The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-05
PSI UPSILON FRATERNITY.

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 The proceedings came to an end with g
 banquet given Friday evening, May 2
 1902, at the Tontine hotel in New Ha-
 ven. Among the speakers was Profes.
 sor Isaac Franklin Russell, IL. D., ot l New York University Law school | whose theme was 'The Man You Like
 MT. Russell spoke in substance as fol- | lows:
 Aristotle says that man is politi- cal animal. meaning, doubtless, that his tendency towards association is his most pronounced characteristic. Some wag of our own day, regarding man
 from the standpoint of his own profess sional speciality, that of physical sci ence, says that, chemically considered,
 man consists of about eighteen pounds
 of mineral salts and two pailfuls of wa
 ter.
 Psi Upsilon, seeing truth wherever
 1t exists, has always recognized both of
 these principles as correct, and special ly so at its convention banquets. It has
 been claimed for certain brand of Irish whiskey-with what merit I canr
 
 and promotes the brotherhood of man. The church has always held this as sound doctrine To the monks of Char tres and St. Benedict we are indebted for many good works, and for none bet ter than the world-famed green and yellow cordials that have canoniZed these saints even among the infidels, and in Pennsylvania to-day our Chris tian friends are following the pious precedents of former times by manu- featuring a popular brand of whiskey and champagne known as the Brother hood, every drink of which that is talk en helps the church.
 College fraternities seem to me to have a special mission in a soulless age like our-an age where everyA one we meet commercially is a body corporate Even the learned professions of law and medicine have become mercantil- ized, not merely by excessive speciaiiza- ton, but by means of the advancing tendency to pay doctors bills by the year, and even to confide legal interests to corporation on an agreement to furnish forensic talent at fixed annual charges Charity no longer makes its personal appeal. The evils of indis- criminate aims giving are generally recognized, and the man of the hour, instead of giving a cup of cold water to some thirsty one in the name of his Master, makes 1t a rule to refer all ap- plicants for relief 10 the Charity Organ ization society. The orphan, who should be adopted into a private family. where mother and children make up a small and natural group or household, is huddled with thousands of others in home,' which is run like a railroad or state prison in obedience to law and has no place for love-
 Tn these days we love our neighbor, we feed the hungry and rescue the fall en-all by machinery. We have lost sight of the individual; we can ge along him If for any reason some person seems indispensable if the monarch must survive to make the coronation success, if MT. Morgan must continue on the stage of action to carry out his mammoth plans of mer- ger, we can guarantee ourselves against loss by getting a policy in some com pany insuring the life of Edward or the | king of the bllionaires.
 W v Htdl III lItSt dyS Iup SDlDDUleIH principles not men I once inquired [ of Dr. Talmage how he could account | for the wonderful successes of unwor- thy evangelists, men whose lives in se- ret had been dishonored, as finally re- vealed, by crime and vice. He answer | ed: Truth is it's own exponent and | witness. Let man paint a legend on ! rock where 1t can be seen from a moving train, and if the legend be but rue it matters not who the painter was md whether saint or sinner There is doubtless must good sense in what the worthy doctor said. But his own dis inguished career on the platform and | with his pen exhibits the triumph, not | ,nly of the homely doctrine that he aught but of the art divine of which le was so distinguished an exempIar-- he art of expression where the indi- ridual, the man, was the essential feat Ire and the abiding charm.
 '"The fraternal spirit should stay with IS forever. For personality must al- ways dominate and not what is called n political parance the organization. he system the machine. The mem- 'ers of the Virginia Oligarchy, gather d around the tables and enjoying the ood cheer of southern hospitality, dis ributed the great offices of the state nd nation, and held its sway for so many years, simply because it found ood men for high places.
 President Arthur was one of our He did not ask for votes ecause he was a fraternity man, but e did rejoice to banquet his brothers t the White House in many recogni- ion of all that comradeship and per- onal loyalty of friends had meant to i'm through long life of exciting incl ent eliminating in the highest honors the republic. Every fraternity man should read, I hink, The Three Guardsmen,' by Du- las. It is the story of the man you ke; it's theme Is friendship among men nd it is book intensely human, virile, masculine. It helps one get away from he world of corporations, machinery :. nd greed, and into the mystic realm of l ne human heart. it's dreams, it's loves l nd it's revenges. ''Phi Beta Kappa says philosophy is le guide of life. Psi Upsilon has a , 'uer motto It links you in a fellow !, nip of soul to the man you like, and :. , him whose ambition seeks the widest uman dominion it points out the en-