Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-21
PHI Psi BANQUET.
Notable Social and Fraternity
Event Wednesday Night.

Oyer One Hundred Plates Laid at the
Banquet-Last Toast Finished about
Five 0'CI0ck-Iayish Decorations
College Boys enjoy Themselves to the
Limit.
When West Virginia Alpha Of Phi
Kappa Psi determines TO accomplish
any given end, it may be taken for
granted that it viii succeed If it is
within the possibility Of human
achievement. Consequently when
some months ago Phi Kappa Psi de-
cided to give an Alumni banquet
which would be one of the conspicuous
features of Commencement week. it
was looked forward to with much an
tieipat5on in college and social circles.
Wednesday night witnessed the con-
summation of the fraternity's efforts,
and the result was the complete real
ization of what had been conceived
with much taste and discretion and
executed with much skill and judg-
ment.
The great dining hall Of the Wallace
House was never more artistically
p1CRdICd IO1 q CN0BD,
time and care had been employed b.
the fraternity and friendsin appropri-
ately decorating the room fer the oc-
casion. Immense streamers of pink
and lavender, the fraternity colors,
were suspended from all parts of the
room, and a profuson of flowers such
as Morgantown has never seen dis
played at any similar function
made the hall resemble a flower
garden.
The long rows Of tables at which
over one hundred guests were seated
were most handsomely decorated and
many unique and original methods of
exhibiting the fraternity colors were
employed.
The menu was most carefully pre-
pared one, embracing the most Tempt
ing viands known to the culinary art
and mine host Lantz never displayed
greater skill OF afforded better salts
faction in serving his guests.
The guests included many visitors
from various sections of the State and
from other states as well.
Perhaps no more charming aggrega-
tion of young ladies were ever assem-
bled together in Morgantown. Sew
eral of the most noted society bellies
Of the State were presents and many
of the costumes were very extensively
and deliberately wrought. Not few
of the young ladies exhibited their
loyalty to Phi Kappa Psi by appearing
ia the fraternity colors, and never did
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appear to better advantage. Among
the gentlemen present were many of
the most prominent graduates and
students Of the University.
As toast master Prof Frederick W.
Truscott presided with characteristic
ease and grace. His witty sallies and
happy hits kept the entire assemblage
in congenial humor and inspired
each speaker to his best. The re-
sponses to the toasts were remarkable
for their eloquence and impressive
ness.
Each speaker seemed to possess the
happy faculty of saying the right
thing in the right way, and though
the hour hand on the hall clock point
ed almost to 5 a. III. before the last
toast was rendered, it was with no
small degree of reluctance that the
banquetters parted company, and
brought the exercises of the occasion
to an end. Phi Kappa Psi enthusiasm
was at white heat throughout and
the hall frequently resounded with
the 'sHi! hi. HIP Of the fraternity
YELL Lack of space precludes special
mention of each toast in detail, but
their general excellence will be readily
apparent from the list Of them, which
was as follows:
ssTo the Symposiants"-Ch w.
Waddell.
Fraternity Scallopes" William c.
Meyer
THE Age and the Men it De-
mandsn-James w. PAUL.
ssPhi Psi irationsn-Stuart Fl.
Bowman.
ssPoem-The Phi Psi Boys Miss
Grace Brahm.
Impromptu Address-Braxton Dav-
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ssThe Early Days of w. Va Alpha"
Frank Wells Clark.
aThe Phi Psi Girl"-Gilbert Benton
Miller.
ssOur Fraternal Fire"-Joseph L.
Henderson.
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