Evening star., 1909-07-02
full knowledge and enlarging the boune
of human happiness.
Annual Income $4,000.

Without counting the value of the real
estate, the total permanent assets OF
Hamilton College are about $15o,ooo'
which is remarkably small for so impor-
tant and influential an institution. The
value of the real estate is about $55O.OOo,
the fees from students for room rent and
tuition average about S17.5OO and the
total income from all sources is about
$50, 900 year.
The college needs an inn very badly,
for there is now no place on the hill
where the alumni and the friends of the
students can be accommodated. There are
two hotels in the village, but most visit
tors stop in Utica and go back and forth
by the trolley lines Clinton is delight
full village. with shaded streets, and an
ideal residence place for people who love
a simple and quiet life. It has been an
educational center of Importance, but
there is nothing there now but the coll
lege. Two schools for young women and
two for young men which fiourished here
not many years ago are now extinct.
Greek Letter Societies Favored.
Hamilton is one of several colleges in
the United States. like Williams and Am
herst, where Greek letter fraternities are
encouraged and sustained by the personal
participation of the president and mem
bers of the faculty, who Joined them
In thair student days. and learned from
personal experience how important an
influence they have upon both character
and scholarship. Several attractive build
ings upon the campus are the homes
of the older fraternities Chi Psi Lodge
has recently been completed at a cost
of s25.Oo0; Sigma Phi Hall, completed
in 1900 at a cost of $4,000, is also an
ornament to the campus. and occupying
a most desirable site is the oldest of
the halls the home of the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity. which was founded at
Hamilton in the year 1882 by five stu
dents, the leader of whom was Samuel
Eells of Cleveland a young man of great
promise who became the law partner of
Salmon P Chase, afterward Chief Justice
of the United States. and also 2 mem
ber of the fraternity. The idea was very
popular and. before the death of Mr..
E,els ten chapters were founded at Ham
ilton, Miami. Columbia, Yale, Amherst,
the University of the City of New York.
Brown Harvard. Hobart and Western
Reserve, and within five years after his
death at Dartmouth. University of Mich
gan. Rochester. University of Alabama,
Williams and Wesleyan.
The Phi Beta Kappa.
The first Greek letter fraternity was
the Phi Beta Kappa, which was estab-
lished at William and Mary College, Will
liamsburg, Va, in 1176, and among its
charter members were John Marshall,
afterward Chief Justice; Bushrod Wash
ngton, afterward associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States;
Spencer Roane. considered the ablest
jurist Virginia ever produced; John
Brown and Stephen T. Mason. afterward
senator's from that state; William Short,
afterward minister to Spain and Holland,
and Elisha Parmalee, a native of MaSsa-
chusetts, who, when he returned home,
established chapters a Yale and Har-
ward Phi Beta Kappa differs from other
Greek letter societies, in that it's mem
bers are elected at the close of theG
college course, and eligibility depends en-
tirely upon high scholarship. Member
ship in Phi Beta Kappa does not debar
student from entering another fra
ternity.
1t was forty-nine years before the sec
ond Greek letter fraternity was founded.
That was Kappa Alpha. which was the
result of a social gathering in the room
of Charles Clark. Young and Andrew +.
B. Knox of the class of '26 at Union
College, Schenectady, n. Y They, with a
group of congenial spirits meeting for
tha. purpose on certain night in No
vember, 1925. unwittingly introduced a
new and powerful factor into American
college life. 1t was soon discovered that
Kappa Alpha filled a need in the social
relat tions of the students, and within the
next five years Sigma Phi, Delta Phi,
at Union College. Alpha Delta Phi at
Hamilton, Delta Epsilon at Williams and
Beta Theta Pi at Miami University.
There are now an infinite number of
Greek letter societies in various educa-
tionaI institutions. and their membership
exceeds 100000 students.
Delta Kappa Epsilon. Psi Upslon and
other fraternities occupy attractive cot
tages on the street that leads from the
village Of Clinton to the summit of Col
Iepe hill and the senior members usually
live in them. instead of In the regular
dornljt cries