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The news & observer., 1905-12-02
A Genuine Feast.

Thanksgiving at the Marlborough
House yesterday was marked by an
especially delightful dinner served
from $50 to S:30
There were many visitors at the
hotel and the menu was a superb one,
turkey, quail ambrosia, ice cream,
and a long list of good Things being
enjoyed The menu card was artistic
and beautiful. Music was rendered
by the Misses Crocker. of Greensboro.
with piano and violin.
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
More Homes for Delegates

At the Baptist State Convention
which meets here next Wednesday
there are expected $50 delegates, while
to entertain these less than 500 homes
have been secured.
This makes the obtaining of $50
more homes an immediate necessity
and all who can entertain delegates
or provide for more than they have
already agreed to do. should at once
notify Mr.. j. M. Broughton, chairman
of the joint committee on entertain
ment of delegates
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
Senator Simmons Can't Go.

Senator F. NJ Simmons, who re-
turned to the city yesterday, finds that
he will not be able to attend the meet
ing to consider the question of child
labor to be held in Washington.
Senator Simmons says that he has
been SO closely occupied lately that
he has not had time to give the sub
ject the attention it needed and that
other affairs claiming his attention
will make it impossible for him to at
tend the meeting
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
SENTENCE AGAIN IMPOSED.
j. G. Rawlings, His Two Sons and Alf
Moore to Die.
(By the Associated Press. }

Valdosta, Ga, Dec. 1.-The death
sentence was again imposed today
upon j. c. Rawlings, his sons Milton
and Jesse and the negro, Alf Moore,
all convicted of the murder of the
Carter children last June. The sixth
of January, next, was fixed as the
day for the execution of the four Len
Rawlings, another son. was sentenced
to Imprisonment for life.
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
Cold Wave Today.

The weather is expected to be de-
cidedly colder today, and the fall of
temperature during the night makes
the prediction a most credible one.
A telegram came yesterday after
noon to the Weather Bureau here
from the Washington office, saying
that a cold wave would strike this
city today and the temperature this
morning is expected to be between Is
and &c degrees lower than it was yes
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
Governor Declines Invitation.

Governor Glenn, becauce of the
pressure of business and previous en-
gagements has been compelled to de-
cline an invitation to be the principal
speaker at a meeting of the Civic Fed
Grafton of Labor to be held in New
York on the sixth and seventh of De-
cember
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
Maryville Defeats Bingham.

Especial to News and Observer
Asheville, n. c., Nov. 30.-The
Maryville (Tenn.) College football
team today defeated Bingham School
team with a ccore of 6 to 0. The
game was one of the most interesting
that has been played here and closes
the ASheville football season
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT
The New England Company Started
About Fifteen Years Ago.
(By the Associated Press. }

Rome, Ca. Dec. 1.-The New Eng
land Company was brought into the
bankruptcy court today. The COM
pany was started fifteen years ago,
with a capital of S600,000, and found
ed the town of New England City,
Ga. 1t controlled sixteen thousand
acres of land The claims of credi-
tors will aggregate $150,000 The
promoters of the company were east
ern capitalists.
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
DEATH OF CRAMER GRUBB.
Southern to Dona G $4,000 to Complete
Presbyterian Church at Spencer
(Special to News and Observer. J

Especial to News and Observer.)
Spencer, N. c.. Dec. 1.-Cramer
Grubb, aged seventeen years who was
seriously injured by being caught be-
tween two box cars on the Southern
yards here ten davs ago, died at the
Whitehead Stokes Sanitorium in Sal
isbury Yesterday from the effects of
the injuries sustained in the accident.
The young man who had been in the
employ of the Southern Railway Com
The news & observer., 1905-12-02

terday morning, when it was forty.
This means the coldest weather thus
far this season with the thermometer
probably eighteen to twenty-five de-
greeS above zero.
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
Thanksgiving Gifts for the Jews.
(By the Associated Press }

Kby Tie -AsSUCIdItU TTtss'J
New York, Nov. 30.-Thanksgivine
day contributions of $27,5S2 We're
made today to the Russian relief fund
which is being collected by the Ma
tional relief committee. Among the
Thanksgiving contributors were the
following: Baton Rouge, $217.25;
Israelites and friends in Augusta, Ga.
$50
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
The President Returns.

(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. President
Roosevelt and his family returned to
Washington at 9:43 O'Clock this even
ing from "Plain Dealing" Mrs. Roose-
Velt's Virginia country place.
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
A HORRIBLE MISTAKE.
The Wrong Corpse Given to Sorrow
ing Father at ROXborO.
(Roxboro Courier. J

Mr.. Robert Stephens, the genia
agent of the Norfolk & Western Rail
road here had quite an unsual expe
rience last Friday night. 1t seems tha
The news & observer., 1905-12-02
Two Fire Scares.

1t doesn't take much OF hotel fire
alarm here to bring out crowd. SINCE
the big ire six years ago when 1.-THE the
building was I burned. This morning 1ig
lust before twelve the fire alarm said
the McAdoo Hotel was afire- Thous-
ands Wed with the fire ~, engines g IN
reaching the point first. There was es',l1,o no
fire. Smoke, coming IN VoIuhles from
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29
THEY CHOOSE TOO SOON.
Fraternities That Elect Freshmen
L07cer the Tone.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: College fraternities. like many other things
are not all good nor all bad. The ideal. taken by
itself, is beautifu-a society Of college men with
similar tastes and ambitions banded together for
mutual aid and support.
Many boy of sound worth--a nugget in the
rough-has been taken into fraternity and uncon-
sciously through the efforts of his brothers the
sharp corners have been generally knocked off and
rubbed down, he has received social training
which has given him confidence in himself and
enabled him to show the world his real worth. In
cases of this kind. where man is not asked into
fraternity until perhaps his second year. it is
pretty safe to say that he is taken into the fra
ternity because its members have grown to know
him. and really want him to be one OF them; and
on the other hand if he is willing to join them
after being overlooked in his first year. it is be-
cause after two years he knows that he can stand
by the men in that fraternity. and he knows he is
not being asked because they need financial aid be-
cause he is Professor So-and-sO's son. the
nephew of Senator Somebody-else. The friendship
that has sprung up between him and the various
members of the fraternity has been a natural
growth This is an ideal case but, alas! how rare!
The average fraternity depends upon its fresh
men recruits for its strength, and not upon the
sophomores and juniors that it bids" 1t wishes,
its men to grow up under its tutelage from the
very beginning 1t wants To form their ideals for
them. The rushing days" are feverish periods.
Each frat" is anxious 10 make the biggest haul
In many cases snowy manners make the fraternI-
ty
Let two boys from the same town start to college
together. One is perhaps of good family, has been
carefully raised is OF sterling character but nature
has not made him particularly attractive in ap-
pearanee and he is retiring in disposition. The
other, let suppose. Is fine looking chap OF the
hail fellow, we'll met type. His father may be
man of known dishonesty. and he himself may
have none too sensitive conscience ON the train
there is fraternity man who "sizes up the
freshies." He is attracted by the second. invites
him back 10 the smoker for a smoke. At the
station he looks after his baggage for him; helps
him register and find his invites him over to
the fraternity house for dinner; introduces him 10
some of the men tall of whom take his measure).
The next day first one and then another turns UP
20 pilot him around to see his various professors.
He is carefully kept out OF the way OF any other
fraternity II possible and il is wonder n his
mind is not poisoned by insinuations and chance
Il he Is very promising and
some other fraternity is suspected OF having an
eye him. BY the end OF the first week his head
is turned. lie believes the Chi Betas tne whole 4
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

poorly for the future of the institution at which
they are fostered.
And it is more than deplorable TO know that the
fondest hopes of the majority OF young men enter
ing college hinge on the status OF the fraternity
which will welcome them TO its hospitabIe portals
NO longer do the hOpefuls of this country leave
nome nred of all by healthy ambition for tri-
umphs in the classroom. on the speakers rOstrum,
IN the miniature journalistic world of the college
or even In the more popular, idolized atmosphere
OF the athletic field. The Mecca which is
sought above all others by the youth eager for
collegiate prominence is the fraternity To become
member of of the SO-called good 'frats''
OIL national repute, he viii descend to many meth
odS which are beneath n true gentleman.
In the chQushness and exclusiveness Of fraternity
men the prophet may read the gradual bat certain
evolution of great American snOb-more petty and
aftltclal even than the most exaggerated specimen
OF ms English prototypes, in the ridicue of whom
Where fraternity influences are supreme can al
ways be found apathetic lack of true college and
class spirit 1t is an utter impOSStbiity that the
Two. planted and lmbedded the soil,
potentlallty and strength OF the must mean the
atrophy of the other
lhe societies contain the flower of the colleges.
me, splendid specimens of the blood. Drawn and
pIdin or this country; but il is utter impossible
ny that men enjoying the exclusive pleasures aris
I1S from fraternity membership can have Il COM
Hluhlty OF interests with nOn-fraternity The
Two classes. having nothing in common the
tl'iurum routine of their work are utterly unable
70 Understand one another, and accordingly often
serious MISUNDERSTANDING arise with most
fortunate consequences.
lads and srObs,' sneer the cOIlegians who are
outsIGe the pale, while the young Corinthians sniff
scornfully and class the 'non-frar'' men under the
grinds''l NJ
University of Pennsylvania
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

oe seen at class dinners and class reunions and it
curses many an alumni association which other
wise would be boon and pleasure to all it's
members. At the dinners of the alumni of my
Alma Mater 1 have seen the non fraternity men
left by themselves. and the fraternity men forming
up into close groups. At the table 1 have often
seen some non-fraternity man. the graduate of a
recent GLASS; sitting alongside OF fraternity man.
VINO was all attention to the members of his own
society put who never spoke to the outsider at his
other elbow. | have young men have
just just been graduated, and were strangers in the
CITY, after the dinner wander about the banquet
nan uncomfortably. who, if they would tell their
teelngs' would say: Il came here tonight hoping
70 nnd company of brothers; instead, they are
strangers, and am an intruder Nine times out
OF ten that youth will let many year go by be-
IoIe ne ATTENDS another alumni dinner. He has
1b 1u5ae friends elsewhere that he cares for,
MHeIe no lines OF petty snobbshneSs are drawn.
IN IN thls way he is weaned away from his Alma
ndteT ana the ties that should have been strength
NIp9tiuei pt NJ. E. H.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

welds in American politics. My experience in
this regard has been that fraternities. factors
in college politics. absolutely unscrupulous;
rule ruin is their policy. They carefully or
ganized and are permanently the ground thus
understanding every little in and out of college
politics Against them there is but a disorganized
quently tyranncal power is theirs and they ex-
ceedinglY apt to use it as tyrantS-
But worse than the arrogant assumption of abSo-
lutte control in college affairs fraternties conduce
to arrant snobbery. to put it buntly. Primarily
what is a fraternity? Is it not in the last analysis
means by which lot of mediocre may,
through uniting in exclusive, mutual scf-ad-
mob? Indeed it must be admitted that there are
many exceptions to this rule enrolled as fraternity
members. men of natural ability, who find social
rank necessary to lift them head and shoulders
above their fellows. Yet these not the typical
fraternity for they value little the distinction
between themselves and their unattached college
mates setting small store by exclusiveness. 'Tis
pull TO secure himself place among the elect
and convinced thereby OF his general superiority
that characteriZes the fraternity, and because of
his numerical prepOnderance, puts it in bad Odor.
BY means of his financial ability through the
influence OF relative friend, I have hinted
the typical Greek letter gains admission the
patrician class and thus establishes his right to a
position of preeminence in the college world There
is another less worthy channel of ingress thereto
way into the charmed circle by the most fragrant
toadytSm and unctuOus bootlicking. How often
have 1 seen young men otherwise decent sacrifice
every whit of seif-respect and manliness within
them for the accomplishment of this petty end!
White Plains n. Y. c. s. CARPENTER O2
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29
PRACTISE RING RULE.
Fraternities Often Use Their Pozcer
TAranicalLg.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: From the standpoint of student the coll
iege fraternity presented to many more defects
IMAM advantages. Among these it offered harmful
alds to students 1t concentrated the mana cement
Of college activities in the hands OF few and it
was fatal to the genuine and aI-nclusive spirit of
good fellowship which should pervade every col
lege campus
The point is often made that Greek letter societies
encourage rather than hinder scholastic effort The
following is an instance TO the contrary: In
weekly themes were required A certain fraterni-
~ had preserved number of these themes DONE
In years long gone. by members who had taken the
course At a recitation in this I knew sew
eral members of the above mentioned fraternity
to read in class their own composition an arti-
Gle hoary with age that had done noble service in
previous years. and which formed a part of the
said fraterntys most valued assets Moreover.
large collections Of transatons. ponies are
maintained in every society house. which 1
have had any knowledge. part of its necessary
furniture.
II fraternfties are not aids to scholarship they
are, however, powerful educators in the merciless
theory and practice of ring rule The Greek letter
society exerts very much the same beneficial in
fuence upon college life that the Organization
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29
COLLEGE "FRATS" ATTACKED,
MANY CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST THEIR NAN
AGEMENT AND TENDENCY
Rt o. the ofer by The Tribune of Prize for The Best Wrem
Letter About Their Shortcomings

recently
setting forth the benefits the
college ternh and another
the exisen college raterndes.
the number
edition hash
publish to-day number OF those letters which
to follow them February number of
the other side of the controversy hodmg
the letter written by Pauline dEsres prize
Sunday the other be cannon
wit the
The initials of prevented
of
his letter
sholdh be full
exceeded the
winning prize The responsibility the
letter writer
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29
DO HARM At CORNELL.
Fraternities at That College Cause
Much Bitterness.

To the Editor of The Tribune:
Sir In institution like Cornell. the economic
and social status OF whose matriculates exhibits
the widest diversity. and which possesses no uni
versity dOrmitories commons where students
gather in large numbers for social intercourse,
a fraternity system similar to the present one Is
inevitable. are it's evils necessarily greater
than might otherwise have arisen: but with this
system is the whole seriously fnmical 10 ths
best interests OF the university that its detrments
10 the non-fraternity men and TO the college, not
TO mention certain negative Influences IL eXevts
upon its own members. far outweigh the total
OF it's advantages.
Designed meet the social wants OF the few. Il
has encrOached upon the rights which belong TO
all. II has developed In Cornell University two
distinct and great extent antagonistic classes.
two bodies OF students. one organized and auto
esprit de corps. vet tnwaTtky chaLng under
what regards a the unjust disregard and usur-
patton OF Its rights individually IL not collectively.
Cornell founded a democratic institution
cratic university IN ArneTicu The Eastern schools
that have sCOffed ut "a school for farmers"
can give lessons IN democracy. the democracy
that Judges man and hOnOrs him for what ha
A Harvard class recently chose as its president
q student who had waited the table to
penses Such thing would he impossible et Cor
nell. Nhyf Because OF an artinctai social STANDARD
created ard fostered by the fraternity system ths
influence OF which has become great that u not
only controls undergraduate affairs. but actually
mOulds the sentiment cC the community IN ac'
cOrdance with its interests and Ideals u
Cornell one may say. Once q walter, always q
waiter" The student who supports himself -
what IS termed 'menial labor IS socially ossraczed
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

clubs. CLUBS. and to meet girls whose fathers could put
Inelr sons law in the OF getting profitable
csehts or customers Is it not selfish TO deprive me
Of life?
:, The men who reserve all these advantages for
themselves and watch me daily struggling along
.oIeordalned by themselves TO the deprivation of so
@ much that makes life attractive. are sleeping their
very souls in selfshness and in callousness to the
sorrows OF others
The men left out OF the fraternties not only
mourn the loss of these privileges, but they that
seInshneSs is not counted by college faculties as
alt TO be weeded of ones character. but rather
1s quality to be actively exercised. This tends to
make the victims of selfshness resolve to be selfish
N lnelr turn whenever the whrligig of fate shall
tuIinsh a victim for them to practise
=, Inc number of fraternity members is now SO large
mat Tor a man not to belong TO one of them has
actually become a sort of stigma in the college
world, a badge OF unworthiness, a sign of unat-
racuveness, license for all frat snub
hiIn 10 look down on him, to despise him. to speak
SIshtlnSly OF him. to sneer at him and even to pity
hlnl. This state of affairs breeds in the victim
n9tred for the "frats," contempt for the faculty
which fosters il
hundreds of men graduated from American
Colleges every year who look back their college
lie as period of remorseless and absolutely need
less humiliatlon. The college loses the love, the
contributions. the moral support, and mayDe the
sons of all these graduates unnecessarily alienated
ana the sum total of this loss grows steadily from
year to year. ONE WHO WAS LEFT OUT.
NeW-YOrk CitV
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29
THE INJUSTICE OF IT.
FraternitieS Put a HeGUy Handicap
on Those They ErcIude.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: II this great world of needs thing
above all others it is charity; charity to do unto
others would be done by; charity to treat all
our fellows. If not brothers, ut least living
creatures with hearts and souls and sensibites as
own
1t is natural that the frat should laud
the benefits of fraternity but he only the in
ner and brighter side. 1t is the army of nOn-fra-
ternity who feel the goad of snobbery and
intolerance, which ofttimes makes the college the
synonyme of bgotTy and nhumanty Unfortunate
ly. sensitveness is an inevitable characteristic of
almost every normal coegian: and to be consid-
cred and trea ted inferior beings by with
whom. perchance, fortune has dealt more gener-
ously hurts deeply. The silent unfrlendlness that
generally segregates fraternity and non-fraernity
men is bound to jeopardize the oft vaunted and
much valued college loyalty. "Alma Mater" ideal
ICED in song and story. is charming parsonage,
but it is hard to disassocate her from the living
reality. The man who has worn the goading yoke
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

of self-denial. and, as a consequence has been
tracized from the college world of recognition
world dominated by his unfeeling and uncaring
neighbors must be vsionaire indeed if he can
wax enthusiastic over that mythical female
binary talents does he possess? Is 1t scholarship?
EyeTy neEy 9Gbfgian Wth mGdcgm Of
habits are not required in the candidate. That for
that which, above all else. should distinguish and
honor the man. becomes the badge of the grind"
Is it social proclivites? Partly, perhaps and yet
culture" outside the fraternity as within To
dance; to avoid studiousy any trace of ntellectu-
dress, belong to independent we'll to frat
believe that wealth is the criterion of desirable
ity, the sesame that unlocks the mystic door; for
question carefully. the man with money can read
lily make fraternity. rich man is almost
always fraternity man; and result we find
wealth arrayed against poverty. What is the re-
snObbery, the hated offspring Of afiuence, pa
senstiya otb tha cnni @ imdffareHce or tbe - crIieI
cut is bitterer than the chill winds of winter To
meet men daily in the classroom and TO be ignored
promote good fellowship and college spirit 1t
makes of the huoyant freshman pessimistic sem
But the Independent, if he is worthy Of the name
G31ld smile upon this this exhibition KIN @ of of o and
Many fields of achievement dear to an ambitious
cause he is not fraternity man. These societies
control nearly all branches Of college activity The
Britain Athletics. dramatics publications. society,
everything fall the "frats." And he who is thus
0strac cized is expected to contribute his mite to
their support and to howl his enthusiasm over their
triumphs
affections of the frat collegian. The loyalty
which every nom frat" man should harbOr tor
his college is tinged with ineradicable hatred
for the sham and inhumanity dominant there.
have heard seniors declare time and again that
their fostering mother meant nothing to them
but a four years course of ostracsm and painful
recollection. Graduation reles Sc from
atmosphere sitting to their nobler manhood. and
they leave her with few regrets.
A FRAT" MAN WITH A SOUL
Ithaca, y. Y.