Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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w rw ,y. s x, I me . :Wh ' fl fggis'-' ' 1, r K, l I A '- ' ,, If gtg 1 I .' y 1' 1 r ' l i . . I A H - .gk i l' . H '. .ma , .. i iiiilllgl g Fl A.-.mdllllllllil tl w It , , 'f U-it I gpllll lffp. 1. N it Y I ibm xt . l Qi X .A t fgqhaib 1 -,,1 K sl X ff-'!.::' AJ, 3 4' i xl. xiii ' .K f wwf ' .,, .. iv 'X 4' V -rm-r ' - ' if- L erhoods from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and have become a permanent Ni ii, Y Q feature of the system of higher education in America. Surely it may ' it ll be said of Dr. HUNTER and his companions, they builded better 'N ,. ' than they knew. 4 5 li ' W In 1833 the William Chapter of Kappa Alpha was founded, and i ' ll 'li fgwy , V since that day has occupied a prominent position in the College. For 'Q lx ' Q' if qv. several years it has been in possession of a Chapter House finely lo- X, lj ll, 'iii 3 cated on the main street of Williamstown, which at the Commence- i.. ll' 1 . , ment of 1877 was formally supplanted by a new and beautiful edifice, t A ' 4 erected on the same site. I 1 I-I ll 'A yi W ia In 1844 a Chapter of Kappa Alpha was founded at Hobart College, 'l fb X K 1, Geneva, N. Y. It existed but six years, being withdrawn before the I' ,y pig, College reached its present exhausted condition. In 1852 Princeton ll, ,, received a charter. This Chapter, too, had its prosperous life cut 'S li short, a year or two later, by the abolishment of secret societies at 1 W ' Princeton, by order of the Board of Trustees. In-I857 Kappa Alpha ,I W was granted the University of Virginia, but the Chapter was discon- , 5 , tinued in 1860, when the Rebellion closed the doors of the Univer-' idly' 'lat sity. T ' lil: A A . Kappa Alpha has celebrated two anniversaries worthy of note. The Y 1 gin' N first was the quarter-centennial celebration which took place at Union qt I1 1 College in Commencement week of the year I850-SI, the secondg pp- ' ,Q -. was the semi-centennial celebration that occurred during the Com-ft. '5 . 1 5. I ,gl mencement week of 1875, also at Union College. On both of 'these I i A, 'g occasions the wise and liberal policy that has always characterized if ' Union, in her relations with secret societies, was strikingly displayed. A ' Other institutions might learn a lesson from Old Union, and L' 5 u educators might do well in imitating the example set by Dr. NOTT. Q: . In the winter of 1868 the Cornell Chapter was established. It grown with the University and partaken of its spirit, so that if our l 5 W ' Chapter, the youngest of the Fraternity, now stands the peer of our I elder sisters, it is due to the same cause that has placed our youthfu ' '13 ' institution in the front rank of American Universities. The Chaptc , last year suffered a great affliction in the loss of one of its first mem: , W3 Z ' bers, Professor CHARLES FREDERICK HARTT, who died at Rio d ,ri ' , I Janerio, Brazil, on the 18th of March, 1878. Becoming a membe .fl l' 3 Q ' : ' of the Cornell Chaptei in the first year of its establishment, his zea ,Z 'i ' in its interests had only been augmented from year to year until dent L5 X came to sever all earthly bonds. I I ,,, E ii . . 'N ' 9 rllrfifii ' f . ' R ,, H ' u i ..-i - 3 f f-ix: -F ' W-Lg'sk L -'mb ' A 3' f . , -it-751-'-5:3 'Wi ru I j .l , .ly l 4 2 , Ii ,fill Fill :lil ' l Ta. Sl Q If 1. l l tl .E 'I l 'i l I i L ll: a . mivfe' ix., fm V , , . . ' fx