The Diamond of Psi Upsilon May 1882

The Diamond.

Vol. 1, MAY, 1882. No. 6.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE PAOE Poetry�Our Queen 3 Editorial s Old Men's Song 3 Address ol Gen. J. R. Hawley. Gen. Arthur In College 3 Correspondence 10

Poem�The Brother Feud. . . 5 Our Chapters 11 Ah Executive Council Fund. 7 Personals 15 Psi UpsUon Directory.

BOARD OF EDITORS :

HENRY C. WOOD, - - - Edetok in Chief.

George F. AiiLison. Dow Beekman. "Waliacb T. Foote.

Associate Editors :

Delta�AiiDBN A. Febbman. Xt�WniiiiAM J. James.

Sigma�CHAUiBs H. Payne. Upsilon�Chaelbs M. Jeetis.

� Oamma�E. H. Byington. Iota Gboeub H. Smith.

� Zeta�^LuTHEE B. Little. Phi Chaeles L. CoPFrff.

� Lambda�E. B^ Holdbn. Omega Alien B. Seaman.

� Kappa�R. C. Wasjbdbuen. Chi Henet M. Dibble.

� Psi�ROBBET L. Taylob. Beta Beta Geoege Gebene, Je.

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Vol. 1, MAY, 1882. No. 6.

OUR QUEEN. The laugh comes bubbling back; The sound of waves at play ; BY GBOBeE S. COLEMAN, OF THE XI, '76. The smiling jest; and track Air�^^Druid^s Chorus.'' Through gold of cloudless day. The Sigma, and Psi ;�Lambda, and Ohi, Hall to our Queen, P'sl Upsilon lalr, Crowding the lively nest :� Crowned In the heart ol each loyal son; And rosing anew our sober sky,� Green te the garlands thy temples wear, Psi Upsilon,- the blest! While time Ms journey shall run. Loud he our voice thy praise to sing, But frown the solemn years. Loud let the echo ring. Hurrah ! And bar escape of smile. And grave, among the cheers. CHORUS�FUng to the hreeze our banner of light, Comes back our Age, the while. Blazoned with symbols sparkling and bright. The Upsilon ; Xi;� Zeta, and Phi, Thrilling the soul and cheering the sight, Crowding the shelter nest :� Flag of our own Psl UpsUon. When gathers the dust ol darkening sky, Psl Upsilon,� the blest ! While gleams the diamond from thy throne. Sorrow begone and brow-wrinkling care ; So Youth shall soften Age, Thy peaceful trophies, thy fair re.^iown, And Age cool youthful fire. Each honored brother may share. Till Time shall turn last page. In more dear than Deep ourhearts, tame, And with last line expire . Kindle devotion's flame. Hurrah ! The Omega, I-ota, and Pi, Crowding to brim ol the nest :� Chorus�FUng to the breeze, &c. O, long may they fly in blue ol the sliy,- Psi the Gladly we come to answer thy call. Upsilon,- blest,! Drawn by a love compelling us here ; Gladly we'll enter thy palace haU, GEN. ARTHUR- IN COLLEGE. Home of the Queen we revere. other names our thoughts may spell. Though Every young man has a desire to learn of the youth None can we love so well. Hurrah I of distinguished men. He wonders if in youth they Chorus�FUng to the breeze, &c. displayed those peculiarities which distinguish their old age of fame. We are accustomed to contemplate men in their hours of and for THE OLD MEN'S SONG. great triumph glory, that also have their younger days of petty BY HON. FRANCIS M. FINCH, BETA '49. getting they' success and defeat. Gen. Arthur, who now, with Air�Nearer my God to Thee. strong hand, guides the ship of state, once a timorous Through haze ol Summers flown. college boy trembled at the thought of the mysteri And numerous as their blooms. ous initiation ceremonies of Psi U. Far back to Youth's warm zone, We look from Winter glooms. Arthur entered Union as a Sophomore. Although The Beta, and Psl ; Gamma, and Chi, ooiatrary to the custom of Sophomores, he was modest Crowding the mother nest : and retiring in his manner, he soon attracted the no They mellow with songs our evening sky,- the different secret societies. Arthur and Psl Upsilon,- the blest ! tice of Frederick W. Seward, who has since become famous There's fall of frost on hair : were intimate friends and wished to Too quick the old tears start :� in our country, But Memory yet is fair. join the same society, and as they were both "good And the faithful heart. young men" there was a twofold rivalry, but Psi U was vic The Alpha, and Xi ; Theta, and Phi, torious and the two were initiated at the same time. Crowding the noisy nest :� Arthur at first did not They color with wings our lading sky,� That popularity which enjoyed Psi the blest ! course. In Upsilon,� wane but increased throughout his college

' our well built and erect. His IlAge has drowned ]oys, , appearance, he was tall, And Hope gloomed into Truth, and full of of character. At eye was bright expression At least, to-night, dear boys. the end of the Junior year, Arthur had attained his You bring us back our youth. of his intellectual and The Delta, and Psl;� Kappa, and Pi, full stature and in recognition Crowding the Joyful nest :� physical development he was called "Old Chet." Of They flutter, and flit athwart our sky,� this one of his classmates says; "He indeed was Psl Upsilon,� the blest! 4 THE DIAMOND.

entitled to the prefix both from his appearance and his nothing and bore the punishment as though it had attainments, his being 'an old head on young should been deserved. He despised all meanness, insiaceii- ' " ers. ty and hypocrisy. Any manifestation of th9se quali Although Arthur was no "hard student" in the ties was sure to meet his scorn. One of his classmates sense of long and laborious application to the college thus speaks of him : "Were every member of the curriculum, he" nevertheless, maintained a high stand class of '48 alive to-day I feel sure that the imanimous ing in his class. It was the wonder of his classmates testimony of its more than a hundred men would be that that "Chet" studied so Kttle and recited so well. The no man in their class had a keener sense of honor in solution was found in his rare perceptive faculties all the relations of college life than he who is now the which enabled him to grasp a principle in an instant. constitutional head of fifty millions of people." In this we may see the foreshadowing of the states Did not that chivalric manliness of the Arthur of man and politician in whom quickness and shrewd college days presage the fearless honor and highmind- ness are the distinguishing characteristics. edness of the Arthur of the nation's hour of peril, In Greek and Latin, Arthur excelled, but in math who with the people mourned the loss of their chief ematics, he took no pleasure. It was in a recitation and turned the scorn of his enemies to applause ? in mathematics that Arthur's ever � Those humor, bubbling who have known Gen. Arthur in later years forth, at one time displayed itself at the expense of have always been impressed by his dignified, gentle the Professor. One of the boys called on to explain a manly bearing. Thi s with his J ollity and quiet humor certain pendulum either inadvertently or purposely also rendered him a pleasant companion in his youth. called it Kidd's The Professor "Oapt. pendulum." He had that discriminating insight into men and did not observe the mistake and called on Arthur to their characteristics which early taught him to adapt draw a diagram of the pendulum on the board while himself to their wishes and has since been of much the other man was continuing his explanation. The aid to him in the political field. Professor did not find a cause for the broad smiles of While a student, his room was, in college parlance, the class until turning around he saw the drawing of the "hanging-out place" of the Psi U's. His habits a from which was the gallows suspended body of the of study were not so rigid that he was annoyed at the renowned pirate. entrance of a crowd at any time of the day or night. Arthur had a thirst for genuine knowledge and was He was ever ready to lay aside his book and entertain a scholar from "apparently his youth up." His as and be entertained with college jokes. Arthur had sociates describe him as "a constant reader," wishing an inordinate love for a joke and was an "inveterate no better than a book. What time was companion punster," His mind was quick to perceive the ludi not devoted to his studies was regular bestowed upon crous in whatever form it appeared. Scott and Bulwer were his favorites general reading. All who were in the society with him remem in fiction and and Macauley's history essays delighted ber him as a most zealous Psi U. Although our Fra him. Few men of his class had a more accurate ternity was then only about fifteen years old, Arthur of ancient and modern literature than knowledge was sanguine of its permanence and success. Natu young Arthur. He possessed the rare to com abihty rally reserved and undemonstrative, it was the one prehend the entire scope of what he read and to re theme upon which he would grow enthusiastic. A tain it in his mind so classified that when he chose he brother Psi U says: "No man was more devoted to could call it forth with elegant It is inter System. the interests of our Fraternity and no one offered a esting to note these peculiarities which at the time truer type of the genuine W. T. than he�an ardent were lightly passed by, but unconsciously gave prom advocate of the principles and objects of our Brother ise of future success. hood during his entire college life. No one furnished While in college Arthur is not remembered as in a more striking illustration of those qualities of man sense a "wire While any puller." he la hood which lie zeaSftusly at the foundation and are the very bored that his society should have her share of class " genius of our beloved Psi Upsilon. honors he awakened no antagonisjn and was a friend It is a pleasing assurance to our brothers that he to all. For everyone he met he bad a kind greeting who is now President once sustained such intricate and a pleasant word. To his friends.he was always relations to our Fraternity. Although he perchance true and loyal. There was a certain chivalric sense has lost much of the enthusiasm of his college days, of honor in him that immediately inspired confidence yet we are confident from his letters to the Theta that and regard. he stUl has a warm interest in Psi U. and would -be At one time .the blame of a certain misdemeanor very ready to advance her Avelfare whenever occasion demand his aid. committed by some of his classmates was imputed to might Well we honor so a who has him the authorities. may deserving brother by college He, instead of expos been exalted to the highest position ever attained by his associates and his ing proving innocence said a Psi U. Dow Beekman. THE DIAMOND. 5

English Verse by a Norse Poet�For these times Two fair sons the gods had brought him, each unto his heart most in America. dear. And when age Ms strength had broken and the hour of death drew near. THE BROTHER-FEUD. Both unto liis couch he summoned, and, whUe life was ebbing low- BY HJALMAB HJORTH BOYESBN, PH. D. Bade them stand ekch by the other, sharing Joy and sharing woe.

I. "Lo, I leave you wide possessions and the wealth my father's won. Which descended undivided through long years from sire to son: PEBLUDB. Guard this heritage united, as ye guard your ancient name. Brothers, ye whom one affection and one common bond unite. And transmit it to your children with a fair and spotless lame." Who within your breast have guarded youth's clear flame serene and bright; And each son, he swore with fervor to obey his sire's behest, In whose lives youth's fair tradition lingers yet undimmed and And ere long the aged chieftain m his mound was laid to rest. strong, And his kinsmen and retainers, gathered at the brother's oaU, Like an ever-haunting echo of a dear familiar song ; Praised in song and speech the hero as he rose to Odin's hall.

You I give a brother's greeting, hail you by a brother's name ; Gudmund Strong and Alf the Dauntless (so were hight those In your deeds of toil and prowess rests to-day our fairest fame ; brothers twain) Our escutcheon still untarnished glimmers brightly in the sun, At each other's side stood bravely, fought then- foes and reaped Bearing proudly yet the token of our dear Psi Upsilon ! their grain. And God Thor, whose joy is battle, with renown made bright I behold our brethren men whose voice with among mighty ring their shields. Has in council halls resounded while the land was listening : And the gentler Frey his blessings showered o'er their fruitful who not in when the Nation's need was Men quailed danger fields. great. Men whose hands with and wisdom guide the rudder of strength Yet ere Winters three their silvern annor cast o'er Norway's the State : shore Thought each son with vague forboding of the oath that once he Men who own that larger wisdom that discerns the moment's swore ; need, For each felt foul germs of discord lurking 'neath his forced re Strong to heal the gaping sword-wounds that erewhile have pose. ceased to bleed ; Like the hidden thorn that lurketh 'neath the velvet of the rose. Who have stilled the storm of passion in a state so sore dis traught Gudmund Strong was grave and patient, tolling early, toiling By the rankling hate and discord which the brother-feud had late. wrought. Keen ol speech and ever zealous to increase their fair estate. While the merry-hearted, for his prowess far re And where'er my vision wanders down the misty aisles of Ufe, young Alt, I behold our token flashing high o'er human toil and strife. nowned. Loved wine and maidens and the chase with hawk I behold undimmed the lustre of the diamond, and the clasp good bonny and hound. Of the hands that e'er responded warmly to a brother's grasp.

And the youths that come to gather here the wisdom of the past. Both were brave and both true-hearted, each the other loved Come to wrestle with the mighty thoughts the ages have amassed full well. Through their lives this bond of friendship like a blooming Each believed his father's spirit in the deeds he wrought to wreath shall run. dwell, bitterness Making aU the severed sections of our land In spirit one. Yet, from each new strife, though trifling, rankling survives, . and sunder in the tumult of the day- ruin thrives. Much there Is to part As a darksome prickly thistle on a moldertng Idle strife and views divergent, tearing friends from friends away. shines the sun But above the brawl of factions serenely yet ; And at length when bodeful silence long had brooded o'er their ! And this day we meet as brothers�brothers in Psi Upsilon path. Burst with brawl and seething foam-crest one high towering in this serener mood where voice is stiU, Listen then, passion's wave of wrath. 'rieath a Norseland hill. shyly . To a lay I plucked pale-blooming Dauntless Alf his voice upUfted and fuU hotiy came his breath, voice would strike the larger chords whose sound is Pain my And he caUed his swains together and his sword leaped from its deep and strong. sheath. of That your heartstrings long may vibrate to the measure my birds ol song. Then beneath the roof of heaven soreamej the hungry prey, at dawn of AS the two, whom gods united, sundered stood day, the of their II. When their swains with wary finger proved edges swords, BBOTHBR-FEUD. THE And the peasants thronged around the standards of their wrath ful lords. Northward .far where cloud-capped glaciers in the midnight's splendor glow, shrouds of Faith and love and oaths forgotten and the bonds of blood forgot. With their ample shoulders folded in far-gleaming E'en the sun half shrank in sorrow from thafhapless sight, I wot snow; clash of and blare Northland Shrank from sound of angry war-cries, blades Where wide lakes reflect the glory of the flaming skies. named The of horn. Lived in olden time a chieftain whom the people As their war-hosts rushed together in the gloaming of the morn. Wise. 0 THE DIAMOND.

Swarms of spears in hissing splinters cloudward sped and arrows Gudmund silent and defiant gazed upon Ills prostrate foe,. In his fieet. breast no fount of pity flowed amid his deathless woe, And the green sod shook with hoof-beats and the weight of Lo, the blood that cried to heaven cried for vengence at hJs hand! steel-clad feet. Lo, the cold, deserted hearthstones aiid the sorrow of the land ! And in fearless flight the Norsemen upward rose to Odin's Then he bound his brother's in hard . throne : body bonds that gnawed his Lo ! ere night stood AU victorious on the field of death alone. flesh. Till his strength was well-nigh wasted and each sword-wound Softly down the paUid moonbeams through the summer twiUght bled afresh.; sped. But with proud and tameless spirit all his bitter woes he bore, And brave With fierce gleams from eyes that saw not and the falchions of All, laid low and vanquished, was as dauntless as the dead. before. And the night-birds swiftly darted through the air on noiseless Then wing. sent Gudmund forth his house-swatns, human vultures Round about the solemn pine-woods, steeped in gloom, and greedy-eyed. To devour his brother's listening. substance and abase his stubborn pride ; And the gods, their deeds beholding, wept in pity sore lor him. Dauntless Alf stood darkly brooding, all his joy had come to For the cup ol woe ran over, filled beyond the bitter brim. nought. And the rain in And his heart waxed hot within him at the deed that he had sounding torrents swept adown the whirling air. But no ol life it wrought. germ quickened, and the fields lay bleak and And Ms mighty soul was shaken with unutterable dread : bare; And the sun beat downward All the world grew lone about him as though God Himself were fiercely through its rifled vaU of dead. cloud- In its bud the rose lay blighted as the dead within Ms shroud. For amid the misty moonbeams rose a form of visage bright. Then one morn stood Gudmund And a cloak its shape enfolded as the gloom enfolds the night. gazing out upon Ms wide domain, Saw the of devastation Stooping now o'er some dead warrior, drifting through the dusky path winding o'er the sterile plain ; And his heart space. waxed big within him and his eyes with tears grew Onward moving�pitying heavens ! Alf t)eheld his father's face. �; hot; "Gods of wrath, yours is the vengeance, and I fool, I knew It not." And a voice Uke rushing waters through the midnight stiUness broke, Straight with eager steps he Med him to where Alf in fetters lay, And he broke his From the darksome forest borders dim and shadowy echoes woke : bonds in sunder, flung them to the winds away ; "Lo, my house, my blood divided, brother's sword 'gainst brother And he chid the hungry house-swains, bade them from his sight drawn. depart, Shall my heritage united, sundered Ue ere break of dawn ? Raised with tender hand Ms brother, clasped him to ills brother- heart. Like the din of mighty breakers beating 'gainst the foreland's breast. Since that hour the twain united stand like brothers, hand in Rose the clash of battle to me in the bright halls of the blest. hand; in See the once well But behold, brother's battle foul death lurks In glory's path. love, nigh withered, Into fuUer bloom expand ; And the hand that drew the sword-blade shall be shivered by And the joy of one with gladness brightens too the other's sky, And e'en its wrath." sorrows face crows fairer mirrored in the other's eye.

Now Speaking thus the wraith, dissolving, vaMshed in the moon's pale the rain its blessings showers through the soft warm Sum beams,. mer air. And each germ of life is quickened and the fields are and And brave Alf, like one that wrestles with the might of heavy green fair dreams. ; Gladness dwells in hut and and the sunIn Quivering stood, and clutched Ms sword-hilt, stubborn yet and palace splendor glows, And � fierce, I trow. its prophecy fuUilllng bursts from out Its bud.the rose ! But big drops of anguish gathered, trickling down his rugged brow.

But as dawn the heavens upcllmbing bathed the dewy world in Ught, Pale, unreal seemed the vision that had wrought its dread by O, my brothers, the day and the hour is at hand, When night. the dead past must bury its dead ; Pale to seemed Ms lather's menace, in the flush of victory. When the flames of grim hate long so artfully fanned Like the gleam of things far trembling through the waters of the � Must be quenched, ere disaster they spread. sea. When the baneful dissensions the brother-feud wrought. And those wrathful brothers clash in a again many hot affray, And the sorrowful deeds that were done And again the steel-tongued arrow cloudward wends its winged Must yield to the larger, all-strengthemng thought. way. That in race and in blood we are one. And again the waU of maidens mingles with the battle's roar, As adown the meadovi s scour Do we ravaged the hungry hounds of war. honor the dead whose warm life-blood was shed. That our land might united remain. Winters four their wrath have wasted, dim have grown four By undoing their deed, that ambition may feed Summers suns. On the life of their guerdon and gain ? And the land lies bleak and bloomless and the brooklet crimson runs ; ShaU the sword which they drew, now be brandished anew, Then at the length war-cry, fainting, dies with one long last Fresh dissension and hate to Incite? - lament, Shall our love lor the slain cleave this nation in twain. And proud Alf in dust is humbled and Ms dauntless spirit spent. Which they dyed with their blood to unite I THE DIAMOND. 7

Not a union of swords, or of subjects and lords. the bulk of the editions to you and Brother Smiley, Did our vaUant fathers create. so that the proceeds of any sale they may have may But ol hearts that as one beat while Ufe-blood shall run, be added to the Council Fund. Perhaps I m the love that makes glorious and great. proposed may find some other ways of helping to increase the fund." In a postscript he recommends that we "jointly de IV. posit the money ia a sound Savings Bank." Accord Like a late created Delos blooming on the Ocean's breast. ingly, after correspondence with Brother Smiley, I of the Hose this virgin State resplendent from the cloud-realms deposited fifty-two dollars in the Seaman's Bank for West. in this on the 6th of October, 1881, to Dewy, warm as with the Incense that made glad Creation's morn, Savings, city, GuUtless of the sins of ages, by the ancient gods unsworn. the credit of "Ward McLean and Charles W. Smiley, Trustees of Executive Council Fund of Psi Upsilon High was reared its sMnlng portal, with broad, hospital front, Beckoniflg to earth's outlawed children earthward bent by toil Fraternity." and want. Subsequently, I received from Prof. Fiske four hold the wherein men God's Wide to widening systems image forms of sheet music as follows : wrought, 123 of "The of the Chi.� And a heaven-Ut vast arena for the noble war of thought. Copies Chapter Songs Fraternally Dedicated to the Chi Chapter of the Psi New Wm. From this freedom's fane ascended thoughts of strong and Upsilon, in Cornell University. (4) York, mighty mold ; A. Pond & Co., 25 Union Square. Copyright 1881, F. Music With tumultuous resounding o'er the time-worn realms they by W. Fiske." "Words by W. (Psi). by rolled ; W. O. F." And the old world, wild with visions ol diviner things to come, 238 Copies of "The Owl Song, Fraternally inscribed Kose,soul-thrilled,toburst her letters,rose to conquer martyrdom. to the Executive Council of Psi Upsilon. Music by W. O. Fiske. Boston. Oliver Ditson & Co., 451 Brothers, when I lift my vision o'er the century that is gone,� Washington St," See. the surging storm of action in its pathway sweeping on,� of "Psi Com Then my soul within me listens dumb. In awed humility. 238 Copies Upsilon Smoking Song, heart-heat Beta of Psi in Yale Like some wondering child that hears the sounding posed for the Upsilon College, by New York. C. of the sea. Francis Miles Finch. (B 1849). (3) H. Ditson & Co., 843 Broadway." the oft^told how the seed ol ancient wrong Why recount story, 124 Copies of "The Psi Upsilon National Song, In this maiden sou was planted,how it blossomed and grew strong. Dedicated to the Fraternity. (4) New York. Wm. Like the dragon's teeth upspringlng into growths of sword-grit A. Pond & Co., 25 Union Square. Copyright 1881, men. W. Fiske." death and desolation over Mil and dale and plain ? by Spreading at These songs wUl be sold by me to the Fraternity let it in the dim abyss of years ; of one It is past ! O, slumber the rate of thirty cents per copy, or at the rate is broken sink in of healing Let the wave whose strength peace to the Fund above dollar per set ; the proceeds to go tears ! our land once more Waed McLean, Love shall join what hate hath sundered and designated. York rejoice; 35 Astor House, New City. was in "the stlU smaU God was not in Are and storm-wind ; God voice." DIRECTORY. hour without ; PSI UPSILON Let us face the sterner problem ol the regret Be It justice to remember, it is nobler to forget, THE COTJNOrL. on heaven's Fan- with promise many-hued, the brow Is spanned Wakd McLean (Theta 1843), President, arch, New York future march ! 35 Astor House, City. And in us restored the nation shall toward its Eev. Hugh Bouenonville McCahlby (Delta 1877), See'y and Treasurer, Hackensack, N. J. An Executive Council Fund. Herbert Lawrence Bridgman (Gamma 1866), 55 Park Place, New York City. of last. Prof. WiUard In the latter part September Charies Wesley Smiley (Xi 1874), in reference to which D. O. Fiske sent me fifty-two dollars, Smithsonian Institute, Washmgton, he wrote me as follows : Howard Benjamin Grose (Upsilon 1876), of an 39 Park New York "I want this money to form the beginning Eow, City. Brother Executive Council Fund, of Avhioh you and THE PUBLICATIONS. to Charles W. Smiley, shall be Trustees, with power 1 The Catalogue. 9th ed. 1879. Out of print. to Psi 9th ed. 1861. $1. fill own vacancies. I wish the fund increase, 2. The Songs of Upsilon. your 1871-81. For interest to S. The Records of the Convention, the to be always intact, and the principal ofiicial use. when the shall amount, to be spent only principal 4. The Oration of the Convention for 1880. one or two of the Coun $1,000. Very soon I propose to publish The above are all under the direction with the music, and ultimately, my cil. Psi Upsilon songs Lock box N.Y. turn over 5. The Diamond. 57, Schenectady, historical sketch of Psi Upsilon, and shall 'i:

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The Diamond. year. The history of the Detroit Association is an evidence that much pleasure and benefit can be derived from these yearly gatherings. MAY THE FEATEENITY YEAE XLIX. OF The Fraternity life of our graduates is not a dream of the past, so that an opportunity to dwell upon the The Diamond, a journal devoted to the interests, advancement, scenes and to recall the memories of by-gone days is and welfare of the Psi Upsilon, is issued every two montlis, and is a privilege highly esteemed by all. designed both for circulation among the Chapters, and for the infor mation of the graduate sons of Psi Upsilon in regard to the progress of the Fraternity. The subscription is one dollar per annum, in advance. The central situation of the Pi Chapter and its well All contributions, subscriptions, and communications, should he known reputation for hospitality; the attractiveness addressed: of the and the of the THE DIAMOND, literary program; importance Look Box 5T, Schenectady, N. Y. business to be transacted promises to maka the con vention of this year the largest assemblage of the kind The XLIXth General Convention of the Fratern ever held. The Executive CouncU will be repre ity will take place with the Pi Chapter, at Syracuse sented by its President, and every Chapter by offi N. Y. cial The convention will also be dis University, Syracuse, , Wednesday, May Kith, delegates. and Thursday, May \lth. tinguished by the presence of a large body of gradu The Orator is the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, {Beta ates. Many questions of the utmost importance await the action '56.) The Poet, N. M. Wheeler, (Pi '75). The of the Convention. The application for a Toastmaster, Prof. WiUard Fiske, {Psi '51). new Chapter has been carefuUy discussed during the The Convention will assemble in the Chapter Hall past year, and the Chapters will come prepared to act after a of the Pi, May 10th, at 10:30 a. m. thorough consideration of its merits. Ar The Public Exercises will be held at the Orand rangements will be made for our semi-centennial.cele- and we trust that Opera House, on the evening of May 10th. bration, they may be of such a nature as The Reception will take place at the Grand Opera will make it the most brilliant gathering House Hall immediately after the public exercises. ever held in the annals of Psi Upsilon. The Banquet will take place at the Olobe Hotel, May 11th, at %:00 p. m. Introductory Address of Gen. J. R. Hawley, LL. D., at the Public Exercises of the Forty-Fourth Annual The history of Psi Upsilon for the' past five years Convention of the is a record of unparalleled prosperity. The publica Fraternity. tion of the ninth catalogue in 1879 ; the successive Gentlemen : Your invitation to speak, here was issues of the song book ; the erection of Chapter hou very agreeable, and it was cheerfully and promptly ses ; and the formation of numerous graduate asso accepted ; yet, as I sat down to prepare my thoughts, ciations, have all tended to increase the usefulness it for the first time occurred to me that the acceptance and promote the welfare of the Fraternity. To the was due to the pleasant memories that flashed through public Psi Upsilon is fast becoming the type of the my mind, and to an impulse to grant a day to this re American College Society, and its name is already vival of old associations, and was given without suf better known than that of any other similar organiza-' ficient reflection upon my inability to justify your tion. selection. What you expect, I know not. Most men One of the marked characteristics of our order is of my age who come here, come out of the dust, strug the interest manifested in it by graduate members. gle, tumult, and anxiety of active Ufe, thinking of the To keep their zeal ever livingshould be the care of every past and hoping to renew for a few hours the pleas Chapter. How it can be best accomplished has al ures of our youth. Few of us are fortunate in the ready been stated in The Diamond. Not only upon time and taste for pursuing the studies of collegiate the Chapters, however, should the performance of life. I trust all have wisely continued the cultivation this duty rest, but upon the graduates themselves. of its cheerful philosophy and charming friendships. No of can render their a body graduates Fraternity If that be so, you, my young brothers, may not justly more loyal service than by forwarding the organization imagine that youth alone comprehends and 'enjoys of associations. Eleven permanent already exist, true pleasure. I can indulge for you no richer wish chiefly in our principal cities, but we conceive the than that while faithfully meeting the sober duties of number can be easily enlarged. New York City is life you may faithfully preserve, diligently cherish, without an association. An annual dinner there is and strengthen every taste and aptitude for moral and and we trust ere that certainly feasible, long it will intellectual pleasure. So doing you will continually be one of the most prominent features of the Fraternity find life growing wider, more varied, more inspiring, THE DIAMOND. 9 fascinating, and glorious. You will feel a keener de me and the lessons it has taught. Let us hope that light in the visible forms of nature, in sunlight and the Fraternity is everywhere conducted with its prim breeze, in midnight and storm, wood, meadow, moun itive simplicity, integrity, honor, and fideUty. tain, valley, river, and sea. You may delight only in In a few instances eminent educators have objected the roUicking-song and roaring chorus, or the dizzy to the secrecy observed in these societies. It seems waltZj will have discovered a broad world of music, to us harmless in any aspect, and in some regards it and become the glad subject of its many kings. In appears very useful. I presuppose, as indispensable architecture, sculpture, painting, and poetry, there is to respect and toleration, that the young men associ cannot field upon field, kingdom on kingdom, byway and ate for only worthy objects. True friendship highway. And while in all those the past is glorious be found in an association with any low motive. Says a book and the present not unworthy, neither the past nor Cicero, in that essay which might weU be text present is the best the world will have had. In the in every friendly society, "it is a most pernicious natural sciences, in the whole domain of physics, the error to think that in friendship there may be a " Na excitement, the novelty, the development are unceas license for wrongful indulgence and evil doing. us as an assistant in virtue, ing. Literature keeps pace in activity, possibly with ture has given friendship not a in vice." an activity that sometimes must needs sacrifice excel companion seek firmness and in lence. In every field of thought, or invention, or We stability friendship. cannot exist without truth, manufacture, the. fresh and curious mind may find Those quaUties fidelity, be used to shelter vicious delight. The political world furnishes no exception. and virtue. If friendship motives and conscience is whispering Its studies are pursued with intense zeal, and in gov pursuits, always continuance is ernmental affairs the changes and combinations are condemnation, and its accompanied by a demoralization. The true friend neither kaleidoscopic. So if it please you, God helping, to general To the not asks what is base nor grants it being asked. keep your soul and body sound, you may only ? It be answered why "go out to meet the shadowy future without fear and question why any secrecy may do even two friends seek occasion to con with a manly heart," but with a certainty that the habitually and verse with each other ? There is a pleasure world needs you somewhere, and has much good, hon only in to the natural desire to share our est hard work ready for you, and that if you wish to a profit yielding and and sorrows with others worthy of the trust have it so, you shall have a steadily increasing capa joys it, nor have aU men around us a right city for pure pleasures and find them everywhere. reciprocating to that each does not freely bare his heart Perhaps I misjudge, but I fear that while the in- complain value in the often feels the desire to aU others. There is a great positive genous and whole souled youth mutual of confidence, assistance, trust, to be esteemed and loved by his comrades, and justly cordial, pledges and honor. It is the reputation of being a right good encouragement, equaUty, fidelity, enough prizes all�it is not that they shaU be made to fellow, it seldom comes seriously into his mind that expected to choose those to whom they shaU be made. his fitness and capacity for friendship, his own value right embraces the entire four attract and retain true Wherever a Fraternity years as a and his ability to friend, its or more of coUege or university life, advantages are as well subject to cultivation and improve friends, a class than where . it is of and the culti are decidedly greater only ment as any. quality or power mind, if the elder members exercise over vation bears rich and precious fruit in the maturity society, especially and and are expected to give training brotherly and old of man. In this culture of the young sight, age It is the of true and advice, as in my coUege days. part man Ues the value of the college Fraternities, and counsel�to them Psi friendship to give warning give our own eminent and dearly beloved Upsilon and accept them patiently. Friends are brotherhood. Every leader in education admits freely gently There is no true friend without trust, be unsuspicious. that if a or university rightly organized coUege morose and sad- and this the Fraternity teaches. A and by generous and and conducted, happily pervaded the faced friend may be found among eccentricities, a share of its value to manly sentiments, very large and but he is not to be desired; cheerful gaiety the student, I do not venture to say what proportion, and manner are to be cultivated as the suavity of speech lies in the associations and atmosphere of place� Let not our Broth culture. I due from friend to friend. young the insensible attraction, absorption� knows sincere and ar of is ers here fancy that youth only would carefuUy, for the training y^outh speak Old friends are like old wines, in that and observation, dent affection. serious business, but my experience unlike become finer in the lapse of time, but with initiation as a Sophomore nearly they beginning my waste not but in the using. in that them in that they grow ago, justify me claiming thirty-three years nor death Nor does long separation, even, destroy is one of the most valuable adjuncts this Fraternity to that while the of their value. It is pleasant reflect, of and me to speak with gratitude acoUegeUfe, enjoin are far and we seldom it has afforded comrades of our youth apart the precious pleasures of friendship 10 THE DIAMOND.

meet and seldom even exchange a message, yet we cal observatory, a library, a museum, a military build recollection and a know we remember each other, and the ing gymnasium, building for the coUege of me

' of kindly deeds and words, and common happiness chanical arts, and a farm house. remains a precious memory. Nor need we be un 2. Faculty, Students, Alumni, &o. �The Faculty happy by reason of the dead�^and many shadows, consists of fifteen Professors, and six assistant Pro as fessors and stelligerentes, pass by I call the roU of my class. instructors.' The courses of study are It is the Christian observation of the heathen Cicero, seven, viz : Arts, Science, Literature, Civil En that no evil has happened to them ; if to any, it has gineering, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, and occurred to us who have lost them, but to be greatly Agriculture. The number in the four coUege classes grieved by one's own losses is the part of one loving is, Seniors, twenty-nine ; Juniors, forty-six ; Sophq- not his friends, but himself. mores, fifty-three ; Freshman, thu-ty-five ; Total, one Possibly this is not what you expected, stUl, an hundred and sixty-three. The present Senior class eulogy or exposition of friendship is never out of place when Freshman, numbered fifty-seven ; the number of Alumni is one hundred among you. and twenty-eight ; in Arts, forty-seven ; in Science, forty-eight ; in Litera ture, twenty-three ; in Engineering and Architecture, ten.

3. Equipments. �In the matter of iUfMsewms, there To THE Editob of The Diamond� is a General Museum, comprising the coUections of The University of Minnesota comes again, and with the Geological and Natural History, Surveys of the out the least complaint at the action of the convention State, and otliers by purchase and exchange. This last year on her petition for a Chapter. It is a great Museum contains more than ten thousand mineralogi- boon she asks, and she admits that it should be grant cal specimens, gathered not only from the State of ed on the merits of her case. We are a only terra in Minnesota, but also from all parts of the world ; also cognita to many members of Psi Upsilon. They have zoological specimens, including specimens of the larg'er never been out to see us. They do not know how mammals, and fur animals of the north-west, birds, and ambitious we are. big Now if you wiU allow me, marine invertebrates, sets of the United States fish I wUl I wUl tell them as print it, concisely, in as commission, and a set of Prof. Ward's casts, with forward a as straight way possible, something about Megatherium Cuviere. A Museurn of Agriculture, the petitioning University. Museum of Technology, embracing fuels, ores, fur 1. �The Uni Location, Grounds, Buildings, &c., nace products, textUe materials, &c., &c., and a Clas is located in the of versity city Minneapolis, on the sical Museum. These Museums are rapidly growing east bank of the on a Mississippi river, campus of in extent and value, and are constantly used for illus acres. The forty general plan of the buildings con tration in instruction. The department of Physics templates a central academic building, with other has the essential instruments and materials for iUuS- structures grouped around it for the separate colleges. tration. Two of these are buildings already erected, and in The Library contains upwards ol 15,000 bound one,�the Academic, erected at a cost of $120,000, volumes, to which additions are constantly made 184 feet in and 90 in being length, breadth, having from annual appropriations made by the Board of three stories above the basement, and 'SB containing Eegents, and accessions from the reading room files, for recitation, museums, and the rooms, library reading important periodicals of which are annuaUy bound &e. but no the room, , dormitories ; Agricultural, and transferred to its shelves. erected at a cost of about 146 feet $30,000, being by 4. Endowment.�1\ie permanent endowment of the central of which is two 54, portion stories in the University consists of lands granted by the Gen contains class rooms for height, chemistry, physics, eral Government, and of appropriations made by the and agriculture, private laboratory for Professors, and State Legislature. rooms for museums of and technology agriculture. The State has assessed an annual tax of one-tenth The south is a house the a wing plant ; north wing of a mUl on all taxable property, for the support of chemical with five rooms�a students work laboratory the University ; this amounts already to about$24,000, in ing laboratory chemistry, physics, and mineralogy, which sum is of course constantly increasing. In ad a quantitative laboratory, apparatus room, a. Profes dition to this there is an appropriation for the Geo sor's private laboratory, and a room for assay and logical Sui-vey of $2,000 annually. furnace work. The total amount of land granted to the University The of the in the Legislature State, appropriated 1881, by General Government is 223,000 acres, not an the sum of $180,000 for the erection and outfit of ad acre of which is allowed to be sold for less than $5. ditional six in viz. an buUdings, number, , astronomi The income from a limited number of acres sold is THE DIAMOND. 11

about The value of the lands re $24,000 annuaUy. for the future of the University is not a contingency, unsold is estimated at or maining $6 $8 per acre, and' it is as strong and sure of its foundations and success much of before are wUl reach as them, they sold, $10 is the State itself. The Chapter wiU be no nurse per acre, so that it is reasonable and sate to place the ling. permanent endowment of the University from this The resident Psi Upsilons generally and strongly source at $1,500,000 ; some even place it at $2,000,000. endorse the movement, having sent a petition in this The above is a plain statement of the actual materia behaU to the convention of last year. Some of us of the University. There are many other things that hope that we have not moved so far out west as to be go to make up a University that cannot be tabulated, beyond the bounds of a possible Psi Upsilon Chap of which we have in Minnesota a very generous and ter, and that the associations and memories of Psi hopeful measure and supply. Not the least among Upsilon shall not be those of the dead and buried past. these are the character and standing of the student- Why should our noble Fraternity be sectional ? Let body, and of the alumni. It will not be becoming in it be made national. Let her be cautious and con me to say much on this subject ; let it suffice to say servative, as she ought to be, and yet, in the spirit that the student-body for manliness of character, for of her best antecedents, generous and progressive. practical knowledge of the world and things, and for Let her look the ground weU over, select wisely her general scholarship wUl not suffer in a comparison positions, and then advance with her banners, and with that of many colleges that are older, and that plant them. Yours in Psi UpsUon, ' breathes the air of an easter�culture and scholarship. Jabez Bbooks, of the S. The University has just passed its first decade, yet its University of Minnesota, March 27, 1882. alumni are respectable in numbers, and are in this and other States of honor and trust filling positions (^nx i�PiXKJ?Ux6. in the professions, in-business, and in politics. The location of the University is significatit of its

� for the last 'future. The city of MinneapoUs, in which it is situ Theta. The history of the Chapter has been but nevertheless marked ated, has a population of 65,000, and is adding to this year uneventful, by a uniform in all our affairs. The meet number at the rate of 1,000 per month. The adjoin improvement

� duties � the � have been weU and ing city St. Paul a few mUes away has about the ings attended, assigned Brothers The same number in population, with doubtless the same to the enthusiastically performed. and monthly rate of increase. These two cities, whose plans for a Chapter house are being steadily vig-' as we realize that it is an imperative suburbs already touch each other, will soon be prac- orously pushed, to have a house in time for our convention. ticaUy one city, and in ten years will have a popula necessity of the consists of five seniors, tion of 500,000. The wealth, the railroad enterprises, The membership Chapter four and four freshmen. the capital invested in manufactories and business seven juniors, sophomores new secret B. @. 11., is the latest addi houses, and the value of the products and sales of A society, tion to the large number existing here. this dual city, if put into figures would be considered already new "Washburn HaU," is fabulous. The college buUding, completed, and when finished will great Within a xadius of fifteen miles from the University being rapidly add to the beauty of the grounds. there is now a population of one-quarter of a miUion ly' We feel that we will be well represented in the ex or more. There seems to be no limit to the energy, ercises of commencement week ; as the first three enterprise, and material resources of the people. men of the Senior class are members of the Chapter, Eight in the centre of such a pushing people as this and from the fact that the Chancellor's address wiU the University stands, and it is in full sympathy with be delivered by a Psi U., Bishop Littiejohn,(a 1845.) this progressive energy, vrith plenty of money to sus We would remind the Brethren who attend the Con tain it, and to ensure its success. vention, that the Theta is very accessibly situated The young men who petition for a Chapter, are the and it would be a great pleasure for us and rank from Pi, among the worthiest in the University, to receive visits from the Brothers of the different the in scholarship and every manly among highest Our to the convention are : W. out of which the Chapters. delegates excellence. They are good timber, and D. Beek J. PoUard, '82 ; H. C. Wood, '83 ; best sort of Psi UpsUons can be made. They have man, '84. the right ideas about such things. They would be are in dead glad to have you look them over. They Delta. This winter we have sought to improve earnest about their and wUl spare no pains petition, law and To . of name honorable our knowledge parliamentary practice. or expense to make the Psi Upsilon the of a from There wUl this end we have made reading passage if they shaU ever be aUowed to bear it. Manual a of the exercises at wiU a Cushing's part literary be no faUure here if Psi UpsUon plant Chapter, 12 THE DIAMOND.

each meeting. Beside this a Brother, privately ap the exercises are generaUy closed by a critique on the at the of the at its of the pointed opening meeting, reports program evening. The singing of Psi U. songs close upon the conduct of the meeting and criticises is of course one of the main features of our gatherings. the proceedings generaUy. The favorite songs of the Gamma are on pages 9, 10, The University Lacrosse Team, which is made up 34, 62, 63, 96, and the title, which we sing to the tune almost of members of the Delta has entirely Chapter, of "We won't go home untU morning." 'When we resumed its in Brook practice games Prospect Park, are unusuaUy fuU of fun we end with the chorus on soon the lyn, and wiU enter upon a series of games for the 96th page, *hich commences "Hurrah, hurrah, with Princeton " coUege championship Columbia, Yale, we'll sing the jubUee. While singing this, we form and Harvard. in line and march all. over the house and porticos ; We initiated a Freshman at our meeting March finishing up with three cheers lor Psi U. or more often 25th, when we had with us Brother White of the with "Dear Old Shrine." This custom is a conun Beta, '54, the father of one of our active members, drum to outsiders who can hear us singing and march and Bros. Depeu, Smith and Bronson, of the Gamma. ing about the house, but are puzzled as to exactly The Freshman was led, with a black cap drawn over what is going on. At our reunion last Commencement his several of the streets near our face, through lodge it was very amusing to see aU the alumni, young and rooms. Some men, thinking they had fallen upon a old, even members of our own Faculty, join in this genuine case of kidnapping, foUowed the trio tUl they Psi U. march. a in entered doorway Broadway. Peeping through We have every year at least one dramatic entertain the glass in the upper panels of the door these ama ment, and the Brothers who have charge of the mat- ' teur detectives beheld the victim passively allow him ter, assure us that in a week or two their preparations self to be bound to a ladder and borne up the stairs. will be completed and that we shall have an entertain Convinced that the boy must be drugged they rushed ment which shall eclipse all our past efforts. One of to the Dearest police station and reported the outrage the main features is to be the orchestra, consisting of in glowing terms. Policemen were sent to investigate. our piano, four banjos, and four guitars. If it is sue-' One of our number answering to the ring of the bell, cessful we shall probably repeat it in our parlors be soon satisfied the poUce, but not the private investi fore an audience of' inVited friends. We hope the gators. They were convinced that some dire crime other Chapters wUl write fuU accounts of their society was being consummated at the top of the stairs, and life in order that we may know how Psi U's live in nothing less than a sight of the "victim" would con other colleges. tent them. The Gamma has initiated the following men from the Class of '85. A. W. Brooks, Augusta, Me.; F. Gamma. �The Chapter letters in the last Diamond, D. Greene, (son of J. K. Greene, K '55, and- brother of E. M. were very interesting, and we hope they will continue Greene, r '84), Constantinople,^ Turkey; E. P. of Prof. E. P. F to be the main feature of our paper. The Chapter Harris, (son Harris, '55), Amherst, J. life here at the Gamma has its two sides ; and we Mass.; Hutcheson, Columbus, Ohio; F. B. Eich- Mass. H. shall attempt to give a short account of one of them, ards, Enfield, ; Stearns, Amherst, Mass. ; W. G. South N. J. the literary work ; leaving for another letter the ac Thayer, Orange, ; J. T. Whiting, Mt. count of our social life, which should be and certainly Pleasant, Iowa; W. E. WiUiams, Glastonbury, Conn.; W. D. is one of the main features in a fraternity Uke Psi U. Windom, Washington, D. C. ; H. L. WUbur, Penna. Our literary exercises are opened by a reading, gen Bryn Mawr, eraUy of a humorous nature. Every member of the

two � , lower classes in college is obUged to declaim twice Zeta. Before another number of The Diamond, every year before his class. Every Psi U. is carefully the Zeta will have initiated to its membership eight trained by an upper classman for two or three weeks, men from the Freshman class, and without exception and on the on which Tuesday evening preceding day good men, men, who from out the war qf society the declamation is he deUvers it due, befoj-e the so "Chinning" have come, to rest in the honored ranks ciety, where it is subject to the criticism of all the of our noble Fraternity. Brothers. The main feature our of Uterary work is The Zeta is one of the few Chapters of Psi UpsUon generally a debate on some one of the questions of the that does not admit the Freshmen untU the end of Our work in the has not been the day. past certainly year ; and although there has been talk among for Psi U. had three of the men chosen our fruitless, eight members of initiating earlier in the year, nothing by the coUege, and three of the six chosen by the definite has been done, and, probably nothing will. societies to open Uterary compete for prizes in extem With the delegations now in the Chapter there has poraneous debating. The debate is foUowed by an come a change in the spirit of the society here, in oration one of the Senior and extempore by Brothers, many things. Not long ago time was, when could a THE DIAMOND. 13

Brother from some other Chapter have visited our editor, N. M. Butler, '82, E. F. Coward, '83, J. F. meetings he would have seen or heard naught, save Jenkins, '84, W. O. Partridge, 85. Bro. J. A. B. long debates, profound essays, cold and marble like Cowles, '83 is captain of the under-graduate crew. faces, routine business and general insociability, but now let some one visit us ; he will find, to be sure, Kappa. �We would make record of a very in work, but in the room adjoining, a billiard Uterary teresting and enjoyable meeting �f Psi U., on the last table, a crowd ready for whist, cribbage or the like, Friday of our winter term. On that occasion a the and ad libitum, and a good natured, cigars cigaretts atrical entertainment was given, and a goodly num family of Brothers with whom to social, easy-going ber of the Alumni were present. It is owing to these talk on he choose. Such are we to any subject may pleasant affairs that the society interest of those who and we believe the change has been good for us. day, have graduated is kept up, and a great desire to be One of the most interesting features of the whole ^ present at them is always expressed by those who is the and actions toward us of society Ufe, feeling have left college. Our meetings of late have been our Alumni who are settied in town. Among them fully attended, whUe greater interest in the Chapter's the most is Hon. J.~W. Patterson, perhaps prominent welfare was never shown ; and to close the terms as a Psi U. as active member, who drops in loyal any work with a successful entertainment, and that too, on us occasion and treats us to the flow of his upon before a loyal representation of those who have gone on that are dear to all. Others eloquence, subjects out into the world was certainly most gratifying to whom we associate on a different there are with plane all. �from the outside world, to our advantage and pleasure. Mention ought to be made of the Zeta Quartette, Xi.�The present membership of the Chapter is composed of members of the Chapter, which has tak two terms have been success and thirty-seven. The past en trips through New Hampshire Vermont, giv have come back determined to universal ful and the brothers ing a series of vocal concerts with accepta make this term equal to any past term. Most tion. fully contests wiU come off this term, and Psi as to the of the prize At our last meeting we selected delegate wUl head the if faithful work can put her there. at Bro. Patterson of the Junior U. list, Convention Syracuse, and new has occurred since my last letter class. Nothing relations to the I wiU touch on the subject of our at Lambda.�The second annua! dinner of the Chap other fraternities Wesleyan. of First in date of estabUshment, and also in merit, is ter was held at the St. James, on the thirty-first fra Nu known familiarly as the Eclectic March. About forty graduates and under-graduates Phi Theta, a somewhat curious with the success of The name had origin. were Though satisfied ternity. present. at hav a stUl In 1837 a secret was started Wesleyan, this dinner, we hope that there wiU be society year's ribbon worn as its a of cream colored number present, on the occasion of the dinner ing badge piece larger the wearers rise to in the button-hole. This meaiit that in '88, and that these annual dinners may give This claim gave the were the "cream" of the college. a much more intimate relation between graduate the were rise to so much ridicule that colors changed and the active members. and and the name Eclectic was assumed.- After the customary toasts, the result of the prize to garnet gold our rival in For are Bros. Phi Nu Theta is great scholarship. contest was announced. The winners essay we have been her, '82 and E. some past however, beating N. M. '82 ; W. B. Woodworth, ; years Butler, of her ever we can that there is Uttie fear who wUl on 19, deUver their and now say F. Coward, '83, April and us. Phi Nu Theta is a local society in for the overtaking essays "before the Chapters competition lacks that breadth of purpose and of in of dollars. consequently additiooal prize twenty The to that membership in a fraternity gives. The have been chosen as delegates terests foUowiag which wiU be is a Chapter house the Lambda at the next convention : Bros. society erecting represent It has a B. Wood- for occupancy in May. pretty exterior, F. S. '78, L. G. Eomaine, '82, N. ready Bangs, The Eclectics resemble our '84. but seems rather smaU. '82, J. K. Bangs '83, andS. C. VanDusen worth, than do the members of any other were men more closely At the same at which these delegates meeting them are that it and our relations with usuaUy pleas elected the opinion of the Chapter was given society, to establish a Chapter at Le ant. . would not be expedient in class The Xi does not take a prominent part pol No instructions were, however, high University. and D. K. E. com and usually Alpha Delta Phi as to their vote at the Syracuse itics, given to the delegates of their fitness bine to elect their own men regardless convention. The Eclectics rarely or unfitness for the positions. ^ r on the board of the The foUowing are the Psi U. enter into these combinations against Acta Columbiana: J. K. Bangs, '83, managing 14 THE DIAMOND.

With Alpha Delta Phi, our relations are not so trated than in the social amenities of the Phi. Here pleasant. It is not the leading society here. The you wUl find hard work and good work harmonizing Alpha Delts broke ground last commencement for a with the social advantages of a Chapter home. The Chapter house, but[have not commenced buUding yet. increased advantages for friendly aid and social inter They' expect to have a hall by next Christmas. course has brought about a gradual improvement ia D. K. E. is at Wesleyan, as elsewhere, sui-generis. college work on the one hand, and a warmer bond of Still it has some good men, and has improved con attachment on the other, than could have existed un siderably in the last three years. Our relation with der the old regime, pleasant as it was. D. K. E. are a little more pleasant than with Alpha The Freshmen initiation in the faU was the occasion Delta Phi. With the members of the various socie of a fine Chapter reunion, and the affair passed off ties our men get along as well as could be wished It most pleasantly.

' is only as societies that we have any trouble with The Phi has given three parties during the year ; them. Chi Psi had a Chapter here, but this year the the annual fall hop to which all Fraternity men are four remaining members surrendered their charter. invited, and two private hops, at which only Psi Up Competition was so strong that they found it impos silons and their ladies were present. The last affair, sible to secure men. In about two weeks the Chap^ a German, was a most brUliant occasion, young ladies ter wUl give a musical, in the parlors of the Chapter and chaperons being present from Detroit, Jackson, house. The one given last term proved a complete Chicago and elsewhere. success, and reflected great credit on those who took Much interest is taken by the Chapter alumni in part. our library and in the decoration of the interior of the' Chapter correspondence should be directed to Lock house ; so far this year we have received contributions Box, 149, Middletown, Conn. to the library of some two hundred and fifty volumes, a distinctive feature of these being the fact of their being the works of Psi U. literati, which feature it is Upsilon. �The UpsUon sends greeting and reports intended wUl be a prominent one in the Ubrary. We continued We have started on the last prosperity. are indebted more particularly to Brothers Charles D. term of the with hearts as Ught as that of the year Warner, C. H. HamUton, A. B. Hale, F. E. Day, E. Psi U. The review of the last two terins average S. Sherril, C. 0. Whitacre, and the late J. G. HoUand, does not sadden us, for "we have run well the race for autograph presentations.. The reading room con set before us," and the of rewards, in anticipation tains copies of most of the prominent monthUes, appointments on Senior and Sophomore exhibitions, weeklies, and Chicago and Detroit daiUes, and is sus and in other makes the weeks seem prizes, remaining tained by subscriptions from the members. bright. Donations amounting to $250 have been received From being two-two last term, we have but seven from Alumni, to be appMed to interior decoration, and teen active members this term most of the others ; the Chapter is much indebted to Brother Geo. Eust, are their affected ex recruiting Jiealth, probably, by '72, for his munificent gifts. cessive attention to Lenten Services. Brother MUler The musical ability of the members is weU sustained has left eoUege, and is in business in Le Mars, Iowa. and many a pleasant musical soiree has been rendered Brother Miller is well known in several of the Chap by the musicians. which will be to with us in ters, glad join wishing The House gives good opportunity for hospitaUty, that he may have all the success that he wishes for and during the year many Alumni of the Phi, and sis himself, and become rich to build the enough Upsi ter Chapters, have been entertained. lon a Chapter house. During the spring recess the lodge was beautifully Our expectations for the convention are coming decorated, and embellished with appropriate designs. high. The Chapter is likely to be at Syracuse en- This was the gift to the Chapter of one of the Senior masse. with one or Mostly delegates two "high delegation, and the lodge is now more pleasant than privates." The delegates wUl be uninstructed, not, ever before. for '86 is and we look however, because they are incapable of it. We can Membership very promising for a strong delegation from that class, and have al not tell how they wiU vote on the admission of a new ready several men for '87 in view. Chapter at Lehigh University. The picture of the The interest taken in the Chapter's welfare by the Moravian Female Seminary, sent us by the petition Faculty members and resident Alumni, is gratifying in the extreme, and -with their assistance and ers, will, undoubtedly, influence them greatly. kindly advice much has been done to make the Chapter home experiment its present glorious success.

� To all Brothers we extend a cordial invitation to Pm. "The value of life is the purpose of life, "and visit us whenever in this vicinity, and what hos if the purpose of coUege Ufe is inteUectual and social enjoy pitalities and welcome we can extend within the bonds cultivation, its value could perhaps be no better illus of "old Psi U." THE DIAMOND. 15

Chi.�The new house of the Chapter Chi, so long BETA. talked of, is soon to become a substantial reaUty. The '49. Hon. Francis M. Finch wUl deUver the ora funds necessary for its completion have been secured, tion at the commencement of the Albany Law School the plans have been carefuUy drawn, and before con on May 25th, 1882. vention meets it is expected that the building -wUl have '53. been commenced. In the dravring of the plans, all E. C. Stedman contributes an article on James EusseU LoweU to the number of the the possible uses to which the house may be put, May Century have been considered. magazine. The walls are to be buUt of brick, and the floors '56. Eev. Isaac Clark is now pastor of the Edward's deadened, so that loud talking or singing in one room Church, Northampton, Mass. need not disturb those who are in adjoining rooms. GAMMA. The rooms on the first floor can be thrown together for receptions and re-unions, and afford ample space '55. E. P. Harris, Professor of Chemistry in Am- for and These consist of a Tierst danciag promenading. College has been obUged to give up his work a room and a town large Ubrary, drawing club, be tem.porarUy on account of ill health, and is now in sides a hall ample enough for another room, and two the western part of New York State. study rooms with adjoining bed rooms. On the second '65. G. C. MerriU, who has been Peabody instruc floor are six study and six bed rooms with an open tor in Natural Science in PhilUps Academy since 1875, hall looking down the first floor. .In the third upon is dangerously sick at his home in Andover, Mass. story, wiU be the lodge room, more than forty feet '82? E. A. Dyer, who left college at the end of his long, and two study rooms with bed rooms opening Freshman year, has graduated from one of the New from them. 'When completed the house will accomo York Medical Schools and is now in North date twenty persons, and wUl be a model student practicing ampton, Mass. home. Its dedication wUl be a marked event of the '83. C. M. Fraternity's serhi-centennial year. BardweU, who left at the end of his Freshman Since my last letter was written, the Chi has been year is Principal of the Haydenville High strengthened by the initiation of L. H. Seymour, '85 School. of Ogdensburg, and tlie arrival of B. G. Brown, late '83. G. W. Williams, who was a member of the of the Chi Chapter, who has' transferred his aUegiance Psi '81, is now studying law in Boston. from Michigan to Cornell. The Woodford oratorial prize, the great honor of XL our coUege course, had to be divided this year after '47. John Colburn, valedictorian of the class of a spirited contest. C. P. Bacon, well known ia S^. T., '47, died at Portress Monroe, Va., July 18th, 1881. circles, sustained, in the competition, the expectation '62. John E. Buck, of Hartford, Conn., represents of the Chi, and is entitled to one-haU of the gold the Hartford district in Congress. medal. Some years since, a member of the Chapter '64. Eev. A. H. has been offered a diamond badge to the first Psi U. who should Wyatt appointed pastor of the Methodist church in Conn. take this prize, and when he received the news of Middletown, Bro. Bacon's victory, the badge was ordered at once. '65. Eev. James Mudge retires, from the editorship Bro. Bacon has named the badge after the donor, the of the Witness, pubUshed in Lucknow, India, and "Holmes Badge," and wiU wear it until the next Psi takes charge of the native congregation at Shahjehan- U. takes the prize, when it will descend to him. pore. The members of the Chi are looking forward to the '82. W. L. Burdick has returned to coUege and gathering at Syracuse in May, with considerable in will graduate with his class. terest wUl attend in a and They probably body, '83. In the contest for the Ferry Junior exhibition from the enthusiasm of the Psi, knowing experience prizes, H. H. Kyhett, '83, was awarded the first prize, anticipate a very successful convention. and B. O. Mclntire, '83, received honorable mention.

BETA BETA. '52. The Eev. C. N. Seymour has been appointed THETA. Dean of the Convocation of Wyoming Territory. '36. Hon. SterUng G. Hadley is president of the '54. The Eev. W. A. Hitchcock, D. D., has re board of trustees of 'WiUard Insane Asylum. signed the rectorship of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, '42. Hon. S. W. Jackson has been selected City Penn. Attorney of Schenectady, N. Y. '56. The Eev. Orlando Witherspoon has been unan '48. Seth C. Baldwin is Vice President and Man imously elected rector of St. John's Church, Hartford. of the Iron Ohio. ager McComber Co., Cleveland, '57. E. M. G^Uaudet, LL. D., is President of the '71. H. L. Wilbur is in the house of Mait- banking Literary Club of Washington for the current year. land, Phelps & Co., 24 Exchange Place, New York '66. The Eev. C. H. B. Tremaine has been obliged City. Ul health to take a short leave of absence from his '75. Frank Potter Johnson died at Schenectady, by duties. N. Y., April 1st, after a brief Ulness. parochial Acad '77. J. H. La Eoche is studying for the ministry '73. The work of the Pennsylvania Military at were at Sewanee, Tenn. emy, the buildings of which Chester, destroyed been resumed at Park, the ad DELTA. by fire, having Eidley dress of E. M. Hyde, is at the last mentioned place. '45. Francis N. Bangs has been recently President '76. E. K. TuUidge has written a volume main of the New York Bar Association. the identity of the lost tribes of Israel in Eng '48. Hon. L. Bond is the presiding Judge taining Hugh land and America. at the election trials in Charleston, S. C. 16 THE DIAMOND.

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