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PSI UPSILON REVIEW (bi-monthly)

VOLUA\E I

NUMBER 6

JUNE, 1896

THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW COMPANY 52 McGraw Block

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PSI UPSILON CONVENTION, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, MAY 7, 1896. THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION.

In 1868, three years after the Phi had been instituted, that Chapter entertained the delegates of the other branches The of Psi Upsilon. Thirty-fifth Annual was very successful as Conventions went in those days, but it was a small affair' in comparison with the gathering at Ann Arbor in 1880, when the new Chapter House was formally opened, and when , Clarkson Nott Potter, and Charles Dudley Warner took part in the literary exercises. So, the Convention of 1880, however large its numbers, and however" complete its arrangements, must yield to the conclave held ' May 6-8, 1896, under the auspices of the Phi. It may almost be said that the 63d Convention began one week earlier than the date which had been set for it. April 28-30 witnessed the annual gathering of the Alpha Delta Phi, '

' held, as was our Convention, in Ann Arbor and Detroit. In honor of the two gatherings the Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon entertained the Psi U. and the Alpha Delt. men at its beautiful Chapter House on Tuesday evening, April 28. This affair the hosts themselves styled a "Dutch Lunch", a term altogether inadequate to express the elaborate hospitality which characterized the entertainment. As the Phi boys returned in steady form^�certified to by an unprejudiced gradu ate�from the dwelling of their ancient rival, they declared " that everything done had been well done and that the ' ' Dekes were "all right." On the morning of April 29, the delegates of Alpha Delta Phi, while passing in front of the Psi U. Chapter House on their way to the Church where their business sessions were to be held, stopped to exchange friendly greetings with our men, many of whom were watching the procession. Incidentally they borrowed a gavel wherewith to call themselves to order. At noon the Peninsular Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi gave a 212 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

delightful luncheon to which the members of D. K. E. and Psi U. were invited for the purpose of meeting the delegates of the Star and Crescent. These interchanges of hospitalities have done much to strengthen friendly feeling between the leading Greek-letter orders of the University. Considering the distances which separate the Michigan branch from the other chapters of the Fraternity, it was thought that the informal meeting in the Chapter House on the evening of May 6, would be attended by few members from outside of the State. On the contrary, delegates from every active chapter had signed the Convention Register before night, and the Chapter House was filled with visiting alumni. Throughout the wide halls and porches, and the spacious rooms of the building, members who had met at similar gath erings in times gone by were exchanging fraternal greetings, and graduates of the Phi who had not visited their college home for years were inspecting the structure which in its ori or in ginal its enlarged state was new to many of them. Most of the delegates and many of the alumni were taken by their Phi hosts to the Glee Club Concert in University Hall, but the House was well filled all through the evening, and not until a late hour the did singing of Psi U. songs cease, or were the lights extinguished which had brilliantly illuminated the Chapter House from the top of its lofty tower to the base ment. those alumni Among who arrived Wednesday were the Rev. Dr. Samuel Goodale (Theta '36), one of the seven Founders of the Fraternity, who had come the long distance from Columbus, Nebraska, to attend the Convention ; C. W. Smiley (Xi '74), of Washington, D. C, the Editor of the U. great Psi Catalogue of 1879, which has served as a model for the rolls of all other fraternities ; Joseph A. Mercer (Phi '71), of Peoria, lUinois, one of the charter members of the Phi Earle ; Knight, of Albion, and Charles A. Rust, of Sag both inaw, of the Phi, '71; Francis D. Bennett (Phi '72;, of Jackson; William T. Underwood (Phi '72), Charles A. War ren (Phi'74), Newton C. Wheeler (Omega '73), C. W. Nicholes (Omega '75), Richard B. Twiss (Omega '75), James P. Card- THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 213 ner O. D. (Omega '8i), Grover (Omega '82), and Ernest F. Smith all of (Phi '77), Chicago; Professor Frederick L. Bliss, of the Principal Detroit High School; Dr. Justin E. Emerson of (Rho '65), Detroit; and Richard Hovey (Zeta '85), of D. the Washington, C, Poet of the Conventions of 1893 and the most of 1896, promising the young writers of verse in and America, who had travelled from to meet his Psi U. friends at Ann Arbor.

Thursday's trains brought many more alumni and dele gates. Dr. George Henry Fox (Upsilon '67), President of the Psi Upsilon Club of , and Professor of Dermatology in Columbia College; the Rt. Rev. William Stevens Perry (Alpha '54), Bishop of Iowa; the Hon. Lawrence Maxwell (Phi '74), of Cincinnati, late Solicitor General of the ; the Hon. Albert M. Henry (Phi '67), of Detroit, one of the Phi's charter members; Professor Frederick S. 214 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

Goodrich (Xi '90), of Albion College; Professor David E. Smith (Pi '81), of the Michigan State Normal School; the Hon. Henry Power Field (Gamma '80), Mayor of Northamp ton, Massachusetts, who, though an alumnus of Amherst was also an active member of the Phi during his\ law-school days at Ann Arbor; and many other well known graduates made their appearance before night. The Convention song "The Good Psi U." was written by Charles Mills Gayley (Phi '78), Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of California. Brother Gayley is also the author of "The Yellow and Blue" the most popular of the student songs of the . He had hoped to be able to attend the Conven tion, but the Fates would have it otherwise. Yet next to coming in person he could not have served the Phi better than by the gift of this gem of verse:

I.

Sing the song that's dearest, brothers, Nearest to the heart and true,

Rarer, fairer than all others, � Song of what is most Psi U.

Chorus�Sing in triumph, tribulation; Sing in rags and honor, too; Sing, in love of God and nation, � Sing the song that's most Psi U.

2. Song of hearts unnumbered beating, Song of faith that makes them One Nobler Heart�its race completing Only when the years are run.

Cho:�Faith, in triumph, tribulation; Faith, in rags and honor, too; Faith, in love of God and nation, � Faith�the Garnet of Psi U.

3- Song of love�the blossom blowing Fairest in the fields of life. Odorous of hope, and growing Fragrant most where faith is rife. THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION.

Cho:� Love in triumph, tribulation; in Love, rags and honor, too; Love, in love of God and nation,� Golden flower of Psi U.

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Beat, O Heart, for nobler living. Live, O Love, in hours of need! Soul of living, loving, giving, � That's Psi Upsilon indeed.

Cho:�Yours in triumph, tribulation; Yours in rags and honor, too; Yours, in love of God and nation; That's what makes the good Psi U.

This new Psi Upsilon lyric is intended to be sung to the air of "The Garibaldi Liberty Hymn", a stirring tune, and one not hitherto used by college fraternities. Doubtless we shall soon hear it on all sides, just as the other societies caught up, after we had given them the hint, the air to which we sang "Brothers, the Day is Ended." At half after ten o'clock on the morning of Thursday, May 7, the brothers marched from the Chapter House to the beautiful Church of Christ (the second building east of the Psi U. dwelling), where the business sessions of the Convention were to be held. After the call to order, a prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Goodale, and then Albert P. Jacobs (Phi '73), Chairman of the Convention Committee, spoke as follows: "For the third time and thrice gladly the Phi greets the delegates of the other chapters. To Ann Arbor, to the Uni versity, to the Chapter House, we heartily welcome you. Twenty-eight years ago when the Psi Upsilon Convention first met in this State, the Phi was the youngest and smallest branch of the Fraternity; its graduates were few, its resources were limited, its reputation was yet to make. To-day the Michigan Chapter stands sixth among the twenty-two Psi U. chapters in the number of living members, and only two chap ters equal it in the number of undergraduates. It is the largest and the most successful society at Ann Arbor. Three are banded to hundred alumni, of whom many are now here, 216 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW. advance its interests and to defend it from attack. One of its most devoted graduates is Dean of the Faculty of our Alma Mater. The President of this University is a member of our Fraternity. The great organ to which you will listen to-night was obtained largely through the efforts of a Psi Upsilon. Thrice in succession has the Chapter furnished to the National Government a Solicitor General. Dedicated at a Psi Upsilon Convention the Phi Chapter House during sixteen long years has been for all this region the seat of Psi Upsilon hospitalit)', the shrine of Psi Upsilon devotion.

' ' And now in this city where the proofs of our Order's pre eminence are many and obvious, let us address ourselves quickly to the task of legislating wisely for the good of our cherished Brotherhood. Let us see to it that differences of opinion lead not to personal estrangement, and that they tend not to the breaking-of

'That dear Bond which makes us one.'

"Finally let us remember that it is our duty as members of a secret oath-bound Order�as secret now as in the days when our Founder here present first instituted it�to keep inviolably secret all the transactions of these sessions. Thus shall our obligations be fulfilled and the interests of the Fra ternity be served." Immediately afterwards a meeting of the alumni was held, and William T. Underwood (Phi '72), Albert P. Jacobs (Phi and '73), Charles W. Smiley (Xi '74), were chosen as gradu ate delegates to the Convention. After the first morning session the brothers assembled in front of the Chapter House, and were photographed. A very of the good picture 115 members in this group was secured', and is reproduced as the frontispiece of this number of The Review. Of course it does not include the alumni who arrived Thursday afternoon and Friday. When the photographic ordeal was over, luncheon was served in the Chapter House. The business sessions were resumed at two p. m., and lasted until nearly six o'clock.

iThe Convention will be Photograph sent post-free to any member for $1.75, by Randall, Photographer, Ann Arbor, Mich. THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION.

the members Thursday evening went over in a body to University Hall, where one thousand persons had assembled to hear the literary exercises. A committee of under-classmen of the Phi acted as and ushers, distributed the programmes. Somewhat after the appointed hour of eight o'clock there entered upon the stage�which had been beautifully decorated with plants and flowers�^President Angell, Bishop Perry, Professors D'Ooge and Stanley, Dr. George Henry Fox, the Rev. Dr. Goodale, Mr. Hovey, and Solicitor-General Max well. A prayer was offered by Dr. Goodale, after which Professor Martin L. D'Ooge, LL.D. (Phi '62), Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in the University, and Dean of the Faculty, who for more than thirty years has been an active and devoted member of the Psi Upsilon, delivered the following address: " It gives me pleasure to welcome to this seat of learning the Sixty-third Annual Convention of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. "This is the third time, if I am correctly informed, since the organization of the Phi Chapter, that the Convention has met under its auspices. ' ' The interval since last the Convention gathered here has been a period of uninterrupted prosperity in the history both of the University of Michigan and of the Fraternity. "Permit me to express the hope that as in future years each succeeding Convention shall meet here, it may find fresh tokens of increasing prosperity and growth in this University, and it may ever receive in these halls that hearty welcome that is signified by Greek hospitality! The Psi Upsilon is one of the oldest and largest of the Greek-letter fraternities in our country. It numbers twenty-one chapters in active life, and has had 8, 300 members connected with it, of whom 6, 800 are living. "Amongst its members are to be found men who have adorned every station in life. It has many Senators and Representatives in Congress, many Justices of Supreme Courts and Governors of States, and somehow seems to have had a singular partiality for Bishops and other Clergy and for Presi dents and professors in colleges. 218 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

The Greek-letter fraternities are a distinctively American institution. There is nothing in German or English or French Universities that exactly corresponds to them. The Bursens- chaften, the Corps, the Sodalities, and the Unions of these European Universities have a more public character, and quite other aims and ideas underlying them, being partly political and scholastic as well as social.

' 'Just what it was that first suggested this idea of creating a brotherhood of young men in college life, I have never seen stated. But it seems to me not difficult to imagine. If man is naturally a social and gregarious animal, the young man is especially so, and the young man in college is so most of all. Where else in the world are such noble and enduring friend ships formed, such delightful and intimate comrades found as in the companionships of college life. That friendship of the soul, that supernatural brotherhood and fraternity of spirit, as Mr. Howells ^ould say, is nowhere else so genuine and potent as among young men, who by congeniality of tastes, and kin ship of nature, and community of aims and aspirations, are brought and knit together for four years�those halycon days of life's springtime spent in the blissful pursuits and sports of academic life! When I say that the dearest and most delight ful friendships of my life are linked with these ties of college fraternity, I am only rehearsing the experience of every fra ternity man in college. "It is this sentiment that is regnant here to-night in this assemblage, and these older boys who sit about and before me and have come here from the busy haunts of hfe to the dear old shrine, vie with the newly-fledged Greek in doing honor to the noble brotherhood under whose kindly influence these delightful associations of our college days were formed. ' ' I have seen enough of college life to know that there are other associations outside of the Greek-letter fraternities that bring men together in helpful relations, and that foster en

' during friendships, and I for one rejoice that it is so. Like to and like, jackdaw to jackdaw', says the old Greek proverb. ' It is not for all men to sail to Corinth ', says another Greek proverb. So long as all these associations aim to civilize and THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION.

natural man� humanize the to make a better and truer man

of the raw material�so out long ought they to find a place in a university whose first aim is after all to make men of the of manhood. best type And for this purpose the attrition, the friendly friction and close contact of mind with mind that is attendant upon the life of the fraternity circle is potentially not helpful. Though you may always appreciate it, my young friends, you are each of you in turn both sculptor and statue of living marble, now with mallet and chisel hewing and clipping and incising and chasing the other fellow, and then in turn getting the corners and angles of your mental and spiritual contour smoothed and polished off and made to look harmonious. And so each of you in turn becomes creditor and debtor to the other. And what a charming thing it is to see this process going on, and all so uncon sciously !

"What a many-sided thing this matter of education is� and how many occult influences make up the sum total of an educated man !

' ' When we view the bearing of fraternity life on this side �its educational�it seems very fitting that at a gathering like this the great question of what constitutes a university education should be discussed. I know of no place where such a question is likely to receive more attention than in the foremost State University of our country, a University that has in so many ways been a leader in educational reforms, and I know of no men better able to discuss this question than the men who have consented to speak to us to-night in this symposium. "It remains for me, after these words of welcome, only to wish our friends who have come to us from other colleges a them and to pleasant sojourn among us, and to extend to " those who are to address us the heartiest greeting ! Dr. D'Ooge spoke without notes, and in his usual easy and fluent manner. His words were warmly applauded. Professor Albert A. Stanley, the Director of the University School of Music, then rendered very acceptably a voluntary efforts of Professor on the great organ which the active 220 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

Francis W. Kelsey (Upsilon '80) secured for the University in 1895- Following the music came a literary symposium in the form of a discussion on certain phases of university education. This was opened by President (Sigma '49), of the University of Michigan, who in the introductory part of his discourse paid tribute to the brotherly friendships cemented in Psi Upsilon, and also in other fraternities. "The dearest memories of my college life", said Dr. Angell, "clus ter around the old Fraternity". His special subject was the state universities of the West. "The beneficence, first of the general government, and then of the State, have so worked", he said, "that there is not to-day a boy or girl in the most remote backwood's log school-house who has not the chance in reach of an education up through the grammar school, the high school, and the university". Bishop William Stevens Perry (Alpha '54), of Iowa, who, though a graduate of Harvard had once been a student at , was the second speaker. He referred to President Angell's brilliant career at Brown which terminated just before his own student life began, and which was closed with the delivery of the valedictory address. Bishop Perry gave due credit to law, medicine, science, etc., in education, but emphasized the rightful place of religion '' ' ' in education. Theology ", he said, is the queen of sciences, and the University is not complete without it". I am aware that there must be no church estabHshment, but I should like to see fewer denominational colleges and more centers of theological institutions at these state universities of ours". The Bishop spoke at some length of the work which he had about accomplished, of founding an Episcopal theological school in close relation with the Iowa State University. The relation of the university to the teaching of law was considered by the Hon. Lawrence Maxwell (Phi '74), formerly Solicitor General of the United States. In this respect he showed that the United States are far superior to England, but he thought more importance should be given to the posi tion of our law schools. THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 221 Dr. Fox George Henry (Upsilon '67), one of the Faculty the School of Medicine in of the , closed discussion a the by reading paper both valuable and interesting on "Medicine in University Education". Professor (Chi), of the University of who had Toronto, been asked to take part in the discussion, wrote that to his owing having been long absent from home he could not attend the Convention. In his letter of regret after thanking the members of the Fraternity at Ann Arbor and Detroit "for their kind and hospitable invitation", he said: "The particular subject on which you would have wished me to 'The speak, expediency of keeping up the ordinary price of high education ', is certainly one deserving of inquiry and consideration. I do not say more because I fear to seem an advocate of anything like exclusion or repression. But there seems reason to fear that by the tempting facilities of the present system young men are being drawn to the universities when they had better take a less ambitious course in life, and that the result may be, on one hand the overstocking of the professions which would entail their degradation, and on the other hand the growth of a body of highly educated men without suitable employment, who could not fail to be unhappy and might be dangerous to the State. There is no real kind ness to a young man, while there may be an unkindness to the community of which he is a member, in raising him to a level at which he will not be able to maintain himself. For the rise of real aptitudes of the higher kind all due facilities should of course be afforded. There would I fear be great difficulty in bringing about any general change of system, however desirable, owing to the multitude of universities, and to. the unhappy necessities of the weaker among the number. I have sometimes thought of a University Convention, but I am afraid not much would come of it". In conclusion Professor Smith wrote: "I must not forget in speaking of these general sub jects that yours is a Psi Upsilon Convention, and that I am a Psi Upsilon. Commend me heartily to my brethren assembled at Ann Arbor, and assure them that though distance prevents 222 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

me on this and other occasions from coming among them, I always think with the greatest pleasure of my relation to the Fraternity ". After William A. Spitzley (Phi '95), whose voice is a " superb possession, had sung a solo Du Bist Wie Fine Blume ", which was well received, Richard Hovey (Zeta '85) read the poem "Spring" he had written for this Convention:

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I said in my heart, "I am sick of four walls and a ceiling, I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass. I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling. Lone and high. And the slow clouds go by. I will get me away to the waters that glass The clouds as they pass. To the waters that lie. Like the heart of a maiden aware of a doom drawing nigh And dumb for sorcery of impending joy. I will get me away to the woods, Spring, like a huntsman's boy, Halloos along the hillsides and unhoods The falcon in my will. The dogwood calls me, and the sudden thrill. That breaks in apple blooms down country roads Plucks me by the sleeve and nudges me away. The sap is in the boles to-day; And in my veins a pulse that yearns and goads ".

When I got to the woods I found out What the spring was about, With her gypsy ways And her heart ablaze. Coming up from the south With the wander-lure of witcTi songs in her mouth. For the sky Stirred and grew soft and swimming as a lover's eye As she went by; The air Made love to all it touched, as if its care Were all to spare. The earth Prickled with lust of birth; The woodland streams Babbled the incoherence of the thousand dreams, THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 223

Wherewith the warm sun teems. And out of the frieze Of the alder trees I heard The and the fields and the sky thicket find voice in a bird. The goldenwing�hark! How he drives his song Like a golden nail Through the hush of the air! I thrill to his cry in the thicket there; I respond to the new life mounting under the bark. I shall not be long To follow With eft and bull-rush, bee and bud and swallow, On the old trail.

Spring in the world ! And all things are made new. There was never a mote that whirled In the nebular morn, There was never a brook that purled When the hills were born,

There was never a leaf uncurled�

Not the first that grew� Nor a bee-flight hurled, Nor a cloud-whisp swirled Nor a bird-note skirled In the depth of the blue. More alive and afresh and impromptu, more thoughtless and cer tain and free, More a-shout with the glee Of the Unknown new-burst on the wonder than here, than here, In the re-wrought sphere

Of � the new-born year Now, now, When the greenlet sings on the redbud bough Where the blossoms are whispering "I and thou"� "I and thou/' And a lass at the turn looks after her lad with a dawn on her brow,

And � the world is just made now !

Spring in the heart! With her pinks and pearls and yellows. Spring, fellows, And we, too, feel the little green leaves a-start Across the bare-twigged winter of the mart. The campus is reborn to us to-day ; 224 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

The old grip stirs our hearts with new-old joy Again bursts bonds for madcap holiday The eternal boy.

For we have not come here for long debate Nor taking counsel for our household order, Howe'er we make a feint of serious things. For all the world as in affairs of state A word goes out for war along the border To further or defeat the loves of kings. We put our house to rights from year to year. But not that is the call that brings us here ; We have come here to be glad.

Give a rouse, then, in the Maytime, For a life that knows no fear ! Turn night-time into daytime With the sunlight of good cheer ! For it's always fair weather When good fellows get together. With a stein on the table and a good song wringing clear.

When the wind comes up from Cuba And the birds are on the wing. And our hearts are patting juba To the banjo of the spring. Then there's no wonder whether The boys will get together. With a stein on the table and a cheer for everything. For we're all frank-and-twenty When the spring is in the air. And we've faith and hope a-plenty. And we've life and love to spare ; And it's birds of a feather When we all get together, With a stein on the table and a heart without a care.

For we know the world is glorious And the goal a golden thing. And that God is not censorious When his children have their fling; And life slips its tether When the boys get together, With a stein on the table in the fellowship of spring.

A road runs east and a road runs west From the table where we sing; And the lure of the one is a roving quest, THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 225

And the lure of the other a lotus dream. And the eastward road leads into the West Of the lifelong chase of the vanishing gleam; And the westward road leads into the East Where the spirit from striving is released. Where the soul like a child in God's arms lies And forgets the lure of the butterflies. And west is east, if you follow the trail to the end; And east is west, if you follow the trail to the end; And the East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend As a man and a woman that plight Their troth in the warm spring night. And the ior the East is the spring sap in the heart of a tree; And the for the West is the will spring in the wings of a bird; But the spring for the East and the West alike shall be An in their bones and an urge ache in their spirit, a word That shall knit them in one for time's foison, once they have heard.

And do I not hear The first low stirring of that greater spring Thrill in the underworld of the cosmic year? The wafter of scant violets presaging The roses and the yellow corn to be; A yearning in the roots of grass and tree; A swallow in the eaves; The hint of coming leaves; The signals of the summer coming up from Arcadie!

For surely in the blind deep buried roots Of all men's souls to-day A secret quiver shoots. An underground compulsion of new birth Lays hold upon the dark core of our being. And unborn blossoms urge their uncomprehended way Toward the outer day. Unconscious, dumb, unseeing. The darkness in us is aware Of something potent burning through the earth, Of something vital in the procreant air.

Is it a spring indeed? Or do we stir and mutter in our dreams. Only to sleep again? What warrant have we that we give not heed To the caprices of an idle brain That in its slumber deems

The world of slumber real as it seems ? No,� 226 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

Spring's not to be mistaken. When her first far flute notes blow Across the snow. Bird, beast and blossom know That she is there. The very bats awaken That hang in clusters in Kentucky caves All winter, breathless, motionless, asleep. And feel no alteration of the air. caverns For all year long those vasty keep. Winter and summer, even temperature ; And yet when April whistles on the hill. Somehow, far in those subterranean naves, her They know, they hear her, they obey will. And wake and circle through the vaulted aisles To find her in the open where she smiles.

So we are somehow sure. By this dumb turmoil in the soul of man. When the stress Of an impending something. Climbs to fruition, we can only guess What many-seeded harvest we shall scan ; But from one impulse, like a northering sun, The innumerable outburst is begun. And in that common sunlight all men know A common ecstasy And feel themselves at one. The comradeship of joy and mystery Thrills us more vitally as we arouse. And we shall find our new day intimate Beyond the guess ot any long ago. Doubting or elate, With agony or triumph on our brows. We shall not fail to be Better comrades than before; us but we For no new sense puts forth in Enter our fellows' lives thereby the more.

And three great spirits with the spirit of man Go forth to do his bidding. One is free, And one is shackled, and the third, unbound. Halts yet a little with a broken chain Of antique workmanship, not wholly loosed. That dangles and impedes its forthright way. Unfettered, swift, hawk-eyed, implacable, The wonder-worker. Science, with his wand. Subdues an alien world to man's desires. And Art, with wide, imaginative wings, JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, LL. D., PROFESSOR MARTIN L. d'oOGE, LL. D., (SIGMA '49) (phi '62)

a. m. m. a. m., george h. fox, , d., richard hovey, (zeta '65) (upsilon '67) PROFESSOR HENRY S. LL. D. PROFESSOR EDWARD L. PH. CARHART, , WALTER, D., (XI '69). (PHI '68).

PROFESSOR FRANCIS W. A. KELSEY, M., HONORABLE LAWRENCE MAXWELL, JR., (UPSILON '80). A. M., (PHI '74). THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 229-

Stands by, alert for flight, to bear his lord Into the strange heart of the alien world Till he shall live in it as in himself.

And know its in it as � longing he knows his own : Behind a little, where the shadows fall, with : Lingers Religion, deep-brooding eyes,' Serene, impenetrable, transpicuous, �'-::,,, As the all-clear and all-rhysterious sky, � �: her time tofuse � Biding into one act ,- , Those other man's twain, right hand and his left. :

For all the: bonds shall be � broken and rent in sunder ^ And the soul of man go free, [/�: : Forth with those three ' , Into the lands of wonder; "Like some undaunted youth, ' Afield in quest of truth. in Rejoicing the road he journeys on. As much as in the hope of journey done. And the road runs east, and the road runs west. That his vagrant feet explore; And he knows no haste and he knows no rest. And every mile has a stranger zest 'Than the miles he trod before; And his heart in leaps high the nascent year When he sees the purple buds appear; For he the knows, though great black frost may blight ; :' The hope of May in a single night, . . \ That the it shrink back under the � spring though bark, , ' '' But bides its time somewhere in the dark� Though it come not now to its blossoming, �'' the thrill in'his heart By he;knows the spring; -;�';�-,;.:� : And the � - it makes , promise perchance too soon, -., It shall keep with its roses in ;." yet June; ' ' For -' - the ages fret not over a day, And the greater _to-morrow is- on its way. �; ;;';': That stirring song "Brothers the Day is" Erided." was then rendered' by the members in attendance. After an organ solo by Professor Stanley the exercises were closed, and' thje members rgturned to the Chapter House, which was thrown to .open receive as invited guests many members of the Faculty with their .wives, and, in addition, the undergraduates of thp Alpha Delta Phi, D.KvE., and Sigma Phi. This reception, like aU the' notl-official functions of the Convention, was a delightful affair. 230 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

Friday morning. May 8, took place the final official meet ing of the Convention. Before proceeding to the business of the day, Charles Philip Spooner (Rho '93), of Madison, was asked to address the brothers. This was by way of formal introduction of the new branch in Wisconsin to the chapters in Convention assembled. Brother Spooner in a few well- chosen words spoke of the trials through which the petitioners had passed, and of their unwavering loyalty to Psi Upsilon; and he pledged the Rho to a determined upholding of the principles and the reputation of the Fraternity. About noon the Convention, as an official body, adjourned sine die, to the great relief of the Committee of Arrange ments, the members of which were not sure until the last moment that the special train waiting at the station would not leave before the pleasant passages between the New York alumni and the Chicago graduates should cease. To speak in detail of what was done at the business .ses sions is not permissible. One may be pardoned for saying that the attention of the delegates was confined almost exclu sively to the Chicago question, and that none but graduates spoke on that or on any other subject. It is to be regretted that even the appeals of our revered and distinguished Foun der, and of that eminent prelate Bishop Perry (both of whom, as well as the alumni of the Phi, obviously sympathized with the Chicago men), did not lead to an immediate and a practi cable solution of the difficulty. At one o'clock Friday afternoon the pretty station of the Michigan Central Railroad Company at Ann Arbor was filled with Psi Upsilons doing their best to secure tickets and to for get the morning session. A special train took the members and their lady friends�of whom there were not a few�to Detroit, and upon arriving in that city most of the company went on board the Steamer Promise, which, chartered for the Society's use that afternoon, was lying at the foot of Third Street. An excursion on the river had been planned and announced with some misgivings, for Michigan weather early in May is apt to be cold and stormy. But sky and air more OUTLINE OF FIRST PAGE OF CONVENTION

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serene and balmy than those which characterized Friday, May 8, 1896, could not have been desired. Soon after the arrival of the Ann Arbor contingent came another, consisting of Detroit members who had been unable to attend all of the sessions in the University town, and still another composed of ladies of Detroit who had been invited to participate in the excursion. The route of the vessel extended up the river to a point above Belle Isle, and down the river to Fort Wayne. Schremser's orchestra accompanied the party, and kept a lively musical atmosphere in motion. Refresh ments were served by a caterer, and dancing was also a part of the programme. All the ladies were presented with bou quets of sweet peas. Toward the close of the afternoon Mr. Hovey read the poem given at Ann Arbor. The excursion� in which 125 members and as many ladies took part�proved to be very enjoyable, and it was not until 5.30 that the party landed. Then the members found their way to the Russell House, while the ladies were conveyed to their homes in "herdics". The Annual Dinner, the chief and closing function of every Convention, was served at the Russell House. The dining hall was beautifully decorated with laurel leaf, palms and potted plants in full bloom. Covers had been laid for one hundred and twenty; but to the delight of the Committee, and the consternation of "Mine Host" of the Russell, a score more than the estimated number appeared. After a few min utes seats were secured for all, and Bishop Perry asked the Divine blessing. No sooner had the first course been served than the unfortunate steward of the Russell House almost fainted at the sight of another delegation, headed by the gigantic Charhe Ricks (Iota '91 ), who had just arrived from Cleveland. However, the dining-room and the cuhnary facili ties of the hotel proved sufficient even for this attack, and the feast went on. It was a good dinner, fully equal to the best of previous Convention "Banquets". After the earlier courses. Brother Field said that the roll of chapters would be called. Beginning with the Theta, the name of each of the twenty-two branches�all that have ever THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 233

been chartered Psi by Upsilon�was read, and as each chapter was mentioned its initiates rose and were cheered enthusias their tically by comrades of the other charges. Every chapter, active or was inactive, represented. For the Alpha, Bishop Perry ('54), of Iowa, and the venerable John Godfrey Neil of the latter ('53). Detroit, of whom had not attended a Psi U. for gathering forty-three years, stood up. When the Phi was reached, eighty-three members, representing thirty-two different classes, and constituting a larger number of the men than had ever Chapter's assembled in one room before, arose. After had been done justice to each and every course. Brother Henry P. Field secured the attention of the members, and began the discharge of his duties as toast-master. He said , that although he had been initiated and graduated at Amherst, he studied law in the University of Michigan, and was for two years a member of the Phi. "Therefore I take", said he, "a warm personal interest in the prosperity of the Chapter and in the success of its members". It is unfortunately impossible to present the witty address of the Symposiarch, and the bright remarks with which he introduced each of the speakers. The members were too busy to take notes, and alien reporters were not admitted. Suffice it to say that Brother Field amply jus tified the choice of the Committee, and well sustained the reputation he has made as the leader among the younger orators of . The speeches at the Dinner were few and brief. Each of the seven members called by the toast-master chose his own text and talked as he pleased. Dr. Goodale contrasted the present prosperity and influence of th'e Fraternity with its condition in the initial days when initiates were few and enemies many. Bishop Perry told the Convention of the high standing at the Iowa Bar of the Hon Edward Martin dale, (Theta '36), another of the Founders, whose earnest wish it had been to attend this gathering; and he spoke with touching pathos of the desolate hearth and unlighted altar of his own chapter, the Alpha at Harvard, which branch the official representatives of the Fraternity had made no effort 234 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW. to revive. Brother Hovey yielded to an unanimous call, and read the poem which he had recited three years before at the Dartmouth Convention. Mr. William Aikman, Jr. (Delta '72), of Detroit, gave one of those delightful talks which have ranked him among the chief after-dinner speakers of the City of the Straits. Henry E. Bodman (Phi '96), spoke for the Phi's undergraduates, and Henry Vilas (Rho '94), took as his theme the infant but vigorous and prosperous chapter in Wis- cousin. Herbert L. Bidgman (Gamma, '66), of Brooklyn, N. Y. some the condition and , presented opinions concerning needs of the Fraternity at large. The last speaker was Charles W. Smiley (Xi '74), who told of the obstacles he encountered and the difficulties he surmounted in preparing for the Fraternity the catalogue which so many other society lists have imitated. Brother Smiley's concluding remarks indicated a strong leaning on his part to theosophy, but it is not known whether or not he converted many of the brothers. Everybody remained to the close of the exercises, and a mighty circle was formed at midnight. It is most gratifying to be able to say that there was no disturbance at the Dinner, that every speaker received attention, and that not one mem ber became unduly hilarious. [Following is a complete roll of those who took part in the exercises of the sixty-third Convention. The names of those who were unable to attend the dinner are prefaced by a dagger (f)-]

THETA CHAPTER�UNION COLLEGE. Samuel Goodale, '36, Columbus, Neb. Charles Henri Leonard, '72, Detroit, Mich. Orson Culver Richards, '95, Sandy Hill, N Y. Archibald S. Derby, '96, Sandy Hill, N. Y.

DELTA CHAPTER�NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. Benjamin Holmes Bayliss, '65, New York City. Rufus Wheelwright Clark, '65, Detroit, Mich. William Aikman, Jr., '72, Detroit, Mich. John V. Irwin, '94, New York City. Frederick Seward Gibson, '96, New York City. Howard Bill, '97, New York City. Erik Welk Wallin, '97, New York City. THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 235

tFrank Jay Gould, '99, New York City. tWflham Northrop, '99, New York City.

BETA CHAPTER�YALE COLLEGE. tPeter CoUier, '61, Ann Arbor, Mich. Patterson, Jr., '84, Ann Arbor, Mich. George Xavier McLanahan, '96, Washington, D. C. SIGMA CHATPER BROWN UNIVERSITY. James Burrill Angell, '49, Ann Arbor, Mich. Henry H. Rockwell, '96, Providence, R. I. Russell Grinnell, '97, Providence, R. I.

GAMMA CHAPTER-AMHERST COLLEGE. Herbert Lawrence Bridgman, '66, Brooklyn, N. Y. Henry Power Field, '80, Northampton, Mass. tGeorge Carter Howland, '85, Chicago, 111. tFrederick S. Fales, '96, Amherst, Mass.

ZETA CHAPTER . Richard Hovey, '85, Washington, D. C. George M. Lewis, '97, Hanover, N. H.

LAMBDA CHAPTER COLUMBIA COLLEGE. Alexander Macomb Stanton, '56, Detroit, Mich. Francis Sedgwick Bangs, '78, New York City. Henri George Francis Chatain, '96, New York City. Frederick Paul Keppel, '98, New York City.

KAPPA CHAPTER BOWDOIN COLLEGE. Jesse Hacker Libby, '96, Fort Fairfield, Me. Stephen Emerson Young, '98, Brunswick, Me.

PSI CHAPTER HAMILTON COLLEGE. Byron B. Taggart, Jr., '96, Watertown, N. Y. John Howard Holmes, '96, St. Louis, Mo.

XI CHAPTER�WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. tHenry Smith Carhart, '68, Ann Arbor, Mich. Charles Wesley Smiley, '74, Washington, D. C. Frederick Wright Robbins, '80, Detroit, Mich. Frederick Samuel Goodrich, '90, Albion, Mich. Leon K. Willman, '97, Middletown, Conn. 236 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

ALPHA CHAPTER HARVARD COLLEGE. John Godfrey Neil, '53, Detroit, Mich. William Stevens Perry, '54, Davenport, Iowa.

UPSILON CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. George Henry Fox, '67, New York City. fFrancis Willey Kelsey, '80, Ann Arbor, Mich. John Plunkett Morse, '95, Rochester, N. Y. Clarence D. Stone, '97, Rochester, N. Y. Clarence P. Moser, '97, Rochester, N. Y. George B. Williams, '97, Rochester, N. Y.

IOTA CHAPTER KENYON COLLEGE. Charles Talford Mayo, '68, Detroit, Mich. Charles Atwater Ricks, '91, Cleveland, Ohio. Charles Rowland (^ary, '96, Detroit, Mich. Joseph Wadsworth Heald, '96, Grand Rapids, Mich. Philemon Beecher Stanbery, '98, Pomeroy, Ohio. Leo W. Wertheimer, '98, Middleport, Ohio.

PHI CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. tMartin Luther D'Ooge, '62, Ann Arbor, Mich. Schuyler Grant, '64, Detroit, Mich. Albert McKee Henry, '67, Detroit, Mich. Edward Lorraine Walter, '68, Ann Arbor, Mich. Earle Knight, '71, Albion, Mich. tjoseph Aaron Mercer, '71, Peoria, 111. Charles Amasa Rust, '71, Saginaw, Mich. Eugene James Weeks, '71, Jackson, Mich. Francis Douglass Bennett, '72, Jackson, Mich. Wniiam Thomas Underwood, '72, Chicago, 111. Albert Poole Jacobs, '73, Detroit, Mich. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., '74, Cincinnati, Ohio. tCharles Ashley Warren,- '74, Chicago, 111. Charles Huntington Jacobs, '75., Detroit, Mich. Charles Sheldon McDonald, '75, Detroit, Mich. Edward Hitchcock Ranney, f6, Kalamazoo, Mich. Frederick Leroy Bhss, '77, Detroit, Mich. Ernest Franklin Smith, '77, Chicago, 111. tTheodore John Wrampelmeier, '78, San Francisco, Cal. THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 237

Horatio Throop Morley, '79, Detroit, Mich. Orlando Fleming Barnes, '80, Lansing, Mich. Charles Wellman Hitcock, '80, Detroit, Mich. tPeter Burr Loomis, Jr., '80, Jackson, Mich. Edwin Stanton Sherrill, '80, Detroit, Mich. Colhns Hickey Johnston, '81, Grand Rapids, Mich. fCharles Lewis Coffin, '82, Detroit, Mich. Edward Arthur Barnes, '83, Detroit, Mich. Clarence Ashley Lightner, '83, Detroit, Mich. Edwin Frederick Mack, '83, Detroit, Mich. Albert Edward Miller, '83, Marquette, Mich. Clarence Conely, '84, Detroit, Mich. tjulian Howard Tyler, '85, Toledo, Ohio. Louis Gascoigne, '85, Detroit, Mich. tBowen Wisner Schumacher, '85, Chicago, III. Herbert Eugene Boynton, '86, Detroit, Mich. James Everett Ball, '87, Marquette, Mich. William Grant Adams, '88, Chicago, 111. Charles Tyler Miller, '88, Detroit, Mich. Willard Pope, '88, Detroit, Mich. Horace Van Birdsell, '89, South Bend, Ind. tFrank Swift Bourns, '89, Ann Arbor, Mich. John Greenshields, '89, Romeo, Mich. tOscar Frederick Schmid, '89, Jackson, Mich. Dean Conant Worcester, '89, Ann Arbor, Mich. Charles Town Alexander, '90, Detroit, Mich. Royal Twombly Farrand, '90, Detroit, Mich. tPaul Robert Gray, '90, Detroit, Mich. Edgar Withrow MacPherran, '90, Marquette, Mich Frank Riley Ashley, '91, Denver, Colo. Edward James Woodworth, '91, Fort Wayne, Ind Edmond Lindsay Sanderson, '92, Detroit, Mich. Earl Babst, '93, Detroit, Mich. Henry Perkins Dodge, '93, Toledo, Ohio. George Hall Angell, '94, Detroit, Mich. Howard Everett Chickering, '94, Detroit, Mich. tEdward de Pont, '94, Ann Arbor, Mich. George Edward Ball, '95, Marquette, Mich. 238 THE PSl UPSILON REVIEW.

Burnham Standish Colburn, '95, Detroit, Mich. WUliam Horace Morley, '95, Detroit, Mich. William Albert Spitzley, '95, Detroit, Mich. Edward Chester Weeks, '95, Detroit, Mich. Kirkland Barker Alexander, '96, Detroit, Mich. Henry Edward Bodman, '96, Toledo, Ohio. Frederick W. B. Coleman, '96, Detroit, Mich. James Harmon Flinn, '96, Detroit, Mich. Gaylord Wilson GUlis, '96, Detroit, Mich. Edward Morton Holland, '96, Detroit, Mich. tWilliam Dexter McKenzie, '96, Ann Arbor, Mich. John Sherring Pratt, '96, Toledo, Ohio. Joseph Henry Quarles, '96, Milwaukee, Wis. Walter Robbins, '96, Marquette, Mich. Adrian Delano Stevenson, '96, West Point, Neb. tDuane Reed Stuart, '96, Detroit, Mich. Stephen Cone Babcock, '97, Buffalo, N. Y. Harry White Cummings, '97, Toledo, Ohio. Edwin Haines Humphrey, '97, Detroit, Mich. John Blaine Keating, '97, Ann Arbor, Mich Frank Atherton Ketcham, '97, Detroit, Mich. tRoss Alexander Spence, '97, Ann Arbor, Mich. Frederick Rice Waldron, '97, Jackson, Mich. Edward Burns Caulkins, '98, Detroit, Mich. George William Cottrell, '98, Detroit, Mich. Robert Smith Cummings, '98, Toledo, Ohio. Wniiam Harrisod Emery, '98, Elmhurst, 111. LeRoy Morton Harvey, '98, Oak Park, 111. Henry Thomas Heald, '98, Grand Rapids, Mich. Walter Dwight Herrick, '98, Oak Park, 111. Stuart Edward Knappen, '98, Grand Rapids, Mich. Nathan S. Potter, Jr., '98, Jackson, Mich. Charles Ward Seabury, '98, Oak Park, 111. Richard C. Underwood, '98, Lafayette, Ind. Standish Backus, '99, Detroit, Mich. Griswold Lane Chesebrough, '99, Detroit, Mich. wniiam Lee Cooper, '99, Saginaw, Mich. George Edwards Fay, '99, Chicago, 111. THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 23' Paul Oliver, '99, Chicago, 111. Edward Louis Quarles, '99, Milwaukee, Wis. Walter Roy Weeks, '99, Jackson, Mich. OMEGA CHAPTER . tNewton Calvin Wheeler, '73, Chicago, 111. tCharles Wheeler Nicholes, '75, Chicago, 111. tRichard Bentley Twiss, '75, Chicago, 111. James Patterson Gardner, '81, Chicago, 111. Oliver Dennett Grover, '82, Chicago, 111. tTheodore Morelle Hammond, '85, Chicago, 111. PI CHAPTER SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. tDavid Eugene Smith, '81, Ypsilanti, Mich. E. Bersie Lee, '96,

CHI CHAPTER�. Emory Brady Wendell, '85, Detroit, Mich. Ezra C. Blair, '96, Ithaca, N. Y.

BETA BETA CHAPTER TRINITY COLLEGE. Lewis Henry Paddock, '88, Detroit, Mich. Robert McClelland Brady, '90, Detroit, Mich. Henry Grosvenor Barbour, '96, Hartford, Conn.

ETA CHAPTER�LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. Charles McKnight Loeser, '91, New York City. Louis Diven, '97, Elmira, N. Y.

TAU CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Henry R. Woolman, '96, Philadelphia, Pa.

MU CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Edgar R. Barton, '96, Minneapolis, Minn.

RHO CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. Justin Edwards Emerson, '65, Detroit, Mich. Charles Philip Spooner, '92, Madison, Wis. Henry Vilas, '94, Madison, Wis. Charles Edwin Blomgren, '96, Chicago, 111. Charles Albert Crawford, '96, Mansfield, Ohio.

In the list of Phi men is included the name of Theodore J. Wrampelmeier (Phi '78), who travelled from San Francisco to attend the Convention, but unfortunately failed to arrive 240 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW. until a few hours after the Dinner. However, he was able to meet most of the visiting brothers on Saturday, May 9. Several Detroit members who contributed to pay the Con vention expenses were absent from home or for other reasons were prevented from joining the Society at Ann Arbor. Among these were the Hon. William G. Thompson (Gamma '62), Charles J. Fox (Theta '61), and C. A. Newcomb, Jr. (Phi '92). It was a matter of regret that Elisha Taylor (Theta '37), and Clement M. Davison (Theta '38), two of the leading citi zens of Detroit, and whose devotion to the Society has been demonstrated in every possible way, were unable, because of their advanced years and feeble health, to go to Ann Arbor or to attend the Dinner. Their old associate in the Theta, Dr. Goodale, was taken to see them on the day following the Con vention's close, -and the meeting of the three patriarchs, rep resentatives of the first three classes of Psi Upsilon, was very affecting. Both Mr. Taylor and Mr. Davison have attended the Psi U. gatherings at Ann Arbor or in Detroit whenever they could so. That both may be spared to attend future meetings is the hope of all the Brothers in Michigan. The Rt. Rev. G. Mott Williams (Chi '79), one of the most distinguished and beloved of the Psi Upsflons who reside in Michigan, could not attend the Convention because his Diocesan Convention was held at Marquette during the same week. He had been consecrated Bishop of Marquette on the first day of May at Grace Church, Detroit, a number of the Phi men being present by invitation. Bishop Wifliams wrote, "I would give a good deal to wear my new honors on the occasion, but I cannot". By the meeting of the Indiana Republican State Conven tion at Indianapolis, June 7, those enthusiastic members, Rollo B. Oglesbee (Phi '82), John Morris, Jr. (Phi '83), and Russel M. Seeds (Phi '85), were prevented from joining their brothers at Ann Arbor. The Hon. Franklin J. Dickman (Sigma '46), late Chief Justice of Ohio, and father of one of the Phi alumni (Neil Dickman, '86), could not be present, and the Hon. Augustus Ricks (Iota '65), Judge of the Federal District Court for the THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 241

Northern District of was Ohio, represented by his son, C. A. Ricks. The latter contributed the following verses to the gayety of the Convention :

" Air� There is a Tavern in Our Town."

There is a diamond clear and bright�clear and bright

- � It blazes forth a beacon light beacon light� It shines upon the breast of a chosen faithful few, It is the diamond of Psi U.

Chorus.

As its hands are clasped forever So our love for it shall never

Cease�but burn with brighter flame until life's race is run. � Then we'll to Psi Psi again sing you U., U., Psi U. , And pledge ourselves anew � yes anew� And ever on the heart of each loyal, faithful son Will gleam thy badge Psi Upsilon.

In boyhood's days we turned to thee�turned to thee � � Thy faithful sons we're e'er to be�e'er to be � And though the years have passed our love's as fond and true As ever 'twas to old Psi U.

Chorus.

The total number of members who attended the Con vention was 172, of whom 98 were Phi men. One hundred and forty-five by actual count were present at the Dinner, while twenty-seven, most of whom had been at Ann Arbor two days, were unable to be "in at the finish" Friday even ing. The Phi called to the celebration nearly one-third of its living members. If we except the Semi-Centennial, and the Conventions of 1887 and 1892 held in New York City (where more than one thousand members reside), this Convention was more largely attended than any similar gathering. It brought together twice as many as were assembled at Utica in 1895, a^f Brunswick and in 1894, or at Hanover and Springfield in 1895. And when we consider that a Psi U. con clave in New England or New York is able to draw large numbers of undergraduate members from the chapters dis successful in tant not many hours' journey, we realize how �242 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

bringing out its men the Phi was. The number of members belonging to classes earlier than '96 was lOi, only fifteen less than at the Semi-Centennial ; and the Phi had 98 members present as against 55 assembled by the Theta at the celebra tion in 1883. As compared with the conventions held by other fraterni ties at the University of Michigan, the Phi gathering appears to great advantage. Few of the other Greek-letter sodalities at Ann Arbor have been able to attract to their conclaves very distinguished men or many men. Not counting our own, the �chief conventions have been those of Alpha Delta Phi and of D. K. E. ; but neither of the latter has ever had a meeting �such as that recently held by the Phi. Not in numbers, or in the prominence of visiting alumni, or in the success" of each particular feature, could the Alpha Delt. Convention held at Ann Arbor, Aprfl 28-30, vie with our Sixty-third. While the two societies had about the same number of undergraduates present, our alumni were nearly twice as numerous as theirs, �although they were celebrating the Semi-Centennial of their Michigan branch. As against our attendance of 172 they had 115. We had 145 men at our Dinner; at the Alpha Delt. there were "Banquet" 88, only five more than the repre- �sentation at the Psi U. Dinner of the Phi men alone. Yet the of the Michigan Chapter Alpha DeUa Phi is nineteen years -older than the representative of Psi Upsilon. It must also be remembered that this comparison is made with one of the very

� best perhaps the best�of the non-Psi U. conventions in Michigan. The traditional friendship between the Phi and the older �of the two branches of Psi Upsflon in New York City, was the fraternal augmented by zeal of the Delta in sending a dele gation of six men, whose Banner was an object of interest in the in the and on House, cars, the boat. For years the Phi has been at the East represented by large deputations�there were thirteen Phi men at the Semi-Centennial, and fourteen at the Lambda's Convention four years ago� yet the return this year from certain quarters was not large; Gamma (Amherst), Zeta and Chi (Dartmouth), (Cornell) sending but one student THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION. 243 member each, and the Lambda (Columbia) sending only two undergraduates. However, the Convention Committee did not expect larger delegations, and was satisfied with the fact that every chapter had at least one undergraduate in Ann Arbor. Upsflon (Rochester) had three student members at the Convention, and Rho (Wisconsin) sent three of its best men all the way from Madison. That the Omega (Chicago) had six of its graduates in attendance spoke well for the Psi U. spirit of that Chapter. Four members�Professor Martin L. D'Ooge (Phi '62), Schuyler Grant (Phi '64), Professor Edward L. Walter (Phi '68), and Earle Knight, '71 � have attended all three of the Psi U. Conventions held at Ann Arbor. Of the 107 members who attended the Convention in 1880, the following were pres ent at the Convention of 1896: Rev. Rufus W. Clark (Delta '65), President James B. Angell (Sigma '49), Alexander M. Stanton (Lambda '56), Francis S. Bangs (Lambda '78), Pro fessor Henry S. Carhart (Xi '68), Charles W. Smfley (Xi '74), Charles T. Mayo (Iota '68), Professor Martin L. D'Ooge (Phi '62), Schuyler Grant (Phi '64), Albert M. Henry (Phi '67), Edward L. Walter (Phi '68), Earle Knight (Phi '71), Charles A. Rust (Phi '71), Francis D. Bennett (Phi '72), WflUam T. Underwood (Phi '72), Albert P. Jacobs (Phi '73), Charles A. Warren (Phi '74), Charles H. Jacobs (Phi '75), Edward H. Ranney (Phi '76), Ernest F. Smith (Phi '77), Orlando F. Barnes (Phi '80), Charles W. Hitchcock (Phi '80), P. Burr Loomis, Jr. (Phi '80), Edwin S. Sherrill (Phi '80), Collins H. Johnston (Phi '81), Charies L. Coffia (Phi '82), Edward A. Barnes (Phi '83), Clarence A. Lightner (Phi '83), and Edwin F. Mack (Phi 83); twenty-nine in afl. Since the Phi Convention of 1880 not a few who were

" '' then with us have passed away. Among these stelligeri are John M. Wheeler (Theta '41), of Ann Arbor, for so many Nott years the main-stay of his adopted Chapter; Clarkson Potter (Theta '42), the statesman; George S. Morris (Zeta '61), and Edward S. Dunster (Alpha '56), two of the most beloved of the long line of Psi U. Professors at Ann Arbor; Willard S. Pope (Psi '51), whose services to his profession and 244 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW. to the Fraternity were commemorated in The Review for April, 1896; and George Lamont Chubb (Phi '82), then a college student, who died sixteen months later. The Committee charged with the preparations for the Convention was appointed in June, 1895, and consisted of Albert P. Jacobs (Phi '73), Dr. Edwin S. Sherrill (Phi '80), Prof. George W. Patterson, Jr. (Beta '84), Henry E. Bodman (Phi '96), Frederick W. B. Coleman (Phi '96), Edwin H. Humphrey (Phi '97), Frank A. Ketcham (Phi '97), Edward B. Caulkins (Phi '98), and Stuart E. Knappen (Phi '98). Work was begun last summer, and continued without friction or interruption until the close of the Convention. Little diffi culty was experienced in filling the programme for the liter ary exercises, and the fraternal heartiness with which the invitations were accepted was very gratifying to the Com mittee. Professor D'Ooge's answer to the invitation was as fol lows : ' ' I feel highly honored by the invitation of the Com mittee to preside over and to give the address of welcome at the Public Exercises of the 63d Annual Convention of our Fraternity, and I hope nothing will prevent my having the great pleasure of rendering this honorable service". Bishop Perry wrote : ' ' Your most courteous and kind invitation is received, and I shall take great pleasure, Deo volente, in complying with your request, voicing as it does the bidding of our Alma Mater Psi Upsilon to a loyal son". Mr. Hovey sent these words : ' ' I shall be delighted with the opportunity to write for Psi U. once more, especially for the Michigan Chapter. The Michigan Chapter has an historical as well as an individual importance in the annals of Psi Upsilon that I think the whole Fraternity feels with some enthusiasm�I am sure I do. It gives me pleasure to think of a visit to Ann Arbor". Brother Henry P. Field wrote : '' I am pleased as well as surprised at the invitation ex tended to me to act as toastmaster at the Convention Dinner.

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The prospect is so delightful that I shall plan to be present, and I accept the invitation with much pleasure ". In grateful, remembrance by the Committee and Chapter is held the kind hospitality with which President and Mrs. Angell, Professor and Mrs. D'Ooge, Professor and Mrs. Pat terson, Mrs. Victoria C. Morris (widow of the late lamented Professor Morris), and Professor Walter, entertained some of the distinguished guests, thus obviating recourse to the hotels of Ann Arbor. It is a matter of special pride that the Society is so strongly represented in the Faculty of the University, and that the relations between the undergraduates of the Phi and the Psi Upsilon Professors and their families are so cor dial. All of the Brothers in the Faculty were deeply inter ested in the work of the Convention, and some of them were always present during the business sessions. The Convention memorabilia are numerous. The colors of the Fraternity instead of being worn as emblems were worked into a circular button, with garnet centre and yellow was the border, and one of these emblems borne throughout each of the earher Convention by every member. Upon announcements and notices of the Convention, and as well as upon the letter paper envelopes, and the Dinner tickets, was impressed a smaU cut of the arms of the Fraternity. The arms of of the Phi Chapter appear upon the programmes the literary exercises. The invitations to the a steel As for the Dinner latter were printed from plate. Bristol board souvenirs, each is formed of four pieces of white ribbon. The tied together at the top with garnet and yellow in their colors and arms of the Fraternity are embossed proper of the and are surrounded metals upon the first leaf souvenir, form of a by twenty-two shields, arranged in the embkm lozenge, each shield bearing the peculiar the second leaf of of one of the chapters. Upon of the the souvenir is printed the menu; the names on the third toast-master and the speakers appear of the leaf, and on the fourth is a picture Chapter the Committee of House- of the Phi, with the names of 248 THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

Arrangements below. Of course the Convention Song was duly printed. While speaking of the Convention prints, it is proper that mention be made of the labors of Mr. F. Eugene Wood, whose artistic skill as a designer and engraver was exerted with great success in preparing the Dinner souvenirs, as it had been pre viously employed in executing other Psi U. memorabilia. Without Mr. Wood's assistance the Fraternity's heraldic insignia which are now so effectively used in college annuals, in decorating chapter lodges, and in many other ways, could not have been completed, or, at least, they would, have involved the Society in very heavy expense. The financial problem was solved by the liberality of the alumni and by the devotion of the undergraduates of the Phi. To the raising of the necessary funds. Professors Carhart, D'Ooge, Kelsey, Patterson, and Walter, of Ann Arbor; George R. Gibson, of New York City; Charles A. Rust, of Saginaw; Mich.; Francis D. Bennett, P. B. Loomis, Jr., Oscar Schmid, W. M. Thompson, and E. J. Weeks, of Jackson, Mich., Julian H. Tyler and H. W. Suydam, of Toledo, Ohio; and Wil liam Aikman, Jr., C. T. Alexander, George H. Angefl, Earl D. Babst, E. A. Barnes, F. L. Bliss, H. E. Boynton, R. McC. Brady, H. E. Chickering, C. L. Coffin, Clarence Conely, R. T. Farrand, Charles J. Fox, Louis Gascoigne, Schuyler Grant, Paul R. Gray, Albert M. Henry, Dr. Chades W. Hitchcock, E. M. Holland, A. P. Jacobs, C. H. Jacobs, Dr. C. H. Leonard, C. A. Lightner, E. F. Mack, C. T. Mayo, C. T. Miller, C. S. McDonald, H. T. Morley, C. A. Newcomb, Jr., L. H. Pad dock, Willard Pope, C. W. H. Potter, Dr. F. W. Robbins, E. L. Sanderson, Dr. E. S. Sherrill, Elisha Taylor, W. G. Thompson and E. C. Weeks, of Detroit; and the active members of the Phi Chapter, contributed. The sum of $250 granted by the Fraternity from its fund was augmented by $370 from the alumni and $295 from the undergraduates. After the payment of aU the bills a small surplus remained, which has been applied to the refitting of the Chapter House. The Phi of Psi Upsflon, now closing its thirty-second collegiate year, is in a very flourishing condition. Upon its THE SIXTY-THIRD CONVENTION.

roll of names are of the most 342 many distinguished sons of Michigan. James C. Watson, the renowned astronomer; President Adams of the University of Wisconsin; President Harrington of the University of Washington; Professors D'Ooge, Walter, and Worcester of the University of Mich igan, _Hurd and Abel of Johns Hopkins, Gayley of Califor nia; Knight of the Ohio State, Brown of Cincinnati, Adams of the ; Dennis of Cornefl, and D'Ooge of the Michigan Normal; ex-Regent and Congressman Mc- Gowan, of Washington, D. C; ex-Solicitors General Aldrich and Maxwefl; W. H. Barnes, late of the Supreme Court of Arizona; and the late Attorney-General Trowbridge, of Mich igan; are but a few of the prominent graduates of the Michi gan branch of the Psi Upsilon. Thirty of the members are deceased, leaving a total of 312 living members, of whom 36 are undergraduates. Eleven members will be graduated from the Literary Department at the coming Commencement, but the Chapter already has pledged nine excellent men for the class of 1900. During the past year the Phi has had the first basteman of the University Nine, and the manager of the Glee Club; Sea- bury, '98, one of its members, has recentlywon the University championship in tennis singles, and the same player, with Herrick, '98, holds the championship in doubles; Stuart, '96, has just been chosen captain of Track Athletics for next year; and representatives of the Chapter scored 29 of the 117 points at the recent University Field-Day. That the Chapter has done its duty in scholarship is shown by the fact that the percentage of graduates is larger than that of any other fra ternity in Ann Arbor, or than that of the non-society men. THE PSI UPSILON REVIEW.

A CHARADE.

T THE ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE PSI UPSILON CLUB BOSTON, JANUARY 3I, 1896, BY PROFESSOR W. WHITMAN BAILEY (SIGMA '64).

AVhen, from his throne, on fair Grenada's hills, Boabdil, exiled, fled his native land, Lamenting vainly all his country's ills. My frst he wafted to the distant strand.

My frst the maids of Judah knew full well, Who hung their silent harps by Babel's shore, And wept to think that they were asked to tell The holy words they loved in days of yore.

Armed with my second English yeomen stood In brave array on Cressy's battled field; It was the pride of merry Robin Hood, And better known than either sword or shield.

My second, as most grammars seem to teach. Is plural; but in idiomatic use By is eschewed in forms of speech, And subject hence to most absurd abuse.

My whole, a daughter of our Union fair; To thee, her sons, full well is known her fame, Aloft she a stands, Queen without compare. Let every brother shout her glorious name ! inc

PSI UPSILON REVIEW

VOLUA\E I

1895-96

EDITED

BY ALBERT POOLE JACOBS

DETROIT /nicniGAN 1896

Volume I�Table of Contents

Alumni - Associations, 25, 51, 99, 139, 140, 142, 189, 192

- The - - . Alumni, 28, 59, 109, 153, 199

Psi U. ------Among Men, 109, 153

- - As Others See - - - Us, -53, 45

- - the The - - Blaze of Diamond, (Song), 129

- - - Boston Alumni, Dinner of, - - 142

- - Chapters, The, - - 26, 53, 102, 195

------Charade, A, - - 2 5'o

- - - - Chicago Dinner, The, - - 189

- - College Notes, ------150 Convention, The Sixty-second, ----- 38

- - Convention, The Sixty-third, - - - 211 Detroit Alumni Association, The, - - - -139 Editorials, - - - - 23, 48, 97, 144, 193 Evening Song, ------191

Dinner to Francis M. - - - - - 1 Finch, , 30 Fraternity News, ------24 Goodale, Samuel, ------127 Hall, Charles Henry, ------83 Inauguration Ode, ------37 Initiations, Recent, ------149

Letter from a Founder, ------21 Memorial Ode, ------5 New Psi Upsflon Literature, - - - - - 147 Other Societies, - - - - 34, 66, 115, 202 Pope, Wiflard Smith, ------181 Psi U. Behind the Footlights (Poem), - - - 10 Psi Upsflon Club of New York, The, - - - - 99

- - Psi Upsilon "Don'ts", - - - - 95 Psi Upsilon from a Biological View-point, - - - 88 Psi Upsflon Fraternity, The, ----- 6

- - Psi Upsilon Literature, New, - - - I47

- - Recent Initiations, - - - - -149

- Rho of Psi Upsilon, The, - - - - i45, 161 iv TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Sixty-second Convention, The, ----- 38 Sixty-third Convention, The, - - - - -211 Suspended Chapters, The, ------19 Washington Alumni, The, ----- 140, 192

Western Extension, ------12 Why We Laugh, ------80

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Angell, James Burrill (Sigma '49), - - _ 227 Carhart, Henry Smith (Xi '68), - - - - 228 Chapter Arms, ----- 102-108, 180 Chapter House of the Phi, - - - - - 213 Chapter House of the Upsilon, - - - - 4 Convention of 1896, ------210

Convention Dinner Souvenir, - - - - 231 D'Ooge, Martin Luther (Phi '62) - - - 227 Finch Dinner Souvenir, - - - - - I33 Fox, George Henry (Upsilon '67), . - - 227 Fraternity Arms, ------247 Goodale, Samuel, (Theta '36), - - - - 127 Kelsey, Francis Wflley (Upsilon '80), - - - 228 Pope, Wiflard Smith (Psi '51), - - - - 160 Smiley, Charles Wesley (Xi '74) - - - - 246 Walter, Edward Lorraine (Phi '68), - - - 228 SinONS BRO. & CO.

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