Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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BETA SIGMA l-TE ideals oT love and Triendship, ever paramounT in The minds oT The incorpora- Tors oT The BeTa Sigma EraTerniTy, are The basic principles upon which The TraTerniTy was Tounded. From This organizaTion oT naTional scope came a delegaTion To ManhaTTan College, wiTh The purpose oT propagaTing iTs ideals and accomplish- menTs wiThin The porTals oT our Alma MaTer. Thus on SepTember I5, I927, DelTa ChapTer received iTs charTer Trom The naTional body. Since Then iT has TuncTioned mosT acTively and energeTically wiTh Two ideals in mind: one, The TurTherance oT The glory oT ManhaTTan College, and The oTher The spread oT principles oT TraTernalism among iTs members. Probably The Two ouTsTanding conTribuTions To The College Trom DelTa ChapTer during iTs shorT buT eTFecTive exisTence have been The Tamous Jasper Three QuarTer Trophy, and The Edward DougherTy Memorial Medal. The Tormer is a beauTiTul bronze sTaTue which has been in compeTiTion annually aT The ManhaTTan Diamond Track MeeT. The Edward DougherTy Medal is donaTed in memory oT a member oT DelTa ChapTer, who died during his iunior year aT ManhaTTan College. A living TribuTe To a True broTher and a loyal ManhaTTan man Thus sTands as a source oT Tond remembrance Tor all who lcnew him. 254 1 Manha iTs exis- care-Tul Gxpansi Tunily ve-nTion 9V6nTini All ChapTer of The I

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2.'4-Q4 ...,'f.Tx' - . ., 3 PHI RHO PI l-ll Rl-TO PI TraTerniTy is one oT The mosT selecT socieTies aT lvlanhaTTan. IT was esTablished in The spring oT I9l7 Through The concerTed eTTorTs oT a Tew hardy enThusiasTs oT The Class oT IQI9, whose aim was To creaTe a closer and more deTiniTe associaTion among The sTudenTs inTeresTed, and To conTinue This relaTionship in Their ioinT acTiviTies in college liTe, and in The broader Tield oT posT-graduaTe liTe. lTs membership, The growTh oT ThirTeen years, includes sTudenTs and alumni, aTFiliaTed wi+h every acTiviTy indicaTive oT The welTare oT lvlanhaTTan College, viz.: aThleTics and oraTors, Thespians and debaTers, iournalisTs and minsTrels, genTlemen and scholars all, and all worThy exemplars oT The praiseworThy aTTribuTes oT The real lvlanhaTTan man. As lvlanhaTTan developed, so Too did Phi Rho Pi, and because oT iTs inTluence a Cl'1apTer was Tounded aT ST. Francis College, Brooklyn. I Because oT iTs remarkable members and The exalTed ideals ThaT The TraTerniTy embraces The men of The TraTerniTy go ouT inTo Their various proTessions and callings wiTh a characTer and Training which augurs well Tor Their own success, and Tor The glory of Phi Rho Pi. , y T 253

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. , .,.....-,.- . .vm , , ,. .' ' Qwgrifslinsrsg -- jg, A. - ALPHA PHI DELTA Befa Befa Cha pfer lTl-l fhe supreme desire of becoming nafional in scope and influence, and of a frafernal nafure honorable fo Alma lvlafer, a group of sfudenfs of Manhaffan College organized in I928, as a local frafernify. During fhe period of ifs exisfence as such if was recognized by fhe college and was confinually under fhe careful supervision of Alpha Phi Delfa. Inspired by fhe ideals of scholarship and expansion of fhis nafional organizafion, if looked forward fo fhe one golden oppor- funify, fhaf of funcfioning as a lvlanhaffan chapfer. The vofe af fhe nafional con- venfion in I929 was a favorable one and following fhe formal insfallafion and fhe granfing of a charfer, Befa' Befa began ifs progressive career on fhe campus. Alpha Phi Delfa frafernify was founded af Syracuse Universify and now 'has Chapfers af fwenfy-six of America's leading colleges and universifies. lf is a member of fhe lnferfrafernify Conference of America. n 255