Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-16
DELTA UPSIL0N
Of Bowdoin and Colby Hold
Annual Banquet at North.
Twenty-Five Members from Each COL
lege Sit at the Festive Board.
Splendid Menu Fully Discussed After Which
Wit and Wisdom Flow.

the respective chapters of Delta up
silon at those institutions, partook OF
the annual initiation banquet at Hotel
North. Thursday evening. The boys
had right good time.
The Colby delegation was the first
to arrive, coming down on the after
noon train. The Bowdoin contingent
arrived on train No. % at 7.20 p. NJ.
and the mingling of college yells with
all their variations, attracted no little
attention.
Colby cheered Bowdoin, Bowdoin
cheered Colby and then everybody ap-
parently cheered everybody else until
they were tired out Then the boys
filed into Hotel North, where until 8
o'clock they enjoyed themselves with
music and swapping college yarns.
The members of the party from
Colby We're: Ira f. Ingraham, E. c.
Herrick H. NJ. Gerry, A. c. Pearce, W.
c. Jack, A. b. Warren. f. d. Sawyer,
P. T. Pearson, H. B. Watson. II. r.
Durham. J. V. Wellman, r. +. NJ. Pike
II. w. Haynes, T.. E. Ventres. E. S.
j. E. Stephenson, +. f. No
bic, G. A. Martin. F. G. Getchell. C. T..
Quincy o. w. Cleaves. w. Fl. Holmes,
BENZ. Coffin, l.. r. Patterson
~
Bran. A. S. Hartman, O. Hanlan, A.
w. Blake, j. f. Odiorne, Clarence
Eaton. Guy Sturgis, w. Z. Prebie, E.
X. We!ch. f. A. Fogg. F. L. lewiston
l.. D. Jennings, +. l.. Dutton. Mr. Had
dock, c. E. II. Burns, Clarence Rumery
Rowell. Geo Russell, |. r. Nc
Cormick, II. =. Weston Crafts, Harry
Russ, w. p Mitchell. Jno. Burbank
Promptly at 9, the doors of Landlord
Burns spacious dining room were
opened and the company set down to
an elegant spread. 1t was all there
and even the initiates had so far re-
covered from their recent trials and
tribulations to do full justice to the
menu:
Blue Points. Half Shell
Mock Turtle Soup
Celery. Olives
Baked Columbia River Salmon, Egg Sauce
Saratoga Chips
Roast Sirloin Beef aux Mushrooms
Roast Native Turkey. Cranberry Sauce
Roast Young Duck, Currant Jelly
Mashed 81 : Cottages a 9t Squash Wax Beans
Lobster Salad Chicken Salad
Parker House Rolls
Punch
Chocolate Ice Cream Sponge Cake
Assorted Crackers and Cheese
Coffee
Cigars Cigarettes
With the lighting of cigars. Toast
Choradus T.. Carl Herrick, took abso-
lutte possession of the room, without
one to say him nay. While the press
was not admitted to the sacred inner
regions, the shouts of laughter and the
hearty applause gave evidence that he
had full control and that the various
Loasts We're very handsomely responded
to as follows:
Most Heavenly music, it nps one into
listening.
The Occasion, George A. Martin
Colby, ''99.
Get on your night-gowns, lest occasion
call us.
The Work Of Delta Epsilon 7, ,,ou
Bowdoin, 81.
"A noble work, nobly done
Our Aim" Earnest f. Noble
Not failure but low aim. is crime
Fraternal Growth" Frank l.. Dutton
Bowdoin. 90.
And the, thoughts of men are widened
with the process of the suns
Six Decades of Honor, c. E. Quincy
Colby. '9S.
in records that defy the tooth of time"
ON the Campus Edwin X. WEIGH
Bowdoin. '9s.
"A mans best things. are nearest, him"
out to Win" John E. Stephenson
How poor an instrument may do a
noble deed
"A Year at Bowdoin as Delta Epsilon
Man" Lotion d. Jennings
And in the field of destiny, we reap as
we have sown.'
Informal Toasts.
The Colby initiates are: Eugene Sum
ner Philbrook, '9S, Parker Tufts Pear
son, 49, Arthur Gushing Pearce, Ernest
Upper, William Blake Jack,
Harold Woodward Haynes, Fernald
David Sawyer, Ernest Egan Ventres.
The Bowdoin initiates are: Edwin
Samuel Hadlock, '99, Charles Eugene
Hill Became, William Henry Crafts,
[slay Francis Mccormick. Cheney Dex-
ter Rowell, Clarence Byron Rumney,
George Wilkins Russell, Harold Pres
ton West.
The committee of arrangements on
the part of Colby were: John f.
A. b. Warren and +. p. H.
Pike. On the part of Bowdoin, w. f..
Preble, ]. Z. Stinson and F. l.. Dutton.
The boys returned home on the Pull
man trains. perfectly contented and
happy having enjoyed so they each
said, one of the most pleasant occur
ances of their college life.-
Pound Party at St. Marks Home.
A Pound party" was held at st.