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.