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STUDIES ADDRESSED TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY
CONCERNING ITS OUTWARD GROWTH CHARACTER-
ISTICS AND RESULTS FROM ITS ORIGIN IN
THE LATTER PART OF 1833 TO THE IN-
STALLATION OF ITS YOUNGEST
CHAPTER EARLY IN 1884
BY
ALBERT POOLE JACOBS
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COPYRIGHT, 1884, BY
ALBERT POOLE JACOBS.
PRINTED BY
RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,
BOSTON.
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CHRONOLOGY
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER ANNALS.
Origin of the Fraternity. The Founders and their Asso-
ciates. — Early Chapters.—The Alpha. Later Chap-
ters. — The Chapter-Roll. - The Colleges
CHAPTER II.
INSIGNIA.
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The Badges. Emblems. Posters. Monograms.
Colors. Mottoes
CHAPTER III.
GENERAL ORGANIZATION.
Chapter Relations. Conventions. The Executive
Council. - Alumni Associations .
CHAPTER IV.
THE MEMBERSHIP.
Growth. — Nomenclature. — Geographical Distribution.
- Professions and Occupations.
Eminent Members.
— Relationship. - Longevity. — Mortality
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Contents.
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CHAPTER V.
SOCIAL LIFE.
The Social Tie. - Chapter-Houses. — Libraries. — Clubs.
- Camping-Parties, Re-unions, etc. Mortuary Ob-
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servances
CHAPTER VI.
HYMNOLOGY.
The Songs and their Writers
CHAPTER VII.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Catalogues. Song-Books and Music.
Song-Books and Music. - Addresses and
Poems.-Periodicals. — Miscellaneous Memorabilia.
-Newspaper References
CHAPTER VIII.
THE HONOR-ROLL.
Record in Scholarship, in College Politics, and in Athletic
Sports
CHAPTER IX.
THE GREEK-LETTER SOCIETIES.
Origin and Age. Chapters. Membership.
ture. The Anti-Secret Society.
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CHAPTER X.
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Litera-
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MATTER OF EXPERIENCE.
Utterances of Prominent Alumni
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POSTSCRIPT
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INDEX OF NAMES OF MEMBERS
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
I COAT-OF-ARMS
2 PEARL BADGE
3 THE BIRTHPLACE OF PSI UPSILON
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Frontispiece
Titlepage
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4 PORTRAITS OF THE LIVING Founders
5 ORIGINAL BADGE, MONOGRAM BADGE, AND KEY
BADGE
6 BADGE OF BETA BETA
7 CHAPTER MONOGRAMS
8 SCROLL-WORK POSTER
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9 POSTER OF THE GAMMA CHAPTER
IO POSTER OF THE BETA BETA CHAPTER.
II POSTER OF PHI THETA PSÍ
12 BETA CHAPTER-HALL
13 XI CHAPTER-HOUSE
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14 GAMMA CHAPTER-HOUSE
15 PHI CHAPTER-HOUSE.
16 PSI CHAPTER-HOUSE
17 BETA BETA CHAPTER-Lodge
18 ETA CHAPTER-HOUSE
19 CHI CHAPTER-HOUSE.
20 BADGES OF THE EASTERN SOCIETIES
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Nos. 2, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, were specially engraved
for this book by Mr. F. E. Wood of Detroit.
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF PSI UPSILON.
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CHRONOLOGY.
THE FIRST DECADE,
1833-1843,
Opens with One Chapter and Seven Members.
The pledge signed by the founders at Union College.
The first three initiations made
The badge first publicly worn
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William Taylor, the "first freshman,” initiated
The symbolic name and mode of greeting adopted
The first Psi U class graduated at Union.
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Meeting in New-York City to form a chapter in the Uni-
versity
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The Delta Chapter established in the New-York Univer-
sity
Chapter names adopted.
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David Humphreys (Theta '37) dies at Velasco, Tex.
William E. Robinson, founder of the Beta (Yale) Chap-
ter, initiated
The first two chapters convene at Union College
Memorial oration on Humphreys, delivered by his class-
mate, J. W. Gott
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Oration on Humphreys printed (the first Psi U publica-
tion)
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The Beta Chapter established in Yale College
The Kappa Delta Phi Society (germ of the Xi Chapter)
formed in Wesleyan University
The Sigma Chapter established in Brown University.
Convention held with the Beta (Yale) Chapter.
Alexander Hamilton Rice (Theta '44) initiated
Convention held with the Delta (New-York University)
Chapter
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Nov. 24, 1833.
December, 1833.
June, 1834.
September, 1834.
March 17, 1835.
July 27, 1836.
Dec. 6, 1836.
Feb. 11, 1837.
1838.
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1838.
May 3, 1839.
July 24, 1839.
July 24, 1839.
August, 1839.
August, 1839.
March 11, 1840.
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March 28, 1840.
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June 25, 1840.
January, 1841.
Oct. 22, 1841.
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The Gamma Chapter established in Amherst College. Nov. 16, 1841.
First general catalogue published
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The Beta Beta (afterwards Chapter) founded in Trinity
College.
The Zeta Chapter established in Dartmouth College
The Lambda Chapter established in Columbia College
Decennial convention held with the Theta (Union)
Chapter
January, 1842.
Feb. 3, 1842.
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May io, 1842.
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June 20, 1842.
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July 26, 27, 1843.
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July 26, 1843.
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Sept. 25, 1843.
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Nov. 20, 1843.
The Kappa Chapter established in Bowdoin College
The Psi Chapter established in Hamilton College
The Xi Chapter established in Wesleyan University.
THE SECOND DECADE,
1844-1853,
Opens with Ten Chapters and 470 Members.
Second general catalogue published
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Convention held with the Gamma (Amherst) Chapter
Joseph Roswell Hawley (Psi '47) initiated
Convention held with the Beta (Yale) Chapter.
Chester Allan Arthur (Theta '48) initiated
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June, 1844.
Aug. 8, 9, 1844.
October, 1844.
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Aug. 19, 20, 1845.
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May, 1846.
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Convention held with the Zeta (Dartmouth) Chapter
Francis Miles Finch (Beta '49), author of the first Psi
U songs, initiated
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Willard Fiske (Theta '51) initiated .
Third general catalogue published
Convention held with the Sigma (Brown) Chapter
Convention held with the Xi (Wesleyan) Chapter .
Fourth general catalogue published
July 29, 30, 1846.
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June, 1847.
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July, 1847.
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Sept. 1, 2, 1847.
August, 1847.
Aug. 1, 2, 1848.
June, 1849.
Convention held with the Lambda (Columbia) Chapter. Oct. 2, 3, 1849.
First song-book issued
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Convention held with the Kappa (Bowdoin) Chapter
The Alpha Chapter organized in Harvard College
First convention of Wisconsin alumni at Madison.
Convention held with the Psi (Hamilton) Chapter
The Alpha (Harvard) Chapter formally recognized
Convention held with the Theta (Union) Chapter.
Fifth general catalogue published
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James K. Lombard's five songs written
Second song-book issued
Convention held with the Alpha (Harvard) Chapter .
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1849.
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Sept. 2, 3, 1850.
November, 1850.
Jan. 23, 1851.
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July 21, 22, 1851.
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July 22, 1851.
July 26, 27, 1852.
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1852.
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Autumn of 1852.
March 1, 1853.
July 21, 22, 1853.
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THE THIRD DECADE,
1854-1863,
Opens with Eleven Chapters and 1,531 Members.
Convention held with the Delta (New-York University)
Chapter
First petition from Michigan University.
Convention held with the Beta (Yale) Chapter.
Sixth general catalogue published
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Re-union and public exercises of the Xi (Wesleyan)
Chapter
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Convention held with the Sigma (Brown) Chapter.
Third song-book issued.
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June 29, 30, 1854.
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June 29, 1854.
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July 24, 25, 1855.
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Eugene Schuyler (Beta '59), the first "Psi U son,” ini-
tiated
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Convention held with the Gamma (Amherst) Chapter
Executive committee of three established.
The Alpha (Harvard) Chapter suspended
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The Upsilon Chapter established in Rochester Univer-
sity
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Convention held in New-York City.
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Convention held with the Lambda (Columbia) Chapter.
Convention held with the Zeta (Dartmouth) Chapter
The Iota Chapter established in Kenyon College
Fourth song-book issued
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Convention held with the Beta (Yale) Chapter.
Act incorporating the Beta (Yale) Chapter passed
Convention held with the Kappa (Bowdoin) Chapter
Re-union and public exercises of the Xi (Wesleyan)
Chapter
October, 1855.
Aug. 5, 1856.
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Sept. 4, 5, 1856.
April 2, 1857.
June, 1857.
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July 10, 11, 1857.
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July 11, 1857.
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Close of 1857.
Feb. 15, 1858..
June 24, 25, 1858.
June 22, 23, 1859.
July, 1860.
Nov. 24, 1860.
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March 1861.
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July 24, 25, 1861.
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May, 1862.
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Convention held with the Theta (Union) Chapter, at
Albany, N.Y.
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The Theta (Union) Chapter temporarily suspended
July 5, 1862.
July 14, 1862.
July 21, 22, 1863.
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Autumn of 1863.
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THE FOURTH DECADE,
1864-1873,
Opens with Thirteen Chapters and 2,672 Members.
Seventh general catalogue published
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Convention held with the Psi (Hamilton) Chapter
The Phi Chapter established in Michigan University.
The "Diamond Song" written by Professor Calvin S.
Harrington (Xi '52)
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Convention held with the Xi (Wesleyan) Chapter.
The Theta (Union) Chapter formally revived
Fifth song-book issued
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Convention held with the Upsilon (Rochester) Chapter.
Convention held in Cincinnati with the Iota (Kenyon)
Chapter
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March 7, 1864.
July 19, 20, 1864.
Jan. 26, 1865.
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1865.
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July 18, 19, 1865.
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July 26, 1865.
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Convention held with the Phi (Michigan) Chapter
Quarto-centennial of the Xi (Wesleyan) Chapter cele-
brated
Phi (Michigan) undergraduates enjoy an excursion to
Omaha, Neb.
The Omega Chapter established in Chicago University.
Convention held with the Theta (Union) Chapter.
Executive council of five instituted.
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Beta (Yale) Chapter-hall first occupied
The Alpha (Harvard) Chapter revived
Sixth song-book issued.
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Convention held with the Beta (Yale) Chapter.
Eighth general catalogue published
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May 10, 1866.
July 5, 6, 1866.
Sept. 4, 5, 1867.
June 17, 18, 1868.
July 14, 1868.
April, 1869.
April 17, 1869.
May 19, 20, 869.
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May 20, 1869.
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May 1, 1870.
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May 6, 1870.
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Convention held with the Sigma (Brown) Chapter
First annual dinner of alumni in New-York City
Act incorporating the Psi (Hamilton) Chapter passed
Convention held with the Gamma (Amherst) Chapter
The Alpha (Harvard) Chapter again suspended
Second annual dinner of New-York alumni.
Convention held with the Zeta (Dartmouth) Chapter
Seventh quadrennial of the Xi (Wesleyan) Chapter .
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June 1, 1870.
Nov. 29, 30, 1870.
December, 1870.
June 7, 8, 1871.
February, 1872.
April 10, 1872.
June 5, 6, 1872.
November, 1872.
June 4, 5, 1873.
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May 8, 1873.
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June 24, 1873-
Chronology.
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THE FIFTH DECADE,
1874-1883,
Opens with Fifteen Chapters and 4,049 Members.
Convention held with the Lambda (Columbia) Chapter.
Convention held with the Kappa (Bowdoin) Chapter.
The Pi Chapter established in Syracuse University
The Phi (Michigan) Chapter incorporated
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Psi Upsilon "Leaves" issued at Ithaca, N.Y. .
Convention held with the Psi (Hamilton) Chapter.
Professor Willard Fiske, Ph.D. (Psi '51), reads his "His-
tory of Psi Upsilon'
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The Chi Chapter established in Cornell University
Seventh song-book published.
Convention held with the Xi (Wesleyan) Chapter.
Eighth quadrennial of the Xi (Wesleyan) Chapter;
ner-stone of chapter-house laid .
Detroit Alumni Association formed.
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April 7, 8, 1874.
May 5, 6, 1875.
June 8, 1875.
December, 1875.
1875, 1876.
May 3, 4, 1876.
May 4, 1876.
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June 12, 1876.
Dec. 9, 1876.
May 9, 10, 1877.
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June 27, 1877.
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July 27, 1877.
Nov. 27, 1877.
Jan. 25, 1878.
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Feb. 1, 1878.
First re-union and dinner of Detroit alumni.
The Diamond" first issued at Ithaca, N.Y.
Xi (Wesleyan) chapter-house first used
The Theta (Union) Chapter incorporated
Convention held with the Upsilon (Rochester) Chapter. May 2, 3, 1878.
Fraternity colors chosen
Alumni re-unions in New-York City, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Portland (Me.), Washington, Chicago; asso-
ciations formed
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Xi (Wesleyan) chapter-house formally dedicated
Psi Upsilon gathering in Leyden, Holland
Eighth song-book issued
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The Chi (Cornell) Chapter incorporated
Last issue of "The Diamond” at Ithaca.
Ninth general catalogue published .
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Convention held with the Beta (Yale) Chapter.
Cincinnati Alumni Association organized.
Gamma (Amherst) chapter-house purchased
Ground broken for Phi (Michigan) chapter-house.
The Beta Beta Chapter established in Trinity College
Phi (Michigan) chapter-house first occupied.
"The Diamond" issued by the executive council.
Convention held with the Phi (Michigan) Chapter
February, 1878.
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May 3, 1878.
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May 3, 1878.
June 25, 1878.
July 1, 1878.
1878.
December, 1878.
Dec. 17, 1878.
March, 1879.
May 6, 7, 1879.
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May 7, 1879.
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August, 1879.
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Oct. 3, 1879.
Feb. 4, 1880.
May, 1880.
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May, 1880.
May 26, 27, 1880.
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"The Diamond" issued by the Theta (Union) Chapter.
Convention held with the Omega (Chicago) Chapter
Chester Allan Arthur (Theta '48) becomes President of
the United States
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Addenda to eighth song-book issued
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March, 1881.
May 18, 19, 1881.
Sept. 19, 1881.
1881.
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Dec. 16, 1881.
Reception given to Detroit alumni and Phi (Michigan)
undergraduates by C. M. Davison (Theta '38)
First re-union of alumni in Buffalo; association formed.
Convention held with the Pi (Syracuse) Chapter .
The Phi Theta Psi Society formed by petitioners in the
Lehigh University.
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Ninth quadrennial of the Xi (Wesleyan) Chapter.
Bibliographia Psi-Upsilonica published by Professor
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Fiske
Quarto-centennial celebration of the Upsilon (Rochester)
Chapter
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President Arthur gives a dinner to Psi Upsilon congress-
men at the White House.
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Feb. 2,
1882.
May 10, 11, 1882.
June 6, 1882.
June 27, 1882.
August, 1882.
Feb. 12, 1883.
Feb. 28, 1883.
The semi-centennial celebration begins at Albany, N.Y., May 23, 1883.
Historical meeting in the old Assembly Hall
Public literary exercises and reception
Semi-centennial banquet
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History of the Upsilon (Rochester) Chapter published.
Re-union of Sigma (Brown) alumni in commemoration
of the semi-centennial .
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May 23, 1883.
May 24, 1883.
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May 25, 1883.
June, 1883.
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June 19, 1883.
Corner-stone of Beta Beta (Trinity) chapter-house laid. June 28, 1883.
State association of alumni in Kansas formed
Psi (Hamilton) chapter-house begun
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Sept. 13, 1883.
September, 1883.
THE SIXTH DECADE,
1884-1893,
Opens with Eighteen Chapters and 5,979 Members.
The Eta Chapter established in the Lehigh University
Proceedings of the semi-centennial published
Convention held with the Chi (Cornell) Chapter
Corner-stone of Chi chapter-house laid
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Alumni re-union in New-York City; two hundred mem-
bers present
Feb. 22, 1884.
March, 1884.
May 7, 8, 1884.
May 8, 1884.
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May 26, 1884.
Οὐχ ἥδε χρυσῆς ἀξία τιμῆς λαχεῖν;
SOPHOCLES.
"Still floats our unstruck banner from the mast
As in the stormy past."
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
"Brothers of the Psi Upsilon, I greet you with brotherly love and con-
fidence. I am proud of the association, of its membership, of its record; I
believe in its future.”
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.
"Man cannot live wholly within or upon himself. 'Cor ne edite.' The
grief of the human heart is assuaged by communion with kindred hearts;
and even the joys which fill the breast are intensified and increased when they
are shared by a friend. Psi Upsilon is a metaphor, and suggests to the mind
the sincerest friendship."
HOOPER Cumming Van Vorst.
"The Fraternity we love and honor is beginning the second fifty years of its
beneficent course. May it flourish as long as the colleges live that shelter it.
May its life be co-existent with that of the Great Republic, to which, next after
the worship of God, our devotion is due."
JOSEPH Roswell Hawley.
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THE PSI UPSILON EPITOME.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER ANNALS.
"Each group of ours shall gather round
The strength of one Fraternity."
J. D. ROBINSON (Alpha '51).
NEAR the centre of the city of Schenectady stands a
massive stone building, now used as a public school, but
which, fifty years ago, was tenanted by students of Union
College. In an attic-room of this edifice, Nov. 24, 1833,
seven undergraduates met, and signed a formal pledge
to organize a secret society. Their names and classes
were
Samuel Goodale.
Sterling Goodale Hadley.
Robert Barnard.
CLASS OF 1835.
Edward Martindale.
George Washington Tuttle.
Class of 1837.
Merwin H. Stewart.
Charles Washington Harvey.
The founders belonged to the Delphian Institute, a lit-
erary society, somewhat secret in form, which had been
established fourteen years before by Southern aristocratic
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The Psi Upsilon Epitome.
influence, in opposition to the old societies, the Philo-
mathean and the Adelphic. Dr. Harvey, in whose room
was held the "pledge" meeting, says that the idea of a
new fraternity first occurred to him during a political
contest; and Judge Hadley relates that the organization
was formed almost in self-defence. The ruling motive, as
the Rev. Dr. Goodale positively affirms, was the social one.
The times were auspicious. It was the formative period
of college societies. The few fraternities already organ-
ized at Union were in their infancy, and their members
constituted but a small fraction of the many students.
whom Dr. Nott's great name had called to the quaint
Dutch settlement on the banks of the Mohawk.
To lead the new movement the "seven" were well quali-
fied. Ex-President Van Rensselaer of Hobart College,
who became a member while the founders were still in
college, speaks in high terms of their character. Three
of the four original members in the class of '36 received
Phi Beta Kappa keys, badges of superior scholarship.
All but one of the seven completed the undergraduate
course at Union College, and that one afterwards obtained
a literary degree elsewhere.
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Goodale and Hadley were natives of New England:
the others were born in New York. Stewart, after gradua-
tion, taught nearly two years in the South, and died when
about to enter the sacred ministry. Barnard studied and
practised law, removed for his health's sake to California,
and ended an already brilliant career in 1853 in the city
of Los Angeles. The other five have not yet been called
from their long lives of honor and usefulness. The Rev.
Samuel Goodale, D.D., is rector of the Episcopal church
in Columbus, Neb. The Hon. Sterling G. Hadley, a prom-
inent lawyer, and former judge, lives at Waterloo, N.Y.
Mr. Martindale, also a lawyer, now of Des Moines, Io.,
Chapter Annals.
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formerly resided in New-York City, where Mr. Tuttle,
whose home is now in Bath, N.Y., long prospered as a
merchant until his retirement from business. Dr. Harvey
is a physician of high repute in Buffalo.
The first Psi Upsilons speak of several preliminary
meetings, held early in the autumn of 1833; and the Hon.
Clarkson Nott Potter, in his strikingly beautiful account
of the origin of the society, undoubtedly refers to one of
these gatherings. However, the day when the pledge
was taken has always been regarded as the birth-date of
the order. At least one meeting was held during the
month of December, in a hotel in the city, and in that
month three members of the class of '36 were initiated.
The first of these, Jeremiah S. Lord, was afterwards gradu-
ated at the New-York University. He became a Re-
formed clergyman and a doctor of divinity, and died
in 1869. The second initiate, William H. Backus, died in
1862 at Omaha. The third new member was Absalom
Townsend, whom William Taylor calls "a noble fellow,"
and who died in early life, while engaged in teaching.
The organization of the Fraternity was at first kept
secret, the members taking time to strengthen themselves
in their literary "institute." Before long were chosen, at
Mr. Martindale's suggestion, the symbolic initials that
enable us to say with the poet Saxe,
Success to Psi Upsilon, beautiful name!
To the eye and the ear it is pleasant the same.
Many thanks to old Cadmus, who made us his debtors
By inventing, one day, those capital letters,
Which still from the heart we shall know how to speak
When we've fairly forgotten the rest of our Greek."
The local name, "Theta," was not assumed until 1838,
after a second chapter had been formed.
1 Oration before the convention of 1880, at Ann Arbor, Mich.
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The Psi Upsilon Epitome.
In January and February several new members were
admitted, Samuel R. Beardsley, who was afterwards
mayor of the city of Oswego, and who died twenty years
ago while commanding a regiment of volunteers; Duncan
Turner, a merchant at Potsdam, N.Y., who died March
1, 1882; Edward F. Cushman, also a merchant, who died
at Troy in 1870; Elisha Taylor, a lawyer by profession,
and one of the most prominent citizens of Detroit, where
he has lived more than forty years; Charles Floyd-Jones,
whose death occurred in 1874; and the Rev. Cornelius
Stege Conkling, at present pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Stockton, N.J. All of these belonged to the
class of '36, except Mr. Taylor, who was in '37.
In September, 1834, were initiated James Brown ('36),
who has long practised law in Niles, Mich.; Archibald
Reed ('36), a Presbyterian minister, who died in 1847;
William Taylor ('38), the “first freshman;” and on the
same night with the last-mentioned was admitted Joseph
W. Gott ('37), whose name is the twentieth on the roll,
who strenuously labored to advance the interests of the
order, and who, after a long life spent at the bar and in
public positions, died in 1869. Four more men of '37
afterwards came in, of whom Levi Rowley, a New-York
merchant, and the Rev. Philip J. Timlow, a Presbyterian
clergyman, survive.
The society was particularly fortunate in the classes of
'38 and '39, from which were drawn such men as the
Hon. Isaac Dayton, a prominent lawyer, writer, and poli-
tician of New-York City; Clement M. Davison, well
known as a banker and citizen in Detroit; former Presi-
dent Van Rensselaer of Hobart; the Rev. John Newman,
D.D.; the Hon. William Taylor; and Judge Hooper C.
Van Vorst of the Superior Court of New-York City.
The Fraternity at once took a high stand. Dr. Nott
Chapter Annals.
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interfered, and secured for its scholars a fair represen-
tation in Phi Beta Kappa. In 1838, when the secret so-
cieties appointed a joint committee to confer with the
President concerning an attempted invasion of their rights
in the literary societies, Mr. Van Vorst was made chair-
man; and his report of the interview is exceedingly inter-
esting.
Now followed a long period of prosperity. The order
waxed powerful in the halls of its parent college. Men
like the Hon. Samuel W. Jackson of the Supreme Court
of New York, the late Congressman Clarkson N. Potter,
Daniel B. Hagar, Ph.D., principal of the Massachusetts
State Normal School, Professor Wendell Lamoroux of
Union College, Gov. Rice of Massachusetts, Bishop
Littlejohn of Long Island, Judge John T. Wentworth
of Wisconsin, Professor Charles Babcock of Cornell
University, President Arthur, Frederick W. Seward,
Major-Gen. Strong, Congressman Lyman K. Bass, and -
Brig.-Gen. Ripley, became members during their student
lives. Theta's graduates went forth into all parts of the
land, everywhere illustrating the principles of the Frater-
nity, and supporting with might and main whatever chap-
ter happened to be nearest.
During the civil war, initiations were for a short time
suspended, partly because of the reduced state of the
college, and partly, also, it has been claimed, because of
an extreme exclusiveness; but the Hon. Albert C. Ingham
(Theta '47), a devoted and distinguished alumnus of the
chapter, came to its aid in the time of need. No class
passed without a Psi Upsilon delegation; and with the
class of '65 a vigorous life returned. When the founders
and many alumni came back to celebrate the semi-centen-
I See the article President Nott and Greek-Letter Societies, in The Dia-
mond for June, 1878.
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nial, they found Theta flourishing as of yore. The early
erection of a chapter-house was then made a matter of
certainty. In fifty-two classes at Union College, Psi
Upsilon has had three hundred and seventy-six repre-
sentatives.¹
Our fathers were not in haste to extend the society.
Three years passed, and the first Psi Upsilon class left
the halls of Union. Dec. 6, 1836, through the efforts of
William Taylor and Isaac Dayton, a meeting was held
for the purpose of establishing a branch in the University
of the city of New York; but the formal installation of
the now venerable Delta Chapter did not take place until
Feb. 11, 1837. The first members were —
CLASS OF 1837.
George Washington Schuyler.
CLASS OF 1838.
Henry Hedges Halliday.
CLASS OF 1839.
Joshua Foster.
John Taylor Johnston.
William Billings Meech.
CLASS OF 1840.
Edward Trask.
I Much interesting information concerning the rise and early life of the
parent chapter is to be found in the following articles in The Diamond: The
Fathers' Pledge (February, 1878); The Origin of Psi Upsilon, i., ii., iii. (April,
October, December, 1878), containing statements by Martindale, Hadley,
Goodale, and Harvey; and The Reminiscences of Hon. William Taylor
(March, 1881). See also Judge Hadley's Address to the Convention of 1878
(reported in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle of May 4, 1878), and,
above all, Professor Fiske's History of Psi Upsilon (nearly all of which was
published in the Utica Herald of May 5, 1876).
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All were men of high character and scholarship. Mr.
Schuyler has been treasurer of the State of New York, and
has filled many other important positions. He lives at
Ithaca, the seat of Cornell University. Halliday died soon
after graduation. Mr. Foster has since 1870 been princi-
pal of the Pennsylvania Institute for Deaf and Dumb.
The Hon. John Taylor Johnston, for many years presi
dent of the New-Jersey Central Railroad, is one of the
most distinguished residents of New-York City. He is
a liberal patron of art, and a stanch supporter of his
alma mater. Meech, the Latin salutatorian of his class,
became a district judge in the metropolis. He died in
1859. Trask, when last heard from, was practising medi-
cine at Santa Monica, Cal.
For nearly half a century the Delta has enjoyed an
uninterrupted existence. In its hall were initiated during
their college-lives such men as the Rev. Dr. Henry M.
Scudder, celebrated for his long missionary service in
India; the Rev. George H. Houghton, D.D., of “the
Little Church around the Corner;" the Hon. George H.
Moore, LL.D., superintendent of the Lenox Library; the
Rev. William P. Breed, D.D., a leader among Presbyte-
rians; William Allen Butler, the poet; Judge John Sedg-
wick, of the Superior Court of New-York City; the Hon.
Hugh L. Bond, of the United-States Circuit Court; Aus-
tin Abbott, the law writer; the Rev. Edward Abbott, the
popular author; the Rev. Dr. George Z. Gray, dean of
the Cambridge Theological School; and the Rev. Albert
Z. Gray, warden of Racine College. Many more might
be named, including an unusually large proportion of dis-
tinguished clergymen. Judge Van Vorst in a recent letter
writes,
"With one fact I have been much interested in the historical in-
quiries which I have made. . . . I have seen several gentlemen,
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amongst them John Taylor Johnston, George H. Houghton, and
others, graduates of more than forty years' standing, men now ad-
vanced in years and honors, and yet they all manifest a lively interest
in the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, of which their college-life brings to
them the most pleasing recollections."
In 1868, on account of the weak state of the University,
the few active members gave out no elections, and gradu-
ates took charge of affairs, sustaining the meetings, and
paying all expenses. This devotion was soon rewarded
by better times. New brethren were selected from an
improved body of undergraduates, and the Delta has
since maintained its traditional pre-eminence. As at so
many other institutions, Psi Upsilon is in New York the
oldest society. A large endowment fund, carefully in-
vested, materially lessens the charges of fraternity mem-
bership in a large city. Fifty classes and three hundred
and three names appear upon the rolls of the chapter,
which is now preparing for its semi-centennial.
Two years went by before another chapter was born.
Internal development and cautious extension were already
the watchwords of the young Fraternity. In the spring
vacation of 1839, William E. Robinson, a Yale sophomore,
afterwards so well known as Richelieu," the Washing-
ton correspondent of "The New-York Tribune," and
later still as a representative in Congress, was visiting
George Monilaws, a Psi Upsilon at Union College. To
both occurred the idea of planting the society in Yale.
Mr. Robinson was initiated by the Theta Chapter, May 3,
1839, and returned to New Haven.
"Till August, 1839 [he writes],' I was the Beta Chapter in my-
1 Letter to the author, dated July 10, 1883. Other interesting reminiscen、es
by Judge Van Vorst, William Taylor, the Rev. Henry M. Dexter, D.D., and
the Rev. Daniel P. Noyes, are to be found in The Diamond (January and Feb-
ruary, 1878).
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self. I had my badge with 'Beta' on it three months before any of
those mentioned as founders were initiated, and I initiated them all in
my room. I was then a sophomore, and, had it been known that the
society admitted any one below a junior, it would have killed the chap-
ter. I therefore kept my connection a secret, and was again initiated
with my class as juniors, not one of whom knew that I had been a
member."
The thirteen men whom Mr. Robinson initiated, and
who form with him Beta's charter members, were
James Staunton Babcock.
Henry Booth.
CLASS OF 1840.
William Bartlett Brinsmade.
Enoch Long Childs.
George Hooker Colton.
Henry Martyn Dexter.
Gideon Hiram Hollister.
Chauncey Henry Hubbard.
Horace James.
John Smith Kelley.
Amos Edward Lawrence.
Daniel Parker Noyes.
James Smith.
Babcock, an author of rising fame, died in 1847; Booth
is dean of the Union College of Law, Chicago; Brins-
made, who died in 1880, and Childs, who died one year
later, were distinguished as civil-engineers; Colton, salu-
tatorian and leading member of his class, founded and
edited the "American (Whig) Review," and his decease
in 1847 terminated a career of great literary promise; the
Rev. Henry Martyn Dexter has long edited "The Con-
gregationalist," and probably is as prominent as any cler-
gyman of his church; Hollister was class poet, he has
written the history of Connecticut, and was for some time
minister resident in Hayti; the Rev. Daniel P. Noyes of
Wilmington, Mass., and the Rev. Amos E. Lawrence of
Newton Centre, in the same State, are well-known Con-
gregational ministers, as were also Hubbard and James,
both of whom died some eight years ago; Kelley and
Smith died in early life.
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Eleven men in the class of '41, "associate founders,"
as Dr. Dexter calls them, were also initiated in August,
1839. Thus the chapter was actively composed of mem-
bers of the two upper classes. Mr. Robinson positively
states that it was not a junior society, and the reminis-
cences of his associates agree with him in this.
Beta's record is a brilliant one. Its founder compiled
the first Fraternity catalogue; and was the chief agent in
forming two great chapters. One of his comrades organ-
ized a third branch. To the unwearied industry and
patience of a much younger graduate is largely due the
latest addition to our circle. Our earliest songs were
composed, and our first song-books were edited, by Yale
undergraduates. Such men as the late Professor Porter
the chemical writer, James Hammond Trumbull the phi-
lologist, Congressman Eames, Henry Stevens the anti-
quarian and bibliographer, the deceased Senator Ferry,
Dwight Foster, Francis M. Finch the poet and jurist,
President Andrew D. White, Edmund Clarence Sted-
man, Chauncey M. Depew, Professor Lewis R. Packard,
Eugene Schuyler, the great paleontologist Othniel C.
Marsh, William Walter Phelps, Ex-Gov. Chamberlain of
South Carolina, Professor William G. Sumner, and a host
of other worthies, assumed the badge while undergradu-
ates in New Haven.
The position long held by the chapter as the leading
society of its kind 2 was at one time threatened through
the building of a hall by a younger fraternity; but Psi
Upsilon, becoming possessed of a finer and costlier edi-
fice, has added to its former prestige.
The DeForest medal, the highest literary honor of the
college-course, has been taken seventeen times in thirty-
1 Letter of Jan. 13, 1884.
2 See Four Years at Yale.
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two years by members of this one society. Five of the
last six valedictorians, and the probable valedictorians for
the next two years, belong to the chapter. In forty-six
classes Beta has had fourteen hundred and one men.
The Sigma of Brown University, an ever loyal and
popular chapter, traces its history back to the year follow-
ing the rise of Psi Upsilon at Yale. William E. Robin-
son and Henry M. Dexter were active in the establishment,
and the following were the charter members of the new
branch:
George Washington Brown.
Thomas Clement Campbell.
Wilson Conner Cooper.
CLASS OF 1841.
Benjamin Alexander Edwards.
George Murillo Bartol.
Henry Harrison Button.
Asa Howard Gould.
Zuinglius Grover.
Albert Harkness.
Merrick Lyon.
Elbridge Smith.
Alanson Harris Tinkham.
CLASS OF 1842.
Milton Hebard.
Adoniram Judson Huntington.
Noah Ford Packard.
James Munroe Phipps.
John Barstow Willard.
Percival Whitmore Bartlett.
Lowell Holbrook.
CLASS OF 1843.
Ezekiel Lamb Miller.
Harrison Carleton Page.
CLASS OF 1844.
Caleb Blood.
| Alfred Ellenwood Giles.
Many of these Lyon, Grover, Harkness, Huntington
have become distinguished for their services in the
cause of education. Additional members are the late
Senator Arnold; Chief Justice Durfee; President Angell
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of Michigan University; the Rev. James O. Murray,
D.D., dean of the College of New Jersey; the lamented
Professor Diman; James De Mille, the novelist; Attor-
ney-Gen. Rogers; Arnold Green of Providence; and
Professor William W. Bailey, - all of whom were Psi
Upsilons before graduation. The Sigma has furnished
seven professors and six instructors to Brown University.
During its early years the chapter bore the brunt of
official opposition to secret fraternities. At one time
there were thoughts of changing the undergraduate or-
ganization into a literary society, whose members should
become Psi Upsilons after leaving college. But the char-
acter of the Sigma men seems to have prevented the
authorities from executing their threats, and in 1850 a
conference with President Wayland brought about a kind
of armed neutrality.
For a long course of years, Psi Upsilon at Brown has
been annually recruited from the best families of Provi-
dence. Many of the leading citizens are alumni of the
chapter, which, in forty-six classes, has enrolled two hun-
dred and fifty-nine members, of whom nearly one hundred
live in the university town. But a short time will elapse
before the building of a chapter-hall.
Towards the close of 1841 a petition from Amherst
College was received by the Yale members. William E.
Robinson took up the matter, pushed it with his accus-
tomed energy, and secured the assent of the chapters.
He writes,
"When Edward Trask (Delta '40) and I, in 1841, instituted the
Amherst Chapter, I took with me some thirteen or fifteen badges made
at Albany. Trask's mother lived in Springfield, whence we drove to
Amherst with two of her spirited steeds, making quite a display as we
arrived at the hotel of the quiet collegiate town. The next day we
enjoyed from the gallery the excitement caused in the chapel, at public
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exercises, by the entrance of our new boys, the flashes of light that
gleamed from their badges being reflected by those which flamed from
our own. It was a grand day for the Delta, Beta, and Gamma, espe-
cially for the Gamma.':
The names of the fathers of the society at Amherst
are,-
CLASS OF 1842.
Roswell Lombard Chapin.
Waldo Hutchins.
Edward Duffield Martin.
Edward Duffield Neill.
Issachar Lefavour.
Elijah Hawley Wright.
CLASS OF 1843.
Henry Webster Parker.
Josiah Milton Stearns.
Frederick Alonzo Reed.
William Wallace Williams.
CLASS OF 1844.
John Stacy Belknap.
George Augustus Chase.
Henry Kingman Edson.
Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth.
John Edwards Emerson.
Galusha Aaron Grow.
Of these Chapin died in 1846; Hutchins is the dis-
tinguished lawyer and politician who now represents the
twelfth district of New York in Congress; Lefavour has
spent his life as a teacher; Martin died in 1856; the Rev.
Edward D. Neill, D.D. (who suggested the chapter letter),
was at one time chancellor of the University of Minnesota,
and afterwards president of Macalester College. Wright
is a physician at King's Ferry, Fla. In a recent letter he
speaks of himself as living without fraternal companions
in his vicinity, but as always glad to hear of the successes
of our members. Professor Henry W. Parker has had a
long term of service in the faculty of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College; Reed, Stearns, and Emerson have
ceased in death their labors as Congregational clergymen ;
the Rev. Dr. Williams of Toledo, O., is a well-known
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Presbyterian minister; Belknap died in 1852; Professor
George A. Chase, LL.D., of Louisville is an eminent
educator, as is also the Rev. Mr. Edson of Grinnell, Io.;
Mr. Ellsworth has gained distinction as an inventor and
writer; the Hon. Galusha A. Grow, famous for his long
career as member and speaker of the national House of
Representatives, resides at Glenwood, Penn. The author-
ities of Amherst College at first opposed the new society,
but were finally placated, and the chapter has remained
ever flourishing to the present day. Among the many
noted men who have joined the Gamma during college
life are President William S. Clark, of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College; William J. Rolfe, the Shakspearian.
scholar; President Julius H. Seelye of Amherst; Presi-
dent Bugbee of Alleghany College; Bishop Whittaker
of Nevada; Ex-Gov. Andrews of Connecticut; and Pro-
fessors Harris, Mather, Esty, Root, Chickering, and Tyler
of Amherst College. From this chapter Amherst has
drawn a president, eleven professors, and fourteen in-
structors.
The Gamma's commodious and well-situated house has
been occupied about five years. Forty-six classes and
five hundred and thirteen members form the chapter roll.
The society established the Zeta, its sixth chapter, at
Dartmouth College, May 10, 1842, when Mr. Horace
James, one of Beta's founders, initiated the following:
Amos Tappan Akerman.
George Bradley Barrows.
Lincoln Flagg Brigham.
Aaron Day.
Caleb Emery.
Owen Glendour Peabody.
William Gilman Perry.
CLASS OF 1842.
John Sewall Sanborn.
John Eugene Tyler.
Clement Adams Walker.
George Walker.
Abner Spicer Warner.
Moses Hazen White.
John Smith Woodman.
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Nearly all of these have risen to distinction. Akerman
was attorney-general of the United States under Presi-
dent Grant; Barrows has been president of the Maine
Senate; Brigham is chief justice of the Superior Court
of Massachusetts; Emery has charge of the Charlestown
High School; Sanborn, who died in 1877, was judge of
the Canadian Court of Queen's Bench; George Walker
is now consul-general at Paris, France; Clement A.
Walker, an eminent physician of Boston, died April 26,
1883; Woodman died in 1871, having been for twenty years
one of Dartmouth's leading professors; Day, Peabody,
Tyler, and White are also dead. Other early members
were Professors Parker and Putnam; the Hon. Harvey
Jewell; Ex-Gov. Henry H. Bell; former President Aiken
of Union College; Senator Patterson, and Chief Justice
Doe.
The pioneer society in its college, the Zeta has had an
illustrious career. Its long roll of forty-six classes and
five hundred and sixty-three members is crowded with
noted names. To Dartmouth it has supplied eleven pro-
fessors and five instructors, and to the State of New
Hampshire it has given two governors, a chief justice,
and three associate justices of the Supreme Court.
In the next month after the Zeta's establishment,
June 20, 1842, William Taylor and the Rev. Cornelius
Earle (the latter a Delta graduate of '45), initiated by
authority eight applicants from Columbia College: -
CLASS OF 1842.
Robert Jaffrey.
William Seymour Kernochan.
Oliver Everett Roberts.
John Sym.
CLASS OF 1843.
George Payn Quackenbos.
Wheelock Hendee Parmly.
Thomas Charles Taylor Buckley.
William McCune.
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All were men of the highest scholarship; Buckley,
McCune, and Quackenbos being the honor-men of their
class. The last named, whose death the Fraternity now
mourns, became widely known through his educational
works. Jaffrey is a banker in Wall Street. Kernochan,
a lawyer by profession, resides in Paris, France. The
Rev. Dr. Parmly is pastor of the First Baptist Church in
Jersey City. Roberts resides in New-York City. Sym
died in early life, greatly lamented by his chapter. Buck-
ley, at the time of his death, ten years ago, was a lawyer
of high repute in the metropolis. McCune, who in his
youth gave evidence of great literary genius, has with-
drawn from public attention.
The chapter was not opposed by the faculty, and its
prosperity dates from its birth. For more than forty
years it has maintained an excellent reputation at Co-
lumbia. The Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D., the late Dr. De
Koven, of Racine College; Bishops Seymour and Brown,
Joseph W. Harper, jun., and Professor William H. Dra-
per, became members while undergraduates, and during
the early years of the Lambda, which has had in all forty-
five classes and three hundred and seventy-seven mem-
bers. Many of the alumni reside in New York or in
Brooklyn, holding high positions in the Church, in medi-
cine, at the bar, and in private life. The honor-men of
the chapter are twice as numerous as those of all the other
societies combined; and in boating and field-contests the
Lambdas have made a remarkable record.
To Bowdoin College a charter was voted in 1842. For
some reason it was not issued until the next year; but
in the mean time the petitioners organized a local society,
called the Omega Phi. July 26, 1843, the Hon. Lincoln
F. Brigham (Zeta '42) officiating, the Kappa Chapter was
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formally instituted, and the following members were ini-
tiated :
Charles Packard.
CLASS OF 1842.
Thomas Tash.
CLASS OF 1843.
Ichabod Daniel Bartlett.
John March Mitchell.
Erastus Foote, jun.
William Dummer Northend.
Charles Parker Robinson.
David Pillsbury Harriman.
John Dunlap Lincoln.
Packard entered the Presbyterian ministry, and died
Feb. 20, 1881; Mr. Tash is superintendent of Portland's
public schools; Bartlett, a lawyer of Bangor, died in
1859; Foote is a manufacturer in Chicago; Harriman, a
Baptist clergyman, died just twenty years ago. In 1877
the chapter lost Dr. Lincoln, a physician of Brunswick,
Me. The Rev. John M. Mitchell, D.D., a prominent
Episcopal clergyman, now lives in Portland. Another
founder, the Hon. William D. Northend, is an able and
distinguished lawyer of Salem, Mass.: he is not unknown
in literature. Mr. Robinson, also a lawyer, died in 1861
in Mobile, Ala.
A few more of Kappa's many noted members are the
Hon. George F. Choate of Salem, Mass.; the Hon. Wil-
liam W. Rice, now in the lower house of Congress; the
late Rev. John Cotton Smith, D.D.; Dr. Egbert C.
Smyth, one of the leading professors at Andover; Sena-
tor William P. Frye; Professor William A. Packard,
Ph.D., of Princeton; Consul-general Goodenow, and
Bishop Spalding of Colorado.
Nowhere has our Fraternity been more unvaryingly
successful than at Bowdoin. From the forty-six classes a
long roll of three hundred and ninety-four names has
been built up, and the representation of the chapter in
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the large cities and towns of Maine, particularly in Port-
land, is both strong and enthusiastic.
I
The Psi Chapter at Hamilton College had an interest-
ing ante-natal history. Forty years ago Daniel B. Hagar
and Alexander H. Rice, then undergraduates at Union,
visited the petitioners, who formed an inner circle of a
large organization called the "I. T.,” — and reported
favorably. Four members were initiated by the general
convention in July, 1843, the formal establishment taking
place Sept. 25, 1843, with the following members: --
Benjamin Franklin Adams.
Anson Ballard.
Morris Rase Barteau.
Henry Cozzens.
CLASS OF 1845.
Barnabas Ballou Eldredge.
Chauncey LeRoy Hatch.
Xerxes Addison Willard.
Arnon George Williams.
CLASS OF 1846.
John Lansing Burton.
| Perry Hiram Smith.
CLASS OF 1847.
Alexander Ostrander.
Adams lives at Madison, Wis.; at Appleton, in the
same State, Ballard, who had been a lawyer, died ten years
ago; Barteau has for several years been engaged in
manufacturing and mercantile pursuits at Appleton; Coz-
zens went to Union, was graduated, and died in 1845; El-
dredge practices law at Janesville, Wis.; Hatch, a teacher,
died in 1851; Willard, who died Oct. 26, 1882, was one of
the principal American authorities on high-grade farming
I Consult the article, How the Psi was Established, in The Diamond for
December, 1878, giving statements by Barteau and Adams, two of the original
members.
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and the dairy-industry; Williams - also an authority on
agricultural matters-lives on his farm near Westmore-
land, N.Y.; Burton is a lawyer and judge in Central City,
Col. To the Hon. Perry H. Smith, a prominent capital-
ist of Chicago, Hamilton College is indebted for the beau-
tiful library-building called by his name. Ostrander, a
lawyer, died five years ago in New-York City.
The Psi has completed twoscore years of energetic and
successful life. It has enrolled forty-three classes and
two hundred and nineteen students. Among its alumni it
can point to a great political leader like Senator Hawley, to
such genial writers as Charles Dudley Warner and Guy H.
McMaster, to scholars of whom Professor Fiske is a type.
It has its prominent clergymen, lawyers, editors, bankers,
- all uniformly loyal and devoted. A chapter-house is
now building on "College Hill."
The germ of our order at Wesleyan University was the
Kappa Delta Phi, a local society, founded March 11,
1840; this became, nineteen months later, a branch of
Kappa Sigma Theta (a sophomore society at Yale, 1838
to 1855), and again, Nov. 20, 1843, it was transformed into
the Xi of Psi Upsilon. The last change was due to the
Rev. Stephen Beekman Bangs, who, during senior year,
had left Wesleyan for the New-York University, where
he was initiated. He received his degree in 1843, and
died, greatly lamented, March 21, 1846.
The first members were,
A
•
CLASS OF 1841.
Henry Wright Adams.
| Richard Sutton Rust.
CLASS OF 1844.
Oran Faville.
Russell Zelotes Mason.
Charles Thomas Pooler.
William Chase Prescott.
James Strong.
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CLASS OF 1845.
Elisha Boanerges Harvey.
Joseph Jameson Lane.
Eli Hubbard.
Hiram Francis Savage.
CLASS OF 1846.
Dixon Alexander.
Lewis Fuller Jones.
Zebina Thomas Dean.
Charles Silliman Kendall.
Albert Schuyler Graves.
CLASS OF 1847.
George Burgess.
Adams died Sept. 21, 1881, having spent his life in
general study and invention; Rust, an eminent Methodist
clergyman, now resides in Cincinnati; Faville, who be-
came lieutenant-governor of Iowa, died twelve years ago;
Mason was at one time president of Lawrence Univer-
sity; Pooler, a noted teacher, lives at Deansville, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Prescott resides in London, Eng.; James
Strong, LL.D., is the distinguished theological professor
and writer; and all the others have been men of mark.
Orange Judd, Representatives Pike, Buck, and Dean,
Professors Harrington, Van Benschoten, Westgate, and
Winchester, President Payne of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity, the Hon. Ward Northrop, Connecticut secretary
of state, and many eminent members of the Methodist-
Episcopal ministry, are counted in the four hundred and
fifty names on the Xi's roll.
In the words of one of the alumni,
"There has never a member of the chapter attained large wealth,
and its 'bloated bondholders' are few, if any. And yet the men, as
they have left college, have carried away pleasant memories of the
'shrine,' and many have openly attributed their success in after-days to
the culture, enthusiasm, and sociability inspired by the chapter." I
1 Mr. Charles W. Smiley's article, The Chapter-House of the Xi, in The
Diamond for February, 1878.
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The remarkable record of Psi Upsilon scholarship at
Wesleyan will hereafter be presented. Suffice it now to
say, that, of all the prizes awarded during the past decade,
members of the society have taken considerably more
than half.
Six years have passed since the completion of the beau-
tiful and convenient chapter-house, which stands in one
of the principal streets of Middletown, as an enduring
monument of the strength of the Xi of Psi Upsilon.
Thus, with the institution of a tenth chapter, was
rounded out our order's first decennium. Forty years
have passed since the most recent of these Psi Upsilon
altars was reared; yet upon each the fire of friendship still
burns as brightly as ever. To the care with which the
colleges and the charter members were chosen, and to
the devotion of such men as William Taylor, Judge Van
Vorst, William E. Robinson, and Gov. Rice, is to be
ascribed this remarkable success. The founders of these
early chapters usually held the highest rank in their
classes, and their lives since graduation have left their
impress upon our country's history.
And now, for a long period, the number of branches
was not enlarged. The "happy sisters ten" became very
dear to one another. Chapter differences were unheard
of, and class distinctions were unknown.
Toward the close of the year 1850, several zealous
graduates in Boston, among them the subsequent govern-
or of the State, Mr. Rice, helped a body of Harvard
students to organize the Alpha Chapter, which was for-
mally approved in the following year. The original
members numbered thirty-four, — twenty seniors and
fourteen juniors, including men like Professor William
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W. Goodwin (perhaps the foremost Greek scholar in
America), Dr. Samuel A. Green and Col. Francis W.
Palfrey of Boston; Ex-Mayor Sprague of Hartford, and
many others equally well known. To them were after-
wards added George Bliss, the celebrated New-York law-
yer; Horatio Alger, jun., the author; Professors Gurney,
Peirce, and Agassiz; Bishop Perry of Iowa; Congress-
man Theodore Lyman; and the Confederate general
William Henry Fitz-Hugh Lee.
With such members, it is unnecessary to say, the
Alpha became a power in the halls of Harvard. In
the classes from '51 to '58, five of the first and three of
the second scholars were Psi Upsilon men.
The great
convention of 1853 at Cambridge is often spoken of by
old graduates in terms of unlimited enthusiasm.
The Greek-letter societies at Harvard have had to con-
tend with special difficulties. A peculiar and complicated
system of local clubs, strong with age and in traditional
influence, prevented the fraternities from gaining the com-
plete ascendency they elsewhere hold; and when, in the
senior election of '57, the unfortunate rivalry among the
societies (caused by a useless multiplication of their num-
ber) culminated, leading the class to advise by resolution
against further initiations, the existence of the clubs gave
force to what would otherwise have been impotent. '58
resisted the decree, unsuccessfully, and Psi Upsilon made
no elections in '59. The feeling throughout the Fraternity
was one of deep sorrow.
May 6, 1870, the Alpha was revived, thanks to the
Sigma, and to a number of earnest men in the class of '71,
of whom the Rev. Willard W. Boyd, D.D., pastor of the
Second Baptist Church of St. Louis, is perhaps as well
known as any. After some years of reasonable prosperity,
disagreements arising out of the chapter's relations with
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the Hasty-Pudding and Signet Clubs caused a second
dissolution, at a time when there were nearly thirty under-
graduate members, and no rivals.
The chapter could now be revived; in fact, during the
past five years, not a few of the exiled organizations have
returned to Harvard, and late classes have contained sev-
eral Psi U men; but the society is not convinced that
a fraternity can flourish though it may exist
ence of so many distracting influences.
in pres-
On other fields, Harvard Psi Upsilons, of whom Pro-
fessor Horatio S. White of Cornell is an example, have
shown their devotion to our order; and men like Bishop
Perry, and Professors Goodwin and Peirce, deeply re-
gret the Alpha's continued sleep. The chapter is always
represented by alumni at the general conventions. It has
had a hundred and eighty-one members, a hundred and
nineteen in its earlier, sixty-two in its later life. The
last initiations were made in the class of '74.
Our twelfth branch, the Upsilon, springs from the Uni-
versity of Rochester. Here, in 1854, the Innominata So-
ciety was formed, having in view the establishment of a
Psi Upsilon chapter. "The honor of fathering this idea,"
says Mr. George A. Coe, in his new and valuable history
of the Upsilon, "must be awarded to Dr. John C. Over-
hiser of New York. This brother matriculated at the
University of the City of New York, entering the class of
1854, and became a member of the Delta Chapter of Psi
Upsilon. After finishing his junior year, he entered the
University of Rochester, and graduated in 1854." A peti-
tion signed by eight men, all but two of whom had been
members of the Innominata, was sent to the convention
of 1857; it was granted, and the action was ratified by all
the chapters. On the evening of Feb. 9, 1858, Theodore
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Bacon, Esq. (Beta '53), now a prominent lawyer of
Rochester, and the Rev. Augustus H. Strong (Beta '57),
the present distinguished head of the Rochester Theologi-
cal Seminary, instituted the new charge. The original
members were :-
Almon Clematus Bacon.
Egbert Hurd.
Ira Collins Clark.
John Peck Colby.
Joshua Gaskill.
}
CLASS OF 1858.
Henry Lyman Morehouse.
CLASS OF 1859.
Edward Powell Gould.
George Washington Houghton.
CLASS OF 1860.
Sylvanus Shuler Wilcox.
| Francis Asbury Williams.
CLASS OF 1861.
Horace Belden.
Henry Cooper.
George Franklin Gardner.
Ira Holmes.
Charles Ayrault Dewey.
Bacon has long been a teacher in the Indian Territory;
Hurd died in 1859, and Houghton's death took place that
same year; Morehouse is a prominent Baptist clergy-
man; Clark and Wilcox died in our country's service in
the civil war; Colby is a well-known member of the bar
of St. Louis; Gaskill, Gould, and Williams, all successful
lawyers, live respectively in Lockport, N.Y., Erie, Penn.,
and Corning, N.Y.; Belden is a teacher in Brockport, in
the Empire State; Cooper, a Presbyterian minister, lives
in Marion, N.Y.; Dewey carries on a manufacturing busi-
ness in Rochester; Gardner, a Lockport lawyer, died in
1864; Holmes, not many years ago, was president of a
national bank in Chicago.
Of the early graduates of the Innominata, three only
were admitted, — the Rev. Amos J. Barrett ('54), the Rev.
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Daniel Bowen ('56), and the Rev. Melvin Jameson ('56).
Not long after the founding, Albion W. Tourgée ('62),
subsequently so noted as judge, editor, and author, was
initiated.
The Upsilon has had since 1858 thirty classes and a
hundred and eighty-nine members. The number of Psi
Upsilon graduates living in Rochester is greater than any
other society can claim; and many students from the city
enter the chapter. Socially this division of our order
stands very high.
Two conventions - those of 1866 and 1878, both memo-
rable gatherings
have been held in Rochester. The
quarto-centennial of the chapter was celebrated with ap-
propriate ceremonies, Feb. 12, 1883.
Two years after Upsilon's birth, a charter was granted
to Kenyon College, the leading exponent of Episcopal
influence in the west. Hitherto the society had refused
all applications foreign to New England or New York.
The Kenyon petitioners were warmly seconded by that
eminent Episcopal clergyman, John Cotton Smith (Kappa
'47). Nov. 24, 1860 — the birthdays of fraternity and
chapter being thus coincident—the Iota was established,
and intrusted to the following:
CLASS OF 1860.
Robert McNeilly.
CLASS OF 1861.
Mathew Mathews Gilbert.
Thomas Mackie Smith.
Erasmus Owen Simpson.
CLASS OF 1862.
Henry Lambton Curtis.
William Heathcote DeLancy
Grannis.
Charles Forrest Paine.
Oliver Hazard Perry.
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CLASS OF 1863.
Morton Elnathan Brasee.
Charles Ewing Boerstler.
Class of 1864.
| William Wilberforce Farr.
McNeilly is a physician in New-York City; Gilbert,
Simpson, Grannis, and Farr, all devoted Episcopal cler-
gymen, are no longer living; Smith is an officer in the
regular army; Curtis is a lawyer at Mount Vernon, O.;
Paine, a physician, lives at Troy, Penn; Perry, also a
physician, died in 1863; Brasee was graduated at Union,
became a lawyer, and died in 1870, in Columbus, O.;
Boerstler is a member of the bar of Lancaster, O. To
Mr. Charles D. McGuffey ('63), an early member at
Kenyon, we owe some of our best songs. Iota's total
membership, excluding initiates who have gone to other
chapters, is one hundred.
Nearly a quarter of a century has passed since Psi
Upsilon entered Kenyon College. During all that time
a high standard of membership has been maintained;
selections have been made with great care from the small
attendance of students, and yet no class has been omitted.
Iota's sons are known throughout the Fraternity for their
zealous spirit; and now, with an increased body of under-
graduates, and with the brightening prospects of the col-
lege, the chapter seems to be entering upon a new era of
prosperity.
Of the origin of the next branch, Professor Fiske
says:
"In the year 1865, Michigan's great and growing institution of learn-
ing, which had surprised the world by suddenly rising to the highest rank
almost in the midst of the primeval forest, became the seat of a chapter
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of Psi Upsilon. Its formation was preceded, as usual, by a long period
of vain endeavor. The applicants were members of the Lambda
Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi Society. The first petition was laid
before the convention by the Zeta Chapter in 1854, but no result fol-
lowed. The matter was pushed with steady zeal by members of suc-
cessive classes, until, at last, the convention of 1864, at the Psi, yielded
to the oft-repeated entreaties of the distant petitioners, and the Phi¹
Chapter was organized Jan. 26, 1865, ten years after the initiatory steps
were taken."
The rites were performed by Mr. Clifford B. Rossell
(Iota '65). The following undergraduates assumed the
badge: -
Abram Joseph Aldrich.
William Henry Barnes.
CLASS OF 1865.
1
James D H Cornelius.
John Barnes Root.
CLASS OF 1866.
| Alfred Eugene Mudge.
Henry Wright Hubbard.
CLASS OF 1867.
Albert McKee Henry.
Milton Jackson.
George Lewis Maris.
Joseph Aaron Mercer.
CLASS OF 1868.
Adoniram D Carter.
Galusha Pennell.
Thomas Cresswell.
Edward Lorraine Walter.
Root,
Aldrich edits "The Coldwater Republican;
who visited the chapters to obtain their consent to the
establishment of the new branch, died in 1876 at Rock-
ford, Ill.; Cresswell, a Chicago lawyer, died in 1870;
Barnes has been a member of the Illinois Legislature;
Hubbard is treasurer of the American Missionary Asso-
ciation, and lives in New-York City; Mudge is assistant
I This letter was suggested by a member of the Gamma.
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corporation counsel of Brooklyn; Henry is a lawyer and
prominent citizen of Detroit; Maris is principal of the
Friends' Central School, Philadelphia; Walter is pro-
fessor of modern languages in the university.
Associated with the preceding were sixteen alumni of
the older organization, among whom may be mentioned
Professor Charles K. Adams the historical writer; Mar-
tin L. D'Ooge, professor of Greek in the university;
Ex-Congressman McGowan; the well-known astronomer
Professor James C. Watson; the Hon. Orlando M.
Barnes; Drs. Henry M. Hurd and George C. Palmer,
superintendents of the two Michigan Insane Asylums;
the Hon. Bluford Wilson, afterwards solicitor of the
United-States Treasury Department; Mr. Schuyler Grant,
now residing in Detroit; and Arthur Everett, who was
particularly zealous in the work of obtaining a charter,
and who died ten years ago, while head of the high school
at Oshkosh, Wis. Another member of one of the earlier
classes was Mark W. Harrington, now professor of as-
tronomy in the university.
Nine alumni of the Phi have been connected with
the faculty of their alma mater; and at this time the
president and seven professors are members of Psi
Upsilon.
The chapter at once took, and has ever kept, the high
position which seems inseparable from the prestige of the
Fraternity. President (afterwards Bishop) Haven, whose
son soon became a member, favored the new organiza-
tion, and John M. Wheeler, Esq. (Theta '41), began that
long and careful guardianship which has won for him
the affection and gratitude of every Michigan initiate.
When, in the autumn of 1868, the Kappa Phi Lambda
Fraternity of the university gave up its charter, its desir-
able members entered the Phi in preference to all other
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societies. Early in 1869, through the liberality of the
Hon. Perry H. Smith (Psi '46), a constant friend of the
chapter, a large party of the members enjoyed an excur-
sion to Omaha.
The total membership of the Michigan chapter is two
hundred and two. In May, 1880, the Phi took possession
of its new house, built upon the most prominent site in
Ann Arbor, at an expense of fifteen thousand dollars.
The fifteenth branch of Psi Upsilon was established
in the University of Chicago, April 17, 1869, with the
following charter members :
CLASS OF 1869.
Adrian Carr Honoré.
William Brantley Keen, jun.
CLASS OF 1870.
Mahlon Ogden Jones.
CLASS OF 1871.
Louis Dyer.
CLASS OF 1872.
William Winchester Hall.
| Charles Densmore Wyman.
The first-named three are well-known residents of
Chicago. Dyer was graduated at Harvard in 1874, and
took the much-prized Taylorian scholarship at Baliol Col-
lege, Oxford. Wyman (an initiate of Upsilon) is a mem-
ber of the New-York bar. Another early member, Ed-
ward Olson, is professor of Greek in the university.
The once bright prospects of the Chicago institution
have been clouded by mismanagement and misfortune;
and the broad plans of Senator Douglas, which seemed
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in a fair way of being realized at the time when our soci-
ety, in response to the earnest appeals of resident alumni,
granted Omega's charter, have never come to fruition.
Yet the great city must ultimately provide for the head
of its educational system; and, in view of the certain
future, Psi Upsilon has preferred not to discontinue a
worthy branch, which has never failed of such measure of
success as the situation would permit. The chapter has
had eighty-six members, representing nineteen classes.
For the present the number of undergraduates is pur-
posely held at a small figure.
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Six years passed before the circle was again widened.
Genesee College, removed and enlarged, became Syra-
cuse University; and the Upsilon Kappa, a local society
founded in 1863 in the former institution, renewed an
application which had been before our Fraternity almost
constantly during nine years. In 1872 the consent of
all the chapters was actually obtained; but a somewhat
technical objection deferred the success of the petitioners
until June 8, 1875, when the Pi Chapter was instituted,'
the Gamma (Amherst) Chapter conducting the ceremo-
nies. The charter members were:-
Milton Dana Buck.
Chester Adgate Congdon.
James Morgan Gilbert.
CLASS OF 1875.
William Herbert Shuart.
Nathaniel Milliman Wheeler.
At the same time, ten students in the lower classes
became members of the chapter. The roll now includes
seventy-one names. In 1882 the Pi entertained one of
the most successful conventions ever held by the Fra-
I See the Syracuse Herald of June 9, 1875.
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ternity. Uniform prosperity and steadfast devotion to
the order have characterized the sixteenth chapter.
June 12, 1876, another important branch was added.
Cornell University had always been favored by many chap-
ters; but unanimous approval was obtained only after
years of petitioning. A preliminary organization was
formed in 1875, under the leadership of distinguished
graduates. The nucleus of the Chi Chapter was com-
posed of members initiated at other colleges, and of the
Phi Kappa Psi Society, which had kept up a flourishing
existence from 1869, and which now transferred its alle-
giance. The charter was confided to Professors Shack-
ford, Goldwin Smith, Prentiss, Boyesen, and Williams, to
Dr. Edward J. Morgan, and to the following:
CLASS OF 1875.
Ehrick Kensett Rossiter.
| Charles Stover.
CLASS OF 1876.
Charles Barclay.
Charles Francis Carpenter.
Frederick William Noyes.
Charles Ward Raymond.
Frank Elijah Heath.
CLASS OF 1877.
William Lloyd Deming.
Lyman Eugene Ware.
Arthur Ludwig Karl Volkman.
Fourteen other undergraduates were admitted at the
same time.
The installation was celebrated by public
literary exercises,¹ over which the venerable William Tay-
lor presided, and which were attended by many alumni and
prominent citizens. President Van Rensselaer of Hobart
College delivered an oration on "Loyalty," prefaced with
these words:
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"I congratulate you upon the auspicious beginning of your career,
upon the many advantages you enjoy at the outset — all the advantages
that the Fraternity enjoys throughout the country- the fellowship and
aid of distinguished scholars and experienced men, to keep you from
the snares and pitfalls that all young organizations are prone to fall
into."
A poem was read by the Rev. Professor Henry W. Par-
ker of Amherst, and many congratulatory letters were
received from absent graduates.
From the Hon. William E. Robinson:
"Be assured that I am with you in spirit, and that the heart of your
absent brother is still young in the cause of Psi Upsilon, and warm in
its love for the magic brotherhood."
From Professor Charles A. Aiken of Princeton:
"A very pleasant occasion to you, and great honor and prosperity
to the Chi! Χαίρετε, χαρίζεσθε!”
From the Rev. George H. Houghton, D.D.:
"It is a great honor, I assure you, to be ranked, as I am, with such
distinguished men and noble fellows. Cornell's chapter in the future
will let none other surpass her, if we may judge from the Saratoga
men."
From Gov. Alexander H. Rice of Massachusetts:
"I congratulate you most heartily on the organization of a chapter
of the Fraternity which afforded me so much happiness and instruction
during my college-life, and which I feel quite sure will find vigorous
growth and honorable fruitage under the auspices of your flourishing
university."
From George P. Quackenbos, LL.D., a founder of the
Columbia Chapter : —
"My best wishes for this centennial offspring of Psi Upsilon; and
the best wish I can offer is, that she may prove another worthy scion
of the time-honored stock."
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From James C. Watson, LL.D., the renowned astron-
omer:
"Be pleased to convey my best wishes and my congratulations to
the new chapter."
The Bishop of Iowa wrote:
"Will you kindly convey to the new brethren my fraternal saluta-
tions; and with best wishes for the lasting prosperity of the latest
born of the chapters, in which wish every member of the Alpha I am
sure would join, I am faithfully and fraternally,
'Yours in the bonds of Y
"WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY."
The society had always been represented at Cornell by
initiates from other colleges; so that Chi's roll, now in-
cluding a hundred and twenty names, reaches back to the
early classes. In the number and character of the resi-
dent graduates of older branches of Psi Upsilon, the chap-
ter has been peculiarly fortunate. Men like the Hon.
George W. Schuyler, Judge Francis M. Finch, President
White, Professors Babcock, Fiske, and Hewett, Messrs.
William Kinne, and William H. Sage, together with the
members of the faculty already mentioned as charter
members, have guarded the youthful organization.
The building-fund, now amounting to many thousand
dollars, will be used in a few weeks in the erection of a
costly chapter-house upon the university grounds.
In 1879 consent was given to the admission of an an-
cient and prosperous local society of Trinity College.
Founded in 1842, by William Upson Colt, the order of
Beta Beta had always stood high among the sodalities
I He was a B K, was graduated in 1844, became an Episcopal clergy-
man, and died Sept. 28, 1848. After him is named the corporate body of the
chapter.
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at Hartford, surpassing all others in the number of its
alumni, and being especially known for the superior
scholarship of its members. On its roll are the names of
many bishops, college presidents and professors, promi-
nent lawyers, and successful business-men.
It is said that the first suggestion of a change from
the local form came from the Rev. Alexander B. Craw-
ford (Zeta '76). The project met with approval among
the graduates of Trinity, and was heartily favored by
many chapters, but at one time success seemed doubtful.
However, by extraordinary effort all objections were
removed, and the charter was granted. The installation
purposely deferred until Feb. 4, 1880, the red-letter
day of Beta Beta was attended by a hundred and thirty
members, representing numerous chapters and classes.
Thirty-three alumni and the following students were in-
itiated as the charter members of the Beta Beta Chapter.
William Logan Crosby.
CLASS OF 1880.
Thomas Morduit Nelson George.
Orlando Holway.
Louis Albert Lanpher.
Arthur Eugene Pattison.
Lorin Webster.
CLASS OF 1881.
William Timothy Elmer.
William Stanley Emery.
Charles Waring Jones.
Ernest August Kempe.
CLASS OF 1882.
Augustus Phillips Burgwin.
Clarence Carpenter.
Charles Silas Coleman.
Fred Holbrook Greene.
John Henry McCrackan.
Nicholas Williams McIvor,
Charles Zebina Gould.
CLASS OF 1883.
Elisha Norwin Child, jun.
Edward Lawton Dockray.
Horatio Lee Golden.
William Alfred Jackson.
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After the initiation came a supper, and literary exer-
cises, which took place at the Allyn House, and over which
Edward M. Gallaudet, Ph.D., LL.D., president of the
National Deaf-Mute College, presided. A poem abound-
ing in beautiful passages, and full of tender allusions, was
read by the Rev. Alexander Mackay-Smith, rector of
Grace Church, Brooklyn. One of the stanzas follows :—
Ah, tender love that never fades,
Mother of scholars! in thy breast,
As weary with the years, we come
Briefly within thy arms to rest,
We need to feel it —ay, to know
That what thou hast been, still thou art ;
That though thy brow
Be wreathed with snow,
Thou bearest still a changeless heart."
Speeches in response to toasts were made by William
Hamersley, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell, the
Rev. Orlando Witherspoon, Charles Dudley Warner, the
Hon. Henry C. Robinson, Mr. William C. Hicks, and by
the delegates of the different chapters. Then were read
letters of congratulation — all expressing the heartiest
interest in the Fraternity and chapter from the Rev.
Samuel Goodale, D.D., one of the founders of Psi Up-
silon; the Rev. Francis J. Clerc, D.D., one of the founders
of Beta Beta; Bishops Paddock, Niles, and Scarborough;
the Rev. Drs. Dexter, Dix, Douglass, Houghton, Purdy,
Scudder, and Townsend; Presidents Angell and Seelye;
Gen. Hawley, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Dean Gray of
the Cambridge Theological School, Professor Goodwin
of Harvard, the Hon. Dwight Foster, Judge Van Vorst,
Gen. Samuel A. Duncan of New-York City, and many
others.I
* The Diamond of May, 1880, contains a valuable sketch of Beta Beta, and
of its installation as a chapter, and prints the poem in full.
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Since its admission, the Beta Beta has had one vale-
dictorian and all the salutatorians of Trinity. The schol-
arly bearing and fraternal zeal of this new yet old chapter,
have won for it a permanent place in the affections of the
society; and the handsome stone lodge now building at
Hartford attests the love of the graduates for their an-
cient order thus perpetuated as a branch of a general
Fraternity, whose purposes and achievements have always
been very similar to those of Beta Beta. Forty-five
classes with a hundred and eighty-six names constitute
the chapter's catalogue.
More than three years ago, a movement to obtain a
charter began in the Lehigh University. It was guided
by two Psi Upsilons in the faculty, and received the hearty
support of our alumni throughout Pennsylvania. In favor
of the petition (first presented in May, 1881) were urged
the high character and vast endowment of the univer-
sity, the scholarly record of the applicants (from whose.
ranks have come three valedictorians and two salutato-
rians), and the ownership of a large and finely-built chap-
ter-house acquired through graduate liberality. During
the later stages of the probationary period, an organiza-
tion was kept up under the name of "Phi Theta Psi,"
reviving memories of an extinct sophomore society formed
at Yale in 1864, by men pledged to Psi Upsilon.
After long and careful consideration, the unanimous
assent required by our usages was given; and the Eta,
the ninth branch put forth in forty years, was instituted
Friday afternoon, Feb. 22, 1884, in presence of many
alumni and delegates. Public literary exercises were
held in the opera-house, the Hon. Francis P. Dewees
1 Bethlehem Daily Times, Feb. 23, 1884. The Diamond, March, 1884.
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(Theta '53), whose son is one of the new initiates, pre-
siding. After prayer by the Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer,
the Hon. Albion W. Tourgée delivered an oration, and
Professor Edward H. Williams, jun., read a poem. With
a supper at the Eagle Hotel, for which ninety-three covers
were laid, closed an important day in Psi Upsilon his-
tory. Among the attending graduates other than those
already named were the Rev. Cornelius Earle (who aided
in founding the Lambda Chapter forty-two years ago), the
Hon. Paul D. Morrow, and Messrs. Bridgman and Bangs
of the executive council.
Eta's charter is confided to Professors Edward H. Wil-
liams, jun. (Beta '72), and Henry C. Johnson (Chi '73),
to Mr. William D. Holmes (Chi '81), and to the petition-
ers whose names follow:
Walter Briggs.
Hedley Vicars Cooke.
George Francis Duck.
CLASS OF 1882.
Charles Comstock Hopkins.
CLASS OF 1883.
Garrett Linderman Hoppes.
Preston Albert Lambert.
George Leighton.
Henry Allebach Porterfield.
Alfred Edmond Forstall.
CLASS OF 1884.
Robert Grier Cooke.
Lewis Buckley Semple.
Harry Hurd Hillegas.
Augustus Parker Smith.
William Richmond Pinckney.
James Angus Watson.
CLASS OF 1885.
Theodore Weld Birney.
Clarence Moncure Tolman.
Joseph Davis Brodhead.
William Jones Brown Walker.
John Wesley Peale.
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Charles Ellsworth Clapp.
Harry Orlando Koller.
Paul Douglass Millholland.
Augustus Stoughton Ross.
CLASS OF 1886.
William Patterson Taylor.
Thomas John Williams.
Hugh Washington Wilson.
CLASS OF 1887.
George Hamilton Ayres.
Herman Hoffman Birney.
Lewis Loeser Dewees.
Eugene Diven,
John Hammond Fertig.
Ralph William Lee.
Elmer Ellis Snyder.
William Herman Wilhelm.
The prospects of the new chapter are very bright.
Recapitulating the branches whose annals have been
so briefly referred to, we have this roll:
1. Theta, Union College, 1833.
2. Delta, University of the City of New York, 1837.
3. Beta, Yale College, 1839.
4. Sigma, Brown University, 1840.
5. Gamma, Amherst College, 1841.
6. Zeta, Dartmouth College, 1842.
7. Lambda, Columbia College, 1842.
8. Kappa, Bowdoin College, 1843.
9. Psi, Hamilton College, 1843-
10. Xi, Wesleyan University, 1843.
11. Alpha, Harvard College, 1850.
12. Upsilon, University of Rochester, 1858.
13. Iota, Kenyon College, 1860.
14. Phi, University of Michigan, 1865.
15. Omega, University of Chicago, 1869.
16. Pi, Syracuse University, 1875.
17. Chi, Cornell University, 1876.
18. Beta Beta, Trinity College, 1880.
19. Eta, The Lehigh University, 1884.
Of the nineteen branches, only one lacks a present
undergraduate membership. Of the eighteen others, all
save one- and that one was but briefly inactive-have
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held meetings uninterruptedly from the first. The aver-
age age of the chapters exceeds thirty years. No chapter
has suffered a change of name. No chapter has been
removed from its first site. In each college the Psi Up-
silon has a distinct, an interesting, and an honorable
history, from which every member can derive abundant
reason for satisfaction and thankfulness.
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The table following gives a connected view of our
institutions:¹

NAME.
Earliest
Class.
Locality.
Denomination.
Graduates.
Undergrad-
uates.
Union Collège
Univ. of City of N.Y....
Yale College...
Brown University.
Amherst College.
Dartmouth College.
Columbia College. ↓
Bowdoin College.
Hamilton College.
...
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1797 Schenectady, N.Y. Non-sectarian.
4,646 170
Non-sectarian.
896 102
1702 New Haven, Conn. Congregational. 9,608 617
1833 New-York City.
1769 Providence, R.I.
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1821 Amherst, Mass.
1771 Hanover, N.H.
1758 New-York City.
1806 Brunswick, Me.
1814 Clinton, N.Y.
Wesleyan University... 1833 Middletown, Conn.
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Harvard College... 1642 Cambridge, Mass.
University of Rochester. 1851 Rochester, N.Y.
Kenyon College.
1829 Gambier, O.
University of Michigan. 1845 Ann Arbor, Mich.
University of Chicago.. 1857 Chicago, Ill.
Syracuse University..
3,073 260
Congregational. 2,761 321
Congregational. 4,440 233
Baptist.
Protestant Epis.
2,967 556
Congregational.
2,092 107
Presbyterian.
2,322 21O
Methodist Epis.
Non-sectarian.
Baptist.
1,343 200
10,254 905
837 131
534 63
Protestant Epis.
Non-sectarian.
1,821 546
Baptist.
279 35
1871 Syracuse, N.Y.
Methodist Epis.
506 192
Non-sectarian.
895 439
Trinity College
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1827 Hartford, Conn.
Protestant Epis.
844 63
The Lehigh University. 1869 Bethlehem, Penn.
Protestant Epis.
138 231
...
Cornell University 1869 Ithaca, N.Y.
....
1 The N. Y. U., it is said, will soon pass into Presbyterian hands. The
figures given exclude all honorary and professional graduates, and in the cases
of Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard, all alumni of the scientific schools. Eight-
ninths of Columbia's graduates, and two-thirds of those of Michigan, re-
ceived the degree of B.A. Two hundred and seven of the degrees credited to
Syracuse were conferred at Genesee College. The undergraduate figures
include none but academic students, although two hundred and eighty-two
members of the school of mines at Columbia are counted.
KEY BADGE
ORIGINAL BADGE
MONOGRAM BADGE
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CHAPTER II.
INSIGNIA.
"Brothers of the sacred order,
Let the badge in brightness shine,
With the gleaming golden border,
And the letters' mystic sign.
Loving friends are they forever,
Whom that badge is fixed upon, —
Friends whom naught on earth can sever,
Brothers in Psi Upsilon."
JAMES DEMILLE (Sigma '54).
THE badge is a diamond-shaped pin of gold, bearing on
a black enamelled field, within a gold border, two clasped
hands, with “+” above, and "Y" below. Upon the back
are traced the owner's name, class, and chapter letter, as
also his peculiar Greek symbols. Of the origin of the
badge, the Hon. Clarkson Nott Potter, LL.D., who was
initiated in 1839, spoke not long before his death :
• • •
"It is now nearly fifty years since, toward the close of a summer
day, a young man was looking out of an upper window in the South
College at Union. Just then another student entered, and the two
friends fell to talking together of the beauty of the sight, of the college,
and college affairs. Presently two other friends joined them, and their
conversation turned upon the societies of the college, and the need there
was of a new society. At last, as it grew dark, the visitors arose to
leave. It had already been decided that these young men would en-
deavor to establish a new fraternity. The four stood for a moment with
their hands clasped across. 'Good-night, thine cordially,' said the
visitors as they departed. 'Good-night, thine always,' responded to
each the one who remained.
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"It was thus, as I have heard, that our Fraternity was first suggested.
It is to this casual parting that we owe the four-sided rhomboidal badge,
with its emblem of clasped hands. It was by these men and by their
three associates that the society was established."
Mr. Martindale says that the selection of a design was
confided to a committee, each member of the committee
to furnish one. He remembers that he was on the com-
mittee, and that his design was rejected as too prepos-
terously like a kite; but he was consoled by a like fate
having befallen all the others, some for one defect, and
some for another. The badge finally adopted was de-
signed by an expert familiar with the business, — a Mr.
Luke F. Newland, who was connected with a manufac-
turer in Albany, and who must have been informed of the
incident related by Mr. Potter. He always spoke of our
badge as one of his master-pieces.
The figure of the pin is known in heraldry as the loz-
enge, a charge occasionally, but not frequently, borne.
upon escutcheons, and itself susceptible of bearing other
figures; but it was seen many years ago that the Greek
cross (having four equal arms) is peculiarly suited to the
outline of the combined letters and hands; and the sug-
gestion is made, that, whenever the heraldic shield of
the Fraternity is depicted, the cross be used instead of the
lozenge.
The pins were first publicly worn in June, 1834. There
were ten in the first lot ordered, and they cost ten dollars
apiece. A facsimile of the badge worn for fifty years by
the Rev. Mr. Goodale appears in one of the illustrations
of this chapter. The back of the original is flat, and
bears the following in small capitals:
SAML. GOODALE
· U. ColleGE
- 1833-
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The "y" and "y" are smaller than we are accustomed
to see them, and the open, foliate border is quite unlike
the present style; but the general effect is the same:
in all important particulars the diamond comes to us
unchanged through the changing years. Indeed, a recur-
rence to the precise type of half a century ago would be
a wise movement. Those who shall choose the old badge
will lose nothing in point of artistic beauty.
A pin of about the same size, but having a closed bor-
der and larger letters, came into use among the immediate
successors of the founders; and this, or something like
it, was the prevailing style in the earlier years of the
Fraternity. It is still the badge at Yale, and is frequently
worn at other colleges by sons of old alumni. Smaller
pins, bordered with pearls (often with rubies, emeralds,
or garnets in the corners), began to be used in several
chapters about twenty years ago. They became very
popular, but seem to be losing ground. A heavy badge,
without jewels, has lately been adopted at Brown. At
Hamilton a broad, chased-gold border, medium size, not
jewelled, prevails. The Trinity Chapter has chosen a
badge with a simple "roll" border.
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The chapter letter-connected with the badge by a
minute chain is occasionally seen at
some colleges. At Trinity a guard-pin,
composed of the letters "BB" within
an inwreathed serpent, accompanies the
badge, to commemorate the old pin of
the order of Beta Beta. Similarly, but
less frequently, the Syracuse men attach
to the diamond the badge of Upsilon
Kappa as a chapter-pin.
BADGE OF BETA
BETA.
1 This was an eight-pointed star: upon the face, four shields are enamelled
in black; on the upper and lower of these are the letters "Y" and…“ K,” and
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"Four Years at Yale" says that the Psi Upsilon badge
is the neatest of the pins worn by the three great chap-
tered societies. The diamond shape, though not the sim-
plicity of the design, has been imitated by many younger
societies, — by Delta Kappa Epsilon (1844), Phi Gamma
Delta (1848), Sigma Delta (1849), Sigma Alpha Epsilon
(1856), Delta Beta Phi (1878).
A "skeleton" pin, formed by placing the "Y” (usu-
ally ornamented with pearls or precious stones) over the
"," is sometimes worn by graduates. The very satis-
factory monogram shown in the picture of the badges was
designed by Messrs. Roehm & Wright of Detroit, from
whom also comes the beautiful and effective leaf-border
which adorns the key-badge. The double-faced badge,
with an attachment for winding the watch, was recom-
mended for graduate-use by the convention of 1872.
Similar sanction was given in 1881 to a more complex
key, which introduces the owl and sundry other em-
blems. Rings, scarf-pins, studs, cuff-buttons, etc., formed
of or displaying the badge, the letters, the clasped hands,
or the owl and fasces, are often seen. And the fancy of
alumni has even changed the black enamel to blue or
purple.
But the diamond as described in the opening of this
chapter is, and must always remain, the badge proper.
This, undergraduates are required to wear; and graduates
seem to prefer it to the monogram or the key. College
professors do not, as a rule, display badges during term-
time, unless on some special occasion. Yet it is not
always safe to conclude that the badge is not present,
because it is not visible. Several years ago, a new-comer
in one of our colleges, who had heard something of the
on the right and left shields are " and "." The shields are parted by the
arms of a Maltese cross, and the border is formed of a rim of frosted gold.
•
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society, happening to sit at dinner next to one of the grave
embodiments of learning, improved the opportunity, and
electrified the company, by inquiring whether there were
any Psi Upsilon men in the institution, asking also about
the character and standing of those supposititious persons.
The professor assured his questioner that the president,
seven or eight of the faculty, and twoscore students
were members, but excused himself from giving further
evidence (here he opened his coat, displaying the badge)
on the ground that he was an interested party.
Allusions to
"The badge we're proud to wear,"
and to its symbolic meaning, abound in our literature,
particularly in the song-book. Prófessor Boyesen's
"Star Song" is particularly beautiful.
"From sable field of primal night
Arose the diamond star of light:
From firmament of darkness dread,
O'er all the land her lustre shed.
"And as that star with placid sheen
Amid the night shall shine serene,
So stand, with steady heart and true,
We, faithful to our loved Psi U.
"As hand of flame clasps hand of flame
Between the signs of mystic name,
So may in friendship's noble band
Each by his brother firmly stand.
"Thus star and hands and sable field,
Conjoined, a deeper meaning yield,
Shine mid a world of woe and strife,
As symbols of a perfect life."
Innumerable are the anecdotes told in connection with
the diamond. Henry W. Adams, an original member of
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the Wesleyan Chapter, wore his badge every day from the
time of his initiation, Nov. 20, 1843, to his death, which
occurred Sept. 21, 1881.
The Hon. Joseph W. Gott, one of the first initiates,
lost his badge at a public meeting in a grove near Goshen,
N.Y. Twenty years later it was found, quite untarnished,
in the same grove, and was returned to the owner, whose
son afterwards wore it at Yale.
From an early issue of "The Diamond" is taken the
following: -
"Many years ago, a member of one of the chapters in the State of
New York went directly from his American college to one of the uni-
versities of Sweden, where he continued to wear his badge, which was
always an object of interest to his Scandinavian fellow-students. Many
were the questions which the wearer of the badge was obliged to answer
in regard to the association typified by the symbol of black and gold.
At that time, Prince Augustus, Duke of Dalecarlia, son of the then
king, and youngest brother of the present reigning monarch, was in
attendance at the university. One evening he chanced to give an enter-
tainment to a considerable number of the university's members, among
whom was the American alluded to. In the course of the festivities,
Prince Augustus casually noticed the Psi Upsilon badge, and at once
asked, 'What is the badge on your breast? I always supposed that
you had no orders in your democratic country.' The character of the
Psi Upsilon was at once explained to the prince, and the badge was
taken off, and handed to him for a nearer view. After looking at it, he
attached it to his vest, and then said, 'It's very pretty; much prettier
than our Swedish royal orders, the badges of which are all big and
ugly. Isn't it possible to establish a chapter of the Psi Upsilon here
in the university? or must all its members be republican? I should
like to know what goes on at its meetings.' His Highness made many
other flattering remarks of the same sort, and kindly remembered to
return the golden lozenge at the end of the evening. It is not known
that any other prince of royal blood ever wore the Psi Upsilon badge.”
The American student was Professor Fiske.
The major emblem of our Fraternity, the clasped hands,
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has already been mentioned. Next in importance and
in frequency of use comes that referred to in the first line
of Professor Fiske's humorous stanza:
"On the fasces sits the owl,
Tu-whit, tu-whew!
Never lived so proud a fowl,
Tu-whit, tu-whew!
Pallas-like in voice and scowl,
Utters he this gentle howl, —
'Tu-whit, tu-whew!
Psi U, Psi U;
Oh, I'm the owl of old Psi U!'
Mr. Charles Dudley Warner declares that there is no
bird more worthy of respect than the round-eyed attend-
ant of Pallas-Athene;¹ and, indeed, the owl has always
been regarded with reverence by the society, which re-
sents the occasional attempts of younger organizations
to borrow its plumage.
The fasces may be seen in the catalogue of 1844; and
in the song-book of 1857 we read this stanza:
"Now pack the many shafts in one,
And bind them round and round;
And be their firm united strength
Again with laurel bound."
A combination of the owl and fasces, the latter bound
by the motto Fit via vi, forms the seal of the executive
council, and is printed on the cover of the catalogue of
1870, and on the titlepage of the catalogue of 1879.
The several chapters also have emblems, which appear
in the vignettes preceding the lists in the later catalogues,
and which form the burden of two stanzas of the old
"Fraternity Song: "-
1 Mummies and Moslems, p. 357.
Insignia.
"From mystic Theta's rocky throne,
From Delta's altar-fire,
From Beta's secret walls of stone,
From Psi's fair letter-lyre,
Where Zeta's victor ægis guards,
Where Kappa's hour-sands flow,
Form heart and hand a noble band,
In Psi Upsilon, O.
"Where Sigma's crown gleams overhead,
Where Lambda's torch shines far,
Where Xi's exultant wings are spread,
'Neath Gamma's polar star,
From Alpha's dome, Upsilon's dove,
Iota's beacon-glow,
Her songs unite with warmest love
In Psi Upsilon, O.”
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It is hoped that the author of this popular song (George
P. Smith, Esq., Lambda, '66) will add verses incorpo-
rating the emblems of the later chapters, which are:
Phi, a crowned heart; Omega, an eye; Pi, a Maltese
cross; Chi, hands; Beta Beta, a wreathed serpent; Eta,
the rising sun.
The emblems, both general and special, are used in a
great variety of prints. Perhaps the happiest combina-
tion of them is the frontispiece of the catalogues of 1870
and 1879.
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The long line of college annuals, commencing with
"The Yale Banner" of 1841, has given rise to an inter-
esting series of engravings, wherein the emblems find
full play. The "scroll-work poster," an original and
artistic cut, was designed for the catalogue of 1844,
and it appears in most of the early catalogues and
song-books. The Sigma Chapter used it in "The Liber
Brunensis" until 1883; it was printed in "The (Amherst)
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SCROLL-WORK POSTER.
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Olio" until 1872, and in "The Yale Banner" until 1870
(now a smaller vignette, of the same pattern, with the letter
"B" in place of "1833," is used at Yale); and it adorns
the cover of "The Diamond." Combining simplicity and
beauty with the dignity of age, it is earnestly commended
to the attention of Psi Upsilon editors of the college an-
nuals. Probably a very general return to this poster will
soon take place. In some old numbers of "The Yale
Banner" is a less elaborate scroll, carrying simply the
society's letters and the clasped hands.
Another very handsome design represents the badge
surrounded by the chapter letters, enclosed in a wreath
of oak and laurel, with “1833” in rays above, and “Fra-
ternity" upon a scroll below. This is printed on the
covers of the catalogues of 1852 and 1864, and of all the
song-books issued before 1870. A similar cut, with a
large "A," a torch, and "1842" (all below the scroll), has
for many years prefaced Psi Upsilon's page in "The
Columbiad."
A third and formerly frequent poster displays the
badge between branches of oak and laurel, “1833” above,
and below a book supported by the branches, and bearing
an antique lamp. This appeared for many years in "The
(Rochester) Interpres," and in "The (Wesleyan) Olla Po-
drida." From the latter publication it was exiled last year,
in favor of a new cut, wherein is pictured a monogram of
the fraternity and chapter letters, surrounded by a serpent,
and by eighteen stars typifying the chapters; above is
a globe with expanded wings; and below, resting upon a
book, are a skull and an hourglass: the whole is set upon
a lined ground.
A simple but effective design consists of the badge set
off by rays, within a rectangular arboreal frame, which is
surmounted by a crown. In a scroll below is "1833."
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This is the best of the three posters that have been used
at Kenyon.
"The (Bowdoin) Bugle" has long contained the fol-
lowing: a monogram of the "" and "Y," ornamented
by stars, and bearing the clasped hands; above this the
chapter letter "K;" on each side a white star; below,
"1833." The whole rests on a clouded ground bright-
ened by rays of light.
One of the best cuts appeared in "The (Michigan Uni-
versity) Palladium" from 1866 to 1871, — a badge, set off
with rays, and surrounded by vine-leaves; “ 1833” above;
below, a book and a Pompeian lamp. Adding chapter
letter and date, this has been employed by the Omega
(Chicago) Chapter.
The poster used at Amherst since 1872, and, with a
change of letter, for several years at Michigan University,
faces this page.
In old numbers of "The (Dartmouth) Ægis" can be
found a sombre but handsome woodcut, representing a
large "Z,” which stands behind a badge of about its own
height. At the base is "1833," in a scroll; above is an
arch of thirteen white stars, all on a clouded background.
This was unwisely discarded in 1873, for a picture, first
used in the catalogue of 1870, and representing a moss-
grown temple, in front of which is a broken column bear-
ing the letter “ Z.”
The poster of the Union Chapter is an arched opening
in a wall: on the keystone are inscribed the letter ","
and "1833;" and the archway reveals a "pearl" badge,
with book, skull, and scroll.
A picture sometimes used by the Psi Chapter consists
of a large letter "," bearing the badge, with “1833”
above, and “ Hamilton College" in a scroll below.
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a temple of mingled Greek and Egyptian architecture: a
badge ornaments the tightly-closed door; the cornice is
adorned by the chapter letters; and on the roof sits the
owl, with a padlock in its mouth.
The elaborate poster of the Beta Beta (Trinity) Chapter
was first used in 1881.
A circular design, of which the central figure is a large
"X" across which two hands are clasped, with a border
composed of the date "MDCCCXXXIII” and of the
society's letters many times repeated, has represented the
Cornell Chapter, except in 1883, when it was displaced by
a bold sketch of the owl and fasces.
In 1883 "The Liber Brunensis" and "The (Rochester)
Interpres" came out with new illustrations, printed from
steel plates. Both designs, particularly Sigma's, are hand-
some; but one cannot help remarking that woodcuts are
better for these purposes. Again is urged a return to the
scroll-work poster.
The Lehigh petitioners, while waiting for their charter,
used a design (see p. 70) which to many Yale members
will recall their sophomore society.
Note-paper and envelopes furnish another field for so-
ciety insignia. Some chapters print the badge alone;
others, like Bowdoin and Wesleyan, have elaborate steel
engravings; and the number of stamps, seals, crests, and
monograms in use among the several branches, or by
individual members, is so large that it was difficult to make
the selections which appear in the picture of chapter
monograms (see p. 60). The originals were nearly all
traced on steel or copper, and some of the best are of
necessity omitted.
Undergraduates often adorn the walls of their rooms
with enlarged badges or monograms, carved in black wal-
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nut or other suitable wood; and we often see attempts at
symbolism in the decorations, both external and internal,
of chapter-houses.
The Fraternity colors, garnet and gold, were chosen
in 1878. The former may have been selected in honor of
the parent chapter, being the college color of Union, and

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In earlier years
there were chapter colors, gray, cherry (said to be still
in use at Columbia), garnet, purple, purple and straw,
black and gold. Dahlia or reddish-purple was the color
of Beta Beta (Trinity), and garnet was the color of the
Upsilon Kappa society at Syracuse.
The open motto chiefly used is Fit via vi (Virg., Æn. ii.
494). An older but less frequent legend — Nóµ5” údελøovç
Insignia.
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Toùs ůhŋliovs píλovç (Menand., Frag.) — appears on the
titlepages of many catalogues. There are few chapter
mottoes: the Phi has a poster containing the words
Con corde corona, and the Beta Beta's old quotation was
Procul, o, procul, este profani (Virg., Æn. vi. 258).
CHAPTER III.
GENERAL ORGANIZATION.
"Let us all remember that there is not much abiding power in organization
merely. A society is always just what its members make it by their character;
nothing more, nothing less.
JAMES B. ANGELL (Sigma '49).
In its outward aspect the organization of the Fraternity
consists of three elements, the chapters, the convention,
and the executive council. To these may be added a
fourth, the numerous associations of alumni.
Of the legal relations of the chapters to one another
and to the society at large, little can be said here. The
different branches, whether old or young, large or small,
have always stood on a footing of absolute equality. No
chapter has ever been invested with the leadership. It
has never been possible to establish a new branch against
the will of any existing one. Thus, after the Union
Chapter had taken the first step towards forming the
third (Yale) charge, it was necessary, in the words of
Mr. Robinson, to obtain the assent of all the chapters,
then only two. With a few necessary limitations, the
chapters are autonomous.
One can speak with less reserve of the social relations
of the various branches. Judge Van Vorst, referring to
the time when there were only two chapters, says that
the intimacy between the Theta and the Delta was close
and cordial. For some years the Delta and Lambda
held their meetings together. Since the circle has grown
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wider, numerous agencies — occasional changes of mem-
bership, frequent visits, and the conventions and other
re-unions — serve to acquaint the several groups with
each other. Often, too, a father and son, or two or more
brothers, have been initiated at different colleges, thus
strengthening the fraternal bond by family ties. Many a
chapter traces its prosperity to the labors and contribu-
tions of members elsewhere admitted.
The development of the convention is full of interest.
One reads with no little curiosity the old records, — the
lists of delegates whose names are now eminent, the
newspaper reports of literary exercises, the notes pre-
served by early members of festal gatherings in the long
ago.
For the first three years, while there were no alumni
and no branches, a formal convention was not needed.
From 1837 to 1839 annual re-unions seem to have been
held at Schenectady about Commencement time. The
memorial oration on David Humphreys was delivered
"before the Theta and Delta Chapters," Wednesday,
July 24, 1839. It has been said that there was a conven-
tion in New-York City in the fall of 1839, but careful
inquiry leads to the belief that those who at first gave
this date really meant the convention of 1841. Thurs-
day, June 25, 1840, delegates from three chapters assem-
bled in New Haven. The Hon. George H. Moore (Delta
'42) writes that he was a delegate, and says, “We had a
fine time." This may have been the origin of a descrip-
tive phrase that has been applied to several later re-
unions.
In 1841 four chapters (for Brown University had now
been admitted) gathered in New-York City, agreeably to
the following call, published in "The Tribune: "
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PSI UPSILON.
A convention of delegates from the several branches
of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity will be holden on Friday, Oct. 22, at
two o'clock P.M., in the chapel of the University of the City of New
York. All members of the Fraternity are invited to attend.
CLARKSON N. POTTER, Union College.
WILLIAM E. ROBINSON, Yale College.
WILLIAM P. BREED, New-York University.
J. M. PHIPPS, Brown University.
Over this conclave Joseph W. Gott presided. Forty-
four members were present, of whom men now known
as the Hon. William Taylor, Judge Van Vorst, the Hon.
Isaac Dayton, Professor Daniel B. Hagar, and the Hon.
Alexander H. Rice represented Union; the Hon. George
H. Moore, William Allen Butler, and the Rev. Drs.
Houghton and Scudder appeared for the New-York Uni-
versity; while the Rev. Charles H. Hall, D.D., and the
Rev. Alexander H. Clapp, D.D., stood for Yale. Among
the measures considered were the publication of a cata-
logue, the establishment of a chapter in Amherst Col-
lege, a system of correspondence between the chapters,
and the holding of an annual convention "with literary
exercises." A committee of nine was appointed to make
arrangements for the next assembly, which it was deter-
mined should be held in the city of New York, “during
the anniversary week of the various moral and religious
societies." The minutes tell us that, after adjournment,
the convention was invited to supper by the Delta Chap-
ter, when "for two hours all enjoyed such a flow of soul,
of eloquence, and of song, as we trust will not soon be
forgotten by any one who was present."
If there was a convention in 1842, as evidently was
intended, we have no record of it. Yet it seems probable
that one was held. In 1843, July 26 and 27, thirty-six
members, representing the seven chapters, celebrated at
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Schenectady the decennial of the Fraternity. William
H. Willcox (Delta '43) presided. It is interesting to note
that many of the delegates of 1843 attended the semi-
centennial forty years later. This convention initiated
four candidates as the nucleus of a chapter at Hamilton;
referred to the chapters, with approval, a petition from
Wesleyan; and, thus early voicing the cautious spirit of
our society, voted that, in its opinion, no new chapter should
be formed thereafter, unless upon very urgent grounds.
The supper took place at Tapping's Hotel, and we are as-
sured that there were great rejoicings at the remarkable
progress and prosperity of the Psi Upsilon.
The convention of 1844 met under the auspices of the
Amherst Chapter. All the ten chapters sent delegates,
among whom were "Richelieu" Robinson, William Allen
Butler, and Galusha A. Grow. Words of encouragement
were conveyed to the Sigma, then laboring under the op-
position of President Wayland.
The conventions at Yale (1845), Dartmouth (1846), and
Brown (1847) call for no particular comment. Each was
attended by men who have since become very prominent.
The vexed question of extension, and the selection of a
device for a Fraternity seal, occupied the business hours
of these gatherings.
Aug. 1, 2, 1848, there was a convention with the Xi
Chapter in Middletown, Conn. Harvey Jewell delivered
the oration, and Francis M. Finch, who had just finished
junior at Yale, read a poem entitled "The Falling Star,"
closing with three stanzas of the now celebrated song,
"The Mystical Bower." Senator Hawley, whose report
to his chapter forms our best record of this convention,
says that after the poem the Yale delegates sang to a
delighted audience another of Finch's well-known songs,
the "Anthem."
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The closing words of the report are worth repeating.
They apply equally well to all later conventions:
"I have attempted to give you a slight sketch of the proceedings of
this convention; but of the true manly affection which marked all their
intercourse, the strong love for our brotherhood, and the high estimate
of its excellence manifested, I can give you no idea.
"If there is any brother who grows weary in well doing, underval-
uing his privileges and solemn duties as a Psi Upsilon, I wish him to
attend a general convention, and by association with the noblest young
men of our country, learn from them its objects, its effect upon the
character, and its true value.
"Yours, brethren, in Psi Upsilon bonds,
"JOSEPH R. HAWLEY."
In 1849 nine colleges were called together by the
Lambda Chapter in New-York City, and, one year later,
seven branches were represented at Bowdoin. We can
now trace the origin of the custom which passes the con-
vention from one chapter to another, in the order of estab-
lishment, and which never has been departed from unless
for some extraordinary reason. This usage is one of the
many evidences of the orderly manner in which all the
society's proceedings have been conducted. In the two
assemblies just mentioned, the Brown Chapter was em-
powered to take measures to maintain its foothold, but a
proposition to allow the initiation of President Wayland
found no favor.
The convention of 1851 met at Hamilton College, nine
chapters sending delegates. The transactions of this con-
clave were important. A chapter previously organized at
Harvard was admitted to full fellowship. The catalogue
became a subject of much discussion. Then was brought
forward a project which resulted in the appointment of a
committee to carry out this resolution :
"Resolved, That the Psi Upsilon Fraternity do contribute a stone
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for the Washington Monument, bearing the name of the Fraternity, the
date of its foundation, and the badge.”
At the next convention this committee reported prog-
ress, and
year after
year, until 1866, the matter came up.
A sum of money was actually raised; but either the project
did not arouse enthusiasm, or it was not well managed.
The subscriptions were returned, and the monument re-
mained without a Psi Upsilon stone, and without prospect
of completion, until some of those very delegates voted
in Congressional halls a national appropriation for the
cause they had advocated in less prominent, if more ex-
clusive, circles a generation before.
A memorial for the establishment of a periodical maga-
zine devoted to Fraternity interests was presented in 1851.
The project was referred to the next convention, which
declared it impracticable; but the scheme was renewed
from time to time, until the appearance of "The Dia-
mond" under private auspices in 1878.
Fraternity extension was the most important subject
with which the assemblies of this period had to deal.
The demands from the South and West were especially
urgent. The University of Michigan received the sup-
port of the convention of 1854, failing, however, to get
the votes of all the chapters. The University of Wis-
consin, first proposed at the convention of 1852, and
heartily seconded by alumni, was similarly rejected. The
convention of 1858 threw out another petition from Wis-
consin, notwithstanding a favorable report, so remarkable
that it is reproduced here :
"It seems that there are twenty-five or more graduate Psi Upsilons in
Wisconsin who wish to have a charter granted to them. The Legisla-
ture of the State and the Board of Regents have requested that our
Fraternity grant a chapter to their State university. The faculty of
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the said university have requested the same, and promised no other so-
ciety a hold in the college."
The convention of 1852 was held at Schenectady, July
26 and 27, all the chapters being represented. Then came
the second decennial convention, which was assigned to
the young and powerful Harvard Chapter. An old print
thus announces the gathering:
DEAR SIR,
ALPHA CHAPTER,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., May, 1853-
The Annual Convention of the Psi Upsilon Frater-
nity for 1853 will be held in Cambridge, on Thursday and Friday,
July 21 and 22.
The oration will be delivered by brother E. P. Whipple, and the
poem by brother John G. Saxe, on Friday. As this will be the first
public meeting of the Fraternity at Harvard, a full attendance is most
earnestly desired.
HARVARD COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE, May 20, 1853.
JOHN. D. BRYANT,
WM. S. DAVIS,
B. J. JEFFRIES.
Committee.
All the chapters were present, and many brethren as-
sembled to rejoice at the vigintennial of the only Frater-
nity whose every branch was living and prosperous. The
supper ode—in four stanzas, to the air of "Sparkling
and Bright”—contains the following allusion to Mr.
Saxe :
"A man came down from a Vermont town,
And returned without any 'tile' on ;
But 'No matter,' they said, 'for we've covered his head
With the glory of Psi Upsilon.''
The hat, it seems, was lost while its owner was attend-
ing a symposium of the chapter, not long before the
convention; and when one of the members declared he
had seen it rolling down stairs with a brick in it, the poet
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roared with laughter. The Rev. Dr. McKenzie (Alpha
'55) relates that the boys had a very fine hat made for
Mr. Saxe, which was sent to his home in Burlington. In
return, he sent them a crayon bust of himself. On the
lower margin of the picture were the following autograph
lines:-
"An exchange,' it will be said,
'Remarkably equal and pat:
We sent him a hat for his head,
He sent us his head for a hat.' ”
Saxe's well-known "Post-Prandial Verses ""
at this convention.
were read
The regular circuit was resumed in 1854, when the
Delta entertained the representatives of the other chap-
ters in New-York City, June 29 and 30. There were
public exercises in Dr. Cheever's church on Union
Square, George H. Moore, Esq., delivering an oration,
and the Rev. George H. Houghton reading a poem. Dr.
Franklin Tuthill presided here, as also at the dinner in
the Metropolitan Hotel, whereof the veracious newspaper
report¹ declares, —
"The Messrs. Leland never acquitted themselves more handsomely.
The confectionery was made to represent to the eye historical events
of the Fraternity. Its badge was borne by every ice and jelly and cream.
"The cloth being removed, the chairman announced that this year
the Fraternity came of age, having first seen the light in the year 1833.
There were men present who lived anterior to that marked era. He
hoped to hear from them before morning, whether, in those old times,
the sun shone with a yellow light, whether the stars twinkled in their
usual fashion, — in short, how the world wagged without its aid.”
The toasts and responses were witty, containing in-
genious plays upon the words "Psi Upsilon" and the
names of the chapters.
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July 24 and 25, 1855, the convention again met at Yale.
We read that the building where the literary exercises
were held was "tastefully decorated with flowers, woven
into emblematic symbols of the Fraternity by ladies of
the Beta Chapter." This was not the last — probably it
was not the first-manifestation by the dear creatures of
their interest in "the sacred letters twain," and in the
"Twined hands that never part."
At this convention, the project of securing portraits of
the surviving founders was first mooted. It may be that
Barnard's recent death had called the attention of the
society to the matter. Dr. Harvey's picture was after-
wards obtained.
Brown University witnessed an interesting gathering
of delegates from nine chapters, Sept. 4 and 5, 1856. In
1857 the convention met at Amherst, the great subject
of discussion being the Harvard trouble. John G. Saxe
offered the following resolution: —
"Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to inquire into
the state and prospects of the Alpha Chapter; and to express the fer-
vent hope that no temporary discouragements, or transient opposition
from within or without, shall induce the chapter to surrender the char-
ter, or forsake the assembling of themselves together, so long as three
members may be found who are faithful to the Psi Upsilon, and desire
to contribute to its long life, and share in its inevitable prosperity."
The convention of 1858 would regularly have been held
at Dartmouth, had not the Zeta suddenly found itself
unable to entertain the brethren. So the executive com-
mittee called a meeting in New-York City. This new
procedure aroused some opposition. The gathering was
officially styled the "Twenty-fifth Annual Convention."
In 1859 the Columbia Chapter took its turn. That year
literary exercises were omitted. The convention of 1860
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was at Dartmouth. July 24, 1861, ten chapters met at
Yale, transacting their business as quietly and effectively
as though the country were not shaken by civil war. But
the great internecine struggle diminished the attendance
at Bowdoin in 1862, and for the first and only time in
our history the convention lacked a quorum. We are in-
formed, however, that the supper was a fine one.
The third decennial convention was celebrated at Al-
bany, July 21, 1863. Mr. Saxe was again present, and
made so pathetic a speech in behalf of his son, a member
of a non-Psi Upsilon college, that the young man was al-
lowed to come in from the outer darkness. Two nephews
of the poet are now members of the Xi Chapter.
Resuming the regular order, the Hamilton men enter-
tained the convention of 1864. Then, and at the follow-
ing meetings, were discussed such projects as the erection
of a monument for Psi Upsilons killed in the war, and
the preparation of a roll of honor of the same members.
July 18 and 19, 1865, a very successful convention was
held under Wesleyan auspices. The records tell us that
at this meeting the Hon. William Taylor was appointed
historian of the Fraternity. He afterwards drew up a valu-
able paper in regard to the foundation of Psi Upsilon.
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The convention of 1866 met at Rochester. A chroni-
cler avers that President Anderson of the university,
coming by invitation before the delegates, paid a deserved
compliment to the Psi Upsilon, and after a few eloquent
remarks, concluded by expressing his hope that the suc-
cess which had crowned the efforts of the society in the
past might be even more signal for the time to come.
The convention of 1867, held in Cincinnati, under the
guidance of the Kenyon Chapter, was the first held in the
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West, and the only one that has been called to meet at a
considerable distance from a college town. It was in all
respects successful.
In 1868 an important and largely attended anniversary
was celebrated under the auspices of the Michigan branch
of Psi Upsilon. President Haven of the University of-
fered the opening prayer at the literary exercises, the Hon.
Perry H. Smith of Chicago presided, and a poem was read
by Charles H. Sweetser, the founder and editor of "The
Round Table.”
The Fraternity met at the seat of the parent chapter
in 1869. Passing over the New-York Chapter, because
of its then small membership, the convention in 1870
assembled, for the fifth time, at Yale. The meeting of
the next year was at Brown University. Ex-Senator
Arnold presided over the literary exercises. The dele-
gates still remember their ride through the streets of
Providence, the fair faces at the windows, and the waving
handkerchiefs which testified to the social popularity of
Sigma's sons.
During the succeeding four years, at Amherst, Dart-
mouth, Columbia, and Bowdoin, the business of the so-
ciety was carefully attended to, and the social features of
each gathering were very enjoyable; but it must be ad-
mitted that public literary exercises seem essential to the
complete success of these gatherings, and that the omis-
sion of them diminishes the attendance of alumni. With
the convention of 1876, which met in Utica, under the
care of the Psi (Hamilton) Chapter, and at which Pro-
fessor Fiske read a long and interesting sketch of the
rise and progress of the Fraternity, a new stage in the
history of these annual conclaves seems to have been
reached. Each year more graduates are seen, and more
interest is aroused.
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The Xi (Wesleyan) Chapter summoned the society
to Middletown in 1877. Many prominent alumni then
renewed their early vows. Over the second Rochester
convention, May 2 and 3, 1878, Judge Hadley presided.
From "The Diamond" is taken the following:-
"The venerable President Anderson had expressed a desire to meet
the delegates, and an invitation was accordingly extended to him to
address the body. At three o'clock Thursday afternoon, he appeared
before the convention, accompanied by some of the Psi Upsilon members
of the university's faculty. Dr. Anderson began by welcoming the
delegates to Rochester, and by extending the hospitalities of the insti-
tution over which he presided. He said that he very well remembered
the convention of 1866, and recalled his association with its members
with much pleasure. Although not a member of any of the Greek-
letter societies, he had long since learned to regard with favor the leading
organizations. As the oldest college president by continuous ser-
vice, his experience with these associations had been an extended one,
and perhaps entitled him to speak with some weight in regard to them.
He had also carefully studied the subject of student organizations, both
in Europe and in this country, and he did not hesitate to bear his tes-
timony to the usefulness of the Greek-letter societies. They were
valuable aids in the maintenance of college discipline, and presented
many advantages to their members. He alluded to the action of the
president and trustees of Princeton, as one which ought to prove a
warning to all sister institutions."
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The orator of the convention, Ex-Gov. Chamberlain of
South Carolina, made a brilliant plea in support of the
claims of the Greek language and literature to a 'place in
the attention and life of those who would promote the
best interests of education, opening with a warm tribute
to the Psi Upsilon for its half-century of devotion to the
sacred causes of scholarship and brotherhood. Speaking
after the supper, Judge Hadley declared that none re-
joiced more heartily at the growth of the society than
those to whom it owed its origin. All the founders, he
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said, maintained their Psi Upsilon fervor, undimmed by
the lapse of forty years. One of the entertainments of
this gathering was an excursion to Lake Ontario.
Yale, desiring to celebrate its fourth decennium, was
granted the convention of 1879; and several of the charter
members, together with many other alumni, and a large
body of undergraduates, were present.
In 1880 the Phi Chapter, which had just taken posses-
sion of its new chapter house, entertained the society, the
cities of Detroit and Chicago being particularly well rep-
resented by graduates. An audience of twenty-five hun-
dred people assembled in University Hall, to listen to
Clarkson Nott Potter and Charles Dudley Warner; a
public reception was given at the Psi Upsilon house, and
a supper in Detroit on the evening of the second day
closed the exercises.
To the Omega Chapter was intrusted the gathering of
1881. The Chicago papers dwell quite minutely on the
details of the reception given by the Hon. Perry H. Smith
and his wife, at their residence on the north side. Judge
Henry Booth, one of the original Yale members, pre-
sided at the supper in the Palmer House.
Many think that the convention held with the Pi Chap-
ter in the city of Syracuse, two years ago, was an advance
upon all earlier assemblies. It is certain that the literary
exercises, the reception, and the supper were very care-
fully planned, and were thoroughly enjoyed. One hun-
dred and fifty members, among them President White and
Professors Babcock and Fiske of Cornell University, Pro-
fessor C. W. Bennett (the presiding officer), the Hon.
Chauncey M. Depew (the orator), and Professor N. M.
Wheeler (the poet) were present. Among the many let-
ters and telegrams read was a message from Gov. Rice,,
in which he offered this sentiment:
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May we not hope that our brotherhood will spread so wide, and
be so gracious and beneficent in its fellowship, that, if need be, it shall
furnish companions in age, as well as burnish the intercourse of youth,
and thus continue to be a joy and solace forever?"
The convention of 1882 felt impelled to object to the
use of the society's name and influence for political pur-
poses. The origin of the matter was a printed letter
sent by undergraduates of one of the chapters, under
date of Nov. 4, 1881, to nearly all of the twelve hundred
alumni living in the State of New York. Deprived of
the address and signatures, the circular reads as fol-
lows:
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'Judge F. M. Finch, who is a candidate for the office of judge of
the Court of Appeals, is a most loyal Psi Upsilon, and has always
taken a deep interest in the welfare of the Fraternity.
"You will remember him as the author of several of our most popu-
lar songs. It is hoped you will do all you can to secure his election."
Of course the newspapers got hold of the letter, and
quizzed the writers unmercifully, one editor going so far
as to insinuate a doubt whether the ability to compose
popular Psi Upsilon songs necessarily implied the pos-
session of high judicial qualities. It is to be noticed
that Mr. Finch was elected. Here we may quote the
words of Charles Dudley Warner, uttered one year
later:
"Perhaps I ought to allude to another suspicion of the Greek-let-
ter societies, that they are, or may become, undemocratic influences
in politics, in fact, to control elections. This suspicion, no doubt, has
its rise in the belief that it was by their wide-spread machinations that
Gov. Rice and Senator Hawley and President Arthur were elected to
their exalted positions. This is an error: it is the substitution of an
effect for a cause. The secret of the election of these men was not in
any effort of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. It lies far back of that. It
is found in the fundamental fact that they were by nature and adoption
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Psi Upsilons. And it should be clearly understood — I think it ought
to be explained to any candidate for admission to our Fraternity — that
in undergoing initiation he incurs the liability to be President of the
United States."
The fiftieth anniversary was celebrated in convention
at Albany, May 23, 24, and 25, 1883, under the parent
chapter's supervision. Professor Price of Union Col-
lege, in a short address, welcomed the delegates assem-
bled in the Old Capitol on the morning of the first day,
and in the evening an historical meeting was held, Mr.
Elisha Taylor, the seventh Psi Upsilon in the order of
initiation, taking the chair, and Professor Fiske deliver-
ing an address.
On the evening of the 24th, the public exercises took
place in the Leland Opera-House. After a prayer, and
the singing of the convention ode (written by Professor
Harrington of Wesleyan University, then present), some
introductory remarks were inade by Mr. Rice, in which
he spoke of the honorable and agreeable duty assigned to
him of presiding over the semi-centennial of the founding
of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity-an organization, he said,
held in enthusiastic esteem by its members, and com-
mending itself to public approbation and respect by its
acknowledged usefulness to its active members, and by
the well-earned fame of others who have engaged in the
public and private pursuits of life.
Then Professor H. H. Boyesen read a poem, and the
"Re-union Jubilee" was sung by the Fraternity. Sena-
tor Hawley followed with an oration on "Friendship,”
frequently referring to the Psi Upsilon, and eloquently
vindicating the principles of our association.
An essay on "Secret Societies," by Charles Dudley
Warner, is too witty to be described. With the song
"Brothers, the Day is Ended," the exercises closed;
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and immediately after, a reception to members and invited
guests was held in Bleecker Hall.
The convention supper was held at the Delavan on the
evening of May 25. Covers were laid for two hundred,
but this number does not represent all who were in attend-
ance upon the several exercises of the convention, as
many could not remain until the close of the three days.
After the repast, Judge Van Vorst delivered the opening
address, and then proceeded to the toasts, using a pro-
gramme illustrated with quotations from the "Æneid."
To the toast "Our Country's President," Gen. Hawley
responded at some length, and with deep feeling. He
said, -
"This is not a partisan meeting, yet it is an honor to know some-
thing of the present President of the United States. If there be a man
in this land sincerely devoting mind and soul to the best welfare of the
country, I believe it to be Chester Allan Arthur. We all of us
love him and respect him."
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The following message to the president of the conven-
tion was then read :—
"I heartily regret my inability to share with my brethren in Psi
Upsilon, now gathered in convention in Albany, the enjoyment of
this evening's festivities. To them all, and through them to all the
members of our Fraternity, I send cordial greetings. Sing, for my
sake, the old refrain :
"Then, till the sands of life are run,
We'll sing to thee, Psi Upsilon.
Long live Psi Upsilon, Psi Upsilon!'
CHESTER A. ARTHUR."
The refrain was sung, it is needless to add, and three
times three cheers were given for the chief magistrate.
Then Ex-Gov. Rice spoke for "The Psi Upsilon," and
remarks, appropriate to other sentiments, were made by
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Charles Dudley Warner, Elisha Taylor, the Rev. George
D. Baker, D.D., the Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer, the Hon.
D. Ward Northrop, Professors Goldwin Smith of Toronto,
Boyesen of Columbia and Williams of Lehigh, Judge
Samuel W. Jackson, the Rev. C. S. Conkling, Albion W.
Tourgée, John M. Wheeler (who read a poem), Herbert
L. Bridgman, Benjamin H. Bayliss, Robert L. Belknap,
and Frederick G. Fincke. The youngest speaker was a
graduate of ten years' standing.
In addition to the members already mentioned, there
were present at the semi-centennial three of the found-
ers, — Dr. Harvey, Judge Hadley, and Mr. Tuttle, Mr.
Lawrence J. Goodale (Theta '38), Dean Sage, Judge Guy
H. McMaster, the Hon. John B. Sturtevant, Dr. E. M.
Kellogg of New-York City, the Rev. Charles R. Hen-
derson of Detroit, the Hon. Charles A. Doolittle, William
B. Ruggles (New-York State Superintendent of Public
Instruction), Mr. George Capron of Boston, Professor
Russell of the University of New-York City, and a great
many other well-known men.
The fifty-first convention will assemble at Ithaca, under
the auspices of the Chi Chapter, May 7 and 8, 1884.
From 1839 to 1883, the convention has met once in April,
ten times in May, eight in June, fourteen in July, four in
August, four in September, twice in October, and once in
November. The last nine meetings have been in May.
Following is a list of the convention orators:
George L. Ehle, 1843.
Henry Neill, 1844.
Gideon H. Hollister, 1845.
John McC. Steele, 1846.
George H. Colton, 1847.
Harvey Jewell, 1848.
George P. Quackenbos, 1849.
Charles A. Spofford, 1850.
William E. Robinson, 1851.
Hooper C. Van Vorst, 1852.
Edwin P. Whipple, 1853.
George H. Moore, 1854.
Horace James, 1855.
Samuel G. Arnold, 1856.
Julius H. Seelye, 1857.
Edwin P. Whipple, 1858.
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Edward G. Parker, 1860.
Edwin P. Whipple, 1861.
Jacob M. Manning, 1862.
Charles D. Warner, 1864.
James Strong, 1865.
Joseph E. King, 1866.
Isaac C. Collins, 1867.
Joseph R. Hawley, 1869.
Charles H. Malcom, 1871.
Moses E. Dunham, 1876.
Joseph R. Hawley, 1877.
Daniel H. Chamberlain, 1878.
Benjamin K. Phelps, 1879.
Clarkson N. Potter, 1880.
Chauncey M. Depew, 1882.
Joseph R. Hawley, 1883.
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The Hon. Galusha A. Grow was to have acted as orator
in 1868, and Gen. Hawley should have spoken in 1881;
but at the last moment they were prevented from attend-
ing, and their places were not filled. All but two - Neill
and Whipple of the twenty-eight speakers wore the
badge during college-life. The orator for 1884 is Pro-
fessor William W. Goodwin of Harvard College.
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The convention poets are,
Daniel Shepherd, 1843.
George H. Colton, 1844.
Lucius F. Robinson, 1845.
Francis M. Finch, 1848.
John Lockwood, 1849.
Samuel J. Pike, 1850.
Henry W. Parker, 1851.
James W. Wilson, 1852.
John G. Saxe, 1853.
George H. Houghton, 1854.
William H. Burleigh, 1855.
Francis M. Finch, 1856.
John G. Saxe, 1857, 1858.
Francis M. Finch, 1864.
Charles H. Sweetser, 1865.
Guy H. McMaster, 1866.
Charles D. McGuffey, 1867.
Charles H. Sweetser, 1868.
Joseph E. King, 1869.
Henry A. Brown, 1871.
Edward B. Wicks, 1876.
Hjalmar H. Boyesen, 1877.
Joseph A. Ely, 1878.
Josiah G. Holland, 1879.
Albion W. Tourgée, 1881.
Nathaniel M. Wheeler, 1882.
Hjalmar H. Boyesen, 1883.
Judge McMaster's poem was read in his absence in
1866. The post-graduate initiates on the list of poets
are Saxe, Holland, and Boyesen. In 1880 there was an
essay instead of a poem, and in 1883 were read both an
essay and a poem, Charles Dudley Warner being the
essayist in each year. Professor Willard Fiske acted as
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historian at the conventions of 1876 and 1883. Professor
Edward L. Walter wrote and read an ode for the conven-
tion of 1880, and the Rev. Willis S. Colton did the same
for the gathering of 1879. Professor Goldwin Smith is
to be the essayist in 1884, and Professor Arthur S. Hardy
will read the poem.
The honorary presidents of the later conventions have
been, -
William D. Northend, 1875.
George W. Schuyler, 1876.
Alexander H. Rice, 1877.
Sterling G. Hadley, 1878.
Charles B. Andrews, 1879.
Charles K. Adams, 1880.
Edward Olson, 1881.
Charles W. Bennett, 1882.
Alexander H. Rice, 1883.
Judge Hadley will preside in 1884.
The toast-masters from 1875 to 1883 are -
George E. B. Jackson, 1875.
Willard Fiske, 1876.
Caleb T. Winchester, 1877.
George H. Fox, 1878.
William E. Robinson, 1879.
Perry H. Smith, jun., 1880.
Robert D. Sheppard, 1881.
Willard Fiske, 1882.
Hooper C. Van Vorst, 1883.
This year the toast-master will be Albion W. Tourgée.
Professor Calvin S. Harrington, C. D. McGuffey,
Francis M. Finch, John M. Wheeler, the Rev. Henry L.
Morehouse, and others, have written songs for particular
conventions.
Towards the close of the first twenty-five years, the need
of a permanent central body led to the establishment, in
1857, of an executive committee, whose first members
were,-
Morgan Dix (Lambda '48).
Henry R. Stiles (Delta '52).
William H. L. Barnes (Beta '55).
All at that time lived in New-York City. Stiles is now
a physician in Glasgow, Scotland. Barnes is a lawyer in
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San Francisco. Twelve years later an executive council
of five members was instituted. The council is annually
elected by the convention, and usually its members are
alumni who live in the metropolis. The duties of this
body are indicated with sufficient precision by its title.
Twenty-six different graduates have acted as members,
whose names, arranged in order of election, are,
William F. Morgan, 1869-74.
Daniel G. Thompson, 1869-70, 1872-
74.
Robert L. Belknap, 1869-72.
Robert W. DeForest, 1869-71, 1872-
73.
William C. Rhodes, 1869-70.
Isaac N. Ford, 1871-72.
John H. H. Pinckney, 1871-72.
Frederic A. Brown, 1871-77.
George C. Coffin, 1873-76.
Henry W. B. Howard, 1873-76.
George Zabriskie, 1874-76.
Isaac S. Signor, 1874-75, 1876-79.
Frederic G. Dow, 1875-77.
Charles W. Smiley, 1876-
Thomas Thacher, 1877-81.
Herbert L Bridgman, 1877-
Alfred E. Mudge, 1877-78.
John M. Rider, 1878-79.
Ward McLean, 1879-83.
Joseph Lyman, 1879–80.
Howard B. Grose, 1880-82, 1883–
Hugh B. McCauley, 1881-82.
David B. Willson, 1882-83.
James M. Gilbert, 1882-83.
Benjamin H. Bayliss, 1883–
Francis S. Bangs, 1883-
The dates given are those of actual service. Three
members who were elected, but did not serve, are not
named. Fourteen chapters are represented in the list.
The presidents of the council have been Messrs. Morgan,
Brown, Thacher, McLean, and Bridgman; the secreta-
ries, Messrs. Thompson, Belknap, Brown, Coffin, Dow,
Smiley, Bridgman, McCauley, and Bangs. Usually the
secretary has also been treasurer.
The present members of the council are Messrs. Bridg-
man, Smiley, Bangs, Grose, and Bayliss. The presi-
dent, Mr. Bridgman, was born in Amherst, Mass., May
30, 1844. He is the eldest of three Psi Upsilon broth-
Since his graduation at Amherst College, in 1866, he
has been connected with several prominent newspapers,
and he now manages the advertising department of Frank
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Leslie's publishing-house. By authority he instituted
the Beta Beta Chapter in 1880, and the Eta in 1884.
Mr. Smiley, long the secretary and treasurer of the
council, was born Sept. 10, 1846, in Fitchburg, Mass. He
was graduated B.A. by Wesleyan University in 1874;
was engaged in studying and teaching until 1877; was for
two years occupied in editing the Psi Upsilon catalogue;
from 1879 to 1882 he was special agent of the tenth cen-
sus of the United States, and he is now chief of the
division of records and statistics of the United-States
Fish Commission.
Mr. Bangs, the present secretary and treasurer, was
born in New-York City, Dec. 7, 1855. He took the de-
gree of B.A. at Columbia in 1878, and that of LL.B. in
1880; and he is now a member of the law firm of Bangs
and Stetson, of which his father, Francis N. Bangs, Esq.
(Delta '45), is the head.
Alumni re-unions and associations find their origin in
the following call, issued more than a generation ago:
BROS. :-
You are respectfully invited to be present at the first annual con-
vention of the members of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity resident in the
State of Wisconsin, to be held at Madison, on Thursday, Jan. 23,
1851.
The convention will be organized at seven o'clock P.M.
R. W. WRIGHT.
ANSON BALLARD.
ALBERT C. INGHAM.
PERRY H. SMITH.
FREDERICK PACKARD.
JAS. M. PHINNEY.
C. L. WILLIAMS.
Later conventions were held in 1852 and 1853, and
printed reports of all three were published.
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In 1872 an organization under the ample name of “The
Alumni of Psi Upsilon was formed in New-York City,
which had a re-union dinner in February of the same
year. A printed notice of the second annual dinner, which
took place at Delmonico's May 8, 1873, refers to "the
successful organization of the association over a year
ago, and the large number present at its first re-union."
It also gives the names of the officers, - John Taylor
Johnston, president; Clarkson N. Potter, Waldo Hutch-
ins, George F. Seymour, Dwight H. Olmstead, William
E. Robinson, William M. Chamberlain, John Cotton
Smith, William B. Silber, and John G. Saxe, vice-presi-
dents; Robert L. Belknap, treasurer; R. W. DeForest,
secretary; Morgan Dix, chaplain.
A re-union of the New-York alumni, May 3, 1878, called
out most of those just named, and many other well-known
personages. Mr. Martindale presided, and William E.
Robinson was master of toasts. A contemporary account
states that nearly one hundred members were present.
On the first page of the issue for May 18 of “Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" is a large illustration of
the supper-scene in the Metropolitan Hotel. An effort
is now making to re-organize and strengthen the associa-
tion, and a meeting will soon take place under the aus-
pices of the two city chapters.
June 12, 1877, Psi Upsilon men living in central New
York held a pleasant re-union at Auburn. The second
midsummer meeting took place Aug. 23, 1878, at Syra-
cuse, and a permanent organization was effected, of which
Professor Fiske has continued to act as president. Mr.
George W. Elliott is secretary.
In the city of Detroit, where live some of the earliest
initiates of the parent chapter, and also many prominent
citizens representing other branches, exists an associa-
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tion which, dating from July 27, 1877, has been kept up
with much spirit. Besides the regular re-unions, wherein
alumni residing in interior towns, and undergraduates
of the neighboring Phi Chapter, are wont to join, many
informal receptions have been given by individual mem-
bers. Mr. Clement M. Davison is president, and Mr.
Charles H. Jacobs is secretary. The Detroit society was
represented by seven men at the semi-centennial.
Alumni living in San Francisco formed, late in the year
1877, "The Psi Upsilon Association of the Pacific
Coast," of which ex-Senator Cornelius Cole has since
been president, and M. B. Kellogg, Esq., secretary. The
refusal of the Fraternity to plant a chapter in the Univer-
sity of California was a great disappointment to these
graduates.
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Simultaneously with the convention supper at Roches-
ter, May 3, 1878, occurred a large number of re-unions at
widely distant points. The New-York meeting has been
mentioned. Eighty-three members attended a dinner at
the Parker House in Boston. The Governor of the
Commonwealth presided; at his right sat the president
of the State Senate; and among the others present were
a judge of the Supreme Court, the United-States district
attorney, two members of Congress, professors of Har-
vard and Boston Universities, the superintendent of the
Boston Public Library, the principal of the State Normal
School at Salem, and many prominent clergymen, law-
yers, physicians, and editors. The formal organization
was not perfected until 1879.
The meeting in Chicago on the same night with that
in Boston was presided over by Judge Henry Booth,
LL.D. Fifty members, representing all but two of the
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then existing chapters, were present, among whom were
the Hon. John T. Wentworth, Zuinglius Grover, and
Professors Packard and Carhart of the North-western
University, and Olson of the University of Chicago. The
association then formed has been especially active. Its
president is Judge Wentworth, its secretary, Charles A.
Warren, Esq.
The graduates of Philadelphia and vicinity held their
first reception at the Union League Club, on the now cel-
ebrated evening of May 3, 1878. Twelve chapters were
represented, Yale members being very numerous. Before
the supper, was formed "The Philadelphia Psi Upsilon
Alumni Association," of which the Hon. George North-
rop has continued to be president, while Dr. Charles
H. Burnett has been secretary.
The gathering of the Maine graduates occurred at the
Falmouth Hotel in Portland, under the presidency of the
Hon. George E. B. Jackson of that city. Thirty members
took part. Early in the evening a business session was
held, and an elaborate constitution was adopted, the per-
manent organization assuming the name of "The Maine
Psi Upsilon Association." An oration was delivered by
the Hon. Charles E. Clifford. From one of the local
journals we learn that "all present regarded the meeting
as a perfect success, and wished for many annual recur-
rences of this true old-fashioned Psi Upsilon gathering."
Passing over intermediate re-unions, it may be said that
the semi-centennial was duly celebrated in Portland, as in
Philadelphia, Chicago, and other cities, on the evening of
May 25, 1883. The present head of the Maine alumni is
the Hon. Joseph E. Moore, and the secretary is Mr. Wil-
liam H. Moulton, both graduates of Bowdoin.
"The Psi Upsilon Association of Washington," like
so many similar societies, dates from May 3, 1878. At the
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first meeting were the Hon. William W. Rice, since
president of the association; Gen. Reuben D. Mussey,
the present secretary; Congressman George B. Loring;
Judge William B. Snell; Consul-Gen. Goodenow; and
not a few others of note.
On the same evening, graduates residing in St. Paul
and Minneapolis - among them Judge Nelson of the
United-States District Court, the Rev. Edward D. Neill,
Professor Jabez Brooks of the University of Minnesota,
and the Rev. Henry A. Stimson-assembled in the
former city. The following telegram was sent to Judge
Hadley, president of the convention at Rochester:
"The members of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity resident in the dual
cities of the North-west, St. Paul and Minneapolis, mindful of
our noble Fraternity, send greeting to the brothers of the Fraternity in
general convention assembled."
Incited by these examples, the alumni living in Cincin-
nati had a re-union, and organized an association, May 7,
1879. Those living in Buffalo did the same two years
ago, and of their society Mr. J. W. Willis is president,
Mr. Frank McMillan being secretary. Sept. 13, 1883,
was born "The Kansas Alumni Association of Psi Up-
silon," whose president and secretary are the Hon. Daniel
M. Swan, and Mr. Bestor G. Brown. Last June, alumni
re-unions commemorative of the semi-centennial occurred
in Rochester and Providence, and the preliminary steps
toward forming associations were taken. The meeting in
Providence was attended by seventy members. The
Hon. Rowland G. Hazard was chairman; and Merrick
Lyon, Chief Justice Durfee, and Professors Harkness,
Packard, and Bailey were present.
Most of the alumni bodies are somewhat informal in
their procedure. There is no attempt to carry on a feeble
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imitation of college-life by holding weekly meetings. In
at least one great city a regular club, to which none but
Psi Upsilon men should be eligible, has been proposed,
but the objections to such a project are numerous. It
seems unwise to overlay youth's delightful and peculiar
traditions with a new set of experiences. The present
associations, unpretending as they are, have opened the
way to valuable friendships. At the re-unions new-comers
to the city are welcomed. The exercises are largely lit-
erary, but every thing "heavy" is abjured. There is the
inevitable supper, and then come the equally inevitable
Weird-looking programmes, often diamond-
shaped, quote profusely, and with more or less apposite-
ness, from the classic texts which ruined the eyes of some
of the company long ago, and which the others have hap-
pily forgotten. "The President of the United States " is
a favorite sentiment just now. The songs are sung and
re-sung. If an undergraduate be present, the assurance
is wrung from him that Theta or Delta is enjoying even
more than its usual prosperity, whereat the alumni cheer;
and each, as the hour grows late, feels called upon to say
a good word for his chapter, and another for old Psi
Upsilon.
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CHAPTER IV.
THE MEMBERSHIP.
"Videat Psi Upsilon
Filios fideles ;
Fratres in calamitate,
Fratres in felicitate,
Et amicos senes.”
E. R. PENNOYER (Xi'55).
"More than five thousand initiated graduates have gone out into the
world, worthily filling all the positions and dignities of life. Priests, bishops
and missionaries, judges and lawyers, statesmen and scholars, soldiers and
sailors, bankers and merchants, engineers, mechanics, and agriculturists,
men of religion, men of science, men of law, men of business, in all walks of
society and in every part of the land, they have made illustrious and honor-
able the name of the Psi Upsilon."
CLARKSON NOTT POTTER (Theta '42).
THE Society has enjoyed a gradual and constant growth,
until six thousand and twenty-one members have been
added to the original seven. Deducting those whom death
has taken, the number left is almost identical with that
which Plato fixed upon for the citizenship of his ideal
republic, 5,040. He remarks that it is not too large to
admit of their all knowing one another.
How zealously, and withal how cautiously, every chap-
ter-roll has been guarded is shown by the table of yearly
initiations. Barring the breaks caused by the suspensions
of the Alpha (Harvard) Chapter, there appear in a possible
total of five hundred and forty-four annual initiations,
from 1833 to 1883 inclusive, only five omissions, and some
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of these were caused by postponing the admission of
pledged students.
This feature of continuity is still more pronounced in
the table of class delegations. Each chapter, Harvard
excepted, has been represented in every class that has
matriculated since its establishment, save in the solitary
instance of the New-York University class of '71. These
facts have no parallel in the history of societies.
The table of annual initiations shows the number of
admissions made by each chapter in the year indicated;
it takes no notice of the hundred and forty-four changes
of membership from one chapter to another. By such
changes Yale has gained eighteen men. The total number
of initiations during the first decade (which, for conven-
ience, will be considered as ending Dec. 31, instead of Nov.
24, 1843) was 470; during the second, 1,061; the third,
1,141; the fourth, 1,377; the fifth, 1,930. The number
admitted during the first twenty-five years was 2,127; and
from Nov. 24, 1833, to Nov. 24, 1883, there were 5,967
initiations. The average annual number of admissions is
119; the greatest number in any one year (1880), 294; the
least (1833 and 1835), 10.
The table of class delegations considers each member
as belonging to the chapter with which he was last or
chiefly connected. Its footings give the official member-
ship numbers. The figures in the horizontal line marked
"unclassified” refer mainly to post-graduate initiates.
Excluding these, we find in the ten classes from '36 to
'45 inclusive, 455 members; '46 to '55, 1,016; '56 to '65,
1,154; '66 to '75, 1,360; '76 to '85, 1,763. The classes.
of '86 and '87 are still very incomplete. The average
number in the fifty classes, '36 to '85, is 116; the largest
class ('84) has 197 members; the smallest ('37) had 11.
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1
A majority of the members trace their connection with
the society back to freshman year; but at Yale there are
no initiations until shortly before the close of sophomore
year, and the old Harvard Chapter brought in its sopho-
more delegations in May. The pledged freshmen at
Dartmouth had formerly to wait until the opening of their
second year; afterwards they were admitted in May or
June; and in 1883, for the first time, initiations were made
in November among men who had matriculated only two
months before. All the chapters, Beta excepted, now
admit freshmen, although some require a short probation-
ary period. The Delta initiates no students until three
months after their matriculation. Upper-class men are
frequently elected in most of the colleges, but not often
at Brown. Members of the professional schools are
never offered elections except- and there very rarely,
and under peculiar circumstances at Columbia College.
Many years ago the Psi (Hamilton) Chapter admitted
several students of Madison University, but this practice
was discontinued at the request of the convention of 1847.
The chapters are now forbidden to initiate persons not
undergraduates in their colleges. Those who, in former
years, were admitted after graduation were, for the most
part, alumni of some local society or chapter merged in
Psi Upsilon,- men of tastes, traditions, and experiences
similar to our own. Others during their college-lives had
been unsuccessful petitioners for charters.
The post-
graduate initiates have been closely associated with the
Fraternity; they have given liberally of their time and
money to its undertakings; many of them have sons or
near relatives among its younger members; and most of
those who have attained distinction were comparatively
unknown when they gained the right to wear our badge.
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A third table relating to the membership will repay
careful study.
CHAPTER. COLLEGE.
Theta
Union,
Delta
N. Y. U.
76
16
18
274
185
Beta
Yale
30
47
1,190
Sigma
Brown
6
20
171
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Gamma
Zeta
Lambda
Amherst
Dartmouth
Columbia
II
Kappa
Bowdoin
Psi
Hamilton
Xi
Wesleyan
IO
Alpha
Harvard
15
Upsilon
Rochester
Iota
Kenyon
Phi
Michigan
Omega
Chicago
Pi
Syracuse
Chi
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Of the 1,095 non-graduates, 115 completed their course
at non Psi Upsilon colleges. This leaves 980 members
(eighteen per cent of the whole number) who have failed to
graduate, a remarkably small proportion. From the
right-hand column it will be seen that the Psi Upsilon men
form about one-sixth of the graduates in their classes.
The 6,028 members have 2,385 different surnames.
The Smith family leads, with 78 representatives, a smaller
proportion than usual; and the traditional John Smith
has not been initiated, unless he is concealed in the person
of John C. or of John W., who were admitted a genera-
tion ago. The name Brown occurs 53 times; Williams,
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41; White, 36; Clark, 33; Allen, 32; Adams, 29; John-
son, 27; Parker, 23; Clarke, 22; Jones, 21; Lewis and
Stevens, each 20; Jackson, Miller, Taylor, Thompson,
Walker, 19; Wheeler, 17; Baldwin, Mason, Moore, Per-
kins, 16; Foster, French, Hall, Packard, Roberts, Rob-
inson, 15; Baker, Barnes, Chase, Davis, Wells, Wilson,
Wood, 14 Bacon, Bell, Hubbard, Johnston, King, Law-
rence, Merrill, Pomeroy, Strong, 13; Abbott, Butler,
Carpenter, Freeman, Howe, Kimball, Morgan, Palmer,
Peck, Pratt, Richards, Richardson, Webster, 12.
A very close approximation to the geographical distri-.
bution of the living members is the following: Eastern
States, 1,550; Middle, 2,050; Southern, 310; Western,
1,010; Pacific, 100; foreign countries, IoI. Massachu-
setts claims nearly half of the residents of New England.
New York has three-fourths of the members living in the
Middle States. In the West, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan
are most largely represented.
The catalogue of 1879 gave a summary of sixty city lists
containing 2,260 names of living members. The present
living membership in the twenty-one cities containing more
than 30 members each may be thus stated: New York,
740; Boston, 200; Chicago, 180; Providence, 120; Roch-
ester, 100; New Haven, 75; Philadelphia, 74; Portland
(Me.), 60; St. Louis, 58; Cincinnati, 54; Syracuse and
Washington, each 45; Buffalo, San Francisco, 40; Detroit,
38; Hartford, 36; Cleveland, 35; Springfield (Mass.), 35;
Albany, 32; Middletown (Conn.), 31.
In respect to their professions or occupations the living
members may be thus classified: lawyers, 1,260; clergy-
men, 720; physicians, 350; teachers, 560; students, 800;
authors, journalists, etc., 132; merchants, 332; manu-
facturers, 140; bankers, 131; clerks, agents, etc., 320;
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engineers, 76; farmers, 70; soldiers, 50; miscellaneous,
60; without occupations, 120. The clergymen are of the
following churches: Congregational, 230; Protestant-
Episcopal, 173; Methodist, 124; Presbyterian, 90;
Baptist, 65; Unitarian, 20; others, 18.
All these geographical and professional statistics are
subject to final revision at the hands of the editors of the
catalogue, and of course they are constantly changing.
To make selections from the many distinguished names
upon our rolls is neither easy nor pleasant. All cannot
be mentioned: it is unjust to discriminate. Then, too,
there are special difficulties. We have bankers and mer-
chants whose influence in their communities is far greater
than that of the congressmen who represent them, yet the
latter are in most cases more widely known. A lawyer,
unless holding political or judicial position, not often
extends his fame beyond his city, rarely beyond his State.
Physicians who are not authors or college professors may
be eminent in their calling, and yet be comparatively
unknown to laymen living at a distance. Of the seven
hundred or more living clergymen who have worn our
badge, so many are prominent in their localities that it
seems absurd to single out a few. Some months ago,
while a list was preparing of the members living in a city
of 140,000 inhabitants, it was seen, that, of the fifteen
Psi Upsilons who had been twelve or more years out of
college, six were pastors of churches that by common.
consent rank among the first ten in the place. There
is strong evidence that few members who have reached
middle life are unknown men.
Beginning in the political world, we come to "his
Excellency, the President." Chester Allan Arthur entered
Union as a sophomore. He took a high stand, was
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elected to B K, and was particularly well known for his
accurate knowledge of ancient and modern literature.
One of his classmates speaks of him:
"Were every member of the class of '48 alive to-day, I feel sure that
the unanimous testimony of its more than a hundred men would be,
that no man in their class had a higher sense of honor in all the relations
of college-life than he who is now the constitutional head of fifty mil-
lions of people.”
And another says,
"No man was more devoted to the interests of our Fraternity, and
no one offered a truer type of the genuine y Y than he, an ardent
advocate of the principles and objects of our brotherhood during his
whole college-life. No one furnished a more striking illustration of
those qualities of manhood which lie at the foundation, and are the
very genius, of our beloved Psi Upsilon."
The society's representatives in the National Senate
are,
Samuel G. Arnold,
Rhode Island, 1862-63.
Charles H. Bell,
New Hampshire, 1879-80.
Cornelius Cole,
California, 1867-73.
Orris S. Ferry,
Connecticut, 1867-75.
William P. Frye,
Maine, 1881-
Joseph R. Hawley,
Connecticut, 1881-
James W. Patterson,
New Hampshire, 1867-73.
In the lower House of Congress have sat the follow-
ing:
William T. S. Barry,
Mississippi, 1853-55.
Lyman K. Bass,
New York, 1873-77.
John R. Buck,
Connecticut, 1881-83.
Cornelius Cole,
California, 1863-65.
Benjamin T. Eames,
Rhode Island, 1871-79.
Constantine C. Esty,
Massachusetts, 1872-73.
Orris S. Ferry,
Connecticut, 1859-61.
Walbridge A. Field,
Massachusetts, 1879-81.
William P. Frye,
Connecticut, 1855-59.
Maine, 1871-81.
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Pennsylvania, 1851–63.
Connecticut, 1872-75, 1879-81.
Galusha A. Grow,
Joseph R. Hawley,
Waldo Hutchins,
New York, 1879-
George B. Loring,
Massachusetts, 1877-81.
Theodore Lyman,
Massachusetts, 1883-
Jonas H. McGowan,
Michigan, 1877-81.
George W. Patterson,
New York, 1879-81.
William W. Phelps,
New Jersey, 1873-75, 1883-
James Pike,
New Hampshire, 1855-59.
Clarkson N. Potter,
New York, 1869-73, 1877-81.
Alexander H. Rice,
Massachusetts, 1859-67.
William W. Rice,
Massachusetts, 1877-
William E. Robinson,
New York, 1867-69, 1881-
Julius H. Seelye,
Massachusetts, 1875-77.
James W. Patterson,
Eli Thayer,
New Hampshire, 1863-67.
Massachusetts, 1857-61.
John U. Pettit,
Indiana, 1855-59.
Mr. Grow was speaker of the House from July 4, 1861,
to March 4, 1863.
Of other Psi Upsilons who have held high office at the
National Capital may be mentioned Ex-Attorney-Gen.
Amos T. Akerman, Maunsell B. Field, once assistant
secretary of the treasury, George B. Loring, now com-
missioner of agriculture, Frederick W. Seward, formerly
assistant secretary of state, Edgar M. Marble, late com-
missioner of patents, Sumner I. Kimball, the organizer
and superintendent of the life-saving service, Bluford
Wilson, ex-solicitor of the treasury, and John C. Burch,
not long ago secretary of the Senate.
The following have been sent as ministers to foreign
powers:
James B. Angell,
China, 1880-81.
Gideon H. Hollister,
Hayti, 1868-69.
William W. Phelps,
Austria, 1881-82.
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Greece, 1882-
Andrew D. White,
Germany, 1879-81.
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Our consuls-general are,
Elbert E. Farman,
Eugene Schuyler,
Cairo, 1876-81.
Constantinople, 1876-78, Bu-
John H. Goodenow,
charest, etc., 1880-
Constantinople, 1864–76.
George Walker,
Paris, 1880-
The Psi Upsilon governors of States are
Charles B. Andrews,
Connecticut, 1879-81.
Charles H. Bell,
New Hampshire, 1881-83.
Daniel H. Chamberlain,
South Carolina, 1874–77.
Joseph R. Hawley,
Connecticut, 1866.
Pendleton Murrah,
Texas, 1862-64.
Benjamin F. Prescott,
New Hampshire, 1877-79.
Alexander H. Rice,
Massachusetts, 1876–79.
Many other members have been called to important
positions in the different State governments. Among
these are, in New York, Chauncey M. Depew, formerly
secretary of state; George W. Schuyler, ex-state-treas-
urer and auditor; Horatio Seymour (the younger), re-
cently state engineer and surveyor; and William B.
Ruggles, superintendent of public instruction: in Con-
necticut, Arthur B. Calef, once state treasurer; D. Ward
Northrop, now secretary of state, and Robert W. Wright,
who held the same office from 1867 to 1871: in Massachu-
setts, John B. D. Cogswell, ex-president of the Senate;
Harvey Jewell, for four years speaker of the House
of Representatives, and Ephraim M. Wright, formerly
secretary of state in Maine, George B. Barrows and
Charles A. Spofford, both of whom have presided over
the State Senate: in Iowa, Oran Faville, ex-lieutenant-
governor.
Of those who have held high municipal offices are
Samuel A. Green, a former, and Albert Palmer, the late,
mayor of Boston; Joseph H. Sprague, long mayor of
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from 1879 to 1883.
The following have sat in the highest judicial tribunals
of their respective States:
William H. H. Allen,
Walbridge A. Field,
New Hampshire, 1876-
Massachusetts, 1881-
Isaac Atwater,
Francis M. Finch,
Minnesota, 1857-64.
New York, 1881-
William G. Barrows,
Dwight Foster,
Maine, 1863-
Massachusetts, 1866-69.
William H. Bartlett,
Lewis W. Clark,
New Hampshire, 1877–
Charles Doe,
New Hampshire, 1859-74, 1876-
Thomas Durfee,
Rhode Island, 1865–
Benjamin H. Steele,
New Hampshire, 1861–67.
Vermont, 1865-73.
William Z. Stuart,
Indiana, 1852-56.
Joseph W. Symonds,
Maine, 1878-
Wheelock G. Veazey,
Vermont, 1879-
Lucilius A. Emery,
Maine, 1883-
Leonard E. Wales,
Delaware, 1864-
Durfee has been chief justice of Rhode Island since
1875. Doe has been chief justice of New Hampshire
since 1876. In addition to the preceding members of the
judiciary are Daniel T. Wright, of the Supreme Court
Commission of Ohio; Lorenzo Dow, a member of the
Kansas Supreme Court under the Leavenworth consti-
tution; Samuel W. Jackson, of the Supreme Court of
New York; Hooper C. Van Vorst and John Sedgwick
of the Superior Court of New-York City; Lincoln F.
Brigham, chief justice of the Superior Court of Massa-
chusetts; Surrogate Daniel G. Rollins, of New-York
City; John T. Wentworth, judge of the first judicial
circuit of Wisconsin; Hugh L. Bond, of the United-
States Circuit Court; and United-States district judges
Rensselaer R. Nelson of Minnesota, Addison Brown of
New York, and LeBaron B. Colt of Rhode Island.
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William G. Hammond, dean of the St. Louis Law
School; Henry Booth, of the Chicago Law School; Aus-
tin Abbott and the late Jairus Ware Perry, both well
known in legal literature; the late Benjamin K. Phelps;
Alfred Russell, formerly United-States district-attorney
in Michigan; Horatio Rogers, ex-attorney-general of
Rhode Island; Alfred S. Hartwell, attorney-general of
the Sandwich Islands; Francis N. Bangs, Isaac Dayton,
George Bliss, Samuel A. Duncan, and William C.
Whitney, of New-York City; Oliver Stevens, Francis
S. Fisk, Caleb Blodgett, jun., and M. Fayette Dickinson,
of Boston; George Northrop of Philadelphia; and the
late Isaac C. Collins of Cincinnati, — are a few more of
the prominent lawyers who belong to the Fraternity.
In the medical profession are Benjamin J. Jeffries of
Boston; Antoine Ruppaner, William M. Chamberlain,
Alfred E. M. Purdy, and Willard Parker, jun., of New-
York City; Edward H. Parker of Poughkeepsie, former
president of the New-York State Medical Society; and
a good many other well-known men, particularly in the
faculties of the various colleges.
In mentioning some of the more prominent clergymen,
the usual prefix is omitted; so is the title "D.D.,” which
belongs to nearly every one named; so are many well-
known ministers, who will be spoken of among the col-
lege presidents and professors. In the Baptist ministry
are Orrin B. Judd, John S. Holme, Henry F. Lane, and
George M. Vanderlip, of New-York City; William S.
McKenzie of Boston; Daniel Read and Aaron H. Bur-
lingham of Brooklyn; and Shubael S. Parker and Hora-
tio Gray of Providence.
Of the many Congregational clergymen are Alexan-
der H. Clapp (treasurer of the American Home Mis-
sionary Society) and Charles H. Parkhurst of New-York
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City; the late Jacob M. Manning, of the Old South
Church, Boston; Joseph H. Twichell of Hartford; Samuel
P. Leeds of Hanover, N.H; James G. Vose of Providence;
Charles Peabody and Henry Martyn Scudder of Chicago;
and Theodore T. Munger of North Adams, Mass.
Among the Methodist-Episcopal clergy the society.
claims James M. King of New-York City, Jonas O. Peck
of Brooklyn, Willard F. Mallalieu of Boston, Micah J.
Talbot of Providence, Richard S. Rust and Francis S.
Hoyt of Cincinnati, and Erastus Wentworth (former
president of McKendree College).
Of Presbyterian ministers may be mentioned Erskine
N. White, Wendell Prime, and Marvin R. Vincent, of
New-York City; William P. Breed of Philadelphia ;
Byron Sunderland of Washington; George D. Baker
of Detroit; William E. Moore of Columbus, author of
"The Presbyterian Digest;" and Henry H. Jessup and
David S. Dodge, long connected with the Syrian Protes-
tant College at Beirut.
In the Protestant-Episcopal Church the Fraternity is
well represented by Morgan Dix, George H. Houghton,
Robert Holden, and Robert Lowry, of New-York City;
Charles H. Hall and Lucius W. Bancroft of Brooklyn;
Israel L. Townsend of Washington; John S. B. Hodges
of Baltimore; Frederick D. Harriman, secretary of the
Society for the Increase of the Ministry; William G.
Farrington, editor of "The Church Almanac;" and by
the following bishops, whose dioceses and dates of conse-
cration are given :
John W. Beckwith,
Georgia, 1868.
Abram N. Littlejohn,
Long Island, 1869.
Ozi W. Whittaker,
Nevada and Arizona, 1869.
William W. Niles,
New Hampshire, 1870.
Benjamin H. Paddock,
Massachusetts, 1873.
John F. Spalding,
Colorado, 1873.
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John Scarborough,
New Jersey, 1875.
John H. H. Brown,
Fond du Lac, 1875.
William S. Perry,
Iowa, 1876.
George F. Seymour,
Springfield, 1878.
John A. Paddock,
Washington Territory, 1880.
David B. Knickerbacker,
Indiana, 1883.
We have only two Roman - Catholic clergymen,
Thomas S. Preston, chancellor of the archdiocese of
New York, and James K. Stone, ex-president of Ken-
yon College. In the Unitarian ministry, Solon W. Bush
of Boston is prominent. Edward B. Coe, of the Collegi-
ate Reformed Church, New-York City, formerly professor
of modern languages at Yale, is another distinguished.
clergyman.
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Of essayists, novelists, poets, the Psi Upsilon has
many. It is enough to name Charles Dudley Warner,
William Allen Butler, Edmund C. Stedman, John G. Saxe,¹
Horatio Alger, jun., J. G. Holland,¹ James DeMille, H. H.
Boyesen,¹ Edward Abbott, Albion W. Tourgée, Edwin
P. Whipple, Arthur S. Hardy, and Albert Mathews.
Among our historical writers and scholars are Goldwin
Smith; Eugene Schuyler, the biographer of Peter the
Great; Charles Kendall Adams, author of "Democracy
and Monarchy in France;” James Hammond Trumbull,
distinguished not only for his researches into Connecti-
cut's early history, but also as an Indian philologist;
Samuel G. Arnold, the historian of Rhode Island; Gideon
H. Hollister, the historian of Connecticut; Henry M.
Dexter, the historian of Congregationalism; and Bishop
William S. Perry, the historian of the Episcopal Church.
Of writers on political economy, Professor William G.
Sumner stands in the front rank. As a philosophic think-
I Although not on the roll of the Fraternity while college-men, these five
members have long been identified with our progress and prosperity.
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er, the Rev. Elisha Mulford, author of "The Nation" and
"The Republic of God," is eminent. Then there are
James Strong, the ecclesiastical commentator and ency-
clopedist; William J. Rolfe, the Shakspearian scholar and
editor; George P. Quackenbos, the educational writer;
and Professors Albert Harkness and William W. Good-
win, whose works are known to every classical student.
Among Psi Upsilons who have made books
books — the special study of their lives may be mentioned
Henry Stevens, F.R.S., of London, England; Willard
Fiske, long librarian of Cornell University; Mellen
Chamberlain and James L. Whitney of the Boston Public
Library; Addison Van Name, librarian of Yale College;
Robbins Little, superintendent of the Astor Library;
George H. Moore of the Lenox Library; and Daniel
Beckwith, librarian of the Providence Athenæum.
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Of publishers, it is only necessary to speak of Joseph
W. Harper, jun. There are many successful journalists,
men like George C. Hill, of "The Boston Post;"
Joseph R. Hawley and Charles D. Warner, of "The
Hartford Courant;" the late Charles G. Came, of "The
Boston Journal; Frederick E. Goodrich, of "The
Boston Globe; Orange Judd, so long identified with
"The American Agriculturist ; " and Charles L. Norton,
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of "The Christian Union" and "The Continent." The
latter publication was founded, and is owned and con-
ducted, by members of the society.
Some of the most eminent scientists of our day-
Alexander E. R. Agassiz, the astronomer James C. Wat-
son, Ogden N. Rood the physicist, the late John A. Porter
the chemical writer, and Professor Othniel C. Marsh
have worn the badge. There are few architects more
prominent than Henry Van Brunt of Boston. Of civil
engineers, Jacob H. Linville of Philadelphia, and Willard
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S. Pope of Detroit, are very well known. Among men
who have been identified with railroad management may
be named John Taylor Johnston, who during twenty-eight
years was president of the New-Jersey Central; Perry
H. Smith, of the Chicago and North-western; and George
E. B. Jackson, president of the Maine Central. Brayton
Ives, president of the New-York Stock Exchange; John C.
Brown, also of New-York City; and Clement M. Davison
of Detroit,
are leading bankers and financiers.
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The Psi Upsilon can point to more than fifty college
presidents, and more than three hundred college profess-
ors. Of the presidents a few are named: Andrew D.
White of Cornell; Julius H. Seelye of Amherst; James
B. Angell of Michigan; Ex-President Charles A. Aiken
of Union ; Lucius H. Bugbee of Allegheny; William
S. Clark of the Amherst Agricultural College; Charles H.
Payne of the Ohio Wesleyan; James DeKoven, the for-
mer, and Albert Z. Gray, the present, warden of Racine
College; James K. Stone, once president of Kenyon;
Edward D. Neill, former chancellor of the University of
Minnesota; Augustus H Strong of Rochester Theologi-
cal Seminary; George Z. Gray, dean of the Episcopal
Theological School, Cambridge; three presidents of
Hobart College,— Dr. Stone, Bishop Perry and the Rev.
Maunsell Van Rensselaer; Francis J. Clerc, ex-presi-
dent of Burlington College; Malcolm Douglass, formerly
of Norwich University; and Edward S. Frisbee of
Wells College. The Rev. James O. Murray is now dean
and actual head of the College of New Jersey (Princeton).
Not many months ago, the Rev. Egbert C. Smyth, the dis-
tinguished professor of ecclesiastical history at Andover,
declined the offered presidency of Bowdoin College. The
Rev. George W. Douglas lately refused the presidency of
Hobart; and during the past summer Professor Charles
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K. Adams, of Michigan University, declined the chancel-
lorships of the Universities of Kansas and Nebraska.
Following are the present Psi Upsilon members of the
faculties of the various colleges in which the society has
been represented.
UNION COLlege.
Isaiah B. Price, mathematics, and adjunct
professor of physics; Wendell Lamoroux, English essays and ora-
tory.
UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Charles Carroll,
French and German languages and literature; Isaac F. Russell, political
science; William A. Houghton, logic, and intellectual and moral phi-
losophy.
YALE
Yale CollegE. - Charles A. Lindsley, materia medica and thera-
peutics; Lewis R. Packard, Greek language and literature; Daniel C.
Eaton, botany; Addison Van Name, librarian; Othniel C. Marsh, pale- ·
ontology; Franklin B. Dexter, American history; Simeon E. Bald-
win, constitutional law; William G. Sumner, political and social science;
James K. Thacher, physiology; Edward S. Dana, assistant professor
of natural philosophy; William K. Townsend, pleading; Theodore S.
Woolsey, international law; Ambrose Tighe, tutor; J. Hammond
Trumbull and Frederic H. Betts, lecturers.
BROWN UNIVERSITY. Albert Harkness, Greek language and
literature; Alpheus S. Packard, jun., zoölogy and geology; William
W. Bailey, botany.
AMHERST COLLEGE. — Julius H. Seelye, president, and professor of
mental and moral philosophy; William S. Tyler, Greek language and
literature; Richard H. Mather, professor of Greek, and lecturer on
sculpture; Elijah P. Harris, chemistry; Joseph K. Chickering, asso-
ciate professor of English; John M. Tyler, biology; Marshall Hen-
shaw, lecturer upon natural philosophy; Levi H. Elwell, Edward B.
Marsh, and Edward Ayres, instructors.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. Henry E. Parker, Latin language and
literature; John Ordronaux, medical jurisprudence; Edward S. Dun-
ster, obstetrics; Arthur S. Hardy, mathematics and civil engineering;
Rufus B. Richardson, Greek language and literature; Charles F. Rich-
ardson, oratory and belles-lettres; Edwin J. Bartlett, associate professor
of chemistry; John H. Wright, associate professor of Greek; William
T. Smith, assistant lecturer in anatomy and physiology.
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COLUMBIA COLLEGE. - John Ordronaux, medical jurisprudence;
Ogden N. Rood, mechanics and physics; Hjalmer H. Boyesen, Ger-
man language and literature; Frederic R. Hutton, adjunct professor
of mechanical engineering; John K. Rees, adjunct professor of geodesy
and practical astronomy; Francis Delafield, adjunct professor of pathol-
ogy and practical medicine; William H. Draper, clinical medicine;
Jaspar T. Goodwin and William H. Carpenter, instructors.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE. — Henry Carmichael, physics and astronomy;
Barrett Potter, instructor.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.
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Calvin S. Harrington, Latin language
and literature; James C. Van Benschoten, Greek language and litera-
ture; George L. Westgate, history and political economy; Caleb T.
Winchester, rhetoric and English literature; Thomas H. Eckfeldt,
instructor in Greek.
HARVARD COLLEGE. William W. Goodwin, Greek language and
literature; Ephraim W. Gurney, history; James M. Peirce, mathe-
matics; Alexander E. R. Agassiz, comparative zoölogy; Charles P.
Parker, instructor.
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UNIVERSITY OF ROCchester. Isaac F. Quinby, mathematics
and natural philosophy; Samuel A. Lattimore, chemistry; Albert H.
Mixer, modern languages; George M. Forbes, assistant professor of
Greek.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. James B. Angell, president;
Charles K. Adams, history; Martin L. D'Ooge, Greek language and
literature; Edward S. Dunster, obstetrics; Mark W. Harrington,
astronomy; Edward L. Walter, modern languages and literature;
George S. Morris, ethics, history of philosophy, and logic; Theodore
J. Wrampelmeier, instructor; Edgar N. Smith, assistant librarian.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. Edward. Olson, Greek language
and literature; John D. S. Riggs, principal of the preparatory depart-
ment, and secretary of the faculty.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. - Charles W. Bennett, history and logic;
Eugene W. Manning, modern languages.
Cornell UNIVERSITY. Andrew D. White, president, and pro-
fessor of history; Albert N. Prentiss, botany, horticulture, and arbori-
culture; Waterman T. Hewett, German language and literature ;
Charles C. Shackford, rhetoric and general literature; Charles Bab-
cock, architecture; Horatio S. White, German language and literature;
Henry S. Williams, assistant professor of paleontology; Goldwin
Smith, lecturer on English constitutional history; Charles K. Adams,
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non-resident professor of English constitutional history; Charles D.
Warner, lecturer on recent literature.
TRINITY College. Samuel Hart, Latin language and literature;
Henry Ferguson, history and political science; William Hamersley,
lecturer on law; Charles F. Johnson, instructor in English and rhet-
oric.
THE LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. - Henry C. Johnson, Latin language
and literature; Edward H. Williams, jun., mining-engineering and
geology.
Thus it appears that Greek chairs in nine of our
nineteen colleges are filled by Psi Upsilons. The Greek
professorship at Dartmouth has been continuously held
by our alumni since 1849. Of former professors in our
colleges may be mentioned the Rev. J. L. Diman, who
filled the chair of history and political economy in Brown
University from 1864 until his death, three years ago ; and
Elihu Root, late professor of mathematics and physics in
Amherst College; but there have been many others. To
the colleges where the society has not had chapters, it has
sent many professors, men like William A. Packard,
professor of Latin at Princeton; Jabez Brooks, professor
of Greek in the University of Minnesota; Adoniram J.
Huntington, who fills the Greek chair at Columbian Col-
lege; James E. Latimer, dean of the school of theology
of Boston University; Luther T. Townsend, professor of
sacred rhetoric in the same institution; John J. Elmen-
dorf and John H. Converse of Racine College; George L.
Cary of the Meadville Theological School; and Marshall
Calkins of Vermont University.
Among our prominent preparatory teachers should be
named the following: Albert C. Perkins, principal of Phil-
lips Exeter Academy; James Starr Clark, rector of
Trinity School, Tivoli, N.Y.; Merrick Lyon, of the Brown
University grammar-school; Zuinglius Grover, principal
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of Dearborn Seminary, Chicago; and Joseph E. King,
principal of Fort Edward Collegiate Institute.
In war, as in peace, the Fraternity has its noted names.
An initiate of the parent chapter, George C. Strong
(author of "Cadet Life at West Point "), became a ma-
jor-general of volunteers, and died in 1863 of wounds
received in the assault of Fort Wagner. Ten brigadier-
generals named on our list fought in the national service
during the civil war. Their names, and the dates of their
appointments, are: —
Charles C. Dodge, 1863.
Orris S. Ferry, 1862.
Charles Hamlin, 1864.
Edward Harland, 1862.
Joseph R. Hawley, 1864.
Rice was killed in battle, and
received. Following are the
colonels of union regiments:
Nicholas L. Anderson.
Samuel R. Beardsley.
James C. Beecher.
Gouverneur Carr.
William S. Clark.
Alson C. Davis.
Samuel A. Duncan.
Benjamin B. Foster.
Charles H. Foster.
Jeremiah H. Gilman.
Alfred S. Hartwell.
Elisha B. Harvey.
Brayton Ives.
Allan H. Jackson.
Napoleon B. Knight.
Rufus P. Lincoln.
Joseph C. Jackson, 1865.
Henry L. Patten, 1864.
Isaac F. Quinby, 1862.
James C. Rice, 1863.
Edward H. Ripley, 1864.
Patten died of a wound
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Stephen H. Manning.
Reuben D. Mussey.
Edward P. Nettleton.
Charles L. Norton.
Francis W. Palfrey.
Frank H. Peck. ·
James Pike.
Samuel T. Richards.
Alfred P. Rockwell.
Horatio Rogers.
Homer B. Sprague.
William S. Shurtleff.
John L. Thompson.
Mason W. Tyler.
Samuel C. Vance.
Wheelock G. Veazey.
The regiments and the dates of service of these mem-
bers are given in the catalogue of 1879. Col. Duncan
was brevetted major-general for gallantry in battle; and
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Cols. Anderson, Hartwell, Ives, Manning, Mussey, Pal-
frey, Rogers, and Thompson. Twenty-eight lieutenant-
colonels, and proportionably larger numbers of subordinate
officers and of private soldiers, make up a roll so long
that it constitutes about one-fourth of all our members
capable at the time of bearing arms. In the Confeder-
ate service were Major-Gen. William Henry Fitz-Hugh
Lee, Charles B. Duffield (adjutant-general of the con-
scription bureau), six colonels, and about a score of lower
officers.
In reading the incomplete catalogue of those who have
acquired distinction, the words of Senator Hawley should
be recalled:
"None the less faithfully have the purposes, principles, and teachings
of the Fraternity, been illustrated by the many who chose the more
quiet paths of life, and have proven themselves honored and beloved as
neighbors, friends, citizens, scholars, gentlemen, patriots."
Both classes are equally represented among those who
have specially labored for the Psi Upsilon, but of whom
no enumeration is here possible. The compilers of the
catalogues and song-books, the editors of the society maga-
zine, the members of the executive council, the contribu-
tors to building-funds, the patient, zealous workers in
each chapter-who shall undertake to name them all,
and give to every name its meed of praise?
An effort to ascertain the extent to which the members
are connected by ties of blood was made in 1878. The
result was published in the catalogue of 1879; and the
figures are brought down to date by the following table of
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8; Delta, 10; Beta, 18; Sigma, 2; Gamma, 9; Zeta, 7;
Lambda, 9; Kappa, 5; Psi, 2; Xi, 5; Alpha, 4; Upsilon,
7; Iota, 2; Phi, 4; Omega, 2; Pi, 2; Chi, 2; Beta Beta,
3; Eta, 1.
The first member to carry out the declaration of
Finch's ringing lines,
"And when our little ones come on,
We'll brand them all Psi Upsilon,"
was the Hon. George W. Schuyler (Delta '37), father of
Eugene Schuyler (Beta '59). The twenty-two years' in-
terval in that case between the dates of graduation is as
short as any in our list, and shorter than all but one; the
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average period being slightly less than thirty-three years,
and the longest interval being fifty years (which occurs in
two instances).
The classes are thus represented in the number of "Psi
Upsilon fathers: " '30 has 1; '33, 1; '35, I; '36, 1; '37,
4: '39, I; '40, 3; '41, 4; '42, 4; '43, 8; '44, 8; '45, 6;
'46, 8; '47, 9; '48, 10; '49, 9; '50, 3; '51, 4; '52, 7; '53,
6; '54, 9; '55, 5; '56, 6; '57, 7 ; '58, 4 ; '59, 2; '60, 3.
The Psi Upsilon sons are distributed as follows: '59
has 1; '62, 1; '63, 1; '64, 3; '65, 2; '67, 1; '68, I; '69,
2; '70, 1; '71, 2; '72, 3; '73, 8; '74, 6; '75, 3; '76, 6;
'77, 10; '78, 12; '79, 7; '80, 14; '81, II; '82, 10; '83,
15; '84, 18; '85, 16; '86, 9; '87, 7. The average number
for the last ten classes is twelve, being seven per cent
of the whole membership in those classes. Fifty-one of
the hundred and seventy-one sons belong to different
colleges from those of their fathers. Seventeen of the
hundred and thirty-six fathers have two sons apiece in
the society. The late Justice William Z. Stuart of Indiana
had five; Professor William S. Tyler of Amherst Col-
lege, the Rev. David Trumbull, and the late Stephen
Waterman, each sent four; and Orange Judd, the Rev.
Edward H. Greeley, and the Rev. Benjamin T. Roberts,
three. Fifty-two of the hundred and thirty-six fathers
are clergymen.
Two of the founders - Mr. Tuttle and Dr. Harvey
have Psi Upsilon sons, as have several of the charter
members at the New-York University, Yale, Brown,
Amherst, Bowdoin, Hamilton, and Wesleyan. Among
the prominent Psi Upsilons whose sons are members are
President Arthur; the poets Saxe and Stedman; Bishop
Niles; the Rev. Drs. Dexter and Scudder; Presidents
Seelye of Amherst, White of Cornell, and Strong of the
Rochester Theological Seminary; Professors Bennett of
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Syracuse, Diman of Brown, Harrington of Wesleyan,
Harris, Mather, and Tyler, of Amherst, and Parker of
Dartmouth; ex-Senator Patterson, Chief Justice Durfee,
Dwight Foster, George W. Schuyler, Benjamin T.
Eames, William Walter Phelps, Waldo Hutchins, and
many others, mentioned in the following complete list of
the fathers in Psi Upsilon :—
THETA CHAPTER. — George W. Tuttle, '36; Charles W. Harvey,
Joseph W. Gott, '37; Theodore Babcock, '41; George I. Taylor, '43;
Simon S. Goss, '46; Albert C. Ingham, Daniel W. Noyes, '47; Ches-
ter A. Arthur, '48; Samuel T. Freeman, '50; Francis P. Dewees, '53;
Stephen Bredin, '54; Edward L. Stevens, '55; Alson C. Davis,
Harlow A. Gale, '56; Edmund H. Dewey, '58.
DELTA CHAPTER. - George W. Schuyler, '37; John T. Johnston,
'39; Henry M. Scudder, '40; William H. Willcox, '43; Francis N.
Bangs, '45; William Aikman, '46; John H. Colgate, Grenville T.
Jenks, '49.
BETA CHAPTER. - Henry M. Dexter, Daniel P. Noyes, '40;
George Bushnell, David Trumbull, '42; Benjamin T. Eames, Lucius
F. Robinson, '43; Samuel A. Fisk, Edward D. Selden, Joseph B.
Walker, '44; Lewis H. Reid, '47; Dwight Foster, '48; Walter Frear,
'51; William H. Odell, '52; Benjamin K. Phelps, Edmund C. Sted-
man, Andrew D. White, '53; Edward W. Lambert, Alexander S.
Twombly, Adrian Van Sinderen, Erskine N. White, '54; Edmund T.
Allen, Augustus H. Strong, '57; William W. Phelps, '60.
SIGMA CHAPTER. - Zuinglius Grover, '42; Cyrus Bentley, '44;
Franklin J. Dickman, Thomas Durfee, Stephen Waterman, '46; James
Tillinghast, '49; Jeremiah L. Diman, '51; Alexander Farnum, '52;
Horatio Rogers, '55; Arnold Green, '58.
GAMMA Chapter. William S. Tyler, '30; William Z. Stuart,
'33; Rowland Ayres, '41; Waldo Hutchins, '42; George Soule, '47;
Thomas Morong, '48; Henry N. Peck, Julius H. Seelye, '49; Elijah
P. Harris, Edward A. Strong, '55; Richard H. Mather, Edward K.
Phillips, John H. Sweetser, '57; Francis Lobdell, '58; Alpheus Hardy.
ZETA CHAPTER. - Henry E. Parker, '41; Lorenzo Clay, '43;
Edward W. Clark, John H. George, '44; Edward H. Greeley, '45;
Ezra L. Griffin, '47; George W. Patterson, James W. Patterson, John
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M. Stebbins, '48; John Bell, '52; Charles H. Cram, '54; Isaac Bridg-
man, '56; John Q. Bittenger, '57.
LAMBDA CHAPTER. - George B. Draper, '45.
KAPPA CHAPTER. - George F. Choate, William D. Northend, '43;
John M. Goodwin, '45; Jairus W. Perry, '46; John C. Smith, '47;
Oliver Stevens, '48; George E. B. Jackson, '49; Henry F. Harding, '
'50; Joseph K. Greene, '55; Rowland B. Howard, James H. Taylor,
'56; Amos L. Allen, '60.
PSI CHAPTER.-John Munro, '44; Dwight H. Olmstead, Perry
H. Smith, '46; Moses E. Dunham, '47; James S. Dickerson, '48;
William B. Ruggles, '49; Francis E. Dakin, '51; Paul D. Morrow,
'52; George W. B. Dakin, '53.
XI CHAPTER. Harvey B. Lane, '35; Erastus Wentworth, '37;
Richard S. Rust, '41; Micah J. Talbot, '43; Eli Hubbard, '45;
Orange Judd, Silas W. Robbins, '47; John C. Clarke, Benjamin T.
Roberts, '48; Julius R. Pomeroy, '49; Arthur B. Calef, '51; Charles
W. Bennett, Calvin S. Harrington, Aaron White, '52; Henry Baker,
Joseph H. Knowles, '54; Daniel Pomeroy, '56; George S. Chadbourne,
58; George G. Dains, Frederick Woods, '59; Sanford B. Sweetser,
'60; Charles N. Smith.
ALPHA CHAPTER. — John G. Saxe.
PHI CHAPTER.
Orlando M. Barnes, '50.
CHI CHAPTER. Edward J. Morgan.
BETA BETA CHAPTER. - Frederick D. Harriman, '45; James S.
Purdy, '49; William A. Hitchcock, '54; William W. Niles, '57.
The three groups of six brothers each are, White (Beta
'51, '54, '59, '60, '64, '66), Smyth (Kappa '48, '54, '56, '63,
'67, '68), and Thacher (Beta '68, '71, '72, '74, '77, '83);
the last-named being sons of the venerable Professor
Thacher. The groups of five each are, Dakin (Psi ’51,
'51, '53, '53, '58), Lewis (Zeta '64, '66, '69, '72, '74), Pome-
roy (Xi '49, '52, '53, '56, '61), and Stuart (Zeta '71, Gam-
ma '73, '74, '80, '83).
Among miscellaneous facts of relationship, it may be
stated, that, of the founders, Mr. Goodale is uncle of Judge
Hadley; Mr. Barnard had a brother in Beta's class of
'48. Two of the five brothers Pomeroy have Psi Upsi-
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lon sons, as have two of the five brothers Dakin. Partial
researches show a vast number of kinships other than
those mentioned. There are many uncles and nephews,
and innumerable cousins. About three hundred mem-
bers have married daughters or sisters of Psi Upsilons.
It is almost certain that the survivors of the classes in
Theta and Delta from '36 to '39 are the oldest Psi Upsi-
lons who have worn the badge in college. Each of the
living founders has reached a great age. Mr. Harvey
was born at Albany, March 17, 1810; so he is now seven-
ty-four years old. The Hon. William Taylor, known
throughout the society as "Old Bill Taylor," and who,
though not a founder, did more than any other early
member to strengthen and extend the order, was born in
New-York City, April 3, 1810. Judge Hadley was born
at Goshen, Litchfield County, Conn., Aug. 26, 1812; Mr.
Goodale, at South Egremont, Berkshire County, Mass.,
Dec. 20, 1814; Mr. Martindale, at Sandy Hill, Washing-
ton County, N.Y., Feb. 4, 1817; and Mr. Tuttle, perhaps
the youngest of the founders,—for he finished college
at nineteen, first saw the light at Windham, Greene
County, N.Y., March 14, 1817. Probably the youngest
initiate is Mr. John A. Ingham (Pi '86), son of the Hon.
Albert C. Ingham (Theta '47). He entered Syracuse
University and the Fraternity at the early age of fourteen.
Nearly threescore years separate him from Mr. Harvey
and Mr. Taylor.
The first Psi Upsilon to lay down this mortal life was
David Humphreys (Theta '37), whose death in 1838, in
Velasco, Tex., far away from home and friends, was soon
followed by that of his classmate, Merwin H. Stewart, one
of the founders. Since these early bereavements the roll of
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the stelligeri has been sadly lengthened. Five of the seven
founders lived to witness the semi-centennial; but of the
fourteen men in the first class only six survive, and only
four remain of the ten men in Theta '37. Four of Delta's
six charter-members, and six of Beta's fourteen, are still
left. The deaths of the poet Holland, of the zealous
churchman DeKoven, of the scholarly and eloquent Pro-
fessor Diman, of the novelist DeMille, of the astrono-
mer Watson, of Senators Arnold and Ferry, remind us of
the great age of our Fraternity, and warn us to provide
worthy substitutes for the great departed. Following is
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1843-1853.
1853-1863.
1863-1873.
1873-1883.
Theta
Delta
Union
N. Y. U.
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17
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8
Beta
Yale
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Brown
3
6
Gamma
Amherst
13
Zeta
Dartmouth
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Lambda
Columbia
Kappa
Bowdoin
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Hamilton
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Wesleyan
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62
94
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26
27
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25
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12
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18
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15
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Chicago
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SOCIAL LIFE.
"Fond memory keeps forever bright
The loving ties there formed
Within thy walls of living light,
Psi Upsilon, Psi U."
JOHN M. WHEELER (Theta '41).
"Knowest thou the house? On pillars rest its beams,
Bright is its hall."
GOETHE.
FORTUNATE is it that the society experiences most
difficult to describe are those which leave the most vivid
and permanent impressions: none of us needs to be re-
minded of the social joys of our order. The literature
of anniversary re-unions affords us many interesting
glimpses into the communings of the early Psi Upsilons.
Speaking at the Chicago re-union of 1879, the Hon. John
U. Pettit (Theta ’39) said, —
"The Psi Upsilon was never a creed. It was something better. It
was a faith, warm, lively, living, buoyant, glowing, hopeful. Life was
social: we became friends. Good work depends on who can do it
best we became chosen friends. All honest life has common duties:
we worked together. The strong are stronger than the weak: we
helped each other. With like studies, tastes, purposes, ambitions,
hopes, helping and supporting and cheering each other on the way,
all grew warın and close to each other by very contact, and so close it
seemed we could almost feel the beating of every brother's heart. At
its birth and in its cradle, Psi Upsilon was a marvellous child of full
health and strength and beauty. From the beginning, the Psi Upsilon
was a free republic; but, better, it was a republic of love."
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"I joined the Theta Chapter a few weeks after its organization. At
that early date, as now, the avowed object of the society was brotherly
love."
The Rev. Samuel Goodale writes in "The Diamond,"
Young men as college-students must have society of some kind.
It becomes a necessity, in order to the proper cultivation of their
social nature and their moral characters, that they be drawn closely
together socially with those of their own kind. I think I can say, as
one of the founders of the Psi Upsilon, that it originated in such a
necessity."
The Rev. Henry M. Dexter says in regard to Psi
Upsilon at Yale,
"We used to have royal good times. The influence of the thing upon
me was strong and salutary, both in a literary and general point of
view."
And Dr. Dexter's classmate, the Rev. Daniel P. Noyes,
after describing the charter-members of Psi Upsilon in
New Haven, writes, —
"As I recall the list, a sense of truth, of honor, of brotherliness,
comes over me. There was a great deal of affection and of magna-
nimity in the company."
President James B. Angell of Michigan University
wrote to the convention of 1880,
"Some of the dearest memories of my college-days are linked to the
friendships of my society life."
Ex-Attorney-Gen. Amos T. Akerman said a few years
ago, -
"My memory retains scarcely any thing of my college-life which I
would be so glad to enjoy again as some of the meetings of the Dart-
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"I remember well how Psi Upsilon brought much relief from the
'grind' of college-days."
Of the society as it was at Hamilton more than thirty
years ago, Mr. Willard S. Pope says,
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"Around and above all was the genial, hearty comradeship, the
sunny influence of friends kindred in'habit, in thought, and in life. And
this it is this culminating charm of college-days — that endears to
'us forever the memory of our old Fraternity. The friendships of youth
are warm; and to me, and I am sure to all of us, those will always be
near and dear whose hands then met ours in the old familiar grip of
the Psi Upsilon."
In much later times, Professor Horatio S. White,
speaking of the causes which required the suspension
of the Alpha Chapter, likened Psi Upsilon to a family.
And so the old song runs,
"Psi Upsilon, the family
Of Nature's royal men,
Bless, bless, the Union from which sprang
The happy children ten!"
We of the present day have the best reasons for know-
ing that the social tie has not been relaxed. Alumni
re-unions are results of that tie; and it has led to gather-
ings in foreign lands, such as met in 1878 in Leyden, the
ancient university town of Holland. An incident of
social life among graduates is thus described in "The
(New York) Times" of March 1, 1883:
"WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.
"President Arthur gave a dinner-party at the White House this
evening, in honor of his college fraternity, the Psi Upsilon, of which
there are several members in the present Congress. The guests were
received in the Blue Parlor by the President and his sisters, Mrs.
McElroy and Mrs. Haynesworth of Albany, both of whom are now
his guests at the White House. The dinner was announced at half-past
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seven, and the table in the private or family dining-room was laid with
sixteen covers. Blooming azaleas and orchids were placed around the
rooms, and the table was decorated with flowers. An oval shield in four
compartments, made of pink and white azaleas, and studded with lilies-
of-the-valley, was set in the centre of the table, and at each end were
large cut-glass balls, filled with Jacqueminot and Marechal-Niel roses.
Silver candelabra and crystal compotes and decanters also decorated the
board. Seven wineglasses were set at each plate, together with gold-
embossed name-cards and boutonnières and corsage bouquets. The
President sat at the middle of the table, with Mrs. Hawley at his right,
and Mrs. Frye at his left. Mrs. McElroy sat facing him, with Senator
Hawley at her right, and Senator Frye at her left. The others present
were Mrs. Haynesworth, Mr. Charles D. Warner, Representative and
Mrs. Hutchins of New York, Representative and Miss Robinson of
Brooklyn, Representative and Mrs. Rice of Massachusetts, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Buck of Connecticut."
The salutatorian of the New-York University class of
'83 writes,
"Our chapter-life is our college-life. The boys get around to the
rooms about half-past nine every morning, talk together about Psi
Upsilon matters (no studying allowed) for half an hour, then march
around to the University, and sing as they go up and down the halls.
The recitations last till half-past one, when all go out together for
lunch; then to the rooms, to study, sing, play chess, etc. Outsiders
see how constantly we are together, how we help each other, and how
we are bound to one another by Psi Upsilon ties."
Passing to some of the incidents of society life, it may
be remarked that the acquisition of a permanent home
has ever been the hope of each chapter, — a hope already
realized in several instances, and soon to be realized in
others. The following description of the building owned
by the society in New Haven is taken from "Four Years
at Yale :
"The hall of Psi Upsilon is on High Street, a few steps from the
north west corner of the college-yard. It was taken possession of on the
1st of May, 1870, having been about seven months in process of erec-
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tion. It has a front of twenty-six feet, a depth of sixty-six feet, is about
forty feet high, and stands upon a lot whose dimensions are forty by
seventy feet. The material of the front is red pressed brick inlaid with
ornamental work in black; one pattern running across just above
the freestone foundation, another at the top of the entrance-way, and
a third just below the cornice of the roof. This is a Mansard, slated, and
surmounted by an ornamental iron railing, which connects and partly
conceals the two short chimneys which project at its extremities.
Above the entrance is an arched window, the keystone of which bears
the chapter-letter 'B.' The entrance and the arch above it make a
slight projection from the front, and so a gable above the arch breaks
the uniformity of the roof. The roof-cornices and the massive stair-
way are of light Nova-Scotia stone, and freestone is the material of the
half-dozen steps which lead up to it. In relief, upon the inner slab
which surmounts the doors, are the letters 'Y'. The doors them-
selves are of solid oak, though these will doubtless in time give place to
iron ones. On the south side of the building, near its front, is a second
arched window, covered, like the ornamental one in front, with a brown
lattice-blind. There are two other square windows in the rear, protected
by close black shutters. There is also a rear entrance to the basement,
and two full-length basement-windows, as well as half a dozen scuttle-
windows upon either side, all of which are protected by iron bars. The
other windows mentioned are all in the second story; and in the roof is
a large skylight of thick ground glass, which looks in upon the main
theatre or exhibition-hall. The usual assembly-room is on the lower
floor, and there are various small apartments above and below. Venti-
lation is secured by double walls and other special appliances; and the
building is heated by furnace, supplied with water, and lighted by gas.
David R. Brown was the architect. The masonry was superintended by
William Treat; and the carpentry, by William Judd. The whole prop-
erty must have cost some fifteen thousand dollars. For a year or two
before the work was begun, the society owned the stucco house next
beside the Divinity College on College Street, and intended to refit it,
and occupy it for its own uses, but finally decided to build the present
hall instead. Previous to this, Psi Upsilon had occupied for more than
a quarter of a century a hall in Townsend's Block, corner of Chapel
and College Streets."
The debt upon the Yale Hall was cleared off in June,
1882, when some needed repairs were made. Additions
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to the building have long been under discussion. The
property is held by a corporation created by the Connecti-
cut Legislature at its May session of 1862, when James H.
Trumbull ('42), formerly Connecticut secretary of state,
Henry E. Pardee ('56), and Simeon E. Baldwin ('61),
"with all such other persons as may from time to time
be associated with them, together with their successors,”
were constituted "a body politic and corporate, by the
name of the 'Trumbull Trust Association,' for the sole
purpose of the intellectual and moral improvement and
culture of its members; and by said name" were to "have
perpetual succession, and be capable in law to purchase,
receive, hold, and convey real and personal estate not
exceeding a certain amount in value; "to sue and be sued,
implead and be impleaded," etc.
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The erection of the beautiful building owned by the
Xi (Wesleyan University) Chapter, in Middletown, Conn.,
was determined upon at the quarto-centennial in 1868,
when a subscription was started contingent upon ten
thousand dollars being raised. On Oct. 21, 1869, the
first money—one hundred dollars was paid in by John
Hale Powers ('69), who died Sept. 26, 1877, while the hall
was building. In 1872 Mr. John A. Cass ('72) made an
extended tour, in which he raised the subscriptions to
The financial panic delayed payments,
but the amounts collected were at once put at inter-
est, whereby more than two thousand dollars accrued.
About two hundred and twenty-five men from forty-five
classes have subscribed to the fund. Ground was broken
the specified sum.
for the building, June 27, 1877. The work was completed
Feb. 1, 1878, and the chapter was put in possession at
once; but the formal dedication' was postponed until June
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25, 1878. The Hon. D. Ward Northrop and Melvin B.
Copeland were the building-committee. The house is
No. 32, in Broad Street, only a few rods from the post-
office, court-house, banks, etc., and seven minutes' walk
from the college. It is of brick, the front being of Phila-
delphia pressed brick, and the trimmings of Portland
brown-stone. From the basement projects a bay-window,
which is carried up through the first and second stories;
but the place of windows in the front of the third story is
supplied by two large tablets and a badge. These are
carved in Ohio yellow-stone, and set in brown-stone, one
tablet bearing the words "Erected A.D. 1877;" the other,
the letter "E" and the date "1833." The exterior dimen-
sions are twenty-six by fifty feet. The first story con-
tains a parlor and dining-room, connected by folding
doors, and devoted to the use of the Chique Chaque
dining-club, —a Psi Upsilon organization. The base-
ment contains four rooms for the matron of the club.
The attention of one entering the house is attracted by
the Pompeian style of frescoing in the hall. On each
side are figures with Greek mottoes. The first is a table-
scene, with the words "Mía Tux;" the second is the head
of Apollo with his lyre, and the motto “Tvới Leavtóv;
the third is a group of flowers with “Αμφιθαλὴς Ερος.”
The fourth picture has "Xaîpɛ" in the centre, and un-
derneath it is the answer, “Hoλλoí Kảyatoí" (from the
Eleusinian ceremonies); the fifth picture is an owl resting
upon a fasces, the motto being "Dextres Dare," the sixth
is a burning lamp resting upon a book, and its legend is
Integer Vitae." The frescoing of the reception and
dining rooms is in the Queen Anne style. The second
and third stories are thrown into one, and contain the
lodge-room, guard-room, cloak-room, etc. The cost of
the ground and building was not less than fifteen thou-
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sand dollars, and there has never been any debt upon the
property. The corporation is composed of alumni who
have subscribed articles of association, under the name
of "The Xi of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity."
The chapter-house of the Gamma was purchased in
August, 1879, and was occupied immediately on the open-
ing of the ensuing term. In the summer of 1880 the house
was repaired and remodelled; a third story was added,
and piazzas were built. The changes having been com-
pleted about Dec. 1, 1880, complete possession was taken
at that time, though the lower floors had been previ-
ously occupied. The site is a fine one: it has a front of
one hundred and fifty feet on the principal street, oppo-
site the common, and a depth of one hundred and eighty
feet. The situation is central, the business part of the
town of Amherst being near at hand, while the col-
lege is distant about three minutes' walk. Near the
northern line of the grounds, and at a short distance
from the sidewalk, is the house, which is fifty feet in
width, and has a depth of forty-five feet, besides a large
extension. It is painted brown, the third story—in which
is the lodge-room- being shingled and painted in the
Queen Anne style. Broad piazzas run across the entire
front. A double suite of rooms on the first floor is re-
served for parlors, reading-room, etc., besides which are
eight suites occupied by sixteen members of the chapter.
In front of the house, and running the full length of the
grounds, is a lawn; at the side are fruit-trees, and in the
rear is a tennis-court. The estimated value of the prop-
erty is nearly twenty thousand dollars. The purchase-
price and the cost of remodelling were paid by numerous
subscriptions some of them being very large — from
the alumni of the chapter, the class of '78 being also very
generous. The corporate name of the society is "The
Gamma Chapter Corporation of Psi Upsilon."
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The erection of a house was first discussed by the
Michigan Chapter in the winter of 1872-73, Charles H.
Hamilton ('69) and James W. Ferry ('73) being especially
active in urging on the work. The project passed
through the usual stages. In December, 1875, ten alumni
signed articles of incorporation, under the title of "The
Hamilton Literary Society." At the ensuing Commence-
ment, subscriptions amounting to twenty-five hundred dol-
lars were made. The first money was paid in by Francis
D. Bennett ('72); and ground was bought Aug. 13, 1878.
Many new subscriptions were now received, and previous
ones were doubled. George Rust ('73) gave seven hun-
dred and fifty dollars; Edward K. Hubbard ('78) devised
property from which a large sum was realized; C. H.
Hamilton (69), O. F. Barnes ('80), P. B. Loomis ('80), W.
M. Thompson ('81), and J. M. Wheeler (Theta '41) gave
from two hundred to five hundred dollars each; and
there were a good many subscriptions which exceeded a
hundred dollars. Ground was broken Oct. 3, 1879, and by
May 1, 1880, the building was substantially completed.
The house faces the university buildings, and stands at
the corner of State Street and South University Avenue,
on a lot measuring sixty-six by two hundred feet. It is
of irregular Gothic shape, with three gables, facing north,
east, and south, while on the west is a tower, the height
of which is eighty feet. It is in the neo-Gothic style of
architecture. The material is brick, with terra-cotta and
stone trimmings, while bands of black brick wind around.
The corner-stone bears the following inscription on the
State-street side: "A.D. MDCCCLXXIX;" and on
the north side, "Anno Fraternitatis XLVI, Capitis XV."
Gargoyles of terra-cotta do duty as water-spouts on the
tower. The cornice is constructed of brick, terra-cotta,
and galvanized iron. The roof is of slate, and the orna-
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ment over each gable is a monogram of the letters ""
and "Y." The north gable is constructed of terra-cotta
of diaper-work, in the centre of which is a shield con-
taining the clasped hands, and surmounted by the owl
and fasces. There are two main entrances to the house,
one being through the tower, by means of winding stairs
on the north and east side of it, and the other on the north
side, by passing up a flight of steps leading to a veranda
twelve by thirty feet. The main hall is nine feet wide,
on the right side of which is a reception-room seventeen
by twenty-two, and on the left, a library sixteen by twenty-
four feet. The remainder of this floor and the second
floor, as well as part of the third, are devoted to sleeping-
apartments, with all the necessary adjuncts of bathrooms,
closets, etc. Over the broad stairway that leads to the
second story are three arches ornamented with corbels,
while leading to the third floor are four arches similarly
adorned. On this floor is the lodge-room. The stairways
and floors are of oak, the floors being doubled and dead-
ened. The house is heated by a large furnace; but there
are also twelve fireplaces with suitable mantels and tile-
hearths. A large dining-hall, together with kitchen, pan-
try, laundry, etc., are in the basement, which is high and
well lighted. The present value of the property, including
furniture, cannot be much less than twenty thousand dol-
lars. The site is by far the best in the city of Ann Arbor.
It is intended to build a stone lodge on the State-street
front in the near future; and then the present lodge, now
occupying the greater part of the third story, will be
devoted to other purposes.
The chapter at Hamilton College was incorporated by
special act of the New-York Legislature, April 10, 1872,
1 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of July 17, 1830, contains a very
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under the name of "The Psi Chapter of the Psi Upsilon
Fraternity," Charles H. Toll, Edward E. Bacon, and
Perry H. Smith, jun., being named in the act as the first
board of trustees. The site of the house now building
is a prominent corner about one-quarter of the way up
College Hill." There is a total frontage of two hundred
and thirty-six feet on College Street, and the lot contains
about a third of an acre. The plans call for a three-story
building, of wood, after the Queen Anne style. A kitch-
en, two bedrooms, and cellar, are to be in the basement;
dining-room, billiard-room, parlor, and library, on the first
floor; and three chambers, bathroom, and lodge-room on
the second floor, while in the third story are five cham-
bers, making accommodations in all for sixteen students.
Ground was broken early in the autumn of 1883, and the
stone foundation was laid. The work will be completed
in a short time.
In 1881 the Beta Beta (Trinity) Chapter purchased a
lot at the corner of Washington and Park streets, one of
the most desirable sites in the city, paying therefor
twenty-seven hundred dollars. "The Colt Trust Associa-
tion," the corporate body of the chapter, is composed of
Henry K. Olmstead ('46), George S. Gilman ('47), Fred-
erick Goodridge ('57), William W. Niles ('57), William
Hamersley ('58), Charles M. Pond ('58), Alfred B. Bull
('59), Samuel B. Warren ('59), William F. Nichols ('70),
George H. Seyms ('72), and David B. Willson ('79). To
the energy and perseverance of Mr. Willson is largely
due the success of the committee appointed in June, 1882,
to solicit subscriptions for a building. Jan. 31, 1883, it
was reported that more than the required sum - ten thou-
sand dollars - had been pledged; and June 29, 1883, the
corner-stone of a lodge was laid in presence of Bishop
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livering an address. The foundations are completed, and
the building-which is to be of brown-stone, with Ohio
freestone facings
will be finished this season.
The house of the Eta (Lehigh) Chapter is situated in
Market Street, in the centre of the city of Bethlehem, on
a lot measuring eighty-three by one hundred and sixty-
two feet. A fine tennis-court occupies the rear of the
lot. Purchased in 1882, the building was altered in Swiss
châlet style by W. H. Miller of Ithaca, who, by the way,
was the architect of the Fiske-McGraw mansion, and
who has drawn the plans for the new Chi house. To the
two lower stories of brick was added a third story of
wood. There are porches and balconies on all three
stories, the ground porch being fourteen feet deep and
forty-five feet long. The cellar contains steam-heating
apparatus, kitchen, three bathrooms, etc. On the first
floor, at the left of the entrance, is a smoking-room, six-
teen by twenty-six feet; in the rear of that is a library,
twelve by sixteen; on the right of the entrance are two
drawing-rooms with folding-doors, the total length being
thirty-eight feet, and the width sixteen feet; in the hall
are thirty lock-closets for coats, etc.; and in the rear is
the lodge-room, thirty-six by twenty feet. The second
floor contains seven bedrooms, with closets and a bath-
room; and on the third floor are five single bedrooms,
and two suites of two rooms each. Twenty-four men can
easily be accommodated in the house. The total cost
of building and furniture is slightly more than twenty-
eight thousand dollars. A stock association composed of
alumni of the Fraternity holds the legal title to the prop-
erty.
The Chi Chapter at Cornell University laid the corner-
stone of a house, May 8, 1884, in presence of the general
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convention. From President White's address on this
occasion¹ the following paragraphs are taken :
"Long experience among students, and close observation of their
modes of thought and action, at this and other universities, at home and
abroad, have satisfied me that the erection of buildings like this is a
distinct gain to good order, manly conduct, and sound scholarship. It
is not, then, merely as an old member of this society that I take part in
the laying of this corner-stone.
"One of the most unpleasant things in college-life hitherto has been
the fact that the students have considered themselves as practically
something more than boys, and therefore not under tutors and govern-
ors, but something less than men, and therefore not amenable to the
ordinary laws of society. Neither the dormitory nor the students'
boarding-house is calculated to better this condition of things, for
neither has any influence in developing the sense of manly responsibility
in a student. But houses such as I am happy to say this society and
its sister-societies are to erect on these grounds seem to solve the prob-
lem in a far better way. They give excellent accommodations at reason-
able prices; they can be arranged in such manner, and governed by
such rules, as to promote seclusion for study during working-hours ;
they afford opportunities for the alumni and older students to exercise
a good influence upon the younger; they give those provisions for the
maintenance of health which can hardly be expected in student bar-
racks, or in the ordinary student boarding-house, and in the long-run
can be made more economic.
"But what I prize most of all in a house like this is its educating
value; for such a house tends to take those who live in it out of the
category of boys, and to place them in the category of men. To use an
old English phrase, it gives them 'a stake in the country.'
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engender cliquishness, narrowness, the substitution of a feeling of
attachment to the house and its inmates, for devotion to the interests of
the entire university and of good-fellowship with all of its students.
Such has not been the result thus far."
Part of what Mr. Charles Dudley Warner said during
this ceremony reads thus :
1 Concerning which see The Ithaca Daily Journal and The Cornell Daily
Sun of May 9, and The Diamond for June, 1884.
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"We have met to lay the corner-stone of another Psi Upsilon home.
We recognize by this act the truth, that, in an institution where one may
pursue any and every branch of knowledge, there is an education that
is as important in life as that in the sciences and humanities, the educa-
tion in manly sentiment, in trust in the good that is in human nature,
in friendship, the development of the social and emotional part of our
natures, without which life is a barren and unsatisfactory endurance of
inconveniences.
"The site is an ideal one. The builders of the Alhambra had scarcely
a better, a prospect more varied, pleasing, and noble. You are set on
a hill. Nothing is higher than you, except the university, to which you
are bound to look up, and the sky, into which you hope some time to
go. You are lifted above common things, and yet placed in a position
of circumspection as well; for you are not only elevated, but standing
upon the edge of a precipice, looking into a gorge of unknown capacity.
You are warned that there is a vulgar sort of personal elevation that
cannot be safely indulged in this position. But you have the courage
and the nerve and the rectitude to dwell here in perfect security; and I
must say, that if our Fraternity is not the only one that could with safety
that is, without danger of losing some of its members- build its
house on the edge of a frightful chasm, it is, so far as I know, the only
one that has dared to do so.
"Brothers, I congratulate you upon the vitality and prosperity of
this young chapter. I look forward with certainty to the cultivation
here of the graces of scholarship and of manhood. A great responsi-
bility, in this age of material aspirations and utilitarian spirit, is laid
upon young students and scholars, to keep alive the traditions of pure
learning, and the courtesies of a high behavior, which spring from a cul-
tivated mind and heart. The foundation-stone you lay to-day is laid in
the spirit of liberal scholarship and of brotherly love. It will not be
worth while to lay it at all, however, if these things are not already laid
as corner-stones in your hearts."
The building will cost rather more than sixteen thou-
sand dollars, will be constructed of stone, brick, and
wood, and will contain a lodge-room, drawing-room,
library, smoking-room, etc., and sleeping-accommodations
for ten or twelve members. The plans are very artistic,
and the house will undoubtedly be a splendid addition to
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our long list of buildings. Since 1875 the Cornell mem-
bers have rented the large brick edifice at the corner of
Buffalo and Quarry streets. Some years ago a lot at the
intersection of Buffalo and Eddy streets was bought for
twenty-five hundred dollars; but this will be sold, in con-
sequence of the gift of a site on the University grounds.
The building-fund already amounts to nearly ten thousand
dollars, there are three subscriptions of twelve hundred
dollars each, — and is constantly increasing. In Decem-
ber, 1881, an incorporation under the title of "The Psi
Upsilon Alumni Association of Ithaca, New York" was
formed, under the general law of New York applicable
to literary and social organizations. There are now a
hundred and nine members: William H. Sage (Beta '65)
is president, Professor Waterman T. Hewett (Gamma '69)
is corresponding secretary, Samuel B. Turner (Chi '80) is
recording secretary, and George W. Schuyler (Delta '37)
is treasurer; and, besides those just named, President
White, Professors Babcock, Fiske, Prentiss, and Shack-
ford, together with Francis M. Finch, James F. Gluck,
and Frederick D. White, are the trustees.
The parent chapter was incorporated in 1881 under the
name of “The Theta Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fra-
ternity." At the semi-centennial a large and enthusiastic
meeting of members was held, and the roll of subscrip-
tions was greatly lengthened. From about forty men
among whom are the founders, and President Arthur,
Judge Van Vorst, Judge Jackson, Gov. Rice, and other
noted graduates - have come pledges for five thousand
dollars, an amount which will be very largely increased
when the remaining members are heard from. A lot on
the college property has been partially promised by the
trustees, and work will soon be commenced. The Fra-
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At Kenyon College our Iota was incorporated in 1883,
under the name of "The Iota Chapter of the Psi Upsilon
Fraternity." One of the graduates has promised a lot if
the chapter desires to build, and there is a goodly fund
which the alumni will soon be called upon to augment.
Before the close of 1884, it is believed a house at Gambier
will have been added to the possessions of the society.
The Sigma (Brown) Chapter has a building-fund
amounting to several thousand dollars; and, when a
lodge is begun, it will be on a scale commensurate with
the age and reputation of the society in Providence, and
with the wealth of its resident graduates.
In 1878 the undergraduates of the Zeta (Dartmouth)
branch subscribed twenty-five hundred dollars towards a
house, and a corporation was formed. Work will not be
commenced until a building costing not less than fifteen
thousand dollars can be put up. As the chapter is the
oldest society at Hanover, — its graduates number more
than five hundred, it could have built, many years ago, a
hall equal to either of the two inexpensive society edifices
in the college town. The Kappa of Bowdoin is now
moving in this direction. Here, too, there are many
wealthy and zealous alumni; and early success is certain.
At Columbia College the graduates of the chapter — who
are more numerous than those of any other society —
have offered to advance the money necessary to build a
club-house; but, in view of the high price of land in the
metropolis, it is deemed prudent to proceed very cau-
tiously.
Psi Upsilon at Syracuse University was incorporated
some years ago under the name of "The Psi Upsilon
Trust Association." At the time the chapter was estab-
lished, there was a pledged fund of thirty-five hundred
dollars, which has never been called in. There is every
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reason to believe, that with proper effort, and with the
aid of the resident alumni of other branches, a house
can be erected within a year or two. This remark
applies with equal force to the chapters in Rochester and
Chicago.
At the University of the City of New York the socie-
ty has an endowment which originated with one of the
truest and best alumni Psi Upsilon has ever claimed,
Abram Ogden Butler ('53), who at his death bequeathed
to trustees for the chapter the sum of twenty-five hundred
dollars. The conditions of the bequest are, that the
money be used only in payment of rent, and that no
games of chance, or intoxicating liquors, be allowed in the
rooms. The chapter occupies an entire floor in a large
building near the University, and has recently furnished
it, with the help of graduates. A club-house is far less.
necessary here then elsewhere.
It may have been gathered from this account, that,
before the close of the present year, ten of the eighteen.
living chapters will probably have halls built or building ;
and before very long all will be similarly provided for.
Anticipating ownership, many chapters hire rooms, where
the members meet for social converse and for the enter-
tainment of visitors. This is the case at Union, Columbia,
Dartmouth, Hamilton, and Syracuse. Before the purchase
of their house, Gamma's members held for many years
an entire floor in a business-block in Amherst, a lodge-
room being in the centre, while around it were apartments
which were rented to Psi Upsilon men.
In the chapter houses and rooms the beginnings of what
will hereafter be large collections of books and pictures
are already seen. Many distinguished alumni have been
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regular practice of sending to the chapters copies of their
new books. Shortly before his death Dr. Holland gave
to Theta's library a full set of his writings, consisting of
fifteen volumes; Professor Goldwin Smith has added to
his benefactions to the Chi Chapter a rare portrait of
Alexander Hamilton; Mr. A. W. Adams (Xi '75), who
died before graduation, presented to his Wesleyan breth-
ren a library of two hundred volumes; and Mr. R. B.
Oglesbee (Phi '82) has interested himself in collecting
for his chapter the works of Psi Upsilon authors, and
his efforts have met with great success. The libraries of
the Theta, Delta, Pi, Chi, and Eta, are quite large, and
are constantly growing. In some colleges, each class, on
graduation, presents to its chapter the photographs, often
handsomely framed, of its members; and thus younger
men have continually before them the likenesses of their
predecessors.
Speaking very generally, it may be said that members.
of the society-even where there are no chapter-houses
-room and board together. Psi Upsilon eating-clubs, of
an organization more or less formal, have existed at one
time or another in all our colleges. One of the oldest
institutions of the kind in the country is the "Chique
Chaque " (formerly spelled Chauque) at Wesleyan Univer-
sity. It was founded in 1838. It was at first known as
the North Club, and since 1862 it has been in Psi Upsi-
lon hands. This club has long rejoiced in the posses-
sion of a coat-of-arms, which annually precedes the
names of the members in "The Olla Podrida," and
which, introducing in heraldic positions various kinds of
fish, flesh, and fowl, must be seen to be appreciated.
There are usually about thirty members. The "Psi Up-
silon Table" at Union College was illustrated in the last
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annual by a very neat engraving which displays an upright
plate appropriately inscribed. Behind this are knife and
fork displayed saltire-wise, and below is the motto "Wir
essen um zu leben."
The last number of "The Rochester Interpres " gives
the names of nine members of a Psi Upsilon eating-club
ycleped "The Harem." The members at Hamilton, Syr-
acuse, and probably in other colleges, have tables of their
own. In 1872 a dozen or more members at Michigan
University formed an eating-club. This, under various
names, continued until 1880; and since that time pro-
visions for the inner man are supplied in the large dining-
room of the chapter-house.
The musical powers of our undergraduates find ex-
pression in numerous glee-clubs. The New-York Uni-
versity Chapter sustains a double quartette, which has
given successful concerts. A quartette from Dartmouth
not long ago travelled through Vermont and New Hamp-
shire, giving a series of vocal concerts with acceptation.
Feb. 19, 1878, the Phi (Michigan) Glee-club, which had
long enjoyed careful professional training, sang a number
of college and fraternity songs in the Grand Opera-House
in Detroit, before an appreciative audience. Our admi-
rable hymns deserve to be rendered by organizations
specially disciplined for the purpose.
Chapter clubs for the cultivation of particular games
and sports are rapidly increasing. The Psi Upsilon lawn-
tennis club at Michigan University enjoys the champion-
ship of the college, and the " Diamond Tennis Club" of
Brown was said not long ago to excel any rival organiza-
tion. A similar association in the society is the oldest
club, and one of the best clubs, at Bowdoin. There are
Psi Upsilon tennis clubs at Hamilton and Trinity, and the
courts at Amherst and Lehigh have been mentioned. A
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canoe-club was one of Psi Upsilon's specialties at Bow-
doin in 1882-83. During the last college-year there were
chess and checker clubs in the Delta Chapter, each of which
enjoyed the championship of the New-York University.
There is a Psi Upsilon chess-club at Rochester, likewise
two whist-clubs; and organizations of the latter kind are
found everywhere.
An extract from "The (New York) University Quar-
terly" of October, 1879, gives a partial idea of another
movement to which the versatile nature of Psi Upsilon
comradeship has adapted itself:
"Of the many camps that dotted the shores of the twin lakes near
the 'happy land of Canaan,' Conn., during the summer, none attracted
more attention than that over the tents of which waved the garnet-and-
gold banner of the Delta Chapter of Psi Upsilon. The vicissitudes of
camp life proved just sufficient to make the pleasant features vividly
appreciated; and from all reports we judge that the expedition was a
complete success. The tan and muscle displayed by the brothers on
their return to college drew forth numerous comments from their fellow-
students; and those fish stories! Five-pound bass! nine-pound sal-
mon! and pickerel!! The freshmen stood in open-mouthed astonish-
ment. Then the patterns in muslin — but on this point it is currently
reported that one of the party intends to write a romance, in which
will be woven many of their adventures.”
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During the summer of 1883 a “Delta Camp ” was estab-
lished at "Psi Upsilon Point," Lake George; and as Mr.
F. H. Bullard (Xi '83), who owns a cottage on one of the
islands in that beautiful sheet of water, has generously
offered the use of the same to the Fraternity, a camp will
be organized each year hereafter.
Re-unions are prominent features of chapter-life.
These usually occur on Commencement Day or on the
evening before, and the night of the annual initiation also
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University a special celebration takes place every four
years, with public exercises, literary in character, and
resembling those of the general convention. In the after-
noon the chapter gives its annual reception; and in the
evening, after the exercises, comes the annual re-union.
The first of these “quadrennials " is said to have occurred
in 1849; and the last called the ninth
was on the
27th of June, 1879. Less formal gatherings are of fre-
quent occurrence. Of late years the Columbia Chapter
has called together its graduates to partake of an annual
dinner either in February or March. Undergraduates
of chapters in the neighborhood of alumni associations
usually attend the re-unions of the latter. The inaugura-
tion festival of the Trinity Chapter occurs as near as
possible to the third day of February of each year.
Chapter-houses enable the members of the society to
extend hospitality to friends who are outside of their own
circle. The Wesleyan, Amherst, Cornell, and Michigan
undergraduates have at times given receptions to large
numbers of invited guests. The Michigan members
opened their house by a formal reception, May 26, 1880,
and since that time the building has witnessed an annual
"german." Informal hops, musicales, etc., also form
pleasant diversions from the monotony of study.
Of course there are many usages connected with the
daily intercourse of the members to which the publicity
of type may not be given. One custom, however, being
of a nature that is not at all private, it is proper to speak of
here. From the earliest times it has been the practice,
upon the death of a member, for his comrades to drape
their badges, or wear some token of affliction. Thus we
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find in the minutes of the convention of 1843, that upon
the announcement of the death of brother DeWitt C.
Rumsey, of the Delta, it was resolved to wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty days. If an undergraduate
dies, the remains are conveyed to his home by a committee
of the chapter; obituary resolutions or notices are sent to
all the alumni of the chapter, to the other chapters, and to
the relatives of the departed. Not infrequently an oration
is delivered, perhaps at the next re-union, by a classmate
or specially intimate friend in the society. Sometimes
the general convention takes cognizance of the death of a
very prominent alumnus, and directs the condolence of
the Fraternity to be extended to the bereaved family.
Such action was taken after Clarkson N. Potter and Dr.
Holland died. In several instances, monuments have
been erected. The Lambda (Columbia) Chapter placed
in the college-building a tablet to the memory of John
Sym, one of its founders. Upon the marble which bears
the name of Ossian C. Pettit (Theta '50) his chapter
inscribed, -
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A scholar rich with more than learning's wisdom.
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HYMNOLOGY.
"Here we sing the rising glory
Of the fair and genial sun,
Famed in all collegiate story, —
Orb of light, Psi Upsilon."
A. N. Rowe (Kappa '60).
SINGING is so important a feature of all our gatherings
that it has been thought best to devote a separate chapter
to the songs. Many members connect the dearest memo-.
ries of their college-days with the inspiring choruses of
the Fraternity. "Four Years at Yale " very correctly says
that the custom of singing is a comparatively modern one
in our colleges, that the secret societies have the credit
of introducing it, and that few of the college-songs now
sung, and few of those in the earliest collection, were
written much before 1850. The first edition of Psi Upsi-
lon songs, which, it is believed, antedates all similar
books, appeared in 1849. The bibliography of the songs
will be discussed in the next chapter.
Our first songs were written by one whom Professor
Fiske calls the poet-laureate of Psi Upsilon, and who
Professor Boyesen declares "has the lyrical fame in him,
and might win a crown in literature, if other things did
not occupy him," - Francis Miles Finch, of the Yale class
of '49, now a member of the Court of Appeals of New
York. During the interval of two years between his ini-
tiation (July, 1847) and his graduation, he composed the
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five songs which form the basis of our hymnal, and which
at this day have few equals in our own or in any other
collection. Of "The Smoking Song," which begins, -
"Floating away, like the fountain's spray,
Or the snow-white plume of a maiden,
The smoke-wreaths rise to the star-lit skies
With blissful fragrance laden,"
and of which the refrain is,
"Then smoke away till a golden ray
Lights up the dawn of the morrow;
For a cheerful cigar, like a shield, will bar
The blows of care and sorrow, ""
we read in “The Hartford Courant” of April 23, 1879, the
following:
"This song is perhaps the most striking poem in English literature
which the theme of tobacco has inspired; and it is at the same time
almost the one lyric, remarkable from a literary point of view, which
American student-life has produced. . . . During one of the author's
last years at Yale, it chanced that the members of his college society,
the Psi Upsilon, were sitting in their chapter-room, engaged in smoking,
chatting, and singing student-songs. In an interval of comparative
silence a member suddenly remarked, 'We've lots of drinking-songs:
why don't somebody write a smoking-song?' Mr. Finch, whose facility
at versification has always been remarkable, at once withdrew into a
quiet corner, and in a few minutes produced the first three verses of
'The Smoking Song,' written to the melody of what was then a great
favorite, Charles Fenno Hoffman's 'Sparkling and Bright.' These
were at once sung with immense delight. The next morning these
stanzas were revised, and the four remaining ones written. The sub-
sequent history of the song is equally notable. It has been published
both in English and California journals, ascribed in the former case
to a well-known English writer, and in the latter to a Pacific bard of
less fame. . . . Some years ago a new air of great merit, and far better
adapted to the words than 'Sparkling and Bright,' originated at the
University of Virginia, and to this melody it is now generally sung. It
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long ago ceased to be the peculiar property of the society for which
it was written, and became the common possession of the whole student
world."
In general literature Mr. Finch is more widely known
from his two poems "The Blue and the Gray" and
"Nathan Hale." But, returning to his Psi Upsilon writ-
ings, it may be said that Senator Hawley's account of
the convention of 1848 mentions "The Mystical Bower"
and the "Anthem." The latter many regard as our best
lyric. Its air is that of "Crambambuli," and it is often
quoted. The first and last of the five stanzas are :—
"Come, brothers, swell the anthem glorious,
And rend the air with joyful songs;
Let garlands crown the band victorious,
To whom the laurel-wreath belongs.
Before all else beneath the sun,
We'll sing to thee, Psi Upsilon!
Long live Psi Upsilon! Psi Upsilon !
"Then hip, hip, hurrah! Psi U, forever;
Till sun and stars are lost in night
Our altar's fire shall fail us never,
But blaze in beauty clear and bright.
Then till the sands of life are ruń,
We'll sing to thee, Psi Upsilon !
Long live Psi Upsilon! Psi Upsilon!"
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"The Fairies' Song" and "The Halls of Psi Upsilon,"
both very beautiful, complete the list of Mr. Finch's early
productions. "The Old Men's Song," 2 written in the mel-
ody of "Nearer, my God, to Thee," for the convention of
1879, introduces the names of the several chapters.
Probably contemporaneous with "The Smoking Song"
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is in The Diamond for January, 1878.
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and its four companions was the song called “Psi Upsilon
the True," commencing
"The chorus raise of Psi Upsilon."
It is not often heard nowadays. It was written by
George W. Pratt (Xi '49), who studied and taught music
for several years after graduation, and died in 1856.
Another old song is the "Greeting Song," by the Rev.
Willis S. Colton (Beta '50), in the air of "Mountain-Maid's
Invitation: "
"Come, come, come!
Welcome, brothers! welcome, all!
While the evening shadows fall,
Welcome to our dear old hall
As in days of yore.
Here our hearts beat warm and true,
Love's gay sunlight darting through
Eyes as clear as heaven's own blue,
Cloudless evermore."
The song commencing
"With right good cheer we assemble here,
Our chapter merrily meeting;
At our motto's command we grasp the hand,
And join in the friendly greeting,"
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"We'll soar to-night in a loftier flight
Of joy and friendship holy,
And far from each son of the Psi Upsilon
Be the demon Melancholy,"
is one of our oldest pieces. It was written by an anony-
mous member of the Psi, perhaps before 1850.
Among our earliest songs (though it is not in the book
of 1853) is the one in the melody of "Araby's Daughter,"
which was first sung at the anniversary of the Xi, Aug. 5,
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1851, as a tribute to the memory of two of the founders of
the chapter at Wesleyan. The writer was the Hon. Lewis
F. Jones (Xi '46). It begins, –
"Silent and still be the heart's wild commotion;
Hushed be the voices that late echoed high;
Lofty and full be the strain of emotion
For those richly gifted doomed early to die."
The lines by Edward S. Cone (Beta '51) commencing
"Psi U's, once more the banner raise,"
are also very old, though they have been in few of the
song-books.
The "
Tryst of College- Days," written many years ago
by Charles F. Gerry (Xi '51), will be dear to the Fraternity
as long as the badge is worn. The second stanza is
omitted.
"The midnight oil is burning low;
The moon climbs upward in the skies;
The shining star-lamps softly glow,
Like far off angel eyes.
"Whene'er our chosen badge we see,
In solitude or crowded mart,
The stranger shall a brother be,
And heart shall speak to heart.
"And when we wander, weary men,
Along the cold world's rugged ways,
In fancy we will keep again
The tryst of college-days."
The chorus is very good :
(6 Then, brothers, raise a parting song,
And let the strain float gayly on;
While we the chorus loud prolong,
Psi U, Psi Upsilon."
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Next in age to the songs mentioned are four composed
by Harvard undergraduates in 1851 and 1852, — “ Old
Memories," by J. D. Robinson; the "Parting Song," by
the Rev. Henry W. Brown; "The Joy of Psi Ups,"
by the Rev. Francis W. Hilliard; and "Ties of Old," by
the well-known author, Horatio Alger, jun. The last is
intended to be sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard,” and
begins,-
"We have gathered once more in our mystical hall
To strengthen the ties that of old,
Cemented by friendship and brotherly love,
Have bound us with fetters of gold.
The glance of the eye and the grasp of the hand,
Though silent, still loudly proclaim
That the union of hearts and the union of hands
With us shall be ever the same."
It is almost needless to quote, from Hilliard's lines,
"Come, brothers, rejoice in uproarious song
For the love of Psi Upsilon !
The glad ringing anthem, O brothers! prolong
For the love of Psi Upsilon!
The love and the joy and the hope of Psi Ups,
The love and the joy and the hope of Psi Ups,
Psi Upsilon, Psi Upsilon!
The love of Psi Upsilon!"
One of our chief composers is the Rev. James K. Lom-
bard, a Yale graduate of '54. He was initiated in June,
1852, and was one of the two editors of the first collection
of Yale songs, and of the second Psi Upsilon song-book
(both issued in 1853). For many years he has been rec-
tor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Fairfield, Conn. In
1882 he published, at the request of his parishioners, a
dainty little volume of poems entitled "Gleanings." Of
his five Psi Upsilon songs, he writes that the one called
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"Think of Psi Upsilon" was written in October, 1852, and
that the others appeared about the same time. That most
popular glee," Jolly Psi U," beginning
"We jolly fellows sing this song,
Psi U, Psi U;
'Tis this to which we all belong,
Psi Upsilon,"
with the chorus,
is from his pen.
"We're bound to sing all night,
Till the break of day comes on,
Then home to bed with the early light,
To dream of Psi Upsilon,"
He also wrote "This Jolly Convocation"
in the air of "It's a Way we have at Old Harvard." Of
this the first two stanzas are,
"This jolly convocation,
All over the Yankee nation,
Goes under the appellation
Of the Fraternity.
"Psi Upsilon its nomen,
A name of happy omen,
Where boys, before they grow men,
May men in earnest be."
Mr. Lombard's other songs, "Swiftly the Moments Fly "
and "The Band of Brothers," need no words of praise
here. It is to be hoped, that in these later years he will
not hesitate to place the society under additional obliga-
tions.
The grand "Song of Psi Upsilon " we owe to James
DeMille (Sigma '54), the facile and ingenious novelist
whose loss we have lately been called upon to mourn.
Of the four stanzas, the first reads, -
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"Hearken to the loud resounding
Echo of the trump of fame;
Every brother's heart is bounding
As he hears the glorious name;
Quick each brother's heart is beating,
Fast each brother's blood doth run,
While the echo is repeating
Far and wide, 'Psi Upsilon.'"
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The first four pages of the song-book of 1857 are taken
up by a long "Fraternity Song," in the air of " Auld Lang
Syne," written by C. C. Gaytes (Gamma '58). This is
not in the present book. "Our Mystic Home,” by the
Rev. John D. Bell (Gamma '55), seems to have been the
first song written by an Amherst Psi Upsilon. Its lines
are pleasing.
"Hail to Psi Upsilon " and "The Star of Psi U” were
written nearly thirty years ago by Arnold Green (Sigma
'58), a prominent lawyer of Providence. The former is
in the air of the "Highland Fling," and its first lines are
well known :
"Hail to Psi Upsilon!
Brotherhood's token;
Hail to our chapter's pure
Union unbroken!"
"Psi Upsilon Supper" is a later and very popular song
by the same author.
Professor Calvin S. Harrington, D.D., of Wesleyan
University, has written some of our best songs.
The
words and music of the "Diamond Song" he composed
for the convention of 1865 at Middletown:
"There's a glorious palace more noble and grand
Than the splendor of princes can boast,
More precious and costly than pearls from the strand, –
The palace that we love the most;
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Unbought in the world's sordid mart;
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'Tis a storehouse of riches that cannot be told,
'Tis a loyal Psi Upsilon heart.
"Then hail to the diamond, noble and grand:
Our symbol and badge be it ever;
In the songs of the heart and the grasp of the hand
We will tell of its glories forever!"
His "Dear Old Shrine" is repeated at all re-unions:
"Come, brothers of Psi Upsilon, who trod these halls of yore,
Unbar the ivied gate of years, and tread these halls once more;
The buried jewels glitter still, the lingering voices call,
While we, with spirit gaze and grasp, at ancient altars fall.
"Come, brothers of this later time, of earlier worth the peers,
Who bear the honors of the past along the hurrying years,
Ye keep our temple-walls still bright, ye weave the wreaths of bay,
Ye feed the hallowed vestal fires we gather round to-day.
"Come, brothers of the then and now, one, whom no time can part,
Linked by a chain whose diamond clasp gleams bright above each
heart;
Come sing again the good old songs, the mystic bond still bless;
The diamond of Psi Upsilon shall never sparkle less.
CHORUS. "O dear old shrine!
Our hearts around thee twine;
We love thee yet;
We'll ne'er forget
The days of Auld Lang Syne."
"Carmen Animi" and "After the Battle," compara-
tively recent songs by the same author, are already favor-
ites. His "Semi-centennial Ode," in five stanzas, written
to a Welsh air, was worthy of the occasion that inspired
it. The first stanza runs thus:
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"Brothers, linked by diamond fetters
In the guilds of lore and letters,
From the heart each other's debtors,
Sing Psi Upsilon.
Fifty years behind us
Golden bands to bind us ;
Song and story,
Deeds of glory,
Thronging to remind us;
By our holy altars dwelling,
Heart and hand the secret telling,
With the joyful chorus swelling,
Sing Psi Upsilon."
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More frequently heard than any other verses are the
following, in the air of "Suoni la Tromba" the ringing
march in "I Puritani: "}
"Brothers, the day is ended,
Lost in the surge of time;
Gently the hours have blended
In that melody sublime.
Soft as a dream of beauty
Fadeth the silver light;
Done with the joys of duty,
Now for the joys of night. Hurrah!
Sing till the star-bells, ringing,
Chime in the golden morn;
Hail to thee! glory bringing,
Starry-crowned Psi Upsilon.
"Heaved on the breast of beauty,
Tossed on the manly heart,
Glitters the golden token,
Twined hands that never part.
Vexed with a vain ambition,
Poring the weary page,
Others may dream of greatness,
Here's to a green old age! Hurrah!
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On to the field of glory!
Soon be the triumph won;
Hallowed in song and story
Ever live Psi Upsilon."
They were composed twenty-five years ago by Charles
A. Boies (Beta '60), whose too early death deprived the
society of a rare poetic genius.
Of our three Latin songs, the "Canticum," in the air of
“Gaudeamus,” is the oldest. It was composed by the
Rev. E. R. Pennoyer (Xi '55). The authorship of the
"Carmen ad Psi Upsilon " is unknown, but there are
reasons for believing that the song comes from Yale. It
is sung on all formal occasions, and is adapted to the
tune usually given to "Integer Vitae." All these hymns
show that happy disregard of Latin forms and idioms
which characterizes student attempts at versification in
the language of the noble Romans; but the current report
that Professor Harkness fainted when he heard cordia
used by poetic license for corda, to help out the third line
of the "Carmen," is untrue. "Lauriger Psi Upsilon" we
owe to Alfred L. Edwards, Esq. (Beta '57), who also
wrote "Old Psi U," the beautiful song commencing
"Strong hopes are turning,
Fond hearts and true,
Ceaselessly yearning
Toward old Psi U.
Beautiful visions,
Joys yet to be,
Halo these clasped hands,
Emblems of thee."
William H. Boughton (Lambda '58), now a lawyer in
New-York City, wrote "The College Chorus," which was
printed in the song-book of 1857, and which at many
colleges is the typical Psi Upsilon song:
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"The bright-eyed maiden loves to hear,
Psi U, Psi U,
The story of our brave career,
Psi Upsilon,
And looks upon the man as blest,
Psi U, Psi U,
Who wears the diamond on his breast,
Psi Upsilon.
Then hurrah for the Psi U ladies!
Psi U, Psi U,
Hurrah for the Psi U ladies!
Psi-Upsilon."
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"The Regular Toasts," another favorite, is by the
same author; and a classmate of his at Columbia, Ros-
well Weston, jun., wrote "The Mystic Tie," a very good
song. Four stanzas, in the air of "Edite, Bibite," by
Philip W. Holmes ('57), a song by F. L. McCrackan ('60),
in the same tune as "Cocachelunk," and another by
William R. Talbot ('57), in the melody of "The Blue-
bells of Scotland," all good songs by Lambda men, were
in the song-book of 1857, but have not since appeared.
Another Psi Upsilon of Columbia, Mr. George P. Smith
('66), composed the capital "Fraternity Song," already
quoted in these pages.
"Our Noble Old Fraternity," by Allen Griswold (Xi ’59),
who died Jan. 4, 1862, is sung to the air of "Benny Hav-
ens, O," and has many warm admirers. Its third stanza
is,
"And when old age has seared our locks, and early friends are gone,
When golden dreams have vanished like the glories of life's morn,
We will think again on college-years, and what to thee we owe,
The brightest gem of memory then, Psi Upsilon, Psi U.”
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Glory of Psi Upsilon," by Abram N. Rowe, a Bowdoin
graduate of '60, who died in 1864, is a rousing chorus in
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which all can join. One of the four stanzas is at the head
of this chapter.
The ever popular air of "Landlord, fill the Flowing
Bowl" was long ago seized upon by the Rev. Charles H.
Richardson (Gamma '60), who framed for it new words,
with this chorus:
"Then to-night we'll merry, merry be,
Hearts brimful of gayety and glee,
Holding here our happy jubilee,
'Mid Psi U's jovial pleasures."
Mr. Joshua Gaskill, one of Upsilon's first members,
wrote the lines.:
"We're brothers in Psi Upsilon
By ties that ne'er can sever:
Our hearts are linked in unison
Forever and forever."
Judge Tourgée, during his undergraduate life at Roches-
ter, and before 1861, wrote two capital songs. We often
hear his verses commencing
"Thine is a name of deathless fame,
and the chorus,
A spirit fair and bright,
A temple grand, a noble band
Of ever growing might,"
"Psi Upsilon, Psi Upsilon !
No nobler name than thine,
None dearer to each faithful son
Who worships at thy shrine."
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Equally good is his song, "Bonds of Psi Upsilon," to
the air of "Annie Laurie :
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"The world's rough paths are cheery,
And life has joyous grown,
Since round our spirits weary
Psi U's sweet bonds were thrown."
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"The Psi U Pæan," by Professor William W. Bailey
of Brown University, is especially admired for its cho-
rus:
"Hurrah! hurrah! we're true
In our love for old Psi U,
For her clasped hands of gold,
For her mystic motto old,
And our brothers tried and bold,
And our brothers tried and bold, boys, hurrah!"
A short but very beautiful poem by the same writer,
entitled "The Ship Psi U," appeared in "The Diamond"
for June, 1881.
"Psi Upsilon, Psi U" was composed by John M.
Wheeler, Esq. (Theta '41), for the annual supper of the
Phi Chapter, Oct. 20, 1866. The melody is that of "Auld
Lang Syne." Some of its lines are quoted at the head of
the preceding chapter of this book.
The glorious old air of "Lauriger" has never found
better English words than those given it by Charles D.
McGuffey, one of the early members at Kenyon, and
author of two other Psi Upsilon songs. The last two of
the six stanzas read,
"Visions sweet of long ago
Every bosom lighten;
Thronging from the silent past,
Golden memories brighten.
"Lock the hand in warmer clasp ;
Raise the anthem clearer;
Hand to hand and heart to heart,
Brothers, circle nearer."
This is called the "Convention Song." It seems to
have been composed for the gathering of 1867.
"One in Psi U" was composed by Professor Edward
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air is that of a German hunting-song. Peculiarly whole-
some is this sentiment:
"With us there are no classes,
We're only jolly masses
Of jolly boys and true;
No soph. nor senior haughty,
No fresh. nor junior naughty,
We're only just Psi U;
Halle! Hallo! Halle! Hallo!
We're only just Psi U."
Mr. Francis A. Blackburn (Phi '68), now principal of
the Boys' High School, San Francisco, composed, more
than fifteen years ago, "Honored Psi Upsilon," the words
of which, sung to the tune of "The Pirate's Chorus," are
heard in many chapters almost as often as those of
"Brothers, the Day is ended." The last of the three
stanzas is,
"Scattered and sundered by land and by sea,
Still turn our thoughts to thee;
Deep in the heart,
Though in sadness we part,
Thy love shall inspire us
Till love and life depart.
Shout!
Victory ever thy banners shall crown,
Honored Psi Upsilon!"
A younger member of the Phi Chapter, Herbert H.
Lyons, M.D. ('72), wrote, during the early years of his
college-life, three admirable songs, "Our own beloved Psi
U," Glory be unto Thee," and "Hail, all Hail.” The
music of the last was composed by Mr. Homer Reed
(Phi '72), and one of its stanzas runs thus,
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"Psi Upsilon, Fraternity we love and cherish,
Shine on our college-days with lustre bright;
Time brings us change; other names may perish,
Thine shall but shine with clearer light."
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Dr. Lyons died very suddenly at Oakland, Cal., June
24, 1883, greatly regretted by his chapter.
Mr. George T. Sewall (Kappa '67), now a lawyer at Old
Town, Me., is the author of "The Toast and Pledge,”
wherein we find the following cheerful sentiment:
"Oh, the moral will tell us, no doubt, that it's wrong
To be wasting our moments in laughter and song ;
But we'll show them what Plato and Socrates say,
''Tis exceedingly dull with all work and no play.'
This song was in the edition of 1870. Later still, Mr.
Sewall has favored the society with two more good songs,
one a farewell hymn, the other entitled "Thoughts of
Psi Upsilon;" and we are led to expect more from his
pen.
The Rev. Charles W. Winchester (Xi '68) has written
three Fraternity songs, all good ones. His "Re-union
Song" voices well the spirit of our anniversaries.
Less than a decade has passed since Professor Willard
Fiske published the first of the many beautiful verses that
bear his name. Of him Professor Boyesen declares that
he made it a rule never to go into breakfast before having
written a Psi Upsilon song It is sufficient praise to say
that all of his lines were at once caught up and sung as
heartily as the oldest favorites. "Meine Braut," our only
hymn in the German language, is much admired.
"The
Maiden Fair" is a gem of song:
"I know full well a maiden,
A maiden wondrous fair,
Her brow and bosom laden
With jewels rich and rare;
Upon her forehead sparkles
The diamond's lustre true,
And in her soft eye darkles
The swart enamel's hue.
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"She sits in radiant splendor,
And clasps her loving hands;
Around her waist so slender
Are pearl-embroidered bands.
A thousand lovers woo her,
And her sweet praises sing;
A thousand hearts 'unto her
Their precious worship bring.
"And she, in equal measure,
The love of each requites;
With all-embracing pleasure
Her troth to all she plights.
May nought but good befall her,
This maiden debonair!
We bless her as we call her
Psi Upsilon the fair."
"Our Trust," by the same author, has no superior in
sweetness and smoothness:
"Psi Upsilon, Psi Upsilon,
Sweet comrade in our pleasure!
We walk, in all our smiling hours,
Through paths thy hand has strewn with flowers;
Psi Upsilon, Psi Upsilon,
Sweet comrade in our pleasure!"
The "Hymn of Welcome," "The Echo of Psi Upsilon,”
and the "Psi Upsilon National Song," all composed to
Swedish airs, are splendid pieces of versification.
Psi Upsilon Hymn " is a devotional song.
"The
are
"The Mystic Land" and "The Senior's Last Glass
also written by Professor Fiske. A tenth song of his
composition, in which the Olympian deities are commiser-
ated for their ignorance of a certain fluid extract of malt,
used by college-men for medicinal purposes only, is one
of the funniest things in our literature.
The verses commencing
"Take, oh, take those lips away ! "
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were penned by Bayard Taylor at Professor Fiske's sug-
gestion. The original lines, in the author's hand, are now
in the archives of the Cornell Chapter.
"Youth Comes but Once," recently written by the Rev.
George Z. Gray, D.D., is destined to a permanent place
in our hearts. Among other songs composed during the
past few years by graduates of long standing are the "Ode
to Psi Upsilon," by Professor Ordronaux; "In Memori-
am," by Professor Henry E. Parker; and "Here we bind
our Hearts together," by the Rev. Moses E. Dunham,
Ph.D. The words of “Beautiful Name” are by John G.
Saxe, and were set to music by Professor Harrington, for
the convention of 1877. Professor Boyesen's beautiful
"Star Song" has already appeared in these pages. The
air is that of "Die Wacht am Rhein."
The songs that have thus far been mentioned were
written by members who long ago bade farewell to college-
halls. From a younger class men like the Rev. Truman
Weed and Charles M. Culver, of Theta; George N.
Whipple, Gamma; Ferdinand Blanchard, James F. Mc-
Elroy, and J. W. Willis, Zeta; Lawrence D. Olmstead and
Robert N. Hawley, Psi; George W. Elliott, George S.
Coleman, and Edward A. Sumner, Xi; Richard B. Twiss,
Omega; and Professor Nathaniel M. Wheeler, Pi — have
come verses which seem to prove that Finch, Lombard,
Harrington, and Fiske will have worthy successors. Cul-
ver's "Heartfelt Bond" is thoroughly good. Mr. Wheeler
is a real poet. His convention poem of 1882, and one of
his songs,
"Bundes-lied," —of which a stanza is quoted,
— show what we may expect from him in future.
"In every joyful meeting,
By every brother's tongue,
This ringing song of greeting
In chorus loud be sung:
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God keep us all united
That at this altar bɔw,
And keep the love unblighted
That warms our bosoms now."
Since the last edition of the songs (1881), many excel-
lent verses have been composed, some of which have been
printed in "The Diamond." A re-union song written in
1882 for a quadrennial of the Xi, by Professor Caleb T.
Winchester, is one of the best. It is hoped that the next
edition will contain all the new songs, and the old ones
that by accident or intention have been omitted. Those
who care for statistics are informed that one hundred
and twenty fraternity songs are known to have appeared
in the various editions of the song-book, in the society's
periodical, or in the form of separate printed sheets,
making nineteen to be added to the last hymnal. The
contributors number 69, of whom 3 are unknown; 13 are
Xi men; Beta, Zeta, and Lambda have 6 each; Psi and
Alpha, 5 each; Gamma, 4; Theta, Sigma, Upsilon, and
Phi, 3 each; Kappa, Pi, and Chi, each 2; Delta, Iota,
and Omega, each 1. Professor Fiske has written thir-
teen, and Judge Finch, Mr. Lombard, and Professor
Harrington, five each.
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Chapter songs are excluded from the general book; but
several of great beauty have been written. Professor
Fiske's verses, "The Colors of the Chi" and "The Chi's
Token," are good examples. The "Inauguration Ode'
of the revived Alpha Chapter is in two stanzas, in the air
of the song in "Fra Diavolo " which commences
"On yonder rock reclining."
It was written by Joseph R. Walter. Two chapter songs
by John M. Wheeler, "Song of the Phi" and "Greeting
Song," composed for the convention of 1880, are cap-
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ital. The new Eta Chapter has more than one special
song, and probably other branches are equally blessed.
The Beta Beta had at least five songs before it was in-
stalled as a chapter; these were composed by B. Ellison
Warner ('76), and are named "Welcome Song," "Fling out
our Banner," "Beta Beta," "Thou Fond Muse of Music,"
and "Let us fly from Care and Sorrow."
The airs of many of our songs are the popular melodies
of the times when the lines were composed. It is a com-
mon error to think that the society songs are adaptations
of college tunes; more frequently the reverse is the case.
The music of "The Diamond Song," of DeMille's stan-
zas, and of not a few other contributions, is original. Some
of the airs were imported by Professor Fiske from Ger-
many, Norway, and Sweden, having never before been
heard in this country. Publications of the songs with
music, and instrumental pieces that have been dedicated
to the society, will be mentioned in the chapter on Bibli-
ography."
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Viewing our songs as a whole, it is impossible not to
admire the elevation and purity of their sentiments, the
correctness and beauty of their versification, and the ap-
propriateness of their words and music. If eminence in
literary and scholastic pursuits be any test of poetic ability,
many of our writers are well qualified.
Professor Boyesen, than whom no better judge of poetry
lives, speaks thus,-
"When I take the song-book of the Fraternity, and read all these
songs, full of the heartiest lyrical feeling and most beautiful spontaneity
of expression, that sort of rousing rhythm that makes a song a song, it
seems strange to me that we should not have heard of them outside the
Fraternity... We ought to be prouder of this book than we are. I
have compared it with other song-books, and have found in none so
much genuine poetical talent."
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CHAPTER VII.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
"" Books: lighthouses built on the sea of time."
EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE (Gamma).
DURING its long life the Psi Upsilon has built up a con-
siderable literature. In the summer of 1882 appeared a
beautifully printed pamphlet: -
Bibliographia Psiupsilonica, issued by the Chi Chapter, Ithaca, 1882.
32mo. pp. 17.
Of course Professor Fiske was the author, but the book
gives no intimation of that fact. A pretty vignette, repre-
senting a night-scene, wherein the sacred owl is the chief
figure, forms the frontispiece; and the contents are divided
into seven classes, including fifty-eight issues. Many
printed "memorabilia" are purposely omitted, and some
publications not at the time in the library of the Chi
escaped the attention of the learned compiler. The cata-
logues will now be described.
Catalogue of Members, January, 1842. New Haven: Hitchcock &
Stafford, Printers. 8vo. pp. 18.
The title here given is printed on the flesh-colored paper
cover (eight inches by five), which is surrounded by a
rectangular border of fanciful design, and is further or-
namented by an oval woodcut containing the badge, and
around it the letters of the five chapters then existing,
with the date "1833" below. A lithographed titlepage
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follows the cover, having the words "Psi Upsilon Society"
over a symbolical picture, Minerva (holding the badge
in her hand) and Mercury, a temple on a distant height,
and a scroll below showing the names ""Oµnpos, Chaucer,
Shakspeare." This picture bears the initials of the de-
signer, William E. Robinson, who edited the catalogue
while studying in the Yale Law School. Beneath the
group is the motto, “ Ἡμῖν ξυνέπεσε πρὸς ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς σφοδρὰ
piλía” (Plato), selected at the editor's request by Profes-
sor (afterwards President) Woolsey of Yale. The third
page gives the roll of chapters; and on the fifth page
begins the list of members of the "Theta Chapter, Union
College." The arrangement of names is not by classes;
but under each year appear, in alphabetical order, the initi-
ates of that period. This system was followed until the
catalogue of 1870. The list of Theta contains 87 names;
Delta has 44; Beta, 55; Sigma, 38; Gamma, 21; total,
deducting two duplicated names, 243, which take up eleven
pages, and are printed in small capitals. Nearly all are
given in full. Each name is followed by three secret
symbols, and by the residence, the latter in Italic type. Six
of the members are "stelligeri." No note is made of
positions held. Eleven names
Eleven names-all of Theta
- all of Theta — appear
with the prefix "Rev.," and Charles W. Harvey has the
suffix" M.D." To fourteen Theta names the title "A.M."
is appended. Of the residences, 87 belong to New Eng-
land, III to New York, 6 to New Jersey, 10 to Pennsyl-
vania; the South has 17; the West 11. Two members
are marked “U. S. Navy;" and the Rev. H. M. Scudder
is designated as a missionary in Ceylon. Five men have
theological schools assigned as residences, and two are
credited to law schools. An alphabetical index of three
pages, double column, closes the book. Here, before each
graduate's name, is the year of graduation. Each name
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is followed by its chapter-letter. Of the alumni there
were 105. The typography is very accurate, and the gen-
eral appearance of the book is exceedingly attractive.
Very few copies are known to exist of the venerable work,
which, forty-two years ago, set forth the names of the
first Psi Upsilons.
Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. New York, June, 1844.
8vo. pp. 37.
This, the second catalogue, measures seven inches and
a half by four and three-fourths. The yellow paper cover
bears the scroll-work poster, surrounded by a rectangular
ornamental border, with circles, into which the ten chapter-
letters are inserted. The frontispiece is a steel engraving,
small, but well executed, representing a flying female fig-
ure, with an eagle, scroll, and banner, the words "Psi
Upsilon Fraternity" above the group, and below it the
motto, “Νόμιζ᾽ ἀδελφοὺς τοὺς ἀληθινοὺς φίλους.” The scroll
bears a picture of the badge, and the date "1833."
1833." A
wood-engraved ornamental Greek letter, about an inch
square, precedes each chapter-list; and at the head of the
alphabetical index are fasces and wreath. Twenty-seven
pages are devoted to the ten chapter-lists, which 'enu-
merate 497 names, and seven pages to the index.
Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. New York, August, 1847.
8vo. pp. 49.
The third catalogue, with ten chapters and 802 names,
is in all respects a close copy of the second, and, like it, is
a very handsome little book.
Catalogue of the Members of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Haec elo-
quentiae primordia, haec penetralia. - Tac. Issued in June of the
seventeenth year of the Fraternity, Anno Domini 1849. 8vo. pp. 72.
The fourth catalogue measures eight inches and three-
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fourths by five and a half. It has a white paper cover, the
first page of which carries the badge in scroll-work, and the
words "Catalogue 1849," while the last bears a fasces and
wreath. Preceding the titlepage proper is an emblematic
wood-engraved one, with a border containing in panels
the names of the chapters, in the centre a floating female
figure, with badge, banner, eagle, and scroll, and the words
"Triennial Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, pub-
lished by the Fraternity." Before the alphabetical list is
an emblematic bastard titlepage displaying the words
"Catalogue Alphabetical of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity,"
and the date “ 1833;" below it being an explanation of the
arrangement of the list, and the date, June, 1849. The
names number 995, and there are ten chapters.
T. J. Stafford, New Haven, was the printer.
Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Νόμιζ᾽ ἀδελφοὺς τοὺς
ἀληθινοὺς φίλους. Issued in June of the twentieth year of the Frater-
nity, Anno Domini 1852. 8vo. pp. 115.
Eight inches and three-fourths by five and a half; buff
paper cover, carrying the design of the badge, and en-
cirling chapter-letters with branches of oak and laurel, and
(on last page) a rayed bundle of arrows, with "Psi" above
and "Upsilon" below. In general appearance, except in
the size of the page, there is a recurrence to the style of
'44 and '47. The engraved chapter-letters, printed in the
centre of separate leaves, precede the lists. There are
eleven chapters, from Theta to Alpha, and 1,323 names.
The chapter-lists take up seventy-three pages; an alpha-
betical index, forty-two. The old motto on the titlepage
was restored by order of the convention.
Psi Upsilon. [Motto as before.] Issued in October of the twenty-
third year of the Fraternity, Anno Domini 1855. 8vo. pp. 144.
The sixth catalogue, eight inches and a half by five
and three-eighths, eleven chapters, 1,681 names; large
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emblematic designs, with chapter-name, precede, on a
separate leaf, each chapter-list, being in the main the
same that are found in late catalogues. John F. Trow,
printer, New York.
Psi Upsilon. [Motto as before.] Issued in March of the thirty-
second year of the Fraternity, Anno Domini 1864. 8vo. pp. 207.
The seventh catalogue, nine inches by five and three-
fourths; glazed white paper cover, carrying in gold, on
an octagonal ground, the design of badge, chapter-letters,
and laurel and oak branches; symbolical frontispiece,
representing a young man and a sage, with fasces above
and chapter-names; on reverse of titlepage, "Published
under the supervision of the central catalogue committee,
J. D. Jones, of the Psi Chapter, and W. F. Morgan, of
the Delta Chapter;" lists of thirteen chapters, from
Theta to Iota, each preceded by emblematic design;
2,678 names. Baker & Godwin, printers, New York.
233.
Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, MDCCCLXX. 4to. pp.
This, the eighth catalogue, presents an entire change
in form and appearance. The page measures eight inches
and a third by six and a fourth. On the paper cover,
which is of salmon or blue paper, enamelled, are printed
in black the words "Psi Upsilon, 1870." The frontispiece,
a superb steel engraving, represents a wall and archway
ornamented with the chapter symbols and letters; while
through the arch is seen the rising sun lighting up the
ocean waves as they dash upon a solitary rock. On the
faces of the columns which support the arch are large
shields bearing the society letters; and over the arch is a
coat-of-arms, having the letters and clasped hands for
armorial bearings, with the owl and fasces as a crest.
the upper right and left corners of the wall are panels
holding the figures “18” and “33." The titlepage bears
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the seal of the executive council. The customary Greek
motto is omitted. On the reverse of the titlepage we
read, "Published under the supervision of the Beta Chap-
ter; Committee, S. Benedict, R. W. DeForest, H. W. B.
Howard, G. D. Miller," and also, in smaller type, "Tuttle,
Morehouse, & Taylor, printers, New Haven." On the
next page are the names of the members of the executive
council from '69 to '71. Pages 3 and 4 give the roll of
fifteen chapters, ending with the Omega.
The special
frontispieces for the chapter-lists are printed on tinted
backgrounds. Around each page runs a black-line. bor-
der. 3,525 names are enumerated, arranged (for the first
time in our history) by classes; the Yale and Dartmouth
lists closing with '72, most of the others with '74. The
biographical notes are brief, and not very numerous.
Small Roman capitals are used for the names, lower-case
letters for the residences and the notes. The mechanical
execution is very fine, and at the time of its issue the book
fully deserved the encomium of "Four Years at Yale,"
that it was "by far the handsomest work of the sort ever
issued by a college society."
Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. [Greek motto as in most
editions.] Published under the supervision of the executive council,
in the forty-sixth year of the Fraternity, March, 1879. 4to. pp. [2], xi,
[1], 468.
This, the ninth catalogue, was ordered by the conven-
tion of 1875, and Sept. 18 of that year the first instruc-
tions for the preparation of the chapter-lists were sent out.
The binding is in four styles, - paper (in assorted enam-
elled colors), flexible cloth, cloth boards, and Turkey
morocco (full gilt). On the cover appears an enlarged
badge, with a line border, and monograms in the corners.
The same border, printed in red, surrounds each page of
the book. The frontispiece is the same as in the eighth
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catalogue, additional chapter-names being inserted; and
the chapter-vignettes are in the main the same as before.
Owl and fasces appear on the titlepage, on the reverse
of which are the names of the editors. Then follow a
table of contents, a preface by the chief editor, an intro-
duction by Gov. Rice, a list of the members of the execu-
tive council, and a roll of the chapters, with their founders.
Of the contents of the book no better description can be
given than the following, taken from "The [New York]
World: "
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"A MONUMENTAL CATALOGUE. Conscientious work of any
sort is always rare enough to command respect; and when a gradu-
ate's affection for his college society leads him to devote two solid
years of his life to preparing a record of its membership according to
an ideal standard of excellence which no man has ever had the courage
to adopt, a certain amount of curious interest necessarily attaches to the
result. To say of the newly issued 'Catalogue of the Psi Upsilon
Fraternity' that it gives the brief biographies of nearly five thousand
college-men belonging to about fourteen hundred different towns, which
towns represent every State and Territory of the Union, and twenty-five
foreign countries besides, is to say that it is a unique achievement, and
therefore worthy of at least the degree of attention due by common con-
sent to every literary novelty. . . . The chapter-lists show a total mem-
bership of 4,928, of whom 730 are known to be dead; and the fact that
all but 20 of the 4,200 living members have been traced by the com-
piler of the catalogue to their present or very recent abodes, is a fair
illustration of the surprising thoroughness of his work. The first 328
pages of the book are devoted to lists of members, arranged alphabeti-
cally by classes and the successive chapters. The extraordinary care-
fulness with which full names have been secured is shown by the editor's
quiet remark: 'In eight cases initial letters occur, followed by periods,
which are abbreviations of names not ascertainable, while unpunctuated
letters, of which there are seventeen instances, are not abbreviations, but
stand in place of names.' Following the residence and mystic-frater-
nity symbols attached to each name are a few lines of fine type, giving
notable events in the life of the owner, - honors, appointments, writ-
ings, and the like. The date and place of death are indicated in the
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cases of those who are dead, and a dagger designates each man who
failed to graduate with his class. In the second chief division of the
book (pp. 337-391) the names of the members are all repeated 'ac-
cording to geographical distribution; that is, they are arranged alpha-
betically by towns, the towns are arranged alphabetically by States, and
the States are arranged alphabetically. The 1,200 members who reside
in seven of the large cities have their residences definitely designated
by street and number. In this geographical catalogue, furthermore,
each member has assigned to him, not only his chapter-letter and class
numeral, but also a symbol indicative of his profession or business;
so that the visitor to any given locality is informed at once as to the
college, the age, and the occupation in life, of such fellow society men
as he may find there.
In the third division of the book (pp. 393-
447) the 4,928 names are arranged in a single alphabetical list, the
chapter and class of each being indicated, together with the page, in
the first part of the volume, where a more complete description may
be found. Nearly a thousand of the names are repeated still a fourth
time in the two 'tables of relationship.' . . . The typography and press-
work, for which the firm of Baker & Godwin are responsible, are in
every way creditable, and worthy of the prodigious pains with which the
editorial labors were conducted. Though many hands, of course, have
assisted in the work, the chief burden has fallen upon the editor, Charles
Wesley Smiley, a Wesleyan graduate of '74, whose taste for such labor
was first exhibited in the collection of material for the elaborate alumni
record of his college, which appeared in 1873, and to whose indefatigable
industry alone is to be attributed the fact that the present book is a
phenomenon among society catalogues."
Said "The Nation" of this catalogue,
"A work sumptuously printed, and that has involved very conscien-
tious and laborious editing. Biographies annexed to the names offer
an acceptable addition to our knowledge of 'men of the time.” ”
The catalogue was printed from stereotype plates, and
cost about three thousand dollars. The original edition
of a thousand copies was sold within a few months, but
no further use has yet been made of the plates.
A membership list on a novel plan is now preparing,
and, having received the approbation of the convention,
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will be issued this year. Perhaps five years will elapse
before the appearance of another catalogue on the elabo-
rate scale of 1879.
Formal catalogues of separate chapters are few in num-
ber, although lists have been published for special occas-
ions. A good model is the following: —
Beta Beta, 1874. 16mo. pp. 54.
Black limp cover, on which are stamped large letters,
"BB," in gilt; four inches and three-fourths by three and
a half; frontispiece, the badge of the Beta Beta, around
which is the legend "Procul, o, procul, este profani," with
eight stars in rays above, and on the sides branches of
laurel drawn together by a scroll, beneath which is the
date" 1842;" black-line border around each page; pages
5 to 38 are taken up with the names of the members in
the thirty-four classes from '43 to '76, a page to each class;
page 39 gives a list of ten pledged men of '77; profes-
sions and positions, & B K men, valedictorians and saluta-
torians, are noted; a directory by States and towns fills
eight pages, and five are taken up with an alphabetical
index; and on the last page is a recapitulation, — whole
number of members, 182, deceased, 19; alumni, 137, de-
ceased, 15; Phi Beta Kappa men (in 32 classes), 65;
valedictorians (in 31 classes), 12; salutatorians (in 31
classes), 13. It may be added here, that, in its classes
from '43 to '83, the Beta Beta had 234 members, of whom
171 have been initiated into Psi Upsilon; 25 of the re-
maining 63 are dead.
Special lists of alumni or of members residing in certain
States or cities have often appeared in connection with
re-unions. At Detroit there have been three such enu-
merations, of 22 members in 1877, of 34 in 1878, and of
39 in 1882. A roll of "The Psi Upsilon in Boston" (1878)
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is headed by "His Excellency the Governor of the Com-
monwealth" (Alexander H. Rice, Theta '44), and is ar-
ranged by chapters and classes, giving 234 members from
ten colleges. This list is printed on a folio of four pages,
heavy parchment paper, measuring ten inches and a half by
eight. To it are appended sundry "Psi Upsilon Notes"
mentioning the XLVth Convention, the catalogue, the
songs, "The Diamond," and the chapters. A complete
list of the "Members of Psi. Upsilon residing in Chicago,
May 1, 1881," gives 158 names representing fifteen chap-
ters, besides which are fourteen men from the "Omega
Chapter, University of Chicago."
Chapter-rolls have sometimes appeared in works not
wholly Psi Upsilon in character. Cutting's "Student-Life
at Amherst" (1871) gives the names of the members of
the Gamma Chapter on pages 169–179. The "Under-
graduate Record" of Columbia College, compiled by W.
S. Sloan (New York, 1881), contains, pages II to 20, the
roll of the "Lambda Chapter of the Fraternity of Psi
Upsilon" from the class of '41 to '84, in all, 347 men.
In this connection one may refer to the student annuals ¹
of the various colleges, the most important mission of
which is to give the names of the members of the socie-
ties. Complete lists of our alumni at Rochester, Syracuse
and Trinity, are found in the valuable pamphlets repre-
senting those institutions.
I Their names are these: Union, Garnet; Yale, Banner and Pot Pourri;
Brown, Liber Brunensis; Amherst, Olio; Dartmouth, Ægis; Columbia,
Columbiad and Miner; Bowdoin, Bugle; Hamilton, Hamiltonian; Wesleyan,
Olla Podrida; Rochester, Interpres; Kenyon, Reveille; Michigan, Palladium;
Syracuse, Onondagan; Cornell, Cornellian; Trinity, Ivy; Lehigh, Epitome.
The New-York University and Chicago have no similar issues. It is inter-
esting to note that the first of these student registers - The Yale Banner
was founded and edited by our William E. Robinson; the first number was
dated Nov. 5, 1841.
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Our first song-book was issued in 1849. No copies are
known to have survived the lapse of time, but old gradu-
ates recollect the existence of the work. It seems to have
been a little affair of eight pages, containing eight songs,
five by Mr. Finch, Colton's "Greeting Song," Pratt's
"Psi Upsilon the True," and the anonymous hymn, “Joy
and Friendship."
Songs of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity.
"The man that hath no music in himself,
And is not moved by concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
Until the sands of life are run,
We'll sing to thee, Psi Upsilon."
1853. 12mo.
pp. 28.
SHAK.
FINCH.
This, the second edition of the songs, is a beautiful little
book. It measures seven inches and three-sixteenths by
four and seven-sixteenths. The cover is of white glazed
paper, on the first page of which the Renaissance scroll-
work design is impressed in bronze ink; while on the last
page is the badge, with chapter-letters, branches of oak
and laurel, etc. Both pages are further ornamented by
a rectangular-line border. The preface is dated "New
Haven, March 1, 1853," and is signed "Beta Chapter, Yale
College." The editors were Theodore J. Holmes ('53)
and James K. Lombard ('54). The duty of preparing the
book was laid upon Beta by the convention of 1851. Of
the seventeen songs in this edition, eight are those men-
tioned in connection with the song-book of 1849; five
were contributed some of them anonymously — by Mr.
Lombard, as he modestly says, "because a supply of the
proper material was not forthcoming;" and the remaining
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four came from Harvard. The titlepage, changed only
in date and publisher's name, has been copied in all later
editions; and the quaint custom of singing it through from
beginning to end is very old.
The third edition, 12mo, pp. 64, with white limp linen
cover, printed similarly to the preceding book, measures
seven inches and three-eighths by four and three-fourths,
and contains thirty-three songs. The preface is signed
"Central Committee, New York, April 2, 1857." J. H.
Burnett was the printer.
The fourth song-book 8vo, pp. 35, eight inches
and an eighth by five and a fourth — has a dark-green
heavy paper cover, on which the designs are the same as
before. It was printed by Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor;
and the preface is dated "Beta Chapter, March 4, 1861."
The songs number eighteen, six of which appear for the
first time. Twenty-one songs of the previous edition are
left out.
The fifth edition closely resembles the fourth. It was
printed by the same firm, has forty-one octavo pages and
twenty-three songs, and its preface is dated "Beta Chap-
ter, May 10, 1866."
The sixth song-book — 8vo, pp. 76, nine by six inches
- is bound in brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt, "Songs
of Psi Upsilon;" beneath the lettering is a large lyre,
surmounted by a monogram and sixteen stars.
This was
the first edition printed with music and from stereotype
plates. The preface is dated "Xi Chapter, June 1, 1870."
The songs number fifty-two. Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston,
were the publishers, as they have been of all subsequent
editions. The book was copyrighted.
The seventh edition was similar to the sixth. It com-
prised 143 pages, ninety songs, and two instrumental
pieces. The preface is signed "Zeta Chapter," and dated
'Hanover, N.H., Dec. 9, 1876." The cover is black.
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The eighth song-book — issued by the executive coun
cil in 1878-closely resembles the preceding, but adds
ten pages and six songs, corrects many errors, and gives
the origin of many pieces which had not previously been
credited to their authors.
In 1881 there were added impressions from additional
plates, making the whole number of songs one hundred
and one.
Before these additions is a bastard title reading
"Addenda, Songs added in 1881 to the Edition of 1878.”
Besides the song-books proper, groups of songs have
often been printed for special occasions. In the library
of the Chi is a pamphlet of twelve duodecimo pages,
measuring six inches and three-eighths by three and
seven-eighteenths; on the buff paper cover is printed
"Twenty-fifth Annual Convention, New-York City, 1858,"
and also an oval cut of fasces and wreath, with "Psi”
above, and " Upsilon" below. The songs included are,
Greeting Song" (by Alger), "Anthem," "Joy of Psi
Ups," "This Jolly Convocation," "The Regular Toasts,"
"Smoking Song," and the "Parting Song."
A similar collection was prepared for the inaugural of
the Chi in 1876; another, for the convention of 1880,
by the Phi; and a fourth, for the semi-centennial, by
the Theta. Each of these contains about a dozen songs.
Smaller impressions, usually four-page sheets, are too
numerous to mention.
All editions of the song-book since 1870 have been
published with musical scores. Certain songs have also
appeared in sheet form with music. Professor Harring-
ton's "Diamond Song and Chorus " was so published by
the Xi in 1865; and in 1881 and 1882 Professor Fiske's
"Psi Upsilon National Song," his "Chapter Song of the
Chi," the "Owl Song," by the same author, and Judge
Finch's "Smoking Song," were issued in separate sheets,
each with an appropriately designed cover or titlepage.
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Several pieces of instrumental music have been dedi-
cated to the society. The oldest of these is the “Psi
Upsilon Polka," which was composed, and respectfully
dedicated to the members of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity,
by Albert W. Berg, New York, 1852." This has an
emblematic titlepage. William Hall & Son were the pub-
lishers. A second edition appeared without date. The
"Psi Upsilon Schottische was composed, and dedicated
"to the members of the Delta Chapter of the Psi Upsilon
Fraternity, University of the City of New York," by Emil
Brandeis, and was published by Lee & Walker, Philadel-
phia, 1860. These two pieces are in the song-book.
"The Psi Upsilon March," dedicated to the Phi Chapter
by Angelo DuProsse, was published by C. J. Whitney,
Detroit, 1878. A Psi Upsilon march composed some
years ago by Thomas C. Roney (Omega '78) is not now
at hand for description. It is certain that other similar
pieces exist.
Of the many addresses delivered, and poems read, before
public meetings of the society, not a few have failed of
publication because of the shrinking modesty of their
authors. Some of the earliest and most interesting pieces
of our literature we owe to the beautiful custom-long
prevalent at Union — of having an oration delivered to
commemorate the virtues of a departed brother. This
usage gave rise to the first printed issue of any note in
connection with the Fraternity:
Oration occasioned by the Death of David Humphreys, delivered
before the Theta and Delta Chapters of the Psi Upsilon Society, Union
College, July 24, 1839. By Joseph W. Gott. Schenectady: printed by
James Riggs, No. 23 Union Street. 1839. 8vo. pp. 15.
The cover is of blue paper. Judge Van Vorst says
the oration was immediately printed. The opening is as
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"How melancholy is the interest of this occasion! We have met to
mingle our sympathies and our tears around the grave of the first
victim of the insatiate archer from the brothers of our band."
Other addresses are,
An Oration occasioned by the Death of Henry White, delivered be-
fore the Theta Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Society, Union College,
July, 1845. By Hooper C. Van Vorst, Albany, 1846. 8vo. pp. 23.
Eulogy pronounced before the Theta Chapter of the Psi Upsilon
Fraternity, on its Deceased Brother, John E. Davis, at Union Col-
lege, July 25, 1849. By William P. Chambers. Οὓς Θεοὶ φιλοῦσι
θνήσκουσι· νεοί. Albany, 1849. 8vo. pp. 28.
The Story of a Soul. A poem read before the Psi Upsilon Con-
vention at Hamilton College, Feb. 22, 1851. By the Rev. Henry W.
Parker. New York, 1852. 8vo. pp. 46.
Oration before the Annual Convention of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity,
held at Schenectady, N.Y., July 27, 1852. By Hooper C. Van Vorst.
Cambridge, 1853. 8vo. pp. 35.
Post-Prandial Verses recited at the Festival of the Psi Upsilon Fra-
ternity in Boston, July 22, 1853. By John Godfrey Saxe. [Printed in
the various editions of the volume entitled "The Money-King and
other Poems."]
Poem and Address delivered before the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, in
Hopkins's Music Hall, Cincinnati, at the Thirty-fourth Annual Con-
vention, also Address of James Strong, S.T.D., at Middletown, Conn.,
at Thirty-third Convention, Cincinnati, 1868. 8vo. pp. 23, 10.
The Pending Tests of Self-Government. An Address by General
J. R. Hawley of Hartford, before the Annual Convention of the Psi
Upsilon Fraternity, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.,
Thursday Evening, May 10. Hartford, 1877. 8vo. pp. 16.
The Oration and Poem, together with the Convention Song, and
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Forty-fourth General Convention
of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, held at Middletown, Conn., May 9 and
10, 1877. Published by the Fraternity, 1877. [n. p.] 8vo. pp. 16, 8,
[4], 8.
Forty-sixth Annual Convention, Psi. Upsilon. Public Exercises,
Music Hall, New Haven, Wednesday, May 7, 1879. Printed for the
Fraternity, 1879. 8vo. pp. 36.
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The cover of the last-named pamphlet is of garnet
paper, ornamented with gold border and badge. For the
publication the society is indebted to the Rev. Howard
B. Grose (Upsilon '76).
Psi Upsilon Commemorative Ode, 1839-79. By the Rev. Willis
S. Colton, B 1850. 4to. pp. 4.
Answer to the Toast, "The Old Psi Upsilon," by Hon. John U.
Pettit, Theta '39, of Wabash, Ind., at the Third Annual Re-union of the
Psi Upsilon Association of the North-West, at Chicago, May 7, 1879.
[n. p.] 1879. Folio. pp. 4.
A Convivial Poem read before the Psi Upsilon Association of Phila-
delphia at the Second Annual Re-union, May 7, 1879. By Joseph R.
Walter, Alpha Chapter '71. [The title is on the cover; on the sec-
ond page of the cover is Ω ΦΙΛΟΙ ΦΙΛ˙ ΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ ΟΙ ΠΑΝΤΕΣ
AAEAQOI V·Y.] [n. p.] 8vo. pp. 8.
Our Formalism in Government. Address delivered at the Forty-
seventh Annual Convention of the Psi Upsilon Society, held at Michigan
University, June [May], 1880. By Hon. Clarkson Nott Potter, LL.D.
New York [1880]. 8vo. pp. 18.
A History of the Upsilon Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, by
George A. Coe. Read at the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Found-
ing of the Chapter, Feb. 12, 1883. Published by the Chapter,
MDCCCLXXXIII. 16mo. pp. 32.
This elegant little book is bound in white parchment,
and is printed in large, clear type on a superior article of
laid paper. The frontispiece is a steel engraving, now
used as a poster by the Upsilon, representing a massive
stone gateway, in the arch of which is an owl with ex-
panded wings resting upon a fasces; a curtain partially
drawn aside reveals an altar and lamp within, and on the
sides are the dates “1833” and “1858.” The work is
divided into three parts, "Efforts to obtain a Charter,"
Organization of the Upsilon," and "From the Organiza-
tion of the Upsilon to the Present Time."
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Proceedings of the Semi-Centennial Convention of the Psi Upsilon
Fraternity, held with the Theta Chapter at Albany, N.Y., May 23, 24,
and 25, 1883. Schenectady, N.Y. The Diamond Publishing Com-
pany, 1884. 8vo. pp. 91 [1].
Garnet leatherette cover, carrying, in gilt letters, “Fif-
tieth Anniversary of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity;" heavy
antique paper; for a frontispiece the steel-engraved invi-
tation to the anniversary is used; on the reverse of the
titlepage are the names of the editors, Dow Beekman,
George F. Allison, Wallace T. Foote, jun., J. Montgomery
Mosher (all undergraduates of Theta), and of the print-
ers, Brandow & Barton, Albany. The book contains
Professor Price's address of welcome; a list of the fifty-
seven official delegates; an account of the historical meet-
ing; the convention ode; the introductory address, poem,
oration, and essay at the literary exercises; descriptions of
the reception and banquet, with an engraved copy of the
large badge which adorned the orders of dancing and the
ménu cards; the ménu itself, and the programme of toasts
and responses; the remarks of the president and of the
seventeen other speakers at the banquet; a very unique
'banquet diagram,'
""convention comments," and a list
of the two hundred and thirty-five members in attendance,
together with a summary of the same by chapters and
decades.
The Diamond, vol i. Nos. 1-9 [Ithaca, 1878]. 4to. pp. 4, 8, 4, 4,
8, 4, 4, 4, 8.
This periodical was founded by Professor Fiske, and
was edited jointly by him and by Charles P. Bacon. The
first number was issued Jan. 25, 1878. There was no
titlepage or index, and the issues for October and No-
vember are wrongly numbered. All the Cornell numbers
were well edited and carefully printed; and the magazine,
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without any special effort to extend its circulation, more
than paid expenses. The last issue- Dec. 17, 1878 —
requested the executive council to continue the publica-
tion, and the convention of 1879 so directed; but the
council could not spare the time, and only issued the
following: —
The Diamond, vol. ii. No. 1. Whole number, 10.
May, 1880. 4to. pp. 16.
New York,
This was edited by Charles W. Smiley, and was largely
given up to an account of the installation of the Beta Beta
Chapter, and to a list of about two hundred and fifty
new initiates; but there was other interesting matter.
The Diamond. [Schenectady issue]: Vol. i. Nos. 1-6. 1881-82. 4to.
pp. 8, 8, 12, 12, 16, 16. Vol. ii. Nos. 1−4, [1], 5, 6. 1882-83. 4to. pp.
16, 16, 16, 20, 4, 16, 12. Vol. iii. Nos. 1-6. 1883-84. 4to. pp. 76.
The Schenectady issue was started in March, 1881, by
Henry C. Wood ('83), whose self-sacrificing labors lasted
until his graduation. With the current volume many im-
provements were adopted. There is now a suitable cover,
which is of a rich brown paper, and reads, "The Dia-
mond. Published for the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, by the
◊ Publishing Company." The scroll-work poster, with
ornamental accompaniments, also appears on the cover.
Mr. Dow Beekman ('84) is the chief editor. The sub-
scription-price has always been one dollar a year, and the
paper is now a bi-monthly. Reminiscences by the origi-
nators of the older chapters, convention addresses, poems
and odes, accounts of chapter installations and of alumni
gatherings, new songs by such writers as Fiske and
Harrington, biographies of prominent members, and
letters describing the undergraduate "situation," form a
collection that fully justifies the establishment and con-
tinued existence of our magazine. One of the best things
about it is, that it attends strictly to its own business.
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The circulars sent out by the executive council, relating
chiefly to the catalogues and song-books, form a long
series of official prints which it would subserve no useful
purpose to describe.
The "Psi Upsilon Leaves" were three four-page sheets
issued by Professor Fiske at Ithaca in 1875-76. 1. “The
Foundation of the Psi Upsilon and the Psi Upsilon in
Congress." 2. "List of Members of the Alpha Chapter
from its Revival in the Winter of 1869-70 to its Disso-
lution in November, 1872, Alpha Notes, and the Psi
Upsilon in Literature." 3. "Psi Upsilon Chronology."
Similar to these in origin, date, and appearance, were the
"Psi Upsilon Songs," of which there were four issues, the
last consisting of but one piece of verse.
Printed letters sent to alumni by the undergraduate
chapters, either periodically or on special occasions, form
a large collection. Some branches issue an annual com-
munication, containing items of general fraternity news,
and statements of local affairs. The Chi commenced this
practice in 1876; the Phi has issued similar missives since
1879; and the Delta, the Xi, the Iota, and probably other
chapters, have followed suit. Of the special communica-
tions, many relate to chapter-house projects: one of the
best and most effective was that sent out by a graduate
committee of the Beta Beta, Nov. 15, 1882. Under this
head come the obituary notices already spoken of. These
usually take the form of resolutions, couched in very
general terms, and carefully omitting all dates that
might be of value to historians or biographers. Far
different and far better is the following, printed in plain
type on a white card four inches and a half by three and
three-fourths: -
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CHARLES BUSH DUN,
Class of '77.
INITIATED
At the Iota Chapter of Psi Upsilon, January 17, 1874.
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Little cards of four or six pages are annually printed by
some of the chapters "to refresh the memory" of under-
graduates. They usually contain a roll of active mem-
bers, names of the Psi Upsilon professors and resident
graduates, together with chapter-notes, etc. Such docu-
ments have been prepared by the Chi, Phi, Zeta, Delta,
and Xi, and very likely by other branches. The Xi issues
each year a comparative prize-list.
Among other chapter publications may be mentioned
two neat little pamphlets designated as the "Chapter-
House Rules of the Chi Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fra-
ternity" (1879), and "The Psi Upsilon Association of
Ithaca, N.Y." The latter, which has passed through
two editions (1879 and 1884), contains the names of the
officers and trustees, the articles of incorporation, the by-
laws, and a long list of members.
Conventions, quadrennials, inaugurations of chapters,
re-unions, and initiations have given rise to another and
very large class of memorabilia, consisting of notices, in-
vitations, programmes, supper-tickets, ménu cards, lists
of members, etc. The announcement of the convention
of 1854 was printed from a steel plate upon glazed cards
measuring four inches and three-fourths by three and
an eighth; Delta's "altar-fire" forms the central figure,
above which are the words "Psi Upsilon Convention,"
with "1854" below; while the names of the orator and
poet appear at the sides. For several years there have
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been among the convention memorabilia fine specimens
of the engraver's art; and a high degree of excellence
was reached in 1883, when the designs were prepared and
executed by Mr. R. K. Quayle, the well-known engraver
of Albany. The invitations were very handsome, and the
diamond-shaped ménu cards, with their heavy fringe of
garnet and gold, and bearing on the cover a large en-
graved facsimile of the pin, will long be treasured by their
possessors. In this connection should be noticed the
elegant programme of exercises used by the Chicago alum-
ni at their re-union in 1879. This had a black card cover,
on which were printed in silver and gold a badge, the title
of the gathering, and extracts from the song-book. The
invitations, programmes, etc., of the festivities in the same
city, May 25, 1883, commemorative of the semi-centennial,
deserve special mention for their beauty and originality.
Perhaps the most elaborate affair of its kind is a pro-
gramme of the “Annual Banquet to Psi Upsilon Fresh-
men, Oct. 7, 1881," devised by Mr. Charles L. Coffin (Phi
'82). It consists of three large pieces of very heavy white
bristol-board, fastened by garnet ribbons, and ornamented
with a steel-engraved monogram, and with quotations from
the songs, each of the latter being printed in a peculiar
type, and mounted on a separate card. The five sheets
prepared by Professor Fiske for the annual ceremonies
of the Chi from 1876 to 1880, each illustrated by selec-
tions from some great poet, Homer, Dante, Shakspeare,
Milton, Goethe, — are marvels of learning and skill. The
programme of exercises at the supper given by Detroit.
alumni to the undergraduates of the Phi, Dec. 15, 1882,
was printed on "bevelled-edge" cards, and was illustrated
by Homeric quotations.
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the Psi Upsilon publications that have appeared under the
direction of the society, or of its branches or members.
Some, being strictly secret, are not mentioned. Others
have been lost, particularly the song-book of 1849, and the
reports, in pamphlet form, of three conventions of mem-
bers resident in Wisconsin in 1851, 1852, and 1853.
A long list, which, as it is still somewhat incomplete,
will not now be given, has been made of the public prints
that have in any way mentioned the society. Some refer-
ences to this catalogue occur in the present work. It
would be difficult to exaggerate the historic value of our
inheritance in the newspapers, the dust-covered files of
which have preserved for us many poems and addresses,
and reports of interesting anniversaries. To draw upon
these repositories from time to time, until the whole of
our unpublished literature shall find permanent form, is
one of the objects of the Psi Upsilon Historical Society,
which was organized at the semi-centennial. The largest
collection of Psi Upsilon publications, memorabilia, and
newspaper references, is held by the Chi Chapter, which
has a complete set of catalogues, all the song-books ex-
cept the first, most of the addresses and poems, and a vast
number though the list is by no means complete-of
minor issues. Next to this is supposed to rank the pres-
ent writer's collection, which includes several hundred
different prints.
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CHAPTER VIII.
THE HONOR-ROLL.
"Quid gloriaris?"
VULGATE.
Now will the fame
Of this their work go forth wherever shines
The light of day."
BRYANT'S HOMER'S ILIAd.
He who reads this chapter expecting to find a demon-
stration that the society contains most of the scholars,
athletes, and class presidents in the principal colleges,
will be disappointed. No attempt is made to prove such
a state of facts. As has been truly said,—
"Our order has its birth in social needs."
Professor James Strong, S.T.D., who, more than forty
years ago, joined in forming one of our most successful
chapters, remarks, -
"While other secret academical orders propose to themselves, and
seek or strive to promote in their members, various traits, such as ora-
torical excellence, skill in literary composition, or, still more generally,
mere conviviality of disposition, we are proud to declare that only those
who combine substantial scholarship with genial temper are fit material
for genuine Psi Upsilons. We disdain not to confess that we court the
accession of those alone who blend the liveliest faculties of the head with
the best qualities of the heart, and it is their fellowship we prize when
won." I
Frankly is it admitted in the outset, that, in some of
the colleges, other organizations have had more honor-
men than we. At two or three institutions, Psi Upsilon
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has had no valedictories during a long course of years;
yet none the less have our alumni from those institutions
become great, none the less do they love the society for
its genial, kindly influences, and none the less, if appear-
ances can be trusted, do the chapters flourish. How-*
ever, it is a significant fact, that among the founders
of each of our branches were men of high scholarship.
The first class containing members of the society was
headed by a Psi Upsilon. Of our twelve men in that
class seven were admitted to B K. One of Delta's char-
ter-members was a salutatorian: so was one of Beta's,
and the latter should have had the valedictory. Among
Sigma's original members were a valedictorian and a salu-
tatorian. Gamma's first members were high-stand men;
those of Zeta, Lambda, Kappa, and Alpha, led their
classes; Xi had two valedictorians and a salutatorian
among its founders; and so on down the list, even to
Beta Beta and Eta, in the first class of each of which
both valedictory and salutatory were assigned to Psi Up-
silons. And the founders have had worthy successors
in this respect. Upon the Commencements in 1882 the
first rank was held by Psi Upsilon men at Union, the
N. Y. U., Yale, Columbia, and Lehigh; and the second
at the N. Y. U., Bowdoin, and Trinity. In 1883 Psi Up-
silon graduates stood first at Yale, Amherst, Columbia,
Wesleyan, and Lehigh, and second at the N. Y. U.,
Yale, Trinity, and Lehigh. In the words of Gov. Rice,
"Not unfrequently the stimulus to high scholarship and prize com-
petition has arisen from the intercourse of the Fraternity; while the
cheers of sympathetic companions have helped many a modest fellow
through the long pull for respectable scholastic attainments, and given
him the courage and confidence essential to distinction and usefulness
in after-life." I
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Of successes achieved by our undergraduates in fields
political, it is not worth while to take more than a brief
survey. The great diversity in the titles of college offices,
and the varying degree of importance attached to such
honors at different times and in different colleges, quite
destroy their significance. Besides, the general senti-
ment of the society is averse to participation in politics.
Yet the members have had their share of offices. In
athletic exercises our students in several institutions have
made remarkable records.
The following pages give an imperfect view of the
honors gained by Psi Upsilon undergraduates. Great
care has been taken to obtain official statistics, and in
many cases these have been directly furnished by the
college authorities. It should be added, that, wherever
other organizations are mentioned as having had more
or fewer "honors" than our own, no inference is to
be drawn as to the strength or weakness of such organi-
zations. They are simply taken as the best basis for
comparison. The anti-secret, or non-secret, society is not
often referred to, because the character of its member-
ship and the nature of its methods differ so greatly
from those of the secret orders. Perchance, too, no
special pains will be taken to present a strictly parallel
record where societies established within the past two,
three, or four years face their elders of as many decades.
Commencing with Union College, of the BK men
from '36 to '83, Y Y has had 77, K A 72, Σ § 57, ▲ Þ 43, X Y
28, O AX 10, ZY 3, AKE 21, A ▲ § 33, BOII I. The last
six societies cover less time than the others. The great
size of the early classes at Union, the confused state of
the records, and the frequent changes in the titles desig-
nating Commencement honors, make it difficult to draw
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further parallels. Following are some of the high parts
and prizes taken by our men:
GREEK SALUTATORY: Edward L. Stevens, '55; Gerrit S. Collier,
'68; William A. Waddell, '82.
LATIN SALUTATORY: George Richards, '40; John H. Babcock, '45.
BLATCHFORD ORATORICAL MEDAL: Second, Gideon D. Tower,
'66; first, James H. Austin, '67; first, Seymour M. Grace, '69; second,
William J. Hillis, '72; second, J. Gulian Lansing, '75; second, John
W. Doremus, '76.
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INGHAM MEDAL: Edward D. Ronan, '67; J. Gulian Lansing,
'75; James R. Truax, '76.
At the University of the City of New York the valedic-
tory is the first honor, the second being the Greek (or
Latin) salutatory, while the third is the English saluta-
tory. Of these Y has had 12, 14, and 14 respectively.
In parallel classes with A, '42 to '83, YY has had 12,
13, and 14 respectively; while ▲ has had 5, 3, and 5.
Since '47, when Z was founded, Y has had 9, 12, and
A has had 5, 2, and 5; while Z has had 6, 5, and
Y has won the last three Greek salutatories, and two
of the last three valedictories. Of the N. Y. U. BK
men from '42 to '84, TY has had 60, ▲ 21; since '47,
10;
6.
Y has had 51, Z¥ 25; during the past ten years YY
has had 24, ▲ 11, Z¥ 5, anti-secret 9, others 17. The
following are our honor-men:
VALEDICTORIANS: George H. Houghton, '42; William H. Will-
cox, '43; Luther W. Peck, '45; Thomas S. Childs, 47; Henry D.
Noyes, '51; William A. Sterling, '53; Jesse Brush, '54; William
S. Opdyke, '56; Edward A. Collier, '57; I. M. B. Thompson, '77;
Eugene F. Pearce, '81; Robert W. Higbie, '82.
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'47, with the regulation, that in case one of the competitors were a Psi Upsi-
lon, and should be equally superior with another competitor, the prize should
be given to the Psi Upsilon.
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GREEK OR LATIN SALUTATORIANS: William B. Meech, '39;
Theodore W. Field and Samuel P. Leeds, '43; Samuel W. Phelps,
'48; Edward C. Miles, '49; John Young, '50; Charles W. Opdyke, '56;
Mancius H. Hutton, '57; John W. Moore, '59; Isaac F. Russell,
'75; Henry C. Alvord, '76; Edward K. Hayt, '77; George M. Duncan,
'81; Vincent Pisek, '82; William M. Kingsley, '83.
ENGLISH SALUTATORIANS: William P. Breed and David C.
Meeker, '43; David F. Sayre, '44; Charles A. Downs, '45; William
Aikman, '46; Acmon P. Van Gieson, '49; Francis N. Zabriskie,
'50; Edward P. Crane, '51; Philip H. Vernon, '53; Irving S. Camp-
bell, '55; Uriah F. Rogers, '59; Albert Z. Gray, '60; Cornelius R.
Blauvelt, '64; William Aikman, jun., '72; Richard W. Stevenson,
'75.
Since the year 1879, Psi Upsilons have held, in the
two literary societies, eight of the twelve presidencies
and eighteen of the remaining twenty-seven offices in
the Eucleian, and six of the twelve presidencies and a
large proportion of minor offices in the Philomathean.
Of the 48 editors of "The University Quarterly" (founded
in 1878), ↓ Y has had 23, ▲ § 7, ZT 2, neutrals 7, ▲ Y 9,
and of the 7 editors-in-chief Y has had 5.
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Of the valedictories at Yale since '40 (our first class),
Y has had II, A ▲ Þ 13, A KE 14, neutrals 6; of the saluta-
tories, Y has had 15, A ▲ 14, A K E 9, neutrals 6. The
DeForest medal for the best English oration (first award-
ed in 1852, and considered by many the highest honor of
the whole college course) has gone to Y 14 times, to
AKE 8, to A ▲ º 3, ¥ Y and ▲ K E (equal) 3, neutrals 4.
Of the Townsend premiums for English compositions.
(first awarded in 1844), ↓ Y claims 96, ▲ K E 68, A A ☀ 45,
neutrals 28. Of the editors of "The Yale Literary Mag-
azine" since 1840, Y Y has had 100, A K E 66, A ▲ ☀ 50,
neutrals 16. Of "Yale Lit." medals for best essay (first
given in 1850), Y Y has 15, ▲ K E 12, A ▲ 3, neutrals 2.
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The junior exhibition prizes, 1871 to 1884, are thus divided:
YY 5, A KE 6, divided between Y and A K E 2, neutral
I. Of the class orators since '40, Y Y has had 16, ▲ K E
10, A ▲ § 7, neutrals II; and of the poets Y has had 20
A KE 14, A AÞ 5, neutrals 5. Of the commodores of
the Yale navy, 1853 to 1870, † Y and ▲ K E had 7 each,
Α Δ Φ 4.
Comparing Y and ▲ ▲ 4 at Yale, '40 to '74, giving † Y
figures first, we have: valedictorians, 6, 13; salutatorians,
10, 14; DeForest men, 12, 3; Townsend premiums, 66,
45; class orators, 12, 7; class poets, 16, 5; "Lit." editors,
70, 50; "Lit.” medals, 10, 3. Comparing Y and ▲ K E,
'46 to '85, ¥ Y figures first: valedictorians, 11, 14; saluta-
torians, 14, 9; DeForest men, 17, 11; Townsend premi-
ums, 92, 68; class orators, 16, 10; class poets, 15, 14;
"Lit." editors, 83, 66; "Lit." medals, 15, 12.
Of the first 23 parts assigned in the junior appointments
of '84, ¥ Y had II, A K E 4, neutrals 8. Of the first 19
assigned to '85, Y had 12, A KE 2, neutrals 5. Of the
18 0 B K men in '85 Y claims 14. AK E 2, neutrals 2.
Of the new “Lit.” 'board, yr has 4 editors, A KE 1.
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Of the 6 present editors of "The Yale Courant" in '84
and '85, all are ¥Y. "The Yale Record" has 2 Y and
3 AKE editors. The presidents of the Yale glee-club,
of the athletic association, of the football-club, of the
lacrosse-club, of the tennis-club, of the yacht-club, and
of the hare-and-hounds club, are Y men. The presi-
dent of the boat-club is a AKE. Of the 13 men who in
1882-83 formed the champion football team, 7 (including
the present captain) are † Y, 2 are ▲KE. The boat-
crew stands 4TY, 2 AKE. The "nine" contains 3 Y
and 2 AK E men. Following are some of the chief
honor-men of Y Y at Yale :
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VALEDICTORIANS: Henry H. Hadley, '47; Dwight Foster, '48;
Addison Van Name, '58; Eugene Smith, '59; John P. Taylor, '62;
Isaac P. Pugsley, '64; Clarence H. Kelsey, '78; Lloyd W. Bowers, '79;
Charles W. Holzheimer, '81; Barclay Johnson, '82; Eliakim H. Moore,
jun., '83.
SALUTATORIANS: George H. Colton, '40; Willis S. Colton, '50;
Robbins Little, '51; George DeF. Lord, '54; Edward C. Towne, '56;
George B. MacLellan, '58; Simeon E. Baldwin, '61; David B. Perry,
'63; William C. Wood, '68; Gardiner Lathrop, '69; Charles T. Russ,
'75; Edwin D. Worcester, '76; John S. Thacher, '77; William H.
Taft, '78; Fred W. Kellogg, '83.
DEFOREST-PRIZE MEN: Homer B. Sprague, '52; Andrew D.
White, '53; Wolcott Calkins, '56; Augustus H. Strong, '57; Chauncey
S. Kellogg, '58; Luther M. Jones, '60; William E. Park, '61; Daniel
H. Chamberlain, '62; Henry P. Boyden, '64; Joseph A. Bent, '65;
John H. Hincks, '72; James M. Townsend, jun., '74; Edwin D. Worces-
ter, '76; Louis J. Swinburne, '79; Russell A. Bigelow, '81; Benjamin
Brewster, '82; Edward T. McLaughlin, '83.
At Brown University Y has had eight valedictorians,
ten salutatorians, and a good many students of the third
rank. Of late years most of those who have stood first
or second on the faculty's books have not belonged to
the select secret societies. The following is our list:
VALEDICTORIANS: Albert Harkness, '42; Robinson P. Dunn, '43;
Francis W. Weston, '47; Jeremiah O. Carr, '48; James B. Angell,
'49; James O. Murray, '50; Richard Metcalf, '51; Lucius W. Bancroft,
'52.
SALUTATORIANS: Alfred E. Giles, '44; Eli Thayer, '45; Franklin
J. Dickman, '46; Phineas Howe, '47; James E. Leach, '48; George E.
Allen, '50; Edward P. Taft, '54; William G. Dearth, '55; Arnold
Green, '58; William Gammell, jun., '78.
The presidency of Brown's senior class, the highest
college honor, is held by Arthur A. Gammell, YY, who is
also president of the base-ball association. In the tennis
association the society holds all the offices, and in the re-
cent tournament nine out of nineteen entries were by Y
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men, who secured the championship prize in singles and
doubles. The president and theatrical manager of the
dramatic society at Brown belong to the Fraternity, as do
the manager of the base-ball nine, the president of the
boating association, and ten (including the vice-president
and captain) of the twenty-seven members of the bicycle
association. A recent graduate, Mr. Crawford A. Night-
ingale ('78), is one of the foremost amateur tennis-play-
ers in the country.
At Amherst College, valedictories and salutatories were
abolished in 1881; but the first and second scholars have
been counted to complete the record. From '63 to '83, of
valedictorians and first scholars, YY has had 10, A ▲ § 6,
AKE 3, XY I, anti-secret I; of salutatorians and second
scholars, Y has had 6, A ▲ º 7, A K E 6, anti-secret 2. Be-
fore '63, A K E had one valedictorian, Z Y one salutatorian ;
A ▲ and Y Y had most of the others, A ▲ ☀ leading. Fr
has two of the first four men in '84, '85, and '86, and the
first man in '87. Of prize-money won from 1859 to June,
1883, Y has taken $7,801, A A ☀ $5,485, A KE $5,099, all
others (including four societies and the neutrals), $16,182.
Of the $1,200 in prizes offered to the 93 men of '83 the 7
Y men took $335. Following are our Amherst
VALEDICTORIANS AND FIRST SCHOLARS: Lewis Green, '44;
Augustine M. Gay, '50; Theodore H. Benjamin, '52; Richard H.
Mather, '57; Charles D. Adams, '63; Farquharson G. McDonald, '64;
Elihu Root, '67; William W. Eaton, '68; Harvey Porter, '70; Herbert
B. Adams, '72; John M. Tyler, '73; John F. Jameson, '79; Frank A.
Christie, '81; Henry Fairbank, '83.
SALUTATORIANS AND SECOND SCHOLARS: William S. Tyler, '30;
William Z. Stuart, '33; Marshall Henshaw, '45; Henry L. Edwards,
'47; William G. Hammond, '49; Emmons Hughitt, '63; William W.
Tyler, '64; Edwin A. Grosvenor, '67; James O. Averill, '70; Jesse F.
Forbes, '74; George F. Forbes, '75.
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ate," + Y has 3, A K E 3, A A Ø 1, X † 1, X § 1, В 0 II 2. The
society had the class presidency of '83 for the last two
years, and it has had the presidency of the base-ball asso-
ciation for three years. Two members of the football
team are Y men. Of 96 prizes awarded to the winners
in the last two athletic meetings Y men took 23, and of
46 first prizes Y Y received 16, no other society taking
more than 6.
At Dartmouth the terms "valedictory” and “saluta-
tory" seem not to have been in use before 1864; but the
names of the leaders in earlier classes have been obtained.
Beginning with 1853, the year when ▲ K E was established,
the record to 1883 is as follows: first scholars and vale-
dictorians, Y 10, K K K 3, ▲ ▲ ø 7, ▲ K E 8, neutrals 3;
second scholars and salutatorians, YY II, KKK 10, A▲ Þ
7, A KE 2, neutral 1. Before 1853, Y Y is known to have
led in at least six classes; but, beginning with '52, we
have:
FIRST SCHOLARS or ValediCTORIANS: Benjamin S. Marsh, '52;
Walbridge A. Field, '55; Isaac Bridgman, '56; Samuel A. Duncan, '58;
Albert C. Perkins, '59; James O. Scripture, '60; George S. Morris,
'61; Walter H. Sanborn, '67; William S. Dana, '71; Justin H. Smith,
'77; Lyndon A. Smith, '80.
SECOND SCHOLARS OR SALUTATORIANS: John D. Crehore, '54;
William H. H. Allen, '55; Caleb Blodgett, jun., '56; Benjamin H.
Steele, '57; Daniel J. Noyes, jun., '61; Nathaniel H. Clement, '63 ;
John C. Proctor, '64; Lemuel S. Hastings, '70; John H. Wright, '73 ;
William H. Hart, '75; Clarence Pike, '80.
Of 22 0 B K elections in '83, the ten Y men received 6,
the ten A ▲ 4, the ten AX 1, the seventeen ▲ K E 6, the
fourteen K K K 5.
Two
Y men lead the class of '87.
At Columbia the highest scholarship honor is the Greek
salutatory. From '42 to '83, Y has had 17 Greek salu-
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tatories, ▲ ☀ 2, † ☀ and ▲ K E 2, neutrals the rest; of the
second rank + Y has had 11, A § 1, ▲ † 4, Þ K + (extinct) 1,
neutrals the rest; Y has had the third honor 8 times,
Δ Φ 5, Δ Ψ 3, Φ Κ Ψ Ι ; total, Ψ Υ 36, all other living socie-
ties 17. The published lists of honor-men commence with
'59, and contain 90 names; Y has had 14, ▲ ☀ 3, ▲ Y 4,
KY 2. Of those who stood first, '59 to
↓ and ▲ KE 3,
Φ Δ Φ
'83, YY has 6, ▲
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and of the second
BK men (the chap-
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ter at Columbia was founded by R. L. Belknap, † Y), † Y
has had 23, AY 16, AKE 15, A9, four other societies.
combined 10, neutrals 98. The following are our leading
scholars at Columbia:
GREEK SALUTATORIANS: William McCune, '43; William W.
Olssen, '46; Robert Holden, '47; Morgan Dix, '48; Edward C. Bab-
cock, '49; George F. Seymour, '50; John De Ruyter, jun., '51; Henry
A. Tailer, '52; John A. Kernochan, '53; Marvin R. Vincent, '54;
Russell Stebbins, jun., '56; John C. Brown, '59; Clarence R. Conger,
'71; John K. Rees, '72; George F. Butterworth, '74; N. Murray
Butler, 'S2; A. V. W. Jackson, '83.
LATIN SALUTATORIANS: William S. Kernochan, '42; Thomas C.
T. Buckley, '43; Theodore F. Lewis, '48; Elial G. Drake, jun., '54;
Charles H. Marshall, '58; John A. Vanderpoel, '62; Henry R. Beek-
man, '65; Daniel Lord, jun., '66; Franklin B. Lord, '70; Frederic
R. Hutton, '73; Frederic W. Hinrichs, '74.
ENGLISH SALUTATORIANS: Robert Jaffrey, '42; George P. Quack-
enbos, '43; George B. Draper, '45; John S. B. Hodges, '50; Legh R.
Dickinson, '51; Washington R. Nichols, '52; William Emerson, jun.,
'53; William P. Allen, '78 (third honor).
The valedictory at Columbia has usually been assigned
by vote of the class, and it has fallen to the following
Y men:—
William Nicoll (Delta), '40; Horace W. Carpentier, '48; Aaron Og-
den, '49; James S. Clark, '50; William H. Draper, '51; Archibald
S. Van Duzer, '53; Charles M. Clark, '56; Philip W. Holmes, '57;
James R. Manley, '58; George P. Smith, '66; Henry M. Smyth, '71.
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its successor the "Acta Columbiana," have had 101 differ-
ent editors; of these Y claims 31, and A K E 18,
▲ ¥ 10, ▲ 8, three other societies combined 5, neutrals
29. The board, at the opening of 1884, stands YY 6
including the manager), A K E 3, ZY 1. "The Columbia
ZŤ
Spectator," the other college paper, has a member of the
society for its manager.
The stroke and
the great inter-
Of the 321 first and second winners in the field-con-
tests of the athletic association from 1872 to 1883, Y
claims 88, ▲ 58, A K E 18, all other societies 15, neutrals
the rest.
Of the 35 first prizes won by Columbia in the
inter-collegiate games to May 26, 1883, inclusive, r
men have won 12, other societies 6, neutrals 17. Of the
6 college records in which Columbia has surpassed all
other institutions, 3 were made by Y men, 2 of these
being by J. Foster Jenkins, jun., ('84).
another member of the winning six in
collegiate regatta at Saratoga in 1874 were † Y men so
were four of the six who gained the second place among
twelve colleges in 1875. The stroke, the bow, and the
substitute of the famous four who went to England in 1878,
belonged to the society. Of the 15 directors of the boat-
club, the society has 6, all other societies 5, neutrals 4;
and of the 7 different presidents, Y has had 3. Of the
men who have rowed for Columbia in outside regattas,
Y has had 17, AY 14, all other societies 8. In 1883
the alumni of our Lambda Chapter gave a purse of seven
hundred dollars to the college boat-club. The following
are the names of the society's chief oarsmen at Colum-
bia:
Benjamin F. Rees, '74; Jaspar T. Goodwin, '76; Herbert P. Brown,
Edward E. Sage, '77; Charles S. Boyd, '78; Hamilton Y. Castner,
Charles Eldridge, Graeme M. Hammond, George P. Seeley, '79; Thomas
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A. Painter, jun., A. Howard Van Sinderen, '81; James Brown, J. A.
B. Cowles, Eberhart L. Pupke, '83; John W. Dowling, jun., John T.
Walker, jun., '84; Charles E. Beckwith, '87.
The president and two of the directors of the base-ball
association just formed belong to the society.
At Bowdoin College, the salutatory, which since 1873
has been assigned to the first scholar (while before that
date the English orations were the first parts), has been
taken ('45 to '83) by ¥Y 6 times, A ▲ Þ 9, AKE 17, X†
(extinct) 3, AX 2, neutrals 2. The English orations
('45 to '83) have been assigned thus: YY 27, A ▲ ☀ 24,
AKE 25, OAX 9, X Y 2, Z † 6, neutrals 10. The follow-
ing are our honor-men:
SALUTATORIANS: John M. Mitchell, '43; Edward W. Morton,
'48; Stephen J. Young, '59; Nicholas E. Boyd, '60; Sylvester Burn-
ham, '62; Robert L. Packard, '68; Barrett Potter, '78.
ENGLISH ORATORS: Richard B. Thurston, '41; George M.
Adams, '44; John M. Goodwin, '45; Charles A. Spofford, '46; John
Cotton Smith, '47; Egbert C. Smyth, Oliver Stevens, '48; Lincoln
F. Emerson, '49; William A. Packard, '51; Walter Wells, '52; John
B. Southgate, '53; William L. Symonds, '54; Joseph K. Greene, '55;
Albert H. Currier, '57; William H. Savage, '58; Joseph W. Symonds,
'60; Lucilius A. Emery, '61; Frank A. Hill, Dorville Libbey, Edward
N. Packard, '62; Newman Smyth, Alexander D. Willard, '63; Francis
L. Hayes, '65; James P. Dixon, George T. Sewall, '67; George A.
Smyth, '68; Nathan D. A. Clarke, '73; Charles L. Clarke, '75; George
F. Bates, '82.
In the college-year of 1882-83 the society had two of
the eight editors of the college paper, the captain of the
college boat-crew, and the captains of all the class-crews,
the captain and five members of the college football
eleven, and the captains of the class elevens of '83, '84,
and '85.
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At Hamilton College the first Y class in which honors
were assigned for standing was '55. Since that class, the
valedictories and salutatories have gone thus: Y, 2, 3;
Σ §, 7, 4; A ▲ Þ, 2, 6; XY, 4, 0; A KE, 5, 4; 0 AX, I, 3 ;
anti-secret society, 2, 8; neutrals, 6, 1. During the past
fifteen years, honors have been pretty evenly divided, the
figures being, Y Y, 2, 3 ; Σ 4, 2, 2; A ▲ ò̟, 1, 2 ; XY, I, 0;
AKE, 3, 2; O ▲ X, 1, 2; anti-secret society, 2, 3; neu-
trals, 3, I. Y has won at least its proportional share of
prizes, particularly of the mathematical ones. Following
are the names of our
'74.
VALEDICTORIANS: Arthur S. Hoyt, '72; Charles C. Hemenway,
SALUTATORIANS: Charles K. Hoyt, '70; Edward C. Wright, '71;
George W. Kimberley, '77.
From the last college annual of Hamilton, it appears
that the manager and three members of the ball nine are
¥r men. Of the 57 winners at the two meetings of the
Athletic Association last year, † Y had 15, X Y and ▲ KE
each 9, other secret societies none.
In 1874 Wesleyan University discontinued the honors
of valedictory and salutatory. From '44 (our first class)
the record was: valedictorians, YY II, NO 12, A A ☀ 3,
divided between ΦΝΘ and Α Δ Φ 1, Χ Ψ 1, Mystic Seven I,
neutral 1; salutatorians, Y 13, Þ NO 14, A ▲☀ 1, Mys-
tic Seven I. '56 was A ▲ o's first class, since which Y Y
has had six valedictories and seven salutatories to four
and one respectively taken by A A. Neither honor has
ever been taken by A KE. Of the BK men, since the
valedictory and salutatory were abolished,
Y has had 31,
Φ Ν Θ 26, ΑΔΦ 17, ΔΚΕ 12, Χ ψ 2, neutrals (including
women) 10. Of the BK men from '44 to '83, ¥r has
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had 134, Φ Ν Θ 120, Α Δ Φ 47, ΔΚΕ 16, Χ 20, all others
44; in parallel classes of Y and AA, the former has
had 84 ☀ BK men, the latter 47; and Y has had 54 to
15 of AKE.
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The prize system was established at Wesleyan in 1860.
In a total of 351 prizes, Y has won 160, • NO 98§,
AA 531, AKE 24, all others (including neutrals and
women) 131. For the last decade, the figures are: Y
1081, ⚫ NO 41, A ▲ 30, A KE 15, all others 9. In the
past year, the society took 131 out of 21 prizes. The
Ayres prize for best preparation, first awarded in '67, has
been taken II times by Y, 6 by NO, 3 by A ▲ P, I by
AK E, and has been taken by Y 5 of the last 6 times.
The society had the first man in '83, and has one or more
men leading in each of the present classes. The men
who head the entire list at Wesleyan in the number of
prizes taken are George S. Coleman, '76, Willis G. Clarke,
'77, and William J. James, '83, the first of whom took 8,
and the others 9 prizes each: all belong to the Frater-
nity.
VALEDICTORIANS: James Strong, '44; Joseph J. Lane, '45; John
Colburn, '47; James E. Latimer, '48; Henry Lummis, '55; George L.
Roberts, '59; Cranswick Jost, '62; Jacob W. H. Ames, '64; Augustus
F. Nightingale, '66; Henry S. Carhart, '69; Leon C. Field, '70.
SALUTATORIANS: Russell Z. Mason, '44; Silas W. Robbins, '47;
William B. Silber, '50; Calvin S. Harrington, '52; Charles R. Pome-
roy, '53; Elias R. Pennoyer, '55; Daniel Pomeroy, '56; John Peter-
son, '57; William A. Reynolds, '58; George L. Westgate, '65; Leslie
B. Cooke, '68; Darius Baker, '70; Joseph A. Adlington, '73.
At Harvard, in the classes from '51 to '58, Y had 5
of the leaders, A ▲ 4; in the class of '55, the represen-
tatives of the two societies stood equal. Of the second
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the
Y had 3, A ▲ Þ 1, A KE 1, ZY 1, neutral 1. Of
BK men, YY and A▲ had 46 each, Z† 25, A KE
10, neutrals 31. The following Y men led their classes.
at Harvard:
Samuel G. Clarke, '51; Charles Carroll, '53; Robert T. Paine,
jun., '55; David P. Kimball, '56; James J. Lowell, '58.
The following stood second:
William W. Goodwin, '51; Addison Brown, '52; Edward G. Daves,
'54.
In the University of Rochester there is no ranking
system such as is in vogue elsewhere. The most desira-
ble prizes and honors given are those mentioned below,
in connection with the names of the members who have
taken them:-
FIRST DAVIS MEDAL: Robert S. McArthur, '67; Albert T. Bar-
rett, '69; Charles M. Williams, '71; Theodore A. Lemen, '77; George
M. Forbes, '78; Benjamin F. Miles, '81.
SECOND DAVIS MEDAL: J. Weed Munro, '75; Joseph T. Alling,
'76; John F. Forbes, '78.
SENIOR ESSAY PRIZE: Daniel Bowen, '56; Benjamin F. Miles,
'81; second, Seneca Coon, '61.
SHERMAN SCHOLARSHIP: John F. Forbes, '78; Frank W. Kel-
sey, '80.
TOWNSEND SCHOLARSHIP: James L. Cheney, '77; George M.
Forbes, '78; John W. Dickerson, '83.
At Kenyon College, Charles D. McGuffey had the Latin
salutatory in 1863, and John H. Burton was valedictorian
in 1867. Of the "twenty-second orators,” and “orators
for Kenyon Day," the following are Y men:
Mathew M. Gilbert, '61; James Caird, George G. Dickson, '67;
Harry N. Hills, Thomas K. Wilson, '77; William D. Hamilton, '80;
William C. Pennock, '82; Roger H. Peters, William Tappan, '85.
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At the University of Michigan the only "honors" have
been appointments to speak at junior exhibition and Com-
mencement. Before '67, Commencement appointments
were general: from that class until '77 (after which no
more were given) there were, among 846 graduates, 132
appointments, of which the 75 Y men received 25, while
ΑΔΦ had 20, ΔΚΕ 10, Σ Φ 3, Δ Φ 2, ΖΨ 2, Κ Φ Λ Ι
neutrals 69. Of the junior-exhibition appointments (last)
made in '73), commencing with '65, YY had 31, A ▲ § 26,
ΔΚΕ 17, ΣΦ 6, Ζ Ψ 3, Δ Φ 2, Χ Ψ Ι, Κ Φ Λ 1, ΦΔ Θ Ι,
neutrals the rest. Since its establishment, in 1865, the
chapter has led all other organizations in editorships of
the college papers and in class offices. From 1865 to
1884 the posts of president, orator, poet, historian, and
seer in senior year (important, because these officers act
on class-day), have been divided thus: Y II, AKE 9,
ΑΔΦ 7, Ζ Ψ 4, Σ Φ 3, Δ Φ 2, Χ Ψ I, three Western soci-
eties I each, others 55. The president of the present
senior class, the president (newly elected) of the students'
lecture association, the managing editor of the society
annual for 1884-85, the managing editor (for next year) of
the leading college paper, and the catcher of the base-
ball nine, are Y men.
At the University of Chicago and at Syracuse Univer-
sity, few or no prizes are awarded, and the absence of a
marking system prevents the exact determination of rank
as to scholarship; but it is certain that some of the
most brilliant students in both institutions have worn our
badge. The same remarks are largely applicable to Cor-
nell University, although the honorary elections to ☀ BK
may, after some years, afford a basis (though a very
partial one) of calculation to those who care for such
matters. The chief honor of the course at Cornell is
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the Woodford oratorical prize. This has been won three
times by Y men, a number equalled by but one society,
and not excelled by any. The names of our successful
contestants for this coveted honor are:-
James F. Gluck, '74; George H. Fitch, '75; Charles P. Bacon, '82.
The last-named and a competitor divided the prize.
John N. Ostrom, YY, was captain and stroke of the Cor-
nell-University crew which won such distinction in the
inter-collegiate regattas of 1875 and 1876. The Y is well
represented on the editorial boards of the college papers at
Cornell. Of the ten appointments for the last sophomore
exhibition at Syracuse, three were given to + Y men; and
in the senior class the society has the orator and historian
for class-day exercises, and the chairman of the executive
committee.
IK A 6, A¥ 5, ☀ K and
Of the salutatories, B B
AT 5, K and A ▲
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had 1 valedictory and 4
5,
At Trinity College, from '43 to '83, the valedictory has
fallen to B B and Y 14 times, to
ΑΔΦ 6, ΔΚΕ 2, neutrals 8.
and Y have had 19, IKA 4,
neutrals 8. Since 1880, Y has
salutatories, and is reasonably sure of the valedictorian
of '84; AKE has had 2 valedictories, AY I, IKA and
ΑΔΦ none. Of the 214 Trinity BK men from '43 to
'84, BB and r have had 84, IK A 33, & K and A▲☀
32, AY 25, AKE 8 (in five classes), neutrals 32. Of
honor-men in the different departments, 1866 to 1883,
¥r has had 39, I K A 34, A A ☀ 23, AT 14, A K E 6, neu-
trals 9. Of the prizes awarded at Trinity, BB and Y
have taken 76, ΙΚΑ 34, ΔΨ 29, Φ Κ and ΑΔΦ 30, ΔΚΕ
12, and neutrals 39. Following are our chief honor-
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VALEDICTORIANS: Thomas S. Preston, '43; Samuel Benedict, '47;
Benjamin H. Paddock, '48; Samuel B. Warren, '59; Charles H. W.
Stocking, '60; Charles T. Olmsted, '65; Samuel Hart, '66; George
McC. Fisk, '70; George W. Douglas, '71; Paul Ziegler, '72; Edward
N. Dickerson, jun., '74; Charles C. Edmunds, jun., '77; Thomas M.
N. George, '80.
SALUTATORIANS: John A. Paddock, '45; George S. Gilman, '47;
William G. Spencer, '53; George D. Johnson, '54; Edwin E. Johnson,
'59; James H. George, '72; Oliver H. Raftery, '73; Edward W.
Worthington, '75; Lorin Webster, '80; Charles W. Jones, '81; John
H. McCrackan, '82; J. Eldred Brown, '83.
Political honors at Trinity have of late years been di-
vided in pursuance of an amicable agreement between
the societies. The college marshalship, which before
this agreement was conferred by election upon the most
popular man in the junior class, has been taken-'43 to
'84-by BB and Y Y 15 times; by IK A, 9; by ▲ ¥, 8;
by K and A ▲ 9, 7; by ▲ K E, 2; by neutrals, 1.
At the last two field-meetings - the fourth and fifth
of the Trinity College Athletic Association, the winners of
first prizes have been thus apportioned among the socie-
ties: ΨΥ 17, ΙΚΑ 7, ΔΨ 4, ΑΔΦ 5, ΔΚΕ I, neutrals I ;
of second prizes, Y Y 17, IK A 3, ▲¥ 3, A ▲ § 7, neutrals 1.
Among the students of the Lehigh University, who
since 1881 have been constant petitioners for a charter,
and who, at last successful, have recently been initiated,
are the following:
VALEDICTORIANS: Charles C. Hopkins, '82; Alfred E. Forstall,
'83; Augustus P. Smith, '84 (just appointed).
SALUTATORIANS: Preston A. Lambert, '83; Lewis B. Semple, '84
(just appointed).
Beginning with '83, of the honor-men (the first five in a
class) Y has had twenty-seven, all other societies and
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neutrals, 25. Of class offices, beginning with the year
1882, Y men have had thirty-two out of ninety; and the
present presidents of '84, '86, and '87, belong to the
Fraternity.
In the fourteen colleges where a ranking system pre-
vails, it would be expected, from the numerical proportion
of our graduates, that the society should have taken the
first or the second place in 165 out of 990 instances: it
has so done in 260 cases.
Since the foregoing lines were set up, information has
been received concerning some of the appointments and
prizes gained by Y men during the Commencement sea-
son of '84. A. S. Lyman was valedictorian at the N. Y. U.,
G. F. Gruener at Yale, and H. R. Neely at Trinity.
W. F. Booth was salutatorian at Yale. At Union, Dow
Beekman took the Ingham medal and the first Allen
senior essay prize; and W. T. Foote won the first junior
oratorical prize. G. A. Coe headed his class, and re-
ceived the Townsend scholarship and the first Davis
medal at Rochester; and to C. A. Strong was awarded
the Sherman scholarship. Thirteen of the twenty-three
prizes given at Wesleyan went to Y men. Cornell's BK
list has been extended to the early classes; elections in
all cases being made by the faculty, on the basis of schol-
arship. Of the 43 men chosen from the classes '76 to '85,
the secret societies claim 23; YY having 8, A ▲ ☀ and O AX
each 4, ▲ KE 3; AY has 6; and our complete list is
H. C. Johnson, '73; J. F. Gluck, '74; F. W. Noyes, '76; W.
E. Lucas, '77; A. L. K. Volkman, '77; J. A. Haight, '79; H. J.
Messenger, '80; I. A. Place, '81; H. M. Dibble, '82; James
McCall, '85.
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CHAPTER IX.
THE GREEK-LETTER SOCIETIES.
"Tu mihi, tu certe (memini), Graecine, negabas,
Uno posse aliquem tempore amare duos."
OVID.
THE fraternities owe their nomenclature to the ingenuity
of some students at the Virginian College of William and
Mary, who in 1776 founded B K. Preserved from an
early death by being installed at Yale in 1780 and at Har-
vard in 1781, this society entered Dartmouth in 1787, and
Union in 1817; but even before 1800 its active life had
departed, and its elections had come to be- as they now
are mere honorary rewards of undergraduate scholar-
ship or of graduate eminence. There have been, all told,
about twenty thousand members (of whom at least one
thousand are Psi Upsilons) and twenty-seven chapters,
which include, besides the four already named, the fol-
lowing colleges: Bowdoin and Brown (1829), Trinity
and Wesleyan (1845), Amherst (1853), New York and
Kenyon (1858), Hamilton and Columbia (1868), and
Cornell (1882).
Union College gave birth to K A in 1825, to Σ ☀ and ▲ ☀
in 1827, to YY in 1833, to X † in 1841, and to O ▲ X in 1847.
A chapter placed at Hamilton by & in 1831 led to the
formation of AA in that college one year later; A▲
and Y at Yale suggested AK E in 1844; and in 1846-47,
†Y, Σ ò̟, and ▲ Þ at the New-York University, and †Y and
▲ at Columbia, indirectly caused the rise of Zy at the
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former institution and of ▲ at the latter, thus completing
a list of ten fraternities. These have spread from college
to college; and though widely differing from one another
in age, methods, strength, and prestige, they have been and
are the leading exponents of the secret-society system in
our prominent colleges. The youngest of them is older
than all the chaptered societies outside, with one exception.
Five years ago hardly any representatives of other frater-
nities were to be found in the chief colleges. For a dec-
ade after 1856, nine of these societies were contemporaries
at Union, and, for some years prior to 1875, seven of them
formed the entire Fraternity list of the University of
Michigan.
More than twenty chaptered orders have been formed
since Y was founded, and nearly all of them are younger
than the youngest of our first ten chapters. If the mean
period of the actual undergraduate careers of all chapters
be taken as the standard of longevity, the branches of Y
are, on an average, 29 years old; those of Σ (which has
granted few charters, and none since 1858) are 36; those
of A ▲ ☀, 28; K A and ▲ 9, 24; AK E, 20; X¥, 18; Z¥ and
▲¥, 17; of all other societies, less than 15. The average
life of Y in the thirteen colleges where it meets A ▲
spans 32 years, that of A▲ 30. Y is the oldest chap-
tered secret society in point of active, continuous life at
New York, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Wesleyan,
and Chicago. It is second in age at Amherst and Bow-
doin, and third at Hamilton. At Rochester, Michigan,
Syracuse, Cornell, and Trinity, it succeeded to societies
that were established far back in the early years of their
respective institutions.¹
I Speaking of age recalls X 's claim to the date of 1824. It is said that in
1854 a nephew of President John Maclean of Princeton found among his uncle's
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By the opening of 1840 the first five societies had
established twenty chapters in all. Ten years later A ▲
and Y each had ten living chapters; and X † came next,.
having eight. Up to the present time, K A has granted 6
charters, Σ Φ 8, Δ Φ 13, Δ Ψ 18, ΨΥ 19, ΑΔΦ 23, Χ 23,
Z † 28, O ▲ X 29, A KE 44. Of the Western and Southern
societies, K Σ has visited 23 different institutions, X 4,
A T, and Σ AE have known from 35 to 40 apiece, г A,
Þ K †, Σ X, and ▲ T ▲ about 50, and B → II and ☀ ▲ ✪ about
64. Only four societies have issued fewer charters than
r has, and only two KA and Σ - have granted
ΣΦ
fewer during the past forty years.
While our chapter at Harvard alone lacks an under-
graduate membership, K A has lost 2 branches (one-third
of all), Σ2 (one-fourth of all), A☀ 5, A A§ 6, X ¥ and
AF each 9, ZY 10, OAX 15, AKE² 15. KY has dis-
appeared from thirteen colleges, X from sixteen, ▲ T▲
nineteen; and В – II, ☀ ▲ O, and T▲ mourn the loss of
twenty or more chapters each.
by said uncle in 1824. Thereupon he proceeded to re-establish the order. This
letter from the uncle appeared in The Cornell Era of Nov. 14, 1879:
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"I have had no agency whatever in the organization of any college secret
fraternity.. I never knew of the existence of the Chi Phi Fraternity until
I became the president of the college, in 1854, and it is my belief that it had no
existence before that date."
The X catalogue of 1879 contains no name (except Dr. Maclean's) prior
to the class of '56, and but fifty-two names prior to '60; and only two of the
present living chapters were established before 1867. No authority is shown
for re-establishing in 1854 a society, which, if it ever existed, had died a quarter
of a century before. The line of descent is broken.
I Excluding the Cincinnati Law School and Princeton College, the former
of which was counted as a chapter in all the catalogues before 1860. The
latter was chartered, and five men were initiated for it, in 1865; but its
authority was withdrawn almost immediately.
2AKE at Harvard ran into the Dickey, a sophomore club which can
hardly be considered a chapter. Some of its members aided in reviving
A▲ 9 at Harvard in 1879.
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Y has survived Σ at New York, ▲ at Michigan,
AA at New York and Yale, XY at Bowdoin, Brown,
Columbia, and Union, AK E at Union, ZY at Amherst,
Brown, Dartmouth, and Union, ▲ Y at Brown and New
York, AX at Brown, Rochester, Union, and Wesleyan,
X at Cornell, Kenyon, and (it is thought) Michigan,
BOII at Chicago, ▲ at Chicago, Cornell, and Michi-
gan, KY at Columbia and Cornell, and K Σ at Colum-
bia. Our one inactive chapter became quiescent at a
time when there was no similar society in its college.
The secret or professedly secret Greek-letter societies
known to have a present undergraduate membership in
the academic departments of the Y colleges are named
in these lists: -
UNION COLLEGE: K A, 1825; Σ 9, 1827; ▲ 4, 1827 ; ¥ Y, 1833;
A ▲ 4, 1859; B ℗ II, 1882; & a ☺, 1884.
NEW-YORK UNIVERSITY: Y, 1837; ▲ 9, 1841; Z V, 1847.
YALE COLLEGE: ¥ Y, 1839; ▲ K E, 1844.
BROWN UNIVERSITY: A A 4, 1836-41, 1851; ▲ 4, 1838-55,
1868-79, 1881; v Y, 1840; B ℗ II, 1849-51, 1880; A K E, 1850; X 4,
1872.
AMHERST COLLEGE: A A , 1836; ¥ Y, 1842; A K E, 1848; X ¥,
1864; X, 1873; B II, 1883.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: Y, 1842; K K K (local), 1842; A ▲ ☀,
1846; A K E, 1853; ℗ A X, 1869.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE: A ▲ 9, 1836-41, 1881; Y, 1842; ▲ 4,
1842; A ¥, 1847; • r a, 1866 (had but a nominal existence up to
1883); A K E, 1874; Z v, 1880; B ℗ II, 1881; ▲ T ▲, 1882.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE: A ▲ 4, 1841; ¥ Y, 1843; A K E, 1844
℗ A X, 1854-66, 1872; Z v, 1868.
HAMILTON COLLEGE: Σ, 1831; A ▲ 4, 1832; ¥ Y, 1843; X ¥,
1845; A K E, 1856; ℗ A X, 1868.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: • N℗ (local), 1837; ¥ Y, 1843; X Y,
1844-63, 1876-81, 1883; A ▲ §, 1856; A K E, 1867.
ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY: A ▲ 4, 1851; ▲ ¥, 1851; A K E, 1856;
V Y, 1858.
KENYON COLLEGE: A K E, 1852; ℗ ▲ X, 1854–64, 1871; A ▲ º,
1858; v Y, 1860; B ℗ II, 1879; A T A, 1880.
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MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: X, 1845; B ℗ II, 1845-50, 1854-64,
1876; A ▲ Þ, 1846; A K E, 1855; ≥ 4, 1858; Z v, 1858; v Y, 1865
☀ K ¥, 1876; A T A, 1871, 1875–76, 1880.
CHICAGO UNIVERSITY: Z, 1864-69, 1878; K ¥, 1865-69,
1879; Y Y, 1869; A K E, 1870.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: A K E, 1871; Z v, 1875; ¥ Y, 1875;
ΣΨ (local), 1881 ; Φ Κ Ψ, 1884.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY: ZY, K A, A ▲ 4, 1869; A K E, ℗ A X,
1870; Y, 1876; В II, 1879.
TRINITY COLLEGE: I K A (local), 1829; ▲ ¥, 1850; A A 4, 1877
AK E, 1879; ¥ Y, 1880.
THE LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: X 9, 1872; ▲ T ^, 1874; A ↑ N,
1882 ; Δ Φ, Ψ Υ, Θ Δ Χ, 1884.
So it appears that Y meets AK E in fifteen colleges,
and faces AA in thirteen. The three societies exist
together at twelve institutions, and have met in three
others.
KA and Σ have purposely limited their fields; but
this does not imply that they have chosen the best col-
leges, for, while it is true that all of their institutions admit
of a select membership, some of them are surpassed,
both in general repute and in fraternity qualifications,
by many into which these societies have not entered.
Hobart and Vermont are not equal to Amherst, Bow-
doin, Brown, Dartmouth, Trinity. A has been incon-
sistent, and has made mistakes. X would have a fair
list, were Furman University, Wofford College, and other
Southern names, with the Stevens Institute, eliminated.
Zy carries a good many secondary colleges and one sci-
entific school. A has lost most of its poorest branches,
but has the Sheffield Scientific School and three South-
ern colleges on its hands. A X has fostered many very
poor colleges, once placed a chapter in the Ballston Law
School, and is now represented by a branch in the pro-
fessional departments of Columbia. Twelve of AK E's
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numerous charters were sent South, whence ten have
returned. Without criticising the wisdom of the policy
adopted by this widely-extended Fraternity, there can be
no harm in remarking that it has entered many colleges
that ↓ Y and A A▲ have determinedly rejected both before
and since 1844. Excluding its inactive branches, A A☀
presents a good roll of colleges. KA, Σ 0, A▲, and
Y are the only societies that have not entered scien-
tific schools, and Σ and † Y alone have had no South-
ern chapters.
Taking the entire lists of all the fraternities, it appears
that yr more carefully than any other has confined itself
to the historic and the leading colleges. Probably time
will vindicate the accuracy of our judgment in regard to
every college that we have chartered. Y has kept itself
so far removed from undue expansion, while avoiding
the lesser evil of ultra-conservatism, that it still has room
for two or three great institutions, should such hereafter
be developed. Among the more prominent universities
and colleges that Y has refused to enter are Colby,
Vermont, Williams, Tufts, Hobart, Madison, Princeton,
Allegheny, Lafayette, Dickinson, Virginia, North Carolina,
Western Reserve, Indiana, Indiana Asbury, North-West-
ern, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California. The Frater-
nity has never sought to enter any college, or to ally itself
with any other society for the sake of entering any college,
but has always waited (its forms compel it to wait) for
petitions. Occasionally applications have been supported,
perhaps suggested, by members, in one or two cases by
single chapters; but such inofficial aid must not be taken
for action by the Fraternity, and nine times out of ten it
has failed. One of the most prominent clergymen in our
land relates that his powers of persuasion and argument
were never so taxed as when he was urging the Lambda
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Chapter to allow the admission of Rochester. For fifteen
years previous to that time, only Harvard petitioners
had succeeded. The long delays in regard to Michigan,
Syracuse, and Cornell, have been mentioned.
The Western and Southern societies make no preten-
sions to conservatism. Most of them have extension
committees; and their struggle is not to resist applicants,
but to find them. BOII has or has had chapters at the
Maine State (agricultural) College, the Stevens Institute,
the St. Lawrence University, the Naval Academy at New-
port, R.I., the Cincinnati Law School, the Virginia Military
Institute, the Virginia College of Agriculture, and a great
many third-class colleges. ATA has at times extended
its privileges to preparatory, normal, and agricultural
schools, and is to be found at such insignificant institu-
tions as Adrian, Albion, and Hillsdale Colleges in Michi-
gan, and at still poorer ones in other States. • K + exists
in very few strong colleges. Xo's field is in the South
and in Pennsylvania.
Noticing a few transfers, or attempted transfers, of alle-
giance, it may be remarked that K gave way to YY at
Cornell; that ВOПI went over to A ▲ at Brown and Wil-
liams, to Y at Michigan, and to AK E at Western Reserve
(after being rejected by Y); that TA re-established
Zy at Williams; that ATA at Wabash College became a
chapter of AX, and from the University of Indiana
made an unsuccessful application to Y in 1871; and that
on different occasions & T▲, Þ K †, and Σ X, at the North-
Western University, have sought charters from ¥r.
A joint catalogue issued in January, 1833, by the four
societies then existing, would not have contained three
hundred names. In 1840 the figures were: YY, 117; AP,
139 ; Κ Α, 237 ; ΣΦ, 297 ; Α Δ Φ, 329. In 1850 ΨΥ and Α Δ Φ
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outnumbered all others, each having about 1,100 men. In
1860 A ▲ had about 2,400; AK E, 2,300; †Y, 2,237; X†Y,
1,108; 20, 1,037; 40, 981; ZY, 830; 0 ▲ X, 678; K A, 677.
By 1870 A KE's numerous chapters had given it the lead:
its catalogue of 1871 announced 4,700 members. ΑΔΦ
and Y printed catalogues in 1870, the former's list giving
3,753 names, the latter's 3,525. From that time Y began
to increase more rapidly than A ▲, the latter losing sev-
eral chapters; and in 1875 the two were equal. At present
AKE has nearly 8,600 members (including 1,300 who be-
long to the Harvard "Dickey "); Y has 6,028; AA☀,
5,600. Catalogues issued in 1883 by ZY, X¥, and ▲,
enumerated 2,724, 2,232, and 1,868 names respectively.
▲ has about 2,100 men; 20, 1,700; K A, 1,000.
Of the Western societies, BO II had 1,136 names in its
catalogue of 1859, 2,187 in the edition of 1871, and 4,200
in that of 1882. KY has about 3,900 members. ▲0's
catalogue, issued last year, gives 3,460 names; T▲ and
ΣX have rather more than 3,000 members, AT▲ about
2,500, X☀ 2,200, and the others range from 1,200 to 1,600
each.
At ten of its present eighteen colleges, the alumni lists
of Y are longer than any others, or are fully equal to
any. Nowhere is our roll the shortest, and hardly any-
where does it fall far short of the longest. No other
society of equal age can boast of any thing like the con-
tinuity shown by our lists. While we have missed but
one class in our living chapters (see p. 99), A ▲☀ has
dropped a class at Dartmouth, two classes at Western
Reserve, ten at Brown, and forty at Columbia. KA has
lost many classes at Hobart, as have XY at Williams and
Wesleyan, and ▲ at Brown and Pennsylvania.
A member of another society writes that the Y is
"pre-eminent among college fraternities for the high stand-
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ing of its members, active and graduate, and its conserva-
tive spirit.” “Dig,” “prig,” and “miscellany,” we are
told, were the appellations with which, in times past, each
of the three societies, A ▲ P, † Y, and ▲ K E, was respec-
tively honored by its rivals. Always remembering that
the "prigs " have had nearly twice their numerical propor-
tion of valedictorians and salutatorians, that the "digs "
have numbered not a few "prigs," and that in the "miscel-
lany" are some of the best "digs" and some of the rarest
"prigs," we may, perhaps, give these sweeping generalities
more accurate expression by saying, that, during the long
course of fifty years, A ▲ has sought many whose schol-
arship seemed to "outsiders" their chief qualification, and
that has paid rather more attention to congeniality
and social position, without, however, neglecting scholar-
ship; while AK E, the youngest of the triad, has found
some adherents among students whom its elders —perhaps
without sufficient reason-thought ineligible. "Four
Years at Yale" says, "Psi Upsilon used to be called the
'shawl society' in the old days when the wearing of that
garment was deemed to smack somewhat of aristocracy
and exclusiveness;" and not many years ago a society
magazine took occasion to criticise the extreme care with
which AA at Brown chose its scholars, and also the
"noli me tangere" tone of Y Y at the same university.
Per contra, two of Y's founders at Amherst join in say-
ing that the society there "came in as the special rival of
a society (AA) which affected aristocratic sentiments
and manners, and had accordingly become unpopular;
while we, though feeling ourselves 'aristocrats,' determined
that our influence should be 'democratic.' The latter
overworked adjective has lately been applied, in a West-
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ern society's periodical, to ▲ K E, by some one who thinks
that such spirit will sustain the said society after ↓ Y, pre-
sumably from the want of it, has fallen into oblivion.
"
The initiates of K A and of Σ Þ are usually men of family
and means; and the same is true of Ap's members at
Columbia and Rutgers, and of ▲ ¥'s at Columbia, Trinity,
and Williams. X is popularly known as a "festive
Fraternity; President White, though befriending other
orders, refused to sanction its entrance into Cornell, and
compelled its new men to return their charter. However,
the re-established chapter at Williams (whose founders,
by the way, first applied to r) is or was as marked an
exception to the general rule as the old chapter was
an example of it; and the members at Hamilton take
their share of college honors. Z's crowd is a pretty
"lively" one nearly everywhere, nor are its scholars so
numerous as to cast a sombre shade over its conferences.
→ AX has a restricted range of choice, owing to its youth,
but is a good deal more exclusive than any of the Western
orders.
Generally speaking, the societies that have been most
careful in choosing their colleges are most careful and
successful in selecting their members. At almost every
prominent college the real rivalry is narrowed down to
two or three fraternities. Elections to these are deemed
very desirable, and are eagerly accepted; while the badge
of an inferior order is assumed as a last resort, or not at
all. Among each other the leaders good-naturedly ridi-
cule the pretensions of "new" society men, and rank the
latter a little lower than the neutrals.
Ir's long line of eminent graduates finds its chief par-
allel in that of A ▲, though Σ è, particularly in its early
classes, has many noted men, considering its small mem-
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and A K E is well represented among the notables. Other
fraternities make a fair showing. Three of the twelve
colleges where YY, A K E, and AA meet, are governed·
by men who wore our badge as students; AA has one
president, the local NO another. Of professors and
instructors in the twelve institutions, Y Y has at this pres-
ent writing 58, A ▲ 48, ▲ KE 22, other societies fewer.
K A and Σ have representatives in the faculties of their
respective colleges. XY, ZY, and ▲ Y can show very few
prominent educators. At eleven of its colleges Y has
more graduates among the "powers that be" than any
other chaptered society claims, and elsewhere its dele-
gations are almost always strong in numbers and influence.
If the catalogues are to be relied upon, †Y sent the most
regimental and division officers, both relatively and abso-
lutely, into the national forces during the late war. Its
figures include a major-general, ten brigadiers, thirty-two
colonels, and twenty-eight lieutenant-colonels; A ▲ sent
two major-generals, six brigadiers, twenty-eight colonels,
and twenty-eight lieutenant-colonels. Among the bishops
of the Protestant-Episcopal Church, Y claims 12, A AQ
ΑΔΦ has had a
9, AK E 4, five other societies 6 in all.
few more senators and representatives in Congress than
Y has; but the latter alone can count among its college-
born sons a speaker of the National House of Repre-
sentatives and a President of the United States.
It is hard to say which of the societies has best suc-
ceeded in keeping alive the affections of its alumni. One
society could tell if it would, but contents itself with
declaring, that for its sons "there is no dividing-line
between college and after life;" though possibly this
fine sentence refers to the fact that betwixt many a mem-
ber of the society in question and his collegiate career
there intervenes no arbitrary separator in the nature of a
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diploma. In the long-run the worthiest fraternities will
be remembered best. Men do not care to treasure doubt-
ful memories. Coming from speculation to fact, Y has
more graduate associations than any other fraternity has,
and it is believed that its alumni re-union just held in
New-York City was the largest meeting of the kind on
record.¹
The gratuitous labor of years expended by one of our
graduates upon our general catalogue remains without a
parallel in society history. From the tables of relation-
ship that have been prepared, YY appears to surpass
other orders in the number of initiated sons of early
members, our advantage over A ▲ in this regard being
clearly marked. K A and Σ are strong "father-and-son"
o
societies. Chiefly from graduate liberality have come
the eight Y chapter-houses, all of which are owned and
controlled by alumni, and in which no person not a mem-
ber has any interest, direct or indirect. A ▲ also owns
eight buildings; AKE owns five, which on an average
cost less than those of ΨΥ and of ΑΔΦ ; Σ Φ and ΔΥ
have four houses apiece; and X has three. No other
society owns more than one building.
Society literature is assuming formidable proportions.
Omitting early and partial lists of ☀ B K, the Σ ☀ catalogue
of 1834 was the pioneer in its field. The same society
is sponsor for thirteen other issues, which in later years
have been marked by a geographical index, and a “The-
saurus," or abbreviated guide to positions and honors
gained. A complete biographical catalogue will soon be
issued. In 1835 KA printed a unique pamphlet con-
1 Two hundred members, including many of great distinction, were pres-
ent. Judge Van Vorst was chosen president of the association. See The
Times and The Tribune of May 27, 1884, and The Diamond for June.
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taining two chapters and 167 names. Two years later
appeared the first A ▲ roll, enumerating 188 members,
and preceding ten editions, the last of which, a semi-
centennial record (1832–82), is a magnificent book. The
nine catalogues of Y have been described. The first
(1842) was somewhat of an advance upon previous simi-
lar issues, and the last (1879) has avowedly been adopted
as a model by other societies. AK E's set of eight,
beginning in 1851, presents no features of general inter-
est; but an elaborate work on a most comprehensive plan
is preparing. A's catalogues are incomplete and inaccu-
rate. Last year XY and Z put forth elegant editions
that well merit and sadly need full and scholarly editing.
Ar's catalogue is not shown to outsiders. One of the
many naïve notes in ▲ X's handsome catalogue of 1875
reads:
Adopted in infancy by a childless rich man named Clark. Un-
aware of this until 1858, when a careless informant caused great dis-
tress to all parties. But the paternal and filial feelings continued the
same, and the will of the old man made Henry rich."
During the past two years several Western societies,
especially & ▲ O, have done good work in catalogue mak-
ing.
Of society song-books our issue of 1849 was first. We
have published eight distinct hymnals, A ▲ six; the last
editions of both societies appearing three years ago, and
containing IOI songs for YY, 97 for AA. The AKE
song-book of 1871 - the fourth edition—includes 153
songs. There were twenty-four songs in Σø's book of
I And slavishly imitated, as to paper, type, binding, and general appear-
ance, by a Western society in 1882. But some things cannot be copied. The
imitating contains sixty-seven times more defective names than appear in the
imitated book.
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1861. Our society has ten separate pieces of sheet-music,
here again outnumbering other collections.
With convention or re-union addresses, poems, and
proceedings, Y has filled fourteen separate pamphlets
excluding a large class of secret publications), and A ▲ ☀
has eleven similar ones. By far the most unique and
interesting of all the works of this class is the account
of our semi-centennial, though the quarto-centennial of
AA is fittingly preserved in type.
Journalism had no exponents among the conservative
fraternities until six years ago, when Professor Fiske
founded "The Diamond." The A.A "Star and Cres-
cent" is edited with great literary skill and taste, and
"The Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly" is a publication
of which any cause or association might well be proud,
though it gives (one would think) too much space to
discussions of, and statements about, other societies.
ZY, XY, and AX are now represented by periodicals,
as the Western and Southern fraternities long have been.
"The Diamond," unlike most or all of the other papers,
makes no exchanges.
Passing over many miscellaneous prints, mention may
here be made of two chapter histories, commemorating
Y's quarto-centennial at Rochester, and K A's semi-
centennial at Williams; of the "Life of Samuel Eells,
the Founder of A ▲ ;" and of the "Bibliographia Psi-
upsilonica" (already described), the only separate work
of its kind. On the whole, Y's library is larger than
that of any similar order.
As yet nothing has been said of the anti-secret society.
This order traces itself back to a huge association started
in the lower classes at Williams College in 1834. By the
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select aid of printed circulars sent out from Williams to
all the students at Union, more than a hundred men were
brought together in a similar organization at the latter
college in 1838; and in 1847 Williams and Union, with
similar societies just formed at Amherst and Hamilton,
joined in establishing the "Anti-secret Confederation." A
decade afterwards, a Greek name and a monogram badge
were adopted, and not long ago2 the term "anti-secret"
was discarded for "non-secret," the fraternity "feeling
that opposition to former evils in secret societies was no
longer necessary." Freshmen are warned, as before,
against the dangers of secrecy, while the societies are
urged to admit to full fellowship their former opponent and
present imitator. The scheme is shrewd ; but some of its
consequences are queer. Badge, name, motto, and prin-
ciples have been changed, some of them twice over; yet
all the anti-secret graduates who left college before 1857,
including many a man whose early death deprived him
of the power to assent to these alterations, are enrolled
in the catalogue of the non-secret ▲ Y.
Comparing the latter with a secret society, we find that
it has three-fifths as many members as Y has, seven
times as many dead chapters, four times as many branches
that have been temporarily inactive, one-eighth as many
chapter-houses, less than one-third as many professors in
the prominent colleges or in the colleges where both soci-
eties have met, and probably not one-fourth as many dis-
tinguished alumni. Its parent chapter, with a nominal
roll of many hundred members, disappeared from a col-
lege where secret societies have always flourished, and
was not" for nearly a quarter of a century. It has
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suffered many desertions from its ranks. Its publications
cannot be compared with those of Y for number, vari-
ety, or excellence. Verily the seven men who in 1833
reserved to themselves and their successors the right of
an honorable privacy, knew what they were doing.¹
I It must not be supposed that the author is seeking, even indirectly, to
defend Y Y in particular, or the college secret societies in general. Y needs
no defence here or elsewhere; the societies cannot be defended as a class, for
they are very dissimilar, and some of them are worthless or vicious. Each
must stand or fall on its own ground.
CHAPTER X.
MATTER OF EXPERIENCE.
"The years have gone, but could not bear away
That which should save their memory from decay,-
The love, sincere and true,
Which shed o'er college-days a radiance bright,
Which still infolds them in its wondrous light,
The love for thee, Psi U.”
EDWARD L. WALTER (Phi '68).
It is possible that some of the defects of this book may
be remedied by quoting words which old and experienced
members have placed on record concerning the Psi Up-
silon. Judge Sterling G. Hadley, one of the founders,
declares, -
"We have had no occasion to regret our start or growth, or the
character of the men who have belonged to the society at Union and
elsewhere."
Another founder, the Rev. Dr. Goodale, says of the
society,-
"It is valuable in its influence, and brilliant in its record.
in the past and present, so doubtless it will be in the future."
The Rev. Henry M. Dexter, D.D., writes,
• • •
As
"I have great reason gratefully to remember Psi Upsilon. Nearly
the youngest member of my class of one hundred, and laboring under
many disadvantages which cast a gloom over my mind, my invitation to
join with others in establishing a chapter of the society in Yale College
was a bit of cheer which gave me an astonishing impulse for good;
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while the practical benefit thereafter derived from the society itself I
have always estimated as worth more to me than not merely any other
one element, but than all other elements put together, of college influ-
So I say, 'God bless Psi Upsilon, and make it permanent as a
beneficent worker among the colleges of the land.' "' I
ence.
Very significant are the words of the Hon. Alexander
H. Rice:
"Some of the earliest and best recollections of my college-life are
connected with this Fraternity. It seems to me admirably adapted to
supply that great want which every student feels when he leaves and
breaks up the immediate associations of his home, the companionships
of his boyhood and youth, and finds himself among strangers in the
isolation of college-life. I remember well how I felt when I entered
college, and saw scarcely a familiar face, and then walked through the
college-halls, and met none but strangers. I wondered how I should
ever get on, where I should ever find a hand that would clasp mine, and
a heart that would respond sympathetically to mine, such as I had been
accustomed to find in my early days. I found no such thing until I
joined the Psi Upsilon Fraternity in Union College, and then I found
it as completely and as fully as I ever found it anywhere else. The
Fraternity touches the secret sources of the student's inner life, and
acts as a solace to his weariness, a stimulant to his ambition, and a
guardian to his conduct. In Psi Upsilon I found a trusted and confi-
dential fellowship, keeping equal grade with intellectual development,
and giving both enjoyment to life, and symmetry to character. I esteem
the results of the society intercourse-its revelations of character, its
interchange of hopes, its emulations, and its restraints to have been
as valuable to me as the knowledge which I derived from the curriculum
of studies in the college-course."
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At the semi-centennial Gov. Rice said,
'Brethren, let us cherish this institution of ours. Let the young
men who are active in its enjoyment pursue their labors under its
mid-day warmth and love; and we who are beginning to turn our faces
toward the evening shadows will feel our footsteps lightened by its
1 Letter read at the Chi's installation, June 12, 1876.
2 Speech at the Boston re-union, May 3, 1878.
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memories. Aye, and we will even meet by turns the grim messenger
himself without dismay, if he will grant us in the final hour one glance
backward to our cherished brotherhood, while the horizon is illuminated
with the twilight of its sympathies, and we look forward to the morning
glories of its immortal loves."
The Hon. Benjamin T. Eames, long one of Rhode
Island's representatives in Congress, sent this message
to the convention of 1877:-
"The pleasure, as well as profit, which I derived in my college-course
is as fresh now as if I had just left the classic shades of my Alma Mater.
This Fraternity, now as then, supplies a necessity for a complete edu-
cation. . . . Its beneficial effects may be traced in the history of many
of its members; and it should be our effort to increase its numbers, and
extend its influence."
Professor Daniel B. Hagar told the Boston members
in 1878,-
"No doubt the Fraternity has been the indirect means of saving
many young men from bad associations; and it creates a glorious bond
of unity, lasting through life."
Ex-Senator Patterson says, —
"I look back with pleasure to the ties of brotherhood, pure and
unselfish, which were formed in the fellowship of our society, and to
the intellectual improvement derived from a participation in its
duties." I
Professor Albert Harkness wrote in 1877,-
"Permit me to reciprocate, with grateful affection and with profound
respect, the fraternal greetings of the Psi Upsilon Convention. May
the brilliant record already made by our cherished Fraternity be fol-
lowed by a still more brilliant future."
Professor Charles Kendall Adams, LL.D., who for a
score of years has been a member of the chapter at
Michigan University, says,
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"It is our belief, as it is our pride, that, wherever the influence of
this society has been felt, those qualities which go to make up a true
and enlightened manhood have been multiplied and encouraged." I
Ex-Gov. Daniel H. Chamberlain, LL.D., wrote to the
convention of 1876, -
"If any son of Psi Upsilon has reflected credit on the Fraternity,
it is largely due to the principles and influence which Psi Upsilon was
destined to promote."
The Hon. Benjamin K. Phelps only a year before his
death used these words: -
Forty-six years of thrifty growth and healthful expansion have
struck the roots of this good brotherhood deep into the fruitful soil of
seventeen colleges. To-day, in the fourth decade of our most numer-
ous chapter, we hail Psi Upsilon, not in the maturity of age, but in
the fresh vigor of youth, still green, and, as we hope, immortal. No
State or Territory is without its representative from our ranks, and far
beyond the farthest seas our brethren do honor to our order. In every
department of active life they have borne themselves so that we may
be justly proud of them. While we recount with satisfaction the
honorable deeds of those who have gone out into active life, we find
no less occasion to rejoice in the present strength of the Fraternity in
its active members. You younger brothers cannot realize how fondly
our older eyes dwell upon your faces, whose eager brightness recalls
to us the days when youth was hope, and hope was strength. . .
Even in the consciousness of our own defeats, we exult in the possi-
bility of your triumphs. We welcome you to the places we have filled,
in the glad consciousness that you can fill them better." 2
• • •
Professor Edward Olson of the University of Chicago
says,
"I need not speak of the strength and endurance of the love for
the old Fraternity of those who have joined it in happy college-days.
There is a strange magic in those simple letters 'Y,' which has
↑ Opening address at the convention of 1880.
2 Oration before the convention of 1879.
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inspired the poet's heart, and has bound in close fraternal fellowship
thousands of hearts and lives, young and old.” ¹
The Rev. Francis N. Zabriskie, D.D., said at the Bos-
ton re-union in 1878,-
—
"I always defend the Psi Upsilon when attacks are made upon the
secret societies, because it has always been a power for good, and never
for evil."
Professor William W. Goodwin of Harvard wrote
thus to the convention at Middletown in 1877:
"It would give me the greatest pleasure to meet our brethren of the
Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Though the society is, I fear, extinct among
our undergraduates at present, there are several older members who
retain a lively and pleasant recollection of it from their college-days,
and of the highly successful general convention held here more than
twenty-five years ago. I hope the present convention will be equally
brilliant, and equally edifying to all who attend it. My best wishes for
the continued prosperity and extension of all the brotherhood."
In a letter of Professor James M. Peirce of Harvard to
one of the conventions, we read,
"The pleasantest of all my memories of college-life are those which
are connected with our noble Fraternity, to which I owe some of my
warmest and most lasting friendships."
Mr. George C. Hill, editor of "The Boston Post," said
to the Boston Psi Upsilons in 1878,–
"I should inexcusably forget myself, if I omitted to tender a sincere
tribute to the value of Psi Upsilon's early associations. This honored
society may be fairly claimed by the press as its early prompter and
faithful coadjutor. It is the seed-bed of the undeveloped powers of re-
flection and expression. It imparts flexibility to what is scholastic,
puts joints into the stiffness of pedantry, runs the liquefied mass of the
student's ill-assorted acquirements in its own graceful mould, and sends
him forth supple from his college, to take the plunge in the heady
currents of the world."
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In Mr. Charles Dudley Warner's essay, read at the
semi-centennial, we find these words:
"On this occasion our thoughts are naturally directed to that form of
fellowship in our colleges called the Greek-letter societies. Notwith-
standing their formation is only in obedience to an ancient and univer-
sal love in human nature, they are attacked because they are secret. I
am content that they should be judged by their results. I suppose
that some of them are guardians of the occult mysteries of Egypt and
India, that they know what was once only known to augurs, flamens, and
vestal virgins, and perhaps to the priests of Osiris; others keep some
secret knowledge of the formation of the alphabet, or preserve the secret
of nature contained in the Rule of Three, and know why it was not the
Rule of Four; while others, in midnight conclave, study the ratio of
the cylinder to the inscribed sphere. It does not matter. I have never
yet met any one who knew these secrets, whatever they are, who thought
there was any moral dynamite in them, never one who had shared
them who did not acknowledge their wholesome influence in his college-
life. I mean, of course, the reputable societies: I am acquainted with
no other. They promote good fellowship, which is not a small thing
in this struggling world; they cultivate an esprit de corps, which restrains
from what is vicious, and stimulates honorable ambition and rivalry;
they open the heart to intimate and endearing and unselfish ties, to solid,
trustful friendships, which are not an unimportant element in the char
acter of any man, and which tend, so I believe, to soften the asperities
of politics and the sharp conflicts of business, I mean that this opening
of the heart does, for its effect extends far beyond the select circle of
brotherhood, to make the world wear a more generous aspect, and to
counteract the narrow and selfish attitude with which an individual with
undeveloped affections is apt to encounter life.”
The Rev. Moses E. Dunham, Ph.D., said to the conven-
tion of 1876, -
"We love and prize our Fraternity, and justly, for it is a union of
brotherly love. Nowhere else, in bonds of brotherhood, are hearts more
firmly and truly bound together."
The Rev. John J. Elmendorf of Racine College, when
asked to be present at the establishment of the Chi Chap-
ter, wrote,
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"Your invitation, like every thing which recalls the Y Fraternity,
is one calculated to excite the thrill of memory's most cherished recol-
lection. It is indeed the Ricordarsi del tempo felice of days the brightest,
because hopes were unalloyed by disappointments, expectations not
measured by fruition. And Y concentred all that was brightest of
those college-days.”
To the convention of 1882 the Hon. Chauncey M.
Depew said, -
I come, not as a teacher, but as an elder brother, to greet the active
workers in Psi Upsilon. . . . A life has little in it worth living which
cannot frequently return to the memories, the aspirations, the hopes, of
its beginning."
Says Gen. Joseph R. Hawley,-
"The fitness and capacity for friendship, and the ability to attract
and retain true friends, are as well subject to cultivation and improve-
ment as any quality or power of mind; and the cultivation bears rich
and precious fruit in the maturity and old age of man. In this culture
lies one of the chief values of our eminent and dearly beloved Psi Up-
silon brotherhood.
"Every leader in education admits freely, that if a college or univer-
sity be rightly organized and conducted, and happily pervaded by gen-
erous and manly sentiments, a very large share of its value to the student
— I do not venture to say what proportion lies in the associations and
atmosphere of the place, the attrition, absorption, insensible culture.
I would speak carefully, for the training of youth is serious business;
but my experience and observation, beginning with my initiation as a
sophomore in 1884, justify me in claiming that this Fraternity is one
of the most valuable adjuncts of a college-life, and enjoins me to
speak with gratitude of the pleasures of friendship it has afforded us,
and the lessons it has taught.”
"Whether secrecy be right or wrong, it seems to me depends upon
what the secret is. We have no obligation inconsistent with any other
obligation of society, the family, the Church, or the State, and none but
an innocent and honorable privacy. There are many thoughts and feel-
ings that we will not utter to any if we must utter them to all men. It
1 Oration before the convention of 1877.
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is admitted that one may have a friend to whom he may confide that
which is innocent and honorable, and yet, once confided, cannot be dis-
closed without dishonor. We deny that friendship should or can be
limited to two. For the social as well as the literary objects of our
Fraternity larger numbers are agreeable and necessary. We simply ex-
tend to them the precious obligations and duties that true friends assume
by the universal and natural common law of friendship. We will profit
each other in our affections, our understanding, and our labors. We
will be patient with each other's faults, and with brotherly kindness, and
such wisdom as we can summon, tenderly warn each other against evil
and folly. We will stimulate each other's just ambition, and shun hos-
tile rivalries. We will come to each other's aid and comfort in defeat
and affliction. In short, we attempt to group twenty friends in a chap-
ter, instead of two; and we have succeeded for fifty years.
"Wherefore, and because of the sweet savor that remains with the
many of us who are graybeards, as we recall our college-days and the
loving-kindness of the Psi Upsilon, we declare it vindicated, and worthy
of the high place it occupies in our hearts. We congratulate ourselves
upon this happy meeting of many old friends, and many new and younger
men,
whom we greet and accept with entire faith that they are such as
we would have welcomed and loved when we were in the active ranks.
We, too, can be boys again if we can get the old boys together. Our
memories of the olden time are not the less joyous - perhaps even more
fascinating that with them mingle some minor strains of a sweet
sadness." I
Bishop William Stevens Perry, in a recent letter to the
author, writes, -
"I shall always have time to say a good word for y Y, memories of
which are ever rising to mind. . . . I recall most pleasantly the hours of
happy intercourse with the brothers in our 'upper room' at Cambridge,
with its comfortable furnishings and its noble library; and I remember
with satisfaction, that, of all our members, there was not one black sheep.
By an almost unerring instinct Y attracts men of a kind, and those of
the right kind too; and I have never been disappointed, in the old days
or since, in finding the brethren I have casually met wearing the badge,
and answering to the pressure of hand to hand, to be companionable
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and worthy men, such as I would welcome to my own hearthstone, and
gladly number among my friends. . . . It is certainly no slight proof of
Y's influence for good, that, at this lapse of time, every memory of my
association with the old Fraternity is one I would not willingly lose.
And so, my good brother, I will conclude these hurried words with the
wish we all share in, that as in the past, so in the future, y Y may flourish
more and more, welcoming to its numbers the noblest of our country's
educated young men."
There is little to add.
The chronicler cares not to ex-
hort or to prophesy. Let each reader draw for himself
the moral of these pages, and paint for himself the future
of our Fraternity.
"Now, brothers, farewell! May the spirit of love
Preserve you from care and from sorrow,
Make life like the flight of the messenger-dove,
And gild with bright glories the morrow."
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The cut on page 244 was not finished in time to be placed at
the opening of the chapter that treats of the Greek-letter
societies. The engraver had before him badges made by
Messrs. Roehm & Wright, jewellers, of Detroit, to the uni-
form excellence of whose work the writer gladly bears testi-
mony.
POSTSCRIPT.
PAGE 26, line 5, add, also the late Alexander Farnum,
long treasurer of Brown University.
P. 28, 1. 15.
Read Allegheny.
Read Charles H. Bell.
P. 29, 1. 14.
P. 44, 1. 14. Upsilon Kappa had a hundred members.
Fifteen are dead; sixteen (including one of the founders,
the Hon. E. B. Fenner of Rochester, N.Y.), having left
Genesee, became Psi Upsilons at other colleges; seven-
teen went into our Pi Chapter at Syracuse; and very
recently that branch has initiated, under special author-
ity, fourteen of the old petitioners.
P. 44, 1. 26. J. M. Gilbert is postmaster at Syracuse.
P. 54, 1. 5. Read suppositive.
P. 96, 1. 29.
master.
Captain Richard Waterman was toast-
P. 99, last line.
Pp. 101, 103.
number is to be
P. 106, 1. 23.
II should be 12.
Beta has initiated thirty men (which
the maximum hereafter) from '86.
Add Brooklyn, 140.
P. III, last line. Colt is now a circuit-judge.
P. 112, 1. 28. To the Baptist clergymen of New-York
City add the Rev. Drs. H. L. Morehouse (cf. p. 38) and
R. S. McArthur (cf. p. 214).
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P. 113, 1. 8. W. F. Mallalieu is one of the new Meth-
odist-Episcopal bishops.
P. 117. E. C. Stedman has been called to the chair of
English literature at Yale.
P. 118, 1. 6.
medical faculty.
P. 118, 1. 28.
P. 119, 1. 5.
Add Willard Parker, jun., to Columbia's
Read Edwin N. Smith.
Charles F. Johnson has been made pro-
fessor of English literature at Trinity.
P. 142, 1. Read Olmsted.
P. 177, 1. 3. BB has many more songs; but they have
not been printed.
The Fraternity's membership is 6,075.
The writer urges his comrades to suggest additions
and corrections; and he asks those who have in their
possession memorabilia of any sort relating to the Fra-
ternity or to other societies to communicate with him.
His address is,
ALBERT P. JACOBS,
·
4 Mechanics' Hall (first floor),
DETROIT, MICH.
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INDEX
OF
NAMES OF MEMBERS
MENTIONED IN THIS BOOK.
=
NOTE. After each name the figures of the member's college-class are
given, followed by the name (in full, or abbreviated) of his chapter, according
to this schedule: Th. Theta (Union); D.- Delta (New York); B. Beta
(Yale); S. Sigma (Brown); G. Gamma (Amherst); Z. = Zeta (Dart-
mouth); L. Lambda (Columbia); K. = Kappa (Bowdoin); Psi (Hamil
ton); Xi (Wesleyan); A. = Alpha (Harvard); U. Upsilon (Rochester);
I. Iota (Kenyon); Phi (Michigan); Omega (Chicago); Pi (Syracuse);
Chi (Cornell); B.B. Beta Beta (Trinity); Eta (Lehigh). The figures
next after the chapter-name refer to the pages of this volume.
=
Abbott, Austin, '51 D., 21, 112.
Abbott, Edward, '60 D., 21, 114.
Adams, Alfred W., '75 Xi, 152.
Adams, Benjamin F. 45 Psi, 32.
Adams, Charles D., '63 G., 207.
Adams, Charles K., '61 Phi, 42, 90,
114, 117, 118, 237.
Adams, George M., '44 K., 211.
Adams, Henry W., '41 Xi, 33, 34, 59.
Adams, Herbert B., '72 G., 207.
Adlington, Joseph A., '73 Xi, 213.
Agassiz, A. E. R., '55 A., 36, 115, 118.
Aiken, Charles A., '46 Z., 29, 46, 116.
Aikman, William, '46 D., 124, 204.
Aikman, William, jun., '72 D., 204.
Akerman, Amos T., '42 Z., 28, 29, 109,
130.
Aldrich, Abram J., '65 Phi, 41.
Alexander, Dixon, '46 Xi, 34.
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Allen, George E., '50 S., 206.
Allen, Wm. H. H., '55 Z., III, 208.
Allen, William P., '78 L., 209.
Alling, Joseph T., '76 U., 214.
Allison, George F., '84 Th., 194.
Alvord, Henry C., '76 D., 204.
Ames, Jacob W. H., '64 Xi, 213.
Anderson, N. L., '58 A., 120, 121.
| Andrews, Chas. B., '58 G., 28, 90, 110.
Angell, James B., '49 S., 25, 49, 72,
109, 116, 118, 130, 206.
Arnold, Samuel G., '41 S., 25, 82, 88,
108, 114, 127.
Arthur, Chester A., '48 Th., 8, 11, 12,
19, 85, 87, 107, 108, 123, 124, 132,
133, 147.
Atwater, Isaac, '44 B., III.
Austin, James H., '67 Th., 203.
Averill, James O., '70 G., 207.
Alger, Horatio, jun., '52 A., 36, 114, Ayres, Daniel, '42 Xi, 213.
163, 190.
Allen, Amos L., '60 K., 125.
Allen, Edmund T., '57 B., 124.
Ayres, Edward, '78 G., 117.
Ayres, George H., '87 Eta, 52.
Ayres, Rowland, '41 G., 124.
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Index of Names of Members.
Babcock, Charles, '47 Th., 19, 47, 84,
118, 147-
Babcock, Edward C., '49 L., 209.
Babcock, James S., '40 B., 23.
Babcock, John H., '45 Th., 203.
Babcock, Theodore, '41 Th., 124.
Backus, William H., '36 Th., 17.
Bacon, Almon C., '58 U., 38.
Bacon, Charles P., '82 Chi, 194, 216.
Bacon, Edward E., '73 Psi, 142.
Bacon, Theodore, '53 B., 37, 38.
Bailey, William W., '64 S., 26, 96,
117, 171.
Baker, Darius, '70 Xi, 213.
Baker, George D., '60 D., 88, 113.
Baker, Henry, '54 Xi, 125.
Baldwin, S. E., '61 B., 117, 136, 206.
Ballard, Anson, '45 Psi, 32, 92.
Bancroft, Lucius W., '52 S., 113, 206.
Bangs, F. N., '45 D., 92, 112, 124.
Bangs, Francis S., '78 L., 51, 91, 92.
Bangs, Stephen B., '43 D., 33.
Barclay, Charles, '76 Chi, 45.
Barnard, Robert, '37 Th.. 15, 16, 125.
Barnes, Orlando F., '80 Phi, 140.
Barnes, Orlando M., '50 Phi, 42, 125.
Barnes, William H., '65 Phi, 41.
Barnes, William H. L., '55 B., 90.
Barrett, Albert T., '69 U., 214.
Barrett, Amos J., '54 U., 38.
Barrows, G. B., '42 Z., 28, 29, 110.
Barrows, William G., '39 K., III.
Barry, William T. S., '41 B., 108.
Barteau, Morris R., '45 Psi, 32.
Bartlett, Edwin J., '72 Z., 117.
Bartlett, Ichabod D., '43 K., 31.
Bartlett, Percival W., '43 S., 25.
Bartlett, William H., '47 Z., 111.
Bartol, George M., '42 S., 25.
Bass, Lyman K., '56 Th., 19, 108.
Bates, George F., '82 K., 211.
Bayliss, Benjamin H., '65 D., 88.
Beardsley, S. R., '36 Th., 18, 120.
Beckwith, Charles E., '87 L., 211.
Beckwith, Daniel, '70 S., 115.
Beckwith, John W., '52 B.B., 113.
Beecher, James C., '48 Z., 120.
Beekman, Dow, '83 Th., 194, 195, 218.
Beekman, Henry R., '65 L., 209.
Belden, Horace, '61 U., 38.
Belknap, John S., '44 G., 27, 28.
Belknap, Robert L., '69 L., 88, 9r,
93, 209.
Bell, C. H., '44 Z., 29, 108, 110, 245.
Bell, John, '52 Z., 125.
Bell, John D., '55 G., 165.
Benedict, Samuel, '47 B.B., 217.
Benedict, Seelye, '71 B., 183.
Benjamin, Theodore H., '52 G., 207.
| Bennett, Charles W., '52 Xi, 84, 90,
118, 123, 125.
Bennett, Francis D., '72 Phi, 140.
Bent, Joseph A., '65 B., 206.
Bentley, Cyrus, '44 S., 124.
Betts, Frederic H., '64 B., 117.
Bigelow, Russell A., '81 B., 206.
Birney, Herman H., '87 Eta, 52.
Birney, Theodore W., '85 Eta, 51.
Bittinger, John Q., '57 Z., 125.
Blackburn, Francis A., '68 Phi, 172.
Blanchard, Ferdinand, '74 Z., 175.
Blauvelt, Cornelius R., '64 D., 204.
Bliss, George, '51 A., 36, 112.
Blodgett, Caleb, jun., '56 Z., 112, 208.
Blood, Caleb, '44 S., 25.
Boerstler, Charles E., '64 I., 40.
Boies, Charles A., '60 B., 168.
Bond, Hugh L., '48 D., 21, III.
Booth, Henry, '40 B., 23, 84, 94, 112.
Booth, Wilbur F., '84 B., 218.
Boughton, William H., '58 L., 168.
Bowen, Daniel, '56 U., 39, 214.
Boyd, Charles S., '78 L., 210.
Boyd, Nicholas E., '60 K., 211.
Boyd, Willard W., '71 A., 36.
Boyden, Henry P., '64 B., 206.
Bowers, Lloyd W., '79 B., 206.
Boyesen, H. H., '68 Chi, 45, 59, 86,
88, 89, 114, 118, 158, 173, 175, 177.
Brasee, Morton E., '63 Th., 40.
Bredin, Stephen, '54 Th., 124.
Breed, W. P., '43 D., 21, 74, 113, 204.
Brewster, Benjamin, '82 B., 206.
Bridgman, H. L., '66 G., 51, 88, 91, 92.
Bridgman, Isaac, '56 Z., 125, 208.
Briggs, Walter, '83 Eta, 51.
Brigham, L. F., '42 Z., 28, 29, 30, 111.
Brinsmade, William B., '40 B., 23.
Brodhead, Joseph D., '85 Eta, 51.
Brooks, Jabez, '50 Xi, 96, 119.
Brown, Addison, '52 A., 111, 214.
Brown, Bestor G., '84 Chi, 96.
Brown, Frederic A., '72 L., 91.
Brown, George W., '41 S., 25.
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Brown, Henry A., '65 B., 89.
Brown, Henry W., '52 A., 163.
Brown, Herbert P., '77 L., 210.
Brown, James, '36 Th., 18.
Brown, James, '83 L., 211.
Brown, J. Eldred., '83 B.B., 217.
Brown, John C., '59 L., 116, 209.
Brown, John H. H., '52 L., 30, 114.
Brush, Jesse, '54 D., 203.
Bryant, John D., '53 A., 78.
Buck, John R., '62 Xi, 34, 108, 133.
Buck, Milton D., '75 Pi, 44.
Buckley, T. C. T., 43 L., 29, 30, 209.
Bugbee, Lucius H., '54 G., 28, 116.
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Bull, Alfred B., '59 B.B., 142.
Bullard, Frederick H., '83 Xi, 154.
Burch, John C., '47 B., 109.
Burgess, George, '47 D.. 34.
Burgwin, A. P., '82 B.B., 48.
Burleigh, William H., '51 Z., 89.
Burlingham, Aaron H., '48 Psi, 112.
Burnham, Sylvester, '62 K., 211.
Burnett, Charles H., '64 B., 95.
Burton, John H., '67 I., 214.
Burton, John L., '46 Psi, 32, 33.
Bush, Solon W., 45 S., 114.
Bushnell, George, '42 B., 124.
Butler, Abram O., '53 D., 150.
Butler, N. Murray, '82 L., 209.
Butler, W. A., '43 D., 21, 74, 75, 114.
Butterworth, George F., '74 L., 209.
Button, Henry H., '42 S., 25.
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Caird, James, '67 I., 214.
Calef, Arthur B., '51 Xi, 110, 125.
Calkins, Marshall, '53 Th., 119,
Calkins, Wolcott, '56 B., 206.
Came, Charles G., '49 B., 115.
Campbell, Irving
S., 55 D., 204.
Campbell, Thomas C., '41 S., 25.
Capron, George, '47 S., 88.
Carhart, Henry S., '69 Xi, 95, 213.
Carmichael, Henry, '67 G., 118.
Carpenter, Charles F., '76 Chi, 45.
Carpenter, Clarence, '82 B.B., 48.
Carpenter, William H., '80 Chi, 118.
Carpentier, Horace W., '48 L., 209.
Carr, Gouverneur, '55 D., 120.
Carr, Jeremiah O., '48 S., 206.
Carroll, Charles, '53 A., 117, 214.
Carter, Adoniram D, '68 Phi, 41.
Cary, George L., '52 A., 119.
Cass, John A., '72 Xi, 136.
Castner, Hamilton Y., '79 L., 210,
Chadbourne, George S., '58 Xi, 125.
Chamberlain, D. H., '62 B., 24, 83, 89,
I10, 206, 238.
Chamberlain, Mellen, '44 Z., 115.
Chamberlain, Wm. M., '45 Z., 93, 112.
Chambers, William P., '48 Th., 192.
Chapin, Roswell L., '42 G., 27.
Chase, George A., '44 G., 27, 28.
Cheney, James L., '77 U., 214.
Chickering, Joseph K., '69 G., 28, 117.
Child, E. Norwin, jun., '85 B.B., 48.
Childs, Enoch L., '40 B., 23.
Childs, Thomas S., '47 D., 203.
Choate, George F., '43 K., 31, 125.
Christie, Frank A., '81 G., 207.
Clapp, Alexander H., '42 B., 74, 112.
Clapp, Charles E., '86 Eta, 52.
Clark, Charles M., '56 L., 209.
Clark, Edward W., '44 Z., 124.
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Clark, Ira C., '59 U., 38.
Clark, James S., '50 L., 119, 209.
Clark, Lewis W., 50 Z., III.
Clark, William S., '48 G., 28, 116, 120.
Clarke, Charles L., '75 K., 211.
Clarke, John C., '48 Xi, 125.
Clarke, N. D. A., '73 K., 211.
Clarke, Samuel G., '51 A., 214.
Clarke, Willis G., '77 Xi, 213.
Clay, Lorenzo, '43 Z., 124.
Clement, Nathaniel H., '63 Z., 208.
Clerc, Francis J., '43 B.B., 49, 116.
Clifford, Charles E., '49 K., 95.
Coe, Edward B., '62 B., 114.
Coe, George A., '84 U., 37, 193, 218.
Coffin, Charles L., '82 Phi, 198.
Coffin, George C., '72 Z., 91.
Cogswell, John B. D., '50 Z., г10.
Cole, Cornelius, '47 Xi, 94, 108.
Colburn, John, 47 Xi, 213.
Colby, John P., '59 U., 38.
Coleman, Charles S., '82 B.B., 48.
Coleman, George S., '76 Xi, 175, 213.
Colgate, John H., '49 D., 124.
Collier, Edward A., '57 D., 203.
Collier, Gerrit S., '68 Th., 203.
Collins, Isaac C., '46 B., 89, 112.
Colt, LeBaron B., '68 B., 111, 245.
Colton, G. H., '40 B., 23, 88, 89, 206.
Colton, Willis S., '50 B., 90, 161, 188,
193, 206.
Cone, Edward S., '51 B., 162.
Congdon, Chester A., '75 Pi, 44.
Conger, Clarence R., '71 L., 209.
Conkling, C. S., '36 Th., 18, 88.
Converse, John H., '57 A., 119.
Cooke, Hedley V., '83 Eta, 51.
Cooke, Leslie B., '68 Xi, 213.
Cooke, Robert G., '84 Eta, 51.
Coon, Seneca, '61 U., 214.
Cooper, Henry, '63 U., 38.
Cooper, Wilson C., '41 S., 25.
Copeland, Melvin B., '67 Xi, 137.
Cornelius, James D H, '65 Phi, 41.
Cowles, Justus A. B., '83 L., 211.
Cozzens, Henry, '45 Th., 32.
Cram, Charles H., '54 Z., 125.
Crane, Edward P., '51 D., 204.
Crawford, A. B., '76 Z., 48.
Crehore, John D., '54 Z., 208.
Cresswell, Thomas, '68 Phi, 41.
Crosby, William L., '80 B.B., 48.
Culver, Charles M., '78 Th., 175.
Currier, Albert H., '57 K., 211.
Curtis, Henry L., '62 I., 39, 40.
Cushman, Edward F., '36 Th., 18.
Dains, George G., '59 Xi, 125.
Dakin Brothers, the, 125, 126.
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Index of Names of Members.
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Dakin, Francis E., '51 Psi, 125.
Dakin, George W. B., '53 Psi, 125.
Dana, Edward S., '70 B., 117.
Dana, William S., '71 Z., 208.
Daves, Edward G., '54 A., 214.
Davis, Alson C., '56 Th., 120, 124.
Davis, John E., '48 Th., 192.
Davis, William S., '53 A., 78.
Davison, C. M., '38 Th., 12, 18, 94,
116.
Day, Aaron, '42 Z., 28, 29.
Dayton, I., '38 Th., 18, 20, 74, 112.
Dean, Sidney, '64 Xi, 34, 108.
Dean, Zebina T, '46 Xi, 34.
Dearth, William G., '55 S., 206.
DeForest, R. W., '70 B., 91, 93, 183.
DeKoven, J., '51 L., 30, 116, 127.
Delafield, Francis, '60 B., 118.
DeMille, James, '54 S., 26, 55, 114,
127, 164, 177-
Deming, William L., '77 Chi, 45.
Depew, Chauncey M., '56 B., 24, 84,
89, 110, 241.
De Ruyter, John, jun., '51 L., 209.
Dewees, Francis P., '53 Th., 50, 124.
Dewees, Lewis L., '87 Eta, 52.
Dewey, Charles A., '61 U., 38.
Dewey, Edmund H, '58 Th., 124.
Dexter, Franklin B., '61 B., 117.
Dexter, Henry M., '40 B., 20, 23, 24,
25, 49, 114, 123, 124, 130, 235.
Dibble, Henry M., '82 Chi, 218.
Dickerson, Edward N., '74 B.B., 217.
Dickerson, James S., '48 Psi, 125.
Dickerson, John W., '83 U., 214.
Dickinson, Legh R., '51 L., 209.
Dickinson, M. F., jun., '62 G., 112.
Dickman, F. J., '46 S., 124, 206.
Dickson, George G., '67 I., 214.
Diman, J. L., 51 S., 26, 119, 124, 127.
Diven, Eugene, '87 Eta, 52.
Dix, Morgan, '48 L., 30, 49, 90, 93,
113, 209.
Dixon, James P., '67 K., 211.
Dockray, Edward L., '83 B.B., 48.
Dodge, Charles C., '60 B., 120.
Dodge, David S., '57 B., 113.
Doe, Charles, '49 Z., 29, 111.
D'Ooge, Martin L., '62 Phi, 42, 118.
Doolittle, Charles A., '72 G., 88.
Doremus, John W., '76 Th., 203.
Douglas, G. W., '71 B.B., 116, 217.
Douglass, M., '46 B.B., 49, 116.
Dow, Frederic G., '72 K., 91.
Dow, Lorenzo, '49 Xi, 111.
Dowling, John W., jun., '84 L., 211.
Downs, Charles A., '45 D.,
Drake, Elias G., jun., '54 L., 209.
Draper, George B., '45 L., 25, 209.
., 204.
Draper, Wm. H., '51 L., 30, 118, 209.
Duck, George F., '83 Eta, 51.
Duffield, Charles B., '42 G., 121.
Dun, Charles B., '77 I., 197.
Duncan, George M., '81 D., 204.
Duncan, Samuel A., '58 Z., 49, 112,
120, 208,
Dunham, Moses E., '47 Psi, 89, 125,
174, 240.
Dunn, Robinson P., '43 S., 206.
Dunster, Edward S, '56 A., 117, 118.
Durfee, Thos., '46 S., 25, 96, 111, 124.
Dyer, Louis, '71 Omega, 43.
Eames, Benjamin T., '43 B., 24, 108,
124, 237.
Earle, Cornelius, '45 D., 29, 51.
Eaton, Daniel C., '57 B., 117.
Eaton, William W., '68 G., 207.
Eckfeldt, Thomas H., '81 Xi, 118.
Edmunds, C. C., jun., '77 B.B., 217.
Edson, Henry K., '44 G., 27, 28.
Edwards, Alfred L., '57 B., 168.
Edwards, Benjamin A., '41 S., 25.
Edwards, Henry L., '47 G., 207.
Ehle, George L., '39 Th., 88.
Eldredge, Barnabas B., '45 Psi, 32.
Eldridge, Charles, '79 L., 210.
Elliott, George W., '73 Xi, 175.
Ellsworth, Erastus W., '44 G., 27, 28.
Elmendorf, John J., '45 L., 119, 240.
Elmer, William T., '81 B B., 48.
| Elwell, Levi H., '75 G., 117.
Ely, Joseph A., '66 U., 89.
Emerson, John E., '44 G., 27.
Emerson, Lincoln F., '49 K., 211.
Emerson, William, jun., '53 L, 209.
Emery, Caleb, '42 Z., 28, 29.
Emery, Lucilius A., '61 K., III, 211.
Emery, William S., '81 B.B., 48.
Esty, Constantine C., '45 B., 108.
Esty, William C., '60 G., 28.
Everett, Arthur, '64 Phi, 42.
Fairbank, Henry, '83 G., 207.
Farman, Elbert E., '55 G., 110.
Farnum, Alexander, '52 S., 124, 245.
Farr, William W., '64 I., 40
Farrington, William G., '53 L., 113.
Faville, Oran, '44 Xi, 33, 34, 110.
Fenner, Edward B., '67 G., 245.
Ferguson, Henry, '68 B.B., 119.
Ferry, James W., '73 Phi, 140.
Ferry, O. S., '44 B., 24, 108, 120, 127.
Fertig, John H., '87 Eta, 52.
Field, Leon C., '70 Xi, 213.
Field, Maunsell B., '41 B,
, 109.
Field, Theodore W., 43 D., 204.
Field, W. A., '55 Z., 108, 111, 208,
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Finch, Francis M., '49 B., 8, 24, 47,
75, 85, 89, 90, 111, 147, 158, 159,
160, 175, 176, 188, 191.
Fincke, Frederick G., '73 A., 88.
Fisk, Francis S., '43 Z., 112.
Fisk, George McC., '70 B.B., 217.
Fisk, Samuel A., '44 B., 124.
Fiske, Willard, '51 Psi, 8, 11, 12, 20,
33, 40, 47, 61, 62, 82, 84, 86, 89, 90,
93, 115, 147, 158, 173, 174, 175, 176,
177, 178, 190, 194, 195, 196, 198.
Fitch, George H., '75 Chi, 216.
Floyd-Jones, Charles, '36 Th., 18.
Foote, Erastus, jun., '43 K., 31.
Foote, Wallace T., '85 Th., 194, 218.
Forbes, George F., '75 G., 207.
Forbes, George M., '78 U., 118, 214.
Forbes, Jesse F., '74 G., 207.
Forbes, John F., '78 U., 214.
Ford, Isaac N., '70 S., 91.
Forstall, Alfred E., '83 Eta, 51, 217.
Foster, Benjamin B., '55 K., 120.
Foster, Charles H., '55 K., 120.
Foster, Dwight, '48 B., 24, 49, 111,
124, 206.
Foster, Joshua, '39 D., 20, 21.
Fox, George Henry, '67 U., 90.
Frear, Walter, '51 B., 124.
Freeman, Samuel T., '50 Th., 124.
Frisbee, Edward S., '60 G., 116.
Frye, William P., '50 K., 31, 108, 133.
Gale, Harlow A., '56 Th., 124.
Gallaudet, E. M., '56 B.B., 49, 142.
Gammell, Arthur A., '84 S., 206.
Gammell, William, jun., '78 S., 206.
Gardner, George F., '61 U., 38.
Gaskill, Joshua, '59 U., 38, 170
Gay, Augustine M., '50 G., 207.
Gaytes, Čaroll, '58 G., 165.
George, James H., '72 B.B., 217.
George, John H., '44 Z., 124.
George, T. M. N., '80 B.B., 48, 217.
Gerry, Charles F., '51 Xi, 162.
Gilbert, James M., '75 Pi, 44, 91, 245.
Gilbert, M. M., '61 I., 39, 40, 214.
Giles, Alfred E., '44 S., 25, 206.
Gilman, George S., '47 B.B., 142, 217.
Gilman, Jeremiah H., '54 K., 120.
Gluck, James F., '74 Chi, 147, 216, 218.
Golden, Horatio L., '83 B.B., 48.
Goodale, Lawrence J., '38 Th., 88.
Goodale, Samuel, '36 Th., 14, 15, 16,
20, 49, 56, 125, 126, 130, 235.
Goodenow, J. H., '52 K., 31, 96, 110.
Goodrich, Frederick E., '64 B., 115.
Goodridge, Frederick, '57 B.B., 142.
Goodwin, Jaspar T., '76 L., 118, 210.
Goodwin, John M., '45 K., 125, 211.
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Goodwin, William W., '51 A., 36, 37,
49, 89, 115, 118, 214, 239.
Goss, Simon S., '46 Th., 124.
Gott, Joseph W., '37 Th., 7, 18, 61,
74, 124, 191.
Gould, Asa H., '42 S., 25.
Gould, Charles Z, '82 B.B., 48.
Gould, Edward P., '59 U., 38.
Grace, Seymour M., '69 Th., 203.
Grannis, W. H. DeL., '62 I., 39, 40.
Grant, Schuyler, '64 Phi, 42.
Graves, Albert S., '46 Xi, 34.
Gray, Albert Z., '60 D., 21, 116, 204.
Gray, G. Z., '58 D., 21, 49, 116, 175.
Gray, Horatio, '49 S., 112.
Greeley, Edward H., '45 Z., 123, 124.
Green, A., '58 S., 26, 124, 165, 206.
Green, Lewis, '44 G., 207.
Green, Samuel A., '51 A., 36, 110..
Greene, Fred H., '82 B.B., 48.
Greene, Joseph K., '55 K., 125, 211.
Griswold, Allen, '59 Xi, 169.
Grose, Howard B., '76 U., 91, 193.
Grosvenor, Edwin A., '67 G., 207.
Grover, Zuinglius, '42 S., 25, 95, 119,
120, 124.
Grow, G. A.,'44 G., 27, 28, 75, 89, 109.
Gruener, Gustave F., '84 B., 218.
Gurney, Ephraim W., '52 A., 36, 118.
Hadley, Henry H., '47 B., 206.
Hadley, Sterling G., '36 Th., 14, 15,
16, 20, 83, 88, 90, 96, 125, 126, 235.
Hagar, D. B., '43 Th., 19, 32, 74, 237.
Haight, James A, '79 Chi, 218.
Hall, Charles H., '42 B., 74, 113.
Hall, William W., '72 Omega, 43.
Halliday, Henry H., '38 D., 20, 21.
Hamersley, William, '58 B.B., 49,
119, 142.
Hamilton, Charles H., '69 Phi, 140.
Hamilton, William D., '80 I., 214.
Hamlin, Charles, '57 K., 120.
Hammond, Graeme M., '79 L., 210.
Hammond, W. G., '49 G., 112, 207.
Harding, Henry F., '50 K., 125.
Hardy, Alpheus, '67 G., 124.
Hardy, Arthur S., '68 G., 90, 114, 117.
Harkness, Albert, '42 S., 25, 96, 115,
117, 168, 206, 237.
Harland, Edward, '53 B., 120.
Harper, J. W., jun., '48 L., 30, 115.
Harriman, David P., '43 K., 31.
Harriman, F. D., '45 B.B., 113, 125.
Harrington, Calvin S., '52 Xi, 10, 34,
86, 90, 118, 124, 125, 165, 175, 176,
190, 195, 213.
Harrington, M. W., '68 Phi, 42, 118.
Harris, Elijah P., '55 G., 28, 117, 124.
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Index of Names of Members.
Hart, Samuel, '66 B.B, 119, 217.
Hart, William H., '75 Z., 208.
Hartwell, A. S., '58 A., 112, 120, 121.
Harvey, Charles W., '37 Th., 14, 15,
16, 17, 20, 80, 88, 123, 124, 126, 179.
Harvey, Elisha B., '45 Xi, 34, 120.
Hastings, Lemuel S., '70 Z., 208.
Hatch, Chauncey L., 45 Psi, 32.
Hawley, J. R., '47 Psi, 8, 13, 33, 49,
75, 76, 85, 86, 87, 89, 108, 109, 110,
115, 120, 121, 133, 160, 192, 241.
Hawley, Robert N., '79 Psi, 175.
Hayes, Francis L., '65 K., 211.
Hayt, Edward K., '77 D., 204.
Hazard, Rowland G., '49 S., 96.
Hebard, Milton, '42 S., 25.
Hemenway, Charles C., '74 Psi, 212.
Henderson, C. R., '70 Omega, 88.
Henry, A. McK., '67 Phi, 41, 42.
Henshaw, M., '45 G., 117, 207.
Hewett, W. T., '69 G., 47, 118, 147.
Hicks, William C., '48 B.B., 49.
Higbie, Robert W., '82 D., 203.
Hill, Frank A., '62 K., 211.
Hill, George C., '45 B., 115, 239.
Hillegas, Harry H., '84 Eta, 51.
Hilliard, Francis W., '52 A., 163.
Hillis, William J., '72 Th., 203.
Hills, Harry N., '77 I., 214.
Hincks, John H., '72 B., 206.
Hinrichs, Frederic W., '74 L., 209.
Hitchcock, William A., '54 B.B., 125.
Hodges, John S. B., '50 L., 113, 209.
Holbrook, Lowell, '43 S., 25.
Holden, Robert, '47 L., 113, 209.
Holland, Josiah G., '51 G., 89, 114,
127, 152, 157.
Hollister, Gideon H., '40 B., 23, 88,
109, 114.
Holme, John S., '48 Psi, 112.
Holmes, Ira, '61 U., 38.
Holmes, Philip W., '57 L., 169, 209.
Holmes, Theodore J., '53 B., 188.
Holmes, William D., '81 Chi, 51.
Holway, Orlando, '80 B.B., 48.
Holzheimer, Charles W., '81 B., 206.
Honoré, Adrian C., '69 Omega, 43.
Hopkins, Charles C., '82 Eta, 51, 217.
Hoppes, Garrett L., '83 Eta, 51.
Houghton, George H., '42 D., 21, 22,
46, 49, 74, 79, 89, 113, 203.
Houghton, George W., '59 U., 38.
Houghton, William A., '73 B., 117.
Howard, Henry W. B., '72 B., 91, 183.
Howard, Rowland B., '56 K., 125.
Howe, Phineas, '47 S., 206.
Hoyt, Arthur S., '72 Psi, 212.
Hoyt, Charles K., '70 Psi, 212.
Hoyt, Francis S., '44 Xi, 113.
Hubbard, Chauncey H., '40 B., 23.
Hubbard, Edward K., '78 Phi, 140.
Hubbard, Eli, '45 Xi, 34, 125.
Hubbard, Henry W., '66 Phi, 41.
Hughitt, Emmons, '63 G., 207.
Humphreys, David, '37 Th., 7, 73,
126, 191.
Huntington, A. J., 42 S., 25, 119.
Hurd, Egbert, '58 U., 38.
Hurd, Henry M., '63 Phi, 42.
Hutchins, Waldo, '42 G., 27, 93, 109,
124, 133.
Hutton, Frederic R., '73 L., 118, 209.
Ingham, Albert C., '47 Th., 19, 92,
124, 126, 203.
Ingham, John A., '86 Pi, 126.
Ives, Brayton, '61 B., 116, 120, 121.
Jackson, Allan H., '53 Th., 120.
Jackson, George E. B., '49 K., 90,
95, 116, 125.
Jackson, Joseph C., '57 B., 120.
Jackson, Milton, '67 Phi, 41, 42.
Jackson, Samuel W., '42 Th., 19, 88,
III, 147.
Jackson, William A., '83 B., 48.
Jacobs, Charles H., '75 Phi, 94.
Jaffrey, Robert, '42 L., 29, 30, 209.
James, Horace, '40 B., 23, 28, 88.
James, William J., '83 Xi, 213.
Jameson, John F., '79 G., 207.
Jeffries, Benjamin J., '54 A., 78, 112.
Jenkins, John F., jun., '84 L., 210.
Jenks, Grenville T., '49 D., 124.
Jessup, Henry H., '51 B., 113.
Jewell, Harvey, '44 Z., 29, 75, 88, 110.
Johnson, Barclay, '82 B., 206.
Johnson, Charles F., '55 B., 119, 246.
Johnson, Edwin E., '59 B.B., 217.
Johnson, George D., '54 B.B., 217.
Johnson, H. C., '73 Chi, 51, 119, 218.
Johnston, John T., '39 D., 20, 21, 22,
93, 116, 124.
Jones, Charles W., '81 B.B., 48, 217.
Jones, John D., '61 Psi, 182.
Jones, Lewis F., '46 Xi, 34, 162.
Jones, Luther M., '60 B., 206.
Jones, Mahlon O., '70 Omega, 43.
Jost, Cranswick, '62 Xi, 213.
Judd, O., 47 X1, 34, 115, 123, 125.
Judd, Orrin B., '42 S., 112.
Keen, Wm. B., jun., '69 Omega, 43.
Kelley, John S., '40 B., 23.
Kellogg, Chauncey S., '58 B., 206.
Kellogg, Edwin M., '46 L., 88.
Kellogg, Fred W., '83 B., 206.
Kellogg, Marmaduke B., '69 Phi, 94.
Index of Names of Members.
Kelsey, Clarence H., '78 B., 206.
Kelsey, Frank W., '80 U., 214.
Kempe, Ernest A., '81 B.B., 48.
Kendall, Charles S., '46 Xi, 34.
Kernochan, John A., '53 L., 209.
Kernochan, W. S., '42 L., 29, 30, 209.
Kimball, David P., '56 A., 214.
Kimball, Sumner I., '55 K., 109.
Kimberley, George W., '77 Psi, 212.
King, James M., '62 Xi, 113.
King, Joseph E., '47 Xi, 89, 120.
Kingsley, William M., '83 D., 204.
Kinne, William, '48 B.,
Knickerbacker, D. B., '53 B.B., 114.
Knight, Napoleon B., '60 Th., 120.
Knowles, Joseph H., '54 Xi, 125.
Koller, Harry O., '86 Eta, 52.
., 47.
Lambert, Edward W., '54 B., 124.
Lambert, Preston A., '83 Eta, 51, 217.
Lamoroux, Wendell, '44 Th., 19, 117.
Lane, Harvey B., '35 Xi, 125.
Lane, Henry F., '50 S., 112.
Lane, Joseph J., '45 Xi, 34, 213.
Lanpher, Louis A., '80 B.B., 48.
Lansing, John G., '75 Th., 203.
Lathrop, Gardiner, '69 B., 206.
Latimer, James E., '48 Xi, 119, 213.
Lattimore, Samuel A., '68 U., 118
Lawrence, Amos E., '40 B., 23.
Leach, James E., '48 S., 206.
Lee, Ralph W, '87 Eta, 52.
Lee, William H. F., '58 A., 36, 121.
Leeds, Samuel P., '43 D., 113, 204.
Lefavour, Issachar, '42 G., 27.
Leighton, George, '83 Eta, 51.
Lemen, Theodore A., '77 U., 214.
Lewis Brothers, the, 125.
Lewis, Theodore F., '48 L., 209.
Libbey, Dorville, '62 K., 211.
Lincoln, John D., '43 K., 31.
Lincoln, Rufus P., '62 G., 120.
Lindsley, Charles A., '49. B. B., 117.
Linville, Jacob H., '48 Th., 115.
Little, Robbins, '51 B., 115, 206.
Littlejohn, Abram N., '45 Th., 19, 113.
Lobdell, Francis, '58 G., 124.
Lockwood, John, '48 L., 89.
Lombard, James K., '54 B., 9, 163,
164, 175, 188.
Loomis, P. Burr, jun., '80 Phi, 140.
Lord, Daniel, jun., '66 L., 209.
Lord, Franklin B., '70 L., 209.
Lord, George DeF., '54 B., 206.
Loring, George B., '38 G., 96, 109.
Lowell, James J., '58 A., 214.
Lowry, Robert, '50 D., 113.
Lucas, William E., '77 Chi, 218.
Lummis, Henry, '55 Xi, 213.
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Lyman, Alexander S. '84 D., 218.
Lyman, Joseph A., '73 A., 91.
Lyman, Theodore, '56 A., 36, 109.
Lyon, Merrick, '41 S., 25, 96, 119.
Lyons, Herbert H, '72 Phi, 172, 173.
McArthur, Robert S., '67 U, 214, 245.
McCall, James, '85 Chi, 218.
McCauley, Hugh B., '77 D., 91.
McCrackan, Francis L., '60 L., 169.
McCrackan, J. H., '82 B.B., 48, 217.
McCune, William, '43 L., 29, 30, 209.
McDonald, F. G., '64 G., 207.
McElroy, James F., 376 Z., 175.
McGowan, Jonas H., '61 Phi, 42, 109.
McGuffey, Charles D., '63 I., 40, 89,
90, 171, 214.
McIvor, Nicholas W., '82 B B., 48.
Mackay-Smith, Alex., '72 B.B., 49.
McKenzie, William S., '55 A., 79, 112.
McLaughlin, Edward T., '83 B., 206.
McLean, Ward, '43 Th., 91.
MacLellan, George B., '58 B., 206.
McMaster, Guy H., '47 Psi, 33, 88, 89.
McMillan, Frank M., '84 Chi, 96.
McNeilly, Robert, '60 I., 39, 40.
Malcom, Charles H., '53 S., 89.
Mallalieu, Willard F '., '57 Xi, 113, 245.
Manley, James R., '58 L., 209.
Manning, Eugene W., '77 Xi, 118.
Manning, Jacob M., '50 G., 89, 113.
Manning, S. H., '61 K., 120, 121.
Marble, Edgar M., '64 Psi, 109.
Maris, George L., '67 Phi, 41, 42.
Marsh, Benjamin S., '52 Z., 208.
Marsh, Edward B., '76 G., 117.
Marsh, Othniel C., '60 B., 24, 115, 117.
Marshall, Charles H., '58 L., 209.
Martin, Edward D., '42 G., 27.
Martindale, Edward, '56 Th., 14, 15,
16, 17, 20, 56, 93, 126.
Mason, Russell Z.,'44 Xi, 33, 34, 213.
Mather, Richard H., '57 G., 28, 117,
124, 207.
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Mathews, Albert, '42 B., 114.
Meech, William B., 39 D., 20, 21, 204.
Meeker, David C., '43 D., 204.
Mercer, Joseph A., '71 Phi, 41.
Messenger, Hiram J., '80 Chi, 218.
Metcalf, Richard, '51 S., 206.
Miles, Benjamin F., '81 U., 214.
Miles, Edward C., '49 D., 204.
Milholland, Paul D., '86 Eta, 52.
Miller, Ezekiel L., '43 S., 25.
Miller, George D., '70 B., 183.
Mitchell, John M., '43 K., 31, 211.
Mixer, Albert H., '48 Psi, 118.
Monilaws, George, '39 Th., 22.
Moore, Eliakim H., jun., '83 B., 206.
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Index of Names of Members.
Moore, George H., '42 D., 21, 73, 74, | Ordronaux, John, '50 Z., 117, 118, 175.
79, 83, 115.
Moore, John W., '59 D., 204.
Moore, Joseph E., 65 K., 95.
Moore, William E., '47 B., 113.
Morehouse, H. L., '58 U., 38, 90, 245.
Morgan, Edward J. '49 Chi, 45, 125.
Morgan, William F., '65 D., 91, 182.
Morong, Thomas, '48 G., 124.
Morris, George S., '61 Z., 118, 208.
Morrow, Paul D., '52 Psi, 51, 125.
Morton, Edward W., '48 K., 211.
Mosher, J. Montgomery, '86 Th., 194.
Moulton, William H., '74 K., 95.
Mudge, A. Eugene, '66 Phi, 41, 91.
Mulford, Elisha, '55 B., 115.
Munger, Theodore T., '51 B., 113.
Munro, John, '44 Psi, 125.
Munro, J. Weed, '75 U., 214.
Murrah, Pendleton, '48 S., 110.
Murray, J. O., '50 S., 26, 116, 206.
Mussey, Reuben D., '54 Z., 96, 120,
121.
Neely, Henry R., '84 B.B., 218.
Neill, Edward D., '42 G., 27, 96, 116.
Neill, Henry, '34 G.. 88, 89
Nelson, Rensselaer R., '46 B., 96, 111.
Nettleton, Edward P., '56 B., 120.
Newman, John, '38 Th., 18.
Nichols, Washington R., '52 L., 209.
Nichols, William F., '70 B.B., 142.
Nicoll, William, '41 D., 209.
Nightingale, Augustus F., '66 Xi, 213.
Nightingale, Crawford A., '78 S., 207.
Niles, William W., '57 B.B., 49, 113,
123, 124, 125, 142.
Northend, W. D., '43 K., 31, 90, 125.
Northrop, D. Ward, '68 Xi, 34, 88,
IIO, 137.
Northrop, George, '43 B., 95, 112.
Norton, Charles L, '59 B, 115, 120.
Noyes, Daniel J., jun., '61 Z., 208.
Noyes, D. P., '40 B., 22, 23, 124, 130.
Noyes, Daniel W., '47 Th., 124.
Noyes, Frederick W., '76 Chi, 45, 218.
Noyes, Henry D.,'51 D., 203.
Odell, William H., '52 B., 124.
Ogden, Aaron, '49 L., 209.
Oglesbee, Rollo B., '82 Phi, 152.
Olmstead, Dwight H., '46 Ps1, 93, 125.
Olmstead, Lawrence D., '78 Psi, 175.
Olmsted, Charles T., '65 B.B., 217.
Olmsted, Henry K., '46 B.B., 142, 246.
Olson, E., '73 Omega, 95, 118, 237.
Olssen, William W., '46 L., 209.
Opdyke, Charles W., '56 D., 204.
Opdyke, William S., '56 D., 203.
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Ostrander, Alexander, '47 Psi, 32, 33.
Ostrom, John N., '77 Chi, 216.
Overhiser, John C., '54 D., 37.
Packard, A. S., jun., '61 K., 96, 117.
Packard, Charles, '42 K., 31.
Packard, Edward N., '62 K., 95, 211.
Packard, Frederick, '48 B., 92.
Packard, Lewis R.. '56 B., 24, 117.
Packard, Noah F., '42 S., 25.
Packard, Robert L., '68 K., 211.
Packard, William A., '51 K., 31, 119,
130, 211.
Paddock, Benjamin H., '48 B.B., 49,
113, 217.
Paddock, John A., '45 B.B., 114, 217.
Page, Harrison C., '43 S., 25.
Paine, Charles F., '62 I., 39, 40.
Paine, Robert T., jun., '55 A., 214.
Painter, T. A., jun., '81 L., 211.
Palfrey, F. W., 51 A., 36, 120, 121.
Palmer, Albert, '58 Z., 110.
Palmer, George Č., '64 Phi, 42.
Pardee, Henry E., '56 B., 136.
Park, William E., '61 D., 206.
Parker, Charles P., '73 B B., 118.
Parker, Edward G., '47 B., 89.
Parker, Edward H., '46 Z., 112.
Parker, Henry E., 41 Z., 29, 117,
124, 175.
Parker, H. W., '43 G., 27, 46, 89, 192.
Parker, Shubael S.. '46 Psi, 112.
Parker, Willard, jun., '66 L., 112,
246.
Parkhurst, Charles H., '66 G., 112.
Parmly, Wheelock H., '42 L., 29, 30.
Patten, Henry L., '58 L., 120.
Patterson, G. W., 48 Z., 109, 124.
Patterson, James W., '48 Z., 29, 108,
109, 124, 237.
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Pattison, Arthur E., '80 B.B., 48.
Payne, Charles H., '56 Xi, 34, 116.
Peabody, Charles, '43 D.. 113.
Peabody, Owen G., 42 Z., 28, 29.
Peale, John W., '85 Eta, 51.
Pearce, Eugene F., '81 D., 203.
Peck, Frank H., '56 B., 120.
Peck, Jonas O., '62 G., 113
Peck, Luther W., '45 D., 203.
Peirce, J. M., '53 A., 36, 37, 118, 239.
Pennell, Galusha, '68 Phi. 41.
Pennock, William C., '82 I., 214.
Pennoyer, E. R., '55 Xi, 98, 168, 213.
Perkins, Albert C., '59 Z., 119, 208.
Perry, David B., '63 B., 206.
Perry, Jairus W., '46 K., 112, 125.
Perry, Oliver H., '62 I., 39, 40.
Perry, William G., '42 Z., 28.
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Perry, William S., '54 A., 36, 37, 47, Reynolds, William A., '58 Xi, 213.
114, 116, 242.
.
Peters, Roger H., '85 I., 214.
Peterson, John, '57 Xi, 213.
Pettit, John U., '39 Th., 109, 129, 193.
Pettit, Ossian C., '50 Th., 157.
Phelps, B. K., '53 B., 89, 112, 124, 237.
Phelps, Samuel W., '48 D., 204.
Phelps, Wm. W., '60 B., 24, 109, 124.
Phillips, Edward K., '57 G., 124.
Phinney, James M., '43 Psi, 92.
Phipps, James M., '42 S., 25, 74.
Pike, Clarence, '80 Z., 208.
Pike, James, '42 Xi, 34, 109, 120.
Pike, Samuel J., '47 K., 89.
Pinckney, J. H. H., '51 Psi, 91.
Pinckney, William R., '84 Eta, 51.
Pisek, Vincent, '82 D., 204.
Place, Ira A. '81 Chi, 218.
Pomeroy Brothers, the, 125.
Pomeroy, Charles R., '53 Xi, 213.
Pomeroy, Daniel, '56 Xi, 125, 213.
Pomeroy, Julius R., '49 Xi, 125.
Pooler, Charles T., '44 Xi, 33, 34.
Pope, Willard S., '51 Psi, 116, 132.
Porter, Harvey, '70 G., 107.
Porter, John A., '42 B., 24. 115.
Porterfield, Henry A., '83 Eta, 51.
Potter, Barrett, '78 K., 118, 211.
Potter, C. N., 42 Th., 17, 19, 55,
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56, 74, 84, 89, 93, 98, 109, 157, 193.
Powers, John H., '69 Xi, 136.
Pratt, George W., '49 Xi, 161, 188.
Prentiss, A. N., '61 Chi, 45, 118, 147.
Prescott, Benjamin F., '56 Z., 110.
Prescott, William C., '44 Xi, 33, 34.
Preston, T. S., '43 B. B., 114, 217.
Price, Isaiah B., 72 Th., 86, 117, 194.
Prime, Wendell, '56 L., 113.
Proctor, John C., '64 Z., 208.
Pugsley, Isaac P., '64 B., 206.
Pupke, Eberhart L., '83 L., 211.
Purdy, Alfred E. M., '57 D., 112.
Purdy, James S., '49 B.B., 49, 125.
Putnam, John N., '42 Z., 29.
Quackenbos, George P., '43 L., 29,
30, 46, 88, 115, 209.
Quinby, Isaac F., '64 U., 118, 120.
Raftery, Oliver H., '73 B.B., 217.
Raymond, Charles W., '76 Chi, 45.
Read, Daniel, '46 Psi, 112.
Reed, Archibald, '36 Th., 18.
Reed, Frederick A., '43 G., 27.
Reed, Homer, '72 Phi, 172.
Rees, Benjamin F., '74 L., 210.
Rees, John K., '72 L., 118, 209.
Reid, Lewis H., '47 B., 124.
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Rhodes, William C., '64 S., 91.
Rice, Alexander H., '44 Th., 7, 19,
32, 35, 46, 74, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90, 109,
110, 147, 184, 187, 201, 236.
Rice, James C., '54 B., 120.
Rice, W. W., '46 K., 31, 96, 109, 133.
Richards, George, '40 Th., 203.
Richards, Samuel T., '44 Th., 120.
Richardson, Charles F., '71 Z., 117.
Richardson, Charles H., '60 G., 170.
Richardson, Rufus B., '69 B., 117.
Rider, John M., '73 Th., 91.
Riggs, J. D. S., '78 Omega, 118.
Ripley, Edward H., '62 Th., 19, 120.
Robbins, Silas W., '47 Xi, 125, 213.
Roberts, B. T., '48 Xi, 123, 125.
Roberts, George L., '59 Xi, 213.
Roberts, Oliver E., '42 L., 29, 30.
Robinson, Charles P., '43 K., 31.
Robinson, Henry C., '53 B., 49.
Robinson, Joshua D., '51 A., 15, 163.
Robinson, Lucius F., '43 B., 89, 124.
Robinson, William E., 41 B., 7, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 35, 46, 72, 74, 75, 88,
90, 93, 109, 133, 179, 185.
Rockwell, Alfred P., '55 B., 120.
Rogers, H., '55 S., 112, 120, 121, 124.
Rogers, Uriah F., '59 D., 204.
Rolfe, William J., 49 G., 28, 115.
Rollins, Daniel G., '60 Z., 11I.
Ronan, Edward D., '67 Th., 203.
Roney, Thomas C., '78 Omega, 191.
Rood, Ogden N., '52 B., 115, 117.
Root, Elihu, '67 G., 28, 119, 207.
Root, John B., '65 Phi, 41.
Ross, Augustus S., '86 Eta, 52.
Rossell, Clifford B., '65 I., 41.
Rossiter, Ehrick K., '75 Chi, 45.
Rowe, Abram N., '60 K., 158, 169.
Rowley, Levi, '37 Th., 18.
Ruggles, W. B., '49 Psi, 88, 110, 125.
Rumsey, DeWitt C., '45 D., 157.
Ruppaner, Antoine, '55 A., 112.
Russ, Charles T., '75 B., 206.
Russell, Alfred, '49 Z., 112.
Russell, Isaac F., '75 D., 88, 117, 204.
Rust, George, '73 Phi, 140.
Rust, R. S., '41 Xi, 33, 34, 113, 125.
Sage, Dean, '60 Chi, 88.
Sage, Edward E., '77 L., 210.
Sage, William H., '65 B., 47, 147.
Sanborn, John S., '42 Z., 28, 29.
Sanborn, Walter, '67 Z., 208.
Savage, Hiram F., 45 Xi, 34.
Savage, William H., '58 K., 211.
Saxe, John G., '53 A., 17, 78, 79, 80,
81, 89, 93, 114, 123, 125, 175, 192.
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Index of Names of Members.
Sayre, David F., '44 D., 204.
Scarborough, John, '54 B.B., 49, 114.
Schuyler, Eugene, '59 B., 9, 24, 109,
110, 114, 122.
Schuyler, George W., '37 D., 20, 21,
47, 90, 110, 122, 124, 147.
Scripture, James O., '60 Z., 208.
Scudder, Henry M., '40 D., 21, 49, 74,
113, 123, 124, 179.
Sedgwick, John, 47 D., 21, III.
Seeley, George P., '79 L., 210.
Seelye, Julius H., '49 G., 28, 49, 88,
109, 116, 117, 123, 124.
Selden, Edward D, '44 B., 124.
Semple, Lewis B., '84 Eta, 51, 217.
Sewall, George T., '67 K., 173, 211.
Seward, F. W., '49 Th., 19, 109.
Seymour, George F., '50 L., 30, 93,
114, 209.
Seymour, Horatio, '67 B., 110.
Seyms, George H., '72 B.B., 142.
Shackford, Charles C., '35 Chi, 45,
118, 147.
Shepherd, Daniel, '40 Th., 89.
Sheppard, Robert D., '69 Omega, 90.
Shuart, William H., '75 Pi, 44.
Shurtleff, William S., '54 B., 120.
Signor, Isaac S., '70 Psi, 91.
Silber, William B., '50 Xi, 93, 213.
Simpson, E. Owen, '62 I., 39, 40.
Smiley, Charles W., '74 Xi, 34, 91, 92,
185, 195.
Smith, Augustus P., '84 Eta, 51, 217.
Smith, Charles N., '64 Xi, 125.
Smith, Edwin N., '83 Phi, 118, 246.
Smith, Elbridge, '41 S., 25.
Smith, Eugene, '59 B., 206.
Smith, G. P., '66 L., 63, 169, 209.
Smith, Goldwin, '45 Chi, 45, 88, 90,
114, 118, 152.
Smith, James, '40 B., 23.
Southgate, John B., '53 K., 211.
Spalding, John F., '53 K., 31, 113.
Spencer, William G., '53 B.B., 217.
Spofford, C. A., '46 K., 88, 110, 211.
Sprague, Homer B., '52 B., 120, 206.
Sprague, Joseph H., '51 A., 36, 110.
Stearns, Josiah M., 43 G., 27.
Stebbins, John M., '48 Z., 56, 125.
Stebbins, Russell, jun., '56 L., 209.
Stedman, Edmund C., '53 B., 13, 24,
49, 114, 123, 124, 149, 246.
Steele, Benjamin H., '57 Z., 111, 208.
Steele, John McC., '44 Z., 88.
Sterling, William A., '53 D., 203.
Stevens, E. L., '55 Th., 124, 203.
Stevens, Henry, '43 B., 24, 115.
Stevens, Oliver, 48 K., 112, 125,
211.
Stevenson, Richard W., '75 D.,' 204.
Stewart, M. H., '37 Th., 15, 16, 126.
Stiles, Henry R., '52 D., 90.
Stimson, Henry A., '65 B., 96.
Stocking, C. H. W., '60 B.B., 217.
Stone, James K., '61 I., 114, 116.
Stover, Charles, '75 Chi, 45.
Strong, Augustus H., '57 B., 38, 116,
123, 124, 206.
Strong, Charles A., '84 U., 218.
Strong, George C., '55 Th., 19, 120.
Strong, James, '44 Xi, 33, 34, 89, 115,
192, 200, 213.
Stuart Brothers, the, 125.
Stuart, W. Z., '33 G., 111, 123, 124,
207.
Sturtevant, John B., '43 Th., 88.
Sumner, Edward A., '78 Xi, 175.
Sumner, William G., '63 B., 24, 114,
117.
Sunderland, Byron, '41 D., 113.
Swan, Daniel M., '66 Th, 96.
Sweetser, Charles H., '62 G., 8›, 89.
Smith, J. Cotton, '47 K., 31, 39, 93, Sweetser, John H., '57 G., 124.
105, 125,211.
Smith, John W., '56 G., 105.
Smith, Justin H.,
'77 Z., 208.
Smith, Lyndon A., '80 Z., 208.
Smith, Perry H., '46 Psi, 32, 33, 43,
82, 84, 92, 116, 125.
Smith, P. H., jun., '74 Psi, 90, 142.
Smith, Thomas M., '61 I., 39, 40.
Smith, William T., '60 B., 117.
Smyth Brothers, the, 125.
Smyth, E. C., '48 K., 31, 116, 211.
Smyth, George A., '68 K., 211.
Smyth, Henry M., '71 L., 209.
Smyth, Newman, '63 K., 211.
Snell, William B., '45 K., 96.
Snyder, Elmer E., '87 Eta, 52.
Soule, George, '47 G., 124.
Sweetser, Sanford B., '60 Xi, 125.
Swinburne, Louis J., '79 B., 206.
Sym, John, '42 L., 29, 30, 157.
Symonds, J. W., '60 K., 111, 211.
Symonds, William L., '54 K., 211.
Taft, Edward P., '54 S., 206.
Taft, William H., '78 B., 206.
Tailer, Henry A., '52 L., 209.
Talbot, Micah J., '43 Xi, 113, 125.
Talbot, William R., '57 L., 169.
Tappan, William, '85 I., 214.
Tash, Thomas, '42 K., 31.
Taylor, E., '37 Th., 18, 86, 88, 130.
Taylor, George I., '43 Th., 124.
Taylor, James H., '56 K., 125.
Taylor, John P., '62 B., 206.
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Index of Names of Members.
257
Taylor, William, '38 Th., 7, 17, 18, | Van Rensselaer, Maunsell, '38 Th.,
20, 22, 29, 35, 45, 74, 81, 126.
Taylor, William P., '86 Eta, 52.
Thacher Brothers, the, 125.
Thacher, James K., '68 B., 117.
Thacher, John S., '77 B., 206.
Thayer, Eli, '45 S., 109, 206.
Thompson, Daniel G., '69 G., 91.
Thompson, Isaac M. B., 177 D., 203.
Thompson, John L., 56 Z., 120,
121.
Thompson, William G., '63 G., 111.
Thompson, William M., '81 Phi, 140.
Thurston, Richard B., '41 K., 211.
Tighe, Ambrose, '79 B., 117.
Tillinghast, James, '49 S., 124.
Timlow, Philip J., '37 Th., 18.
Tinkham, Alanson H.. 41 S., 25.
Toll, Charles H., '72 Psi, 142.
Tolman, Clarence M., '85 Eta, 51.
Tourgée, Albion W., '62 U., 39, 51,
88, 89, 90, 114, 170.
Tower, Gideon D., '66 Th., 203.
Towne, Edward C., '56 B., 206.
Townsend, Absalom, '36 Th., 17.
Townsend, Israel L., '47 L., 49, 113.
Townsend, J. M., jun., '74 B., 206.
Townsend, Luther T., '59 Z., 119.
Townsend, William K., '71 B., 117.
Trask, Edward, '40 D., 20, 21.
Truax, James R., '76 Th., 203.
Trumbull, David, '42 B., 123, 124.
Trumbull, James H., '42 B., 24, 114,
117, 136.
Turner, Duncan, '36 Th., 18.
Turner, Samuel B., '80 Chi, 147.
Tuthill, Franklin, '42 D., 79.
Tuttle, George W., '36 Th., 14, 15,
17, 88, 123, 124, 126.
Twichell, Joseph H., '59 B., 49, 113.
Twiss, Richard B., '75 Omega, 175.
Twombly, Alexander S., '54 B., 124.
Tyler, John E., '42 Z., 28, 29.
Tyler, John M., '73 G., 28, 117, 207.
Tyler, Mason W., '62 G., 120.
Tyler, William S., '30 G., 117, 123,
124, 207.
Tyler, William W., '64 G., 207.
Van Benschoten, James C., '54 Xi,
34, 118.
Van Brunt, Henry. '54 A., 115.
Vance, Samuel C., '62 G., 120.
Vanderlip, George M., '51 D., 112.
Vanderpoel, John A., '62 L., 209.
Van Duzer, Archibald S., '53 L., 209.
Van Gieson, Acmon P., '49 D., 204.
Van Name, Addison, '58 B., 115, 117,
206.
16, 18, 45, 51, 88, 116.
Van Sinderen, Adrian, '54 B., 124.
Van Sinderen, A. H., '81 L., 211.
Van Vorst, Hooper C., '39 Th., 13,
18, 19, 21, 22, 35, 49, 72, 74, 87, 88,
90, 111, 147, 191.
Veazey, W. G., '59 Z., 111, 120.
Vernon, Philip H., '53 D., 204.
Vincent, Marvin R., '54 L., 113, 209.
Volkman, A. L. K., '77 Chi, 45, 218.
Vose, James G., '51 B., 113.
Waddell, William A., '82 Th., 203.
Wales, Leonard E., 45 B., III.
Walker, Clement A., '42 Z., 28, 29.
Walker, George, '42 Z., 28, 29, 110.
Walker, John T., jun., '84 L., 211.
Walker, Joseph B., '44 B., 124.
Walker, William J. B., '85 Eta, 51.
Walter, Edward L., '68 Phi, 41, 42,
90, 118, 171, 235.
Walter, Joseph R., '71 A., 176, 193.
Ware, Lyman E., '77 Chi, 45.
Warner, Abner S., '42 Z., 28.
Warner, B. Ellison, '76 B.B., 176.
Warner, Charles D., '51 Psi, 13, 33,
49, 62, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 114, 115,
119, 133, 145, 156, 240.
Warren, Charles A., '74 Phi, 95.
Warren, Samuel B., '59 B.B., 142, 217.
Waterman, Richard, '59 S., 245.
Waterman, Stephen, '46 S., 123, 124.
Watson, James A., '84 Eta, 51.
Watson, James C., '57 Phi, 42, 47,
115, 127.
Webster, Lorin, '80 B.B., 48, 217.
Weed, Truman, '75 Th., 175.
Wells, Walter, '52 K., 211.
Wentworth, Erastus, '37 Xi, 113, 125.
Wentworth, J. T., '46 Th., 19, 95, III.
Westgate, G. L., '65 Xi, 34, 118, 213.
Weston, Francis W., 47 S., 206.
Weston, Roswell, jun., '58 L., 169.
Wheeler, John M., '41 Th., 42, 88, 90,
129, 140, 171, 176.
Wheeler, Nathaniel M., '75 Pi, 44, 84,
89, 175, 244.
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Whipple, Edwin P., '50 G., 78, 88, 89,
114, 178.
Whipple, George N., '78 G., 175.
White, Aaron, '52 Xi, 125.
White, Andrew D., '53 B., 24, 47, 84,
90, 109, 116, 118, 123, 124, 145, 147,
206.
White Brothers, the, 125.
White, Erskine N., '54 B., 113, 124.
White, Frederick D., '82 Chi, 147.
White, Henry, '39 Th., 192.
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Index of Subjects.
White, H. S., '73 A., 36, 118, 132.
White, Moses H., '42 Z., 28, 29.
Whittaker, Ozi W., '55 G., 28, 113.
Whitney, James L., '56 B., 115.
Whitney, William C., '63 B., 112.
Wicks, Edward B., '62 Psi, 89.
Wilcox, Sylvanus S., '60 U., 38.
Wilhelm, William H., '87 Eta, 52.
Willard, Alexander D., '63 K., 211.
Willard, John B., '42 S., 25.
Willard, Xerxes A., '45 Psi, 32.
Willcox, William H., 43 D., 74, 75,
124, 203.
Williams, Arnon G., '45 Psi, 32, 33.
Williams, Charles L., '47 Psi, 92.
Williams, Charles M., '71 U., 214.
Williams, Edward H., jun., '72 B.,
51, 88, 119.
Williams, Francis A., 'fo U., 38.
Williams, Henry S., '68 Chi, 45, 118.
Williams, Thomas J., '86 Eta, 52.
Williams, William W., '43 G., 27.
Willis, John W., '77 Z., 175.
Willis, Josiah W., '73 Phi, 96.
Willson, David B., '79 B.B., 91, 142.
Wilson, Bluford, '64 Phi, 42, 109.
Wilson, Hugh W., '86 Eta, 52.
Wilson, James W., '49 Th., 89.
Wilson, Thomas K., '77 I., 214.
Winchester, Caleb T., '69 Xi, 34, 90,
118, 176.
Winchester, Charles W., '68 Xi, 173.
Witherspoon, Orlando, '56 B.B., 49.
Wood, Henry C., '83 Th., 195.
Wood, William C., '68 B., 206.
Woodman, John S., '42 Z, 28, 29.
Woods, Frederick, '59 Xi, 125.
Woolsey, Theodore S., '72 B., 117.
Worcester, Edwin D., '76 B., 206.
Worthington, E. W., '75 B.B., 217.
Wrampelmeier, T. J., '78 Phi, 118.
Wright, Daniel T., 47 B., III.
Wright, Edward C., '71 Psi, 212.
Wright, Elijah H., '42 G., 27.
Wright, Ephraim M., '39 G., 110.
Wright, John H., '73 Z., 117, 208.
Wright, Robert W., '42 B., 92, 110.
Wyman, Charles D., '72 Omega, 43.
Young, John, '50 D., 204.
Young, Stephen J., '59 K., 211.
Zabriskie, Francis N., '50 D., 204, 239.
Zabriskie, George, '70 D., 91.
Ziegler, Paul, '72 B.B., 217.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
ACTIVE membership, 105.
Addresses, printed, 191, 232.
Adelphic Society, the, 16.
"After the Battle," song, 166.
Ages, of the founders, 126; of the so-
cieties, 220, 232.
Airs of the songs, 177.
Alpha Chapter, annals of, 35, 76, 80;
emblem of, 63; convention with, 78;
membership of, 100; relationship,
122; mortality, 127; inauguration
ode, 176; scholarship, 201, 213.
Alumni, associations and re-unions
of, 92, 132, 147, 230; initiations of,
104; number of, 105; testimony of,
as to the value of the Fraternity's
influences, 129, 235; printed lists of,
186; letters to, 196; distinguished,
107, 228; affection of, 229.
Amherst College, annals of chapter
at, 26; statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
|
professors at, 117; chapter-house at,
135, 138; honors at, 207; societies
at, 222.
Annals, of the chapters, 15; of the
conventions, 73.
Annual initiations, statistics of, 98-101.
Annual letters to alumni, 196.
Annuals, student, the, 187.
"Anthem," the, 75, 160.
Anti-secret society, the, 202, 232.
Associations of alumni, 92, 147, 229.
"Athletics," 202 et seq.
Authors, number, 106; eminent, 114.
Ayres prize, at Wesleyan, 213.
Badges of the Fraternity, pictures of,
1, 54; descriptions of, 55, 56, 57;
origin of, 55, 56; varieties of, 57,
58; of Beta Beta, 57; of Upsilon
Kappa, 57; when worn by gradu-
ates, 58; allusions to, 59; anecdotes
Index of Subjects.
tion, 93.
Chapter-catalogues, 186.
Chapter-clubs, 152.
259
Chapter-house rules, printed, 197.
Chapter-houses, 133, 230.
Chapter-letter, use of, as
a guard-
of, 59, 61; custom of draping, 156; | Central New-York alumni associa-
of the Eastern societies, 244.
"Band of Brothers, The," song, 164.
Bankers, number of, 106; leading, 116.
Baptist clergymen, 107, 113, 245.
"Beautiful Name," song, 175.
Beta Beta Chapter, annals of, 47;
badge, 57; emblem, 63; poster, 68,
69; membership, 100; relationship,
122; mortality, 127; building of,
142, 148; tennis-club, 153; inaugu-
ration festival, 156; scholarship,
etc., 201, 216.
Beta Beta, Order of, history of, 47;
badge, 57; color, 70; open motto,
71; songs, 177, 246; catalogue, 186;
number of initiates in Psi Upsilon,
186.
Beta Chapter, annals of, 22; badge
used by, 57; emblem of, 63; posters
of, 64, 65; conventions with, 73, 75,
80, 81, 82, 84; date of its initiation,
104; statistics of membership, 100,
245; relationship, 122; mortality,
127; hall of, 128, 133; honors and
prizes, 201, 204, 218.
Bibliographia Psiupsilonica, 178, 232. |
Bibliography, of the Fraternity, 178;
of the societies, 230.
Bishops, 113, 229, 245:
Blatchford Oratorical Medal, 203.
Boating record, 205, 210, 211, 216.
"Bonds of Psi Upsilon," song, 170.
Books, collections of, 150; published,
178, 230.
Boston alumni, association of, 94;
printed list of, 186.
Bowdoin College, annals of chapter
at, 30; statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
professors at, 118; honors at, 211;
societies at, 222.
Brigadier-generals, 120, 121, 229.
Brothers in blood, 122, 125.
"Brothers, the day is ended," song,
167.
Brown University, annals of chapter
at, 25; statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
professors at, 117; honors at, 206;
societies at, 222.
Buffalo alumni association, 96.
"Bundes-lied," song, 175.
Camping-parties, 154.
"Canticum," 168.
"Carmen ad Psi Upsilon," 168.
"Carmen Animi," 166.
Catalogues, of Psi Upsilon, 178; of
Beta Beta, 186; of the societies,
230.
pin, 57.
Chapter-monograms, 60, 69.
Chapters, annals of, 15; roll of, 52;
emblems of, 62, 63; colors of, 70;
mutual relations, 72; statistics of
membership, 100; of relationship,
122, 124; of mortality, 127; chap-
ters of BK at our colleges, 219;
of the societies, 221.
Charter-members, of Delta, 20; of
Beta, 23; of Sigma, 25; of Gam-
ma, 27; of Zeta, 28; of Lambda,
29; of Kappa, 30; of Psi, 32; of
Xi, 33; of Alpha, 35; of Upsilon,
38; of Iota, 39, 40; of Phi, 41; of
Omega, 43; of Pi, 44, 244; of Chi,
45; of Beta Beta, 48; of Eta, 51;
Psi Upsilon, sons of, 123; surviv-
ors of, 127; high scholarship of, 201.
Charters, conservatism in granting,
75, 77, 221, 225.
Chi's Token, The," song, 176.
Chicago alumni, association of, 94;
printed list of, 187; programmes of
exercises, 198.
Chicago University. See University
of Chicago.
Chi Chapter, annals of, 45; emblem
of, 63; posters of, 69; convention
with, 88; membership, 100; rela-
tionship, 122; mortality, 127; chap-
ter-house of, 144, 155; social recep-
tion by, 156; chapter-songs of, 176;
special publications of, 196, 197;
honors gained by members of, 215,
218.
Chique Chaque eating-club, 152.
Circulars of the Executive Council,
196.
City lists of members, 106, 186, 245.
Chronology, 7.
Class delegations, statistics of, 99,
102, 103, 105.
Classes missed by the societies, 226.
Class officers, senior, at Michigan, 215.
Class orators and poets at Yale, 205.
Clergymen, number of, 107; eminent,
112: sons of, in the society, 123.
Clubs, chapter, 152.
Coat-of-arms, 56, 182.
Collections of memorabilia, 199.
"College Chorus, The," 168.
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Index of Subjects.
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Colleges, statistics of, 53; chapter- | "Diamond Song," the, 165.
houses at, 133; honors at, 200; so-
cieties at, 222.
Colonels, 120, 229.
Colors, 70.
"Colors of the Chi, The," song, 176.
Columbia College, annals of chapter
at, 29, statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
professors at, 118, 246; honors at,
208; societies at, 222.
Commencement
appointments
at
Michigan, 215.
Congregational clergymen, 107, 112.
Congress, senators and representa-
tives in, 108.
Conservatism, 75, 77, 221, 223, 225.
Consuls-general, 110.
Continuity of membership, 98, 226.
Contributors to the song-book, 176.
"Convention Song, The," 171.
Convention, annals of, 73; officers of,
88; memorabilia of, 197.
Cornell University, annals of chapter
at, 45; statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
professors at, 118; chapter-house
at, 144, 155; honors at, 215, 218;
societies at, 223.
Corporations, chapter, 136, 138, 140,
141, 142, 144, 147, 149, 150.
Dartmouth College, annals of chap-
ter at, 28; statistics of, 53; honors
at, 208; Psi Upsilon professors at,
117; societies at, 222.
Dead chapters of the societies, 221.
Dead members, number of, 126.
"Dear Old Shrine," song, 166.
Death of a member, observances on,
156.
Decennial convention, 75.
DeForest Medal, 24, 204, 206.
Delegations, class, 99, 102, 103, 105.
Delphian Institute, the, 15.
Delta Chapter, annals of, 20; emblem,
63; early intimacy with Theta, 72;
re-union with Theta, 72; used to
meet with Lambda, 72; conventions
with, 74, 79; statistics of member-
ship, 100-103, 105; date of initia-
tion, 104; statistics of relationship,
122, 124; of mortality, 127; endow-
ment of, 150; glee-club of, 153;
chess and checker clubs of, 154;
camping-parties, 154; annual let-
ters, etc., of, 196; honors gained by
members, 201, 203, 218.
Detroit alumni, association of, 93;
printed lists of, 186; programmes of
exercises of, 199.
Diamond Tennis Club, 153.
"Diamond, The," 65, 77, 194, 232.
Distinguished graduates, 107; hav-
ing sons in Psi Upsilon, 123; de-
ceased, 127; comparison of the
societies, 228.
Eastern societies, 220; badges of, 244.
Eating-clubs, 152.
"Echo of Psi Upsilon," song, 174.
Editors, of the catalogues, 179, 182,
183, 185, 230; of the second song-
book, 188; of Upsilon's history,
193 of the proceedings of the
semi-centennial, 194; of The Dia-
mond," 195; of college-papers, 204,
205, 210, 212, 215, 216.
Emblems, the, 61.
Eminent graduates, 107, 123, 127, 228.
Endowment of the Delta, 150.
Engineers, civil, 106, 115..
English orators at Bowdoin, 211.
English salutatorians, 204, 209.
Episcopal clergymen, 107, 113.
Essayists, convention, 89, 90.
Eta Chapter, annals of, 50; emblem
of, 63; poster of, 70; membership,
100; relationship, 122; mortality,
127; house of, 144, 151; special
songs of, 176; scholarship, etc., of,
217.
Excellence of our songs, 177.
Exclusiveness, in granting charters,
75, 77, 221, 223; in admitting mem-
bers, 226.
Executive committee, the, 80, 90.
Executive council, 91; seal of, 62;
circulars of, 196.
Experience, matter of, 129, 235.
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"Fairies' Song, The," 160.
"Falling Star, The," poem, 75.
Fasces, the, 62.
Fathers and sons, 122, 230.
Foreign ministers, 109.
Foundation of Psi Upsilon, 15.
Founders, the, 15; initiated sons of,
123; ages of, 126; where born, 126;
deaths among, 16, 126; high scholar-
ship of, 16, 201.
Fraternity colors, 70.
"Fraternity Song," the, 63, 169;
old, 165.
Funeral-orations, 157, 191.
Gamma Chapter, annals of, 26, 74;
emblem of, 63; posters of, 63, 66,
67; conventions with, 75, 80; mem-
Index of Subjects.
bership, 100; relationship, 122; mor- |
tality, 127; chapter-house of, 135,
138; social receptions by, 156;
special printed list, 187; scholarship,
etc., of, 201, 207.
Garnet and gold, 70.
Generals in the army, 120, 121, 129.
Geographical distribution, 106, 179.
Glee-clubs, 153.
"Glory be unto Thee," song, 172.
""
Glory of Psi Upsilon," song, 169.
Good influences of the Fraternity, 129,
235.
Governors of States, 110.
Graduate associations, 92.
Graduates. See Alumni.
Graduation, statistics of, 105.
Greek-letter societies, the, 219.
Greek salutatorians, 203, 204, 209.
"Greeting Song," the, 161; of the
Phi, 176.
Groups of brothers, 122, 125.
Ci
Hail, all Hail," song, 172.
"Hail to Psi Upsilon," song, 165.
"Halls of Psi Upsilon," song, 160.
Hamilton College, annals of chapter
at, 32; statistics of, 53; chapter-
house at, 142, 143; honors at, 212;
societies at, 222.
Hamilton Literary Society, the, 140.
Harem, The, eating-club, 153.
Harvard College, annals of chapter
at, 35; statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
professors at, 118; honors at, 213;
societies at, 36, 37, 222.
"Here we bind our hearts together,"
song, 175.
Historians, 81, 89, 90, 193.
Historical society, 199.
History, of Psi Upsilon, 20, 82; of the
Upsilon, 193, 232.
"Honored Psi Upsilon," song, 172.
Honor-roll, the, 200.
"Hymn of Welcome," the, 174.
Hymnology, 158.
Illustrated programmes, 198, 199.
Illustrations, list of, 5.
"Inauguration Ode" of the Alpha, 176.
Influence, good, of Psi Upsilon, 235.
Ingham Medal, the, 203.,
Initiations, annual, statistics of, 98–
ΙΟΙ.
"In Memoriam," song, 175.
Innominata society, the, 37.-
Insignia, 55.
Installations of chapters, 15-50.
Invitations, convention, etc., 198.
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Iota, annals of, 39; emblem, 63; post-
ers, 66; conventions with, 81, 82;
prospective building of, 149; mem-
bership, 100; relationship, 122; mor-
tality, 127; annual letters of, 196;
honors, 214.
I. T. society, 32.
Ithaca Psi Upsilon Alumni Associa-
tion, 147, 197.
"Jolly Psi U," song, 164.
Journalism, society, 232.
Journalists, 106, 115.
""
"Joy and Friendship," song, 161.
Joy of Psi Ups," song, 163.
Judges, 111.
Junior appointments, 205, 215, 216.
Kansas alumni association, 96.
Kappa Chapter, annals of, 30; emblem
of, 63; poster of, 67; conventions
with, 76, 81, 82; membership, 100;
relationship, 122; mortality, 127;
prospective building, 149; tennis-
club of, 153; canoe-club of, 154;
scholarship, etc., of, 201, 211.
Kappa Delta Phi society, 33.
Kappa Phi Lambda society, 42.
Kappa Sigma Theta society, 33.
Kenyon College, annals of chapter at,
39; statistics of, 53; honors at, 214;
societies at, 222.
Key-badge, 54, 58.
Kinship in Psi Upsilon, 121, 230.
Lambda Chapter, annals of, 29; em-
blem of, 63; poster of, 65; color,
70; used to meet with Delta, 72;
conventions with, 76, 80, 82; mem-
bership, 100; relationship, 122; mor-
tality, 127; prospective building,
149; annual dinner of, 156; tablet
to founder's memory, 157; special
list of, 187; scholarship, political
and athletic record of, 201, 208.
Latin salutatorians, 203, 204, 209, 214.
Lawn-tennis clubs, 153.
Lawyers, number of, 106; distin-
guished, 111.
"Leaves, the Psi Upsilon," 196.
Lehigh University, the, annals of
chapter at, 50; statistics of, 53; Psi
Upsilon professors at, 119; chapter-
house at, 144, 151; honors at, 217;
societies at, 223.
Letters, of chapters, when adopted, 17;
to alumni, 196.
Libraries, chapter, 150
Lieutenant-colonels, 121, 229.
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Index of Subjects.
Literature, of the Fraternity, 178; of
the societies, 230.
of
Lives, of the founders, duration of,
126; of the societies, 220.
Longevity, of the members, 126;
the societies, 220.
Lost publications, 199.
"Maiden Fair, The," song, 173.
Maine Psi Upsilon association, 95.
Major-generals, 120, 121, 229.
Marches, Psi Upsilon, 191.
Marshals, college, of Trinity, 217.
Matter of experience, 129, 235.
"Meine Braut," song, 173.
Membership, statistics of, 98, 245;
time of admission, 104; names, 105;
geographical distribution, 106, 179;
professions, 106; distinguished mem-
bers, 107; relationship, 121; mor-
tality, 126; as shown by our cata-
logues, 171, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184;
new list of, 185; of Phi Beta Kappa,
219; of Psi Upsilon in Phi Beta
Kappa, 219; of the societies, 225.
Memorabilia, miscellaneous, 197; col-
lections of, 199. -
Memorial cards, 197.
Memorial orations, 157, 191.
Memorial song, the, 161, 162..
Methodist clergymen, 107, 113, 245.
Michigan University. See University
of Michigan.
Ministers, foreign, 109.
Missed classes, 226.
Monogram badge, 54, 58.
Monograms, 60, 69.
Monument proposed, 81.
Mortality, 126.
Mortuary observances, 156.
Mottoes, 70, 71; in the Xi chapter-
house, 137; in the catalogues, 179,
180, 181.
Mourning, wearing of, 156, 157.
Music, 177, 190, 191, 232.
"Mystical Bower," song, 75, 160.
"Mystic Land," song, 174.
"Mystic Tie," song, 168.
Names of members, 105.
Newspaper references, 199.
New-York City alumni association,
93, 230.
New-York University. See Univer-
sity of the City of New York.
Non-graduates, 105.
Obituary notices, 157, 196.
Occupations of members, 106.
Ode to Psi Upsilon,” 175.
Officers of conventions, 88.
Oldest members, 126.
"Old Memories," song, 163.
"Old Men's Song," 160.
"Old Psi U," song, 168.
Omega Chapter, annals of, 43; em-
blem of, 63; poster of, 67; conven-
tion with, 84; membership, 100;
relationship, 122; mortality, 127.
Omega Phi society, 30.
"One in Psi U," song, 171.
Orations, printed, 191, 232.
Orators, class, at Yale, 205.
Orators, convention, 88.
Organization, general, 72.
Origin of the societies, 219.
"Our Mystic Home," song, 165.
"Our Noble Old Fraternity," song,
169.
"Our own beloved Psi U," song, 172.
"Our Trust," song, 173.
Owl, the, as an emblem, 62, 141, 178,
182, 184, 193; owl song, 62.
Pacific coast alumni association, 94.
"Parting Song," the, 163.
Periodicals, of the Fraternity, 194; of
the societies, 232.
Phi Beta Kappa, annals of, 219; our
early representation in, 16, 19, 201;
numerical standing of the societies
in, 202, 203, 205, 208, 209, 212, 213,
216, 218.
Phi Chapter, annals of, 40; emblem of,
63; posters of, 67; open motto, 71;
conventions with, 82, 84; re-unions
with Detroit alumni, 94; member-
ship, 100; relationship, 122; mortal-
ity, 127; house of, 139, 140; clubs
of, 153; receptions, 84, 156; an-
nual letters, etc., 196; honors gained
by, 215.
Philadelphia alumni association, 95.
Philomathean society, 16.
Phi Theta Psi society, 50, 70.
Physicians, 106, 112.
Pi Chapter, annals of, 44; badge used
by, 57; emblem of, 63; poster of,
67; convention with, 84; member-
ship of, 100, 245; relationship, 122;
mortality, 127; honors gained by,
215.
Poems, printed, 191, 232.
Poet-laureate of Psi Upsilon, 158.
Poets, class, at Yale, 205.
Poets, convention, 89.
Politics, interference with, 85; college,
success in, 201.
Index of Subjects.
Polka, the Psi Upsilon, 191.
Portland alumni association, 95.
Posters, 63, 193.
Post-graduate initiates, 104.
Presbyterian clergymen, 107, 113.
Presidents of conventions, 90.
Prizes won, 200; Xi's printed lists of,
197.
Professions of members, 106.
Programmes of public exercises, 197.
Providence alumni association, 96.
Psi Chapter, annals of, 32, 75; badge
used by, 57; emblem of, 63; poster
of, 67; conventions with, 76, 81, 82;
house of, 142, 143; tennis-club of,
153: scholarship, etc., of, 212.
"Psi U Pæan," 171.
Psi Upsilon Historical Society, 199.
"Psi Upsilon Hymn," 174.
Psi Upsilon marches, 191.
"Psi Upsilon National Song," 174.
Psi Upsilon Polka, 191.
"Psi Upsilon, Psi U," song, 170.
"Psi Upsilon Schottische," 191. :
"Psi Upsilon Supper," song, 165.
"Psi Upsilon the True," song, 161.
Publications, 178, 230.
Quadrennials of the Xi, 154.
"Regular Toasts," the, song, 169.
Representatives in Congress, 108.
Residences of members, 106, 179.
Resolutions, obituary, 157, 196.
Re-unions, of alumni, 92; chapter, 154.
"Re-union Song," the, 172.
Rochester alumni re-union, 96.
Rochester University. See University
of Rochester.
Roll of chapters, 52.
Roman-Catholic clergymen, 114.
Rowing men, 210, 211, 216.
St. Paul alumni re-union, 96.
Salutatorians, 203 et seq.
San Francisco alumni, 94.
Scholarship, record of, 200.
"Schottische, the Psi Upsilon." 191.
Scroll-work poster, 63, 64, 180, 188,
195.
Seal of the executive council, 62,
183.
Semi-centennial, account of, 86; print-
ed proceedings, 194; invitations to,
198.
"Semi-centennial Ode," 166.
Senators of the United States, 108.
"Senior's Last Glass," song, 174.
Sheet-music, 190.
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Sigma Chapter, annals of, 25; revived
the Alpha, 36; badge used by, 57;
emblem of, 63; posters of, 63, 69;
troubles with college authorities, 75,
76; conventions with, 75, 80, 82;
tennis-club of, 153; scholarship, etc.,
of, 201, 206, 207.
Signet Club, 37.
Singing, society, 158.
"Smoking Song," 159.
Societies, the Greek-letter, compara-
tive statistics of honors, 200; origin
and age, 219; chapters, 221; mem-
bership, 225; literature, 230; the
anti-secret society, 232; judged by
their results, 233, 240.
Soldiers, 107; distinguished, 120.
"Song of Psi Upsilon," 164.
'Song of the Phi," 176.
Song-books, 188, 231.
Songs, Fraternity, 158; chapter, 176;
airs of, 177: superiority of, 177;
bibliography of, 188.
Sons, initiated, of Psi Upsilon men,
122.
"Star of Psi U," song, 165.
"Star Song," 59, 175!
Student annuals, 187.
Superiority of our songs, 177.
Supreme Courts, members of, 111.
Surnames of members, 105.
Survival of chapters, 221.
Suspension of chapters, 19.
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Swiftly the Moments Fly," song,
164.
Syracuse University, annals of chapter
al, 44; statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
professors at, 118; honors at, 215;
societies at, 223.
Tables, of the chapters, 52; of the
colleges, 53; of the convention offi-
cers, 88, 89, 90; of the members of
the council, 91; of annual initia
tions, 100; of class delegations, 102;
of active membership and gradua-
tion, 105; of eminent members, 108,
109, 110, III, 113, 117, 120; of re-
lationship, 122; of the Psi Upsilon
fathers, 124; of mortality, 127; of
honors, 203 et seq.; of the societies
in our colleges, 222.
Teachers, number of, 106; prominent,
116.
Tennis-clubs, 153.
Ten societies, the, 220.
Theta Chapter, annals of, 15; emblem
of, 63; poster of, 67; early intimacy
with Delta, 72; re-union with Delta,
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73; decennial convention with, 75;
later conventions, 78, 81, 82; semi-
centennial of, 86; membership, 100;
relationship, 122; mortality, 127;
incorporation and house of, 147;
eating-club, 152; scholarship, 201,
218.
"Think of Psi Upsilon," song, 164.
"This Jolly Convocation," song, 164.
"Thoughts of Psi Upsilon," song,
172.
"Ties of Old," song, 163.
Titlepage of the song-book, 188, 189.
"Toast and Pledge," song, 173.
Toast-masters at conventions, 90.
Townsend premiums, winners of, 204.
Trinity College, annals of chapter at,
47; statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
professors at, 119, 246; chapter-
house at, 142, 148; honors at, 216,
218; societies at, 223.
Tryst of College-Days," song, 162.
Union College, annals of chapter at,
15; statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon
professors at, 117; honors at, 202,
218; societies at, 219, 222.
Unitarian clergymen, 107, 114.
United-States judges, 111.
United-States senators, 108.
University of Chicago, annals of
chapter at, 43; statistics of, 53;
honors at, 215; societies at, 223.
University of Michigan, annals of
chapter at, 40; statistics of, 53; Psi
Upsilon professors at, 118; honors
at, 215; societies at, 223.
University of Rochester, annals of
chapter at, 37; statistics of, 53; Psi
Upsilon professors at, 118; honors
at, 214, 218; societies at, 222.
University of the City of New York,
annals of chapter at, 20; statistics
of, 53; Psi Upsilon professors at,
118; honors at, 203, 218; societies
at, 222.
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University Quarterly, The," editors
of, 204.
Upsilon Chapter, annals of, 37; em-
blem of, 63; posters of, 65, 69, 193;
conventions with, 81, 83; chapter-
clubs, 153, 154; published history
of, 193, 232; prize men of, 214, 218.
Upsilon Kappa society, origin of, 44;
becomes the Pi Chapter, 44; badge
of, 57; color of, 70; membership of,
245.
Valedictorians, 203 et seq., 245.
Vigintennial of Psi Upsilon, 78.
War record, 120.
Washington alumni association, 95.
Washington Monument, stone for, 76.
Wesleyan University, annals of chap-
ter at, 33; statistics of, 53; Psi
Upsilon professors at, 118; chapter-
house at, 131, 136; honors at, 212,
218; societies at, 222.
Wisconsin, University of, rejected, 77;
conventions of alumni in, 92.
Xi Chapter, annals of, 33, 75; emblem
of, 63; posters of, 65; conventions
with, 75, 81, 83; chapter-house of,
131, 136; eating-club of, 152; quad-
rennials and other re-unions, 154;
social receptions, 156; annual letters
of, 196; printed prize-lists of, 197;
scholarship of, 201, 212, 213, 218.
Yale College, annals of chapter at, 22;
statistics of, 53; Psi Upsilon pro-
fessors at, 117, 245; Psi Upsilon
hall at, 128, 133; honors at, 204,
218; societies at, 222.
"Yale Lit.," editors of; 204; medal,
winners of, 204.
Yearly initiations, 98-101, 245.
Youngest member, 126.
"Youth Comes but Once," song, 175.
Zeta Chapter, annals of, 28; emblem
of, 63; posters of, 67; conventions
with, 75, 80, 81, 82; date of initia-
tions of, 104; membership, 100-103,
105; relationship, 122; mortality,
127; prospective building, 149; glee-
club of, 153; scholarship, etc., of,
201, 208.
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