The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-24
FAIR C0LLEGIANS GALORE
Kappa Kappa Gammas Begin Their
Gathering with a Public Meeting.
Music. OratIons and a Sketch of the Frater-
nitys Origin and Growih-Members
of Sigma Chi Gathering.


Gamma held sessions all day yesterday
preIimina airy to the regular convention ses-
sions which begin Friday at the State
house During the afternoon the Grand
Council which consists of the officers
of the society, gave an informal
reception ct the Denison to the mem bers
from away who came yesterday on the
morning and afternoon trains, list of
them being given in the Journal yesterday
morning.
Last might, at Meridian-street Church,
the formal greeting was extended by the
societies of DePauw. Butler and Bloom
their friends In q musical and literary
entertainment The welcome adj
dress was Kn svsn by Mass , naas
duced By Miss Wright. of Brooklyn, the
president. as ''Jhe first president of the or
ganization." She pictured the progress
of women and the origin and growth of the
Organization is the higher education of
women and there is no question as to their
success. Vassar College gave tho impetus
to higher education in ISIS and in 1867 the
Kappa Kappa Gamma was organized at
Monmouth College, Chicago. In 1876 there
were nine colleges represented and in 1878
Hoosierdom Joined with q chapter al the
State University. In the Iowa College
Kate Shelly. that noble girl of Iowa."
was member, and at Delaware. o.. Mira
Lucy Webb Hays was a mem
Der. Other notable and distin-
gushed women have been and are
enrolled. This was the first ladies' frater-
nifty to Issue such publication. and the
first number was printed in lndianap polls in
1881, and named The Golden Key" There
are two thousand members in the aluDna;
twenty-five colleges are represented. Bar.
nard College, New York. IL the latest COL
lege to send delegate, and the Leland
Stanford University is the latest aocessi0n.
Il extend q greeting from the Indiana
chapters to the Kappa sistera Indiana
IS noted for. it's hospitality, its smart
women and high intelligence and every
one will wear a monogram of WIS meaning
warm welcome.
Following the welcome two movements
of Webers concerto, OPP. 70, were given by
Miss Flora Matthias, with orchestral ac-
compartment on a second piano by Walter
Howe Jones.
Miss Minetta L. Taylor delivered an ora
tiOn on Tho Danger Imitation" She said
women were in danger of taking M the
unsuitable work of men: that the spirit of
enthusiasm drew them into emulation and
that emulation threatens women more than
men. Our object" said She "is toward
higher education. literature and progress
sion. We need something now. Let the
something, which shall be new" Miss
Jean Nelson, who carried of the State and
interstate oratorical honors in the spring.
appeared In new role before On
lightfully I'm Paradise Dwell" by Wal.
ter Howe Jones' the composer playing the
accompaniment Miss Bertha Krauss read
an original poem by MISS Alice Noodle. "A
Legend of Long Ago" The theme was that
q fairy queen found three golden keys. The
first opened the way to wealth. the second
to honor and the third to happiness, and
the golden key of the Kappa Kappa Gamma
leads to all three. 1t was very prettily
and gracefully composed.
The finale was piano solo, Movements
Musicaux," by Moszkowski The members
adjourned to the Denison to perfect ar
rangements for the business sessions. To.
day five petitions will be presented by COL
leges Tor admission of new chapters to the
fraternity. There 10 an alumnR chapter
az Chicago and one at Berlin, and the mem.
bership entire 10 over 2,000
Stigma CHS Gathering.
The nineteenth biennial conven ton OF the
Sigma CHS will begin this afternoon at the
DenisOn House, where already score or
more of the fraternity have arrived. The
address of welcome will be made by Angus
tus l.. Mason. An informal reception will
be given the delegates at lrvingt0n at
O'Clock this afternoon. and fraternity
hop az the residence of A. +. Mccormick In
Woodruff Place this evening. The Grafton
will be delivere at 10 o'clock A. NJ. to-
morrow by Hon. Howard Ferris, and at
o'clock will begin the business session.
The delegates have been invited to attend
Kappa Kappa Gamma reception at the
Propyl9um in the evening. The session
will close Friday night with q banquet.
The committees are IS follows:
Executive Committee-N. W. Spencer. chair
man; A. F. McC Ormick, w. E. Hackedorn, Rob
ert L. Dorsey, Dan W. Layman.
Railroad Committee-W. E. Hackedorn, chair
man; Willard Robertson secretary.
Press COmmittee-Harry 8. New, Journal; w.
A. wilkins, Sentinel; o. r. johnson, News.
Reception Committee Charles Moores Alex.
Jameson, Newton Booth Harrington, R0nOldo
NJ. Cooper, Will Taylor, Tom Layman, Merrill
Moores, James feathers, A. ". Brown. Fred Rit-
ter, Perry Hay, A. +. Mccormick, Charles w.
Merrill, Ezra Hendricks.
This morning, at $3.50 o'clock the Chicago
delegation reached the city sin special car.