Office of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Council,
9 W. 31st St.,
New York City.

April 30, 1899

of Delta Kappa Epsilon:

Dear Brother,

Will you kindly send me at your earliest convenience the name and address of the officer in your university who has charge of the names and addresses of the university alumni.

If the university has published such a list of its alumni within a year or so, a copy would be highly appreciated by

Yours fraternally,

Chairman Committee on Catalogue.

PECKHAM, WARNER & PERKINS,

COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
TRINITY BUILDINGS, 111 BROADWAY.

TELEPHONE, CORTLANDT 3985.

W. G. PECKHAM.
JOHN DE WITT WARNER.
EDWARD C. PERKINS.

CHARLES H. STRONG.
JOHN S. HILL.

CABLE ADDRESS: COUNSEL.

NEW YORK September 26th, 1894

Dear Brother:-

I am co-operating with the D. K. E Council and the D. K. E Club here in bringing down to date the collection of photos of Greek letter, etc. Chapter Houses, which was started here some six years ago. It is desired that it be as complete as possible before Convention meets here, and to include not merely all buildings of D. K. E Chapters, but all the plans of which have been settled upon; and also the houses and halls of other Greek letter fraternities.

We have quite a good deal of material here, but the trouble of it is, that we do not know how nearly complete it is, or what else is necessary to bring it down to date. May I not beg to be advised at once.

(a) Whether there are any secret society (Greek letter or otherwise) halls, lodges or houses at your college or university;

(b) If there are such, to what societies they respectively belong and especially how D. K. E is now situated in this regard, and what plans you have in mind for the near future. Never mind how much information we are supposed to have here. Please make your letter full and precise, and thus give us in compact form, the latest data possible.

A prompt answer is just as important in cases where there are no chapter houses as well as where there are such; since not until we are definitely advised that a college is utterly lacking in such buildings are we excused from further inquiry in this regard.

Greatly obliged by such prompt and full answer as you may find it proper to give,

Fraternally,

Phi of D. K. E.
Box 822, New Haven,

Conn.

THE COUNCIL OF D. K. E.,

NEW YORK CITY.

*The attention of all Chapters is called to the following extracts from the Constitution and Convention Minutes in regard to the levying and payment of the Quarterly, Convention and Council taxes. A careful perusal of these provisions will prevent errors in remittance and misunderstandings as to amounts.*

COUNCIL TAX.

> "On or before the first day of January in each year, each Chapter shall pay to the Council a tax, at the rate of $1.50 per capita of its membership, calculated as follows, viz.: By adding to the number of its active membership at such date the number of those initiated since the preceding first day of January who have ceased to be active members of the Chapter. This tax shall be a direct liability of the Chapter and not of the individual, and the default of the individual members to the Chapter shall not affect the liability of the latter for the entire tax. No Chapter in default of the payment of this tax shall be entitled to representation in Convention."—Constitution, Article VIII, Section 6.

QUARTERLY TAX.

> "Resolved, that each Chapter of the Fraternity be required to receive and pay for a number of yearly subscriptions to the 'Quarterly' equal to its active membership, as indicated by the Convention Tax assessed at the then last Convention. This amount shall be due and payable on the day of the issue of the first number of each volume. And no Chapter, while such amount is unpaid, shall be entitled to representation in any Convention."—Resolution presented in Council's report and passed at XLIIId Convention.

CONVENTION TAX.

"On the first day of the Annual Convention in each year, each Chapter shall pay to the Convention Committee, or to its duly authorized representative, a tax at the rate of one dollar per capita of its membership, calculated as follows, viz.: By adding to the number of its active membership at such time the number of those initiated since the preceding Convention who have ceased to be active members of the Chapter. This Tax shall be a direct liability of the Chapter, and not of the individual, and the default of individual members of the Chapter shall not affect the liability of the latter for the entire tax. No Chapter in default of the payment of this tax shall be entitled to representation in Convention."—Constitution, Article VII, Section 6, as amended by the XL Ist Convention.

The Council is not authorized to collect the Convention Tax, and can-
not undertake to receive or be responsible for payments made on that
account.

THE COUNCIL OF AKE.

435 Fifth Avenue,

New York City, May 10, 1894.

TO THE CHAPTERS GREETING:

Dear Brothers:

We express to you this day ten copies of the
new edition of the selected Song Book. No charge is made for these.
You will observe that the songs and music from page 49 to the end
have been added. Additional copies may be had, at twenty cents
each, on application to the Council.

The next Annual Convention will be held in New York City, on Nov. 15th and 16th, 1894, under the auspices of the Council. It will be the fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of our Fraternity. It is the intention of the Council to make this an important occasion and one to be always remembered in the history of our Fraternity. We ask your hearty co-operation. We shall expect every Chapter to be represented. The Council is already at work devising plans and securing halls for the various exercises. On securing halls guarantees must be paid down at once and we respectfully urge you to pay up your taxes now. Do not wait till Convention time. This is a careless habit the Chapters have fallen into in recent years. Please send in the amount of your taxes at once.

Geo. A. Iselin.

John DeWitt Warner,

LAW OFFICE OF ISELIN & WARNER,

52 William Street,

New York, Dec 14, 1882

Dear Brother,

Your db12 h with enclose
as noted duly read, Encl am
have been attested. We have
or yet no stamped K.C.E. copy.
I am
J. DeWitt Warner,
(Alexandria Lambert)
K.C.E.

9 West 31st Street,
New York, Sept. 26, 1899.

To the Chapters Greeting,
Dear Brothers:

Please note carefully the following points:

PIN.

There is but one official Pin. That is furnished by the Council at a cost to you of $2.50 each, or if engraved with name &c. on the back, $2.75 each. The Pin must be placed upon each man at the time of his initiation. This constitutes a part of the ceremony of initiation. If possible, send one order for the whole number of Pins needed by your Chapter. It saves in cost of express-age. Payment must accompany each order. Make checks, drafts &c. payable to "D. B. Simpson, Secy."

SONG BOOK.

The new Song Book is progressing rapidly and will be ready for publication by Convention time. It is hoped that each Chapter will contribute at least one song to this book. You are hereby notified that your time to send in new songs has been extended to October 15th. Please send in your contributions at once.

CATALOGUE.

The work on the New Catalogue is progressing rapidly. Many of the Chapter lists are complete. We urge those Chapters which have not finished their lists to do so at once. We hope to have the Catalogue published by January 1st next.

CONVENTION.

The Convention will be held at Amherst on November 16th and 17th next. We trust that every Chapter will be represented and to this end we suggest that your delegates be elected as early as convenient so that they may make the necessary arrangements for attending.

EXPENSES.

Owing to the heavy expense of preparing and publishing the New Catalogue and Song Book this year we request you to send on as early as possible your Council and Quarterly Taxes, bills for which are herewith enclosed. Please do not wait until Convention. We need the money. Some of you have already paid. Please have this letter read at a Chapter meeting.

Yours Fraternally,

D.K.E. Council,

9 W. 31st St., Manhattan Borough,
New York City,

Dec. 12, 1899.

Dear Brothers,

A copy of the Minutes of the last Convention is en-
closed.

Please send at once to the Council the names of the men in
your chapter, grouped in the four classes to which they respectively
belong. They are necessary for laying the taxes which become due
on Jan. 1st and the list must be here before that time. Please at-
tend to this before leaving for your Christmas vacation.

The new chapter at the University of Pa. was duly install-
ed as the Delta Kappa chapter on Dec. 9th.

Fraternally yours,

D. B. Simpson,
Sec'y.

THE COUNCIL OF
DELTA KAPPA EPSILON,
1135 BROADWAY.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27 th, 1901. 190

Phi of D. K. E.,

Mr Keith Spalding,

69 Vanderbilt Hall, New Haven, Ct.

Dear Brothers:-

On November 16th we sent you eight Song-books,
leather bound, price $12.00, and three Catalogues, price $7.50,
making a total of $19.50 which you owe. I wish you would send
this on at once. Your failure to pay has put me in rather an em-
barrassing position. In all cases we send these books out C. O. D.
if payment is not made in advance. As your order came about Con-
vention time, I did not wish to have it delayed for you, and had it
sent without receiving payment and without marking it C. O. D.
Now I wish to square up my books at once so that I can make a re-
port to the next meeting of the Council which will be next week,
so please send on this amount at once.

THE COUNCIL.

9 West 31st Street,
New York City,
November 12, 1897.

To the Chapters,

Dear Brothers,

The new edition of the Pamphlet Song Book, with
one new song added (to be sung to the air "El Capitan"), has just
been published, and is ready for distribution to the Chapters desir-
ing them.

The price is the same as before, 20 cts. each.

Chapters desiring these books will please send in their
orders at once so that they may be shipped directly from the publish-
ers. The price must in all cases accompany the order.

NOTICE:

Convention is but ten days off and some of the Chapters
have not paid their Council and Quarterly Taxes yet.

Remember, you cannot be represented in Convention till
these are paid,

Don't wait till Convention meets, but pay at once. Dupli-
cate bills were sent to you some time ago. Remember that the Con-
vention tax is a separate matter and is paid at the Convention and
not to the Council.

We earnestly entreat every chapter to be represented.
Business of importance will come before the Convention.

The Chicago Association has prepared an excellent program
of entertainment.

Secretary.

Council of D. K. E.

9 West 31st Street, New York City.

October 12, 1896.

Dear Brothers,

The Council send you herewith its Message to the 50th
Convention which will meet in Nashville, Tenn., on November 12th and
13th next. We also enclose credentials for your delegates, which
please have made out and signed by the proper Chapter officials and
brought by the Chairman of your delegation to Convention. Please
have the whole message carefully discussed in your Chapter meetings
so that your delegates may know your views in regard to the same.
Your attention is especially directed to the section on the Quarter-
ly and please be sure to prepare your report on that subject in ad-
vance and send it with your delegates to Convention.

Now as to Taxes.

The Council, Quarterly and Catalogue taxes, bills of
which were sent to you last term are payable to the Council and must be
paid before you are entitled to representation in Convention.
Please send these on at once. Do not wait till Convention. This
always leads to confusion and delay. Nothing but cash will be re-
ceived in payment of these at Convention-no notes will be accepted.
Please send these on before October 25th so that the Financial Re-
port to be submitted to Convention may show that you have paid.

Yours Fraternally,

THE DELTA KAPPA EPSILON FRATERNITY,

Office of the Secretary of the Council,
52 William Street.

EDWARD MARSHALL GROUT, SECT.

New York City, October 1-4th, 1884

Dear Brothers:—

Hereafter address all communications, and make all orders, drafts and checks payable, to "DELTA KAPPA EPSILON", and not to myself, or to any one of the Council individually. The address is the same as heretofore, 52 William St., N.Y.: City.

Chapter§ of Δ K E.

November 10, 1898.

To The Chapters:

Dear Brothers:

The Council calls your attention again to the fact
that the Annual Convention will be held in Detroit, Mich., on Thursday
and Friday, November 17th and 18th, 1898, -- next week.

We urge upon all the Chapters the importance of being
present. The Alumni Association of Detroit is well known throughout
the Fraternity for its generous hospitality, and an excellent pro-
gramme has been arranged, and the delegates may be sure of a most
hearty welcome and a good time.

As the Chapters already know, business of great importance
will come before the Convention and every Chapter should be represent-
ed.

Certain Chapters have become conspicuous for their absence
from Conventions and the matter has been a subject of comment in
Convention. We especially urge those Chapters to be represented.
Some of the Chapters have not yet paid their Council and Quarterly
taxes for this year. No Chapter can be represented in Convention
till all taxes are paid.

Fraternally yours,

A. G. WARREN, President.
D. N. SALISBURY, Vice President.

J. W. CATLIN,
L. A. MADDEN, Secly & Treas.
T. P. EDWARDS, M. D., Medical Director.

Mutual Life Association
Incorporated 1886.
№ 202 Broadway, New York

January 7, 1899.

Phi of D. K. E.,

Box 822, New Haven, Conn.

Dear Brothers:-

At the request of the Secretary of the Fraternity,
Brother Simpson, who has asked me to take charge of the matter, I write
to inform you that the installation of the new Alpha Phi Chapter of
D. K. E. and the initiation of its members will take place on Friday,
January 15th at Toronto. We should be very glad indeed to have Phi
represented by as many as possible. We have secured an excursion
rate of $9.35 from New York to Rochester and of $4.81 from Rochester to
Toronto; the party to leave New York on Thursday evening. It is
expected that the initiation will be in accordance with the ritual of
Beta Phi, so far as possible and we hope to give the new chapter a
good send off. If you are to be represented please write me so that
I may receive it not later than Wednesday next as to how many will
join our party here.

Fraternally yours,

815-11-N.E., Washington D.C.,

Dec. 5, 1897.

Secretary A. K. E., Yale University,
Dear Sir;

It is the desire of some of the most earnest students of the National University of the D. C. to establish a chapter of a representative college fraternity at that institution. To that end a meeting has been held and a temporary organization effected, which has authorized me to write to you concerning the steps necessary to obtain a charter from your fraternity.

Our University is one of the oldest in the National Capitol, having been incorporated by act of Congress 1868. If required induorsements as to its standing may be obtained from the Judges of the Supreme Court of the U. S. and of the D.C., and from the leading officials and business men of Washington. It is true that we have no regular collegiate course, but the professional schools (Law, Medicine, and Dentistry) are shortly to become the professional schools of the great American University.

Hoping to hear from you at your earliest convenience, I am,

Yours,
J. J. Hill (Law'98)