Vid., IV, MEADVILLE, PA� JANUARY, 1881. No. 4. A MONTHLY JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE mn m n m � mn i;in/irni;i > .:jLii Li FMlElili IVDKK THE DDIFCTlox (if CHAPTER ALPHA, ALLEGHENY COLLEGE. CHAS. E, RICHMOND, Editor-in-Chisl, � �, �, I; S, M, DECKEa, 3. '.TT. 'Vice-raitor-.'Ti-Caief. GIIL, E-i3iiifl:a Maiager- ..�. ,�^-/. \'/ � ^/�-�'��' - _ yi^Bi^iHf^K� B;�i�of{i^i< ^�Mf ASSOCIATE EDITORS.- .^�C. M. I.� i Blaih, Allegheny College, Meadville, Fa, Joa. E. Coulter, Michigan Agriculturtil 'i,|!, ^,. Mitdi. T,�O, il. Snydeh, Franklin and M;irsli;ill Collo<.'e. 1*. 0- Lansiiif;, N.�M. J. 13 South ljox.14, Lancaster, Va. Ri.if.M, College, Lafayetfi- r.,l|,...,. Easton, Pa. � 51, E. E, CnENEY, Ohio Dela- � Wesloyiiii University, �*": J, A, (JoKLioN, University of Wooster, I'. 0, btj- wai'o, Ohio, 1174, \VooMti-.r, O. 3.�Eai.pit p. C'o I.I.IKS, Simpson I" *,� (.', A. SMiTn.lIanovfr Coll., P.O. box 151', Hanover, Ind. Centenary College, nola, Iowa. A.~U. L. HmvATiiis. 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OUR DELTA QUEEN, The bravest would think il high time lo gel ready, If he caught such a glance as came shooting from her. �'My dear," I said sweetly, 'I'm happy lo lell you RESPECTFULLY DEDIC.\1'f;D TO THE ALPli.\. AH about the fraternity, since you desire. I hadn't ihe shade of a wish to repel you, l!V 1. IIARHY (iEliSlNOER. But am only loo j;lad thai you thought to enquire. The f^elta Tau Delta's a sort of eommiltee, Tune� America, Got up iu the nar to supply our poor fellows. >ome friends o! our cause down in Raise we in chorus now Through Washinglon City, With and crawfish, -wet blankets and ; Praise to ihee, Delia Tau, herrings pillows Il had certain tokens by which ils own fellows Reigning supreme; Could boozle the and Ihem from smell Long laM t'ly .�.overeijii-i might, flreybacks keep Thy foreseen! e'er be bright, ing A csl in the meat. tub, and stealing our pillows SiUI poiiv thy stats liy night And whal othtr bad there's r o l.Dve's radiant stream. doing things telling. Since ihe irar ihey just kept il agoing in order Toner thy noble form, To gather up Hems for u-iC in Ihe wav Power be thine in :,torm. Of a historic no\cl called 'WaU on the Boeder,' Queen we adore ; To be sold for Ihe aid of Ihe orphans some day. Thy banner's piiiple.grey They're iirraiiging the tiling with a .sort of a wickel Lead ns from (l.iy lo flay To let in ihe ladies ne.\l year, if they can. S.ifc oil ^'Ur ]ieacefiil way, I'm a.^sured rli;il the w-oman admis^ioning ticket .Safe in each war. Will gel Ihe full \oie of the lodge lo ainai^." '*My love," said the madam, a smile at the slory, Loudly ouv voices ring, .�\nd charmed with iho prospect of knowing tlit grips, J'roudly ihy siibjecls ^ing, "Will ihe sistern have part of ihe fardels and glory, Our Delia Queen ; .^nd wear the led string.s aud hold officershtps ? God keep when foeintii frown Will Ihey go as delegates lo the big meetings. Jealous of lliy renown, And live as free boarders on ice cream and such, ftpare to the end thy erowii, Autl receive the invites and fralernal greetings, God save thee, Queen I And be musiced and testified ever so much?'' I nodded assent, 'Ihe iient morning al sunrise eofiee was satchel was POEM ON AN INVITATION TO CONVENTION, My f^moking, my packed ; luli.L ,^iii-i, wreatliei.! in smiles, without censure or surmise, Urged my hitherward way wiih a farewell ih.ic smacked. KV M. C. HRIOn*. 11. ?., OLD A, "Conscienta lex"�say the doctors-�^"primcra,'' (Or else its ''!,upretja,'' I eaii't iceollect ; ' i,el them settle at will Ihe ijiic^feo vexla, "Whal's Delta Tau Delta ?" my wife asked me quicldy, deep .Ml I ask of jour candor is just to reflccl. And look al! the wind from my newly sprtad sails, Reflect lio-,i 1 stood, with a dail through my liver, "its a college society, dear," I said meekly, " llrim full of ihe secrets I could not disclose ; "A kind of fraternal affair, whtse availi�� And her � Ihe Dclt.iTau Delias hcr� ''t'lddie-sticks!" qiioih mad;ini wilh Unv'iing vexation eye may fuigive Nol moie than a foot from the end of my nose. Thai ft'lhered my gizzard like liijhiiiing abla;^e. I had 10 resort lo a mental ev.ision- , "I wanl 110 'avails' liut a explanation plain A kind of forsooth� and picloiial whopper Ofyour grips and yout pass word.s, your doings ways.'' Or else overiurn all Ibc of the nation, Ah I the evil i feared had al last oveitook me; hopes And the Delta Tau f3cUas 10 Ixiot, bv the Iriitli, The Eve of my Eden had read your invite. Now, somev^'here, the leach in extremes, And Ihe tone of her musical laryin so .shook me Jesuils 'To shelter one's life from a deadly abuse, That my intellecis balked and iiere sadly bedighi. A fellow mav lirive home ihe wedge where the seam is. I smiled a sad slimmer, and tried to looli pl.-icid ; And purchase escape with an innocent ruse. I couj^hed a long cough ; 1 bl my nose ; 1 appeal lo the Pope anil the whole I felt like a fish in an ocean of acid. e'lt/uisctinJ, And urge the known fact of their lying for good. And shivered wilh dread from my crown to my toes. And claim as their verdict :i dimi.^sion. "What's the Delta Tau Delta?" came meaiUied and steady pleiius made the besl banrain wilh Truth that I could. Ones more lo mv ears, and I (.lared not defer ; Having 50 THE CRESCENT. be REPLY OF JAS. L- ALLEN TO THE TOAST OF the depth of meaning of that one word "Mother" ''TUELADIES," AT THE BANQUET porlrayed. ! Do OF OUR LAST CONVENTION, Who among _vou can forget his boyhood's days born ^the you remember the house where ynu were streams be flelda and woods in "which you played�Ihe THE English Language affords in the side which yon "cast yuu dbwn and angled more no'hing tenderly patheiie higher pool"�Ihe sclioolhouso wbrne you sometimes thin those words of Kiinplc studied, hut oftener, far, idly dreamed and wi.shed the po jr old Kip Van W' inkle, who, the dear old days gone hy and Saturday come again� to his native retnrning village, sitting-room, with its wid�, old fashioned fireplace, after his and death, like long which made the lieartbstone a realily, -Ihe low, old- Ihe Catskiil Moun sleep among fashioned trundle bed in which you so sweetly slept ! tains, finds all so �the streets in the greatly changed strange About and among Ihem all, and bathed pjuro and uninviting in their iniprov.emcntK,� Ihe houses gladness of her life, comes tbe blessed memory of your and the old newly built, ho.spitablo tavern gone, A-here mother 1 once he so drank, oblivious for the moment of merrily "Then in fancy comes my mother.