The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-19
"reminiscences
OF COLLEGE DAYS
FRATERNITY MEN GATHER AT
BANQUET LAST EVENING AND
RECALL THE GOOD OLD COL
LEcE DAYsv-oREEKs MAKE
MERRY.

"reminiscences Of by-gone college |
days filed the thoughts of the 125
fraternity men who gathered around
the festive boards at the Gardner
hotel last evening for the banquet of
the Fargo and Moorhead Pan Hellenic
association. The event was the first
gathering of the Greeks this year and
was the largest meeting in the history
of the association.
| One hour Of dinner and two hours
of intellectual food made the evening
one Of the brightest that the frat men
had enjoyed since they had left their
college halls. w. M. Murphy was the
POSTMASTER and his keen wit and ex-
cellent management were factors in
making the speakers as we'll as the
diners, be in the best of humor dur
| Ing the entire evening.
j. r. T. O'Conner of Grand FoSlxs
was the speaker of the evening and
he brought back to the fraternity men
the realization of what actual condi-
/ tions were in the fraternities today.
He spoke of the work of some frater-
mites in using the votes controlled,
for the purpose of electing certain
members to Offices 1.-The world loves
a sportsman, not a sport said Mr..
i O'Conner and he dealt with the sports
manlike manner in which the frater-
nifty man could and did carry on his
athletic and business relations on the
campus.
Mr.. O'Conner pictured the great
growth of the fraternities in America
and gave figures giving the number
of men now in fraternities in the
United States. 1t is perfectly natural
that such a good institution as the
fraternity would grow, was the
thought presented, He spoke Of the
wonderful good that the Greek let
ter societies had accomplished in some
schools and gave for illustration the
work that had been done at AM
herst in the benefiting of the old
school with its great traditions The
fraternity life at Amherst is very
near the ideal and here the chapter
houses have relieved the congested
conditions OF the dormitories and
placed the privately endowed school
in a position where it was able to
take care Of its rapid growth. Am
herst also conducts its great debating
system entirely through it's fraterni-
ties.
The speaker of the evening is "a
national officer of Phi Alpha Delta
and one of the abIest students of fra
ternities in the northwest. He work
ed his way through the North Da-
kota university, acting as special cor
respondent for several newspapers
Graduating with honors he went to
Yale where he was graduated and in
the commenc ement oratorical, his work
was OF such fine calibre that he was
selected to become a professor in the
public speaking department of the
university. He is now a member OF
a well known Grand Forks law firm
but expects to return to Yale in g
short time to take up FIVE months OF
post graduate work there.
DIR. Charles r. Adams was the Sec
ond speaker on the programme and
his short, crisp stories kept the crowd
in a good humor and several anec-
dotes told at the expense Of some Of
the men present were especially good
4 Sidney D. Adams was the last speak
er of the evening, and he dwelt upon
the fraternity proposition as it is seen
5 by an alumnus. He urged that the
alumni take 1t upon themselves to
rectify the errors of the fraternity
and place it upon the highest pivot
above the very lowest suspicion.
Much Of the success Of the ban
quet last evening was due to the cred
1t Of Secretary McLelland Of the Par
Hellenic association. The manner
in which the genial secretary hat
arranged the function was most
81 pleasing