The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-17
CEREMONIES ARE
VERY IMPRESSIVE
Exercises Will Take Place
Today and the Balance of
the Week to Complete.
PHI DELTA E. T
COMING TO CITY
Reception Today, Installa-
ton and Banquet Tomor-
row and Party Saturday

Fnll Delta Theta, commenced today
with an informal reception at the fra
ternity home of the Bachelors on the
campus. The formal installation will
take place tomorrow. The ceremonies
VIII be very impressive. In he evtn-
ing a banquet will be served at the
Hotel Dacotah. Saturday evening the
fhl Delta Theta party will be the
closing event. The party will be Civ
en- at the Bachelor house and the uni
Versity gymnasium.
Phi Delta Thetas from Fargo, Bis
marck and other parts of the state are
IN the city to participate in the install
latlon exercises. Some of the me who
came in last night and this morning
are d. V. Moore and NJ. w. Murphy Of
Fargo. Roscoe Spalding and Merton
Orr of Bismarck and W. Q. Mcclellan
Of Minneapolis. Judge N. G. Young
Of Fargo and several more Phi Delta
Thetas are expected from Fargo this
afternoon.
The three installation officers of the
grand council of Phi Delta Theta ar
rived this morning. They are Thomas
A. Davis of Goshen. Ind. reporter of
the grand council; Elmer G.. Hender-
son of Fulton, Mo-, historical of the
grand council. and Max Murdoch OF
Streeter. ILL.,. vice president of the Zeta
province Of Phi Delta Theta, of which
province North Dakota Alpha will be
a member.
The installation Of the Varsity
Bachelor club into Phi Delta Theta,
to be known as the North Dakota AL.
pha chapter Of Phi Delta Theta. will
be the elimination of the successful
efforts OF the local organization 10 Sc
cure a chapter of one Of the most
prominent national academic fraterni.
ties In America. The charter was
granted on January 8. at the thirty.
second biennial national convention
of Phi Delta Theta which was held
at Chicago.
Organized In 1902.
The Bachelor club is the oldest fra.
ternity at the university, having been
organized in 1902 by ten of the mos,
prominent students here at that time
The Club has always been composed
OF men who were among the strongest
at the university and who have had
the interests of the university at
heart as well as those of the fraterni-
ty. Its members have always been
prominent in athletics, debating. ora
tory, scholarship and every other
branch of college activity.
Three years ago the Bachelors COM
pleted their fraternity house at a cost
OF $4,000. which is one of the finest
houses of its kind in the northwest.
Since graduation Varsity Bachelors
have been making good not only in
this state. but in many parts of the
country as we'll. A few of the leading
alumni members are P. n. Norton,
congressman from the Third district;
w. F. Lemke. president of the Next
CO Land Finance company: Gudmun-
dor Grir1Cnn cto<osc g.
ler county; Fred ]. Traynor of Dev.
ills Lake. former member of the state
legislature: Victor WARDROBE of Leeds.
N. Anderson. formerly a member of
the state legislature. and now score
tary Of the North Dakota society of
equity: Olger B. Burtness. states at
torney Of Grand Forks count John
E. Williams. state enator from Nc
Lean county: John Carkin. member of
the Oregon legislature: Scott Gamer
on. states attorney of Emmons coun-
from Sheridan county: DR.. John Coul-
ter. recently named as member of the
commission to study rural credit sys-
TENS in Europe; r. A. Nestos, states
attorney of Ward county.
Active Members.
The active members who will be-
come the charter members of North
Dakota Alpha are: Philip A. Bangs,
Fred j. Brockhoff. ]. Burton Crazy.
Stuart R. Campbell. Andy NJ. Carr.
Cyril j. Glaspel. Edgar Fisher. John
g. Harris. Albert Hemp. D. Bruce
Mcdonald. John II. Mcknight. O. Tu-
dor owen, William G. Poole. Oscar r.
Preble. John Sad. Vernon H. Sprague.
Mack Traynor. Louis Tellner. Joseph
Forster. Donovan O'Reilly. Randall J..
Larson. George Koehn. Oscar Wilcox.
Richard Hutchinson. Milton Mason
and Fred Treble.
The pledged members are John
Boeing, Crosby Richards. Vernon Nc
Cutcheon. George Hollicky. Albert
Sheets. Othmar Montgomery. Sher-
man Pinkham. Herbrt Miles. Carsten
Taubert.
Members of the faculty are Dean NJ.
A. Brannon Of the arts department. y.
c. Abbott and Clinton A. Thompson.
The alumni members Of the Varsity
Bachelor club living in Grand Forks
are O. b. B%urtness. ]. F. T. O'Connor.
Paul B. Griffith. Ansel G. Winenlan.
Raymond Dryden. F. Clyde Duffy.
Thomas A. johnson. Harry B. King
and Albert Void.
Alumni members of the club who
arrived this morning are Earl McFad-
den of Neche. Orpheus Halvorson of
Northwood and Fred Bradshaw of
Brooklyn. n. Y. Several others will be
in this afternoon.
Phi Delta Theta is one of the fore
most national college ~fraternities. hav-
ing beer organized at Miami univer-
sity. Oxford. Ohio. on December %,
1S4s. and incorporated under the laws
Of Ohio in 1881. Chapters Of the fra
ternity spread through the central
states and at the beginning of the
civil war a substantial basis was
formed. From n chapter sixty-four
years ago h fraternity has grown to
the number of seventy-four active
contained in ten so-called
and has besides about nine
ty alumni clubs throughout the United
States and Canada. having a total en-
rollment Of 17.S45 members. North
Dakota belongs to Zcta province.
whose other members are Illinois.
Wisconsin,. Minnesota. Iowa. Missouri.
Kansas. Nebraska. Colorado and South
Notable Members.
Among the notable men whose
are found on the chapter rolls
Of the fraternity are Benjamin Harri-
son. president of the United States; A.
Il. Stevenson. vice president of the