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

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THE Fokzfsfifc. 2 I history of llge Zeta Epsilon Qilerarg Society.. HIS year the Zeta Epsilon Society looks back upon fifteen years of steady growth and progress. No society's life is all sunshine. We have had our struggles and disappointments but they have only developed in the members the power to overcome, that spirit which finds in failure but stimulus to more determined effort. Those entering now are confronted with the records of many noble and inspiring men whose influence is still felt in their legacy of earnest purposes and high ideals of life and culture. VVe shall not attempt to review the causes which led to the organiza- tion of this society. They were many and sufficient. In fact there is little doubt that two societies do the worlc better than one could do it, what- ever causes lead directly to their organization. B. Fay Mills, W. Chap- man, Harry Safford, T. D. Wells, john E. Tarble and J. D. Pope made the first moves toward a new society in the spring of '79, but the organization was not effected until the following fall term, when, although Mills, Chap- man and Safford had left college their ranks had been swelled to seventeen. The preliminary organization occurred early in the school year of '79-'80 but the first regular meeting was held jan. I4,'SO. Except the motion to adjourn, the only motion recorded for this first meetingprovided for literary programs. So literary work began lan. 21, ISSO, before the adoption of the constitution QFeb. 4j. There need be no clearer evidence than this to prove that the founders of the society 'meant business' and to this day Zeta Epsilon stands for constant and systematic work. In all its history the society has followed the statement of its purpose found in the preamble of its constitution, to promote moral, social and literary culture and to discipline ourselves in self- government. The work of the society is, then, the cultivation of the whole man, the improvement of its members morally and socially aswell as intellectually, the creation of such an atmosphere as develops men. In the words of our motto Zr1T05,Llf1f Ffrzfffliwyv,-we seek wisdom. We endeavor to find the highest ideals of manliness and lead men toward them. We aim to throw about right and truth and purity the most pleasant associations of college life, the