Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-02
ALPHA DELTA PHI FRATERNITY

A Coming Notable Literary Event "A
 Sketch of the Exercises at the Hy- perion Some of the Notable men Who Will Be Present - The Grano Banaues at the New Haven Rouse- some of the Distinguished Orators Who Will Speak.
 The pubIic exercises connected with the | fifth annual convention of the Alpha Delta | Phi fraternity will be held in the Hyperion 1 Theater on Tuesday evening next, the seventh of May, and the public are cordially invited | to be present.
 Many noted men will be present as the alumni roll of the fraternity shows many Il" l lustrious names, both in the fields of law ana
 theology, in the field of letters and the ranks of solid business men.
 The addresses will be by men of national reputation as orators and educators, and VIII l be popular in tone.
 The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity is one Of the leading college fraternities in the coun- try, and numbers among it's past members snch distinguished educators as President l Dwjoht of Yale, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, President Gates of Rutgers. 1 Besides the president there are many well 1 known professors on the Yale faculty who swear aileeience to Alpha Delta Phi. Among those we might mention are Profs. Tracey Peck, Hubert A. Newton, William Beebe, Thomas D. Seymour, Arthur w. Wright, Arthur M Wheeler, Albert s. Wheeler. Henry A. Beers, Elias Loomis, John E. Clark and George T. Ladd.
 Many prominent New Haven business men and professional men were once active mem bers among whom may be named Hon. Henry B. Harrison, Hon. Colin M. Ingersoll, Donald G. Mitchell Qke MarveD, Franklin s. Brad ley, John W. filling, Esq, Morris F. Tyler, Esq, Pierce N. Welch, Louis H. Bristol, Esq. J. M. B. Dwight, Rev. Frank R. Luckey, William L. Kingsley and Edmund Zacher. The meetings of the convention, aside from the public exercises in the Hyperion on Tues day evening, will be secret business meetings Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, recep- tion to the visiting members by the Yale chapter at their hall on Tuesday afternoon and at a banquet at Noseley's New Haven House on Wednesday evening.
 At the latter occasion many notable men will respond to toasts, among others Rev. Edward Everett Hale of Boston to the toast of ''The President" President Dwight to the | toast "Our College Presidents" Prof. Tracy Peck to the toast "The Fraternity of Alpha Delta Phi" Hon. Joseph H. Choate of New | York to the toast "Alpha Delta Phi at the 1 Bar,", Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks of Boston to l the toast Alpha Delta Phi in the Pulpit, Judge Edward Patterson of the New York | Supreme bench to the toast "The Ladies, '' | ana the dOQ. ELLIS ISOU01Io, uooISUoAt United States treasurer, is expected to re- ! spond to the toast of "The Fifty-seventh an-
 nual Convention"
 The public exercises at the Hyperion will
 be very attractive to the general public and it is hoped by the members of the Fraternity
 that the New Haven public will fill the lily l perion to overfowing on next Tuesday night
 On and after Friday morning tickets can l be obtained at Peck's bookstore on appl1ca- tion and at the cooperative store on the
 campus. Cappa's magnificent Seventh regi- ! ment band will furnish the music, and part ! of the selections have been written especially
 for the occasion.
 The opening speech of the evening will be
 made by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, lD.D, president of the Fraternity of Boston, | followed by the Rev. Leonard Woolsey Ba- ! con, DID,, of Philadelphia, who will speak
 on Pending requirements in college social
 life"
 President Merrill Edward Gates, LL.D., of
 Rutgers college, will be the next speaker. The fourth and last speaker will be Hon.
 William Wallace Crapo of New Bedford,
 Mass, on the theme; Relation of college to
 the social order of the country"
 The eminence of the speakers will assure
 to the citizens of New Haven and the stu-
 dents of the university rare treat in listen
 ing to these orators. and the exquisite music
 for which Capps is noted and the genial flow
 of jolly good fellowship which will find vent
 in some of the typical Alpha Detta Phi songf ! bids fair to make the occasion 0 remarkable I one for New Haven.
 Among the prominent men of nationa
 reputation belonging to the Fraternity, many
 of whom are expected to be present next
 Tuesday evening, are George William Curtis
 James Russell Lowell, Rev. Dr. Phillips
 Brooks, Rev. Pres. Timothy Dwight, Rev Dr. Storrs, Right Rev. Bishop Cox of wester1 New York, Hon. Joseph H. Choste, Theo
 dore Roosevelt and host of others.