Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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1 I s . 4, f i A will Illttii midl A A w l '19 ', , , 5 A 4 . +143 .N , Z X an n p PH yxxxgiiiixitdlllllwl i WH ' 1, fill. . 1 ? ' '- We-Nl i . 1 ,I Qt . X ' -i ---- M. , ,, , .ntxlw N NN,-rid I il 3 M ' W' W Wi'Wf' I ' 'A S 'i - nw ' ' If y A Q .4 1' r'l :N L , ,V 35 J tt ' t - ' - 'Y va X . ' -V21-A ,.- - Hee .ef f ZAEQ K ii ae- fri - , .. . :er-M fm -a i S . f g eswguuuevcnsm 'tif 'E W ,t f N the year I823 four congenial spirits, students of Union College, Q began to assemble from time to time in their different rooms ford li ! the enjoyment of each other's society. These agreeable meetingsli continued, and wishing to perpetuate them and to afford to others yetll 2' to come the pleasures and benefits that were derived from them, these four students associated others with themselves and established thc!! 3 lr ' IQAPPA ALPHA Fraternity. This quaternion of the fathers of Col' lege Secret Societies was composed of the Rev. JOHN HUNTER, D. D. Alf li . ISAAC W. JACKSON, late Professor of Mathematics in Union College, vi W' . X 1 i i Dr. THOMAS HUN, Professor in the Albany Medical Collegeg an I 17 ' ' 1 ORLANDO MEADS, LL. D., of the Albany Bar. Of these, the fits i, .Y two are dead, but the others are still living, crowned with years andf 1, ' the honors of a successful life. ' ,Si ll The early days of the Society were filled with not a few troublesdl X ,AV 1 A College Secret Society was something new. Prejudice, jealousy dj , - 5 Lg .l I and misrepresentation were used against it, but the solid charactero ffl ' - the founders and those associated with them conquered enemies an nt, 1 . i ' made friends. - I ' S i' At this time, Union was in the front rank of American colleges, if f for it was during the presidency of Dr. NOT'1' 3 and her students, itil V , point of culture, were second to none in the land. This was the very ' soil in which to plant the new germ. As soon as the merits of the l Secret Society were perceived, the idea met with the hearty approval K N, '- ofthe better portion of students, which had long felt the need of fra ' i 1' ternal and social union. Other societies s ran u and soon s rea ,. 1 P Z P P t is to neighboring colleges, until to-day they form one network of Broth ' I . 1 if ' L ,, ' I I 5 t is . ' 5 .95 . , 4 Hi I , 'Li?L:HfEiL ' ': l i w '4?:'Ltt':::j'r' 'N ' Qing , ' il i uusu f-' -r ' , .. --- 73111: .... s-.z:1-if-tar...-.