The Diamond.

Vol. III. DECEMBER, 1883. No.

BOARD OF EDITORS:

DOW BEEKMAN, . . . Editor-in-Chief. Wallace T. Foote, Jr. J. Montgomery Mosher. GEORGE F. ALLISON, Business Manager.

associate editors :

A.�Amory T. Skerry, Jr. Z.�Louis Bell. S.�W. E. Rowell. 0.�T. M. Hammond.

B.� F. R. Shipman. A.�'W. H. Wetmore. T.�C. A. Strong. n.�Arthur Copeland.

S.�H. B. Gardner. K.�J. S. Norton. L�R. H. Peters. X.�T. S. Williams.

r.�W. C. Atwater. �i:�E. M. Barber. $.�W. E. Brownlee. BB.�W. D. McCrackan.

Qc^iforiaf. the well-defined purpose of stimulating the Fraternity spirit of those whose many years of business cares have given little time for the renewal of old associa Since Fraternities have arisen to that dignity and tions. To the accomplishment of this purpose Gradu prominence that insures their permanence, it is in ate Organizations are the most effectual aids. cumbent upon every member and every Chapter to endeas^or to keep alive the fraternal feeling and to draw inter-Fraternity lines closer. Now the influence By this time nearly all our chapters have held their of a Fraternity extends beyond the atmosphere of the initiations, and the Fraternity has within her fold a Chapter and College, and is recognized in the world. large number of new men�new in college and new in This is more noticeable every year. The Fraternity is Psi Upsilon. It is an important period in the life of no longer merely the object for the enthusiasm of the men, and the time for the exercise of an important boys in College, but is a body to whom venerable duty by the Fraternity�that of educating the new men^� Divines, Authors, Judges, Governors, Senators members. and Presidents � delight to show their devotion. One of the chief requisites of a valuable member " The great problem of Fraternities once was, How is an intimate knowledge of the characteristics, history shall the organization be continued and insured against and policies of the Fraternity. An early acquaintance death?" Chapter Houses, strong graduate associa with these details determines the position and useful tions and reciprocal labor have solved that question. ness of a member. Generally a new initiate measures Now the pronounced aim of a good Fraternity is the Fraternity by a chapter standard, without any idea elevation of tone, not perpetuation � that is settled of the complex relations of the Fraternity at large. beyond dispute � but perpetuation with the best A complete knowledge of the concerns of the society results. is necessary for the intelligent exercise of the rights of an active member of a It Upon the younger graduates must devolve the duty and privileges Chapter. and task of producing in the Fraternity that unity of is not possible to consider any important Fraternity feeling and interest which persuades the older mem question in its full scope without the information which from a of the facts which our bers that they are as truly members of Psi Upsilon as results study upon poli when they surrounded the Chapter altar. The desire cies are based. If in addition to the of the of graduates to keep up their Fraternity affiliation is experience upper classes, the lower ones have a with shown in their presence at conventions and in their familiarity Fraternity usages, and of the will be interest in their own Chapter Houses. the dignity position Chapter greatly The drill members With the conviction that our prosperity is to a great elevated. imposed upon younger is commendable and extent measured by the interest of our Alumni, let by certain Chapters certainly should be all. every Psi U. man, when he leaves his College, have adopted by H THE DIAMOND.

In this number we have the. pleasure of publishing 1 8th, 1884. The number of subscriptions received will a contribution from the pen of one of our honored govern the number of copies issued ; therefore, all founders. The theme is pleasing and suggestive. It who wish to be certain of receiving the Proceedings is a retrospect of fifty years as given by one whose should notify us within the prescribed time. Psi UpsUonism has embraced that period, and whose Subscribers may remit immediately, or upon the de thoughts are drawn from the reality of experience and livery of the book. not from imagination. Although it has been the for We hope that our directions will be rigidly observed, tune of comparatively few Psi Upsilons to greet Bro. for thereby much trouble and confusion will be avoided Goodale personally, it is gratifying to be able to read by all parties. his fraternal expressions. All communications and subscriptions should be addressed : The THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEMICEN Diamond, N. Y. TENNIAL CONVENTION. Schenectady, The public exercises of the Semi-Centennial Con vention will be published in book form, with heavy "biferarLj, paper cover and on antique paper. The typographi cal appearance will be made especially attractive. REMINISCENCES OF THE STUDENT LIFE The original plan at the time of the convention was OF CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. to the pubUsh proceedings in The Diamond, but sub In the judgment of the intelligent reader of to-day, sequent consideration has convinced us that the record the writings of Charles Dudley Warner entitle him to of an event so notable and important as our Fiftieth a conspicuous place among men of letters. Few are should be Anniversary preserved in distinct and sepa unacquainted with his history in later hfe, and the rate form. There is hardly a live member of Psi result of his labors, published in that series of works Upsilon who would not desire to a possess book so which have so captivated the reading public. Sketches valuable, not on account of its only Fraternity charac of his hterary career, and criticisms of his books, have ter, but on account of its worth. literary appeared so often that a general knowledge of them It will contain the Address Hon. Introductory by cannot but have become familiar. It is as a student, Alexander H. the Rice, Oration by Hon. Joseph R. perhaps, that Warner is least known. Reminiscences the Hawley, Essay Charles the are by Dudley Warner, vain, except as they give us a glance behind the Poem by Prof Hjaltrar H. the Ode Prof. Boyesen, by veil, and instruct us in the hidden past, when some Calvin S. Harrington, the Address of Welcome to the now noted name represented the personahty of only a Delegates by Prof. I. B. the at Price, speeches the college boy. So we present this article, of reminis Banquet by Hon. C. Van President of Hooper Vorst, cences mainly, taken catch-as-catch-can from the lips the Banquet, Hon. Joseph R. Hon. Alexan and letters of Hawley, old friends, trusting it may prove of der H. Rice, Hon. Sterling G. Hadley, Hon. John M. interest. Wheeler, Dr. Maunsell Van Prof. Rensselaer, Goldwin In the case of Charles Dudley Warner, the college Smith, Hon. Samuel W. H. Jackson, Benj. Bayliss, boy was father to the man. He entered college in Hon. D. Ward Northrup, Charles Dudley Warner, 1848 from the bookish quietude of Cazenovia, with a Hon. Ehsha Rev. D. Taylor, George Baker, D.D., native passion for belles lettres studies, and his three Hon. Albion W. Tourgee, Robert Lenox Belknap, years in college kept him reasonably busy with what Prof. Hjalmar H. Boyesen, Prof Edward H. Williams, ever intellectual venture was welcome and inspiring. Jr., Herbert L. Bridgman and Frederick G. Fincke. As a general student he stood fairly. He had no An account of the the list Reception, of Delegates special liking for the treadmill round of and undergraduate members in attendance, a chart of the Banquet work; and if he let his mathematics alone very Table, and such other incidents as be of may interest, severely, it was with a tacit understanding that he was will be given. to be let alone quite as severely by the mathematical An engraved of the copy Convention Invitation professor. will form a frontispiece. He is recalled as a smooth-faced lad, no The of blender, price subscription will be cents ticeable seventy-five chiefly for the great mass of brown hair tumb- (i^o-75)> post-paid. over his hng forehead, and the big eyes that seemed All should be subscriptions sent in before to be January especially prominent. During junior year his THE DIAMOND. 15

" place in the chapel was beside one of the pillars that ventional spread of something to speak well." The support the old-fashioned high gallery. To one of brilliant success in literature of the man is no surprise the chapel-goers of to-day that pillar is still haunted to those who knew the boy. It needed no prophet to by the clinging adumbrations of a straight, lithe stu predict his future. dent with a far-away look in his great blue eyes as the He was a great reader, fairly omnivorous, and old Sunday sermon dragged its tedious length along. He traditions declare that no book in the college library� � him. He had a trick in conversation of looking at a person not so large then as at present escaped long and steadfastly when he was interested, as though flung himself into a book all over with a kind of furious none he who has felt it knows. At he saw through and beyond that one out into some delight, that but a that a book is a book. vague realm where he alone had access. He had age Poetry, essays, history, mobile face that reflected and intensified the thought criticism, plays, novels�everything must give up its

' to the with an insatiable that was within him ; and when that set, far-away ex literary wealth boy burning relates that to see pression came into his eyes, it was worth while to be thirst for reading. An old friend silent and to listen. him of a summer afternoon, curled up in the broad his over a was to He was rather shy and distant in his manner, or to window-seat of room, poring book, all care or of what was put it more properly, he was delicate and refined, and see one wrapt beyond thought and moved and had his shrank instinctively from whatever was coarse and around him. He lived being vulgar. Everybody liked him, and yet he had few in in books. a Charles Warner was timates. In general he was reserved and self-con In wholesome way, Dudley the woods and of rambles where the tained, though companionable and wholly unselfish ; fond of lonely of nature could be heard to beat. A who but to those who found their way into his real heart he pulse lady had to do with his three meals a was open as the day, frank, demonstrative, and on something day, reports- when he came into a late he was to occasion even enthusiastic in his affection. To say that supper apt a handsome in the of a of that he was the most popular man in his class means bring apology shape string trout from the Kirkland woods. That trout stream is much, because he was so indifferent to the popular now as it was but arts. not so well stocked thirty years ago, the near the southern line of He could easily drop off into a limitless brown it still crosses highway Kirkland and a local artist has on whenever the drill of the class-room grew dull the John farm, put study " canvas a section of it that for Warner's Trout and wearisome. In his chosen way he was always in passes dustrious and enterprising. Writing for prizes began Brook." with that not even the success of his after during his junior year, and his name stands Perhaps stirring him more real satisfaction and of Dr. D. J. Pratt, of Albany, at the head of the long life has given pleasure It be doubted if he double line of Hamilton graduates who have been than did those college days. may more any of the grand receptions laureled for English essays. enjoys heartily tendered him than he did the old-time In his literary exercises he was easily at the head. by society with and not a whist parties Lester, Ordinarily the composition of a college boy is Wednesday evening and at the corners of the table, and thing that fills either gods or men with delight ; but Townsend, Pope the old It with the well-browned tobacco pipes and when he rose to read, all ears were eager to listen. of harmless egg-nogg for is said that sometimes even the Professor, in his awful broken-nosed yellow pitcher ceased to remember " refreshment. Nor can he have bear-box," was seen to unbend from his stately dig the occasional meetings of the "Turkey Club," with and give the nod of approval. His contributions nity the back characteristic. old Terry sneaking up stairs, to our little chapter paper were always pink-faced in a covered the bringing the nicely cooked gobbler The odd, quaint way of putting things ; genial, to be carved with a and washed that the world basket, pen-knife, kindly humor ; the bright wit, reading down with the overflowings of a bucket of surrepti so knows and now, were all there. weir appreciates " cider back on the character tious cider from old Smith's press To a friend, Mr. Warner once said that the of hill." istics of his style were partly shaped by his habit He is now the editor of a great daily paper ; letters to of either sex, whose busy writing correspondents is known and the name of Charles Dudley Warner friendship kept him under willing bonds to do his best. " are admired over both continents. " in his and his books His graduating oration on Great Words was of his classmates had to foresee the from the con Probably few eyes own racy style, and altogether different 1 6 THE

glory that now invests his name. Yet they could not Kappa Alpha found worthy foes ; and amid the conflict help loving him for his lovable gifts, and now they all incident with an early existence, it is interesting to if as a rejoice, living, in his world-wide success de recognize the origin of many of the established customs scriptive and humorous writer. And possibly even of later-day Fraternities. To distinguish themselves yet he looks back with pleasant thoughts to the days from rival bodies, and to characterize their particular " " when he was � the at only Charley among boys organizations, badges of peculiar design were worn. odd Hamilton, thirty years ago. Kappa Alpha selected a square key to be used as a chain E. M. Barber, Psi, '84. pendant ; Sigma Phi chose a monogram design, the Sigma placed over the Phi, while Delta Phi took the Maltese cross, with the letters Delta and Phi placed THE INFANCY OF THE SECRET SOCIETY upon a center oval. All of these pins bore symbolic SYSTEM. designs, and were calculated greatly to impress the un Over half a century has elapsed since the now wide initiated. No societies possessed lodge rooms were held in extended secret society system sprang into existence in those days, but meetings regularly the at Union College. Looking back over the intervening different members' rooms, and frequently in one of the years, it is a study of profit and curiosity to review the public taverns of Schenectady�in the latter cases, causes which led to the establishing of these fraternal the meetings being supplemented by interesting bands, and to notice the ups and downs of their succeed spreads. Notwithstanding the opposition of burlesque ing careers. At the expiration of the first quarter of the organizations and College authorities, these germs of a century, Phi Beta Kappa, the venerable corner stone future greatness grew and flourished. In 1831 Sigma of modern secret societies, had lost its character of Phi introduced the now generally practiced plan of secrecy, retaining its honorary organization, into whose placing branches in neighboring collegiate institutions, precincts men were admitted in appreciation of their and at Hamilton chartered a sister organization known standing in College. On the other hand, two as the "Alpha Chapter." Kappa Alpha, failing in a flourishing literary societies, with large membership similar attempt at Hamilton, gave a charge to some rolls and a degree of secrecy; furnished a binding Williams College applicants. About this time, the chain for general association, but lacked the connect fourth in this series of notable societies founded at ing link of individual friendship. With the tokens of Union sprang into existence. Four members of the which had class of and three of the class of mystery traditionally surrounded the pre 1836 1837 organized vious existence of Phi Beta Kappa and the literary themselves in the fall of 1833 into a society known as societies as a models for improvement, there arose a the Psi Upsilon. They chose as a badge diamond- desire to a organize friendly union which should com shaped design bearing upon it clasped hands, having bine warm friendship and sociability as its selecting above the letter Psi and beneath the Upsilon. principles, and which would possess an air of impres- Many-persons, in giving causes for the formation of the siveness necessary to perpetuate its existence. In four societies which I have mentioned as founded at 1825 several seniors of the class of 1826, endeavoring Union prior to 1834, have claimed that they had their to combine these principles, formed the Kappa Alpha origin in factions created for the control of elections in society, pledging undying friendship and mutual assist the Philomathean and Adelphic hterary societies. The ance. If premeditated or not, this sworn fealty was records of these societies show that none of the attended by many exhibitions of its sincerity, and soon founders of Sigma Phi or Delta Phi were members of the name of secret society became a bar to general either literary organization at the time of the forma association. Nevertheless, the organization thrived, tion of these secret unions. Likewise of the names and candidates, attracted by the secrecy and influence of the seven founders of Psi Upsilon, not one is connected therewith, were ever ready to be initiated found on the membership rolls of either the Philoma into the terrible mysteries. thean or Adelphic society. This, certainly, disposes of Exclusiveness in the course of time became the order the claim of their origin for political purposes, and of �a condition of affairs things most undesirable to there is every reason to beheve that they were designed other men who considered themselves equally worthy for mutual, social and literary benefits. The years the which those bands friendship afforded. Rivalry pro between the establishing of Kappa Alpha and Psi duced and the opposing organizations, succeeding year, Upsilon witnessed the birth of several minor organiza birth to Phi and 1827, gave Sigma Delta Phi. In these tions. Some came into existence for the mere pur- THE DIAMOND. 17 pose of burlesquing the bona fide organizations. I have mentioned, together with three others, were They sported' grotesque badges, followed peculiar cus the founders of Chi Psi. This society had a long and toms, and were, in every respect, intended to discoun successful career at Union, but getting low in members, tenance the existence of the supposed evil. Their its charter was withdrawn in 1877, apparently, as the existence, however, was necessarily short-lived. From Chapter was on the threshold of a new lease of life. the time of the appearance of Kappa Alpha there had The year 1847 brought forth the last of the famous existed a smouldering opposition to secret societies, six societies created at Union. At that time Union and with the advent of Psi Upsilon this took form. College was at the height of its prosperity, 299 names In the spring of 1834, two associations were formed, being on its roUs. The Sophomore class numbered 72, whose avowed purpose was the extinction of secret and out of this, six members combining, formed the societies. They took the names of the Fraternal So Theta Delta Chi Society. They selected a shield- ciety and Equitable Union. Their membership at the shaped badge, bearing the letters Theta Delta Chi time of formation was large, and at subsequent periods Ijeneath crossed spears and above two stars. Their and numbered as high as one hundred each. Finding life ended at Union when the war of the rebellion that the principles of the secret societies were beyond the losses at the South drew so many from the College on rolls their reach, they abandoned their undertaking. The rolls. In the year 1859, 440 names were the socie Fraternal Society after a precarious existence, under of Union College, and in that year nine secret the garb of semi-neutrahty for a period of twenty-five ties were contestants for positions at Union, namely ; A. X. @.A. years, was merged into a chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. K.A.,2. 0., 0., W.T., W., X.,A.A.$., whose courses I The Anti-Secret Confederation, as the Equitable Union A. K. E. and Z. W. The first six, have have become was afterwards called, entered the ranks of Delta traced, powerful Fraternities, having institu Upsilon Chapters in 1861. co-existent branches in a score of collegiate � Psi In November, 1839, the neutral opposition gained tions, and four now exist at Union Chi and the roll. control of the Philomathean Society, and the follow Theta Delta Chi having disappeared from the of these in other Col ing amendment was made to the Constitution of the With spread organizations " we note the of other Fraternities. society : No member of a secret society shall ever leges, origin many The the existence of these branches, become a member of this society ; and if any one here latter, witnessing created kindred Some of these have after becoming a member of this society shall join any organizations. local in their while others have secret society, he shall be expelled from this society remained existence, out and into Fraternities. on conviction of the same." At one of the last branched grown powerful and meetings of the Philomathean Society in June, Dr. Nott, the famous president educator, opposed of that these but after some had complied with his 1 84 1, several of the prominent members bodies, to exhibit their Constitutions, he lent his aid body appeared, wearing a new badge in token of request to their and experi their connection with a society known as Chi Psi. advancement, during fifty years' ence often made the now traditional, that he This action was in open violation df the amend remark, the the recognition ment adopted in November, 1839, and at the easily governed College by open and use of these clubs. meeting of the Censors' Council, on July 3, 1841, sagacious The worth and usefulness of these organizations is Secretary Taber (a Chi Psi) was instructed to sum,rnon and their value frequently before that body Messrs. Brush, Major, Spencer, everywhere admitted, attested members eminent in theological, pohti- Duane and Berthond, July 8th, to stand trial for by and Numerous violation of the Constitution. The Secretary's min cal, literary professional pursuits. have manifested an attachment to their utes of July are headed "A fight ! A fight ! M^ke a graduates " due to the warm " Alma which was often greatly ring ! The closing paragraph reads : An attempt Mater, in the fraternal circle. a character more friendship formed Anfong was made to proceed to business of Union's and firm supporters, are suitable than that which was ultimately effected, prominent graduates the names of of the founders and early which it behooves the Secretary to leave unrecorded fouiid many this secret character of this workers in the creation of society system. as entirely unworthy of the sedate list furnishes: Preston King, Ward body. Adjourned in confusion." The minutes of the Kappa Alpha's Schell. Phi: that the amend Hunt, Prof. Joy and Augustus Sigma society meeting of a later date show the Hon. Cochrane, John Bigelow, Major-Gen. ment forbidding secret society members to join John and ex-Gov. Hamtranft. whose names Townsend, ex-Gov. Hoffman Philomathean was repealed. These men i8 THE DIAMOND.

can boast there was no Delta Phi: Hon. George F. Seward, Rev. William fessors as any College of, yet with and rather than Wilson and Hon. H. S. Randall. Psi Upsilon : Presi fellowship students, they repelled dent Van Rensselaer, of Hobart, Hon. Clarkson N. attracted. some three to Potter, ex-Gov. Rice, Bishop Littlejohn, Hon. Fred It was my good fortune, years ago, with the brethren of erick Seward, President Arthur and Judge Van Vorst. spend a most enjoyable evening Columbia in their rooms, and I was Chi Psi : Major-Gen. Duane, Hon. Robert Earl, Major- College Chapter with the value of the Gen. Albert L. Lee and Commodore Meredith. Theta most forcibly impressed Society men seemed Delta Chi: A. C. Beach, Prof. French and Major- to College students. The young present the closest and Gen. Logic. drawn together in bonds of fellowship, George F. Allison. I could well understand that the attractions of their surroundings and employments were more potent for the cultivation of the the morals and the social FROM A FOUNDER. mind, quality, than the guilded outside allurements tending When the form of the of the Psi original badge to their demoralization and ruin. was in it could not have been Upsilon adopted 1833, In conclusion, I need hardly refer to the brilliancy foreseen that, in after years, it would give a name to of the record of Psi Upsilon. As in the past and pres that the Society's publication. It seems, however, another ent, so doubtless it will be in future. When some one saw how appropriately The Dm.mond might half century shall be finished, our young men of the and in a certain sense be the represent Society, a to-day win see inscribed on the roll of membership are in it their inter Society, since all the Chapters with half longer Ust of honorable names than in the past esting reports of work accomplished. Thus it will be century. seen how the few thoughts presented originated. I think I see in my photographic picture young men relative friend sent me A kind and thoughtful and in from our different Colleges and Universities rising up the photographic picture of the brethren present at scores to take the front seats soon to be vacated by the semi-centennial as they are seated upon the steps our venerable fathers and founders. Let the \ of the Capitol at Albany. I see but few familiar faces, Diamond shine and sparkle in all its briUiancy and V but know that men are there who are and will filling, it shall fail / beauty, and may the day be distant when in the future occupy, many of the highest offices in to attract the young men of our Colleges. / Church and State, and I am filled with admiration. Rev. Samuel Goodale. >^ It was a small beginning in 1833, and the material / out of which Psi Upsilon was created seemed rather / crude, coarse and common�a half dozen young men V in some of the lower classes, mostly from country M^ceffary/. places � diffident, unpohshed, unattractive, just intro duced to College life. Who could have expected RESULTS OF CONVENTION. anything permanent, valuable, brilhant, from such One of the most valuable outcomes of the conven material ? But there are mysterious forces silently at tion held in Albany is the increased and increasing work, and grand results often come from small, un sympathy between the different chapters. Not that promising beginnings ; the coarse carbon becomes the charge of apathy could ever be laid in justice the. Dianiondj the Psi Upsilon of '33~Fecomiiig the before any Chapter's door, but that the warm feeling Diamond of '83. and friendly interest which have always characterized It isvaliiable in its influence and brilliant in its us have received a fresh impetus. Acquaintance with record. Young men as College students must have and conversation between representative men from society of some kind, and, as a rule, find little, if any, various Chapters serve to make known and disseminate in the cities where our largest Colleges are located; so all the different plans and methods for promoting that it becomes a necessity, in order to the proper active chapter hfe far more efficiently than correspon cultivation of their social nature and their moral dence, though that will always occupy its own peculiar characters, that they may be drawn closely together sphere of usefulness. It is among chapters as among socially with those of their own kind. I think I can brothers in the individual Chapters, intercourse and say, as one of the founders of the Psi Upsilon, that it the exchange of ideas, face to face, are the most originated in such a necessity ;. for though in those potent means of advancement. days we had as noble a President and corps of Pro No former convention, probably, ever afforded such THE DIAMOND. 19 opportunities for intercourse between the various ele Mr. Theophel. Spruce�A Transplanted American, H. C. WiUiams. ments that go to make up the great body of our Fra Ex-Prof., from H . From founders down to the most ternity. recently Dick Spooner (dude) �A Grocer's Ass-istant, F. E. WiUiams. of was " initiated brother, every grade experience repre You'd scarce expect one of my age," etc. sented, and, inspired by the prevailing ideal of celebra Seraphina Wiggins�Antiquated, but not super

. . . Mile. Fredrika Silvae Woodaco. tion and good fellowship, each delegate seized every annuated, She's not coming to College, Boys. Thank Heaven ! ! ! chance to meet and greet every other one, and to Flute Solo J. W. Saxe. to and enthusiastic. Such conver gether rejoice grow Grand Chorus. Words by Woodbury. Music by Walker. sations, laden as they were with heartiest feeling, were This, the musical event of the season, will be rendered by a bearers of many of the triviaUties and commonplaces company of Dudes specially imported from � well � Ireland. of Chapter procedure and economy that would never O.P.R.A. suggest themselves to the letter writer and that are [Presented by a Wels(c)h Quartet.] emphatically characteristic. These little ideas, carried Mme. Alberta Warcur. like seed and transplanted into the different soils of Soprano, Alto, MUe. Bridget O'Kuhns. often take firm root and to be other chapters, grow Herr Gordie. Tenor, .\ Shep. In the remembrances of come valuable principles. Bass, Sig. Herbero Welchetti. minor incidents of conversation, in the interchange of G.R.U.B., .... Grand Combination Tragedy. opinions, in the meeting and mingling of true friends, By the Whole Company. in the thousand and one in which man meets " ways Then a song, a song for old Psi U., from and mingles in man, in all that results compan Strike hands and pledge anew. ionship in men pursuing the journey of life along the While hearts are light and hopes are bright. Our faith to old Psi U." same road, the Chapters have been especially benefited by this convention. In view of this increased interest a thought suggests THE BUFFALO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. itself from a few of Professor Goldwin Smith's remarks At the annual meeting of the members of the Psi at the wherein he spoke of the excellent par banquet, Upsilon Association of Buffalo, at which J. W. Willis which marked the business liamentary procedure presided, the following named gentlemen were elected sessions of the convention and which he held to be officers for the ensuing year : President, J. W. Willis ; ParUament or in every respect to the sessions of equal vice-president, Augustus W. Harrington ; secretary and of other deliberative body that he had attended. any treasurer, Frank McMillan; executive committee, for active in deliberative bodies is Preparation parts Theodore F. Welch, H. H. Hendee, W. H. Hotchkiss. are there especially a work for Chapters. Nowhere such opportunities for education and instruction in BADGE. parliamentary procedure as offer themselves in Chapter THE DIAMOND life, and the fact that such training in the past has pro Buffalo claims as citizens a goodly number of the duced the admirable results to which the professor sons of Psi Upsilon, the well-known college society. the alluded, ought to urge the necessity of taking up Fourteen of them gathered for a season of festivity last subject regularly and thoroughly in all Chapters, giv evening, a private dining-room of the City club being ing them the ability to produce a body of delegates devoted to their comfort, and enjoyed the second and thus unsurpassable in any deliberative assembly, annual banquet of their association. College days our of adding another peculiar feature to Fraternity. were recalled in a spirited way by the appearance Delegate. the diamond-shaped badge on the vest of every mem ber, and by the grip, the talk, the songs and the sen timents of the mystic order. The following named INITIATION. XPS JOLLIFICATION AFTER gendemen sat down to the spread : Frank McMillan, G. B. Alexander W. Nothing Like Paste. William H. Hamilton, Kittenger, Guild, H. H. Hendee, E. B. Vedder, W. H. Hotch This Sunday School tragedy, resuscitating memories of the Theodore F. Edward P. Cot one F. S. Buell, Welsh, late WiUiam Board, Esq., wiU be produced (positively kiss, the W. and W. Willis. Nearly night only) by the celebrated Green Company, including tle, Augustus Harrington J. were . intended to come following renowned (plaster) cast of stars ( ?) as many more who had pre vented sickness or other engagements from carrying . Green. Billy Doo�Promoter of the Fine Arts, . A. L. by 20 THE DIAMOND. out their agreeable purpose. The company discussed through his sermons, now gives to the world another " the merits of the mefiu., after which the cloth was re harvest of thoughtful years, The Freedom of Faith." moved and a jolly session was held, in the course of It is an attack upon the growing materialistic ten which toasts were drank to the honor of Psi Upsilon dency of the present as well as upon the bigotry and " " and the songs composed in her praise were sung. fanaticism of the past. The New Theology he " to be Once more in sweet communion, proves perfecdy compatible with the teachings Clasp hands with pressure true. of the Bible read aright. With each recurring union, Unlike many of the men whose minds are engaged The ancient band grows new." upon similar fields of thoughts, he uses logic and It was late, but not so, when the boisterously reason, not for their own sake, but as guides to truth, "chums" of at the conclusion university days parted nor does his divine reverence aflow him once to of the � Courier. banquet. Buffalo forget the supremacy and rulership of God. Mr. Munger discusses the Bible in its solidarity and BOOK REVIEWS. not in the light of single passages. His line of thought is bold and and will be effective in "A Bundle OF Papers." By Paul Siegvolk. New York: G.P.Putnam's original, very Sons. checking infidelity, which grows from strained, preju diced and unnatural of the Under the nom de plume of Paul Siegvolk, author of interpretations Scriptures. " He has raised out of the trammels of Walter Ashwood," we take pleasure in recognizing religion stern, Mr. Albert Mathews B '42, author of " A Bundle of unchangeable systems and showed its adaptability to Papers." humanity. He the of evolution as the The work is written in a clear and racy style, concise accepts theory physical without being studied, critical without being captious. probable method of physical creation, and as having an in morals but he it under the fact The topics chosen are of interest to the scholar or to analogy ; accepts of a is of the man of business who chooses to have an hour of personal God who revealing himself, and human facts not to be ascertained in the quiet thought. Indeed the work may be said to freedom, limits of a material He harmonizes reli appeal particularly to the latter, for it treats of many philosophy. and and still maintains the of those subjects with which he has a partial acquain gion science, sovereignty " of God. tance in his every day life, viz. : Superficialness of " " " The Freedom of Faith is one of the most com People in Large Cities," He is a Gendeman," and "Musings of a City Railroad Conductor." prehensive, able and conclusive expositions of the new " " that has been written. My Friend Bosworth Field is a charming paper theology yet that will delight any one who has been within cohege walls ; for it will call up familiar, if not altogether pleasant, scenes in the life of anyone who has ever sKFunqal Rofe/. been a bold sophomore or a luckless freshman. Throughout the '.' Bundle of Papers " there is abund Luther H. Porter, X., '79, is the author of "Out ant evidence of the bright mind that has closely lines of United States Constitutional History," lately observed the different phases of life and drawn there published by Henry Holt & Co., and highly com from lessons whose worth will be appreciated by those mended by competent authority. who value moral and social excellence as applied to Hon. Isaac in the actions of men. A cultivated man can wish for Dayton, 0., '38, appointed Register no more author of a work on "The genial, entertaining and instructive compan Bankruptcy, 1867, valuable ion than this charming volume that tells pleasant tales, Office of Surrogate and Surrogates' Courts," has been elected to the enlivens with bright thoughts, and gives food for con Assembly from New York city. Mr. templation. "A Bundle of Papers" should find a Dayton was an associate founder of the Delta. cosy nook in the library of every Psi Upsilon. Some of the western papers swing the following to the breeze ; For President, William Walter Phelps, The Freedom of Faith. the Rev. By Theodore T. Munger, D. D. B., '60, of New Jersey ; for Vice-President, J. Warren Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. " Keifer, of Ohio. In the interest of " harmony and Rev. Theodore T. B Munger, '51, so well known the Psi Upsilon Fraternity we will give the ticket our his valuable work " through On the Threshold," and full support. THE DIAMOND. 21

In our last issue we chronicled the fact that Hon. H. Mapes, '85 is managing editor of the Columbia John S. Morgan, H., '70, Joseph A. Addington, H., Spectator. On the board of directors of the C. C. B. '73, and J. Ward Taylor, II., '77, all of Rochester, C. there are four Psi. U.'s, viz : Cowles, '83, Painter were nominated by the Monroe County Republican '84, Mapes, '85, and Beckwith, '87. Convention for County Judge, Surrogate, and District The committee to make arrangements for the annua. Attorney, respectively. On November 6th they were Chapter dinner has already been appointed. The all elected. committee hopes by beginning early to make this the and best attended affair of the kind that As an occasional contributor to the Standard, as a pleasantest the Chapter has yet given. student for a time in Chicago, and in other ways. Rev. Howard B. Grose \T., '76] is well and favorably known to the readers of the Standard. He Kappa.� Although a letter from this Chapter has graduated from the University of Rochester in the not appeared in The Diamond for some time, yet we class of '76. For more than three years he has been still live and prosper. on the Examiner staff. He has proved himself to be Bro. Sweetser, the former editor for the Kappa, is an exact, forcible, and even elegant writer. News now principal of the Bowdoinham High School. We more we are the paper work ought to be famihar to him. But are not the largest society in college, but than this, he has shown himself to be a consistent most united, and undoubtedly the best. We took our and Christian man. During the past year he has done share of prizes at the field day sports last spring, considerable preaching. On three Sundays he also our share of commencement parts. preached in Poughkeepsie. The result is that the It was with deep regret that we parted with the Baptist church in that town gave him a call to become brothers that found it necessary, last winter, to move their Pastor. Mr. Grose has accepted the call, and from the Kappa to Zeta, mention of which has been from that were will enter soon upon his new work. Poughkeepsie is made in the letter chapter. They a where there was a a growing town; it is the seat of Vassar College. anxious to go to college chapter received a cordial wel There is a fine house of worship. Mr. Grose will of Psi U. We believe they a now number fourteen members wisely close up any remaining differences. He is come. We (14) Delta Phi or Zeta Psi. We have judicious man, and will be a faithful and earnest more than Alpha Pastor.�[Chicago Standard. five (5) men pledged in '87. Our initiation will take place soon. Our delegates to the convention returned filled with the spirit of �ur (�l^apterx^. Psi U., which met a sincere response in the heart of every member of the Kappa. Barrett Potter, A. M., '78, of the Kappa, has re

� the came Lambda. When the members of . Chapter cently accepted the position as instructor in rhetoric back to college this fall they found the appearance of the Chapter rooms decidedly improved. Owing to Phi.�In the matter of securing new members, the the generosity of a graduate we were enabled to deco Phi has not done all that could be desired, inas rate the walls, while curtains and pictures, which have quite much as the class of '87 is at present represented by been lately donated, give the rooms a very cosy and three men. But we have several more in process homelike appearance. only soon to have a " " has been of as it were, and hope strong Our success in the working campaign pledging, freshman class. good. We have already initiated one sophomore and The latest craze that has insinuated itself into the four freshmen. Two more '86 men were to be initi brains of the brothers here is an inordinate passion for ated on the evening before Thanksgiving, but one was tennis But that there is method in the mad unable to at present and the other has been playing. join that in the ness of some of us appears from the fact obliged to leave college on account of illness. tennis tournament of last Saturday, the W. T. team, Psi U. is well on most of the college represented made of of brothers Dennis and C. C. Smith, associations. The following men are on the staff consisting the score, distancing five rival teams. the Acta Columbiana : Bros. J. G. Walker, Jr., 'S4, highest The "blushing honors" of college distinction have (managing editor), J. W. Dowhng, '84, W. R. Proctor, this fallen somewhat more than usually thick upon '84, W. Williams, '85, and J. J. Ormsbee, '86. Bro. C. year 22 THE DIAMOND. the members of the Phi. The president of the senior The Fraternity system is quite strongly established class and the editor-in-chief of the Argonaut are both at Cornell. The societies represented beside Psi Upsi Psi U.'s, not to mention the fact tiiat the much-covet lon are Alpha Delta Phi, Kappa Alpha, Delta Kappa ed first medal for clay-pigeon shooting hangs from the Epsilon, Theta Delta Chi, Zeta Psi, Chi Phi, Beta breast of a member of our Fraternity. Theta Pi, and Delta Upsilon�to which may be added The new A. A. ^. house is well under way and it the lady societies Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Kappa looks as though we must soon give up the distinction Alpha Theta. The membership of all these includes of being the only Fraternity here living in its own about one-third of the entire number of students in Chapter-house. the university. Between all the societies the best of And now, having duly puffed the brilliant feats of feeling prevails ; and although considerable rivalry is the Chapter and exposed a weakness or two, the edi not wanting, it develops none of that narrow or bitter tor feels himself at liberty to come to an abrupt con spirit which is prevalent in some colleges, and which is clusion. often pointed at as an argument against secret frater nities. Comparisons are always odious, but especially

� so between secret societies. For we Chi. Since our last Chapter letter was written, the Chi this reason, hesi tate before the merits our has held its annual initiation. This event occurred on weighing of Fraternity those of another. But we think we the night of the nineteenth of October, and was one against may safely of the most successful we have ever held. On account give what seems to be the opinion of all intelligent of the occurrence on the same evening of the Theta outsiders, namely, that the three societies�Psi Upsi Pi, and Upsilon initiations, we were unable to greet lon, Alpha Delta Phi, and Kappa Alpha�hold the first Between brethren from these chapters, and could not, of course, place. these three it is hard to discrimi send representatives to their ceremonies. This was an nate, since at one time one will seem superior, and at especial cause for regret, for we consider that nothing another time, another. Psi U. has had a great deal to gives such an impetus to Fraternity work as the inter contend with. The Chapter was founded after other course between brethren of different chapters. We fraternities had become firmly established, and its were fortunate, however, in having present a goodly immediate step into prominence rendered it, of course, number of our representatives in the Faculty and very unpopular. We flatter ourselves, however, that the among Alumni. The following five gentlemen, this feeling of hostility has to a great extent died away, all from the freshman class, took upon themselves the and hope that the time will soon come when no trace of Psi obligations U.'s: J. C. Day, Saybrook, Ct. ; F. of it will remain. E. McCall, Bath, N. Y. ; T. TurnbuU and T. K. Wil Alpha Delta Phi is the only Fraternity represented kinson, Syracuse, N. Y. ; and O. L. Williams, Ithaca, here which owns a Chapter-house of its own. Psi U. N. Y. At the banquet which followed. Prof C. C. hopes to be able soon to own one, and Kappa Alpha Shackford acted most acceptably as Toast- Master. expects to build in a few years on a site directly oppo Among the many interesting letters of regret read site ours. were those from Goldwin Smith and Rev. T. T. The fun and James McCall, was initiated last Munger. gayety were kept up until '85, June. and The nearly dawn, then in solemn procession we Kappa Alpha Society, Psi U's strongest rival at ascended to the Chapter-house roof and flung out the Cornell, has secured a site for a Chapter House oppo garnet and gold to the morning breezes. To all those site that of ours. They will probably not build for who took part, the occasion will long be remembered some time. as one of the pleasantest of Psi Upsilon gatherings. The convention committee has been appointed and Our Chapter library now contains over seven hun is at work. dred volumes�the latest addition of importance being the gift from last year's freshman delegation of Haw Beta Beta.�We initiate quite late here, and it is works in thorne's twelve volumes. This is in accord amusing to note how eager the poor freshmen are to ance with a custom which the Chi has kept for several hasten the approach of that time. I suppose it is years, namely, of expecting each fi-eshman delegation rather hard to see your classmates of other societies to present the library with a set of books. We find coming to chapel with their coats wide open, displaying that the plan works very successfully, and recommend their pins. it to our sister chapters. An '84 man was telling me of a funny incident in THE DIAMOND. 23 his freshman year in connection with this. His chum '83. H. F. De Puy and J. W. McCauley are en came into recitation the morning after initiation night, gineering. of course, very conscious and important. looking, � CjAMMA. '43. The Congregational Sunday School to him there to sit a member of our Next happened " and Publishing Society of Boston has just issued The local society, who had appeared a few days before Boy Lollard : A Tale of the Readers of Tyndale's his This man turned to our and with pin. man, said, ' " New Testament in the Time of Henry the Eighth,' "You feel pretty big, don't you?" "I've got some a volume finished by Rev. Frederick A. Reed a few thing to feel big about," with strong emphasis on the days before his death. I, was his answer ; and he took his seat with a certain '57. Rev. Theo. G. Grassie was dismissed from the impudent relish. charge of the Congregational church of Keokuk, Iowa, We are eagerly looking forward to the completion to accept his appointment as Secretary of the Iowa of our Chapter House. I might add that it has not Home Missionary Society. been begun yet, but this is through some changes in '77. Married, at Florence, Mass., Oct. 24th, War the plans, and next spring will see it fairly started. It ren O. Kyle, of Boston, and Miss Nellie, daughter of is to be of brown stone, with Ohio stone of facings, Mr. Isaac S. Parsons. the same stone, in fact, as our colleges. Though '78. Dougherty is practicing law in Los Angeles, it will have the of the best small, advantage possible Cal. locality, on the most fashionable and handsome '83. Edwin H. Byington is doing Y. M. C. A. work street of Hartford � Washington avenue. at Springfield, Mass. We enjoy our visits to the H. Chapter very much. '83. W. Z. Stuart is in the flour and grain business have a house which, for general convenience, They in Nernah, Wis. and even artistic taste, could hardly be improved. As for the H's hospitality, it is of that open-hearted kind Zeta.�'46. The Rev. Charles A. Aiken, D.D., which takes you in, feeds you, sings to you, and sends Professor of Christian Ethics and Apolegetics in the you away a better and happier man. Through Princeton Theological Seminary, has just gone to nearness of our Chapters, Beta Beta and H. know Europe where he will remain one year. each other quite well, and I speak from experience. '54: Brev. Brig.-Gen. Reuben D. Murray is a Trinity is a different college this year. The presi lawyer at 508 Fifth street, Washington, D. C. dent and four professors are new ; and with the '59. Albert C. Perkins, Ph. D., is Principal of changes which they naturally would bring in, we find Phillips' Exeter Academy. ourselves much improved. This seems to be especi '59. The Hon. Wheeloek G. Veazey, who resides ally the case in the professorship of natural philosophy, at Rutland, Vermont, is a member of the Supreme which is much improved. Of these new men, one is Court of Vermont. a Beta Beta, and naturally he takes a great interest in '72. Augustus V. Barker is a practicing lawyer at us. With this boom in the prospects of Trinity, a Ebensburg, Pa. corresponding one is being felt in W. T., and will Xi.�'78 and '83. John P. Gordy, for several years become more noticeable next year, when a large class past instructor in Logic and Metaphysics in Wesleyan, is guaranteed by our new president. sailed for Europe June 30. He intends to spend the year in Germany studying Philosophy at the University at Leipsic. In company with Mr. Gordy is William J. James of Class '83. In Brunswick, Bros. Gordy and James met T. H. Taylor, '83, who has been studying Theta.�'78. C. M. Culver is practicing ophthal in Athens. mology in Albany, N. Y. '83. B. O. Mclntire has been appointed Professor of Literature at Kent's Hill Seminary, Kent's '82. A. S. Wright has entered Princeton Theologi English Hill, Me. cal Seminary. '83. W. W. Belhnger is in New York studying the Upsilon.� '59. John P. Colley is a well-known ology. member of the bar of St. Louis, Mo. a at Main '83. Wm. M. Gilbert is in business at Lockport, '59. Joshua Gaskell is lawyer 75 street, N. Y. � Lockport, N. Y. 24 THE DIAMOND.

'59. Edward P. Gould, also a lawyer, resides at '80. E. W. Clement is Principal of the Burlington Erie, Pa. Collegiate Institute, Burlington, la. '61. Seneca Coon is a teacher at Union City, Pa. '80. F. W. C. Hayes is building up an extensive law practice by his abihty and perseverance. He

� Iota. '72. Leonard Blake is a lawyer at Gambler, spent the summer in Europe. Ohio. '81. H. C. Van Schaack and Ira W. Rubel are '72. Percy Procter has begun the pubhcation of a full-fledged lawyers, both stepping into good practices. weekly illustrated newspaper at Cincinnati, called The Bro. Van Schaack has been elected to the board of Week. His experience as editor of the Cincinnati trustees of the University. Gazette, and the ample financial backing which this '81. W. G. Sherer and C. W. Naylor are engaged new to make it a success enterprise possesses, ought in business in the city, and Henry Topping in Dela from the start. very van, Wis. '78. Harry N. Hills, rector of Milnor and Delano '82. C. S. Brown has been pursuing his scientific Hall, the preparatory school of Kenyon College, was studies since his graduation, and is now in Dakota married on Aug. 15 th last, to Miss Fannie McCullough, with a geological expedition. at O. Delaware, '83. R. F. Harper has been made a member of " '80. William D. Hamilton is at Columbus, Ohio, the Hebrew Book Exchange," a new and profitable where he is surgeon-in-chief of the Columbus, Hock enterprise established by his brother, W. R. Harper, ing Valley & Toledo railroad. Ph. D. Bro. Harper is an accomplished Hebraist, '80. Charles H. Peterman, M. D., has recently and will undoubtedly achieve great honors in this line. been appointed assistant surgeon at the Central Hos He is now engaged in the preparation of a new Hebrew pital, Brooklyn, L. I. Grammar and Lexicon. '81. Joseph P. Coates has resigned his position as H. B. Seaman is pursuing a law course in the Iowa Assistant Superintendent of the Chillicothe High State University. and has the of law in his School father's � begun study Chi. '77. W. E. Lucas, late assistant professor of office at Portsmouth, O. rhetoric and elocution at Cornell, is private secretary '82. Frank Willard is in the business at banking to Mayor Edson. Kansas. His address is Kansas avenue. Topeka, 143 '77. The Rev. Edward 01sen~ is professor of the Greek language and hterature in the University of Phi.�C. E. of the has entered the Thomas, Zeta, Chicago. U. of M. Law School. '83. W. B. Ruggles is assistant master mechanic A. B. Hale and H. B. Wilson, both of '82, have re on the West Shore road, and is stationed at Kingston, to the of turned college, entering Department Homoe N.Y. opathy. '74. James F. Gluck is a member of the flourishing Barnes and Schoyer, '83, are in the Harvard Law law firm of Greene, McMillan & Gluck, Buffalo, N. Y. School this year. Chi.�C. P. Bacon, '82, in his pro B. W. Shoemaker, who dropped out of '82 on begins practice fession as associate counsel with Lieut.-Gov. account of ill health, has returned to complete his by acting Hill Ul Professor Fiske's suit studies. against the Cornell Uni versity. R. M. Seeds, recendy editor of the Crawfordsville H. M. Dibble, '82, is in Aiken, S. C, for the bene (Ind.) Daily News, has abandoned the sanctum and fit of his health. returned to college. W. M. Roberts, '83, is in business at his home in E. N. Smith, '83, has been appointed assistant Seneca Falls, N. Y. librarian, and is living at the Chapter-house. Beta Beta.�'71. John P. C. Shaw is headmaster Omega.�'78. Rev. C. B. Allen, Jr., '80, D. B. of De Vaux College. and C. took the Cheney, Jr., J. Johnson degree of '73. Chas. P. Parker is a classical tutor at Har B. D. at the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, vard. will all make and useful reverends. 1883. They good '80. L. A. Lauper, Nov. 14th, was married to Mrs. T. S. is Professor of '78. Roney Languages in Den- Corson, St. James church, Hartford, by Rev. Mr. nison University, Granville, O. Huntington. FRATERNITY DIRECTORY.

THE COUNCIL. Phi (University of Michigan, 1865) Herbert L. Bridgman, . . President Correspondence to Phi Chapter of Psi S3 Park Place, N.Y. Upsilon, University of Michigan, Box Charles W. Smiley, 2887, Ann Arbor, Mich. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Omega (University of Chicago, 1869) Howard B. Grose, Correspondence to Omega Chapter of Psl � 39 Park Row, N. Y. Upsilon, 3400 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chi H. Benjamin Bayliss, cago, 111. 1 N. Y. 70 Broadway, Pi (Syracuse University, 1875)�Corres Francis S. . . Sec. and Treas. Bangs, pondence to Pi Chapter of Psi Upsilon, William Street, N. Y. 45 Rooms 13, Hendrick's Block, Syracuse, AU communications intended for the N.Y. Council or for the Secretary and Treasur Ch I (Cornell University, 1876)�Corres er should be addressed only to P. O. Box pondence to Chi Chapter of Psi Upsilon, 1720, New York. Box 1452, Ithaca, N. Y. Beta Beta (Trinity College, i88o)� to Beta Beta of CHAPTER DIRECTORY. Correspondence Chapter Psi Upsilon, Trinity College, Hartford, Theta (Union College 1833)�Corres Conn. Theta of Psi pondence to chapter Upsilon, GRADUATE ASSOCIATIONS. lock box 1252, Schenectady, N. Y. I. The Psi Association of De of the of New Upsilon Delta (University city troit (1878). President, C. M. Davison; York, � to Delta 1837) Correspondence Secretary, C. H. Jacobs, 103 Woodbridge of Psi Chapter Upsilon, 701 Broadway, Street, Detroit, Mich. New York. 2. The Psi Upsilon Association of Wash Beta � to (Yale, 1839) Correspondence ington (1878). President, Hon. W. W. Yale New Conn. box 464, College, Haven, Rice; Secretary, Gen Reuben D. Mussey, SiG.MA (Brown University, 1840)�Cor 508 Fifth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. to Mr. H. B. Gardner, 260 respondence 3. The Psi Upsilon Association of Phila R. I. Waterman Street, Providence, delphia (1878), President, Hon. George Gamma (Amherst College, 1841)�Cor Northrop; Secretary, C. H. Burnett, M. D., respondence to Gamma Chapter of Psi 127 South 1 8th Street, Philadelphia. Pa. lock box Amherst, Mass. Upsilon, 53 4. The Psi Upsilon Association of the

� Zeta (Dartmouth College, 1842) Cor Northwest, (1878) . President, Hon. John respondence to Zeta Chapter of Psi Upsi T. Wentworth; Secretary, Charles A. War lon, Dartmouth College, Box 468, Han ren, Borden Block, Chicago, 111. N. H. over, 5. The Maine Psi Upsilon Association Lambda (Columbia College, 1842)�Cor (1878). President, J. E. Moore; Secre respondence to 26 West 23d Street, N. Y. tary, W. H. Moulton, Portland, Me. Kappa (Bowdoin College, 1843)�Cor 6. The Psi Upsilon Association of Cen respondence to Kappa Chapter of Psi tral New York (1878). President, Prof. Upsilon, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. Willard Fiske; Secretary, G. W. Elliott, Psi (Hamilton College, 1843)�Corres Rochester, N. Y. Oneida pondence to Box 453, Clinton, 7. The Psi Upsilon Association of Bos Co., N. Y. ton (1879). President, Hon. Harvey Jew Xl (Wesleyan University, 1843)�Cor ell; Secretary, George R. Swasey, Boston, respondence to Xi chapter Box 657, Mid Mass. dletown, Conn. 8. The Psi Upsilon Association of Buf I. W. Sec-' Upsilon (University of Rochester, 1858) falo (1881). President, Willis; Correspondence to Upsilon Chapter, Box retary, Frank McMillan. 502. 9, The Psi Upsilon Association of Kan M. Sec Iota (Kenyon College, i860) Corres sas (1883). President, D. Swan; Bestor G. Street, pondence to Iota Chapter of Psi Upsilon, retary, Brown, 239 Quincy Kansas. Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio. Topeka, * < ",

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Convention Proceedings 26

Literary : Song 26 Our First Songs and Their Writers 26

Miscellany : Bulletin from Bethlehem 28

Book Reviews '� 28

Fraternity Items � 29

Alumni Notes SO

Our Chapters 30

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