Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-10-27


/ University Of Chicago will have frttcr-
mites. President Harper and the
members Of the faculty no longer mani
fest any hostility to secret societies.
and the feeling of reluctance about
coming out" has ceased to exist among
: the students.
This state OF affairs was hrou.ht
about slowly and surely Gradually
those who were opposed to Greek letter
societies gave way. gradually the fra
tcrnity spirit ventured forth Now all
are friendly. Students and faculty CO.
operate. The faculty has made rules
| for the government Of fraternities
The students will abide by them.
For over a year the fraternity spirit
: has been lowering about the walls of
the new university. AT least Il week
i before school opened for the first time
! on October /. 1892, numerous men of
the grip We're on the ground modeStly
/ reviewing the situat ton and sizing up"
the fellows as they came in and regis
! tered. These men We're not long in de
Gliding THAT the omcnS were favorable.
and that the soil was fertile and adapt
cd to q healthy fraternal growth Ac-
cordingly, they set themselves to work
to get their congcnial crowds together.
! Many students who proved themselves
good workers and became popular were
/ ''ruShcd' by 1T least Il half dozen
4 ''fratS." Day after day they had the
plan of the fraternity gospel laid be-
fore them. Their ''rlShcrs" were as
of illn f.Di1
i famed Juno. And like the goddess,
! most Of them finally yielded.
When President Harper made Il
speech last fail, in which he took
Il rather unfrendly attitude toward Sc
cret societies, the situation became I'M
certain for" Il time His words fell Like
a wet blanket Oh the enthusiasm OF
! the nroSpo"+ivn frat" men. 10 pro-
coed. or IT, IT, Drocc It that WAS thc'
question The fraternity spirit HE'D
/ itself away - :, quiet corner ami wrote
a solemn HGr! t''rful poem to itself.
! 1T dropped. It's life was suspended 10y
4 thread, as it were The boys We're
blue, and they spoke in subducd tones,
as over a corpse. Then the opposition
began to melt away, unconSciously, as
the snow under the WHrm 1'HrS OF the
sun. until ii finally reached the vanish
ing point. The fraternity spirit revived.
and became itself again.
Yet. through it all, there was Il feel
ing uneXprcSScd-an enthusiasm pent
up. Many of the students were anxious
and eager to lead fraternity lives. yet
they were quiet. The members OF the
faculty offered no resistance, and ut
| the same time gave no encouragement.
The courage of leadership WAS lacking.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter 'pr"S-
pectivc) finally supplied it.
And when the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity met i'll convention At Minnie
aDOliS week before last, charter
was granted to the local organization
at the university. The news of the
action of the convention was not long
in spreading among the other fraternity
men, and they at onces began actVc
work. The prospects are now that the
DeIles will be followed by at least
u half dozen other fraternitieS before
tbe close of the present school year.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon charter
is simply a revival of the old Delta
Delta chapter of the old University OF
Chicago. During the days Of the Old
university the Delta Delta chapter was
one Of tho strongest in the fraternity,
and it's alumni, many Of whom are sun
in Chicago. were influential in having
it rc-nstablshcd in the new institution.
The Northwestern Alumni association
of -. X f., through Such men rs
Tracy Drake and others, was also en-
thusiaStic for the revival.
But the brtnt of the work Of securing
the revival fell upon three undergrad'l-
ate Dekes, one of whom, +. l.. upper,
graduated from the university last year,
the other two, H. D. Speer and IL. w.
Pescott, still being in school. Topper
was a Deke at Colgate university.
Prescott comes from Adelbert and Speer
from Williams. An attempt was mace
to revive Delta Delta last year, Dnt 1t
was unsuccessful, owing to the tllhe
being too short for the contamination
of the plans. This year the matter was
carried TO y successful issue by Pres
colt and Speer.
Henceforth there will be no dearth
of wells at the university. Every frat
will have its yell, such as:
Rah, rah, rah!
ID. X. e.
Rah, rah, rah!
D. Il +:
Rah rah, rah!
D, Il. q:
Delta, Del!
AS matter of fact, the lives Of the
students will he different in many
respects from those in institutions
where there are no fraternities. AND IL
was lust this point that created 1eel-
ing of hostility against fraternltles on
the part of some of the faculty in the
early part of last year But the silent
forces were at work which nave
evolved the fraternity system. Chapter
houses will be erected before long, and
the BOYS will live together as in clubs.
Already there is talk of these houses,
and the indications are that they will
be as elaborate as any in the country.
Hardly a college fraternity can be
mentioned that does not have a large
alumni in Chicago. And however old,
or however busy man may become,
he will always remember his fraternity.
The boys of his grip will always be
near him, and he will always be ready
to help them. In fact, the boys at the
university have had limitations that II
they will do their part, the alumni