Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-10-18
DELTA UPSILON CONVENTION.
VIII he In Session at MiddIcbury Oc-
tObcr 24-27-LOcnl Chapter Cele-
brntcs 10th Anniversary.

Niddlehury. oct 17.-The seventy-sec-
ond annual convention of the Delta Up
silon fraternity will take place here Oc-
tober "a to 81. Delegates from the FOL
lowing colleges will attend: Williams,
Amherst. Colby, Bowdoin, Brown, Har-
ward. Tufts, NJ I. T., Union. Hamilton.
Rochester Colgate, Cornell. Syracuse,
McGill, Toronto Rutgers, New York Uni
versity. Lafayette. Columbia, Lehigh,
Pennsylvania, Swarthmore Adelbert,
Marietta. Michigan, Northwestern, Wis
consn, DePauw. Minnesota, Nebraska,
Chicago. Ohio State. Illinois Stanford.
and California. Delegates from several
out of the 80 alumni societies will also
he present.
The convention will begin with a smoker
on Wednesday night. Thursday will be
occupied by business sessions. chapter
luncheons coming at noon on that day.
At 500 p m. a public celebration OF the
!iftieth year of the Middlebury chapter
Of the Delta Epsilon will be held at the
Baptist Church The orator of the eve
ming will he Rev. Cortland Myers Of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, one of the famous
pulpit orators of America. The prayer
and benediction will be given by charter
members OF the chapter. and the poet will
ne Prentiss c. Hoyt, Phi. D., professor Of
English literature at Clark University.
and for many years principal OF the
graded schools at Middlebury. The public
is cordially invited to these exercises,
tickets of admission or Invitations are
not necessary. After the public exer-
cises there will be ball: music for this
and for the public exercises will be pro-
vdded by Dorings band of Troy.
On Friday the business sessions will be
continued until 500 p. NJ, when the an
nual literary exercises Will be held at
the Congregational Church, and Hon.
Walter F.. Howard. professor of history,
will adress the convention. The hlstor-
ian on this occasion will be Arthur L.
Pope, Sage scholar at Cornell. and a
graduate from Brown University. The
poet will be Holman F. Day, Colby, ST,
Of Auburn, Me-. the we'll known writer
for the Youths Companion. Saturday
Evening Post. and other publications.
The public is also cordially invited to
| attend these literary exercises.
On Friday night the banquet will be
served in the town hall. The Rev. James
l.. Barton of Boston will be the toastmas .
ter, and among the other speakers will be
the Hon. Frank c. Partridge, the Rev,
Cortland Myers. the Hon. f.. b, sherman,
the Hon. William Travers jerome of New
York, the Hon. +. D. Proctor, Holman
T.. Day and the Rev. Gibbs Braislin Of
Gloucester. chaplain OF the convention.
Mr.. Jerome has agreed to come IL public
duties will permit at the last minute,
Charles A. Hughes and NJ. Linn Bruce,
who were expected earlier, will be unable
10 come because of their strenuous politi-
cal campaign in New York.
On Saturday, October q those guests
who can remain will be taken by team to
Lake Dunmore and thence to Bread Loaf
| Inn. In the evening a big dinner will be
served at the old Inn. after which will
come the wild ride down the mountains
into Mddlebury for the midnight trains,
A fare of one and a third has been
granted by the railroads as far West as
Chicago and large attendance should
result, especially of Mddlebury graduates.
Music will be a feature of the convention.
the new fraternity song book having just
been published. Two special cars will run
from Chicago bringing the men from west
OF that point and picking up those along
the route, and one will run from New
| York.