Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-30
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extract from the Quarter-Centenary Ad-
dress, delivered before the Society of Alpha
Delta Phi by Rev. R. S. storrs, jr., DAD, of
Brooklyn, N. Y:
al am sure but speak your own senti-
ments when l say that it is not merely, or
even mainly, because of the pleasant and
fragrant recollections connected with this
Society that we, who are assembled here to-
night, so highly value it, and desire its fur
ther development and expansion Delight
full es these are, aromatic with the odors OF
oar undoubting youth, or our earlier man
hood, before the blanching cares Of life had
faded our spirits, or the freshness OF our
finest enthusiasm had passed, we should
hardly have assembled To night 50 readily
from places so removed, and from callings so
diverse, if these had been all the bonds
that connected US with this fraternity, or
all the reasons for our faith in its contlnu-
ance- It is also, and, may | not add, 1t is
chiefly because we believe it adapted in its
principles, and adapted in its particular
methods to the furtheranee of the welfare Of
those who shall be assembled within 1t, that
We delight to review its past, and to pro-
phesy for IT still enlarged future. OF the
na ture of these principles and peculiar
methods, and OF their special requirements
and bearings, cannot, of course, IN this
place speak except in general and inde-
finite terms. You, who have been ac-
quainted with them, do not need to be more
than reminded of them; and to those who
have not been thus conversant with them l
have no authority now TO exhibit them.
But in general it may be said, as you very
well know, that the aim of this society Is to
unite in one organized, catholic, and far ex-
tending Fraternity, the finest minds, the
,-sf
those who annually graduate from our col
leges; to pledge these not TO any sectional,
seetarian, or partisan purpose, but to the
noblest efforts they can make for their own
good and the good Of others and SO to make
them, by more intimately and widely af-
filiating them together, more truly and
largely helpful to the world the ministers
to it Of finer, ripper and more affluent
scholarship; of a sWeeter and richer social
spirit; of more quiekening tastes and more
educating principles. This is the ann, and
this the effort of our constitution, and OF all
the forms, offices, exercises, which that en-
joins. And while it is possible in any case
undoubtedly, to fall away practically from
this design, to lose sight of the ends which
really unite US, and to take occasion for ar
rogance, or for Incidence, from that which
was intended TO counteraet them, it cannot
be denied, that wherever the genius Of cur
constitution has been followed out and real
ized, in any Of the chapters-as it has been,
I am happy to know, in nearly all-there
the faculties of the colleges have found IN it
helper 90 their own best efforts, and those
associated beneath its provisions have been
forwarded by it in ell manifest effort. God
gran. that as it has been, 30 il may be to
the end and that those who founded the
Society al first, and those who have loved
it and labored for it since, may find IN these
benign resuittheir great reward
The Thirty fourth Annual Convention
Of the Alca 1el-a qt fraternity, one Of
the largest and most fourishing of college
secret societies, commenced at Brain
ards Hall, in this city, at II am yesterday
morning. The attendance was unusually
large, delegates being present from all the
principal colleges in the land, together with
goodly number of graduate members.
The convention was called to order at the
time above specified, Professor EDWARD W
NORTH, OF Hamilton College, in the chair.
The organization was completed by the
election of the following named secretaries
Messrs. HOPKINS, CURTIss and MCLEAN, o.
the Hamilton, Hudson and Miami chapter.
respectively. Upon roll call the delegate:
answered to their names as follows;
Hamilton-Augustus s. Campbell, A.
Grosvenor Hopkins, c. s. MiIlard
Miami-A. L. Mclean, James Z. Plotter
S. P. Scott.
Amberst-L. G. YOe, W. P White, David
Beattie.
Minonian-Herbert C. Bullard, John B
Muslin, Frank E. Bliss.
Yale-D. P. Sackett, ]. C. Hall.
Geneva-H. S. Davis, j. NJ. Colt, T. M.
Chapman.
Hudson-E. H. Harvey, Stiles H. Curtiss,
Frank Morrell.
Peninsulsr-G. B. Woodman, C. A. Dud-
ley, J. II. Chaplin.
-Waldormer Otis, F. G. Math-
er, Amos ". Wright.
Rochester-WillardA Abbott, Alonzo Park
er, A J. Taylor.
Wnliams-v. P. Kline, ]. S. Ross, o. NJ.
Hall.
Mauhattan-H. Newton, R Boxer, H. F.
Chapman.
Middletown-George C. Round, Herbert
]. Stevens, Joseph B. Thomas
Kenyon-N. P Dandridge, C. G. Wilson
J. Mcdonald.
Union-Charles Easton, Henry Littlefeld
4Aitu0p OibbEs
Bowdoin-Charles F. Libby, A. G. Chap
man, Charles Robbins
After the appointment of committees en-
eesssry to the business Of the convention
an adjournment was taken until P. n.
The convention re-assembled in the after
noon, pursuant to adjournment, in one O
the psrlors of the Kennard House. The
proceedings of this session are not intended
for publication.
The convention will re-sssemble this
morning promptly at 10 o'clock.
The public are respectfully invited to at.
tend the evening meeting at Brainardt
Hall, when the annual Grafton will be de
livered by Rev. Grosvenor Heacock, D. D.
of Buffalo, N. Y, and the annual poem vii
be pronounced by Rev. ". Percy Browne
of New York. These public exercises vii
be followed by social rel union at the Ken
nard House.