St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-12
DELTA KAPPAEPSILON
A Chapter Of the Society In
Stituted at the Univer-
sity.
Its Advent Creates Consider
able Excitement and Hard
Feeling.
Charles S. 0strom Pleads
Guilty, and Is Sentenced
to st. Cloud.
Lena Leppla Arraigned--The
Chrysanthemum Club Or
ganizeS.

IN6 advent Oh ll6 III EpSIiOh SAoPoSi
OF the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
at the University of Minnesota, has
been the principal subject of discus
sion among college men for weeks past.
The installation and initiation cere-
monies took place last evening at the
Holmes hotel. and were followed by a
banquet. There We're present q large
number of ID. X. f. alumni from st.
Paul and Minneapolis. Those WhO Will
make their first appearance in chapel
to-day wearing the diamond and scroll
are:
Prof. W. R. Hosg; f. NJ. Spaulding, Fl. G.
Richardson. 80; W. W. Harmon, 4. A.
Niekerson, W. b. Bebb, \. j. Blethen. Jr. +.
E. Merrill. 81; F. B. Kirk. +. o.. Huntington,
I. j. Kraft. . George i. King, a. :. fSrlis-
worth, W. II. Davis, W. ). Davis, CyruS NOT,
throp, Jr.. G. p. Merrill. II. (. Lee, 93; and
Douglas 4. Fiske and Ripley b. Brewer, of
the law department.
THE BANQUET AND lSTIATORH PHO
GRAMME
at the Holmes hotel in the evenIng was
quite an suspicious occasion attended
by a number of very prominent gentle
men of Minneapolis, and several from
st. Paul, Fer,us Falls, Saltwater and
Little Falls. 4 business programme was
carried out in the parlOrS of the hotel
for which the following is the pro-
gramme as announced by the printed
programme: BusinesS-Rev. David
James Burrell, ID. d.. patriarch by APP
pointment of the council: Z. +. Purdy,
master of ceremonies; u initiation; ~
presentation of the charter: t3)~lnltlatlOn
of the first member-elect of Phi-Epsilon.
At a little before 10 O'Clock the party
adjourned to the dining hall where a
superb spread was laid before the
Greeks. The following was the list of
tOasts. Rev. James ID. Burrcll presided
as toast master:
The Brotherhood, President Cyrus North
rop: The Northwestern Alumni Association
of d. K. E.. Prof. Harry P. Judsou ''Skl-U-
Ma Prof. George f. MacLcan Phi-Epsilon.
". W. Harmon; Our Chapter Guests, free
for all"
DELTA KAPPA EPSILON
is one of the oldest and most cOnserva-
tive of fraternities. In point of MEN,
bership it is the largest and strongest.
Its chapter roll, thirty-tWO names in
all. includes most OF the older aud more
influential colleges of New England,
those of New York. Pennsylvania and
the universities of Michigan and Cali
fOrnia. and to these the university of
Minnesota is now added. Its
alumni membership is 10000, while the
active members number over nve nun.
bred. Alumni ASSOCIATE n have been
organized in the principal cities, as New
York. Boston. Washington, San Fran
cisco, Chicago, Minneapolis and others.
The MINNEAPOLIS association numbers
nearly two hundred, and its members
scattered all over Minnesota. the two
DakOtas and northern Wisconsin repre-
sent nearly all the colleges where there
are chapters including Yale, Harvard.
Amherst, Williams, Trinity. B0wdOln,
Columbia and Dartmouth. Among the
many prominent members of the fra
ternity may be mentioned Calvin 5.
Brice, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roose-
Welt, Robert L. Lincoln. Wayne Mac
Veagh, Gov. JohnD ID. Long. Julien Haw-
thorne. Thomas Il. Lounsbury and
Bishop Dudley. of Kentucky.
Some of the Minnesota alumni of note
are Senator w. ID. WashbUrn, Mark II.
DunnelL, NJ. c., Judge Vanderburgh, of
the supreme bench; Cyrus N0rthrop,
president of the Minnesota state uni
versity: David James Burrell, D.. d.,
State Senator Whiteman and Samuel X.
ThaYer, United States minister TO HOl-
land. TO college secret society men
THE FOUNDING OF a DEKE CHAPTER
i'll the University Of Minnesota has an
interesting history. The D. K. E. fra
ternity has enjoyed representation in
the faculty of the university for some
time in the persons, among others, of
Professors Jordan, McLain and Presi-
dent NOrthrop. 1t has been known for
some time that this fraternity, or its
local alumni, were DESTROYS OF having a
chapter at the University of Minnesota,
butinstead of adopting the usual meth
cd of entering the Greek contests as an
amateur and training up a strong chap
ter, they desired to pin their cOlOrs on q
champion of approved prOwesS, and To
Phi Delta Theta chapter was the favored
~ one.
More than a year ago ONE Of the
above professors suggested to Repre-
sentative PhiS that the Deke "Barkus
was willing" At that time the bait
was not taken. Recent events have
shown that a change has taken place,
and last night the above coterie of pro-
f~essOrs, assisted by the eloquent D.. j;
Burrell, ID. D., Rev. g. l.. Morrill,, and
other moral guides, put the swaddling
clothes on the infant seceders. The
Dekes have gained a footing in
a desirable university, and the
Phis, after several years Of hard
work as a result of which they built up
a strong chapter, are in the university
! as an active chapter no Ore There is
considerable feeling as a result. A
| prominent Phi Delta Theta man said
last evening: ''NVhen it is considered
! that this chapter has been built up by
the assistance of many who are not
among the seceders. and that the young
men have taken the results of others
work and money into the camp of a
rival fraternity, and III doing SO
have violated their voluntary and
solemn pledges to each other, to
their former associates and TO their
fraternity. without excuse or prOvoca-
ton it would seem that the act was a
| trifie questionable. Our faith in the
high moral condition of college students
is somewhat shaken. The fact that the
presidento of the university took their pc
tition for a charter to the DIX. E. Il
sci and supported their cause with his
| elouuence, and that members OF the
faculty added their influence to carry
out the secession aggravateS the case.
The Phi Delta Theta fraternity eX
PEELED these men after the receipt OF
their resignation, and after being salts
fed beyond question that they had
peti.ioned for a charter from the d. K.
F., so the entire blame for this act of
college treason rests on these members
and those who assisted them. No
grievances were ever laid before a coun-
ell of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity for
| redress. Has the D. K. f. fraternity
added a bright star to its constellation?
| Have these young men raised HEM
| selves in the estimation of their fellow
students? Have the members OF the
faculty and our pulpit lights Ofiiciated
at a birth or q moral funeral?"
Chrysanthmum Club.