Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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Gbe Eltbenaean 'literary Society RU GOIOPS - Blue and XYhi1.e NffiC6I'5 W. U. HALBERT . . . . President AYILLIAM ADAIR . . Vice President W. G. CONDIT Secretary R. B. DUNN . . . . . Treasurer E. U GRAFF . . . . . Critic , . D. S. AVENTXYORTH . . Sergeant-at-Arms .GDCIIIDCYS Tl-linctgziwir 'William Adair Herman J. Betten XVi1liam If Halbert Marion XYoolsey 1l-linctg:5evcn john A. Anderson Maurice K. Baker john E. Carver Henry B. Cragin, Jr. Ellis Y. Graff Arthur J. Reid Robert L. Roberts Hamilton G. Timberlake TRinctg:1Eigbt XVil1iam G. Condit Richard Huizenga XValter A. Graff Tl-li11ctxg:1l-lim: Esmond R. Brown Roy B. Dunn John J. Jackson XVi1liam jackson Charles B. Hossack Hugh O. Morris john H. Rheingans Daniel Wentworth 21 LAKE FOREST COLLEGE LIBRARY

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1 .Y successful, socially and financially. In ,94 these l 'JL clubs formed the nucleus for the organization of -J 1 university clubs. Our oratorical successes have been as great as our successes in other lines of college work. A. A. Hopkins '93, received the highest honor ever attained by any Lake I Forest orator, winning the state and interstate contests in '93. Success in the newspaper field has crowned our efforts. During the year from ,92 to ,93 we successfully published the Red and Black, an S-page folder, under the efficient management of H. L. Bird and E. C. Cleveland, ,94. I the fall of '93 this paper was merged into the Stentor, its mission having been fulfilled. But the glory of its success and enterprise will be remembered by all. The Society had the honor of opening the Art Institute with a lecture by .I 1, ? Q' - . r. , ffl 5 4 -L. 44' -5 ,Z f an ,X ,4 f' G 1 Q X11 1 , ,., f ,ly 'wx l IW . 156, I I 2 f , I Sf, . ,-T334 fu ' 5 'X :My lar rf, f er b 1, ' If n I lf ' . l 7' ' 1 J 1 0 Vg .1 ' 'l -- f .. 44,1 the noted Siberian traveler, George Kennan. The year of ,QS will always bezremembered as one of the brightest in our history. During that year we had three open meetings and two receptions, at each of which over 150 persons were present. The fifteenth year of our history was fittingly celebrated by a grand banquet held june 11, 1895, in the Art Institute, at which covers for 350 were laid. Toasts by many of our honored alumni and Society songs made the happy time pass all too quickly. Rev. N. B. W' Gallwey acted as toastmaster. The following toasts were given: Zeta Epsilon in Medicine, by Dr. B. M. Linnell, '89, Zeta Epsilon in Politics, by Rev. G. W. Wright, '92, Zeta Epsilon in Law, by W. H. Matthews, ,923 Zeta Epsilon in journalism, by H. L. Bird, y94. The Faculty was responded to by Dr. Walter Smith, and Zeta Epsilon, Past and Future, by -I. H. Rice, ,95. Thus fittingly were fifteen years of society work brought to a close, during which time the society has enlarged its membership from 16 to 41 and established itself as one of the strong institutions in Lake Forest College life. During the last year we have received welcome visits from G. W. Wright, '92g H. L. Bird, '94, T. A. Hayner, ,95, and many others of our alumni. All honor to our alumni, among whom will be found the names of many men of grand character and noble purpose, who founded so well that inheritance into which we have come. To them the Society owes her strong foundation. Among our active members we have men who are leaders in all branches of college life, men are ashamed '1.'. O, dear old Zeta Epsilon, I11 thy firm bonds our hearts are one. -CHARLES B. MOORE, '95. .N HF' A Z of whom we are proud and none of whom we x O l . ,..

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lb line 4 1 Q0 if iatorp of the Eltbenaean literary Society .itil ,gr 2 94. 7. r 'sio,. HE historical origin of the Athenaean Literary Society is directly traceable to a paper drawn up on November 24 1876 by a number of young people of Lake Forest, who had come together for the purpose of social and intellectual pleasure. This historic document, simple in itself but momentous -My . ., i AW' '. t - 'vi-'a'u.' - . -' '. 1 -A..iof:1y- -l. 'Ll . . y 1 Y 5- -. . ' ' 2 7 l' ' ...,c,,.,t.-X4 - . . . in its results, reads as follows : At Lake Forest University the members of the first Freshman Class, whose names are written below, organize themselves into an association called the Athenaean Literary Society. fSignedJ Anna Farwell Eben H. Wells ' Josephine L. White Charles F. lVard Oriella Schuyler Harvey W. Converse Allie E. Smith Warner W. Dickinson Joseph F. Kohout William R. Scott Alfred E. Barr J. Dunlap Smith Among these the leaders were Anna Farwell, Charles F. 'NVard, Eben H. VVells and Joseph F. Kohout. The original constitution is in the handwriting of Eben H. Wells, a young man of great promise, whom an early death cut down just as he was entering upon his chosen profession of the law. F Q In that year the college site was on property near Blair Lodge. The twenty years since have seen many changes of the college campus. To these changes the Athenaean Society ever quickly adapted itself. But a few Words as to these changes. During the winter of '77 fire destroyed the University property, which was situated along the lake shore just south of Ferry Hall. Not daunted at this blow and not to be deprived of its meetings, the Society rented a room, that December, in the old hotel building until june, 1878, when the place of meeting was transferred to the old academy, which then stood near the present site of the Durand Art Institute. Another change was made on the opening of the present College Hall, in the autumn of '78, when the Society secured temporary quarters on the lirst iioor. As the years passed by, the increasing need of a permanent location in the building came more and more to be realized. Finally, in '87, the trustees gave the Society, for their exclusive use, the apartments on the north end of the top floor, where the meetings have since continued to be held. In '95 the hall was almost entirely relitted g a hardwood floor was laid and new paper, in harmony wlth the other furnishings, was hung upon the Walls, lending a most pleasing effect to the whole. 22