ride her started a skyward can be gained in the law school. The flight as soon as they were seated on the house played a conspicuous part on the saddle. Fortunately the mattress below day of the Big C Sirkus, which comes prevented any serious accidents. once every four years. The brothers The house ia well in all constructed a miniature of the house represented lines of activities. Three are and mounted it on a truck as our sophomores hard at managerial jobs, two float in the parade. For the evening working men are doing well in baseball, and show in the big tent, we had a most suc Brothers Sherman Farrow and O'Sul- cessful side show. A barrel suspended by livan are working for senior manager ropes with a saddle on it gave those who appointments. wanted to show off their riding ability a good chance. However, with a few The freshmen will leave their new jerks on the ropes, the barrel reared and study table, which has been put into ef bucked in a way that was too much for fect this semester and seems to be justi even the best horsemen who tried their fying its existence by improved grades, luck. The scholastic standing of the long enough to present the annual Fresh house has risen, particularly that of the man Show. They will at this time have freshmen for whom a special study table a chance to demonstrate what dramatic has been organized for the first time this ability and wit that they may possess. semester. Since only one man, Bro. The date has been set for April 7. For Athearn, is graduating, the prospects for the following day a house tug ride on the a large house look good for the coming bay has been planned. semester. The success of our monthly alumni dinners is as at each one the Leigh Athearn, improving attendance increases. As a result, a close Associate Editor. friendship is being formed between the old and men. Alumni luncheon (By error omitted from March, 1928, young are formed some of the issue. ) groups being by older alumni. The Epsilon is still recuperating from the "Big C Sirkus" which was held Feb Alumni Notes ruary 29. The circus, which is held every is man leap year, is one of the gala events of the Brother Preston Stuart, '23, university. It is managed by the Big O aging a new commissary system which Society. Floats in the parade and side is feeding all houses on the campus. shows in the big tent are supplied by the Brothers Ralph Morris, ex-'27, and in fraternities and sororities on the campus. William Caldwell, ex-'27, are working Although it meant a great deal of work, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado on a we were represented in both the parade bridge project. and in the circus. The bucking cow, Brother Dean Avery, '25, has moved to art which we presented as our side show, Los Angeles and is in the commercial proved quite popular. Few who attempted business. 274 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon

Brother Ed Porter, '25, is working on Big C Society. a ranch near Stockton. Brother Ralph Myers, ex-'25, has taken Brother Jim Carson, '25, has nearly over the managership of the Salinas Ice completed his interne at St. Luke's hos Plant. Some of the eastern brothers will pital. remember him as "Eppie" at the Con Brother Ezra Decoto, '02, who was the vention. Elliott first football manager at California, has O'Rourke, Associate Editor. been elected an honorary member of the

OMICRON�University of Illinois (No communication received)

DELTA DELTA�Williams College (No communication received)

THETA THETA�University of Washington

THE I5th of April by a special JayVee, which won by a margin even ONinitiation. Mason Olingan, Nelson greater than the Freshman boat. The Collard and Jack Griffin were admitted chances for all four of these men going into the fraternity. A fitting address East to Poughkeepsie are very good. was delivered at the final ceremony by The Valentine boys probably will change Brother Charles Walker, Theta Theta, places with "Stan" in the JayVee at 4, the '17. On May 25th we gave the Psi U and Jack in the varsity at 6. Though mothers a dinner in token of apprecia above is of course tentative, since no offi tion for the new silverware which they cial word has been given as yet, we do gave the Chapter. The dinner was fol know for sure that Brother Bob Saint- lowed with a few selections by Miss Amour will escort the crews East as Katherine Smith, a sister of one of the Junior Manager. brothers and a violinist of exceptional Brother "King" Cornu is working talent. As for our future social plans, hard this quarter as Junior Manager in we expect to have an Installation Ban baseball. We have no varsity balhnen quet in the early part of June. in the house, but are represented on the This quarter is a big one for the Theta freshman squad by Brother Warren Theta from the standpoint of athletics. Slemmons, who won his numerals as In the California Crew here April 6th, catcher. Seven of Washington's varsity Brother "Shorty" Orr coxed the varsity, track squad of thirty members are while Brother "Stan" Valentine rowed 6. brothers, five of whom have already won The varsity lost a tough and gruelling their "W's" this season. Brother Tom race by less than half a length. Brother Humes is perhaps the outstanding, hav Mark Mathews coxing the freshman shell ing broken the Washington running won by two and a half lengths, and broad jump record by making 23 feet 9 Brother Jack Valentine rowed 4 in the inches. Brother Graham Smith is the The Diamond of Psi Upsilon 275 leading 440-yard man on the Washing uate organization levying disciplinary ton squad, and is closely followed in measures on it. Though the controversy every race by Brother "Zeter" Wolfel. is not heated, the point of dispute is im Brother Shelly is running the 220-yard portant, and we feel it should be dealt dash this year in addition to the low with discreetly. hurdles. In the distances the Chapter is Thomas R. Ingham, Brother Stan Jordan in represented by Associate Editor. the half mile and Brother Reed Ingham in the mile, and in the jumping by Alumni Notes Brother Fen Riley. These last three Brother E. H. Naylor, Zeta '09, on his named are entering college track for the visit to the Chapter expressed surprise first time and look good for green mate in our well-stocked library. The Chapter rial. On the Freshman squad Brother was very glad to have Brother Naylor Nelson Collard is a strong contender in as a guest for a few days. Probably few the hurdles. of the Eastern brothers realize how truly isolated the Theta Theta is from other Among other activities this quarter Psi U chapters, we being 750 miles from the Chapter took the swimming honors the nearest, and 2,000 miles from the on Junior Day. The relay team com next nearest. With these long spans of posed of Brothers Volney Richmond, distance, we do not have many visiting Norval Rader, Bob St. Amour, and Gor brothers from other Chapters, and for don Barteau won a handsome silver this reason hope that we may be favored trophy. Brother Rader was high point at least every other year with a visit of man and Brother Richmond second high some member of the Executive Council. point man in the swimming meet held for Bill Theta Theta '26, school championships. Brother Collard, was blessed a few weeks ago with the well off in athletics Though pretty addition of a baby girl to his household. this quarter, the sailing is a little dif In a recent letter from Brother T. B. ferent in political affairs. In the A. S. Rackerby, we learn that he has joined U. W. election Brother Mark Mathews the firm of Toole-Tietzen Company, and lost by 88 votes in his campaign for is located in the stock department of Sophomore representative to the Board that Investment house, in Los Angeles. of Control. A more important affair is 25th of Brother Kirchoff, the Chapter's controversy with the Uni On the May on his way home from the versity on the subject of student govern Epsilon '29, in for ment. In attempting to question certain national convention, dropped alleged violations of rules by the Chapter lunch to get acquainted. in its dance last quarter, the University Brother Ed "Cy" Mott, Mu '25, has is seeking to handle the situation through announced his engagement to Miss Ger a Student Affairs Committee. This Chap trude Ireland. The wedding will be ter opposes the idea of any undergrad June I6th in Portland, Oregon.

NU�University of Toronto

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EPSILON PHI�McGiLL University

AY is a quiet month around the progress at the time of the convention Chapter house. For the first two at Chicago. Fortunately, two of the weeks the brothers are either preparing brothers, Sid Stephens and Campbell for, or else are actually writing, their Merrett, had finished in time to enable final examinations, while by the middle them to represent us at the gathering, of the month most of them have scattered and on their return they were loud in to all parts of the country for the their praises of the wonderful time they summer. had had and the fine hospitality ac The majority of the brothers appear corded them. to have done well in their fairly exams, On the sixteenth of April, eight old though of course, there are some who are Epsilon Phi men who had been unable awaiting the publication results with a to attend the Chapter's installation in considerable amount of fear and trem March, were admitted into the bonds of bling. Psi Upsilon. They were: John James of the science students are at Many Ower, Arts '05, Med. '09 ; P. G. Glasgow, tending survey school out at Ste. Anne professor of pathology at the University de Bellevue, among them Brothers Hugh of Alberta; James Coote, Arts 'II, So. Montgomery, "Moose" Montgomery, Pal '15, associate professor of mechanical mer Savage and Sheddon Bowles. Quite engineering at McGill; A. M. Lindsay, recently, it is understood, they were all Sc. '09; A. E. Lee, Sc. '19; J. A. Loy, from a form of suffering ptomaine poison M.O., Sc. '21 ; H. R. C. Avison, Arts '22, ing (that was their story, at any rate) Theo. '25; L. E. Stephen, Comm. '23; but to date there has been nothing fatal. L. E. Tombs, Arts '24. On account of McGill exams occurring at a much earlier date than those in R. A. Montgomery, colleges south of the line, they were in Acting Associate Editor. chapter roll of psi upsilon

THETA�Union College College Campus, Schenectady, N. Y. DELTA�New York Univeestty 115 West 1 83 d St., New York City BETA�^Yale University New Haven, Conn. SIGMA�Brown University 4 Manning St., Providence, R. I. GAMMA�Amherst College Amherst, Mass. ZETA�Dartmouth College Hanover, N. H. LAMBDA�Columbia University 627 West II5th St., New York City KAPPA�BowDoiN College 250 Main St., Brunswick, Maine PSI�'Hamilton College College St.,, Clinton, N. Y. XI�Wesleyan University High and College Sts., Middletown, Conn. ALPHA� (Harvard University) Inactive UPSILON�University of Rochester 41 Prince St., Rochester, N. Y. IOTA�^Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio PHI�iUnifersity of Michigan 1000 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Mich. OMEGA�University of Chicago 5639 University Ave., Chicago, 111. PI�Syracuse University lOI College Place, Syracuse, N. Y. CHI�Cornell University I Central Ave., Ithaca, N. Y. BETA BETA-Trinity College 81 Vernon St., Hartford, Conn. ETA�liBHiGH University South Bethlehem, Pa. TAU�UNivERsrrY of Pennsylvania 300 So. 36th St., Philadelphia, Pa. MU�University of Minnbsota I72I University Ave., S. E., Minneapolis, Minn. RHO�University of Wisconsin 222 Lake Lawn Place, Madison, Wis. EPSILON�UNiVBESrrT of CALrFORNiA 1815 Highland Place, Berkeley, Calif. OMICRON�^University of Illinois 313 Armory Ave., Champaign, 111. DELTA DELTA�Williams College Williamstown, Mass. THETA THETA�UNivERsrrYl of Washington 1818 E. 47th St., Seattle,' Wash. NU�UNiraEsmr of Toronto 65 St. George St., Toronto, Canada EPSILON PHI^McGrLL UNivERsrrY 3429 Peel St., Montreal, Canada

THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

President, Eael D. Babst Iota-Phi '93 117 Wall St., New York

Vice President, Charles P. Spoonee Rho '94 14 Wall St., New York

Secretary, E. H. Nayloe Zeta '09 44 Vernon St., Springfield, Mass. Treasurer, Walteb T. Collins Iota '03 15 Broad St., New York

R. Boubke Coecoean Omega '15 A. Aveet Hallock, Xi '16 30 N. Dearborn St., Chicago Hotel Shelton, 49th and Lexington Ave.,

Archibald _ _ Douglas, Lambda '94 � � ,�� 233 ^^ Broadway,' New York ^^^^Z^A^^''^'^^'70 Fifth Ave., New^^S?York De. George Henry Fox, Upsilon '67 Edwaed L. Stevens, Chi '99 10 E. 58th St., New York Delhi, N. Y. 277 ALUMNI CLUB DIRBCTOEY

City Secretary Address Boston- W. R. Scuddeb 437 Mass. Teust Bldg. Phone Main 6888

Lunch, Fridays, Boston Tavern

Buffalo� Palmer Ceaig U. S. Gypsum Co. Lunch, Third Fridays, Hotel Lafayette

Chicago� Pierre Beosseau 30 N. Deaeboen St. State 8888 Lunch Wednesdays, Hotel LaSalle

Denver� Joseph C. Houston, Je. 827 Marion St. Lunch, Tuesdays, 12:30, at Fishers

Elmbba, N. Y.� Wallace Coykendall Robinson Bldg. Elmiea, N. Y. Glen Falls� R. P. Jones Glen Falls, N. Y.

Memphis� W. Thornton Bucknee N. Y. Life Insueance Co., Phone Main I35I Centeal Bank Bldg.

Milwaukee� Eliot G. Fitch National Exchange Bank

Minneapolis� Robert B. Haetzell 3615 E. 45th St., Drexel 4444 Lunch, 12 : 15 p. m.. Every Wednesday, Log Cabin Room of Donaldson's

New Yoek� Charles A. Lockaed, Je. 45 Nassau St., New York

Philadelphia� Robert A. Eichelbebgee 3440 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Poetlawd, Orb.� Claeence Shivers. c/o Shell Oil Co. Lunch, Tuesdays, Commercial Club, 806 Oregon Bldg. Providencb� Myron H. S. Affleck 71 Willard Ave.

Luncheon 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, Turks Head Club, 1 p. m.

Rochester� Eenest E. Goesline c/o Scrantom's

Seattle� Charles H. Walker 208 Marion St. LuncheonWeekly, Fridays, Blanc's Cafe, 4th Ave. and Marion St. Springfield, Malcolm C. Sherwood Massasoit Bldg., Mass.� Phone Walnut 51 244 Main St.

St. Louie� Bronson S. Baeeows 1008 Chemical Bldg. Phone Main 3306

Lunch 12:15 Second and Fourth Wednesdays, St. Paul Hotel, Windsor Room St. Paul� Edwaed Koppee, Je. H. C. McNaie Co., . 334 Endicott g^A.�^>�^,y. ^ '�"i^'y^-T. Bldg. Syracuse� Wl. NtveeNrvER Wynkoop, 503 James St. ToBONT(�, Ont.� Lloyd M, Price Canadian Geneeal Electric Co.

Dinner, First Mondays, Chapter House, 65 St. George St. Vancouveb, F. G. T. Lucas IOth Flooe, B. C, Canada� Phone Seymoue 4133 Standaed Bank Bldg.

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