The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-05
CHOATE ENDTHB ALPHA DELHS
CELERRiTE TWO GREAT EIENTS
~ HISTORI.


The same DelnG the Joant IsiTIlsSiaS %
brother Choate and AIpssa Delta PM
en- sat and sang IRder the star
and CRESCENT Rsrethers Prem Altar.
II there il one year in the early history
Of this republic which stands Out above
all other years a. potent q ~ the year
IsS2. for IN that wear Alpha Delta Phi
was founded and Brother Joseph ChOate
was horn. Both are 7s' years old and
both held the banquet hall oI the Waldorf
in siege last night Alpha Delta Phi and
ChOaie. IsSa-ISIO: 80 there you are.
They lid Last night those reverent
coasters that Alpha Delta PHI WAS ChOate
and ChOat. was Alpha Delta Phi; what
would one h. without the other And as
fos Brother Choate himself. he rose in
his pla-e while the faRs IN the wall shook
with tn. fraternity greeting. and he
admit ted that being contemPOraneo'Is
with such a TOros for good ia-haw! and
marching through the years pace for
pace with AN organization which had
heen so powerful All agent for the uIlift
Of college life lChoate-C hoate-ChOate'
was indeed a circumstance to reckon As
one Of the fortunate circumstances OF a
long life
some Il them came down from New
Haven. where the Yale chapter and the
Vale alumni have been entertaining
delegates from all the tw cnty-four chap
ters IN annual convention assembled.
and the rest II them came from New York
and all it's environs to sat once more under
a cleaning star and crescent and renew
through song and anecdotc under graduate
days There were three delegates come
all the way from California. where Presi-
dent Ben jamin Idle Wheeler 81 the state
University nuTtIIred the newest f"dgiing
chapter into being. the two chapters ia
Canada had their delegates present. and
from the colleges nearer ana Older IN the
strength Of their alumni there we've repre-
s~ntations numbered IN the dozens and
scores
Four hundred and thirty was the tally
Of them that AT down 10 meat, which
meant that When the time came and
times came often e. swing into one ~ the
slow measured anthems II the fraternity
there were just I'D voices that S~eled
the chorus This they sang. grads OF
thirty years ago and youngsters with the
ink still black On their -heepskins:
Beafn DER W.. star aud Crescent
O,uidr as Til "" DE
EEch brother. loving truly
Alpha Delta PHI
Francis Lynde Stetaon. retiring praSI-
dent Of the past year sal AT the toast
masters piAc. under the heavy folds oi
the national and Canadian banners.
Brother Chnate the honored had - place
AZ his right and beyond hun Hamilton =
Wright Mabi-. who ono. was president OF
th. fraternity Others Of the brethren
who had place at ths high table nufnps red
Collin Armstrong. the Rev. DIR. C'eorEe
AleAander Talcott " illIams. the Rev. DIR.
Jamcs VI. Taylor Chsrl-s NJ Sprague.
John l.. EIIstls. Everett = Wheeler. Cerl
K GAnter, William H. WILCOX. George
Clay HOilistsr. Harold ! Pratt, B.nJamin
" Franklin. +. Wright DunnIng William
D. LEONARD, Gilbert White. Colgate Hoyt.
George " Hubbsll Or Ergnk ?. W NJ.
John e. jay Jr . Charles MAY. Sew-il i.
lying, Edward A Atwood. DR. RObs r. ].
Morris and Walter { T"aEl"
The Lake ChamplRln tCyiiSn m"unI@re
were frescoed and the mignon d'agseau
wac lnCquer-d by yells and more yells as
they came IA stately procession from the
kitchen. There we're ancient yells Ut
Brown and Of Harvard. complimentary
yelIs for this and that collie 90 put up by
elbow. A photographic record taken
turing the progress of the dinner would
- the despair OF the philologists Of the
hirtieth century were u nyst@rlously
for them.
Sincp me newly elected president Of the
PATERNITY. Benjamin Idle Wheeler. lately
Roosevelt professor AT BeTlu, u sill
Ia be sitting ou' dances with the
Naiser over Their" Mr. StstSon the re-
liT.nR president had ~ open ih" tall
whom the o-pfe~ time came tie gave
~minisoenCHs. prophecies and apprai-~-
nents CoBC~TuIng TIA" fraternity and Its
members Much that made tuc ~tar"hed
'h,rt fronts or~ak all Ger the room
lropp~d from Mr.. St-tson's prIdetul lips
hen he introduced the m. "a whom every
rOdy was ,mpatent Ia hear. Brother Joe
huats
Sine. my native ohapt" - Harvard
la- erased To- eIIst don't know whet her
~ full bloasi half blo,d 80 only brother
n-Iaw "a Alpha Delta Pin aid b"
The diner v~il~d reas-Irance~ had
lOp.d thai = DhRptsr which produced
lance Rus2sll Lowell. Phillips Brooks.
Ssorge William Curtis Edward Everett
Hale ana Theodor, Roosevelt would D."
good enough chapter 70 CuntIEu" un .
h. rolls Il the fraternity. hu' under
,taud that the dissolution ~ the Harvard
'ha ptsT wac dome with great gOod viii
N both sides and ! know that i Will
,lwav= hear an honored name on th'
Maternity roll for what u did during
Il lifetime .
Brother Ghnate sAId that he N"liey"d
hat the ideals that Ssmu", tsls. the
p,Ind..r 81 the order, had ~ mind when
b. oonCelv~d Alpha Delta PHI had pJrn.' .
.riit ~ hundred fold The fraternity .
M a .J-t"rcd a growth - manlin~-s and
liRh character wherever u had spread q
AID hr.
nave spent much time m England :
he twin hrotherof Alpha Delta concluded.
and much ~ ! admire the p"opi" I ~.
eve that th0y have one d"f"vf and that
: that IN all the British domain across
he sea there - no chapter ~ Alpha D~lta :
Phi
Distric' Attorney Whitman PLAN
brother Whitman from Hudson uhapt-r
u Western Rs~eTv" for the evening
"a We the four and half hundred hreihran
soulful talk on tho worth oi fraTrrui'v
deals Which was followed Nv one from
,rother Nabie on fhe Qpe'ry of material
hings George HOlhstsy spoke ~
,ehalf 81 the Yale alumni
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