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PRESENTED BY
THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
THE
KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
A MANUAL
OF DESCRIPTIVE, HISTORICAL, AND STATISTICAL
FACTS CONCERNING
THE KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY
BY
BOUTWELL DUNLAP
National Historian of Kappa Sigma
PUBLISHED BY THE FRATERNITY
NASHVILLE
THE CUMBERLAND PRESS
1907
4-*
Gift
Author
CONTENTS
The Founding of Kappa Sigma ii
The FOUNDERS of Kappa Sigma 29
The European Tradition 49
The Extension of the Fraternity 60
Chapter Roll of Kappa Sigma 79-81
Statistics of Kappa Sigma Colleges 82-84
The Alumni 85
The Government 91
Past S. E. C's. of Kappa Sigma 100
Homes of Kappa Sigma 107
The Publications hi
Other Fraternities 119
Ballade of Fraternities 128
Appendix A: Fraternities in Kappa Sigma Colleges 130
Appendix B: The Chapters of Kappa Sigma 141
Map of Active Chapters of Kappa Sigma 161
Map Showing Distribution of Kappa Sigma Alumni 163
INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Portraits.
Kappa Sigma Ch.
Other [llustratii
Portraits—
Arnold, Georj
.Mile
S70
— 1871
—1876
and S. I. North,
Boyd, John Covert, 1905
Davis, Jefferson
Farr, Finis King
Ferguson, Jeremi;
1870.
Sweet --or . . .
Jackson, Stephen Alonzo
McCormick, William Grigsby, li
1905
1904.
.Martin, Herbert Milton...
Martin. Stanley Watkins..
Neal, John Randolph
Nicodemus, Frank Courtney
North. Samuel I sham, 1904
and G. M. Arnold, 1870.
Rogers. Ed Law, 1883
in character
Semmes, John Edward
Thomas, George Leiper
35
34
36
20
43
89
95
97
66
30
Kappa Sigma Chaptc
Arkansas
Baker
r Ho us,
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• 71
. 118
• 78
• 65
• 103
• 63
. 108
• 67
. 69
• 75
Idaho
Illinois
64
Lake Forest
. 68
Colorado College
Maryland
87
George Washington .
Harvard, interior . . . .
.. 116
Xew Hampshire
123
PAGE
New York 54 Syracuse 114
0. S. U. 53 Texas 113
Oregon 56 Virginia 32
Pennsylvania 72 Washington and Jefferson 117
Purdue 58 Wisconsin jy
Stanford 55 Wofford 120
interior 67
Other Illustrations and Maps —
Alumni of Kappa Sigma (map) 163
Bologna 10
Bologna, University of 50
Business Office of Kappa Sigma 94
Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, The no
Campo Santo, Interior of 51
Chapel, University of Virginia 18
Chapters of Kappa Sigma (map) 161
Charter of Kappa Sigma Chapters 61
Chicago Special en route to a Conclave 101
Conclave Group, 1906 93
District Conclave, A 104
Eutaw House, Baltimore 92
Faculty of the University of Virginia, 1870 25
First Kappa Sigma House, Virginia, 1870 23
Five O'clock Club at a Conclave 105
Forty-six East Lawn, University of Virginia, exterior 15
interior 16
location 14
"Hot Feet" Coronation, University of Virginia 129
Kappa Sigma Headquarters at Brown 62
Kappa Sigma Alumni (map) 163
Kappa Sigma Chapters (map) 161
Location of 46 East Lawn, University of Virginia 14
McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia 26
Membership Certificate of Kappa Sigma 88
New York Alumni en route to a Conclave 102
Old Grads Returned, Group of 90
Rotunda, University of Virginia 59
Rotunda and the Lawns, University of Virginia 13
Typical American College Scene, A 129
University of Bologna, The 50
"A good fraternity is recognized as a good thing. Those who have en-
joyed its fellowship understand its advantages. In those who have not
experienced that hlessing of boyhood life, no amount of argument can ex-
cite an appreciation of its value. The closest friendships you and I have
to-day were formed before we became of age, in the walls of our chapter
house. Age, occupation, distance, separation, new associations, have no
influence upon friendships that are formed under such circumstances.
You may not have seen him for a third of a century; you may not have
heard his name for a generation; the path of his life may have led him to
the Antipodes, but, when you come face to face with a boy who was initi-
ated with you on a frosty autumn night, perhaps with absurd and silly
ceremonies, the flame that often burns low, but can never be extinguished,
will blaze up with a glow that will warm the lives of both of you ; and
you feel toward each other a sentiment that you have never felt toward
any man since the day you graduated. I have met members of my fra-
ternity in odd corners of the world. Among the Taoist temples in China ;
in the mines of the Andes; on the banks of the Nile, and although we
were strangers before and have been strangers since, there was at least
a few moments of gratification that encounters with other people could not
have inspired. . . . There have been and always will be, abuses of the op-
portunities I have described, but those who are familiar with the history
of college fraternities and will take the trouble to examine their cata-
logues will find that the high character of the men who have been members
are the best endorsement of their advantages. By their personnel the
Greek Letter Fraternities may justly be judged." — William Elcroy Curtis.
BOLOGNA
THE FOUNDING OF KAPPA SIGMA
One of the American universities of which our country should
be most proud has recently celebrated with rejoicing the begin-
ning of an era in her affairs, in the inauguration of her first pres-
ident. New occasions now teach her new duties, larger oppor-
tunity leads her to take up tasks unthought-of even by her great
first founder, but by virtue of her unique history, her matchless
situation, her spirit of truth and honor, and most of all by the
example of consecration to a worthy cause which those men afford
who have served her so long and so faithfully for so small a
material reward, she remains a blessing and a hope to all the
region which receives good influences from her benign hand.
She will continue to influence all that great civilization which has
flowed in a stream from Virginia across the South and West,
as Harvard and Yale have influenced that civilization which has
gone out from Xew England to the Northwest, and met the other
upon the Pacific coast.
The history of such an institution, even the history of its be-
ginning, is not a mere matter of an act of legislature, or of the
transfer of some millions from one account to another and the
commissioning of an architect to make a new mixture of the old
and the new. For the history of the University of Virginia
there would be scant room in a manual of this size. Amid circum-
stances as romantic as ever surrounded the birth of any such or-
der, Kappa Sigma came into existence; the only college frater-
nity of general extent to which the University of Virginia stands
in loco parentis. There could be no nobler mother among the
universities ; and it is not those Kappa Sigmas alone who have
stood beneath the Rotunda and lived on Lawns and Ranges, who
12 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
feel pride and satisfaction at the influence, progress and prosperity
of Old Virginia.
When, in 1868, William Grigsby McCormick, of Chicago and
Baltimore, entered the University of Virginia, he found there a
college system and a college life which could have been at no time
paralleled anywhere in the North, nor, in all respects, even in the
South. Many of the students were men in years, and every one
was such in spirit and in mental development. Many had seen
the face of war. The most punctilious rites of gentlemanly in-
tercourse, between student and student and between students and
faculty, were observed, and insisted upon by an inflexible senti-
ment. The system of the university's government left much to
the choice of the individual student, asking only that his con-
duct should be regulated by a keen sense of honor, as the chival-
rous and convivial South interpreted that word. In some sec-
tions of the country, many of the students would have been classed
as roaring young blades ; in other sections they might not have
received so indulgent a title. Much went on that would have
caused Cambridge to put up its shutters or New Haven to bar its
doors. Yet that there was true metal under all the polish, manly
integrity under all the youthful exuberance, not the South alone
makes answer ; for wherever there is a Virginia man from these
buoyant years, there is an honored citizen whose worth compels
his fellows' confidence.
The association of McCormick with Frank Courtney Nicodemus
and Edmund Law Rogers had begun in Baltimore, the home of
all three and the birthplace of the latter two. When the circle
of friendship which enclosed these three was found, almost with-
out their knowledge and wholly without their premeditation, to
have included two others, George Miles Arnold and John Covert
Boyd, within itself, the Fraternity had its new birth. The adop-
tion of its historical and traditional name and ritualistic basis was
a matter only of detail ; its oath was merely the putting in words
of vows already realized in the lives of the founders ; its future
extension was yet upon the knees of the gods. Adopting to some
extent a form suggested by the customs of the student life in
which they had a part, the Five Friends and Brothers organized
the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
14 THE FOUNDING OF KAPPA SIGMA
From the classic Rotunda which forms the center of Virginia's
noble group of buildings, four colonnades, broken at intervals
by taller structures, and modeled in every detail after the most
authentic works of Grecian skill, stretch toward the south. As
severely simple within as they were severely classic without, the
rooms intended for the use of students had one attractive feature
— the great fireplace, for the filling of which there was as yet no
lack of oaken logs. In every chimney-corner a sheaf of long clav
pipes betokened and invited brotherly intercourse. During his
first year at the University, William Grigsby McCormick had
EAST LAWN AND ROTUNDA, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Showing location of 46 East Lawn. Present residence
of Prof. Wm. Minor Lile, of Zeta, at the right.
occupied a room (the front lower room of cottage C) in Dawson's
Row, a group of dormitories just outside the main plan of the
University buildings. In 1869 he occupied the room at 46 East
Lawn, the situation of which, its present exterior and interior, is
shown in the accompanying illustrations. The taller structure
at the immediate right of 46 East Lawn in the view given is now,
by the way, the residence of a Kappa Sigma, William Minor Lile,
the dean of the law school of the University. Samuel Isham
North and George Miles Arnold occupied this room in 1870-71.
It was here that the first Constitution and Ritual of Kappa Sigma,
THE FOUNDING OF KAPPA SIGMA
15
a document which lies he fore the writer of these lines, was com-
mitted to writing.
The Founders were scattered about the university, so far as
their "legal residences" were concerned. Xicodemus was at 6
West Range; Boyd and Rogers, as well as John E. Semmes, who
was the first one added to the brotherhood after the original five,
lived in "Social Hall," a small dormitory between the University
proper and the town of Charlottesville. This house was so packed
EXTERIOR OF 46 EAST LAWN, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Here Kappa Sigma in America was Founded
with men of promise that their names are worth mentioning.
On the lower floor, besides Boyd and Semmes. were Chas. R.
Hemphill, now a noted Presbyterian divine of Louisville: the
cultivated and literary John Adger ("lark, of South Carolina, now-
deceased ; J. A. Crawford, now well known at the bar of Co-
lumbia. S. C. ; and Robert P.. Boylston, now a lawyer of Fairfield,
S. C. Upstairs. Edmund Law Rogers occupied a room, and
others on the same tloor were John X. Steele, now an eminent
16 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
Baltimore lawyer and a partner of John E. Semmes, and his
brother, I. Nevitt Steele, now of Trinity Church, New York.
George Miles Arnold had a room on East Range; and when,
early in 1870, he met Samuel Isham North upon the latter's ar-
rival at the University from his Texas home, a great friendship
sprang suddenly into immortal life. "The loveliest character I
ever met," is North's judgment upon his friend and brother, after
all the years. The reception of North into the new brotherhood
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followed almost as a matter of course. The members were al-
ways together. Such intimacies as existed within their number,
like that between Arnold and North, were not allowed to disturb
the general feeling of perfect fellowship. Formal meetings there
seem to have been none. "Good fellows, good company, good
manners, good morals and bright minds, full of spirits and all in
for a good time," is Founder McCormick's description of them
after a quarter of a century. Arnold was a leading spirit in the
proceedings of the Fraternity, and at the suppers at "Brown's"
THE FOUNDING OF KAPPA SIGMA 17
and "Ambroselli's," which were frequent occurrences. These fes-
tive gatherings were from the first a distinguishing feature of
the new Fraternity, and those Kappa Sigmas — and their name
is legion — who are bons vivants and whose wit Hows most freely
around the festal board, may be assured that these characteristics
stamp them the true descendants of their forefathers in the Or-
der, of whom, by the way, there was but one who ever took too
much wine, and not one who gave his strength to that which de-
stroyeth kings. Edmund Law Rogers is remembered as one
whose light always shone brightly at these impromptu affairs, and
the rest were not behindhand. If the record of these proceedings
but existed, some chapters might be added to the "Noctes Am-
brosianae."
The question of a badge was very early taken up by the newly-
formed Fraternity, and after much discussion, the design due to
Edmund Law Rogers was adopted. It is in every detail the same
as the present badge, save that the original examples were not
so markedly convex as those now made, and had a field of white
enamel in the center of the star instead of the present black.
The original constitution includes the full description of the
badge and the signification of its various parts and of the em-
blems borne upon it. At the Christmas holidays of 1869, an
order for badges was placed with the Baltimore firm of Sadtler
& Sons, who had the work executed in New York. After the
holidays, the Star and Crescent of Kappa Sigma was seen at
Virginia for the first time. Badges of this early make still
exist, in the possession of George Leiper Thomas, Samuel
lsham North, Airs. William Clark Whitford, and possibly others,
and one is seen on another page in the portrait of Sam-
uel lsham North. They were one inch in diameter, and were
originally furnished with a guard-chain and a chapter-pin of the
letter Zeta. The chapter-pin has of late years been generally
abandoned, and the extreme size now allowable for the badge
is three-quarters of an inch.
The end of the college year 'bq-'jo put an end, for a time, to
the close associations of the original Five, who by this time had
united with themselves Semmes and North, as above stated. In
the fall of 1870. Nicodemus was engaged in active business,
THE FOUNDING OF KAPPA SIGMA 19
and decided not to pursue his university work further, while Mc-
Cormick has recorded the confession that he was very much in
love with the present Mrs. McCormick and was unwilling to sep-
arate himself from her immediate neighborhood by the distance
intervening between Baltimore and Charlottesville. Semmes not
returning until 1872, only Arnold, Boyd, Rogers and North were
found read}' to carry on the work of the Fraternity when the
University reopened. All of these were interested in the Fra-
ternity, which was just at its beginning, and willing to work for
it. So far as can be determined from the recollections of those
who survive, it was Arnold who had the rosiest dreams of the
future, dreams which have more than come true. With his as-
sociates, he laid the plans for the first extension of the Fraternity,
even assigning in advance the letters by which certain Chapters
should be designated; he fixed many matters which had been left
uncertain in the free and informal life of the previous year ; and
he introduced the ritualistic work which, without any change
except certain amplifications of which the history is well known
to Kappa Sigmas, still awes and impresses the initiate when
rightly performed, and is pronounced by those in a position to
judge a most beautiful, consistent and fitting production. The
association of Samuel Isham North in this work with three of
the original Five of the preceding year gives him full and un-
questioned right to the honorable title of Founder. The work
of 1869 alone could not have led to the present development
of the Fraternity without the work of 1870; the work of 1870
undoubtedlv had as its basis the work of 1869.
Much of the history of this important year is contained in the
oldest existing Kappa Sigma minutes, of which the original is in
the possession of the W. G. S., being held in trust by that official
for Zeta Chapter. As the minutes contain nothing in itself secret,
and as they introduce some other matters which must be pre-
sented, they are here given in full :
University of Virginia,
Nov. "th, 1870.
The K. S. Society met at half past ten, at Xo. 46 East Lawn. After the
reading of the minutes of the last meeting the Society proceeded to business
ARNOLD AND NORTH
From a Tintype, 1S70
THE FOUNDING OF KAPPA SIGMA 21
and Mr. George L. Thomas whose name had been previously proposed, was
then duly initiated as a member of the I\. S. Society. Mr. Rogers made a
motion that the following gentlemen, Viz Messrs. Toadvin, Walker and Hill
be spoken to, and that they be invited to join our Society. Mr. Mill's name
was subsequently withdrawn information having' been ree'd that he had al-
ready become a member of the Delta I'm Society.
Mr. North was requested to speak to Mr. Walker.
Mr. Rogers " " " Toadvin.
There being no further business before the House, the Soeiety adjourned,
and to meet again at the discretion of the W. G. M., G. M. Arnold.
John C. Boyd, Secretary.
University of Virginia,
Dec. 2nd, 1870.
The K. S. Society met at the usual hour and all of the members being
present they proceeded immediately to business. Mr. Rogers made motion
that Mr. Toadvin be admitted into our society, which was unanimously
adopted & Mr. Rogers was requested to invite him. After a good deal of
fruitless debate as to the propriety of admitting more than one member at
a meeting the Society adjourned.
J. C. Boyd,
Sec.
Edward S. Toadvin was duly initiated a member of the K. S. Fraternity
on Dec. 12th 1870.
University of Virginia.
Feb. 25th, 1871.
The Society met at 10 p.m. The Grand Master, Mr. Arnold being com-
pelled to leave by unavoidable circumstances, an election was held to fill
his vacancy, resulting in the election of E. L. Rogers, Jr. to the responsible
position of W. G. M. The other officers held their respective positions.
J. C. Boyd,
Sec.
Virginia University.
Feb. 30th, [sic] 1871.
The Kappa Sigma met at usual hour. No business being before the
Society they adjourned.
Jno. C. Boyd,
Sec.
University of Virginia, March 18th, 71.
The K. S. Society met at the usual hour the W. Grand Master, Mr.
Rogers holding the chair. After the usual preliminaries and the reading
of the minutes of the last meeting Mr. W. C. Bowen of Northampton,
N. C. was duly initiated into our Society. Information was ree'd that
22 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
Mr. Arnold was desirous of establishing a Chapter in New York where-
upon Mr. Rogers was authorized to have a copy sent him. The G. M.
then ordered the Scribe to have it forwarded immediately. After a few
interesting and sensible remarks by the G. M. the Society adjourned.
J. C. Boyd, Secretary.
Virginia University.
March 29th, 1871.
The K. S. Met to lament the departure of their worthy clubmate &
brother Saml. I North — whose absence will be felt so deeply by all of us—
After taking business matters into consideration we sat down to a finely
prepared supper, where till late did we enjoy the fruits of Bacchus, at
2 o'clock the Society adjourned.
J. C. Boyd, Secretary.
University of Virginia.
April 30th 1871.
We very much regret to state that Brother J. C. Boyd has left the Uni
versity, as he was most highly esteemed by all the members of his Society.
Hoping that he may always prosper in his future career we bid him an
affectionate adieu.
E. L. Rogers, Jr.,
per Wm. Whitford
Secretary.
It was in this year that members of the Fraternity rented and
occupied a cottage, the property of the famous Latin professor,
Gildersleeve, which thereby became the first fraternity house of
Kappa Sigma, and apparently the first fraternity house in the
South. George Leiper Thomas and Edmund Law Rogers lived
in it. With them was Robert S. McCormick (the present Am-
bassador to France, and a brother of William Grigsby McCor-
mick) , who had been very intimate with the founders of the year
before but who himself became a member of Sigma Chi. Here
took place one act of the thrilling series of events known since in
the Fraternity as "The Defense of Miles Arnold," which served
to test the oaths of the new brotherhood and the feeling of mu-
tual confidence among the students of the University.
To say that political and social conditions in the South were at
this time "unsettled" is to use as mild language as if one were to
call Paradise enjoyable or the lower regions temperately warm.
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The negro was "on the front seat of the band-wagon," as a
brother has put it ; and the white citizen who confronted a colored
man in any court had every presumption against him. The hot-
blooded Southerners of the University went armed, and frequent-
ly indulged in nocturnal pistol-practice, by way of warning to all
whom it might concern that they were prepared to take matters
into their own hands whenever necessary. Miles Arnold was
what those nourished on icicles are accustomed to call a fire-
eater; though of no overbearing disposition he had the temper
which went with his nicknames of "the Count" and "the little
Spaniard," and he was never unarmed. On a bitter day in Feb-
ruary, 1871, he had been several miles from Charlottesville,
across the Rivanna river, to call on a young lady. When he was
about to leave her home, she, after the hospitable fashion of the
time, pressed him to fortify himself against the outer cold by a
sufficient number of apple-jacks. On reaching Charlottesville
Arnold seems to have taken further similar measures with the
same intent. Finding his conduct gratuitously called in question
by a son of Ham, he made no long argument of the matter, but
fired upon his assailant and laid him low. It turned out that,
owing to the well-known thickness of the African cranium, the
wound was not mortal ; but, in ignorance of this fact, and know-,
ing that there was danger should a negro mob be formed, and al-
most equal danger should he fall into the hands of what in those,
times and in that region passed for law, Arnold at once sought
his friend and brother North, in their room upon the University
campus, and told him what had happened.
E. Stanley Toadvin, who had met Arnold as he came up, was
at once dispatched toward the town, to put the sheriff and his
posse, who were known to be approaching, on a false scent if
possible. North spirited Arnold away to a room in another part
of the campus, and sent out word to the other Kappa Sigmas and
his Texan friends — many of whom, owing to the constant asso-
ciation of North and Arnold, believed the latter a Texan — to
rally to his defense. Toadvin, returning, assumed the leadership
of these, while the sheriff and posse searched in Arnold's and the
neighboring rooms in vain. They then turned their attention,
perhaps by the suggestion of some brother who knew where
Dr. McGuffey
John B. Minor
Dr. Cabell
Dr. Smith
Dr. Davis
Dr. Mallet
Dr. Harrison
Col. Peters
Prof. Gildersleeve
Dr. Chancellor
Dr. Holmes
Westenbaker
Prof, de Vere
Dr. Southall
Prof. Boeck
Col. Venable
Maj. Peyton (Proctor)
FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, 1869-70
From contemporary photo, by Roads, Charlottesville
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THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
Arnold really was, to the Gildersleeve cottage, the Kappa Sigma
house, where Arnold might be supposed to have gone.
George Leiper Thomas was sitting alone in the lower room of
the cottage, nursing a crippled knee, when Robert McCormick
rushed in upon him and dropped a loaded shotgun in his lap with
the forcible injunction "Defend your fraternity brother." The
situation was explained in a few words, and Thomas was ar-
ranged so as to form a battery of one piece commanding the front
door and the approaches thereto. The door being opened, Mc-
McCORMICK OBSERVATORY UNIVERSITY OF VIRGIt*
The gift of L. J. McCormick, an uncle of the Founder
Cormick and Rogers took their positions outside as if to prevent
any approach to the house from the rear, and, on the coming of
the sheriff, parleyed with that officer at great length, finally con-
vincing him that Arnold was not in the house.
Meanwhile, it had been reported to North that a mob of ne-
groes was forming to search the University grounds for Arnold.
"Some negroes saved their lives by not finding us that night,"
says Dr. North in reminiscences of the affair. North's horse,
and a fresh one for Arnold, were brought to the most retired side
THE FOUNDING OF KAPPA SIGMA 11
of the campus, and forty armed Texans and Kappa Sigmas es-
corted Arnold to the spot. By this time it had been dark for
some hours. Arnold, with North as his escort, rode fifteen miles
into the country, to the house of the grandfather of Arnold's
sweetheart whose well-meant prescription of apple-jack had been
the beginning of all the trouble. The two riders missed the ford
of the Rivanna, and were nearly ready to perish with cold when.
about two the next morning, they reached a friendly shelter.
Arnold went on to friends in another county the next day, and.
after some weeks, went to New York to enter a medical college
there, where his inseparable friend North soon joined him. Ar-
nold's resignation as a student was accepted by the Virginia fac-
ulty without prejudice; the Ethiopian sufferer soon recovered;
and thus by the quick wit of Kappa Sigmas what might have been
a mournful tragedy was turned into a drama to be a stirring
memory of years afterward, and a lesson of the strength of a
fraternal obligation.
A month after the departure of North, that of Boyd is re-
corded. The work of the Chapter, as it may now be called, ap-
pears to have ended for the year with the loss of three of the
Founders in succession.
The rest belongs to the early history of the Fraternity and of
Zeta Chapter. Let that which is here set down suffice to show
that American Kappa Sigma sprang from no rivalry, discontent
or disappointment, but solely from the free spirit of brotherhood
in loyal hearts. Already plans are being considered to celebrate,
in 1919, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding and to make the
event unparalleled among such fetes.
WILLIAM GRIGSBY McCORMICK
1905
THE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA
It is said that Boston asks concerning a stranger, "What does
he know? - ' New York, "How much is he worth?" Philadelphia,
"Who was his grandfather?" and Washington, "What can he
do?" The founders of Kappa Sigma could pass this whole exam-
ination with credit. The too early death of two of the original
Five Friends and Brothers cut short lives in which the spirit of a
noble ancestry was fully shown ; the founders who survive are
honored citizens whose worthy achievements in widely various
walks of life exemplify the catholic scope of the Fraternity which
they founded. The true romance of the Founding having been
told in the preceding chapter, as fully as it can ever be given to
the general public, it remains to show who the Founders were
and to tell the story of their later lives.
WILLIAM GRIGSBY McCORMICK
A volume of four hundred seventy-eight pages (Ancestral
Record and Biography of the McCormick Family : By Leander
James McCormick. Chicago, 1896) is required to display the
ramifications, in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Virginia, of this
fine old Irish Presbyterian family, of the self-same breed as
their fellow-countymen who, settling in Augusta county, Vir-
ginia, gave America scores of her generals and statesmen. It
is possible to mention here only that branch of the McCormicks,
celebrated in our national annals for a hundred years, from which
our founder comes; a line known not alone for its enormous
wealth, but also for the genius displayed by it in other fields than
those of mere money making, and for its alliances with people
distinguished otherwise than by their material possessions ; and
30 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
among the families of American multimillionaires, the only one
which traces its origin to the South.
The first of the name to become world-famous was Robert
McCormick (1780-1846), the inventor, who laid the foundation
of the family fortunes. He lived at "Walnut Grove," Augusta
county, Virginia, an estate of two thousand acres into which he
came by inheritance. Among his eight sons and daughters were
Cyrus H. McCormick, the Chicago inventor and financier, whose
daughter married Emmons Blaine (son of James G. Blaine),
WILLIAM
GRIGSBY
Mccormick
1S69
and whose son married Edith Rockefeller (daughter of John D.
Rockefeller) ; Leander J. McCormick, who gave the McCormick
observatory to the University of Virginia ; and William Sanderson
McCormick, allied with his brothers in the perfecting of the great
inventions which influenced the agricultural development of a
world. William S. McCormick married Mary Ann Grigsby,
daughter of Col. Reuben Grigsby, of "Hickory Hill," Rockbridge
county, Virginia, and cousin of Hugh Blair Grigsby, a celebrated
president of William and Mary College. Of this union, the sec-
THE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA 31
ond born was William Grigsby McCormick, Founder of Kappa
Sigma, whose elder brother, Robert S. McCormick, late Am-
bassador to France, married a daughter of Joseph Medill, the man
who made the Chicago Tribune, A son of Robert S. McCormick
married Senator Hanna's daughter Ruth ; three sisters of the
Founder married into well-known Chicago families; and the im-
portant alliances formed by various members of the third and
fourth generations are too numerous to be mentioned here.
William Grigsby McCormick was born June 3, 1851, in the
McCormick home in Chicago, on Cass and Illinois streets. After
receiving his primary education in private schools of the city,
he was a student in the preparatory department of the old Uni-
versity of Chicago. His mother, widowed in 1865, soon after-
ward removed to Baltimore, from which city young McCormick
went in October, 1868, to the University of Virginia, returning
to that University in 1869. There the associations, already be-
gun in the case of some of the founders, developed, as we have
seen, into the Fraternity.
Leaving the University of Virginia in May, 1870, he spent six
months in foreign travel, accompanied by his brother Robert
and by a cousin. England. Ireland, Scotland and the Continent
were visited. Returning to Baltimore in November of the same
year, young McCormick followed his natural bent by associating
himself with the banking house of John S. Gittings & Co., in
whose employ he remained for two years. His happy marriage
to Eleanor Brooks, daughter of Walter Booth Brooks (president
of the Canton Company and son of a former president of the B.
& O.) was the next important event of his life. At this first
Kappa Sigma wedding, which occurred October 23, 1873, at the
Brown Memorial Church of Baltimore, George Leiper Thomas
was a groomsman and Edmund Law Rogers a guest. Returning
late in 1874 from a year of foreign travel, Mr. and Mrs. McCor-
mick spent a few months in Baltimore, removing in February,
1875, to Chicago.
Brother McCormick now entered upon the active business ca-
reer which continued until his retirement in 1900. As a member
of the firm of McCormick Bros. & Findlay, and later of W. G.
McCormick & Co., with offices in Chicago and New York, he was
THE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA 33
engaged in the fire insurance and real estate business until 1884.
In that year he became a member of the Chicago board of trade
and of the grain and stock brokerage firm of Smith, McCormick
& Co. In the following year, \Y. G. .McCormick became a mem-
ber of the Now York stock exchange; and after some changes of
business relationships, the firm of W. G. McCormick & Co., hav-
ing its offices in New York, Chicago and St. Louis, was organ-
ized. In 189] lb-other McCormick transferred Tlis business in-
terests to the well-known Schwartz-Dupee combination, with
which he was associated until 1893. After a brief retirement
from business, he reentered the arena in 1894 as a partner in the
widely-known and successful firm of Price, McCormick & Co.,
which firm was terminated in 1900. Brother McCormick's only
active entrance into politics was in 1880, when, against his ex-
pressed wish, friends placed him on the Democratic ticket for al-
derman from the eighteenth ward of the city of Chicago, a ward
which had not elected a Democrat for more than twenty years.
Brother McCormick was elected, to the surprise of many political
wiseacres of the city.
He is well-known in the principal cities of the world, and has
many friends in both hemispheres. He is a member of no secret
order except the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He is or has been a
member of the Chicago, Union, Athletic and Washington Park
clubs of Chicago, the Union. Manhattan and Whist clubs of New
York, the Pickwick club of New Orleans, the Alston and Mary-
land clubs of Baltimore, and the Kennel club of Baltimore county,
Maryland. The pictures of Brother McCormick accompanying
this volume are the only ones he has ever given out for publication
anywhere.
Seven children, of whom six are living, have been born to Mr.
and Mrs. McCormick. One of the four daughters married Her-
bert S. Stone, the Chicago publisher, son of Melville E. Stone,
manager of the Associated Press. A son, Walter Brooks Mc-
Cormick, is vice-president and general manager of the McCormick
Coal Company, of Kansas, one of his father's enterprises ; the
other son, Chauncey Brooks McCormick, is a Yale '07 man and
a member of Alpha Delta Phi. Since the retirement of Brother
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McCormick from active business life in 1900, the family home
has been at their country house in Goshen, Virginia, and at the
Brooks mansion, "Clover Dale," Baltimore.
GEORGE MILES ARNOLD
The father of George Miles Arnold was George Anson Ar-
nold, a native of Troy, N. Y., and son of Dr. George Arnold, of
Newport, R. I., who came of a family well-known in that section.
George Anson Arnold married Mary Antoinette Filkins, cele-
brated beauty of Troy, and engaged in a wholesale business in
Mobile, Ala., where he prospered. On one of the Arnolds' yearly
visits to Troy, George Miles Arnold was born, August 27, 1851.
After receiving his^ first training at the Union Hill boarding
school, Monroe county, N. Y., and at Dr. Davis' academy for
boys, Bloomfield, N. J., Arnold entered the academic depart-
ment of the University of Virginia in 1869, his chief studies
being Latin, French and mathematics. Small but well built,
speaking French, Spanish and Italian fluently, he was a typical
young Southerner of those stirring times. Although carrying
no Spanish blood, nevertheless, on account of his proficient
knowledge of the language, he was known to his friends and
THE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA 35
admirers as "the little Spaniard."' From students of Kappa Sig-
ma history he has later received the title of "the first S. A. Jack-
son." All the surviving founders agree in praise of his devotion
from the first to the cause of the Fraternity. "H,e gave nearly
his whole time to the society," says one. In the summer of 1870,
he began, with Samuel [sham North, his nearest and dearest
friend even within Kappa Sigma, a course in medicine at the
University, under Harrison, the famous and beloved professor.
In February, 1871. the occurrence elsewhere related made it
necessary for his friends and brothers to protect him from the
consequences of a rash and hasty act, and caused his withdrawal
from the University — the authorities, after investigation, accept-
ing his resignation as a student and dismissing him with a clear
record.
He shortly entered the medical college of New York University,
and by the end of the scholastic year 1872, had completed the
medical course according to the requirements of the time. Being
still under age. his degree was not conferred upon him until the
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following year, 1873. He studied at Bellevue Hospital medical
college in iSy2-'y^, and received a diploma also from this insti-
tution. He also served for a time as resident physician at the E.
and P. Hospital, Bedford Island, and in 1873 began to practice.
Later he was resident physician at the Convalescent Hospital,
Hart's Island, and, having become a Master Mason of Lebanon
lodge in 1873, was in i874-'75 vice-president and examining
physician of the Washington Masonic Mutual Benefit Associa-
tion, of New York.
Founder Arnold's marriage occurred on September 8, 1874,
at the Jane St. M. E. church, New York, the officiating minister
being the Rev. Dr. Hamlin. The bride was Miss Minnie J. Law,
daughter of Robert J. Law, a wealthy real estate owner of the
city, a Mason, and a veteran of the Civil War, being one of the
first to go out with the New York Seventh. For a number of
years the Arnolds resided at 105 east 71st St., New York, and
their home was a meeting-place for Kappa Sigmas of that early
day. The Star and Crescent, illuminated in the size of the early
badges, appeared on Arnold's note-paper; he spoke much of the
Fraternity, corresponding with his friends North and Boyd con-
tinually, and often entertaining as his guests S. A. Jackson and
Ed. Law Rogers, Jr., the latter of whom claimed kinship with
THE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA 37
Mrs. Arnold through their common descent from the Maryland
Laws.
Dr. and Mrs. Arnold were for years regular attendants upon
St. James' Episcopal church, Xew York, and here for rive years,
until the demands of a constantly increasing practice obliged
him to abandon it. Arnold had a Bible claSS of young men, who
were closely drawn to him by his ever attractive personality.
To Dr. Arnold and his wife there were born eight children.
( )f the sad death of five of these, the widowed mother speaks
seldom and with reluctance. Three died within one period of
six weeks ; after an interval of five years, death claimed two in
one day : and all were carried oft" by the same disease, diphtheria,
which Dr. Arnold was accustomed to meet and to vanquish in
his practice, having never lost a case. A lover of his home and
family, the effect of these losses never left him. He threw him-
self more and more earnestly into his active work, becoming
regardless of his own health ; and on January 25, 1890, pneu-
monia due to exposure resulted in his death, after an illness of
but a few days. His body reposes in Woodlawn Cemetery. Mrs.
Arnold, with her three living children, two daughters and a son,
found a home with her mother for five years, until that lady's
death, and then removed to her present residence. $~ W. 124th
St.. Xew York. One daughter is attending the Xew York Xor-
mal College, and the son, Robert Miles Arnold, aged now eigh-
teen, is a student of C. C. X. Y.
Other Kappa Sigmas have been better known than Miles Ar-
nold, but none has ever been better loved. Peace to his ashes !
The Fraternity would have delighted in these latter days to honor
him living; dead, it reveres his memorv.
EDMUND LAW ROGERS
The third of the original Five, and the designer of the badge of
Kappa Sigma, was the son of Edmund Law Rogers. Sr., and
Charlotte (Plater) Rogers, and was born in Baltimore. July 1.
1850. He was descended through his paternal grandmother from
Mrs. Martha Custis, afterwards the wife of George Washington ;
whose son. John Parke Custis. early wedded pretty Eleanor
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Calvert, daughter of Benedict Calvert, a head of the old-time
Maryland family. Their daughter, Eliza Custis, married Thomas
Law, whose brother, the first Baron Ellenborough, was leading
counsel for Warren Hastings before the House of Lords in 1788,
and Lord Chief Justice of England from 1802 to 1818. Thomas
Law was of no less worth. Before coming to America, he had
been governor of a province in India, under Cornwallis as gov-
ernor-general, in 1786 and later. His devotion to his adopted
country was shown when, in 1814, after the burning of the
national capitol by the British, he with another purchased a
house in Washington and allowed Congress the use of it as a
capitol building until better quarters could be erected — by this
one act preventing the removal of the capital of the nation from
Washington. Eliza Law, daughter of Thomas Law, married
Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, of Baltimore, and their son was General
Edmund Law Rogers, Sr., father of our founder.
The Rogers line was also one of distinction. Nicholas Rogers,
father of Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, was a student in Scotland at
FHE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA
39
the time when the Revolution began. Hurrying back to his
country by way of France, to give himself to the cause of free-
dom, he became an aide-de-camp to General de Coudray, and was
afterward Baron de Kalb's adjutant during the dreadful winter
at Valley Forge. Soon after the close of the Revolution, Colonel
Rogers married Eleanor Buchanan, daughter of Lloyd Buchanan
and granddaughter of one of the founders of Baltimore. With
her there came into the Rogers family the country-seat of five
hundred and fiftv acres, then known as "Auchentorolv." which
the city of Baltimore bought from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers in
1859 for $550,000, and which has now become Druid Hill, one
of the surpassingly beautiful and perfect parks of the world.
Gen. Edmund Law Rogers, Sr.. who died about 1895, was a
prominent and wealthy citizen of Baltimore, and held many posi-
tions of honor and trust in the city and state. His wife, Charlotte
Plater, was a descendant of George Plater, one of the colonial
governors of Maryland and a member of the Council. Their
only surviving child is Charlotte, wife of Professor Kirby Flower
Smith, of Johns Hopkins.
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Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., was prepared for the University at
the well-known academy of James Kinnier, in Baltimore, where
Founder F. C. Nicodemus was among his classmates. Entering
the University of Virginia in 1869, he was graduated in an aca-
demic course. He then took up the study of architecture. Thor-
oughly artistic in his temperament, none who knew him doubt
that had he been under the kindly spur of necessity he might
have achieved eminence in his profession, and, given the ordi-
nary span of life, have been one of our country's chief apostles
of a noble art which is just now coming to its own among us.
Private theatricals had given him a liking for the stage. It
amused him to act, and, free from personal anxieties and cares,
he enjoyed the life behind the footlights. Handsome and clever,
he was always in demand for leading parts and in the support of
popular stars, from 1880, when he entered upon his stage career,
to the time of his death. At one time he played in "stock" with
Ada Rehan, and later he had the part, which one of his few
extant pictures shows to have been easily assumed by him, of a
Southern planter in Boucicault's drama of "The Octoroon."
Upon the stage he was known as Leslie Edmunds. Kindly, pol-
ished, full of quiet humor, a citizen of the world who loved the
world in which he dwelt, his old friends found much pleasure in
their continued association with him while he lived. He was a
member of the Lambs club, of New York, and of the old Alston
club of Baltimore. He married Miss Anna Carleton, of Boston,
who survived him but a few years. His death occurred in New
York, December 19, 1893 ; he was buried, from the old Rogers
residence in Baltimore, in the Buchanan and Rogers burying-
ground in Druid Hill, reserved to the family use perpetually
when the sale to the city was made. Among the pall-bearers
was George Leiper Thomas, his early brother in the parent Chap-
ter of Kappa Sigma.
FRANK COURTNEY NICODEMUS
Frank Courtney Nicodemus is one of the five surviving children
of Josiah Courtney Nicodemus and Mary Jane (Montandon)
Nicodemus, both from old American and Maryland families ; and
THE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA
is a native, and a life-long resident, of Baltimore. One of his
sisters is the wife of Edwin W'arfield. "Hie first gentleman of the
South," the present Governor of Maryland. Before entering
the University of Virginia, young Nicodemus was a student at
Kinnier's Academy in his native city, where he was associated
with Edmund Law Rogers, Jr. Leaving' the University in the
spring of 1870. he was taken into the office of his father's firm.
Smith & Nicodemus. In 1874 he became a partner in the same
firm, and in the following year he formed a partnership with his
FRANK
COURTNEY
NICODEMUS
1904
father, under the title of J. C. Nicodemus & Son. The new firm
engaged in a general investment and brokerage business for the
following four years. In 1879, Brother Nicodemus formed the
firm of F. C. Nicodemus & Co., for the manufacture of boilers,
engines and machinery; withdrawing from this firm in 1885, he
became treasurer of the Baltimore postoffice. In March, 1891,
he was offered the general agency for Maryland of the Connecti-
cut Mutual Life Insurance Company, which he continues to hold.
Brother Nicodemus has been a member of the old Alston club,
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and of the Maryland club, of Baltimore. He has always had a
part in the social life of his city, and has been intimately associ-
ated with some of the older and younger Kappa Sigmas there.
He was married March 26, 1879, in the Franklin Street Presby-
terian Church, Baltimore, to Mary Field Weeks, daughter of
John L. Weeks, a member of the Baltimore firm of Woods,
Weeks & Co. To Mr. and Mrs. Nicodemus were born four chil-
dren : John Lee Nicodemus, who is about to become an officer in
the regular army ; Frank Courtney Nicodemus, Jr., a graduate of
the law school of the University of Maryland and a bright young
member of the firm of Pierce & Greer, of New York, one of the
strongest law partnerships in the United States; Mary Nico-
demus ; and Gordon Kirkland Nicodemus, who has just entered
upon business life. After the death of his first wife, Brother
Nicodemus was again married, in 1891, to Miss Florence B.
Smith, of Baltimore. At 181 5 Park avenue, Baltimore, is the
pleasant home of the family.
JOHN COVERT BOYD
John Covert Boyd, who has been connected with the Navy
medical corps for more than thirty years, was born December
24, 1850, near Bradford Springs, Sumter county, South Carolina.
His grandfather was Dr. John Boyd, physician and planter, and
his father, William Simms Boyd, was a graduate of the South
Carolina Medical College, though he devoted his attention to the
management of his estate rather than to the practice of his pro-
fession. An ancestor in the paternal line was General Richard
Richardson, 1704-1780, who attained to distinction in the colonial
wars and in the Revolution. An account of his services and a
history of his descendants is to be found in Johnson's "Traditions
of the Revolution," and in Mrs. E. F. Ellet's "Women of the
American Revolution," where the life of General Richardson's
wife, who was Elizabeth Canty, of South Carolina, is given.
John Covert Boyd's mother was Laura Nelson (Covert) Boyd, a
daughter of John Covert, a minister of the Dutch Reformed
Church and a graduate of Columbia and of Princeton Seminary.
After being prepared for college in private schools of Charles-
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ton, S. C, John Covert Boyd spent two years at the University of
Virginia, from 1869 to 1871, beginning the medical course in the
second year. He then entered the medical department of the
University of the City of New York, from which he received the
degree of M.D. in 1872. After a year as interne in the Jersey
City Charity Hospital, he was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in
the Navy medical corps, and since that time has been continu-
ously connected therewith, having risen through the grades of
Passed Assistant Surgeon. Surgeon, and Medical Inspector, to
that of Medical Director. The detailed record of his career would
fill several of these pages. He has seen service both afloat and
ashore; was for eight years assistant to the chief of the naval
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ; was detailed as a delegate to
represent the medical department of the Navy at a meeting of
th Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, held
in Buffalo, in 1895 ! was again detailed as a delegate to the Inter-
national Tuberculosis Congress, Berlin, 1899. Since 1902 he has
been a professor in the Xaval Medical College, Washington, in
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which institution he is second in seniority, and a member of the
Board for examination and promotion of medical officers.
Throughout his professional career he has been the author of
numerous reports upon technical subjects, and he is at present
engaged, under the supervision of the Surgeon-General of the
Navy, in the preparation of a book of instructions for medical
officers, which will make a volume of four hundred pages.
Dr. Boyd is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine ;
a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United
States and of the American Medical Association ; an honorary
member of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia; a
member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and
of the Archaeological Institute of America. On January 16, 1905,
President Roosevelt designated him as one of the incorporators
of the American National Red Cross, and appointed him a mem-
ber of the Central Committee of that body. On the meeting of the
incorporators he was made a member of the Executive Commit-
tee of the Red Cross. His club membership includes the Metro-
politan, Washington, the Reform, New York, and the New York
Yacht Club. Attractive and magnetic, a typical Southerner and
a loyal American, Dr. Boyd is known not only as the best in-
formed man in the Navy, but also as the best loved man in it.
It is said on good authority that he has to his credit the highest
grade ever made in an examination for Passed Assistant Surgeon.
He was married June 24, 1887, to Miss Katharine Dorr Willard,
of Washington, a daughter of C. C. Willard, of the well-known
Washington family, and a descendant of Simon Willard, once
president of Harvard. With their son and daughter, Dr. and Mrs.
Boyd occupy a delightful home at 1315 P Street, northwest,
Washington.
JOHN E. SEMMES
John E. Semmes was born at Cumberland, Md., July 1, 185 1.
The Semmes family in America is a distinguished one, especially
in the Navy, and is descended from Joseph Semmes, originally
of Norman ancestry, who came to Maryland from England in
1688. Representatives of the family living in northern France
THE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA
I.S
offered their services to Admiral Semmes on board the Alabama
at Cherbourg just before the engagement with the Kcarsarge.
The father of John E. Semmes was Samuel M. Semmes. of Mary-
land, a lawyer by profession. Receiving his early education under
private tutors and in Chestnut Hill School. John E. Semmes
entered the University of Virginia October 18, 1869. He was
graduated upon the completion of a course in analytical chemis-
try, and soon afterward entered the Navy as secretary to Com-
modore John Guest, his maternal uncle. Later, he prepared for
the bar in the law school of the I niversity of Maryland, and
entered the office of the late John H. B. Latrobe. He is now a
member of the law firm of Steele & Semmes. of Baltimore, is
prominent at the bar of that city, and was at one time city solici-
tor. One of his partners. John X. Steele, was with him at
Virginia in 1869-70. Brother Semmes was married to Frances
Hayward. daughter of Xehemiah P. Hayward, of Xew Hamp-
shire, and Prudence ( Carman) Hayward. a descendant of Cap-
tain Robert North, prominent in the early history of Baltimore.
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He is a member of the Maryland club and of the Bachelors'
Cotillion club of Baltimore. In the early days of Kappa Sigma,
he was an intimate associate of the lamented Rogers.
SAMUEL ISHAM NORTH
Samuel Isham North was born May 14, 1849, on his father's
farm in De Witt county, Texas, and received his early education
in the schools of that state. Early in January, 1870, he entered
the University of Virginia, forming that deep and lasting friend-
ship with George Miles Arnold which led to North's early union
with the just- formed Fraternity. The work of Rogers, Arnold
and North, is known to those acquainted with the history of the
secret work of the Fraternity, and has been spoken of in the
preceding chapter, in so far as it may be told in these pages.
After devoting some time to academic studies, North, with Ar-
nold, entered upon the study of medicine, taking the first year of
the regular medical course. Leaving Virginia in the spring of
THE FOUNDERS OF KAPPA SIGMA 47
1S71 to take the summer course at the University of New York,
he passed his final examinations in September, [871, at the latter
institution, though on account of a regulation as to time of resi-
dence the degree was not conferred upon him until the following
March. At that time, after a competitive examination, Dr. North
won the position of interne at Roosevelt hospital, where he served
eighteen months. I le then became one of sixteen applicants for
interne at the Woman's hospital, the examination for which is
said to he one of the hardest in the country. North won the posi-
tion. The illness of his father soon demanded his return to
Texas, and in 1874 he began to practice in Galveston. Consid-
erations of health necessitated a change of climate, and he re-
moved to Cuero, in his native county, and in 1882 to Clayton,
New Mexico, where he has since led the self-denying- life of a
busy doctor; the monotony of which he has varied by a successful
venture in Hereford cattle. His fellow-citizens have also pro-
vided him with occupation for his rare moments of leisure by
making him their county superintendent of schools.
On June 25, 1884, Dr. North married Eliza Gordon, daughter
of Jonathan W. Gordon, a major of regulars and afterward a
celebrated criminal lawyer of Indianapolis. Their son, Samuel
Gordon North, horn in 1885, is attending Washington and Lee
University, and is an active member of Mu of Kappa Sigma.
The four hundred Kappa Sigmas who attended the St. Louis
Conclave remember the good gray doctor, and understand how
much of the present beauty and strength of the Fraternity is due
to the work performed by him, with the lamented Rogers and
Arnold.
GEORGE LEIPER THOMAS
George Leiper Thomas, the first regular initiate the date of
whose initiation is precisely known, was born in Baltimore, Sep-
tember 10, 1852. His father was John Henry Thomas, a member
of the Baltimore bar for fifty-four years, a distinguished and able
lawyer, and a graduate of Princeton. After attending private
schools in Baltimore. George Thomas went to Europe in the sum-
mer of 1868, for a year of study and travel. After attending
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lectures at Lausanne he went to Dresden, and was at the Circus
Renz on the night of July 19, 1870, when the performance was
brought to an abrupt end by the announcement, made from
the ring by Renz, the proprietor, of the declaration of war by
France upon Germany. Thomas then went to Berlin, where he
remained a spectator of events until the end of the Franco-
Prussian war. Returning to America, he entered the University
of Virginia in the fall of 1870, and was made a member of Kappa
Sigma at its first meeting of which the contemporary minute re-
mains, November 7, 1870. He was one of those who lived in the
first Kappa Sigma house during the year 'yo-'yi, and many par-
ticulars of the early history may be derived from his recollections
of the intimacy existing among the members, and of their habits
and customs. He was the intimate friend and associate of Ed-
mund Law Rogers until the death of the latter, and has kept up
his acquaintance with other pioneer Kappa Sigmas. He received
the degree of LL.B. from the University of Maryland, in 1873,
and has practiced law in Baltimore ever since.
THE EUROPEAN TRADITION
The Fraternity is alone among the university societies of the
country in a traditional and legendary European origin.
History gives us the information that there existed in Euro-
pean universities secret orders among students. About the year
1400. as is well known, there came to the oldest university in
the world. Bologna, the Greek scholar Manuel Chrysoloras
(l355?-I4I5) who gave to the world as his pupils many dis-
tinguished scholars. He was the author of Erotemata Quaes-
tiones, one of the first Greek grammars used in Italy. He is tra-
ditionally asserted to have founded at the university a secret
Order of students for mutual protection against Raltasare Cossa,
at that time governor of the city, who practiced extortion upon
the students, even sending out bands of his followers to rob them
as they approached the university. The Order continued to
exist, and spread first to the University of Florence, and then to
the other three of the five great universities — Paris, Orleans and
Montpelier. The lodges or circles among these scholars were
known as Kohaths. They flourished throughout the revival of
learning, enrolling the names of Bruni, Politian, the de Medicis,
Michael Angelo, Chalcondylas, Bracciolini, and many others —
poets, artists and wits. At one time it was intended to name all
of the American chapters after these celebrities.
In modern times the Order became practically extinct, but its
secrets and symbols are said to have been preserved by a few
noble families of Italy and France — principally in the de Bardi
family. Its ritual, not a sophomore document, and peculiarly
appropriate to a university society, is reminiscent of both the
lower and higher degrees of Masonry.
THE EUROPEAN TRADITION 51
Enough of these traditions and legends have grown up about
the Order for a dozen more degrees for degree makers. A few
of them, referring to familiar symbols of the Fraternity may be
here explained. Lorenzo de Medici, "II Magnifico," who was a
patron <>( the Order in its beginning, adopted the caduceus, an
^TERIOR OF THE
Bologna's Westm
:ampo SANTO
emblem of Mercury, as his private seal. Hence the use of the
emblem by Kappa Sigma, and name of the magazine of the Fra-
ternity. The motto of the University of Bologna was Bononia
docet mundum or Bononia docet. This is the open motto of
Kappa Sigma, and suggests the mission which Kappa Sigma
hopes to realize in the new world as Bologna did in the old.
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Referring to the traditional origin, Alexander Yerger Scott, of
Mississippi, the Conclave orator, at the Grand Conclave at Look-
out Mountain, 1906, said:
"We are here, gathered together from the furthest confines of
our beloved country ; from the North, the East, the West and the
South, actuated by like desires, centered upon a single purpose
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and inspired by identical ideas and ideals ; and that which inspires
us, the good we seek, is not selfish but unselfish, not personal, but
impersonal, and is represented to us by a name — that name,
Kappa Sigma.
"It is this I would have you consider with me. Kappa Sigma
is known to the outside world as a college fraternity, a secret
THE EUROPEAN TRADITION 53
organization for boys; a thing for their amusement; a passing
phase of youthful experience and pleasure. You and I know dif-
ferently of Kappa Sigma, whatever may he said of others, for we
have within our hearts the esoteric teachings of our beloved Fra-
ternity, and we know it is something more, much more, than a
thing" to amuse a schoolboy, and to be discarded with the toga.
We know that Kappa Sigma represents within itself, and stands
for, the great truth that, express it how or when or where we
will, from the first dawn of recorded history — aye, beyond that,
turn we back the pages of the eternal ages and dip into the past
as we will — resolves itself into this, the Fatherhood of God and
the Brotherhood of Man.
"Our fraternity rests not its foundation upon recorded his-
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tory. We cannot, with exactitude, say when nor where nor how
the thing we call Kappa Sigma had its birth, any more than we
can say when the light first begins to break over a darkened
world ; nor when nor where man first became a living, breathing-
spirit reflecting the qualities of Deity. Looking back into the
dim past, we find this central truth of life first expressed in myth
and in symbol; in the esoteric teachings of eastern religions, the
Zend Avestas, the Dhammapodas, the Vedas, the Koran; in the
Bibles of the men that have come and gone ; in the myths of
Greece and Rome ; in the Sagas of the Northmen ; and the tradi-
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tions of savages express in some form the same idea — enmeshed,
it may be, in much that is unbelievable, much that is absurd to our
modern scientific mind. So the central truth of Kappa Sigma
comes to us like the central truth of life — through legend and
through tradition.
"Tradition — did you ever think what a tradition is ; its power,
its value, its utility ? Traditions are not made by any man, but by
time alone. A tradition cannot be proved. It cannot be dis-
proved. It rests alone upon faith — belief — and that is the power
of tradition, for faith is the greatest power in all the universe. . . .
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"Happy, then, that nation and that people who believe. That
their tradition be true or false, reasonable or unreasonable, is of
little moment, so that it is believed.
"My brothers, do you realize that Kappa Sigma shares with the
Masonry the privileges of having a traditional origin, and that
these two seeret orders, so far as I know, are the only two that
cannot point with historic accuracy to the date of their founding,
without resort to tradition — to a time beyond which their written
history extends — for a beginning? The Masons date their origin
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at the building of King Solomon's temple, and the sole and only
proofs they have of this tradition are the esoteric teachings in
their ritual. What one of you does not know that this tradition —
fable, if you please to call it — has made Masonry the greatest
secret organization the world has ever known? whose power for
good is written upon the history of more than one nation, and
because of which it is destined, yet. to endure so long as man
himself endures.
'"How account you for the marvelous growth of Kappa Sigma,
for the loving devotion each of us has for the Star and Crescent,
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the emblem of our order ? Among the youngest of college frater-
nities in America, it stands to-day the greatest. Can you doubt for
one moment that the living force behind its advance is bound up
in its traditional history? If so, open the floodgates of memory
and recall how your soul was filled with rapture as the story of
her founding was gradually unfolded to you — how, as you learned
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the truths taught, as you journeyed towards the City of Letters,
a new light and a new life seemed to fill your youthful heart. You
were at one with the youth of a bygone age. You shared in spirit
the toil and travail of those who, when ignorance, like a pall of
death, had settled upon the world, struggled amid the vicissitudes
of a crime-ridden nation for light and for truth. And it was then
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you learned in a new and forceful manner, your duty to your fel-
low men, the eternal principle of brotherhood, of justice and of
love.
"Ah, my friends, through this tradition you and I seem, some
way and somehow, linked to the brave spirits of that day, who
sought to defy the power of might with the power of right; who
sought to bring out of darkest night a resplendent day, who
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wrought for others, knowing full well that one can only reach the
full measure of greatness by serving his fellow men. I urge you,
then, with all the power at my command, to cling to, believe in
and live up to this hallowed tradition of Kappa Sigma that comes
to us out of the dim past like the first faint breath of spring time,
and which, somehow and some way, makes us better and nobler
and stronger because thereof.
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"But I like to think that the God of nations and of men held in
reserve, from the beginning, another noble mission for our Fra-
ternity — the mission of aiding in binding up and healing the
wounds of a nation — and it has ever seemed to me that Kappa
Sigma's refounding, after it has winged its gentle way across the
dread Atlantic, was prophetic of its mission and lends verity to
its early legends.
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New York, and one on the Pacific — all of which were at a later
day to come into existence in the most national, from a geo-
graphical standpoint, of all the fraternities.
It was not, however, until 1873, that the mother Chapter took
up the extension movement in earnest. In that year a Chapter
was placed by Dr. James H. Durham at Trinity College, North
Carolina, drawing its members mainly from the old Hesperian
Society of that college. From that dav to this, time has wit-
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nessed a continual increase in the number of Chapters and the
annals of Kappa Sigma, one of the youngest of the great
college societies, have been no less brilliant than those of any
■other Greek letter organization.
It was but natural that the Fraternity should first plant suc-
cessful Chapters in the South, for there were the friends and
kinsmen of its members. Besides, the war had disrupted nearly
all college organizations in that section, the field for the running
was open to Kappa Sigma equally with older fraternities, the
colleges were of the high type of the old-time classical discipline,
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and fraternity material in the Southern homes of the most in-
tensely thoroughbred of Americans was of the best. Notable
as are the founders for their connections, so also may this be re-
marked of all the Fraternity's early members, for no society had
brethren of higher social status than did Kappa Sigma in all her
early years. Among those who assisted in building tip the organ-
ization may be found the sons of such men as Presidents John
Tyler and Jefferson Davis, Generals Albert Sidney Johnston,
Joe Wheeler. Walker, Taliaferro. Wright, and Stnbblefield, of
the Confederate armies: Governors Ligon, of .Maryland, Walker
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of Virginia, Marks of Tennessee, McLanrin of Mississippi,
Berry of Arkansas, and many others. The chapter rolls of the
first Southern Chapters are rosters of the names of the first
families of the South. A number were the sons of men prominent
in the history of other fraternities.
Before Kappa Sigma had a Northern Chapter, she had eleven
institutional seats in the South — at Virginia, the keystone of
Southern education, with its graduates influencing America, the
Harvard of the South ; Alabama, whose sons have illustrated the
history of the state ; Trinity, the favored child of North Carolina
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Methodism ; Emory and Henry, beloved of Virginia Methodism ;
Washington and Lee, with its famous graduates in all sections
of the history of the South, the West, and the nation, and loved
almost as is Virginia ; Virginia Military Institute, the "West Point
of the South ;" Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the first technical
school in the South ; Maryland, one of the oldest of American
medical schools and most popular; Mercer, representative of
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the Baptists in the lower South ; Vanderbilt, prosperous and
favored of a rich benefactor; Tennessee, the sucessor of Blount
College, one of the oldest colleges of the South. All of these
Chapters save Virginia Polytechnic, Emory and Henry, and Vir-
ginia Military Institute are alive to-day, and these three were
killed only by anti-fraternity laws^ The founders knew well
how to cultivate vitality and to choose institutions. All of these
and our later Southern Kappa Sigma colleges are adornments
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to our Chapter roll. Their history is a part of the history of
America, and an inspiration. in sonic cases their incomes and
student bodies are not so large as some of their newer Northern
and Western sisters. Vet their buildings and equipment are of
the best, for, following the classical courses, they do not need
large sums tor technical apparatus, and their professors are
willing to work for a spiritual reward. The tone of their student
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bodies is unexcelled in the United States. With the prosperity
of the new South, even many are becoming rich in money.
The only period not of the highest prosperity known to the Fra-
ternity was the college generation of four years from 1880 to
1884. This was due to no lack of interest among Kappa Sigmas,
but to a peculiarly sad and universal condition of a lack of pros-
perity of Kappa Sigma colleges in the unsettled condition of the
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South, and to assaults, by anti-fraternity laws, on Kappa Sigma
Chapters.
In the movement into Southern colleges, the name of the im-
mortal Kappa Sigma, Stephen Alonzo Jackson — "Lon Jackson" —
is enshrined in the heart of every Kappa Sig. The son of a
banker, a mystic, an idealist, and advanced in Masonry, this
STEPHEN ALONZO JACKSON
golden-hearted Virginian ruined his fortune in behalf of the
Order. "S. A. Jackson Day," the fourth of March, was ordered
to be regularly observed among Kappa Sigmas, by the Richmond
Grand Conclave of 1894.
It was not until 1880 that Kappa Sigma established a Chapter
in the North. Then it was that a number of the members of
the Zeta Epsilon literary society at Lake Forest petitioned for
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and received a charter. This was the first Northern Chapter of
a fraternity of Southern origin. The Chapter survived only till
1882, for knowledge of membership in it meant expulsion from
the college. A second petition for a Chapter at another Northern
college was received from an organization which had withdrawn
from its general fraternity, but this petition was rejected. In
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1885, a Chapter was organized at Purdue. From this point on-
ward is a history of the conquest of the North and West. The
Fraternity now has the longest roll of all the fraternities — seven-
ty-six Chapters. It has the widest geographical distribution of
the fraternities, being represented in more states of the Union
than any other — having Chapters in thirty-five states, the Dis-
trict of Columbia and the coming state of Oklahoma.
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This list shows the order in which Kappa Sigma entered the
States and territories, the first Chapter in each, and the date of its
foundation: i. Virginia (Virginia, 1869) : 2. Alabama (Alabama,
1871); 3. North Carolina (Trinity. 1873); 4. Maryland (Mary-
land. 1874) ; 5. Georgia (Mercer. 1875) ; 6. Tennessee (Vander-
bilt, 1877); 7. Illinois (Lake Forest, 1880); 8. West Virginia
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(West Virginia, 1883); 9. Texas (Texas. 1884); 10. Indiana
(Purdue. 1885); 11. Louisiana (Centenary, 1885); 12. Maine
(Maine. 1886); 13. Ohio (Ohio Northern. 1886): 14. Pennsyl-
vania (Swarthmore, 1888) : 15. South Carolina (South Carolina.
[890) : 16. Arkansas (Arkansas. 1890) : 17. Michigan (Michigan,
1892) ; 18. District of Columbia (George Washington — formerly
known as Columbian — 1892) : 19. New York (Cornell, 1892) ;
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20. Vermont (Vermont, 1893) ; 21. Kentucky (Bethel, 1894) ;
22. Mississippi (Millsaps, 1895); 23. Nebraska (Nebraska,
1897) ; 24. Missouri (William Jewell, 1897) ; 25. Rhode Island
(Brown, 1898) ; 26. Wisconsin (Wisconsin, 1898) ; 2.J. Califor-
nia (Stanford, 1898) ; 28. New Hampshire (New Hampshire,
1901); 29. Minnesota (Minnesota, 1901); 30. Colorado (Den-
ver, 1902) ; 31. Iowa (Iowa, 1902) ; 32. Kansas (Baker, 1903) ;
33. Washington (Washington, 1903); 34. Oregon (Oregon,
1904) ; 35. Massachusetts (Massachusetts State, 1904) ; 36. Idaho
(Idaho, 1905) ; 37. Oklahoma (Oklahoma, 1906).
The Fraternity early observed the decadence of many of the old
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sectarian colleges in the North, where fraternities in the past had
most of their chapters, and shunned them. At the same time,
she prophesied the splendid future of the state institutions — the
result of the congressional acts of 1862 and later — and other
institutions founded since the civil war. Fraternities of Northern
origin in these places had no more prestige due to the age of
their chapters than did Kappa Sigma. The fraternity thus found
opportunities in the North and West similar to those she had
met in the South — the best universities, and these not overcrowd-
ed by Greek letter societies. At present in the leading seats of
American educational progress — the state schools, colleges, and
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universities — Kappa Sigma has a larger number of Chapters than
any other fraternity. Nearly fifty per cent of them are so located.
She is also represented in all but four of the twenty universities
in the United States having the largest enrollment — Harvard.
Columbia, California, Northwestern, Michigan, .Minnesota, Cor-
nell, Illinois, Yale, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Syracuse.
New York, Ohio State, Missouri, Princeton, Indiana, George
Washington and Stanford. ( )f these four — Princeton, Columbia.
Northwestern and Yale — Princeton does not admit fraternities.
Alumni familiar with the situation in the next two institutions
mentioned, in New York and Chicago respectively, have repeat-
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edly advised against entering Columbia or Northwestern. Both
are crowded with fraternities, and conditions at Columbia seem
to demand the ownership of a very costly house to start with.
No movement looking toward Yale has ever received encourage-
ment, for reasons recently expressed by President Hadley of that
university — "A large part of the fraternities are not even known
by their Greek-letter names. . . . When I want to know
what is the Greek-letter name of any organization, I have to look
it up in the Yale Banner. Even those societies like Delta Kappa
Epsilon or Psi Upsilon, which have retained their Greek-letter
names in common parlance, are never known as fraternities, but
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as societies ; and when they go to conventions the delegates have
to cram up on purpose to find out what is the grip, or what the
Greek-letters stand for, or any other supposed secrets of the
fraternity."
Kappa Sigma was the pioneer fraternity of Southern origin in
the seven Northern states of Maine, New Hampshire, Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Minnesota. This does
not take into account the powers extended to Dr. George Miles
Arnold in 1871, by the Virginia Chapter to initiate from New
York City colleges. Kappa Sigma has been the pioneer fra-
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ternity of Southern origin in fifteen Northern colleges : Bowdoin,
Case, Dartmouth, Illinois, Indiana, Lake Forest, Maine, Minne-
sota, New Hampshire, New York, Purdue, Swarthmore, Syra-
cuse, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. She has been the second
oldest fraternity of Southern origin in a number of Northern
institutions, having been preceded by Alpha Tau Omega at
Brown, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Washington and Jefferson ;
and similarly preceded by Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Harvard,
Bucknell and Dickinson, and by Sigma Nu at the University of
Iowa. An examination of the history of Kappa Sigma's Chapter
roll — North, South, and West — shows that at present or at some
EXTENSION OF THE FRATERNITY 73
time in their careers, twenty-two of her Chapters arc or have been
the first chapters founded or the oldest chapters on account of
continuous existence in their respective universities.
Many Chapters have been formed from local and other so-
cieties, thus giving a Chapter an element of stability at its incep-
tion, this policy being as marked in Kappa Sigma as in any other
Fraternity. Vet it has never sought to add the names of United
States senators and other prominent men to its alumni lists by
enrolling them without initiation or active affiliation — an abuse
in some fraternities. Indeed, conservatism in this regard led to
the hreaking off of negotiations for union of Kappa Sigma with
two other general fraternities. Until 1902, the initiation of
alumni of local societies was prohibited ; since then under
certain restrictions it has been permitted. Those Chapters
formed from other societies are: Emory and Henry (Phi Mu
Omicron), 1 Washington and Lee, as reestablished in 1904 (Mu
Pi Lambda), 2 Lake Forest (Lambda Phi), 3 Grant, as reestab-
lished (The Secret Fraternity) ; Hampden-Sidney (Phi Mu
Gamma) ; Maine (K. K. F. — Roman letter) ; Bucknell (Phi Ep-
1 Some of the members of the 'Emory and Henry chapter and several
members of other chapters of Phi Mu Omicron were admitted into Kappa
Sigma in 1879. This society was founded at South Carolina College in
1858. and is the second oldest of the defunct societies of Southern origin.
It also had chapters at Wofford, Charleston, Emory, Newberry, and Emory
and Henry. Its badge was a monogram of the letters comprising the name
of the society. Members of the first southern Kappa Alpha joined Phi
Mu Omicron in 1866. Kukloi Adelphon or "circles" nourished as select
organizations among the southern gentry before the war in the colleges
and also in the "court" towns or county seats in Alabama, Virginia, Ken-
tucky and other southern states. After the war, in the Reconstruction
period, these kukloi formed a basis for the Ku Klux Klan.
" The Washington and Lee chapter of Mu Pi Lambda was the mother
chapter of that fraternity, founded in 1895, and also having chapters at
Virginia, Harvard, West Virginia, and William and Mary. At Jefferson's
home. "'Monticello," Virginia, in 1904, the society disbanded. The William
and Man- chapter joined Theta Delta Chi ; part of the Virginia chapter
joined Phi Delta Theta and Kappa Sigma. Its badge was a five-sided shield
displaying the letters, Mu Pi Lambda, beneath an eye and above the skull
and bones. It published a quarterly, the Archon.
' Lambda Phi was a continuation of the well-known "Suicide Club" of
Lake Forest.
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silon) ; William Jewell (Pi Alpha Theta) ; New Hampshire
(Q. T. V.) ; 4 Minnesota (Alpha Theta) ; California (Beta Kappa
Delta) ; Denver (Kappa Delta) ; Dickinson (Pi Gamma Alpha) ;
Iowa (Phi Upsilon) ; Baker (Skull and Bones) ; Case (Phi Alpha
Chi) ; Colorado (Phi Psi Sigma) ; Chicago (Bronze Shield) ;
Massachusetts State (D. G. K.) ; 3 Dartmouth (Beta Gamma) ;
Harvard (Pi Upsilon) ; Idaho (Sigma Delta Alpha) ; Oklahoma
(Alpha Delta Sigma).
When the Michigan Chapter was founded its membership was at
first confined to the law school, similar to Sigma Chi in that
University.
The few and short periods of inactivity of Kappa Sigma Chap-
ters are remarkable to contemplate. Of the large fraternities
having over fifty Chapters, Kappa Sigma has the smallest per-
centage of dead or inactive Chapters. A number of the Chapters
have become victims of anti- fraternity legislation. Those at Vir-
ginia Military Institute, Emory and Henry and the ATrginia
Polytechnic Institute were forced out through these regulations.
The Alabama Chapter was killed by anti-fraternity laws shortly
after its foundation, and was revived in 1899. Hostile legislation
caused the inactivity of the Vanderbilt Chapter from 1880 to
1885, although anti- fraternity laws prevailed from the foundation
of the university in 1875. The Lake Forest Chapter was also
inactive on account of hostile legislation from 1882 to 1896. The
inactivity of the South Carolina Chapter commenced with Senator
Ben Tillman's anti-fraternity legislation in the South Carolina
Legislature in 1897.
Exclusiveness caused the Washington and Lee Chapter to be-
4 Q. T. V. was the first technical fraternity to have more than one chap-
ter, being founded at Massachusetts State College, in 1869. It had chapters
at Massachusetts State, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania State,
Worcester Polytechnic and Cornell. The Pennsylvania State chapter joined
Phi Kappa Sigma and the Maine chapter joined Phi Gamma Delta. The
fraternity published a handsome quarto journal from Boston and a cata-
logue in 1886. The badge was a diamond-shaped slab upon which is en-
graved a monogram of the letters "Q. T. V."
6 This society, established in 1868 at Massachusetts State, was the first
technical fraternity ever founded. It published a catalogue in 1879 and
issued for many years an annual called the Cycle, which it continues.
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come inactive in 1S77. It was reestablished in [888, but with the
overcrowded condition of the institution, fraternities pledging men
on incoming trains, it was withdrawn in [900. It was again
installed in 1004 by the absorption of the mother Chapter of Mu
Pi Lambda. The Chapter at the University of Maryland was
withdrawn in 1875 on account of an unseemly conflict with the
Rush Medical Society of that University. It was revived in 1890
with the privilege of drawing- membership from both Maryland
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and Johns Hopkins universities, but was again withdrawn be-
cause of the laxity of organization from which city Chapters
suffer. It was revived in 1898 and from that date has been very
successful. By agreement, all fraternities, owing to the fact
they were supposed to be ruining the literary societies, withdrew
from Trinity in 1879; the Chapter was revived in 1892. The
Chapters at Grant and West Virginia were discontinued, the first
for lack of material, the second on account of local difficulties.
Internal dissensions affecting the Indianapolis or Butler Chapter,
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caused its withdrawal. The Chapter at Emory College was dis-
continued on account of failure of members to return to college
and the desire of the Fraternity not to remain in the institution,
the last Kappa Sigma being valedictorian of his class. Several
causes led to the withdrawal of the Indiana Chapter in 1888 : the
Chapter was reestablished in 1900, and prospers. The Chapter
at Centenarv was the first established there after the Civil War.
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but was withdrawn in 1904 on account of the decline of the col-
lege, due to agitation over its removal. The Chapters at Ohio
Northern and Thatcher Institute were withdrawn because these
colleges were not considered to be up to the full American collegi-
ate standard. The Chapter at Bethel College surrendered its
charter on account of lack of suitable material. The Mercer
Chapter was withdrawn in 1879 during a wretched period in the
college's history, and was installed again in 1891. The Chapter
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at Kentucky State College is regarded as a continuation of the
Chapter at Kentucky University, the latter having been with-
drawn on account of the desire not to have two Chapters in the
same town. The Chapter at North Georgia College surrendered
its charter with a decline of the institution. When the Maryland
Military and Naval Academy, the most important military insti-
tute of private foundation ever established in the country, was
financially wrecked by its officers in 1887, the Chapter there ceased
to exist.
The Fraternity's relations with other societies have been cor-
dial. The first numbers in the following give the number of all
the Chapters of various fraternities met by Kappa Sigma, and
the second numbers the percentage of such Chapters to the entire
Chapter roll of each fraternity: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 45, 68 per
cent ; Phi Delta Theta, 41, 59 per cent ; Sigma Nu, 36, 65 per cent ;
Beta Theta Pi, 33, 49 per cent ; Phi Gamma Delta, 33, 58 per cent ;
Kappa Alpha (Southern Order), 33, 67 per cent; Sigma Chi, 31,
57 per cent; Delta Tau Delta, 27, 56 per cent; Alpha Tau Omega,
2 7» 53 P er cent; Phi Kappa Psi, 23, 55 per cent; Pi Kappa Al-
pha, 21, J2 per cent; Phi Kappa Sigma, 18, J2 per cent; Delta
Kappa Epsilon, 16, 39 per cent; Delta Upsilon, 16, 44 per cent;
Psi Upsilon, 12, 55 per cent; Zeta Psi, 12, 55 per cent; Theta
Delta Chi, 12, 50 per cent; Chi Phi, 11, 55 per cent; Chi Psi, 10,
56 per cent; Alpha Delta Phi, 9, 38 per cent; Phi Sigma Kappa,
8, 42 per cent; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 5, 38 per cent; Sigma Phi, 4,
50 per cent ; Delta Phi, 4, 36 per cent ; Delta Psi, 2, 25 per cent ;
Kappa Alpha (Northern Order), 2, 29 per cent; Alpha Chi Rho,
2. 33 per cent.
Kappa Sigma has always opposed "lifting," repeatedly re-
fusing propositions of this kind, although when such a practice
was considered legitimate, in 1880, it took several members of
the Virginia Polytechnic Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, after the
Betas had surrendered their charter. However, the giving up
of the charter was in no way influenced by Kappa Sigma. The
charge that Kappa Sigma lifted the Iowa Chapter of Alpha Chi
Rho is unsupported by facts. The Phi Epsilon Society of Buck-
nell, which became a Chapter of Kappa Sigma, was formed some
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time before by members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, who had with-
drawn, they asserted, for just cause, from the latter fraternity.
In 1904, membership in the sophomore society of Thcta Nu Ep-
silon was prohibited. The names of Kappa Sigmas may be
found in all other famous inter-class local and professional fra-
ternities.
A Kappa Sigma, Dean Charles W. Burkett of N. C. A. and M.,
founded the technical fraternity Alpha Zeta. Another Kappa
Sigma, Powell C. Fauntleroy, of the U. S. Navy, was one of
the founders of Pi Mu, the first medical fraternity of Southern
origin. One of the founders of Chi Omega, a prosperous national
sorority of Southern origin, was Dr. Charles Richardson, of
Arkansas.
The following is the Chapter roll of Kappa Sigma. For more
detailed references to it, see Appendix B. In order there are
date of foundation, name of Chapter, name of university, date
of inactivity and number of initiates to July 1, 1906.
1869. Zeta, University of Virginia 165
1871. Beta, University of Alabama 68
1873. Eta, Trinity College (N. C.) 118
1873. Mu, Washington and Lee University 90
1874. Xi, Virginia Military Institute (1883) 23
1874. Nu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1889) 91
1874. Omicron, Emory and Henry College (1895) 138
1874. Alpha-Alpha, University of Maryland 100
1875. Alpha-Beta, Mercer University 93
1877. Kappa, Yanderbilt University 160
1880. Lambda, University of Tennessee 192
1880. Alpha Chi, Lake Forest University 68
1882. Alpha Iota, Grant University 43
1882. Phi, Southwestern Presbyterian University 116
1882. Omega, University of the South 17c;
1883. Pi, University of West Virginia ( 1887) 17
1883. Upsilon, Hampden-Sidney College 94
1884. Tau, University of Texas 205
1885. Rho, North Georgia Agricultural College (1891) 32
1885. Chi, Purdue University 166
1885. Delta. Maryland Military and Naval Academy (1887) 31
1885. Epsilon, Centenary College (1904) '. 84
1886. Psi, University of "Maine 180
1886. Sigma, Ohio Northern University (1888) 23
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1886. Iota, Southwestern University 145
1887. Gamma, Louisiana State University 139
1887. Alpha, Emory College ( 1891) 24
1887. Beta-Theta, Indiana University 71
1887. Theta, Cumberland University 123
1888. Beta, Thatcher Institute ( 1891 ) 17
1888. Pi, Swarthmore College 91
1888. Eta, Randolph Macon College 67
1889. Sigma, Tulane University 106
1890. Nu, William and Mary College 117
1890. Chi Omega, South Carolina University (1897) 28
1890. Xi, University of Arkansas 150
1890. Delta, Davidson College 97
1891. Beta, University of Indianapolis 11
1891. Alpha-Gamma, University of Illinois 159
1892. Alpha-Delta, Pennsylvania State College 121
1892. Alpha-Epsilon, University of Pennsylvania 111
1892. Alpha-Zeta, University of Michigan 147
1892. Alpha-Eta, George Washington University 132
1892. Alpha-Theta, Southwestern Baptist University 116
1892. Alpha-Kappa, Cornell University 143
1893. Alpha-Lambda, University of Vermont 128
1893. Alpha-Mu, University of North Carolina 33
1894. Alpha-Nu, Wofford College 67
1894. Alpha-Xi, Bethel College (1902) 45
1894. Alpha-Omicron, Kentucky University (1901) 50
1895. Alpha-Pi, Wabash College 70
1895. Alpha-Rho, Bowdoin College 99
1895. Alpha-Sigma, Ohio State University 101
1895. Alpha-Tau, Georgia School of Technology 84
1895. Alpha-Upsilon, Millsaps College 109
1896. Alpha-Phi, Bucknell University y^
1897. Alpha-Psi, University of Nebraska 104
1897. Alpha-Omega, William Jewell College 60
1898. Beta- Alpha, Brown University 83
1898. Beta-Beta, Richmond College 43
1898. Beta-Gamma, Missouri State University yy
1898. Beta-Delta, Washington and Jefferson College 52
1898. Beta-Epsilon, University of Wisconsin 88
1899. Beta-Zeta, Stanford University 59
1900. Beta-Eta, Alabama Polytechnic Institute 59
1900. Beta-Iota, Lehigh University 49
1901. Beta-Kappa, New Hampshire College 90
1901. Beta-Lambda, University of Georgia 38
1901. Beta-Mu, University of Minnesota 61
EXTENSION OF THE FRATERNITY 81
1901. Beta-Nu, Kentucky State College 40
I'imi. Beta-Xi, I diversity of California 48
[902. Beta-Omicron, University of Denver 40
1902. Beta- Pi, Dickinson College 45
[902. Beta-Sigma, Washington University (Mo.) 32
H)0_>. licta-Rho, University of Iowa 58
1903. Beta-Tau, Baker University 49
[903. Beta-Upsilon, North Carolina A. and M. College .... 42
[903. Beta-Phi, Case School of Applied Science 41
1903. Beta-Chi, Missouri School of Mines 29
lcjoj. Beta-Psi, University of Washington 32
1904. Beta-Omega, Colorado College 28
[904. ( ramma-Alpha, University of Oregon 28
[904. Gamma-Beta, University of Chicago 26
1904. Gamma-Gamma, Colorado School of Alines 29
[904. Gamma-Delta, Massachusetts State College 101
1905. Gamma-Zeta, New York University 15
1905. Gamma-Epsilon, Dartmouth College 32
1905. Gamma-Eta, Harvard University 29
1905. Gamma-Theta, University of Idaho 29
1906. Gamma-Iota, Syracuse University 18
\()0(t. Gamma-Kappa, University of Oklahoma 12
Number of active Chapters, 76; inactive Chapters, 15; number
of initiates, 7155.
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While Kappa Sigma is proud of her sons who arc distinguished
in the country's intellectual, political and material life, of her Chap-
ter roll of famous institutions, of her enthusiastic graduate clubs,
yet she has always emphasized the fraternal harmony and fellow-
ship, and high ideals, that mark a Kappa Sigma brother, wherever
you may find one, throughout life, until death. While some fra-
ternities count their disloyal members by dozens and even by
Chapters, Kappa Sigma has had but a few isolated cases where an
undergraduate left the Fraternity to join another. These sep-
arate cases occurred a number of years ago in the North, while
the Fraternity was young.
Thus, this congenial society of scholars and gentlemen do not
allow their fraternal associations to die when they leave their
universities. Good-fellowship, and not scholastic pedantry alone,
was emphasized by the American founders. There are Alumni
Clubs all over the country where dinners and dances keep up a
delightful friendship. Toasts to Kappa Sigma have been heard
at dinner at all the famous resorts from the Palace Hotel in San
Francisco to the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and from the
Auditorium in Chicago to the St. Charles in New Orleans. Many
of these events are becoming traditional, such as the "Norfolk
Fish Fry,'' the "Dutch Treat" at Denver, the "French Dinner" at
San Francisco, the "Round Table" at Washington, the "Thanks-
giving Dinner" at Kansas City, the "Xew England Initiation
Dinner" at Boston, the "Xew York Annual," the "Philadelphia
Dinner," the "Big Chicago Dinner," the "Danville New Year's
Dinner." and many more. In many of the leading cities — St.
Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Xew York, Chicago, Salt Lake, Xew
Orleans. San Francisco, Washington, Denver, Boston, Pitts-
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burgh and possibly others — it is customary for Kappa Sigmas to
meet once a week for lunch in some selected restaurant in the
center of the business district.
There are now Alumni Chapters at
Atlanta
Birmingham
Boston
Buffalo
Chattanooga
Chicago
Concord
Covington
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Danville, Va.
Denver
Durham
Fort Smith
Indianapolis
Ithaca
Jackson, Miss.
Jackson, Tenn.
Kansas City
Kinston
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Lynchburg
Memphis
Milwaukee
Mobile
Montgomery
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Pine Bluff
Pittsburg
Portland
Richmond
Ruston
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Savannah
Seattle
Texarkana
Vicksburg
Waco
Washington
Wilmington
Yazoo City
The alumni spirit once caused an Alumni Chapter to be formed
without the confines of the United States, at Chihuahua, Mexico,
the first foreign alumni chapter of any fraternity. At one time
there were state associations of the Chapters and alumni of Ten-
nessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia, but these were abandoned
when the District system was adopted. A club-house, the first
of its kind at Washington, D. C, was supported by the alumni
of that city during 1902 and 1903. It was successful, but was
temporarily given up in order that a club building more central-
THE ALUMNI 87
ly located in the club district might be obtained, a task almost im-
possible. The University of Maryland bouse is used with and
supported jointly by the alumni of Baltimore as a club-house for
the latter. The New York alumni are now forming a corporation
to acquire and furnish a club-house; such New York clubs have
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been successful with at least two fraternities. Boston alumni
are considering a similar scheme.
Tbe accompanying map shows the number of Kappa Sigmas in
each state and also every town where a Kappa Sigma may be lo-
cated. Xo one section can claim a monopoly of them. Notice
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how Pennsylvania and Texas balance each other, or New York
and Mississippi, or Illinois and Georgia.
Membership in the Fraternity is restricted. No one may be
initiated unless he be a member of the college where there is a
Chapter. In one case, the general Fraternity conferred honorary
membership, and thereby honored itself, upon Jefferson Davis,
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president of the Confederate States of America. The President's
son, Jefferson Davis, Jr., was a member at Virginia Military
Institute. The president and his family have always had a pe-
culiarly tender affection for the Fraternity. To both Mrs. Davis
and Miss Winnie Davis, the general Fraternity has presented
badges, and Mrs. Davis was never seen without her Kappa Sigma
insignia. Miss Davis' badge was thought to be the most beauti-
ful Greek letter fraternity badge ever produced. However, the
JEFFERSON DAVIS
Kappa Sig-nl's Only Honorary M ;m
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society is as much Northern as it is Southern. The same Grand
Conclave which sent the badge to Mrs. Davis also sent one to
Mrs. Grant, widow of the President, whose favorite grandson.
Capt. Algernon E. U. Sartoris, is a Kappa Sigma. A number
of other scions of the White House are members.
A complete list of the names of prominent alumni would be
tiresome. Kappa Sigmas are to be found in all places where the
prizes of American life are being won. There are men of national
and international proportions in Wall Street, the Army and Navy,
in Congress, as heads of large corporations, college presidents, re-
A GROUP OF OLD GRADS" RETURNED TO A KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE
formers, railroad officials, State officers, editors of magazines
and newspapers, and with world-wide reputations as captains
of industry, lawyers, physicians and litterateurs. Kappa Sigma,
so thoroughly American, views with a special pride its record in
the Spanish- American war, wherein, according to the publications
of other fraternities, it had a larger percentage of men engaged
in proportion to its membership than any other Greek letter or-
ganization. There were Kappa Sigmas from privates to general
officers. True to its ancient literary origin in Europe, members
of the Order established the first English newspaper in the Phil-
ippines and the first all-English newspaper in Cuba.
THE GOVERNMENT
The Fraternity was first governed by Zeta, or the mother Chap-
ter, at the University of Virginia. In July, 1876, a Grand Con-
clave was called at the old Eutaw House, Baltimore. Here
was instituted the Supreme Executive Committee, a body of
legislative, judicial, and executive powers. Greater authority
was added to it by the Richmond, Virginia, Conclave, in October,
1878. During a period in 1884, the Committee was relieved of
much purely secretarial work when Omega Chapter, at the Uni-
versity of the South attended to much detail as a grand Chapter.
But from 1878 to the present there has been a government not
precisely similar to that of any other college fraternity. Many
have a central body similar to the Supreme Executive Committee.
Following what is known as the "Masonic tradition" — for Mason-
ry makes its officers supreme — hardly any other society leaves that
governing body so free to act for the best interests of the Fra-
ternity in all things which may come up for consideration be-
tween regular Conclaves. The Fraternity, as a whole, responds
promptly and cheer full}- to the direction of the S. E. C. In fact,
this body has wielded more influence and attained better results
in several instances in the government of students than college
presidents. The Fraternity has come into closer contact with col-
lege faculties than any other, for once a year the S. E. C. inquires
directly of the college authorities concerning the scholarship and
general record of the members of each Chapter, acting upon the
replies as may be needed.
Difficulties with faculties over opposition to fraternities are
almost things of the past. For years at Emory and Henry, there
was an unceasing war. Such was the case at Virginia Polytech-
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nic Institute. At the latter, General Lomax and President Davis,
of the Confederacy, were brought into the discussion. The Fra-
ternity faced the obnoxious regulations at the opening of Vander-
bilt, for the first year maintaining one of the most successful
sub rosa chapters ever in existence — as did Phi Delta Theta at
a slightly later period — but finally succumbed. Anti-fraternity
laws coupled with the rigid military discipline at the "West Point
of the South," the Virginia Military Institute, killed the Chapter -
THE EUTAW HOUSE,
Where the First Grand Con
iALTIMORE
ave was held, 1876
For the first two years at Lake Forest, knowledge of membership
meant expulsion from the college. There was trouble over ad-
mission of the Fraternity to the University. of the South, but the
influence of General E. Kirby Smich and President Jefferson
Davis, exerted in behalf of Kappa Sigma, made the course pos-
sible. The hardest fight ever made in behalf of fraternities in
American colleges has taken place in Arkansas where the con-
test has been carried, under the leadership of the Arkansas Chap-
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ter and its alumni, into the legislature. The result is still in the
balance.
The records of the various offices of the Fraternity are very
complete and voluminous. By the use of blank forms for reports
to and from the Chapters, they have been highly systematized
and brought up to the latest methods. It has been the policy of
the Fraternity to train certain of the officers of the S. E. C. as
specialists, and these have held their positions for years. Even
3U3INESS OFFICE OF KAPPA SIGMA, DANVILLE, VIRGINIA
with their complete knowledge of the Fraternity's workings, they
are compelled to devote almost half their time to it — practically
a labor of love with them.
The members of the Supreme Executive Committee are a
Worthy Grand Master, a Worthy Grand Procurator, a Worthy
Grand Master of Ceremonies, a Worthy Grand Scribe and a
Worthy Grand Treasurer. The other national officers are a
songbook editor, a catalogue editor, a historian and an alumni
secretary.
REV. FINIS KING FARR, D.D., W.G.M. OF KAPPA SIGMA
HON. JOHN RANDOLPH NEAL, W.G.P. OF KAPPA SIGMA
JEREMIAH SWEETSER FERGUSON, M.D., W.G.M.C. OF KAPPA SIGMA
HERBERT MILTON MARTIN, ESQ., W.G.S. OF KAPPA SIGMA
MAJOR STANLEY WATKINS MARTIN, VV.G.T. OF KAPPA SIGMA
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For purposes of administration, the Fraternity is divided into
fourteen Districts. The geographical limits of these are shown
on accompanying maps. At the head of each is a District Grand
Master, lie personally oversees the Chapters, resulting in the
complete unification and understanding among them, and keep-
ing the work of each individual Chapter up to the standard
lie is also expected to know, ami to keep in touch with every
alumnus residing in his District.
While the greater part of the government is delegated to the
THE "CHICAGO SPECIAL" EN ROUTE TO A CRAND CONCLAVE
Supreme Executive Committee, still the ultimate and highest
authority in the Fraternity is the Grand Conclave. The Con-
claves' legislation in the past has been intended to hamper as
little as possible the powers of the S. E. C. Conclaves have been
held as follows: Baltimore. Md., 1876; Richmond, Va., 1878;
Abingdon, Ya., 1880; Knoxville, Tenn., 1883; Lynchburg, Va.,
1885; Nashville, Tenn., 1887: Atlanta, Ga., 1888; Baltimore, Md.,
1890; Washington, D. C, 1892; Richmond, Ya., 1894; Indianap-
olis, Ind., 1896; Chattanooga, Tenn., 1898; Philadelphia, Pa.,
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[900; New Orleans, La., [902; St. Louis, Mo., [904; Lookoul
Mountain, Tenn., [906. These meetings are usually held al some
popular hotel or resort. They have grown into large concourses
with hundreds of the silver-grays and undergraduates, with their
wives and sweethearts, arriving on special trains and ears from
all over the country. The St. Louis 1 [964) Conclave during the
World's Fair was one of the largest meetings of Greek letter
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, CHICAGO
The G. M's Room
men ever assembled. The last (1906) Conclave was held at
Lookout Mountain. Tenn., and the next (190S) Conclave will
probably be held at Put-in- Bay, Ohio. Detailed accounts and
minutes of all the Conclaves may be found in the Caduceus, the
Star and Crescent, and various printed reports.
There are also District Conclaves, usually held annually in each
District. They are informal gatherings for fraternal intercourse
Arms of the Fraternity. At the last momenl it was found
advisable to hold hack the coat-of-arms from the engraver,
pending the adoption ol certain suggestions for its perfection
in correctness and adaptability. Purchasers of this hook will
be supplied with the official design when engraved.
.May, 1907.
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105
and for general discussion of anything of importance, but not
for legislation. Many of the alumni, and the undergraduates
for the most part en masse, attend them, and although not an old
institution in the Fraternity, they have been successful.
The arms of the Fraternity, displayed in the frontispiece, are:
Gules and vert, on a chevron argent five estoiles of the first.
Crest: on a wreath of its colors a dexter cubit arm proper hold-
ing a caduceus erect or. Individual Chapters may adopt distinc-
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tive arms. The colors of the Fraternity are scarlet, white and
emerald green. The Fraternity flower is the lily-of-the-valley.
Xo other fraternity pays more attention to visitation of alumni
chapters, for a feature of the organization of which much is made
consists in keeping the alumni in touch with one another. This
visiting is done principally by members of the S. E. C. and D.
G. M's. The number of alumni meetings in Kappa Sigma is
frequently remarked.
HOMES OF KAPPA SIGMA
The Fraternity has always insisted upon chapter houses when
possible. In [870, the house occupied at the University of Vir-
ginia was one of the first fraternity houses in the country and the
first fraternity house in the South. In 1882, the house occupied
hv the Chapter at the University of the South was among the
first houses owned and occupied in that section. In 1883. at the
Knoxville Conclave, Kappa Sigma made the first attempt to
control the building of houses, by the national organization of a
fraternity. This was a failure, and it has since been the policy
to place responsibility on the individual Chapters. In 1895, Kap-
pa Sigma erected a house at Maine, the Fraternity's first Northern
chapter house to he owned and the first fraternity house in the
state of Maine. The three fraternities now having the largest
number of homes are Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Kappa
Sigma.
It is but a matter of time before all Chapters, where there
are no restrictions by college authorities, even if houses arc not
the vogue, will lie compelled by their general organizations to
possess a home. At present there are Kappa Sigma houses at
the following institutions: Maine, Bowdoin, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts State, Harvard, Cornell. Syracuse, Pennsylvania
State. Pennsylvania. Lehigh. Maryland, George Washington,
William and Mary, Wofford, Vanderbilt, University of the South,
( )hio State, Case, Washington and Jefferson, Michigan, Purdue,
Indiana, Illinois. Lake Forest, Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa. Nebraska. William Jewell, Missouri State. Missouri Mines.
Baker, Arkansas. Oklahoma, Millsaps. Louisiana State, Texas,
Colorado. Colorado Mines. Stanford. California, Washington.
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Oregon, Idaho. Some Chapters occupy whole sections of college
dormitories.
Some of the houses are noted in the fraternity world. That
at one Eastern institution has been described as "the best planned
at Cornell" ; that at Texas, "the best house owned in the South" ;
that at Iowa, "the most elegant house in the Middle West" ; that
at Stanford "the finest house on the Pacific Coast." Some of
them have been historic. One recently occupied by the Maryland
Chapter was the Baltimore home of General Robert E. Lee. The
one now occupied at Missouri Mines was the headquarters of the
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, CORNELL
Army of the Missouri during the civil war. The Harvard house
at Cambridge, Mass., and the William and Mary at Williamsburg,
the ancient capital of Virginia, both stand on historic ground.
At the California and Colorado houses, in the midst of the two
American playgrounds, many alumni visit, making these Kappa
Sigma seats their headquarters. More or less all the houses in
the large centers are on many occasions utilized for this purpose.
The Virginia Chapter and the remainder of the Fraternity have
collected funds for a house for the mother Chapter as a memorial,
to be known as "McCormick Hall."
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The publications of the Fraternity are extensive. From the lit-
tle pamphlet struck off on a press of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute by Dr. C. E. Wingo and William Freneau Page, they
have grown to the point where the periodical literature alone is
over a thousand pages annually, probably a larger amount than
of any other fraternity. Believing that a wide acquaintance among
its members is one of its sources of strength, the organization
fosters all efforts of this kind. The most important publication
of any Greek letter society is its magazine ; in the case of Kappa
Sigma known as The Caduceus.
Previous to 1878, there had been several spasmodic attempts
by various fraternities to found magazines, but with two excep-
tions, these were unsuccessful and but a few numbers were is-
sued. The period from 1878 to 1885 saw productions of this kind
placed on a sound basis, although most of those established by the
New England fraternities have since failed. At first, it was
argued that Kappa Sigma was of too secret a nature for an open
publication. However, the Lynchburg Conclave of 1885 author-
ized the issuance of the Kappa Sigma Quarterly. Brought up in
the cultivated and literary home of his father, General Terry of
the Confederacy, Frank Hanson Terry, now a newspaper man
of Wytheville, Va., was elected the first editor. In 1887, Ed. L.
Sutton, now managing editor of the Semi-Weekly Atlanta Journal,
became editor, and continued as such till the Baltimore Conclave
of 1890. This convention made the magazine a bi-monthly, and
changed its name to The Star and Crescent, rechristened be-
fore issue The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma. During 1891, Duncan
Martin, now of the Memphis bar, was editor. From 1892 to 1895.
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the brilliant but erring George William Warner was editor. J.
Harry Covington, of the Maryland bar, was editor from 1895
to 1905. During 1905 and until June, 1906, Professor Finis King
Farr, of Cumberland, was in charge. The last and present edi-
tor is Guy T. Viskniskki, of the McClure News Syndicate.
The Caduceus is now in its twenty-first volume. It has never
less than 176 pages in each of its five issues for the year. At
least forty pages are given to alumni notes. Due notice is taken
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, IDAHO
of all important college and fraternity matters, the interests of
Kappa Sigma receiving the most attention. Illustrations are
abundantly used, the five numbers of 1905-1906 containing two
hundred and forty half-tones. It has been pronounced the peer
of any magazine ever issued from the Greek press. It is also
among those claiming the honor of the largest circulation.
The first Catalogue of the Fraternity was prepared in 1881
by S. A. Jackson. Another edition by Brother Jackson appeared
in 1886. In 1897 was published a Directory of Kappa Sigma, by
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113
George Vaughan, now of the Arkansas bar. For a number of
years a history and catalogue, complete in every detail, was in
course of collection by this gentleman. I lad this catalogue been
published, it would have been in some respects one of the most
complete ever issued by a college fraternity] Kappa Sigma began
at a very early date after her origin to collect the "college honors"
of her membership, which honors are lacking for early members
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, TEXAS
in most fraternity catalogues. All of these records were com-
pletely destroyed by fire at Little Rock, Ark. The accident was
peculiarly unfortunate. In 1904 a pocket Address Book was pub-
lished under the direction of David F. Hoy, registrar of Cornell
University and now Catalogue Editor of the Fraternity.
In 1906 Brother Hoy issued a second and enlarged edition of
the Address Book. He has collected complete data for another
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catalogue, which will contain some new features in fraternity
cataloguing, and which will be published at the will of the Su-
preme Executive Committee.
The blanks for this catalogue contained the following
questions : Full name without initials ; Chapter ; permanent
address ; occupation ; date of initiation ; date of birth ; place
of birth ; full name and address of father ; full maiden name and
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, SYRACUSE
•address of mother ; full maiden name of wife ; full name and
address of wife's father ; date and place of marriage ; full names
in order of birth and addresses of all children ; names of prepara-
tory schools and dates of attendance ; names of colleges and dates
of attendance ; degrees received — colleges and dates ; member-
ship in college fraternities and societies ; college honors, prizes,
scholarships, athletics, etc. ; membership in learned, fraternal, and
■other non-college societies ; list of books and articles published ;
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political positions and places of trusl wl
erence to any publication containing 1>
information; names and addresses of
name and address of personal friend
dress; remarks: signature; business addi
residence address; date oi information.
( Hher printed literature is becoming s
ive been held ; ref-
graphical or genealogical
1 Kappa Sigma relatives;
ho will always know ad-
emporary address ;
:nsive it is difficult
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, ARKANSAS
to keep up with it. The Fraternity, like four others, issues a
secret bulletin in addition to its regular magazine. This is The
Star and Crescent, which appears quarterly. It contains reports
of officers, and other official communications to the Fraternity,
items of fraternity news of such a nature that their publication
in The Caduceus would be improper, and in general all such
things as concern the inner workings of the Fraternity. A
unique publication is The Secret Book of Kappa Sigma. It gives.
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from a Kappa Sigma standpoint, of course, the "standing" or
"rating" of all fraternities and of the chapters of each fraternity
in Kappa Sigma colleges. Reports of Chapters and circular re-
ports of various offices of the Fraternity are voluminous. The
Yell on.' Journal is issued from the office of the Worthy Grand
Master, and circulates onl> among the national officers. All
Chapters are required at least annually, to send out a letter to
their alumni, most of these letters being printed. The Boston
Alumni have published an address book of the alumni of New
England. There are other locality directories published under
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, NEBRASKA
different auspices for states and cities. The Cumberland, Maine,
North Georgia, Maryland Military and Naval, Wofford and
Massachusetts Chapters have issued annuals. The Chapters at
the University of the South, Centenary, and Vermont have writ-
ten histories. The Illinois, Swarthmore, Wabash, Purdue and
Massachusetts Chapters have issued catalogues. The general
Fraternity has had printed Kappa Sigma calendars. In 1896
the Bowdoin Chapter issued a small songbook. A songbook
was published by the Fraternity in 1902. Another is in process
of collection. There are a number of pamphlets containing Kappa
Sigma songs and poems. There are three editions of the ritual
THE PUBLICATIONS
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and five editions of the Constitution. Many reports of Conclaves
have been printed under separate covers.
Kappa Sigma has been very fortunate in the preservation of
its history. This has been chiefly due to the fact that it was but
twelve years between the time the third Chapter was established,
the records of the second Chapter having been lost, and the ap-
pearance of the Fraternity's magazine. Also the early documents,
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE. WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON
so frequently missing in many fraternities, were all collected and
preserved at an early date. The events in the Fraternity's his-
tory, previous to the existence of the magazine, which have not
been covered by historical articles in the Quarterly, Caduceus, Star
and Crescent, and catalogues, are preserved in the recently pub-
lished Early Letters and Papers of Kappa Sigma, compiled by
Boutwell Dunlap. now historian of the Fraternity. Freshmen
are e>&mined upon the Fraternity's history.
OTHER FRATERNITIES
Some years ago it was customary to classify fraternities on a
basis of their origin, into Eastern or Northern, Southern and
Western. They are now usually classified as either national or
sectional. "The national fraternities include those generally
represented in all sections of the country. Of these Beta Theta
Pi, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Kappa
Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, and I 'hi Gamma Delta are prominent
types. The sectional fraternities are Eastern and Southern. The
(•".astern group consists of Alpha Delta Phi, Delta Phi Theta,
Delta Chi. Sigma Phi. Psi Upsilon, Kappa Alpha (Northern)
and Delta Psi. The Southern group includes Kappa xAlpha
(Southern order), and Pi Kappa Alpha. Delta Kappa Epsilon
and Chi Psi, originating in the Eastern States, have what might
he termed a limited national development. Alpha Tau Omega,
Kappa Sigma, Sigma Nu and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, originally
distinctively Southern, have completely lost that character. Zeta
Psi and Chi Psi are difficult to classify." (Baird's Manual of
American College Fraternities, Sixth edition.) The sectional
fraternities were once more important than they now are. In
most cases they have few petitions for charters and seldom es-
tablish new chapters. They have failed to take advantage of the
larger new- institutions, maintaining many chapters in unimpor-
tant colleges. Their conventions are attended by a small number
of members. Lacking in alumni clubs, they hold but few meet-
ings in the large centers, and these seldom attract any attention.
The fraternities are not a living reality to their alumni and the
alumnus' active connection is soon lost. Their literature is con-
fined to catalogues, which quickly grow out of date, and they
publish no magazines. The funds and membership are not suf-
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ficient to carry on the enterprises of the national orders. As
fraternities they attract little attention. Collegians prefer the
national fraternities, says a recent writer of authority upon the
subject.
The parent stem of the Greek letter college fraternity was
Phi Beta Kappa, established at William and Mary in 1776. 6 It
was extended to Yale (1780), Harvard (1781), Dartmouth
(1787), and Union (1817). Modeled after Phi Beta Kappa was
fc^kt
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, WOFFORD
the Kappa Alpha Society, the first Greek letter society in the pres-
ent sense of the word, founded in 1825, to which ascent can be
traced all the American college fraternities. Owing to the anti-
Masonic outbreak in 1831, upon the advice of John Quincy
Adams, Edward Everett, and others, the secrets of Phi Beta
"The best account of the origin of Phi Beta Kappa may be found in
"The Original Records of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1776-1781," by
L. G. Tyler. K. S., William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine,
April, 1896.
OTHER FRATERNITIES
121
Kappa wore made public, since which time il has been an honor-
ary organization.
The general men's fraternities are: 7
Alpha Chi Rho. Founded at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,
in [895. Chapters, 7; active, 6; inactive, 1. Number of initiates,
258. Publishes the Garnet and White. No catalogue.
Alpha Delta Phi. Founded at Hamilton College, Clinton. N.
Y., in [832. Chapters. 31; active. 24; inactive, 7. Number of
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, COLORADO COLLEGE
initiates, 9,406. Publishes no magazine. Last catalogue in 1899.
Alpha Tait Omega. Founded at Virginia Military Institute,
Lexington, Ya., in 1865. Chapters, 82; active, 51; inactive, 31.
Number of initiates. 6,486. Publishes the Palm. Last catalogue
in 1903.
Beta Thcta Pi. Founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
7 These statistics are taken from the sixth (1905) edition of Baird's
Manual of American College Fraternities.
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in 1839. Chapters, 88; active, 67; inactive, 21. Number of
initiates, 14,046. Publishes the Beta Theta Pi. Last catalogue
in 1899.
Chi Phi. Resulted from a union in 1874 of the Northern Order
of Chi Phi and the Southern Order of Chi Phi. The Northern
order of Chi Phi, resulted from the union in 1867 of
Chi Phi, founded at Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.,
in 1854, with Chi Phi, founded at Hobart College, Geneva,
N. Y., in i860. The Southern Order of Chi Phi was founded at
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE, MAINE
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C, in 1858.
Chapters, 46; active, 20; inactive, 26. Number of initiates, 4,422.
No magazine. Last catalogue in 1890.
Chi Psi. Founded at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in
1841. Chapters, 29; active, 18; inactive, 11. Number of initiates,
4,459. Publishes a sub-rosa magazine, the Purple and Gold.
Last catalogue in 1902.
Delta Kappa Epsilon. Founded at Yale College, New Haven,
Conn., in 1844. Chapters, 54; active, 41; inactive, 13. Number
of initiates, 15,000. Publishes the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quar-
terly. Last catalogue in 1900.
OTHER FRATERNITIES
23
Delta Phi. Founded at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. ( in
1827. Chapters, 16; active, 1 1 ; inactive, 5. Number of initiates,
3.341. No magazine. Last catalogue in 1897.
Delta Psi. Founded at Columbia College, New York City, in
1847. Chapters, 19; active, 8; inactive, n. Number of initiates,
2,989. No magazine. Last catalogue in 1898.
Delta Tau Delta. Founded at Bethany College, Bethany, W.
Ya., in 1859. Chapters, 75; active, 47; inactive, 28. Number of
KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE. NEW HAMPSHIRE
initiates, 7,486. Publishes the Rainbow. Last catalogue in 1897
(with supplement in 1902).
Delta Cpsilou (Non-secret). Founded at Williams College,
Williamstown, Mass., in 1834 (or as claimed by some authorities,
founded at Troy, N. Y.. in 1847). Chapters, 41 ; active, 36; in-
active, 5. Number of initiates, 9,169. Publishes the Delta Up-
silon Quarterly. Last catalogue in 1903.
Kappa Alpha (Northern). Founded at Union College, Schen-
ectady, N. Y., in 1825. Chapters, 9; active, 7; inactive, 2. Num-
ber of initiates, 1.666. No magazine. Last catalogue in 1902.
Kappa Alpha (Southern). Founded at Washington and Lee
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University, Lexington, Va., in 1865. Chapters, 60; active, 49;
inactive, 11. Number of initiates, 6,146. Publishes the Kappa
Alpha Journal. Last catalogue in 190O
Kappa Sigma. Founded at the University of Virginia, Char-
lottesville, Va., in 1869. Chapters, 91; active, 76; inactive, 15.
Number of initiates, 7155 (statistics of 1906). Publishes the
Caduceus and the secret Star and Crescent. Last catalogue in
1906.
Phi Delta Theta. Founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
itiates, 13,161. Publishes the Scroll of Phi Delta Theta and the
secret Palladium. Last catalogue in 1907.
Phi Gamma Delta. Founded at Jefferson College, Canonsburg,
Pa., in 1848. Chapters, 81 ; active, 57; inactive, 24. Number of
in 1848. Chapters, 95; active, 69; inactive, 26. Number of in-
initiates, 9,979. Publishes the Phi Gamma Delta. Last catalogue
in 1898.
Phi Kappa Psi. Founded at Jefferson College, Canonsburg,
Pa., in 1852. Chapters, 63; active, 42; inactive, 21. Number of
initiates, 9,806. Publishes the Shield. Last catalogue in 1902.
Phi Kappa Sigma. Founded at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pa., in 1850. Chapters, 41; active, 24; inactive, 17.
Number of initiates, 3,122. Publishes the sub-rosa Phi Kappa
Sigma News Letter. Last catalogue in 1905.
Phi Sigma Kappa. Founded at Massachusetts State College,
Amherst, Mass., in 1873. Chapters, 19; active, 19; inactive, o;
Number of initiates, 1,551. Publishes the sub-rosa Signet. Last
catalogue in 1902.
Pi Kappa Alpha. Founded at the University of Virginia, Char-
lottesville, Va., in 1868. Chapters, 33; active, 29; inactive, 4.
Number of initiates, 2,427. Publishes the Shield and Diamond
and the secret Dagger and Key. Last catalogue in 1891.
Psi Upsilon. Founded at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.,
in 1833. Chapters, 23; active, 22; inactive, 1. Number of in-
itiates, 10,428. No magazine. Last catalogue in 1902. -
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Founded at the University of Alabama,
University, Ala., in 1856. Chapters, 94; active, 66; inactive, 28.
Number of initiates, 9,383. Publishes the Record and the secret
Phi Alpha. Last catalogue in 1904.
OTHER FRATERNITIES L25
Sigma Chi. Founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in
1855. Chapters, 76; active, 53; inactive, 23. Number of initiates,
8.358. Publishes the Sigma Chi Quarterly and the secret Bulletin.
Last catalogue in 1902.
Sigma Nu. Founded at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexing-
ton. \ a., in 1869. Chapters, 69; active, 54; inactive, 15. Number
of initiates, 5,357. Publishes the Delta. Last catalogue in 1902.
Sig)iia P/ii. Founded at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.,
in 1827. Chapters, 10; active, 8; inactive. 2. Number of initiates,
2,685. No magazine. Last catalogue in 1892.
Sig)iia Plii Epsilon. Founded at Richmond College, Richmond,
Va., in lqoi. Chapters, 14; active, 13; inactive, 1. Number of
initiates, 248. Publishes the Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal. No
catalogue.
Thcta Chi. Founded at Norwich University, Northfield, Vt.,
in 1856. Chapters, 2; active. 2; inactive, o. Number of initiates,
34 r. No magazine. No catalogue.
Thcta Delta Chi. Founded at Union College, Schenectady,
N. Y., in 1848. Chapters, 41 ; active, 24; inactive, 17. Number of
initiates, 5,141. Publishes the Shield. Last catalogue in 1901.
Zcta Psi. Founded at the University of the City of New York,
New York City, in 1847. Chapters, 32; active, 22; inactive, 10.
Number of initiates, 5.924. Last catalogue in 1899.
The general sororities for women, with college and date of
foundation, are Alpha Chi Omega (De Pauw, 1885), Alpha Omi-
cron Pi (Barnard, 1897), Alpha Phi (Syracuse, 1872), Alpha
Xi Delta (Lombard, 1902), Beta Sigma Omicron (Missouri,
1888), Chi Omega (Arkansas, 1895), Delta Delta Delta (Boston,
1888), Delta Gamma (Mississippi, 1872), Delta Sigma (Tufts,
1895), Gamma Phi Beta (Syracuse, 1874), Kappa Alpha Theta
(De Pauw, 1870), Kappa Delta (Virginia State Female Normal,
1897), Kappa Kappa Gamma (Monmouth, 1870), Pi Beta Phi
(Monmouth, 1867), Sigma Kappa (Colby, 1874), Sigma Sigma
Sigma (Virginia State Normal, 1898), Zeta Tau Alpha (Vir-
ginia State Normal, 1898).
The professional fraternities, with college and date of founda-
tion are: Alpha Chi Gamma (women-musical). Ottawa, Ohio.
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1899; Alpha Epsilon Iota (women-medical), Michigan, 1890;
Alpha Kappa Kappa (medical-regular), Dartmouth, 1888; Alpha
Kappa Phi (law), Northwestern, 1902; Alpha Mu Pi Omega
(medical-regular), Pennsylvania, 1891 ; Alpha Omega Delta
(medical-regular), Buffalo, 1879; Alpha Zeta (agricultural -tech-
nical), Ohio State, 1897; Beta Mu Delta (biology), Syracuse,
1903; Beta Phi Sigma (pharmacy), Buffalo, 1889; Chi Zeta Chi
(medical-regular), Georgia, 1903; Delta Chi (law), Cornell,
1890; Delta Sigma Delta (dental), Michigan, 1883; Epsilon Tau
(women-homeopathic), Boston, 1896; Eta Pi Alpha (theologi-
cal), St. Lawrence, 1891 ; Gamma Eta Alpha (law, Maine, 1901 ;
Kappa Delta Epsilon (women-musical), Allegheny, 1899; Nu
Sigma Nu (medical-regular), Michigan, 1882; Omega Psi
(women-'medical), Northwestern, 1894; Omega Upsilon Phi
(medical-regular), Buffalo, 1895; Phi Alpha Delta (law), Kent
college of law, 1897; Phi Alpha Gamma (medical-homeopathic),
New York Homeopathic Medical College, 1894; Phi Alpha Sigma
(medical-regular), Bellevue, 1886; Phi Beta Pi (medical-regular)
West Pennsylvania Medical College, 1891 ; Phi Chi (pharmacy),
Michigan, 1883; Phi Chi (medical-regular), Vermont, 1886, and
Louisville Medical College, 1894; Phi Delta (medical-regular),
Long Island Hospital Medical College, 1901 ; Phi Delta Phi
(law), Michigan, 1869; Phi Mu Epsilon (women-musical),
De Pauw, 1892; Phi Rho Sigma (medical-regular), Northwest-
ern, 1890; Pi Lambda Sigma (women-library economy), Syra-
cuse, 1903; Pi Mu (medical-regular), Virginia, 1892; Psi Omega
(dental), Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1892; O. T. V.
(agricultural-scientific), Massachusetts State College, 1869; Sig-
ma Alpha Iota (women-musical), Michigan, 1903; Sigma Rho
Alpha (architecture), Syracuse, 1902; Theta Lambda Phi (law),
Dickenson, 1903; Theta Xi (engineering-scientific), Rensselaer
Polytechnic, 1864; Xi Psi Phi (dental), Michigan, 1889; Zeta
Phi (women-medical), Syracuse, 1900.
The inactive general fraternities, with college and date of
foundation, are: Alpha Gamma (Cumberland, 1867), Alpha
Kappa Phi (Center, 1858), Alpha Sigma Chi (Rutgers and Cor-
nell, 1871), Delta Beta Phi (Cornell, 1878), Delta Epsilon (Ro-
anoke, 1862), Iota Alpha Kappa (Union, 1858), Kappa Alpha
OTHER FRATERNITIES 127
(North Carolina, 1859), Kappa Phi Lambda (Jefferson, 1862),
Kappa Sigma Kappa (Virginia Military Institute, 1867), Mys-
tical Seven (Wesleyan, 1837), Mu Pi Lambda (Washington and
Lee, 1895), Phi Alpha (College of City of New York, 1878), Phi
Alpha Chi (Randolph-Macon, 1883), Phi Kappa Alpha (Brown,
1S70). Phi Phi Phi (Austin, 1894), Pi Kappa Tau (Iowa, 1895),
Phi Delta Kappa (Washington and Jefferson, 1874), Phi Mu
Omicron (South Carolina, 1858), Phi Sigma (Lombard, 1857),
Psi Theta Psi (Washington and Lee, 1885), Sigma Alpha (Ro-
anoke, 1859), Sigma Alpha Theta, Sigma Delta Pi (Dartmouth,
1858), Upsilon Beta (Pennsylvania College, 1863), W. W. W.
or Rainbow (Mississippi, 1849), Zeta Phi (Missouri, 1870).
Although not in all respects satisfactory, the best general
sketch of fraternities is the sixth edition of William Raimond
Baird's American College Fraternities. The following fraternities
have published manuals or histories: Psi Upsilon, Phi Delta
Theta, Beta Theta Pi, Theta Delta Chi, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, and Kappa Sigma. There is historical matter,
principally devoted to chapter histories and ranging from a para-
graph to several pages on a chapter, in the catalogues of Alpha
Delta Phi, Chi Phi, Chi Psi, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Alpha (North-
ern Order), Kappa Alpha (Southern Order), Kappa Sigma, Phi
Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sig-
ma Phi and Zeta Psi. Other important historical sources are the
magazines — published by Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi,
Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa
Alpha (Southern Order), Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi
Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, and Theta Delta Chi. The best
defense of fraternities is a collection of views upon the subject
by forty-eight college presidents under the title, The American
College Fraternity, edited by W. A. Crawford, K. S. The most
complete bibliography of fraternities is contained in W. B. Palm-
er's History of Phi Delta Theta.
128 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
Familiar tongues that faintly call,
Remembered songs of days gone by,
Dim echoes, they too softly fall
On ears that hunger for reply;
For memory wakes and love makes cry
In tones of greeting and of praise,
'To you I drain the health-cup dry,
Old comrades of my college days."
Whate'er your emblems, hail to all !
Because ye loved them so shall I ;
'Tis sweet each old friend to recall ;
The Shield and Diamond, Sigma Chi,
D. U., Phi Gam, and every Phi
I loved; ye, Theta Delts, K. A's,
And Dekes — greeting to all I cry,
Old comrades of my college days.
Good cheer and blessing to ye all,
Old friends of days that shall not die:
Like sunbeams dancing on the wall
May all the happy moments fly.
Companions still, may ye and I,
Though straying far on several ways,
Remember well the days gone by,
Old comrades of my college days.
But, Brothers, as the seasons fly,
While bright the Star and Crescent blaze,
Still closer grows our nearer tie,
Old comrades of my college days.
James S. Wilson (Nu).
APPENDIX A
FRATERNITIES IN KAPPA SIGMA COLLEGES
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. — Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, 1878; Phi Delta Theta, 1879; Alpha Tau Omega, 1879;
Kappa Alpha, 1883; Sigma Nu, 1890; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1895;
Kappa Sigma, 1900.
Alabama, University of, University, Ala. — Delta Kappa Ep-
silon, 1847; Alpha Delta Phi, 1851-58; Phi Gamma Delta, 1855;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1856 ; Kappa Sigma, 1871 ; Sigma Nu,
1874; Sigma Chi, 1876-77; Phi Delta Theta, 1877; Alpha Tau
Omega, 1885 ; Kappa Alpha, 1885 ; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1903.
Arkansas, University of, Fayetteville, Ark. — Alpha Tau Ome-
ga, 1882-82; Kappa Sigma, 1890; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1894;
Kappa Alpha, 1895 ; Sigma Nu, 1904 ; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1904 ;
Sigma Chi, 1905.
Baker University, Baldwin, Kan. — Phi Gamma Delta, 1865-68;
Kappa Sigma, 1903 ; Delta Tau Delta, 1903.
Bozvdoin College, Brunswick, Me. — Alpha Delta Phi, 1841 ;
Psi Upsilon, 184.3 '■> Chi Psi, 1844-46 ; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1844 ;
Theta Delta Chi, 1854; Delta Upsilon, 1857; Zeta Psi, 1868; Kap-
pa Sigma, 1895 ; Beta Theta Pi, 1900.
Brown University, Providence, R. I. — Alpha Delta Phi, 1836;
Delta Phi, 1838; Psi Upsilon, 1840; Beta Theta Pi, 1847; Delta
Kappa Epsilon, 1850; Delta Psi, 1852-53; Zeta Psi, 1852; Theta
Delta Chi, 1853; Chi Psi, 1860-71 ; Delta Upsilon, i860; Chi Phi,
1872-95; Phi Delta Theta, 1889; Alpha Tau Omega, 1894; Delta
Tau Delta, 1896; Kappa Sigma, 1898; Phi Gamma Delta, 1902;
Phi Kappa Psi, 1902 ; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1906.
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.- — Phi Kappa Psi, 1855 ;
Sigma Chi, 1864; Theta Delta Chi, 1866-73; Phi Gamma Delta,
1882; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1893; Kappa Sigma, 1896.
California, University of, Berkeley, Cal. — Zeta Psi, 1870; Phi
Delta Theta, 1873; Chi Phi, 1875; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1876;
Beta Theta Pi, 1879; Phi Gamma Delta, 1881 ; Sigma Chi, 1886;
APPENDIX A 131
Sigma \'u. [892; Chi Psi, i8(>4: Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1894;
Kappa Alpha. [895; Delta Upsilon, [896; Theta Delta Chi, 1900;
Phi Kappa Psi, 1900; Alpha Tan Omega, 1900; Kappa Sigma,
1901 ; Psi Upsilon, 1902; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1903.
Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, O. — Zeta Psi, 1885 ;
Phi Delta Theta, 1896; Kappa Sigma, 1903; Beta Theta Pi, 1905 ;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1905 ; Phi Kappa Psi, 1906.
Centenary College, Jackson, La. — Phi Kappa Sigma, 1855-6] ;
Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1857-62; Chi Phi, 1858-61; Kappa Sigma,
1885-04; Kappa Alpha, 1891-04; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1902-04.
Chicago. University of, Chicago, 111. — Zeta Psi, 1864-87; Phi
Kappa Psi, 1865; Phi Delta Theta, 1865; Beta Theta Pi, 1868
Psi Upsilon, 1869; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1870; Sigma Nu, 1895
Alpha Delta Phi, 1896; Sigma Chi, 1897; Delta Tan Delta, 1898
Chi Psi, 1899 ; Delta Upsilon, 1901 ; Phi Gamma Delta, 1902
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1903; Kappa Sigma, 1904; Alpha Tan
Omega, 1904; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1905; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1906.
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo. — Kappa Sigma,
1904; Sigma Chi, 1905;
Colorado State School of Mines, Golden, Colo. — Sigma Nu,
1901 ; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1903 ; Kappa Sigma, 1904.
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.— Chi Phi, 1868; Kappa Al-
pha, 1868; Chi Psi, 1869; Zeta Psi, 1869; Phi Kappa Psi, 1869;
Delta Upsilon, 1869; Alpha Delta Phi, 1869; Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon, 1870; Theta Delta Chi, 1870; Phi Delta Theta, 1872; Beta
Theta Pi, 1874; Psi Upsilon, 1876; Alpha Tan Omega, 1887;
Phi Gamma Delta, 1888; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1889; Delta Tan
Delta. 1890; Sigma Chi, 1890; Sigma Phi, 1890; Delta Phi, 1891 ;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1891 ; Kappa Sigma, 1892; Sigma Nu,
1901.
Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn. — Beta Theta Pi, 1854-
99; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1857-73; xAlpha Delta Phi, 1857-61;
Delta Psi, 1858-61 ; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1859-61 ; Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, i860; Phi Kappa, Psi, 1860-79; Chi Phi, 1861-61 ; Al-
pha Tau Omega, 1868-02; Phi Gamma Delta, 1869-78; Sigma
Chi, 1872-80; Kappa Sigma, 1887; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1892.
Dartmouth College, Hanover. N. H. — Psi Upsilon, 1842 ; Alpha
Delta Phi, 1846; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1853; Zeta Psi, 1855-74.
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Theta Delta Chi, 1869; Phi Delta Theta, 1884; Beta Theta Pi,
1889; Sigma Chi, 1893; p hi Kappa Psi, 1896; Phi Gamma Delta,
1901 ; Delta Tau Delta, 1901 ; Chi Phi, 1902 ; Kappa Sigma, 1905
Davidson College, Davidson, N. G— Beta Theta Pi, 1858; Chi
Phi, 1859-69; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1869; Kappa Alpha, 1880; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, 1883 ; Kappa Sigma, 1890.
Denver, University of, Denver, Colo. — Beta Theta Pi, 1888;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1891 ; Kappa Sigma, 1902.
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. — Zeta Psi, 1853-55 ; Phi Kappa
Sigma, 1854; Phi Kappa Psi, 1859; Sigma Chi, 1859; Theta
Delta Chi, 1861-96; Chi Phi, 1869-92; Beta Theta Pi, 1874; Phi
Delta Theta, 1880; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1890; Kappa Sigma,
1902, Alpha Chi Rho, 1905.
Emory College, Oxford, Ga. — Kappa Alpha, 1869 ; Chi Phi,
1869; Phi Delta Theta, 1871 ; Alpha Tau Omega, 1881 ; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, 1881 ; Delta Tau Delta, 1882; Sigma Nu, 1884;
Kappa Sigma, 1887-91.
Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va. — Phi Kappa Sigma,
1856-61 ; Kappa Sigma, 1873-95 '> Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1884-95 '<
Kappa Alpha, 1893-95.
George Washington University (until 1904 known as Colum-
bian University), Washington, D. G — Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
1858; Sigma Chi, 1864; Phi Kappa Psi, 1868-99; Alpha Tau
Omega, 1874-88; Kappa Sigma, 1892; Kappa Alpha, 1894; Phi
Sigma Kappa, 1899 ; Delta Tau Delta, 1903.
Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. — Alpha Tau Ome-
ga, 1888; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1890; Kappa Sigma, 1895; Sig-
ma Nu, 1896; Kappa Alpha, 1899; Phi Delta Theta, 1902; Chi
Phi, 1904; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1904; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1904.
Georgia, University of, Athens, Ga. — Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
1866; Chi Phi, 1867; Kappa Alpha, 1868; Phi Delta Theta, 1871 ;
Phi Gamma Delta, 1871-91 ; Sigma Chi, 1872-75 ; Sigma Nu,
1873; Alpha Tau Omega, 1878; Delta Tau Delta, 1882-99; Chi
Psi, 1890; Kappa Sigma, 1901.
Grant University, Chattanooga, Tenn. — Kappa Sigma, 1882-
98.
Hamp den-Sidney College, Hampden-Sidney, Va. — Beta Theta
Pi, 1850; Phi Kappa Psi, 1855-00; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1860-61 ;
APPENDIX A 133
Chi Phi. i8(>-; Phi Gamma Delta, 1870-04; Sigma Chi, 1872-02;
Kappa Sigma, 1883; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1885; Alpha Tau Omega.
1890-96: Kappa Alpha. [899.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. — Alpha Delta Phi,
1837: Beta Theta Pi. 1843-01; Delta Phi. 1845-01; Psi Upsilon,
1850-72; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1851-91 ; Zeta Psi, 1852-92;
Theta Delta Chi, 1856; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1865-65; Delta Upsi-
lon, 1880; Chi Phi. 1885-87; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1893, Kappa
Sigma, 1905.
Idaho, University of, Moscow, Idaho. — Kappa Sigma, 1905.
Illinois. University of, Urbana, 111. — Delta Tau Delta, 1872;
Sigma Chi. t88i : Kappa Sigma, 1891 ; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1892;
Phi Delta Theta, 1893; Alpha Tau Omega, 1895; Phi Gamma
Delta, 1897; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1899; Beta Theta Pi, 1902;
Sigma Xu, 1902; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1903; Phi Kappa Psi, 1904;
Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1904; Delta Upsilon, 1905.
Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. — Beta Theta Pi, 1845;
Phi Delta Theta. 1849; Sigma Chi, 1858; Phi Kappa Psi. 1869;
Delta Tau Delta. 1870; Phi Gamma Delta, 1871 ; Kappa Sigma,
1887; Sigma Xu, 1892.
Indianapolis, University of, Indianapolis, Ind., and Irvington.
Ind.— Phi Delta Theta, 1859; Sigma Chi, 1865; Delta Tau Delta,
1875; Beta Theta Pi, 1878-81; Kappa Sigma, 1891-93.
Iowa, University of, Iowa City, la. — Beta Theta Pi, 1866; Phi
Kappa Psi, 1867-85: Phi Gamma Delta, 1873-73; Delta Tau
Delta. 1880; Phi Delta Theta. 1882; Sigma Chi, 1882; Sigma Xu,
1893; Alpha Chi Rho, 1899-02; Kappa Sigma, 1902; Sigma Al-
pha Epsilon, 1904.
Kentucky State College, Lexington, Ivy. — Kappa Alpha, 1893 ;
Sigma Chi. 1893; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1900; Pi Kappa Alpha,
1901 : Kappa Sigma, 1901 ; Phi Delta Theta, 1901 ; Sigma Xu.
1902.
Kentucky University, Lexington, Ivy. — Phi Gamma Delta,
1860-62; Phi Kappa Psi, 1865-66; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1887; Kappa
Alpha, 1891 ; Kappa Sigma, 1894-1901.
Lake Forest University, Lake Forest, 111. — Kappa Sigma, 1880.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. — Phi Kappa Sigma, 1870-
87 ; Chi Phi. 1872 ; Delta Tau Delta, 1874; Phi Delta Theta, 1876 ;
134 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK
Alpha Tau Omega, 1882; Delta Phi, 1884; Psi Upsilon, 1884
Theta Delta Chi, 1884; Delta Upsilon, 1885; Sigma Nu, 1885
Sigma Phi, 1886; Phi Gamma Delta, 1887; Sigma Chi, 1887
Beta Theta Pi, 1890; Chi Phi, 1893; Kappa Alpha, 1894; Kappa
Sigma, 1900; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1901.
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. — Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, 1867; Kappa Alpha, 1885; Kappa Sigma, 1887; Sigma
Nu, 1887; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1903.
Maine, University of, Orono, Me. — Beta Theta Pi, 1878; Kap-
pa Sigma, 1885 ; Alpha Tau Omega, 1891 ; Phi Kappa Sigma,
1898; Phi Gamma Delta, 1899; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1901 ; Sig-
ma Chi, 1902.
Maryland Military and Naval Academy, Oxford, Md.— Kappa
Sigma, 1885-87.
Maryland, University of, Baltimore, Md. — Kappa Sigma, 1873 ;
Phi Gamma Delta, 1879-83; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1897; Phi Kappa
Sigma, 1899.
Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Mass. — O. T. V., 1869 ;
Phi Sigma Kappa, 1873 ; Kappa Sigma, 1904.
Mercer University, Macon, Ga. — Chi Phi, 1869-80; Sigma Al-
pha Epsilon, 1870; Phi Delta Theta, 1872; Kappa Alpha, 1873;
Kappa Sigma, 1875 ; Alpha Tau Omega, 1880 ; Sigma Nu, 1884.
Michigan, University of, Ann Arbor, Mich. — Beta Theta Pi,
1845 ; Chi Psi, 1845 ; Alpha Delta Phi, 1846 ; Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon, 1855; Delta Phi, 1855-77; Zeta Psi, 1858; Sigma Phi, 1858;
Phi Delta Theta, 1864; Psi Upsilon, 1865 ; Delta Tau Delta, 1871 ;
Phi Kappa Psi, 1876; Delta Upsilon, 1876; Sigma Chi, 1877; Chi
Phi, 1882-85 ; Phi Gamma Delta, 1885 ; Alpha Tau Omega, 1888-
94; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1889; Theta Delta Chi, 1889; Kappa
Sigma, 1892 ; Sigma Nu, 1902.
Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss. — Kappa Alpha, 1893; Kappa
Sigma, 1895 5 Pi Kappa Alpha, 1905.
Minnesota, University of, Minneapolis, Minn. — Chi Psi, 1874;
Phi Delta Theta, 1881 ; Delta Tau Delta, 1883; Sigma Chi, 1888;
Phi Kappa Psi, 1888; Phi Gamma Delta, 1889; Beta Theta Pi,
1890; Delta Upsilon, 1890; Psi Upsilon, 1891 ; Theta Delta Chi,
1892 ; Alpha Delta Phi, 1892 ; Zeta Psi, 1899; Kappa Sigma, 1901 ;
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\l|»ha Tan Omega, [902; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, [902; Sigma Nu,
[904.
Missouri School of Mines, Rolla, Mo. — Kappa Alpha, 1903;
Sigma Nu, 1903; Kappa Sigma, 1903; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1906.
Missouri, University of, Columbia, Mo. — Phi Kappa Psi, 1869-
74: l'hi Delta Theta, 1870; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1884; Sigma
Nu, 1886; Beta Theta Pi, 1890: Kappa Alpha, 1891 ; Sigma Chi,
1896; Kappa Sigma. 1898: Phi Gamma Delta, 1899; Delta Tau
Delta, 1905 : Alpha Tau Omega, 1906.
Nebraska, University of, Lincoln, Neb. — Phi Delta Theta,
1875; Sigma Chi, 1883; Beta Theta Pi, 1888; Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon. 1893; Delta Tau Delta, 1894; Phi Kappa Psi, 1895; Alpha
Tau Omega. 1897; Kappa Sigma, 1897; Delta Upsilon, 1898;
Phi Gamma Delta, 1898.
New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H. — Kappa Sigma, 1901.
New York University, New York, N. Y. — Sigma Phi, 1835-
48; Alpha Delta Phi, 1835-39; Psi Upsilon, 1837; Delta Phi,
1841; Zeta Psi, 1847; Delta Psi, 1847-53; Delt a Upsilon, 1865;
Phi Gamma Delta, 1892 ; Kappa Sigma, 1905.
Xorth Carolina A. and M. College, Raleigh, N. C. — Sigma Nu,
1895 ; Kappa Sigma, 1903 ; Kappa Alpha, 1903 ; Pi Kappa Alpha,
1904; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1905.
Xorth Carolina, University of, Chapel Hill, N. C. — Delta Kap-
pa Epsilon, 1851 ; Phi Gamma Delta, 1851-98; Beta Theta Pi,
1851; Delta Psi, 1854-62; Delta Phi, 1855-61; Chi Psi, 1855-61;
Phi Kappa Sigma, 1856-95 ; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1857 ;
Theta Delta Chi, 1857-62; Zeta Psi, 1858; Chi Phi, 1858-68;
Alpha Tau Omega, 1879; Kappa Alpha, 1881 ; Phi Delta Theta,
1885; Sigma Nu, 1888; Sigma Chi, 1889-00; Kappa Sigma.
1893 ; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1895 '> Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1906.
Xorth Georgia Agricultural College, Dahlonega, Ga. — Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, 1879-88; Sigma Nu, 1881 ; Kappa Sigma, 1885-
91 ; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1900.
Ohio Xorthern University, Ada, Ohio. — Kappa Sigma, 1886-88;
Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1905.
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. — Phi Gamma Delta.
1878; Phi Kappa Psi, 1880; Sigma Chi, 1882; Chi Phi. 1883;
Phi Delta Theta, 1883; Beta Theta Pi, 1885; Sigma Nu, 1891 ;
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Alpha Tau Omega, 1892; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1892; Delta Tau
Delta, 1894; Kappa Sigma, 1895; Delta Upsilon, 1904.
Oklahoma, University of, Norman, Okla. — Kappa Alpha, 1906 ;
Kappa Sigma, 1906.
Oregon, University of, Eugene, Ore. — Sigma Nu, 1900; Kap-
pa Sigma, 1904.
Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. — Delta Tau
Delta, 1872-73; Beta Theta Pi, 1888; Phi Gamma Delta, 1888;
Phi Kappa Sigma, 1890; Sigma Chi, 1891 ; Kappa Sigma, 1892;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1892 ; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1899 ; Phi Delta
Theta, 1904.
Pennsylvania, University of, Philadelphia, Pa.- — Delta Phi,
1849; Zeta Psi, 1850; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1850; Delta Psi, 1854;
Sigma Chi, 1875; Phi Kappa Psi, 1877; Beta Theta Pi, 1880;
Alpha Tau Omega, 1881 ; Phi Gamma Delta, 1881 ; Chi Phi,
1883-85; Phi Delta Theta, 1883; Delta Upsilon, 1888; Psi Upsi-
lon, 1891 ; Kappa Sigma, 1892; Sigma Nu, 1894; Alpha Chi Rho,
1896; Delta Tau Delta, 1897; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1898; Phi
Sigma Kappa, 1900; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1901 ; Sigma Phi
Epsilon, 1904.
Purdue University, Lafayette,' Ind. — Sigma Chi, 1875 ; Kappa
Sigma, 1885 ; Phi Delta Theta, 1893 ; Sigma Nu, 1891 ; Sigma Al-
pha Epsilon, 1893 ; Phi Kappa Psi, 1901 ; Phi Gamma Delta,
1902; Beta Theta Pi, 1903; Alpha Tau Omega, 1904; Phi Kappa
Sigma, 1905.
Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va. — Delta Psi, 1853-61 ;
Kappa Alpha, 1869; Phi Kappa Psi, 1870-82; Phi Kappa Sigma,
1872; Beta Theta Pi, 1873-93; Sigma Chi, 1874-01; Phi Delta
Theta, 1874; Kappa Sigma, 1888.
Richmond College, Richmond, Va. — Beta Theta Pi, 1870-96;
Kappa Alpha, 1870; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1873; Phi Delta Theta,
1875-95 ; Alpha Tau Omega, 1878-82 ; Sigma Chi, 1880-81 ; Sig-
ma Alpha Epsilon, 1884-87; Phi Gamma Delta, 1890; Pi Kappa
Alpha, 1891 ; Kappa Sigma, 1898; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1901.
South Carolina College, Columbia, S. C. — Delta Psi, 1850-61 ;
Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1852-61 ; Phi Kappa Psi, 1857-93; Chi Psi,
1858-97; Beta Theta Pi, 1858-61; Theta Delta Chi, 1859-61;
Kappa Alpha, 1880-97; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1882-97; Phi
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Delta Theta, 1882-93; Alpha Tau Omega, [883-97; Sigma Nu,
1886-97; Chi Phi, 1889-97; Kappa Sigma. 1890-97; Pi Kappa
Alpha. 1891-97.
Southwestern Baptist University (West Tennessee College,
Jackson, Term., and Union University, Murfrcesboro, Tenn.,
wore united to form Southwestern Baptist University), Jackson,
Tenn. — At Union University, Phi Gamma Delta, 1851-73; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, 1857-72; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1860-62; Alpha
Tau Omega, 1867-73. At West Tennessee College, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, 1867-70. At Southwestern Baptist University,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1878; Kappa Sigma, 1892; Alpha Tau
Omega, 1894.
Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tenn. — Pi
Kappa Alpha, 1878; Kappa Sigma, 1882; Alpha Tau Omega,
1882; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1882; Kappa Alpha, 1887-1905.
Southwestern University, Georgetown, Tex. — Kappa Alpha,
1883; Kappa Sigma, 1886; Phi Delta Theta, 1886; Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, 1887-88.
Stanford University, Stanford University, Cal. — Zeta Psi, 1891 ;
Phi Delta Theta, 1891 ; Phi Kappa Psi, 1891 ; Sigma Nu, 1891 ;
Sigma Chi, 1891 ; Alpha Tau Omega, 1891-97; Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, 1892; Delta Tau Delta, 1893; Beta Theta Pi, 1894; Chi
Psi, 1895; Kappa Alpha, 1895; Delta Upsilon, 1896; Kappa Sig-
ma, 1899; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1901 ; Theta Delta Chi, 1903;
Phi Gamma Delta, 1903.
Swarthmorc College, Swarthmore, Pa. — Kappa Sigma, 1888;
Phi Kappa Psi, 1889; Delta Upsilon, 1893; Phi Sigma Kappa,
1906.
Syracuse, University of, Syracuse, N. Y. — Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon. 1871 ; Delta Upsilon, 1873; Zeta Psi, 1875; Psi Upsilon.
1875; Phi Kappa Psi, 1883; Phi Delta Theta, 1887; Beta Theta
Pi, 1889; Phi Gamma Delta, 1901 ; Sigma Chi, 1904; Sigma Nu,
1905 ; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1906 ; Kappa Sigma, 1906.
Tennessee, University of, Knoxville, Tenn. — Alpha Tau Ome-
ga. 1872; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1874; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1879;
Kappa Sigma, 1880; Kappa Alpha. 1883: Phi Gamma Delta.
1890.
Texas, University of, Austin, Tex. — Kappa Alpha, 1883; Phi
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Delta Theta, 1883; Phi Gamma Delta, 1883; Kappa Sigma, 1884;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1884; Sigma Chi, 1885; Beta Theta Pi,
1886; Sigma Nu, 1886; Chi Phi, 1892; Alpha Tau Omega, 1897;
Delta Tau Delta, 1904; Phi Kappa Psi, 1904.
Thatcher Institute, Shreveport, La. — Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
1886-88; Kappa Sigma, 1888-91.
Trinity College, Durham, N. C. — Chi Phi, 1871-79; Alpha
Tau Omega, 1872; Kappa Sigma, 1873; Phi Delta Theta, 1878-
79; Phi Gamma Delta, 1893; Kappa Alpha, 1901 ; Pi Kappa
Alpha, 1901.
Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, La. — Phi Kappa
Sigma, 1858-61; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1878; Kappa Alpha, 1882;
Sigma Chi, 1882-84; Alpha Tau Omega, 1887; Sigma Nu, 1888;
Kappa Sigma, 1889; Delta Tau Delta, 1889; Phi Delta Theta,
1889; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1897; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1899.
University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.- — Alpha Tau Omega,
1877; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1881 ; Kappa Sigma, 1882; Phi
Delta Theta, 1883 ; Delta Tau Delta, 1883 ; Kappa Alpha, 1883 ;
Sigma Nu, 1889-93 > Pi Kappa Alpha, 1898.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. — Phi Delta Theta,
1876; Kappa Sigma, 1877; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1878; Kappa
Alpha, 1883; Chi Phi, 1883-99; Beta Theta Pi, 1884; Delta Tau
Delta, 1886; Sigma Nu, 1886; Alpha Tau Omega, 1889; Delta
Kappa Epsilon, 1890; Sigma Chi, 1891 ; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1894;
Phi Kappa Psi, 1901 ; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1902.
Vermont, University of, Burlington, Vt. — Sigma Phi, 1845 ;
Delta Psi, 1850; Theta Delta Chi, 1852-57; Phi Delta Theta, 1879;
Alpha Tau Omega, 1887; Kappa Sigma, 1893.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. — Pi Kappa Al
pha, 1873-80; Kappa Sigma, 1874-89; Beta Theta Pi, 1879-80.
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va. — Alpha Tau Ome-
ga, 1865-81; Kappa Alpha, 1868-88; Beta Theta Pi, 1869-80;
Sigma Nu, 1869-88; Kappa Sigma, 1874-83; Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon, 1874; Phi Delta Theta, 1878-89; Sigma Chi, 1884-85.
Virginia, University of, Charlottesville, Va. — Delta Kappa Ep-
silon, 1852; Phi Kappa Psi, 1853; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1855; Beta
Theta Pi, 1856; Kappa Alpha, (N. O), 1857-61; Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, 1857; Phi Gamma Delta, 1859; Chi Phi, 1859; Chi Psi,
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i Si .0-70: Sigma Chi, i860; Delta Psi, i860; Zeta Psi, 1868; Pi
Kappa Alpha, 1868; Alpha Tau Omega, 1868; Kappa Sigma,
1869; Sigma Nu, 1870; Theta Delta Chi, 1875-77; Kappa
Alpha (S. ().), 1873; Phi Delta Theta, 1873; Delta Tau Delta,
1888.
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind.— Beta Theta Pi, 1846;
Phi Delta Theta, 1850; Phi Gamma Delta, 1866; Phi Kappa Psi,
1870-00; Delta Tau Delta, 1872; Theta Delta Chi, 1879-82; Sig-
ma Chi, 1880-94; Kappa Sigma, 1895.
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa. — Beta
Theta Pi, 1842; Phi Gamma Delta, 1848; Phi Kappa Psi, 1852;
Phi Kappa Sigma, 1854; Sigma Chi, 1858-69; Delta Kappa Ep-
silon, 1858-65; Delta Upsilon, 1858-70; Theta Delta Chi, 1858-72:
Delta Tau Delta, 1861 ; Phi Delta Theta, 1875; Alpha Tau
Omega. 1882; Kappa Sigma, 1898; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1898-06.
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. — Phi Kappa
Psi. 1855; Beta Theta Pi, 1856-80; Alpha Tau Omega, 1865;
Kappa Alpha, 1865; Sigma Chi, 1866; Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
1867; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1867-78; Phi Gamma Delta, 1868;
Delta Psi, 1869-88; Theta Delta Chi, 1869-74; Delta Psi, 1869-
88; Theta Delta Chi, 1869-74; Chi Phi, 1872-75; Kappa Sigma,
1873; Sigma Nu, 1882; Phi Delta Theta, 1887; Pi Kappa Alpha,
[892; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1893; Delta Tau Delta, 1896; Sigma
Phi Epsilon, 1906.
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. — Beta Theta Pi, 1869;
Phi Delta Theta, 1891 ; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1892; Kappa Sig-
ma, 1902 ; Sigma Chi, 1903 ; Sigma Nu, 1903 ; Kappa Alpha, 1906.
Washington, University of, Seattle, Wash. — Sigma Nu, 1896;
Phi Gamma Delta, 1900; Phi Delta Theta, 1900; Beta Theta Pi,
1901 ; Sigma Chi, 1903; Kappa Sigma, 1903; Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon, 1906; Alpha Tau Omega, 1906.
West Virginia, University of, Morgantown, W. Va. — Kappa
Sigma, 1883-87; Phi Kappa Psi, 1890; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1891 ;
Sigma Chi, 1895; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1896; Kappa Alpha, 1897;
Beta Theta Pi, 1900; Delta Tau Delta, 1901 ; Sigma Phi Epsilon,
1903; Sigma Nu, 1904; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1904.
William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. — Phi Gamma Delta,
1886; Kappa Alpha, 1887; Sigma Nu, 1894; Kappa Sigma, 1897.
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William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. — Theta Delta
Chi, 1853; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1858-61; Pi Kappa Alpha,
1871; Beta Theta Pi, 1874-77; Kappa Alpha, 1890; Kappa Sig-
ma, 1890; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1904.
Wisconsin, University of, Madison, Wis. — Phi Delta Theta,
1857; Beta Theta Pi, 1873; Phi Kappa Psi, 1875; Chi Psi, 1878;
Delta Upsilon, 1883; Sigma Chi, 1884; Delta Tau Delta, 1888;
Phi Gamma Delta, 1893 ; Theta Delta Chi, 1895 ; Psi Upsilon,
1896; Kappa Sigma, 1898; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1901 ; Sigma Nu,
1902 ; Alpha Delta Phi, 1903 ; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1903.
Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C. — Kappa Alpha, 1869;
Chi Psi, 1869; Chi Phi, 1871 ; Phi Delta Theta, 1879-84; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, 1885; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1891 ; Alpha Tau Omega,
1891-94; Kappa Sigma, 1894.
APPENDIX B
THE CHAPTERS
In the sources of the Fraternity's history — magazine articles,
Conclave reports, and Catalogues — there are various sketches of
how Chapters came into existence, and their subsequent history.
The following gives some condensed information upon each Chap-
ter — its founders, charter members, dates of existence, number of
initiates and deceased members :
Zeta, parent chapter. Established at the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville. Va„ on December 10, 1869. Founders : William Grigs-
by McCormick. George Miles Arnold, Edmund Law Rogers, Frank Court-
ney Xicodemus, and John Covert Boyd. Total number of initiates, 165;
deceased members, 22.
Beta, second chapter chartered. Established at the University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1871. Probably became inactive in 1871
by anti-fraternity legislation ; was reestablished on June 3, 1899. Sponsor
at establishment : George Wyatt Hollingsworth. Charter members : George
Wyatt Hollingsworth and others. Records lost or destroyed. Sponsor
at reestablishment in 1899: Nathaniel Leslie Carpenter (Vanderbilt).
Total number of initiates, 68, deceased members, 2.
Eta Prime, third chapter chartered. Established at Trinity College,
X. C. on February 28, 1873. Became inactive in 1879 by anti-fraternity
legislation; was reestablished on December 1, 1892. Sponsor at estab-
lishment: James H. Durham (Virginia). Charter members: Thomas
Taylor, Adolphus Richard Wortham, Ned. H. Tucker, Peter Edmond
Hines. George David Tysor and William Parker Mercer. Sponsors at
reestablishment in 1892: Herbert Milton Martin (Randolph-Macon),
Williamson Wallace Morris (Davidson), and James Davidson McDowell
(Davidson). Total number of initiates, 118; deceased members, 14.
Mr, fourth chapter chartered. Established at Washington and Lee
University, Lexington, Va., in December, 1873. Became inactive in
1876, was reestablished on September 10, 1888. Charter withdrawn in
1900; was again reestablished on March 11, 1904, absorbing the local
chapter of Mu Pi Lambda. Sponsor at establishment : Euclid Lane John-
son (Virginia). Charter members: John Nathaniel Prather, William
Templeton Durrett, Griffin Johnston, and Henry Conyers Payne. Spon-
sor at reestablishment in 1888: James Taylor McCaa. Sponsors at re-
establishment in 1904: Herbert Milton Martin (Randolph-Macon), Stan-
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ley Watkins Martin (Virginia Polytechnic), James David Johnston
(Emory and Henry), Robert Leigh Owen (Hampden-Sidney), Richard
Cralle Stokes (Hampden-Sidney), George Washington Headley, Jr., (Ken-
tucky State), Harry Wall (Virginia), James Archer Sellman (Virginia),
Frederick Gresham Pollard (Richmond), Sanford Burnell Bragg (Rich-
mond), Olin Lecato McMath (Randolph-Macon College), and Thomas
Peachy Spencer (William and Mary). Total number of initiates, 90;
deceased members, 6.
Xi, fifth chapter chartered. Established at the Virginia Military
Institute, Lexington, Va., on January 3, 1874. Became inactive in 1884
through anti-fraternity laws, since which time it has not been re-estab-
lished. Anti-fraternity laws obtain. Sponsors at establishment: John
Nathaniel Prather, William Templeton Durrett, Griffin Johnston and
Henry Conyers Payne, all of Washington and Lee. Charter members :
Jefferson Davis, Jr., Henry Taylor 'Earnest, John Ashley Taylor, Sterling
Woodward Tucker, Robert Henry Watkins, J. L. Butler, and Frazor
Titus Edmondson. Total number of initiates, 23; deceased members, 9.
Nu, sixth chapter chartered. Established at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, Blacksburg, Va., on June 17, 1874. Became inactive in 1889
by reason of anti-fraternity laws. Anti-fraternity laws obtain. Sponsor
at establishment: Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia). Charter members:
Adoniram Judson Evans, Robert Peyton Bayley, William Freneau Page,
William Augustus Edwards, Charles Edward Wingo, Harry Marston
Smith, Jr., John William Cowherd, Walter Gardner Lane, William Bache-
lor Farant, and John Marshall Warwick. Total number of initiates, 91;
deceased members, 12.
Omicron, seventh chapter chartered. Established at Emory and
Henry College, Emory, Va., on June 24, 1874. Became inactive in 1895
by reason of anti-fraternity laws. Anti-fraternity laws obtain. Sponsor
at establishment: Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia). Charter members:
Abel Chapman, Samuel P. Neal, Robert Edmondson Buchanan, Samuel
Beattie Ryburn Dunn, Barton Stone, Benjamin Patterson Sanders, Rus-
sell C. Rose, and Edmund Tracy Nicholas. Total number of initiates,
138; deceased members, 24.
Alpha-Alpha, eighth chapter chartered. Established at the Uni-
versity of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., on November 28, 1874. Charter
withdrawn in 1875; was reestablished on December 31, 1890; became
inactive in 1892; and was again reestablished on February 25, 1898.
Sponsor at establishment: Arthur Cowton Heffenger (Virginia). Char-
ter members : Arthur Cowton Heffenger, William Baldwin Beach, Aaron
Fenton, Washington Clement Claude, Joseph Bucey Galloway, Henry
Davidson Fry, William Greensbury Goldsborough Wilson, Stephen Olin
Richey, and Thomas Kelly Galloway. Sponsors at reestablishment in 1890 :
C. B. Burke (Md. Mil. and Nav.), and delegates to the Ninth Biennial G.
Convlave. Sponsors at reestablishment in 1898: Hamilton Janney Coffroth
APPENDIX B 143
clave. Sponsors at reestablishmeiti in 1898: Hamilton Janney Coffroth
(Virginia Military Institute), ESdridge Eakin Wolff (Randolph-Macon),
Oscar Leslie Rogers (.Mercer), Edwin Curtis Hamilton (Emory and
Henry), and Edward Roland Hart (North Carolina). Total number of
initiates, 100: deceased members, 5.
Alpha-Beta, ninth chapter chartered. Established at Mercer Uni-
versity, Macon, Ga., in 1X75. Became inactive in 1879; was reestab-
lished on September 28, [891. Sponsor at establishment : William Ander-
son Thomas (Trinity). Charter members: William Anderson Thomas,
Charles Hyatt Richardson, Charles Henry Spurgeon Jackson, Chovine
Clegg Richardson, and Seaborn W. Wright. Sponsors at reestablish-
ment in 1891 : Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia), Robert Ernest Dart
(North Georgia), James Wesley Crump (Sewanee), Iverson Louis Harris
(Mercer), and Francis William Hazlehurst (Maryland Military and
N'aval). Total number of initiates, 93; deceased members, 1.
Kappa, tenth chapter chartered. Established at Vanderbilt Univer-
sity. Nashville, Term., on April 13, 1877. Became inactive in 1880 by
reason of anti-fraternity laws ; was re-established on January 20, 1885.
Sponsors at establishment: James Quinn Moore (Emory and Henry).
David Rankin Stubblelield ( Emory and Henry) and Mora Hammond
Sharpe (Emory and Henry). Charter members: James Quinn Moore,
David Rankin Stubblefield, Mora Hammond Sharpe, James Hill Scaife.
and Joseph Franklin Dowdy. Sponsors at reestablishment in 1885 :
Frank Goodman (Tennessee), Walter Scott Ayres (Emory and Henry),
Henry Bruce Buckner (Sewanee), Charles Wiles Thompson (Sewanee),
William Cozart Phillips (Sewanee), Jesse Farrell Sugg (Tennessee),
Thomas Rice Allen (Tennessee). James Milton Patterson (Tennessee),
and Hugh Mott Dunlop (Southwestern Presbyterian). Total num-
ber of initiates, 160; deceased members, 15.
Lambda, eleventh chapter chartered. Established at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville. Tenn., on May 11, 1880. Sponsors at establishment:
Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia), and James Paris McMillan (Emory
and Henry). Charter members: James Paris McMillan, Richard McKen-
ney. Charles Floyd Humes and Thomas Shields Vaden. Total number
of initiates, 192: deceased members, 24.
Alpha-Chi, twelfth chapter chartered. Established at Lake Forest
University, Lake Forest, 111., on Oct. 23, 1880. Became inactive in 1882
by reason of anti-fraternity laws ; was reestablished on Nov. 25, 1896.
Local society Lambda Phi absorbed in 1896. Sponsor at establishment :
Alexander Chalmers McNeil (Emory and Henry). Charter members:
Alexander Chalmers McNeil, Charles Alexander Evans, John Dudley Pope,
Frederick Robinson. Jr., and George Thomson. Sponsors at reestablish-
ment in 1896: Alfred Bolander Loranz (Wabash), Hugh Miller (Wabash),
Charles Brewster Randolph (Cumberland), and Robert Elberon Dunlop
(Wabash). Total number of initiates, 68; deceased members, 2.
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Alpha-Iota, thirteenth chapter chartered. Established at Grant Uni-
versity, Athens, Tenn., on Feb. 15, 1882. Charter withdrawn in 1883; was
reestablished on May 13, 1892 by absorption of the local society the
"Secret Fraternity ;" and again became inactive in 1898 by the with-
drawal of its charter. Anti-fraternity laws do not obtain. Sponsor
at establishment : Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia) . Charter Members :
Samuel Washington McCallie, and Samuel Bruce La Rue. Sponsors at
reestablishment in 1892: John Jay Bernard (Tennessee), Robert Wood
Tate (Tennessee), William Andrew McCord (Tennessee), Thomas Jef-
ferson Brown (Tennessee), and Alfred Young Bailey (Tennessee). Total
number of initiates, 43; deceased members, 2.
Phi, fourteenth chapter chartered. Established at Southwestern Pres-
byterian University, Clarksville, Tenn., on April 12, 1882. Sponsor at
establishment: Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia). Charter members:
Carrington Mason, Jr., Henry Craft, Jr., and Dudley Thomas Schoolfieid.
Total number of initiates, 116; deceased members, 4.
Omega, fifteenth chapter chartered. Established at the University of
the South, Sewanee, Tenn., on May 6, 1882. Sponsors at establishment :
Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia) and Arthur Mason Chichester (Vir-
ginia). Charter members: Arthur Mason Chichester, William Henry
Inglesby, George Davis Footman, George Anderson Waddill, Alfred Me-
nard Moulton, Inman Horner Knox, Morris Kerr Clark, Lee Brock, Ed-
ward Walter Hughes, Edward Elliott Camber Habersham, Frederick
D. Halsey, Charles Chaffe, and Elard Ferdinand von Ende. Total num-
ber of initiates, 175 ; deceased members, 21.
Pi, sixteenth chapter chartered. Established at the University of
West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va., in Sept., 1883. Became inactive
in 1887, since which time it has not been revived. Anti-fraternity laws
do not obtain. Sponsor at establishment : Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Vir-
ginia). Charter members: John Goodloe Jackson, Robert E. Jackson,
Winston Henry Hoffman, William Jacob Johnson, and Blackwell Chilton
Wilson. Total number of initiates, 17; deceased members, 1.
Upsilon, seventeenth chapter chartered. Established at Hampden-
Sidney College, Prince Edward County, Va., on Nov. 14, 1883. Local
society, Phi Mu Gamma, absorbed. Sponsor at establishment : Stephen
Alonzo Jackson (Virginia). Charter members: Alexander Lee Bondu-
rant, George Keatts Mason, John Harvie Hull, William Taylor Thayer,
Jr., and John Marion Hart, Jr. Total number of initiates, 94; deceased
members, 8.
Tau, eighteenth chapter chartered. Established at the University of
Texas, Austin, Texas, on Sept. 18, 1884. Sponsor at establishment : Wal-
ter Lee Robertson (Sewanee). Charter members: Rhodes Fisher, Jr.,
Isaac Jalonick, Frederick Carlos von Rosenberg, Isaac V. Davis, and
Rufus Atwood Palm. Total number of initiates, 205 ; deceased mem-
bers, 11.
APPENDIX B I 15
km), nineteenth chapter chartered. Established at the North Georgia
Agricultural College, Dalilone.ua. Ga., on Feb. m, [885. Became in
active in [891, since which time ii has not been reestablished. Anti-fra-
ternity laws do not obtain. Sponsors at establishment: William Henry
[nglesby (Sewanee), Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia), and John New-
ton Humes (Emory and Henry). Charter members: Edward Lee Sutton,
Edward Cornelius Cartledge, James Beverly Martin, William Thomas
Shockley, Charles Hill Rawlins, James Paul Stribling, Charles Daniel
Mckae. and Homer Brown Cobb. Total number of initiates, 32; de-
ceased members, _>.
Cm, twentieth chapter chartered. Established at Purdue University,
Lafayette, hid., on March 15, 1885. Sponsors at establishment: Augustus
Ruffner (West Virginia), and William Taylor Thayer, Jr. (Hampden-
Sidney). Charter members: Augustus Ruffner, William Taylor Thayer,
Jr., Michael Steele Bright. Oscar Ulysses Mutz, and James Sydney Boyd.
Total number of initiates, 166; deceased members, 9.
Delta, twenty-first chapter chartered. Established at the Maryland
Military and Naval Academy. Oxford, Md., on Oct. 19, 1885. Charter with-
drawn in 1887, because of closing of institution. Sponsor at establish-
ment : Frederick Carlos von Rosenberg (Texas). Charter members:
Frederick Carlos von Rosenberg, Francis William Hazlehurst, William
Joseph Miller, Arlington Ulysses Betts, Charles Bell Burke, James Harry
Covington. James Francis Mclndoe, William Robert Bell, William Headly
Osborne, Lawrence Low, Fletcher Bright Peters, George Lander Abell,
William Martin Cooper, Charles Edward Wootten, John Harry Albright,
John Wedderburn, Benjamin Rush Logie, John Henry Wagner, and
Douglass Preston Rock. Total number of initiates, 31; deceased members,
2.
Epsilon, twenty-second chapter chartered. Established at Centenary
College, Jackson. La., on Aug. 29, 1885. Became inactive in 1904 by me
withdrawal of its charter. Sponsors at establishment: Frank Hanson
Terry (Virginia Polytechnic), and Taylor Gleaves (Virginia Polytechnic).
Charter members : John Hamilton Ellis, Charles Howard Hardenbergh.
Emmett Lee Irwin, Milton Sanford Standifer, and Benjamin Nathaniel
Smith. Total number of initiates, 84; deceased members, 5.
Psi, twenty-third chapter chartered. Established at the University
of Maine, Orono, Me., on Dec. 31, 1885. Local society, K. K. F., absorbed.
Sponsor at establishment: Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia). Charter
members : John Decker Blagden, Henry Allan McNally, Alfred Smith
Ruth, Seymour Everett Rogers, Frank . Percy Collins, Josiah Murch
Aver, Gilbert Scovil Vickery, Norman Tripp, Charles Ayers Mason,
Charles Benjamin Gould, and Seymore Farrington Miller. Total number
of initiates, 180: deceased members, 12.
Sigma, twenty-fourth chapter chartered. Established at the Ohio
Northern University, Ada, Ohio, on May 8, 1886. Became inactive in 1888
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by reason of anti-fraternity laws, since which time it has not been reestab-
lished. Anti-fraternity laws do not obtain. Sponsor at establishment :
Augustus Ruffner (West Virginia). Charter members: Joseph Calvin
Boyd, John Elmer Virden, Elmer Ellsworth Helms, Gilbert Allison Adams,
George Albert Spence, James Grant Ames, Leonidas Alvah Smith, David
Channing Meek, Lawrence Hoover Seager, Bernard Daly, Frank Ells-
worth Seager, Samuel Allen Hoskins, William Edie Hoover, Claudius
Postean Aubert, and John Montgomery. Total number of initiates, 23 ;
deceased members, 1.
Iota, twenty-fifth chapter chartered. Established at Southwestern
University, Georgetown, Tex., on Sept. 10, 1886. Sponsor at establish-
ment; Alexander Lee Bondurant (Hampden-Sydney). Charter members:
Iverson Benjamin Lane, Jesse Cross Baker, Jasper Benjamin Gibbs and
John Stanley Moss. Total number of initiates, 145 ; deceased members, 7.
Gamma, twenty-sixth chapter chartered. Established at Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge, La., on Feb. 19, 1887. Sponsors at estab-
lishment: Oscar Kearney Andrews (Centenary), Thomas Ragan (Cen-
tenary), Milford Sanford Standifer (Centenary), and others of the Cen-
tenary Chapter. Charter members : Abel James Price, Hunter Vincent
Kirkland, Roy Otto Young, Charles Graham David, and Frank Thomas
Guilbeau. Total number of initiates, 139; deceased members, 6.
Alpha, twenty-seventh chapter chartered. Established at Emory Col-
lege, Oxford, Ga., on March 26, 1887. Became inactive in 1891, since
which time it has not been reestablished. Anti-fraternity laws do not ob-
tain. Sponsor at establishment: Edward Lee Sutton (North Georgia).
Charter members : Arthur Hamilton Van Dyke, Jesse Stephens Lamar,
Samuel Jackson Smith, James Henry Harwell, and David Conway Gun-
nels. Total number of initiates, 24; deceased members, 5.
Beta-Theta, twenty-eighth chapter chartered. Established at Indiana
University, Bloomington, Ind., on May 14, 1887. Charter withdrawn in
1887; was reestablished on Feb. 10, 1900. Sponsor at establishment:
William Taylor Thayer, Jr. (Hampden-Sidney). Charter members ; Aaron
Ellsworth Smalley, Horatio Hoop and William Herschel Bloss. Spon-
sors at reestablishment in 1900: Julius Curtis Travis (Michigan), Thomas
Hendricks David (Purdue), Harry Augustus Bevis (Wabash), Reginald
Gates Pape (Wabash), and Samuel Elliott Perkins, Jr. (Wabash). Total
1. umber of initiates, 71 ; deceased members, 2.
Theta, twenty-ninth chapter chartered. Established at Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tenn., on Oct. 7. 1887. Sponsors at establishment-
Henry Bruce Buckner (Sewanee), Owen Harris Wilson (Vanderbilt), and
Franceway Cossitt Stratton (Vanderbilt). Charter members: Franceway
Cossitt Stratton, Rufus McClain Fields, Laban Lacy Rice, Charles Marvin
Hunter, Verne Clifford Armstrong, and Elvis Willard Blackmore. Total
number of initiates, 123; deceased members, 6.
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Beta, thirtieth chapter chartered. Established at Thatcher Institute,
Shreveport, La., on February 27, [888. Became inactive in 1891 ; institu-
tion closed. Sponsors at establishment: James Charles Howerton (Se-
wanee), and Charles Howard Hardenbergh (Centenary). Charter mem-
bers: William Gregg Dalzell, Alexis Moore Lemee, Chichester Choplin, Jr..
Charles Robert Caldwell, and Arthur Franklin Stephenson. Total num-
ber of initiates. 17; deceased members, 5.
Pi. thirty-first chapter chartered. Established at Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pa., on July 21, 1888. Sponsor at establishment: William
Taylor Thayer (Hampden-Sidney). Charter members: Harry Leslie
Boggs, John Atkinson Thayer, Frederick Neal Carr, and Ellis Bronson
Ridgway. Total number of initiates, 91 ; deceased members, 1.
Eta, thirty-second chapter chartered. Established at Randolph-Macon
College, Ashland, Va., on Nov. 14, 1888. Sponsor at establishment : James
David Johnston, Jr. (Emory and Henry). Charter members: James David
Johnston. Jr., Herbert Milton Martin, Emerson Taylor Wescott, and
Charles Herbert Hall. Total number of initiates, 67 ; deceased members, 2.
SlGMA, thirty-third chapter chartered. Established at Tulane Uni-
versity, New Orleans, La., on Jan. 26, 1889. Sponsors at establishment :
Eugene Augustus Harris (Southwestern), Charles Howard Hardenbergh
(Centenary), James Monroe Sims (Centenary ), Benjamin Nathaniel
Smith (Centenary). Lawrence Wade Smith (Louisiana), Abel James
Price (Louisiana), Roy Otto Young (Louisiana), and Hunter Vincent
Kirkland (Louisiana). Charter members: William Cyprien Dufour, Jos-
eph Oscar Daspit, Mark Mayo Boatner. Nimrod McGuire, and Thomas
McCaleb. Total number of initiates, 106; deceased members, 13.
\Y. thirty-fourth chapter chartered. Established at William and
Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.. on March 1, 1890. Sponsors at estab-
lishment: Herbert Milton Martin ( Randolph- Macon), James David John-
ston. Jr. (Emory and Henry), and Harry Graham Robinson (Randolph-
Macon). Charter members: Fernando Southall Farrar, Robert Southall
Bright, James Brown McCaw, Killis Campbell, Harry Thompson Dozier.
and John Minor Gatewood. Total number of initiates, 117; deceased
members, 5.
Chi-Omega, thirty-fifth chapter chartered. Established at the Uni-
versity of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. on April 23, 1890. Became
inactive in 1897 by reason of anti-fraternity laws. Anti-fraternity laws
obtain. Sponsors at establishment: Stephen Alonzo Jackson (Virginia).
Crawford Clayton Wilson (Virginia), John Pegram Anderson (Virginia
Polytechnic), and Samuel Macon Smith (Virginia). Charter members:
William Walter Hentz, Charles Brewer. Samuel Charlton Todd. Ralph
Smith, and Benjamin Palmer McMaster. Total number of initiates, 28;
deceased members. 2.
Xi, thirty-sixth chapter chartered. Established at the University of
Arkansas. Faycttevillc. Ark., on May 29. 1890. Sponsor at establishment:
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Charles Richardson (Emory and Henry). Charter members: William
Allen Crawford, John Clinton Futrall, Carl Clinton Miller and William
Shields Goodwin. Total number of initiates, 150; deceased members, 1.
Delta, thirty-seventh chapter chartered. Established at Davidson
College, Davidson, N. C, on Nov. 17, 1890. Sponsors at establishment :
Charles Brewer (South Carolina), Crawford Clayton Wilson (Virginia),
and Leonidas Chalmers Glenn (South Carolina). Charter members:
Benjamin Waddell Glasgow, Albert Jackson Wittson, Williamson Wal-
lace Morris, Charles Lester Grey, Robert Junius Hunter, and William
Alexander Hafner. Total number of initiates, 97; deceased members, o.
Beta, thirty-eighth chapter chartered. Established at Butler Uni-
versity, Irvington, Ind., on Feb. 16, 1891. Charter surrendered in 1893,
since which time it has not been reestablished. Anti-fraternity laws do
not obtain. Sponsors at establishment: Samuel Kennedy, Arthur Gray-
don Moody, Wilbur Nathaniel Morrill, Robert Allen Lackey, Charles Arch-
ibald Murray, Charles Morgan Olds, John Erhard Muhlfeld, Job Lyndon
Van Natta, Willard Cheney Knight, William Howard Aldrich, Jr., Russell
Spencer Viberg and James Vinton Godman, all of Purdue. Charter mem-
bers : James Dennis Carson, Mark Antony Collins, Jesse Lincoln Brady,
George Varner Miller, Robert Philson Collins, and Charles Manker. Total
number of initiates, 11; deceased members, o.
Alpha-Gamma, thirty-ninth chapter chartered. Established at the
University of Illinois, Champaign, III, on Nov. 17, 1891. Sponsor at
establishment: Robert Allen Lackey (Purdue). Charter members: James
Steele, William George Miller, William Ernest Steinwedell, George
Phil'p Behrensmeyer, Frank David Arms, James David Metcalf, and
George Herbert Atherton. Total number of initiates, 159; deceased mem-
bers, 4.
Alpha-Delta, fortieth chapter chartered. Established at the Penn-
sylvania State College, State College, Pa., on Jan. 8, 1892. Sponsors at
establishment: Frederick Neal Carr (Swarthmore), Frederic William
Speakman (Swarthmore), Walter Weaver Hibbert (Swarthmore), and
Robert Woodward Lippincott (Swarthmore). Charter members: Milton
Speer McDowell, William Powell Rothrock, Walter Blair Waite, Mark
Truman Swartz, Hugh Stuart Taylor and Arthur George Guyer. Total
number of initiates, 121 ; deceased members, 2.
Alpha-Epsilon, forty-first chapter chartered. Established at the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., on Jan. 20, 1892. Sponsors
at establishment: James Harry Covington (Maryland Military and
Naval), Frank Ross Sherard (Washington and Lee), Montgomery Gano
Buckner (Texas), Alfred Burwell Claytor (Washington and Lee), and
members of Pi Chapter, Swarthmore College, and others. Charter mem-
bers : James Harry Covington, Frank Ross Sherard, Montgomery Gano
Buckner, and Alfred Burwell Claytor. Total number of initiates, 11 r;
deceased members, 1.
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\i i'ii \-Xi-ta. forty-second chapter chartered. Established at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., on Feb. 23, 1892. Sponsors
.it establishment: Alexander Yerger Scott (Sewanee), Daniel Edward
Storms (Purdue), and George Frank Rich (Maine). Charter members:
Alexander Verger Scott. Daniel Edward Storms, George Frank Rich.
Lyman Gaston Grundy, Albert Mahlon Ashley, Jesse Elmer Roberts,
Julian Alvin Padgett, Richard Francis Purcell, Anson Daniel Rose, and
Horatio Vallandigham Gard. Total number of initiates, 147; deceased
members, 5.
Alpha-Eta. forty-third chapter chartered. Established at George
Washington University, Washington, D. C, on Feb. 23, 1892. Became
inactive in 1893 ; was reestablished on May 28, 1896. Sponsors at estab-
lishment : Schiller Brents Hermann (Washington and Lee), Albert Jack-
son Wittson (Davidson), William Homer Greer (Washington and Lee),
Angus McDonald (Virginia), John Benjamin Clark (North Georgia),
William Cowan Bowen (Maryland), William Bolivar Byers (Maryland),
Albert C. Stephens (Maryland), and John Halsey Phillips (North
Georgia). Charter members: Edward Grant Seibert, Clarence George
Probert, Lincoln Johnson, and Van Buren Knott. Sponsors at reest'b-
lishment: Robert Henry Tucker (William and Mary), John Womack
Wright (William and Mary), John Howard Allen (Vanderbilt), William
Thompson Pollard (Randolph-Macon), and George Coleman Bushnell
(Cumberland). Total number of initiates, 132; deceased members, 7.
Alpha-Theta, forty-fourth chapter chartered. Established at South-
western Baptist University, Jackson, Tenn., on March 5, 1892. Sponsors
at establishment: Charles Bell Burke (Maryland Military and Naval),
John Cullom Wilson (Vanderbilt), George Harris Robertson (South-
western Presbyterian), John Chester Botts (Southwestern Presbyterian),
and Martin Holbrook (Tennessee). Charter members: John Collum Wil-
son. John Whittaker Buford, Jr., Jere Lawrence Crook, Flarnc Lee Den-
nison, and Hunter Wilson. Total number of initiates, 116; deceased mem-
bers, 3.
Alpha-Kappa, forty-fifth chapter chartered. Established at Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y., on May 23, 1892. Sponsors at establishment:
Daniel Royse (Purdue), and Richard Johnson Putnam (Centenary).
Charter members: Daniel Royse, Richard Johnson Putnam, Arthur Wil-
liam Herman Kaiser, James Christian Meinich Hanson, Willis Charles
Ellis, Bion Lucien Burrows, Henry Curtis Earle, Charles Dunn, Harry
Merrick Beach, George Warren Rulison, and Henry George Wolcott.
Total number of initiates, 143 ; deceased members, 6.
Alpha-Lambda, forty-sixth chapter chartered. Established at the
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt, on Feb. 16, 1893. Sponsors at
establishment: Jeremiah Sweetser Ferguson (Maine), and Charles Pren-
tiss Kittredge (Maine). Charter members: Tenney Hall Wheatley, Frank
Nelson Guild. Bertie Duane Longe, William Stuart. John Findlay Young.
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Clayton Gerald Andrews, Theodore Eli Hopkins, Leigh Hunt, Norman
Brown Webber, Otis Warren Barrett, Carl Wallace Fisher, Harry DeWitt
Giddings, Joseph Benjamin Kidder, and Frederick Milo Small. Total
number of initiates, 128; deceased members, 4.
Alpha-Mu, forty-seventh chapter chartered. Established at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C, on June 3, 1893. Sponsors
at establishment: Thomas Cowper Daniels, Frank Bettis Davis, David
Anderson Houston, Frank Gibbons Wjestbrook, Luther Thompson Hart-
sell, Sterling Blackwell Pierce, John William Daniels, Albert Hubbard
Bangert, James Walter Wadsworth, Braxton Phifer, Samuel W. Sparger,
and William Atlas Finch, all of Trinity. Charter members : George Ros-
coe Little, Gerard Samuel Wittson, James Spencer Lewis, Thomas Pleas-
ant Braswell, Jr., and Thomas Menan Hooker. Total number of initiates,
33 ; deceased members, 1.
Alpha-Nu, forty-eighth chapter chartered. Established at Wofford
College, Spartanburg, S. C, on Jan. 27, 1894. Sponsors at establishment:
De La Warr Benjamin Easter (Randolph- Macon), Reginald McCreery
Rawls (South Carolina), and Richard Smallwood Des Portes (South
Carolina). Charter members: Benjamin Wofford Wait, Frederick Anson
Cummings, John Caswell Roper, Thomas McTyeire Raysor and Nathaniel
Moss Salley. Total number of initiates, 67; deceased members, 3.
Alpha-Xi, forty-ninth chapter chartered. Established at Bethel Col-
lege, Russellville, Ky., on May 28, 1894. Charter withdrawn in 1902, since
which time it has not been reestablished. Anti-fraternity laws do not ob-
tain. Sponsors at establishment: Robert Alomath Cox (Southwestern
Presbyterian), Thomas Maury Daniel (Southwestern Presbyterian), Mat-
thew Gerald Lyle (Southwestern Presbyterian), Harry Wesley Borders
(Southwestern Presbyterian), Lawrence Newton Byers (Southwestern
Presbyterian), and others. Charter members: Holman Taylor, Alonzo
Stuart Wooten, John Caldwell Browder, Howell Harrison Hopson and
Julian Wilcox Courts. Total number of initiates, 45 ; deceased members, 3.
Alpha-Omicron, fiftieth chapter chartered. Established at Ken-
tucky University, Lexington, Ky., on Sept. 7, 1894. Charter withdrawn in
1901, since which time it has not been reestablished. Anti-fraternity laws
do not obtain. Sponsors at establishment: John Taylor Green (Purdue),
John Van Meter Nicholas (Washington and Lee), and McKenzie Robert-
son Todd (Michigan). Charter members: Paul Vincent Bartlett, Michael
Donoho Forman, William Wood Ballard and Morton Humphrey Bourne.
Total number of initiates, 50; deceased members, 1.
Alpha-Pi, fifty-first chapter chartered. Established at Wabash Col-
lege, Crawfordsville, Ind., on Feb. 1, 1895. Sponsors at establishment :
Charles Brewster Randolph (Cumberland), John Taylor Green (Purdue),
George Eugene Boyd (Illinois), and Birch David Coffman (Illinois).
Charter members : Charles Brewster Randolph, Robert Nathaniel Todd,
Felix Henry Willis, Harry Herbert McClure, and Charles Matthias Rauch.
Total number of initiates, 70; deceased members, 1.
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Au'iia-Riio, fifty-second chapter chartered. Established at Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Maine, on March 22, [895. Sponsors at establishment:
Charles Maurice Ranillcttc (Maine), eleven members of Psi Chapter, and
John Findlay Young. Leigh Hunt, Carl Wallace Fisher, Hugh Aaron
Seager, and tde Gill Sargeant, all of Vermont. Charter members: Clar-
ence Edgar Baker, Ralph Wallace Crosman, Cecil Leroy Blake, Fred-
erick Howard Dole, Joseph William Hewitt, Oscar Elmer Pease, Edwin
Francis Pratt, James Edwin Rhodes, _>d, Reuel Washburn Smith, Eben
Davis Lane, Ernest Charles Edwards, and Jacob Meldon Loring. Total
number of initiates, 99; deceased members, 1.
ALPHA-SlGMA, fifty-third chapter chartered. Established at the Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio, on March 22, 1895. Sponsors at es-
tablishment: William Taylor Thayer ( Hampden-Sidney), John Atkinson
Thayer (Swarthmore), and Frederick Neal Carr ( Swarthmore). Charter
members : Charles William Burkett, Renick William Dunlap, Ernest
Jacob Riggs, Dora Van Buren Burkett, and Charles Franklin Sprague.
Total number of initiates, 101 ; deceased members, 5.
Alpha-Tau, fifty-fourth chapter chartered. Established at the Georgia
School of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1895. Sponsors at estab-
lishment : Mark Johnston White (Mercer), George Washington Smith
(Mercer), Jesse Chamblis Harris (Mercer), Lawson James Pritchard
(Mercer), Henry Martin Cass (Grant), Fielding Parker Sizer (Grant),
Frank Finley Hooper (Grant), and John Maynard Rutherford (Grant).
Charter members: Birton Neill Wilson, James Thompson Wikle, Walter
Brooks West, Charles Pinckney Rowland, Frederic Earl Solomon, Frank
Barrows Freyer, Bertie William Seawell and William Barton Reynolds.
Total number of initiates, 84; deceased members, 4.
Alpha-Upsilon, fifty-fifth chapter chartered. Established at Millsaps
College, Jackson. Miss., on Nov. 9, 1895. Sponsors at establishment :
Thomas Bascom Holloman, Jr. (Centenary), and Joseph Fielding Robin-
son (Sewanee). Charter members: Charles Galloway Jones, Daniel Gil-
mer McLaurin. William Burwell Jones, Charles Girault Andrews, Black-
shear Hamilton Locke, Henry Thompson Carley, John Holliday Holloman,
Ethelbert Hines Galloway. Thomas Mitchell Lemly, and John Tillery
Lewis. Total number of initiates, 109; deceased members, 0.
Alpha-Phi, fifty-sixth chapter chartered. Established at Bucknell Un-
iversity, Lewisburg. Pa., on Dec. 11, 1896. Local society, Phi Epsilon, ab-
sorbed. Sponsors at establishment: James Harry Covington (Maryland
Military and Naval), George Harold Powell (Cornell), and Alpha-Delta
Chapter. Charter members : Merton Roscoe Collins, George Albert Jen-
nings, Simon Ward Gilpin. Oliver John Decker, George Edward Jenkin-
son, Jr., William Robert Morris, Benjamin Williams Griffith, Saner Cook-
Bell, and Arthur Dougherty Rees. Total number of initiates, 73 ; deceased
members, 1.
Alpha-Psi, fifty-seventh chapter chartered. Established at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., on Feb. 13. 1897. Sponsor at estab-
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lishment: Charles Brewster Randolph (Cumberland). Charter members:
Charles Alfred Turrell, Charles Frederick Schwartz, William Grant,
Clarence Curtis Culver, Leonard Harman Robbins, Cassius Asa Fisher,
Carl Le Roy Shuff, Le Roy Vernon Patch, and Charles Edward Matson.
Total number of initiates, 104; deceased members, 1.
Alpha-Omega, fifty-eighth chapter chartered. Established at William
Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., on May 8, 1897. Local society, Pi Alpha
Theta, absorbed. Sponsors at establishment : Charles Richardson (Emory
and Henry), and William Laurence Cunningham (Washington and Lee).
Charter members : John Jasper Bowman, Richard Archie Bywaters, John
Marion Word, Richard Irving Bruce, Carter Richard Bishop, Lester Car-
penter Grady, and John William Sydnor. Total number of initiates, 60;
deceased members, 3.
Beta-Alpha, fifty-ninth chapter chartered. Established at Brown
University, Providence, R. I., on Feb. 22, 1898. Sponsors at establishment :
John Warren Davis (Bucknell), George Edward Schilling (Bucknell),
Warren Robinson Austin (Vermont), Norton Royce Hotchkiss (Mary-
land), John Lawrence Ludwig (Virginia Polytechnic), Frank Edward
Snowden (Southwestern Presbyterian), and Frederic Lee Stone (Se-
wanee). Charter members: Ephraim LeRoy Hart, Mellinger Edward
Henry, Arthur Herbert Fitz, Charles Israel Gates, Francis Severance
Johnson, William Watson Wyckoff, Luther Bentley Adams, Leonard
Merrick Patton, Ernest Palmer Carr, Carlton John Patton, David Con-
nolly Hall, and Claude Everett Stevens. Total number of initiates, 83:
deceased members, 2.
Beta-Beta, sixtieth chapter chartered. Established at Richmond
College, Richmond, Va., on March 5, 1898. Sponsors at establishment:
Herbert Milton Martin (Randolph-Macon), Stanley Watkins Martin
(Virginia Polytechnic), Lewis Fleming (Hampden-Sidney), Rives Flem-
ing (Hampden-Sidney), James Duncan Hughlett (Randolph-Macon), Nor-
val Thomas Hepburn (Randolph-Macon), Thomas Watson Brown (Wil-
liam and Mary), William Spencer Henley (William and Mary). Frank
Thomas Staley (Emory and Henry) and others. Charter members: Wil-
liam Loftin Prince, Charles Craddock Barksdale, Robert Lee Williams,
Harry Rew, William Gary Bidgood, Robert Opie Norris, Jr., Robert Nel-
son Pollard, and Norman Gara Woodson. Total number of initiates, 43;
deceased members, 0.
Beta-Gamma, sixty-first chapter chartered, Established at the Mis-
souri State University, Columbia, Mo., on April 6, 1898. Sponsors at
establishment: George Vaughan (Arkansas), Berkeley St. John Green
(Sewanee), and Abe John Myar (Arkansas). Charter members: Wil-
liam Henry Turner, John Crockett Edwards, Adelphus Centimus Ter-
rell, George Gordon Robertson, Everett Pine Weatherly, David Otto
Row, Judson. Baker Bond, Wilford Caldwell Barnhardt, and Ernest Tate.
Total number of initiates, 77; deceased members, 3.
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Beta-Delta, sixty-second chapter chartered. Established at Wash-
ington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., on April 15. 1898. Spon-
sors at establishment: Rudolph Peak Lippincott (Wabash). Charter
members: Rudolph Peak Lippincott, John Robert Musgrave, Homer
Krepps Underwood, William Pollock Craig. Lee Dewitt Hemingway,
Chas. Walter Stone. Alexander Blaikie Jobson, Earl Cubbison Cleeland,
and John Charles Walter Busch. Total number of initiates. 52; deceased
members. 1.
Beta-Epsilon, sixty-third chapter chartered. Established at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. Wis., on June 11, 1898. Sponsors at
establishment: Mark Sands (Michigan). Guy Miltimore (Illinois),
George Eugene Boyd (Illinois). Lore Alford Rogers (Maine), and
Joseph Maxwell McArthur (Sewanee). Charter members: Lore Al-
ford Rogers, Joseph Maxwell McArthur, William Brown Ford, Thomas
George Xee, John Lincoln Fisher, and George Warner Mosher. Total
number of initiates, 88; deceased members. 1.
Beta-Zkta. sixty-fourth chapter chartered. Established at Leland
Stanford. Jr.. University, Cal., on May 19, 1899. Sponsors at es-
tablishment: Frank Maytham (Cornell), and Robert Lee Stephenson
(Tennessee). Charter members: Frank Maytham, Alfred Francis Wil-
liam Schmidt. Frederic Jewell Perry, Frank Hinman, Howard Truslow,
and Roy Harry Black. Total number of initiates, 59; deceased mem-
bers, 1.
Beta-Eta, sixty-fifth chapter chartered. Established at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. Auburn. Ala., on Jan'y 20. 1900. Sponsors at es-
tablishment: Nathaniel Leslie Carpenter (Vanderbilt). James Napoleon
Granade (Alabama), John Harman Taylor (Mercer), William Parker
Neilson (Alabama), and Thomas Sweeney Sharp (Alabama). Charter
members : Malcolm Alfred Beeson, William Forney Osborne. William
Stowe Rutledge, Luther Noble Duncan, James Richard Rutland. Henry
Virgil Reid, Paul Shields Haley, George Waddell Snedecor. William
Lawson Thornton, and William Watson Rutland. Total number of in-
itiates, 59 ; deceased members, o.
Beta-Iota, sixty-sixth chapter chartered. Established at Lehigh
University, South Bethlehem. Pa., on Nov. 28, 1900. Sponsors at estab-
lishment : the members of the Supreme Executive Committee and the
delegates to the 14th Biennial Grand Conclave. Charter members : Wil-
liam Perry Rogers, John Stauffer Krauss, Louis Gustave Krauss. Charles
Elmer Barba, Arthur Reuben Young, Henry Le Roy Fryer. Solomon
W. Goldsmith. Ellis Garfield Godshalk. George Jack Walz, and John
W r alt Dismant. Total number of initiates, 49; deceased members, o.
Beta-Kappa, sixty-seventh chapter chartered. Established at the
New Hampshire College. Durham. N. H., on Feb. 22, 1901. Local so-
ciety, Q. T. V., absorbed. Sponsors at establishment : Jeremiah Sweet-
ser Ferguson (Maine). Charles William Burkett (Ohio State). Frederick
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Symes Johnston (Ohio State), George Hoxsie Stickney (Cornell, Preston
Banks Churchill (Bowdoin), Edward Trowbridge Fenley (Bowdoin),
Arthur Lawrence Small (Bowdoin), Bertram Albert Warren (Brown),
and William Eli Putnam (Vermont). Charter members: Irving Atwell
Colby, Henry Harold Calderwood, Charles Almon Hunt, Edwin Price
Jewett, Robert McArdle Keown, Elmer Eugene Lyon, Norman Allen Rol-
lins, Edwin William Gilmartin, John Chester Kendall, Harry Moulton
Lee, Abiel Abbott Livermore, William Lincoln Barker, Harry David
Batchelor, Everett William Burbeck, Frank Lester Hill, Ralph Harvey
Rollins, Carl Linwood Sargent, Melvin Johnson White, Percy Anderson
Campbell, Frank Lurling Hadley, Thomas Jefferson Laton, Levi Joseph
Marsh, Joseph French Blodgett, and Charles Emery Robertson. Total
number of initiates, 90; deceased members, 0.
Beta-Lambda, sixty-eighth chapter chartered. Established at the
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., on March 16, 1901. Sponsors at es-
tablishment : Israel Mercer Putnam (Vanderbilt), Robert Clinton Steph-
ens (Mercer), Bradford Enoch Roughton, Jr. (Mercer), Joseph Albert
Hall, Jr., John Gillespie Johnson, Milton Graham Smith, Paul Howes
Norcross, Hugh O'Keefe Kendrick, Samuel Warren Mays and Luther
Love Hunnicutt, all of Georgia Tech. Charter members: Israel Mercer
Putnam, Charles Johns Moore, Marvin McDonald Dickinson, John Earle
Overby McCalla, Marion Stinson Monk, John Christian Koch, Oscar
John Coogler, George Washington Threlkeld, Walter Barnett Shaw, and
Paul Jones King. Total number of initiates, 38 ; deceased members, 0.
Beta-Mu, sixty-ninth chapter chartered. Established at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., on April 6, 1901. Local society
Alpha Theta absorbed. Sponsors at establishment : Walter Wallace Ty-
ler (Vermont), William Robt. Morris (Bucknell), Rufus Milton Barnes
(Pennsylvania), Mervin Eber Alcott (Lake Forest), Clarence Eugene Ab-
bott (Wisconsin), John Morledge Woy (Wisconsin) and James Russell
Hobbins (Wisconsin). Charter members: Edward Alford Ecklund, Charles
Parker Sterling, George Francis Shea, Frank Charles Hughes. Emory
Lee Jewell, Lyman Joseph Howes, Morton Lewis McBride, Samuel Doak
Lowery, William Henry Shea, Jr., and Adrian Daniel Mastenbrook. To-
tal number of initiates, 61 ; deceased members, 1.
Beta-Nu, seventieth chapter chartered. Established at the Kentucky
State College, Lexington, Ky., on April 5, 1901. Sponsors at establish-
ment: William Wood Ballard (Kentucky), James Aylmer Slack (Bethel),
Benjamin Talbott Hume, Jr. (Kentucky), Waller Pendleton Eubank
(Bethel), Madison Ashby Hart (Kentucky), Dawson Chambers (Ken-
tucky), and others. Charter members: Lewis Andrew Darling, James
Aylmer Slack, Benjamin Talbott Hume, Jr., John Henry Leon Vogt, Wal-
ler Pendleton Eubank, John Edwin Brown, George William Headley, Jr.,
Butler Fauntleroy Thompson, Charles Leon Peckinpaugh, Samuel Fletch-
er Parker, Charles Wright Atkinson, and Herman Frederick Scholtz.
Total number of initiates, 40; deceased members, 1.
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Hkt.\-Xi. seventy-first chapter chartered. Established at the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, Cal., on Auk. 24. iQOi. Local society Beta
Kappa Delta absorbed. Sponsors at establishment : Frederick Jewell Perry
i Stanford). Edward Marion Walsh i Michigan), Elmer Guy Ryker (Mich-
igan). Peter James Crosby (Michigan), Thomas Stanley Evans (George
Washington), William Henry Heard (George Washington). Carl Wallace
Fisher (Vermont), Robert Lee Stephenson (Tennessee), Roy Harry
Black (Stanford), Alfred Francis William Schmidt (Stanford), Ernest
Stoddard Page (Stanford). Clarence Winslow Page (Stanford), Claude
Bailey Gillespie (Stanford). Frank Hinman (Stanford), Harry Clifford
Lucas (Stanford), and Nathan Gardiner Symonds (Stanford). Charter
members : Lawrence Stephen O'Toole, Boutwell Dunlap, Clarence Case-
bolt Dakin, Frederick Holroyd Dakin, Jr.. Charles Thomason Dozier,
Christopher Hatton Aspland, William Whitehead Hurlburt, and Robert
Weitbrec Cooper. Total number of initiates. 48; deceased members, o.
Beta-Omicron. seventy-second chapter chartered. Established at
Denver University, Denver. Col., on Feb. 8. 1902. Sponsors at establish-
ment: John Randolph Xeal (Tennessee), Edmond Plumb Boynton (Cor-
nell). Franklin Houston Morrison (Ohio), and William Marshall Rob-
inson (\Vm. Jewell). Charter members: Davis McArthur Carson, Jus-
tin Hiram llaynes. William Angus Mitchell, William James Perkins.
Charles Frederick Morris, Frank Leslie Veatch, and Samuel Clifford
Carnes. Total number of initiates. 40; deceased members, 1.
Beta- Pi. seventy-third chapter chartered. Established at Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa., on Feb. 7. 1902. Local society. Pi Gamma Alpha,
absorbed. Sponsors at establishment: John Warren Davis (Bucknell),
Frank Jones Kier (Pennsylvania). Lewis Bayard Custer (Bucknell), Car-
roll Caruthers (Bucknell), David Robinson Walkinshaw ( Bucknell). Wal-
ter Wetmore Senn (Bucknell). Charles Arthur Woodard (Bucknell). Jo-
seph Earl Hill (Lehigh), Henry LeRoy Fryer (Lehigh), John Rockey
Decker (Pennsylvania State), Edward Nathan Zern (Pennsylvania State),
James Vance Kyle (Pennsylvania State), George Edgar Diehl (Penn-
sylvania State), Robert Wallace Wray (Pennsylvania State). James
Ellis Harvey (Pennsylvania State), and William Van Gundia Detwiler
(Pennsylvania State). Charter members: Frank Thompson Bell, Ulysses
Simpson Wright, William Edward Myers, Agis Aldridge McCrone.
Robert Clarence Peters. Curvin Henry Gingrich, Thomas Edwin Redding.
John Wycliffe Yost, Charles Wesley Taylor, Louis Crawford Carroll, and
Herbert Jerrel Belting. Total number of initiates, 45: deceased mem-
bers, o.
Bkta-Rho. seventy-fourth chapter chartered. Established at the State
University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa, on Sep. 27, 1902. Local society
Phi Upsilon absorbed. Sponsors at establishment: Mark Sands (Michi-
gan), Samuel Berkley Sloan (Nebraska). William Karl Herrick (LakeFor-
est), and Adrian Daniel Mastenbrook (Minnesota). Charter members:
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Frederick Henry Luhman, Edwin Calhoun Arthur, John Augustus Mc-
Kenzie, Thomas Corwin Smith, John Paul Redmond, Francis Nugent,
Harvey Le Roy Dye, Harold Beecher Strong, Walter Lynn Du Bois,
Willard Carlisle Swigart, Bert Blaine Burnquist, and Thomas Cyrus
Doran. Total number of initiates, 58; deceased members, o.
Beta-Sigma, seventy-fifth chapter chartered. Established at Wash-
ington University, St. Louis, Mo., on Nov. 22, 1902. Sponsors at estab-
ishment: Charles Richardson (Emory and Henry), William Brownlow Lat-
ta (Arkansas), Harvey Field Parker (Missouri), Edwin Dwight Smith
(Missouri), Malcolm Phelps Post (Ohio State), Oliver Thul Johnson
(Missouri), Hugh Beverly Hill (Arkansas), Thomas Robertson Hill (Ar-
kansas), William Hendry Prentice, Jr. ( Purdue), Thos. Hendricks David
(Purdue), Royal Lee Bunch (William Jewell), Carter Richard Bishop
(William Jewell), Bartlett Roper Bishop (William Jewell), Walter Frank
Koken (Missouri), John Henry Rogers, Jr. (Purdue), Roscoe Florence An-
derson (Missouri), Patrick Henry Aylett (William and Mary), William
Smith Warner (Wisconsin), Rockwell Smith Brank (Virginia) and Rich-
ard Thomas Brownrigg (Sewanee). Charter members: William Brownlow
Latta, Harry Field Parker, Robert Funkhouser, Sargent F. Jones, David
Carson Goodman, and Oscar Kilby. Total number of initiates, 32 ; de-
ceased members, 1.
Beta-Tau, seventy-sixth chapter chartered. Established at Baker
University, Baldwin, Kans., on Feb. 2, 1903. Local society, "Skull and
Bones," absorbed. Sponsors at establishment: Charles Richardson (Emory
and Henry), and Denny Coulter Simrall, Hume Stanley White, Esty
Angus Julian, Madison Smith Slaughter, Lewis Wilbur Cohen, Ray-
mond Prewitt Estil, and John Frank Guyton, all of William Jewell.
Charter members : Arthur Roy Bowman, Walter Hodgin Case, Alpha
Mills Ebright, Rollo Wood Coleman, Charles Everett Ely, Edwin Adam
Britsch, Jesse Cecil Denious, Burr Howey Ozment, Don Earl Waggoner,
Wm. Wesley Rubel, Henry Farrar Durkee, Jesse Howard Moore, Arden
Heman Douglass, and Samuel Everett Urner. Total number of initi-
ates, 49; deceased members, o.
Beta-Upsilon, seventy-seventh chapter chartered. Established at the
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Raleigh,
N. C, on Feb. 23, 1903. Sponsors at establishment : Herbert Milton
Martin (Randolph-Macon), Charles William Burkett (Ohio State),
Daniel Price Withers (Virginia), Albert Fuller Patton (Hampden-
Sidney), Hugh O'Keefe Kendrick (Georgia Tech.), John Chester
Kendall (New Hampshire), Daniel Shuford Murph (Wofford), Der-
mot Shemwel'l (Davidson), Thomas Walter Smith, Jr. (Trinity),
Lemuel Hardy Gibbons (Trinity), Wilson Grinter Puryear (Trinity),
Robert Anderson Brown (Trinity), Charles Gibbons (Trinity), Lloyd
Kirby Wooten (Trinity), William Archer Brown (Trinity), Charles
Thomas Woollen (North Carolina), Lawrence Archdale Tomlinson (Trin-
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