The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-09
HOTEL TAKEN.
The Greeks in Full Possession
Last Night.
A FEAST FOR BODY AND SPIRIT.
Stanford University Students Also
Take Turn and Initiate
Two Candidates.

1ornla Hotel laSt night, and Major War
fields chef de cuisine tickied their
palates-so also did the wine-brswers who
manufacture extra dry" 1t was an oc-
casion OF good fellows we'll met III good
fellowship.
1t was the nineteenth annual banquet
and anniversary of the Delta Kappa Ep-
silOn Fraternity. given under the auspices
of the Theta Z4ta Chapter of the Uni
versity of California. The annual election
of officers took place just previous to cafe
uoir," when the spirit of enjoyment was at
its best.
Covers for eighty persons were laid on
the banquet board which was beautifully
decorated with chrysantnem ums and other
flowers. At o'clock the announcement
that the feast awaited the feasters was
made and the "Dekes" filed into the din
ng-hall President Kellogg of the Uni
versity Of California was placed in the seat
Of honor at the head of the table. He Is a
loyal D. K. E. and an avowed friend OF
active chapter of Theta Zeta consists of
twenty-eight members, all of whom we're
present. The guests, ell Of whom are
members OF the D. X. E. Fraternity, are
mostly graduates Of the State University.
However. the PRINCIPAL universities in the
United States were also represented.
Yale is the Alma Mater of President Kel-
Iogg, Thomas B. Bishop is a graduate of
Brown University, Professor Merrill rep
resents Miami.
Before The guests sat down at table the
students present gave three cheers and
their college cry for the d. X. &. The
university growl was not audible during
the eveniug-not even once, although
some of the u. G. boys hair began TO rise
teD they accidentally caught glimpse
of some Stanford students in the corridor
of the hotel
The banquet was an affair that would
have made the blood of Lucullus run
warmer in his veins-not that its several
eourses we're particularly extensive, but
because it was delicious in makeup and
was served in & manner 10 please.
And the Greek Letter Brothers ate and
ate, and drank go0G wines. and talked OF
the days that were when they were
younger ana tyranniZed over freshmen
and juniors at Berkeley. AS their souls
mellOwed under the gentle influences OF
the feast They grew reminiscent and told
true tales and fairy tales without number.
They created memories of the past that
never existed before, just like college men
will do when they begin to gather years in
the alumni.
They also sang songs-songs of the D.
K. E.-that made the great hostery vi
brate from cellar to roof. They sang and
clanked glasses ana called for the next
course on the menu. They sang songs in
their native language and In the dead
languages. Below is stanZa and the
chorus of one of these vocal outbursts:
Nunc canamus. puerl,
ID. h. E. Iaudantes,
DUN plentt magDt gaudi,
Pot. mus Ell stantes.
Chorus-Canite. o Pueri,
Canite ISetantes
ID. K. +. Amantcs.
1t isn't quite as musical as "Sweet
Marie" perhaps, but it is less Of a null
sapce and carries with 1t great deal
mora sense aud better meter and rhyme.
Fisher Ames, president OF the fraternity
during the pas year, presided over the ban
Quet until his successor was chosen. just
before coffee was served he announced
that the time had arrived for the election
of q new president and a new secretary.
Mr.. Ames was nominated to succeed him
self. but ha declined and took deter
mined stand for a change. Thomas B.
Bishop was then nominated and unani-
mously elected. Mr.. Bishop made a short
speech in which he said:
''rhere is much kins hip and good-fellow-
ship. Several members OF my family BE-
long to the ID. Z. E., and hope they are
all good fellows in the true sense IF the
word. When | joined the fraternity in
1860 the watchword was 'gOod-fellO Wship.'
1t is the same to-day, and l am proud Of
the association"
The song He's a jolly good fellow"
then made the glasses rattle and the walls
to ring.
E. c. Sutliffe was elected secretary and
treasurer without an opposing nomination
or vote. He made a short humorous
speech, in which he congratulated the fra
ternity on its selection of himself as secre-
tary and treasurer.
W. D. Mansfield, who had been delegated
at Than q
toast to the ID. K. E., which was responded
to Professor Kellogg. The latter made a
short speech, in which he spoke in the
highest terms OF praise of the fraternity
as il is composed in California. and COM
mended as useful. refining and elevating
the seeret-society system oil universities
aud colleges.
The guests present were the following.
most of whom are graduates of the Uni
versity of California: Fisher Ames. II.
II. Ashley. Thomas B. Bishop, N. Fl. Cas-
tie, n. C. Gregory. W. S. Greene. Charles
S. e. Mnffitt. Louis McKIsslck. w. d.
Mansfield. Professor Merrill. T. NJ. o.
mont, E. G. Sntliffe. B. H. Somers, A. M.
Sutton, Charles Tilden, Dr. B. Wall, f. r.
Whltcomb, H. G. Moore. N. Dorman, DIR.
e. l.. Paramore. From the State Univer-
sity were: Students FITZGERALD. Sting
ham, Richard, Hewlett, Green, Blake,
Russ. Graham, Thompson, Noble, Hutch
ins, Veeder. Rldeout. Metcalf. Starr, Nee.
Bishop. WhipDle. Easter. Laughlin. Pa
mer, Chickering, Merrill, Wood, Davsn-
port. Bixby, Frick.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
was organized at Yale University in 1914.
1t now has a membership of 1000, dis
tributed among The alumni societies of the
leading universities of the United States.
A star and scroll is the fraternity's en-
blematic badge.